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JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY
Volume 190, Issue 14, Pages 4880-4887Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00412-08
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- NIAID NIH HHS [T32 AI007151, AI054540, AI072065, R03 AI072065, AI007151, R01 AI054540] Funding Source: Medline
- NIGMS NIH HHS [T32 GM008581, GM008581] Funding Source: Medline
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The Sec-dependent translocation pathway that involves the essential SecA protein and the membrane-bound SecYEG translocon is used to export many proteins across the cytoplasmic membrane. Recently, several pathogenic bacteria, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis, were shown to possess two SecA homologs, SecA1 and SecA2. SecA1 is essential for general protein export. SecA2 is specific for a subset of exported proteins and is important for M. tuberculosis virulence. The enzymatic activities of two SecA proteins from the same microorganism have not been defined for any bacteria. Here, M. tuberculosis SecA1 and SecA2 are shown to bind ATP with high affinity, though the affinity of SecA1 for ATP is weaker than that of SecA2 or Escherichia coli SecA. Amino acid substitution of arginine or alanine for the conserved lysine in the Walker A motif of SecA2 eliminated ATP binding. We used the SecA2(K115R) variant to show that ATP binding was necessary for the SecA2 function of promoting intracellular growth of M. tuberculosis in macrophages. These results are the first to show the importance of ATPase activity in the function of accessory SecA2 proteins.
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