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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
卷 280, 期 28, 页码 26349-26359出版社
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M502347200
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Type IV secretion systems mediate the translocation of virulence factors ( proteins and/or DNA) from Gramnegative bacteria into eukaryotic cells. A complex of 11 conserved proteins ( VirB1-VirB11) spans the inner and the outer membrane and assembles extracellular T-pili in Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Here we report a sequence of protein interactions required for the formation of complexes between VirB2 and VirB5, which precedes their incorporation into pili. The NTPase Walker A active site of the inner membrane protein VirB4 is required for virulence, but an active site VirB4 variant stabilized VirB3 and VirB8 and enabled T-pilus formation. Analysis of VirB protein complexes extracted from the membranes with mild detergent revealed that VirB2-VirB5 complex formation depended on VirB4, which identified a novel T-pilus assembly step. Bicistron expression demonstrated direct interaction of VirB4 with VirB8, and analyses with purified proteins showed that VirB5 bound to VirB8 and VirB10. VirB4 therefore localizes at the basis of a trans-envelope interaction sequence, and by stabilization of VirB8 it mediates the incorporation of VirB5 and VirB2 into extracellular pili.
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