Journal
ACS SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY
Volume 4, Issue 9, Pages 1030-1041Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.5b00080
Keywords
E. coli; EPEC; genomic engineering; injectisome; type III secretion system
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- Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitiyidad (MINECO) [BIO2014-60305R, BIO2011-26689]
- BACFITERed [SAF2014-56716-REDT]
- Comunidad Autonoma de Madrid [S2010-BMD-2312]
- European Research Council [ERC-2012-ADG_20120314]
- contract Apoyo a la Investigacion from Comunidad Autonoma de Madrid
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Bacterial pathogens containing type III protein secretion systems (T3SS) assemble large needle-like protein complexes in the bacterial envelope, called injectisomes, for translocation of protein effectors into host cells. The application of these molecular syringes for the injection of proteins into mammalian cells is hindered by their structural and genomic complexity, requiring multiple polypeptides encoded along with effectors in various transcriptional units (TUs) with intricate regulation. In this work, we have rationally designed the controlled expression of the filamentous injectisomes found in enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) in the nonpathogenic strain E. coli K-12. All structural components of EPEC injectisomes, encoded in a genomic island called the locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE), were engineered in five TUs (eLEEs) excluding effectors, promoters and transcriptional regulators. These eLEEs were placed under the control of the IPTG-inducible promoter Ptac and integrated into specific chromosomal sites of E. coli K-12 using a marker-less strategy. The resulting strain, named synthetic injector E. coli (SIEC), assembles filamentous injectisomes similar to those in EPEC. SIEC injectisomes form pores in the host plasma membrane and are able to translocate T3-substrate proteins (e.g., translocated intimin receptor, Tir) into the cytoplasm of HeLa cells reproducing the phenotypes of intimate attachment and polymerization of actin-pedestals elicited by EPEC bacteria. Hence, SIEC strain allows the controlled expression of functional filamentous injectisomes for efficient translocation of proteins with T3S-signals into mammalian cells.
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