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JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY
卷 184, 期 22, 页码 6260-6269出版社
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JB.184.22.6260-6269.2002
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- NIAID NIH HHS [AI07172-20, R37 AI029549, T32 AI007172, AI29549, R01 AI024533, R01 AI029549, AI24533] Funding Source: Medline
- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM62987, R01 GM062987] Funding Source: Medline
Biogenesis of a superfamily of surface structures by gram-negative bacteria requires the chaperone/usher pathway, a terminal branch of the general secretory pathway. In this pathway a periplasmic chaperone works together with an outer membrane usher to direct substrate folding, assembly, and secretion to the cell surface. We analyzed the structure and function of the PapC usher required for P pilus biogenesis by uropathogenic Escherichia coli. Structural analysis indicated PapC folds as a P-barrel with short extracellular loops and extensive periplasmic domains. Several periplasmic regions were localized, including two domains containing conserved cysteine pairs. Functional analysis of deletion mutants revealed that the PapC C terminus was not required for insertion of the usher into the outer membrane or for proper folding. The usher C terminus was not necessary for interaction with chaperone-subunit complexes in vitro but was required for pilus biogenesis in vivo. Interestingly, coexpression of PapC C-terminal truncation mutants with the chromosomal fim gene cluster coding for type 1 pili allowed P pilus biogenesis in vivo. These studies suggest that chaperone-subunit complexes target an N-terminal domain of the usher and that subunit assembly into pili depends on a subsequent function provided by the usher C terminus.
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