Journal
FEMS MICROBIOLOGY REVIEWS
Volume 34, Issue 6, Pages 1076-1112Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2010.00231.x
Keywords
bacterial toxin; type I secretion system; RTX locus; calcium-binding repeats
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- Institutional Research Concept [AV0Z50200510, IAA500200914, 2B06161, 1M0506, KAN200520720, GA310/08/0447, GA310/09/P582, GACR 310/07/P115, GACR 204/07/P105]
- EMBO [ALTF 350-2008]
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Repeats-in-toxin (RTX) exoproteins of Gram-negative bacteria form a steadily growing family of proteins with diverse biological functions. Their common feature is the unique mode of export across the bacterial envelope via the type I secretion system and the characteristic, typically nonapeptide, glycine- and aspartate-rich repeats binding Ca2+ ions. In this review, we summarize the current state of knowledge on the organization of rtx loci and on the biological and biochemical activities of therein encoded proteins. Applying several types of bioinformatic screens on the steadily growing set of sequenced bacterial genomes, over 1000 RTX family members were detected, with the biological functions of most of them remaining to be characterized. Activities of the so far characterized RTX family members are then discussed and classified according to functional categories, ranging from the historically first characterized pore-forming RTX leukotoxins, through the large multifunctional enzymatic toxins, bacteriocins, nodulation proteins, surface layer proteins, up to secreted hydrolytic enzymes exhibiting metalloprotease or lipase activities of industrial interest.
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