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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 275, Issue 47, Pages 36869-36875Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M002467200
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- NIAID NIH HHS [AI 42797] Funding Source: Medline
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Pathogenic Yersinia species employ type III machines to transport virulence factors across the bacterial envelope. Some substrates for the type III machinery are secreted into the extracellular medium, whereas others are targeted into the cytosol of host cells. We found that during infection of tissue culture cells, yersiniae secrete small amounts of LcrV into the extracellular medium. Knockout mutations of lcrV abolish Yersinia targeting and reduce expression of the lcrGVHyopBD operon. In contrast, a block in LcrV secretion does not affect targeting, but results in premature expression and secretion of Yop proteins into the extracellular medium. LcrV-mediated activation of the type III pathway is thought to occur by sequestration of the regulatory factor LcrG, presumably via the formation of LcrV LcrG complexes. These results suggest that intrabacterial LcrV regulates the expression and targeting of Yop proteins during Yersinia infection, whereas secreted LcrV is required to ensure specificity of Yop injection into eukaryotic cells.
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