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MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 48, Issue 6, Pages 1525-1536Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03532.x
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The surface protein InIB of the pathogen Listeria monocytogenes promotes invasion of this bacterium into host cells by binding to and activating the receptor tyrosine kinase Met. The curved leucine-rich repeat (LRR) domain of InIB, which is essential for this process, contains a string of five surface-exposed aromatic amino acid residues positioned along its concave face. Here, we show that the replacement of four of these residues (F104, W124, Y170 or Y214) by serine leads to a complete loss of uptake of latex beads coated with InIB', a truncated functional variant of InlB. The mutants correspondingly display severely reduced binding to Met. To abrogate fully invasion of bacteria expressing full-length InlB, exchange of at least four aromatic amino acids is required. We conclude that InIB binds to Met through its concave surface of the LRR domain, and that aromatic amino acids are critical for binding and signalling before invasion.
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