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MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY
卷 54, 期 1, 页码 239-250出版社
BLACKWELL PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04264.x
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The Pasteurella multocida toxin (PMT) is a potent mitogen which enters the cytosol of eukaryotic cells via a low pH membrane translocation event. In common with the Escherichia coli cytotoxic necrotizing factor 1 (CNF1), the core of the PMT translocation domain is composed of two predicted hydrophobic helices (H1 - residues 402-423, H2 - 437-457) linked by a hydrophilic loop (PMT-TL - 424-436). The peptide loop contains three acidic residues (D425, D431 and E434), which may play a role equivalent to D373, D379 and E382/383 in CNF1. To test this hypothesis, a series of point mutants was generated in which acidic residues were mutated into the permanently charged positive residue lysine. Individual mutation of D425, D431 and E434 each caused a four- to sixfold reduction in toxin activity. Interestingly, mutation of D401 located immediately outside the predicted helix-loop-helix motif completely abolished toxin activity. Individual mutations did not affect cell binding nor greatly altered toxin structure, but did prevent translocation of the surface-bound proteins into the cytosol after a low pH pulse. Moreover, we demonstrate using an in vitro assay that PMT undergoes a pH-dependent membrane insertion.
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