期刊
GENOME BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
卷 8, 期 6, 页码 1690-1705出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evw112
关键词
intimin; invasin; beta-barrel; TamA; BamA
资金
- National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC) [APP1092262]
- Monash Research Scholarship
- [106077/Z/14/Z]
The bacterial cell surface proteins intimin and invasin are virulence factors that share a common domain structure and bind selectively to host cell receptors in the course of bacterial pathogenesis. The O-barrel domains of intimin and invasin show significant sequence and structural similarities. Conversely, a variety of proteins with sometimes limited sequence similarity have also been annotated as intimin-like and invasin in genome datasets, while other recent work on apparently unrelated virulence-associated proteins ultimately revealed similarities to intimin and invasin. Here we characterize the sequence and structural relationships across this complex protein family. Surprisingly, intimins and invasins represent a very small minority of the sequence diversity in what has been previously the ''intimin/invasin protein family. Analysis of the assembly pathway for expression of the classic intimin, EaeA, and a characteristic example of the most prevalent members of the group, FdeC, revealed a dependence on the translocation and assembly module as a common feature for both these proteins. While the majority of the sequences in the grouping are most similar to FdeC, a further and widespread group is two-partner secretion systems that use the 0-barrel domain as the delivery device for secretion of a variety of virulence factors. This comprehensive analysis supports the adoption of the inverse autotransporter protein family as the most accurate nomenclature for the family and, in turn, has important consequences for our overall understanding of the Type V secretion systems of bacterial pathogens.
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