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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 288, Issue 19, Pages 13317-13324Publisher
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DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M113.459875
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [20390465]
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology [18073011, 2189048, 20791336, 21791786]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [24390410, 23592700, 24659812, 21791786, 20791336, 18073011, 23390103, 20390465, 24791961] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Group A Streptococcus (GAS) is an important human pathogen that possesses an ability to translocate across the epithelial barrier. In this study, culture supernatants of tested GAS strains showed proteolytic activity against human occludin and E-cadherin. Utilizing various types of protease inhibitors and amino acid sequence analysis, we identified SpeB (streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxin B) as the proteolytic factor that cleaves E-cadherin in the region neighboring the calcium-binding sites within the extracellular domain. The cleaving activities of culture supernatants from several GAS isolates were correlated with the amount of active SpeB, whereas culture supernatants from an speB mutant showed no such activities. Of note, the wild type strain efficiently translocated across the epithelial monolayer along with cleavage of occludin and E-cadherin, whereas deletion of the speB gene compromised those activities. Moreover, destabilization of the junctional proteins was apparently relieved in cells infected with the speB mutant, as compared with those infected with the wild type. Taken together, our findings indicate that the proteolytic efficacy of SpeB in junctional degradation allows GAS to invade deeper into tissues.
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