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Morris RJ, Bamford NC, Bromley KM, Erskine E, Stanley-Wall NR, MacPhee CE. Bacillus subtilis Matrix Protein TasA is Interfacially Active, but BslA Dominates Interfacial Film Properties. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2024; 40:4164-4173. [PMID: 38351711 PMCID: PMC10905994 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c03163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2023] [Revised: 01/16/2024] [Accepted: 01/16/2024] [Indexed: 02/28/2024]
Abstract
Microbial growth often occurs within multicellular communities called biofilms, where cells are enveloped by a protective extracellular matrix. Bacillus subtilis serves as a model organism for biofilm research and produces two crucial secreted proteins, BslA and TasA, vital for biofilm matrix formation. BslA exhibits surface-active properties, spontaneously self-assembling at hydrophobic/hydrophilic interfaces to form an elastic protein film, which renders B. subtilis biofilm surfaces water-repellent. TasA is traditionally considered a fiber-forming protein with multiple matrix-related functions. In our current study, we investigate whether TasA also possesses interfacial properties and whether it has any impact on BslA's ability to form an interfacial protein film. Our research demonstrates that TasA indeed exhibits interfacial activity, partitioning to hydrophobic/hydrophilic interfaces, stabilizing emulsions, and forming an interfacial protein film. Interestingly, TasA undergoes interface-induced restructuring similar to BslA, showing an increase in β-strand secondary structure. Unlike BslA, TasA rapidly reaches the interface and forms nonelastic films that rapidly relax under pressure. Through mixed protein pendant drop experiments, we assess the influence of TasA on BslA film formation, revealing that TasA and other surface-active molecules can compete for interface space, potentially preventing BslA from forming a stable elastic film. This raises a critical question: how does BslA self-assemble to form the hydrophobic "raincoat" observed in biofilms in the presence of other potentially surface-active species? We propose a model wherein surface-active molecules, including TasA, initially compete with BslA for interface space. However, under lateral compression or pressure, BslA retains its position, expelling other molecules into the bulk. This resilience at the interface may result from structural rearrangements and lateral interactions between BslA subunits. This combined mechanism likely explains BslA's role in forming a stable film integral to B. subtilis biofilm hydrophobicity.
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- Ryan J. Morris
- School
of Physics & Astronomy, University of
Edinburgh, Peter Guthrie Tait Road, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, U.K.
- National
Biofilms Innovation Centre, Southampton SO17 1GB, U.K.
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- National
Biofilms Innovation Centre, Southampton SO17 1GB, U.K.
- Division
of Molecular Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 5EH, U.K.
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- School
of Physics & Astronomy, University of
Edinburgh, Peter Guthrie Tait Road, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, U.K.
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- Division
of Molecular Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 5EH, U.K.
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- Division
of Molecular Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 5EH, U.K.
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- School
of Physics & Astronomy, University of
Edinburgh, Peter Guthrie Tait Road, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, U.K.
- National
Biofilms Innovation Centre, Southampton SO17 1GB, U.K.
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Kado T, Akbary Z, Motooka D, Sparks IL, Melzer ES, Nakamura S, Rojas ER, Morita YS, Siegrist MS. A cell wall synthase accelerates plasma membrane partitioning in mycobacteria. eLife 2023; 12:e81924. [PMID: 37665120 PMCID: PMC10547480 DOI: 10.7554/elife.81924] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2022] [Accepted: 09/02/2023] [Indexed: 09/05/2023] Open
Abstract
Lateral partitioning of proteins and lipids shapes membrane function. In model membranes, partitioning can be influenced both by bilayer-intrinsic factors like molecular composition and by bilayer-extrinsic factors such as interactions with other membranes and solid supports. While cellular membranes can departition in response to bilayer-intrinsic or -extrinsic disruptions, the mechanisms by which they partition de novo are largely unknown. The plasma membrane of Mycobacterium smegmatis spatially and biochemically departitions in response to the fluidizing agent benzyl alcohol, then repartitions upon fluidizer washout. By screening for mutants that are sensitive to benzyl alcohol, we show that the bifunctional cell wall synthase PonA2 promotes membrane partitioning and cell growth during recovery from benzyl alcohol exposure. PonA2's role in membrane repartitioning and regrowth depends solely on its conserved transglycosylase domain. Active cell wall polymerization promotes de novo membrane partitioning and the completed cell wall polymer helps to maintain membrane partitioning. Our work highlights the complexity of membrane-cell wall interactions and establishes a facile model system for departitioning and repartitioning cellular membranes.
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- Takehiro Kado
- Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts AmherstAmherstUnited States
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- Department of Biology, New York UniversityNew YorkUnited States
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- Department of Infection Metagenomics, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka UniversityOsakaJapan
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts AmherstAmherstUnited States
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts AmherstAmherstUnited States
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- Department of Infection Metagenomics, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka UniversityOsakaJapan
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- Department of Biology, New York UniversityNew YorkUnited States
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts AmherstAmherstUnited States
- Molecular and Cellular Graduate Program, University of Massachusetts AmherstAmherstUnited States
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts AmherstAmherstUnited States
- Molecular and Cellular Graduate Program, University of Massachusetts AmherstAmherstUnited States
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Wessel AK, Yoshii Y, Reder A, Boudjemaa R, Szczesna M, Betton JM, Bernal-Bayard J, Beloin C, Lopez D, Völker U, Ghigo JM. Escherichia coli SPFH Membrane Microdomain Proteins HflKC Contribute to Aminoglycoside and Oxidative Stress Tolerance. Microbiol Spectr 2023; 11:e0176723. [PMID: 37347165 PMCID: PMC10434171 DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.01767-23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2023] [Accepted: 06/01/2023] [Indexed: 06/23/2023] Open
Abstract
Many eukaryotic membrane-dependent functions are often spatially and temporally regulated by membrane microdomains (FMMs), also known as lipid rafts. These domains are enriched in polyisoprenoid lipids and scaffolding proteins belonging to the stomatin, prohibitin, flotillin, and HflK/C (SPFH) protein superfamily that was also identified in Gram-positive bacteria. In contrast, little is still known about FMMs in Gram-negative bacteria. In Escherichia coli K-12, 4 SPFH proteins, YqiK, QmcA, HflK, and HflC, were shown to localize in discrete polar or lateral inner membrane locations, raising the possibility that E. coli SPFH proteins could contribute to the assembly of inner membrane FMMs and the regulation of cellular processes. Here, we studied the determinant of the localization of QmcA and HflC and showed that FMM-associated cardiolipin lipid biosynthesis is required for their native localization pattern. Using Biolog phenotypic arrays, we showed that a mutant lacking all SPFH genes displayed increased sensitivity to aminoglycosides and oxidative stress that is due to the absence of HflKC. Our study therefore provides further insights into the contribution of SPFH proteins to stress tolerance in E. coli. IMPORTANCE Eukaryotic cells often segregate physiological processes in cholesterol-rich functional membrane microdomains. These domains are also called lipid rafts and contain proteins of the stomatin, prohibitin, flotillin, and HflK/C (SPFH) superfamily, which are also present in prokaryotes but have been mostly studied in Gram-positive bacteria. Here, we showed that the cell localization of the SPFH proteins QmcA and HflKC in the Gram-negative bacterium E. coli is altered in the absence of cardiolipin lipid synthesis. This suggests that cardiolipins contribute to E. coli membrane microdomain assembly. Using a broad phenotypic analysis, we also showed that HflKC contribute to E. coli tolerance to aminoglycosides and oxidative stress. Our study, therefore, provides new insights into the cellular processes associated with SPFH proteins in E. coli.
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- Aimee K. Wessel
- Institut Pasteur, Université de Paris-Cité, CNRS UMR6047, Genetics of Biofilms Laboratory, Paris, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Université de Paris-Cité, CNRS UMR6047, Genetics of Biofilms Laboratory, Paris, France
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- Department of Functional Genomics, Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Institut Pasteur, Université de Paris-Cité, CNRS UMR6047, Genetics of Biofilms Laboratory, Paris, France
- Centre for Bacteriology Resistance Biology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Institut Pasteur, Université de Paris-Cité, UMR UMR6047, Stress adaptation and metabolism in enterobacteria, Paris, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Université de Paris-Cité, CNRS UMR6047, Genetics of Biofilms Laboratory, Paris, France
- Departamento de Genética, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
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- Institut Pasteur, Université de Paris-Cité, CNRS UMR6047, Genetics of Biofilms Laboratory, Paris, France
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- Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Functional Genomics, Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Institut Pasteur, Université de Paris-Cité, CNRS UMR6047, Genetics of Biofilms Laboratory, Paris, France
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Panda G, Dash S, Sahu SK. Harnessing the Role of Bacterial Plasma Membrane Modifications for the Development of Sustainable Membranotropic Phytotherapeutics. MEMBRANES 2022; 12:914. [PMID: 36295673 PMCID: PMC9612325 DOI: 10.3390/membranes12100914] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2022] [Revised: 09/08/2022] [Accepted: 09/19/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Membrane-targeted molecules such as cationic antimicrobial peptides (CAMPs) are amongst the most advanced group of antibiotics used against drug-resistant bacteria due to their conserved and accessible targets. However, multi-drug-resistant bacteria alter their plasma membrane (PM) lipids, such as lipopolysaccharides (LPS) and phospholipids (PLs), to evade membrane-targeted antibiotics. Investigations reveal that in addition to LPS, the varying composition and spatiotemporal organization of PLs in the bacterial PM are currently being explored as novel drug targets. Additionally, PM proteins such as Mla complex, MPRF, Lpts, lipid II flippase, PL synthases, and PL flippases that maintain PM integrity are the most sought-after targets for development of new-generation drugs. However, most of their structural details and mechanism of action remains elusive. Exploration of the role of bacterial membrane lipidome and proteome in addition to their organization is the key to developing novel membrane-targeted antibiotics. In addition, membranotropic phytochemicals and their synthetic derivatives have gained attractiveness as popular herbal alternatives against bacterial multi-drug resistance. This review provides the current understanding on the role of bacterial PM components on multidrug resistance and their targeting with membranotropic phytochemicals.
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- Gayatree Panda
- Department of Biotechnology, Maharaja Sriram Chandra Bhanjadeo University (Erstwhile: North Orissa University), Baripada 757003, India
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Biotechnology, Maharaja Sriram Chandra Bhanjadeo University (Erstwhile: North Orissa University), Baripada 757003, India
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Czolkoss S, Safronov X, Rexroth S, Knoke LR, Aktas M, Narberhaus F. Agrobacterium tumefaciens Type IV and Type VI Secretion Systems Reside in Detergent-Resistant Membranes. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:754486. [PMID: 34899640 PMCID: PMC8656257 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.754486] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2021] [Accepted: 10/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
Abstract
Cell membranes are not homogenous but compartmentalized into lateral microdomains, which are considered as biochemical reaction centers for various physiological processes in eukaryotes and prokaryotes. Due to their special lipid and protein composition, some of these microdomains are resistant to treatment with non-ionic detergents and can be purified as detergent-resistant membranes (DRMs). Here we report the proteome of DRMs from the Gram-negative phytopathogen Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Using label-free liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry, we identified proteins enriched in DRMs isolated under normal and virulence-mimicking growth conditions. Prominent microdomain marker proteins such as the SPFH (stomatin/prohibitin/flotillin/HflKC) proteins HflK, HflC and Atu3772, along with the protease FtsH were highly enriched in DRMs isolated under any given condition. Moreover, proteins involved in cell envelope biogenesis, transport and secretion, as well as motility- and chemotaxis-associated proteins were overrepresented in DRMs. Most strikingly, we found virulence-associated proteins such as the VirA/VirG two-component system, and the membrane-spanning type IV and type VI secretion systems enriched in DRMs. Fluorescence microscopy of the cellular localization of both secretion systems and of marker proteins was in agreement with the results from the proteomics approach. These findings suggest that virulence traits are micro-compartmentalized into functional microdomains in A. tumefaciens.
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- Simon Czolkoss
- Department of Microbial Biology, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
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- Department of Microbial Biology, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
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- Department of Plant Biochemistry, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
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- Department of Microbial Biology, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
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- Department of Microbial Biology, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
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- Department of Microbial Biology, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
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Pushkarsky T, Ward A, Ivanov A, Lin X, Sviridov D, Nekhai S, Bukrinsky MI. Abundance of Nef and p-Tau217 in Brains of Individuals Diagnosed with HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorders Correlate with Disease Severance. Mol Neurobiol 2021; 59:1088-1097. [PMID: 34843091 PMCID: PMC8857174 DOI: 10.1007/s12035-021-02608-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2021] [Accepted: 10/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
Abstract
HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND) is a term used to describe a variety of neurological impairments observed in HIV-infected individuals. The pathogenic mechanisms of HAND and of its connection to HIV infection remain unknown, but one of the considered hypotheses suggests that HIV infection accelerates the development of Alzheimer’s disease. Previous studies suggested that HIV-1 Nef may contribute to HAND by inhibiting cholesterol efflux, increasing the abundance of lipid rafts, and affecting their functionality. Our comparative analysis of postmortem brain samples demonstrated a trend toward the decreased abundance of cholesterol transporter ABCA1 in samples from HIV-infected ART-treated individuals relative to samples from uninfected controls, and a reverse correlation between ABCA1 and flotillin 1, a marker for lipid rafts, in all analyzed samples. The brain samples from HIV-infected individuals, both with and without HAND, were characterized by the increased abundance of p-Tau217 peptide, which correlated with the abundance of flotillin 1. HIV-1 Nef was analyzed in samples from HAND-affected individuals by Western blot with 4 different antibodies and by LC–MS/MS, producing a Nef-positivity score. A significant correlation was found between this score and the abundance of flotillin 1, the abundance of p-Tau217, and the severity of HAND. These results highlight the contribution of Nef and Nef-dependent impairment of cholesterol efflux to HAND pathogenesis and support a connection between the pathogenesis of HAND and Alzheimer’s disease.
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- Tatiana Pushkarsky
- The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, USA
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- The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, USA
- The George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, Washington, DC, USA
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- College of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, DC, USA
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- College of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, DC, USA
- College of Dentistry, Howard University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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- College of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, DC, USA
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- The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, USA.
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Scholz AS, Baur SSM, Wolf D, Bramkamp M. An Stomatin, Prohibitin, Flotillin, and HflK/C-Domain Protein Required to Link the Phage-Shock Protein to the Membrane in Bacillus subtilis. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:754924. [PMID: 34777311 PMCID: PMC8581546 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.754924] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2021] [Accepted: 09/27/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
Abstract
Membrane surveillance and repair is of utmost importance to maintain cellular integrity and allow cellular life. Several systems detect cell envelope stress caused by antimicrobial compounds and abiotic stresses such as solvents, pH-changes and temperature in bacteria. Proteins containing an Stomatin, Prohibitin, Flotillin, and HflK/C (SPFH)-domain, including bacterial flotillins have been shown to be involved in membrane protection and membrane fluidity regulation. Here, we characterize a bacterial SPFH-domain protein, YdjI that is part of a stress induced complex in Bacillus subtilis. We show that YdjI is required to localize the ESCRT-III homolog PspA to the membrane with the help of two membrane integral proteins, YdjG/H. In contrast to classical flotillins, YdjI resides in fluid membrane regions and does not enrich in detergent resistant membrane fractions. However, similarly to FloA and FloT from B. subtilis, deletion of YdjI decreases membrane fluidity. Our data reveal a hardwired connection between phage shock response and SPFH proteins.
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- Abigail Savietto Scholz
- Institute for General Microbiology, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
- Faculty of Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Institute for General Microbiology, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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- Institute of Microbiology, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Institute for General Microbiology, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
- Faculty of Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany
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Labana P, Dornan MH, Lafrenière M, Czarny TL, Brown ED, Pezacki JP, Boddy CN. Armeniaspirols inhibit the AAA+ proteases ClpXP and ClpYQ leading to cell division arrest in Gram-positive bacteria. Cell Chem Biol 2021; 28:1703-1715.e11. [PMID: 34293284 DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2021.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2020] [Revised: 04/22/2021] [Accepted: 06/29/2021] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Multi-drug-resistant bacteria present an urgent threat to modern medicine, creating a desperate need for antibiotics with new modes of action. As natural products remain an unsurpassed source for clinically viable antibiotic compounds, we investigate the mechanism of action of armeniaspirol. The armeniaspirols are a structurally unique class of Gram-positive antibiotic discovered from Streptomyces armeniacus for which resistance cannot be readily obtained. We show that armeniaspirol inhibits the ATP-dependent proteases ClpXP and ClpYQ in vitro and in the model Gram-positive Bacillus subtilis. This inhibition dysregulates the divisome and elongasome supported by an upregulation of key proteins FtsZ, DivIVA, and MreB inducing cell division arrest. The inhibition of ClpXP and ClpYQ to dysregulate cell division represents a unique antibiotic mechanism of action and armeniaspirol is the only known natural product inhibitor of the coveted anti-virulence target ClpP. Thus, armeniaspirol possesses a promising lead scaffold for antibiotic development with unique pharmacology.
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- Puneet Labana
- Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada.
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A pH-Dependent Gene Expression Enables Bacillus amyloliquefaciens MBNC to Adapt to Acid Stress. Curr Microbiol 2021; 78:3104-3114. [PMID: 34173842 DOI: 10.1007/s00284-021-02573-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2020] [Accepted: 06/10/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
Abstract
Acid tolerance response (ATR), a process by which bacteria optimize their growth conditions for cellular functions, is a well-characterized bacterial stress response. A bacterial isolate identified, as Bacillus amyloliquefaciens MBNC, was isolated from acidic soil and studied for its acid tolerance response under several range of acidic stress conditions imposed through inorganic acid, organic acid, acetate buffer, and soil extract. The ability of the B. amyloliquefaciens MBNC to tolerate extreme acidic conditions (pH 4.5) increased when exposed to moderate-acidic pH (pH 5.5). Along with ATR, the bacterial cell density was also critical to its ability to tolerate low pH as the cells of late log phase were more tolerant to low pH stress compared to the early log phase cells. A comparative expression study of 28 genes of B. amyloliquefaciens MBNC was assessed in cells grown in neutral (pH 7.0) and acidic condition (pH 4.5) through qRT-PCR. Among the 28 genes analyzed, 24 genes showed increased expression whereas the expression of 4 genes was downregulated under acid stress indicating to the involvement of the genes in acid stress response.
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Sharipova MR, Mardanova AM, Rudakova NL, Pudova DS. Bistability and Formation of the Biofilm Matrix as Adaptive Mechanisms during the Stationary Phase of Bacillus subtilis. Microbiology (Reading) 2021. [DOI: 10.1134/s002626172006017x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Assembly of pathway enzymes by engineering functional membrane microdomain components for improved N-acetylglucosamine synthesis in Bacillus subtilis. Metab Eng 2020; 61:96-105. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2020.05.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/29/2020] [Revised: 05/12/2020] [Accepted: 05/25/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Zielińska A, Savietto A, de Sousa Borges A, Martinez D, Berbon M, Roelofsen JR, Hartman AM, de Boer R, Van der Klei IJ, Hirsch AKH, Habenstein B, Bramkamp M, Scheffers DJ. Flotillin-mediated membrane fluidity controls peptidoglycan synthesis and MreB movement. eLife 2020; 9:e57179. [PMID: 32662773 PMCID: PMC7360373 DOI: 10.7554/elife.57179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2020] [Accepted: 06/12/2020] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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The bacterial plasma membrane is an important cellular compartment. In recent years it has become obvious that protein complexes and lipids are not uniformly distributed within membranes. Current hypotheses suggest that flotillin proteins are required for the formation of complexes of membrane proteins including cell-wall synthetic proteins. We show here that bacterial flotillins are important factors for membrane fluidity homeostasis. Loss of flotillins leads to a decrease in membrane fluidity that in turn leads to alterations in MreB dynamics and, as a consequence, in peptidoglycan synthesis. These alterations are reverted when membrane fluidity is restored by a chemical fluidizer. In vitro, the addition of a flotillin increases membrane fluidity of liposomes. Our data support a model in which flotillins are required for direct control of membrane fluidity rather than for the formation of protein complexes via direct protein-protein interactions.
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- Aleksandra Zielińska
- Molecular Microbiology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of GroningenGroningenNetherlands
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- Biozentrum, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenMünchenGermany
- Institute for General Microbiology, Christian-Albrechts-UniversityKielGermany
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- Molecular Microbiology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of GroningenGroningenNetherlands
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- Institute of Chemistry & Biology of Membranes & Nanoobjects (UMR5248 CBMN), IECB, CNRS, Université Bordeaux, Institut Polytechnique BordeauxPessacFrance
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- Institute of Chemistry & Biology of Membranes & Nanoobjects (UMR5248 CBMN), IECB, CNRS, Université Bordeaux, Institut Polytechnique BordeauxPessacFrance
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- Molecular Microbiology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of GroningenGroningenNetherlands
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- Department of Drug Design and Optimization (DDOP), Helmholtz-Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS) - Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI)SaarbrückenGermany
- Department of Pharmacy, Saarland UniversitySaarbrückenGermany
- Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of GroningenGroningenNetherlands
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- Molecular Cell Biology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of GroningenGroningenNetherlands
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- Molecular Cell Biology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of GroningenGroningenNetherlands
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- Department of Drug Design and Optimization (DDOP), Helmholtz-Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS) - Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI)SaarbrückenGermany
- Department of Pharmacy, Saarland UniversitySaarbrückenGermany
- Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of GroningenGroningenNetherlands
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- Institute of Chemistry & Biology of Membranes & Nanoobjects (UMR5248 CBMN), IECB, CNRS, Université Bordeaux, Institut Polytechnique BordeauxPessacFrance
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- Biozentrum, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenMünchenGermany
- Institute for General Microbiology, Christian-Albrechts-UniversityKielGermany
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- Molecular Microbiology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of GroningenGroningenNetherlands
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Dual functionality of the amyloid protein TasA in Bacillus physiology and fitness on the phylloplane. Nat Commun 2020; 11:1859. [PMID: 32313019 PMCID: PMC7171179 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15758-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2019] [Accepted: 03/27/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Bacteria can form biofilms that consist of multicellular communities embedded in an extracellular matrix (ECM). In Bacillus subtilis, the main protein component of the ECM is the functional amyloid TasA. Here, we study further the roles played by TasA in B. subtilis physiology and biofilm formation on plant leaves and in vitro. We show that ΔtasA cells exhibit a range of cytological symptoms indicative of excessive cellular stress leading to increased cell death. TasA associates to the detergent-resistant fraction of the cell membrane, and the distribution of the flotillin-like protein FloT is altered in ΔtasA cells. We propose that, in addition to a structural function during ECM assembly and interactions with plants, TasA contributes to the stabilization of membrane dynamics as cells enter stationary phase. The amyloid protein TasA is a main component of the extracellular matrix in Bacillus subtilis biofilms. Here the authors show that, in addition to a structural function during biofilm assembly and interactions with plants, TasA contributes to the stabilization of membrane dynamics during stationary phase.
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A Kayvirus Distant Homolog of Staphylococcal Virulence Determinants and VISA Biomarker Is a Phage Lytic Enzyme. Viruses 2020; 12:v12030292. [PMID: 32156046 PMCID: PMC7150955 DOI: 10.3390/v12030292] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2019] [Revised: 03/02/2020] [Accepted: 03/04/2020] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Staphylococcal bacteriophages of the Kayvirus genus are candidates for therapeutic applications. One of their proteins, Tgl, is slightly similar to two staphylococcal virulence factors, secreted autolysins of lytic transglycosylase motifs IsaA and SceD. We show that Tgl is a lytic enzyme secreted by the bacterial transport system and localizes to cell peripheries like IsaA and SceD. It causes lysis of E. coli cells expressing the cloned tgl gene, but could be overproduced when depleted of signal peptide. S. aureus cells producing Tgl lysed in the presence of nisin, which mimics the action of phage holin. In vitro, Tgl protein was able to destroy S. aureus cell walls. The production of Tgl decreased S. aureus tolerance to vancomycin, unlike the production of SceD, which is associated with decreased sensitivity to vancomycin. In the genomes of kayviruses, the tgl gene is located a few genes away from the lysK gene, encoding the major endolysin. While lysK is a late phage gene, tgl can be transcribed by a host RNA polymerase, like phage early genes. Taken together, our data indicate that tgl belongs to the kayvirus lytic module and encodes an additional endolysin that can act in concert with LysK in cell lysis.
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Padilla-Vaca F, Vargas-Maya NI, Elizarrarás-Vargas NU, Rangel-Serrano Á, Cardoso-Reyes LR, Razo-Soria T, Membrillo-Hernández J, Franco B. Flotillin homologue is involved in the swimming behavior of Escherichia coli. Arch Microbiol 2019; 201:999-1008. [PMID: 31062059 DOI: 10.1007/s00203-019-01670-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2018] [Revised: 04/22/2019] [Accepted: 04/24/2019] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Cellular membrane is a key component for maintaining cell shape and integrity. The classical membrane structure and function by Singer and Nicolson groundbreaking model has depicted the membrane as a homogeneous fluid structure. This view has changed by the discovery of discrete domains containing different lipid compositions, called lipid rafts, which play a key role in signal transduction in eukaryotic cells. In the past few years, lipid raft-like structures have been found in bacteria also, constituted by cardiolipin and other modified lipids, perhaps involved in generating a specific site for protein clustering. Here, we report the analysis of a protein termed YqiK from Escherichia coli, a prohibitin homolog that has been implicated in stress sensing by the formation of membrane-associated microdomains. The E. coli yqiK-deficient mutant strain showed an enhanced swimming behavior and was resistant to ampicillin but its response to other stressing conditions was similar to that of the wild-type strain. The abnormal swimming behavior is reversed when the protein is expressed in trans from a plasmid. Also, we demonstrate that YqiK is not redundant with QmcA, another flotillin homolog found in E. coli. Our results, along with the data available in the literature, suggest that YqiK may be involved in the formation of discrete membrane-associated signaling complexes that regulate and agglomerate signaling proteins to generate cell response to chemotaxis.
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- Felipe Padilla-Vaca
- División de Ciencias Naturales y Exactas, Departamento de Biología, Universidad de Guanajuato, Noria Alta s/n, Guanajuato, Gto, 36050, Mexico
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- División de Ciencias Naturales y Exactas, Departamento de Biología, Universidad de Guanajuato, Noria Alta s/n, Guanajuato, Gto, 36050, Mexico
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- División de Ciencias Naturales y Exactas, Departamento de Biología, Universidad de Guanajuato, Noria Alta s/n, Guanajuato, Gto, 36050, Mexico
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- División de Ciencias Naturales y Exactas, Departamento de Biología, Universidad de Guanajuato, Noria Alta s/n, Guanajuato, Gto, 36050, Mexico
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- División de Ciencias Naturales y Exactas, Departamento de Biología, Universidad de Guanajuato, Noria Alta s/n, Guanajuato, Gto, 36050, Mexico
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- División de Ciencias Naturales y Exactas, Departamento de Biología, Universidad de Guanajuato, Noria Alta s/n, Guanajuato, Gto, 36050, Mexico
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- Departamento de Bioingeniería, Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
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- División de Ciencias Naturales y Exactas, Departamento de Biología, Universidad de Guanajuato, Noria Alta s/n, Guanajuato, Gto, 36050, Mexico.
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Mielich-Süss B, Wagner RM, Mietrach N, Hertlein T, Marincola G, Ohlsen K, Geibel S, Lopez D. Flotillin scaffold activity contributes to type VII secretion system assembly in Staphylococcus aureus. PLoS Pathog 2017; 13:e1006728. [PMID: 29166667 PMCID: PMC5718613 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006728] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2017] [Revised: 12/06/2017] [Accepted: 11/02/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Scaffold proteins are ubiquitous chaperones that promote efficient interactions between partners of multi-enzymatic protein complexes; although they are well studied in eukaryotes, their role in prokaryotic systems is poorly understood. Bacterial membranes have functional membrane microdomains (FMM), a structure homologous to eukaryotic lipid rafts. Similar to their eukaryotic counterparts, bacterial FMM harbor a scaffold protein termed flotillin that is thought to promote interactions between proteins spatially confined to the FMM. Here we used biochemical approaches to define the scaffold activity of the flotillin homolog FloA of the human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus, using assembly of interacting protein partners of the type VII secretion system (T7SS) as a case study. Staphylococcus aureus cells that lacked FloA showed reduced T7SS function, and thus reduced secretion of T7SS-related effectors, probably due to the supporting scaffold activity of flotillin. We found that the presence of flotillin mediates intermolecular interactions of T7SS proteins. We tested several small molecules that interfere with flotillin scaffold activity, which perturbed T7SS activity in vitro and in vivo. Our results suggest that flotillin assists in the assembly of S. aureus membrane components that participate in infection and influences the infective potential of this pathogen. The recently discovered functional membrane microdomains (FMM) of prokaryotic cells contain a protein homologous to the scaffold protein flotillin found in eukaryotic lipid rafts. It remains to be elucidated whether, like their eukaryotic counterparts, flotillin homolog proteins have a scaffold function in bacteria. Here we show that the Staphylococcus aureus flotillin FloA acts as a scaffold protein, to promote more efficient assembly of membrane-associated protein interacting partners of multi-enzyme complexes. In a case study, we provide biochemical evidence that FloA participates in assembly of the Type VII secretion system and thus contributes to S. aureus infective potential. Targeted dispersion of FMM-related processes using anti-FMM molecules opens up new perspectives for microbial therapies to treat persistent S. aureus infections.
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- Benjamin Mielich-Süss
- Research Center for Infectious Diseases ZINF, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
- Institute for Molecular Infection Biology IMIB, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Research Center for Infectious Diseases ZINF, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
- Institute for Molecular Infection Biology IMIB, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
- National Center for Biotechnology, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CNB-CSIC), Madrid, Spain
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- Research Center for Infectious Diseases ZINF, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
- Institute for Molecular Infection Biology IMIB, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
- Rudolf Virchow Center - DFG Research Center for Experimental Biomedicine, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Institute for Molecular Infection Biology IMIB, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Research Center for Infectious Diseases ZINF, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
- Institute for Molecular Infection Biology IMIB, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Institute for Molecular Infection Biology IMIB, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Research Center for Infectious Diseases ZINF, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
- Institute for Molecular Infection Biology IMIB, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
- Rudolf Virchow Center - DFG Research Center for Experimental Biomedicine, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Research Center for Infectious Diseases ZINF, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
- Institute for Molecular Infection Biology IMIB, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
- National Center for Biotechnology, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CNB-CSIC), Madrid, Spain
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The bacterial cytoplasmic membrane is composed of roughly equal proportions of lipids and proteins. The main lipid components are phospholipids, which vary in acyl chain length, saturation, and branching and carry head groups that vary in size and charge. Phospholipid variants determine membrane properties such as fluidity and charge that in turn modulate interactions with membrane-associated proteins. We summarize recent advances in understanding bacterial membrane structure and function, focusing particularly on the possible existence and significance of specialized membrane domains. We review the role of membrane curvature as a spatial cue for recruitment and regulation of proteins involved in morphogenic functions, especially elongation and division. Finally, we examine the role of the membrane, especially regulation of synthesis and fluid properties, in the life cycle of cell wall-deficient L-form bacteria.
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- Henrik Strahl
- Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology, Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE2 4AX United Kingdom; ,
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- Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology, Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE2 4AX United Kingdom; ,
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Koch G, Wermser C, Acosta IC, Kricks L, Stengel ST, Yepes A, Lopez D. Attenuating Staphylococcus aureus Virulence by Targeting Flotillin Protein Scaffold Activity. Cell Chem Biol 2017; 24:845-857.e6. [PMID: 28669526 DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2017.05.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2017] [Revised: 04/11/2017] [Accepted: 05/30/2017] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Scaffold proteins are ubiquitous chaperones that bind proteins and facilitate physical interaction of multi-enzyme complexes. Here we used a biochemical approach to dissect the scaffold activity of the flotillin-homolog protein FloA of the multi-drug-resistant human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus. We show that FloA promotes oligomerization of membrane protein complexes, such as the membrane-associated RNase Rny, which forms part of the RNA-degradation machinery called the degradosome. Cells lacking FloA had reduced Rny function and a consequent increase in the targeted sRNA transcripts that negatively regulate S. aureus toxin expression. Small molecules that altered FloA oligomerization also reduced Rny function and decreased the virulence potential of S. aureus in vitro, as well as in vivo, using invertebrate and murine infection models. Our results suggest that flotillin assists in the assembly of protein complexes involved in S. aureus virulence, and could thus be an attractive target for the development of new antimicrobial therapies.
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- Gudrun Koch
- Research Centre for Infectious Diseases (ZINF), University of Würzburg, Würzburg 97080, Germany; Institute for Molecular Infection Biology (IMIB), University of Würzburg, Würzburg 97080, Germany
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- Research Centre for Infectious Diseases (ZINF), University of Würzburg, Würzburg 97080, Germany; Institute for Molecular Infection Biology (IMIB), University of Würzburg, Würzburg 97080, Germany
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- National Centre for Biotechnology (CNB), Spanish Research Council (CSIC), Darwin 3, Madrid 28049, Spain
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- National Centre for Biotechnology (CNB), Spanish Research Council (CSIC), Darwin 3, Madrid 28049, Spain
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- Research Centre for Infectious Diseases (ZINF), University of Würzburg, Würzburg 97080, Germany; Institute for Molecular Infection Biology (IMIB), University of Würzburg, Würzburg 97080, Germany
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- Research Centre for Infectious Diseases (ZINF), University of Würzburg, Würzburg 97080, Germany; Institute for Molecular Infection Biology (IMIB), University of Würzburg, Würzburg 97080, Germany
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- Research Centre for Infectious Diseases (ZINF), University of Würzburg, Würzburg 97080, Germany; Institute for Molecular Infection Biology (IMIB), University of Würzburg, Würzburg 97080, Germany; National Centre for Biotechnology (CNB), Spanish Research Council (CSIC), Darwin 3, Madrid 28049, Spain.
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Hutton ML, D'Costa K, Rossiter AE, Wang L, Turner L, Steer DL, Masters SL, Croker BA, Kaparakis-Liaskos M, Ferrero RL. A Helicobacter pylori Homolog of Eukaryotic Flotillin Is Involved in Cholesterol Accumulation, Epithelial Cell Responses and Host Colonization. Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2017; 7:219. [PMID: 28634572 PMCID: PMC5460342 DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2017.00219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2017] [Accepted: 05/11/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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The human pathogen Helicobacter pylori acquires cholesterol from membrane raft domains in eukaryotic cells, commonly known as "lipid rafts." Incorporation of this cholesterol into the H. pylori cell membrane allows the bacterium to avoid clearance by the host immune system and to resist the effects of antibiotics and antimicrobial peptides. The presence of cholesterol in H. pylori bacteria suggested that this pathogen may have cholesterol-enriched domains within its membrane. Consistent with this suggestion, we identified a hypothetical H. pylori protein (HP0248) with homology to the flotillin proteins normally found in the cholesterol-enriched domains of eukaryotic cells. As shown for eukaryotic flotillin proteins, HP0248 was detected in detergent-resistant membrane fractions of H. pylori. Importantly, H. pylori HP0248 mutants contained lower levels of cholesterol than wild-type bacteria (P < 0.01). HP0248 mutant bacteria also exhibited defects in type IV secretion functions, as indicated by reduced IL-8 responses and CagA translocation in epithelial cells (P < 0.05), and were less able to establish a chronic infection in mice than wild-type bacteria (P < 0.05). Thus, we have identified an H. pylori flotillin protein and shown its importance for bacterial virulence. Taken together, the data demonstrate important roles for H. pylori flotillin in host-pathogen interactions. We propose that H. pylori flotillin may be required for the organization of virulence proteins into membrane raft-like structures in this pathogen.
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- Melanie L. Hutton
- Centre for Innate Immunity and Infectious Diseases, Hudson Institute of Medical ResearchMelbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Centre for Innate Immunity and Infectious Diseases, Hudson Institute of Medical ResearchMelbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Centre for Innate Immunity and Infectious Diseases, Hudson Institute of Medical ResearchMelbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Centre for Innate Immunity and Infectious Diseases, Hudson Institute of Medical ResearchMelbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Centre for Innate Immunity and Infectious Diseases, Hudson Institute of Medical ResearchMelbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Monash Biomedical Proteomics Facility, Monash UniversityMelbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Inflammation Division, The Walter and Eliza Hall InstituteMelbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Inflammation Division, The Walter and Eliza Hall InstituteMelbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Centre for Innate Immunity and Infectious Diseases, Hudson Institute of Medical ResearchMelbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Centre for Innate Immunity and Infectious Diseases, Hudson Institute of Medical ResearchMelbourne, VIC, Australia
- Infection and Immunity Program, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute and Department of Microbiology, Monash UniversityMelbourne, VIC, Australia
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Vega-Cabrera LA, Wood CD, Pardo-López L. Spo0M: structure and function beyond regulation of sporulation. Curr Genet 2017; 64:17-23. [PMID: 28577219 DOI: 10.1007/s00294-017-0718-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2017] [Revised: 05/23/2017] [Accepted: 05/27/2017] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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In this mini-review, we present a perspective on the recent findings relating Spo0M structure and function that will stimulate and guide further studies in the characterization of this interesting protein. Cell division and sporulation constitute two of the best studied processes in the model organism Bacillus subtilis; however, there are many missing pieces in the giant regulatory puzzle that governs the independent and shared networks between them. Spo0M is a little studied protein that has been related to both, cell division and sporulation, but its biochemical function and its direct interactions have not been yet defined. Structural analysis of Spo0M revealed the presence of an arrestin-like domain and an FP domain (a dimerization domain present in proteasome elements), motifs more commonly found in eukaryotic proteins. The aim of this perspective is to present open questions regarding the functional and structural features of Spo0M that make this protein a good candidate for the ancestor of arrestins in bacteria and an important element in developmental and differentiation processes of Bacillus subtilis.
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- Luz Adriana Vega-Cabrera
- Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad #2001, Apdo. Postal 510-3, 62250, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
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- Laboratorio Nacional de Microscopía Avanzada, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad #2001, Apdo. Postal 510-3, 62250, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
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- Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad #2001, Apdo. Postal 510-3, 62250, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
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Vega-Cabrera LA, Guerrero A, Rodríguez-Mejía JL, Tabche ML, Wood CD, Gutiérrez-Rios RM, Merino E, Pardo-López L. Analysis of Spo0M function in Bacillus subtilis. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0172737. [PMID: 28234965 PMCID: PMC5325327 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0172737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2016] [Accepted: 02/08/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Spo0M has been previously reported as a regulator of sporulation in Bacillus subtilis; however, little is known about the mechanisms through which it participates in sporulation, and there is no information to date that relates this protein to other processes in the bacterium. In this work we present evidence from proteomic, protein-protein interaction, morphological, subcellular localization microscopy and bioinformatics studies which indicate that Spo0M function is not necessarily restricted to sporulation, and point towards its involvement in other stages of the vegetative life cycle. In the current study, we provide evidence that Spo0M interacts with cytoskeletal proteins involved in cell division, which suggest a function additional to that previously described in sporulation. Spo0M expression is not restricted to the transition phase or sporulation; rather, its expression begins during the early stages of growth and Spo0M localization in B. subtilis depends on the bacterial life cycle and could be related to an additional proposed function. This is supported by our discovery of homologs in a broad distribution of bacterial genera, even in non-sporulating species. Our work paves the way for re-evaluation of the role of Spo0M in bacterial cell.
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- Luz Adriana Vega-Cabrera
- Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apdo, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México
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- Laboratorio Nacional de Microscopía Avanzada, Avenida Universidad 2001, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México
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- Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apdo, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México
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- Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apdo, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México
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- Laboratorio Nacional de Microscopía Avanzada, Avenida Universidad 2001, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México
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- Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apdo, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México
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- Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apdo, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México
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- Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apdo, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México
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Lopez D, Koch G. Exploring functional membrane microdomains in bacteria: an overview. Curr Opin Microbiol 2017; 36:76-84. [PMID: 28237903 DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2017.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2016] [Accepted: 02/01/2017] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Recent studies show that internal organization of bacterial cells is more complex than previously appreciated. A clear example of this is the assembly of the nanoscale membrane platforms termed functional membrane microdomains. The lipid composition of these regions differs from that of the surrounding membrane; these domains confine a set of proteins involved in specific cellular processes such as protease secretion and signal transduction. It is currently thought that functional membrane microdomains act as oligomerization platforms and promote efficient oligomerization of interacting protein partners in bacterial membranes. In this review, we highlight the most noteworthy achievements, challenges and controversies of this emerging research field over the past five years.
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- Daniel Lopez
- Research Centre for Infectious Diseases (ZINF), University of Würzburg, Würzburg 97080, Germany; Institute for Molecular Infection Biology (IMIB), University of Würzburg, Würzburg 97080, Germany; Spanish National Centre for Biotechnology (CNB), Madrid 28049, Spain.
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- Research Centre for Infectious Diseases (ZINF), University of Würzburg, Würzburg 97080, Germany; Institute for Molecular Infection Biology (IMIB), University of Würzburg, Würzburg 97080, Germany
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Functional Membrane Microdomains Organize Signaling Networks in Bacteria. J Membr Biol 2016; 250:367-378. [PMID: 27566471 DOI: 10.1007/s00232-016-9923-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2016] [Accepted: 08/16/2016] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Membrane organization is usually associated with the correct function of a number of cellular processes in eukaryotic cells as diverse as signal transduction, protein sorting, membrane trafficking, or pathogen invasion. It has been recently discovered that bacterial membranes are able to compartmentalize their signal transduction pathways in functional membrane microdomains (FMMs). In this review article, we discuss the biological significance of the existence of FMMs in bacteria and comment on possible beneficial roles that FMMs play on the harbored signal transduction cascades. Moreover, four different membrane-associated signal transduction cascades whose functions are linked to the integrity of FMMs are introduced, and the specific role that FMMs play in stabilizing and promoting interactions of their signaling components is discussed. Altogether, FMMs seem to play a relevant role in promoting more efficient activation of signal transduction cascades in bacterial cells and show that bacteria are more sophisticated organisms than previously appreciated.
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Dempwolff F, Schmidt FK, Hervás AB, Stroh A, Rösch TC, Riese CN, Dersch S, Heimerl T, Lucena D, Hülsbusch N, Stuermer CAO, Takeshita N, Fischer R, Eckhardt B, Graumann PL. Super Resolution Fluorescence Microscopy and Tracking of Bacterial Flotillin (Reggie) Paralogs Provide Evidence for Defined-Sized Protein Microdomains within the Bacterial Membrane but Absence of Clusters Containing Detergent-Resistant Proteins. PLoS Genet 2016; 12:e1006116. [PMID: 27362352 PMCID: PMC4928834 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2015] [Accepted: 05/20/2016] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Biological membranes have been proposed to contain microdomains of a specific lipid composition, in which distinct groups of proteins are clustered. Flotillin-like proteins are conserved between pro—and eukaryotes, play an important function in several eukaryotic and bacterial cells, and define in vertebrates a type of so-called detergent-resistant microdomains. Using STED microscopy, we show that two bacterial flotillins, FloA and FloT, form defined assemblies with an average diameter of 85 to 110 nm in the model bacterium Bacillus subtilis. Interestingly, flotillin microdomains are of similar size in eukaryotic cells. The soluble domains of FloA form higher order oligomers of up to several hundred kDa in vitro, showing that like eukaryotic flotillins, bacterial assemblies are based in part on their ability to self-oligomerize. However, B. subtilis paralogs show significantly different diffusion rates, and consequently do not colocalize into a common microdomain. Dual colour time lapse experiments of flotillins together with other detergent-resistant proteins in bacteria show that proteins colocalize for no longer than a few hundred milliseconds, and do not move together. Our data reveal that the bacterial membrane contains defined-sized protein domains rather than functional microdomains dependent on flotillins. Based on their distinct dynamics, FloA and FloT confer spatially distinguishable activities, but do not serve as molecular scaffolds. Many membrane proteins are not uniformly distributed within biological membranes, and may prefer specific lipid environments to function optimally. Using super resolution fluorescence microscopy, we show that several Bacillus subtilis membrane proteins indeed cluster into structures of 60 to 110 nm, verifying the existence of defined-size protein microdomains. Biochemical co-isolation of specific membrane proteins and flotillins, a family of proteins highly conserved between eukaryotic and bacterial cells, suggested that common “functional” microdomains exist, containing so-called “detergent-resistant” membrane proteins, that are centered by flotillins. Through high speed tracking of Bacillus subtilis FloA and FloT we show that both proteins are not present in the same microdomain, but move through the membrane with different velocities. Dual colour time lapse microscopy showed that contrarily to vertebrate flotillins, bacterial flotillins do not move together with detergent-resistant proteins, ruling out the existence of coclusters. The lack of both flotillins, but not of a single one, leads to striking defects in cell shape and in cell growth, indicating important overlapping functions of flotillin paralogs. Our data show that FloA and FloT perform spatially distinct functions, possibly in the insertion of membrane proteins that require a specific lipid environment, based on a close connection between FloA and FloT with the Sec membrane insertion machinery, but do not act as scaffolds for detergent resistant proteins. Our tracking analyses provide an important basis for the understanding of interactions between membrane proteins in living cells.
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- Felix Dempwolff
- SYNMIKRO, LOEWE Center for Synthetic Microbiology, Philipps Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany
- Department of Chemistry, Philipps Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- SYNMIKRO, LOEWE Center for Synthetic Microbiology, Philipps Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany
- Department of Physics, Philipps Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- SYNMIKRO, LOEWE Center for Synthetic Microbiology, Philipps Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany
- Department of Chemistry, Philipps Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- SYNMIKRO, LOEWE Center for Synthetic Microbiology, Philipps Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany
- Department of Chemistry, Philipps Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- SYNMIKRO, LOEWE Center for Synthetic Microbiology, Philipps Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany
- Department of Chemistry, Philipps Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- SYNMIKRO, LOEWE Center for Synthetic Microbiology, Philipps Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany
- Department of Biology, Philipps Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- SYNMIKRO, LOEWE Center for Synthetic Microbiology, Philipps Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany
- Department of Chemistry, Philipps Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- SYNMIKRO, LOEWE Center for Synthetic Microbiology, Philipps Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany
- Department of Biology, Philipps Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- SYNMIKRO, LOEWE Center for Synthetic Microbiology, Philipps Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany
- Department of Chemistry, Philipps Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
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- University of Tsukuba, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
- Department of Microbiology, Institute for Applied Bioscience, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Department of Microbiology, Institute for Applied Bioscience, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
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- SYNMIKRO, LOEWE Center for Synthetic Microbiology, Philipps Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany
- Department of Physics, Philipps Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- SYNMIKRO, LOEWE Center for Synthetic Microbiology, Philipps Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany
- Department of Chemistry, Philipps Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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Somani VK, Aggarwal S, Singh D, Prasad T, Bhatnagar R. Identification of Novel Raft Marker Protein, FlotP in Bacillus anthracis. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:169. [PMID: 26925042 PMCID: PMC4756111 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2015] [Accepted: 02/01/2016] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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Lipid rafts are dynamic, nanoscale assemblies of specific proteins and lipids, distributed heterogeneously on eukaryotic membrane. Flotillin-1, a conserved eukaryotic raft marker protein (RMP) harbor SPFH (Stomatin, Prohibitin, Flotillin, and HflK/C) and oligomerization domains to regulate various cellular processes through its interactions with other signaling or transport proteins. Rafts were thought to be absent in prokaryotes hitherto, but recent report of its presence and significance in physiology of Bacillus subtilis prompted us to investigate the same in pathogenic bacteria (PB) also. In prokaryotes, proteins of SPFH2a subfamily show highest identity to SPFH domain of Flotillin-1. Moreover, bacterial genome organization revealed that Flotillin homolog harboring SPFH2a domain exists in an operon with an upstream gene containing NFeD domain. Here, presence of RMP in PB was initially investigated in silico by analyzing the presence of SPFH2a, oligomerization domains in the concerned gene and NfeD domain in the adjacent upstream gene. After investigating 300 PB, four were found to harbor RMP. Among them, domains of Bas0525 (FlotP) of Bacillus anthracis (BA) showed highest identity with characteristic domains of RMP. Considering the global threat of BA as the bioterror agent, it was selected as a model for further in vitro characterization of rafts in PB. In silico and in vitro analysis showed significant similarity of FlotP with numerous attributes of Flotillin-1. Its punctate distribution on membrane with exclusive localization in detergent resistant membrane fraction; strongly favors presence of raft with RMP FlotP in BA. Furthermore, significant effect of Zaragozic acid (ZA), a raft associated lipid biosynthesis inhibitor, on several patho-physiological attributes of BA such as growth, morphology, membrane rigidity etc., were also observed. Specifically, a considerable decrease in membrane rigidity, strongly recommended presence of an unknown raft associated lipid molecule on membrane of BA. In addition, treatment with ZA decreased secretion of anthrax toxins and FlotP expression, suggesting potential role of raft in pathogenesis and physiology of BA. Thus, the present study not only suggest the existence and role of raft like entity in pathophysiology of BA but also its possible use for the development of novel drugs or vaccines against anthrax.
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- Vikas K Somani
- Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering, School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi, India
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- Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering, School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi, India
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- Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering, School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi, India
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- Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering, School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi, India
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Lopez D. Molecular composition of functional microdomains in bacterial membranes. Chem Phys Lipids 2015; 192:3-11. [PMID: 26320704 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2015.08.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2015] [Revised: 08/10/2015] [Accepted: 08/24/2015] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Membranes of eukaryotic cells organize a number of proteins related to signal transduction and membrane trafficking into microdomains, which are enriched in particular lipids, like cholesterol and sphingolipids and are commonly referred as to lipid rafts or membrane rafts. The existence of this type of signaling platforms was traditionally associated with eukaryotic membranes because prokaryotic cells were considered too simple organisms to require a sophisticated organization of their signaling networks. However, the research that have been performed during last years have shown that bacteria organize many signaling transduction processes in Functional Membrane Microdomains (FMMs), which are similar to the lipid rafts that are found in eukaryotic cells. The current knowledge of the existence of FMMs in bacteria is described in this review and the specific structural and biological properties of these membrane microdomains are introduced. The organization of FMMs in bacterial membranes reveals an unexpected level of sophistication in signaling transduction and membrane organization that is unprecedented in bacteria, suggesting that bacteria as more complex organisms than previously considered.
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- Daniel Lopez
- Research Center for Infectious Diseases (ZINF), Institute for Molecular Infection Biology (IMIB), University of Würzburg, Josef-Schneider Strasse (2), 97080 Würzburg, Germany; Spanish National Center for Biotechnology (CNB), Campus de Cantoblanco, Darwin 3, 28049 Madrid, Spain.
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Schneider J, Mielich-Süss B, Böhme R, Lopez D. In vivo characterization of the scaffold activity of flotillin on the membrane kinase KinC of Bacillus subtilis. MICROBIOLOGY-SGM 2015; 161:1871-1887. [PMID: 26297017 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.000137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Scaffold proteins are ubiquitous chaperones that bind to proteins and facilitate the physical interaction of the components of signal transduction pathways or multi-enzymic complexes. In this study, we used a biochemical approach to dissect the molecular mechanism of a membrane-associated scaffold protein, FloT, a flotillin-homologue protein that is localized in functional membrane microdomains of the bacterium Bacillus subtilis. This study provides unambiguous evidence that FloT physically binds to and interacts with the membrane-bound sensor kinase KinC. This sensor kinase activates biofilm formation in B. subtilis in response to the presence of the self-produced signal surfactin. Furthermore, we have characterized the mechanism by which the interaction of FloT with KinC benefits the activity of KinC. Two separate and synergistic effects constitute this mechanism: first, the scaffold activity of FloT promotes more efficient self-interaction of KinC and facilitates dimerization into its active form. Second, the selective binding of FloT to KinC prevents the occurrence of unspecific aggregation between KinC and other proteins that may generate dead-end intermediates that could titrate the activity of KinC. Flotillin proteins appear to play an important role in prokaryotes in promoting effective binding of signalling proteins with their correct protein partners.
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- Johannes Schneider
- Research Centre for Infectious Diseases (ZINF), University of Würzburg, Würzburg 97080, Germany
- Institute for Molecular Infection Biology (IMIB), University of Würzburg, Würzburg 97080, Germany
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- Research Centre for Infectious Diseases (ZINF), University of Würzburg, Würzburg 97080, Germany
- Institute for Molecular Infection Biology (IMIB), University of Würzburg, Würzburg 97080, Germany
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- Research Centre for Infectious Diseases (ZINF), University of Würzburg, Würzburg 97080, Germany
- Institute for Molecular Infection Biology (IMIB), University of Würzburg, Würzburg 97080, Germany
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- Institute for Molecular Infection Biology (IMIB), University of Würzburg, Würzburg 97080, Germany
- National Center for Biotechnology (CNB), Spanish Research Council (CSIC), Madrid 28050, Spain
- Research Centre for Infectious Diseases (ZINF), University of Würzburg, Würzburg 97080, Germany
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Schneider J, Klein T, Mielich-Süss B, Koch G, Franke C, Kuipers OP, Kovács ÁT, Sauer M, Lopez D. Spatio-temporal remodeling of functional membrane microdomains organizes the signaling networks of a bacterium. PLoS Genet 2015; 11:e1005140. [PMID: 25909364 PMCID: PMC4409396 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2014] [Accepted: 03/11/2015] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Lipid rafts are membrane microdomains specialized in the regulation of numerous cellular processes related to membrane organization, as diverse as signal transduction, protein sorting, membrane trafficking or pathogen invasion. It has been proposed that this functional diversity would require a heterogeneous population of raft domains with varying compositions. However, a mechanism for such diversification is not known. We recently discovered that bacterial membranes organize their signal transduction pathways in functional membrane microdomains (FMMs) that are structurally and functionally similar to the eukaryotic lipid rafts. In this report, we took advantage of the tractability of the prokaryotic model Bacillus subtilis to provide evidence for the coexistence of two distinct families of FMMs in bacterial membranes, displaying a distinctive distribution of proteins specialized in different biological processes. One family of microdomains harbors the scaffolding flotillin protein FloA that selectively tethers proteins specialized in regulating cell envelope turnover and primary metabolism. A second population of microdomains containing the two scaffolding flotillins, FloA and FloT, arises exclusively at later stages of cell growth and specializes in adaptation of cells to stationary phase. Importantly, the diversification of membrane microdomains does not occur arbitrarily. We discovered that bacterial cells control the spatio-temporal remodeling of microdomains by restricting the activation of FloT expression to stationary phase. This regulation ensures a sequential assembly of functionally specialized membrane microdomains to strategically organize signaling networks at the right time during the lifespan of a bacterium. Cellular membranes organize proteins related to signal transduction, protein sorting and membrane trafficking into the so-called lipid rafts. It has been proposed that the functional diversity of lipid rafts would require a heterogeneous population of raft domains with varying compositions. However, a mechanism for such diversification is not known due in part to the complexity that entails the manipulation of eukaryotic cells. The recent discovery that bacteria organize many cellular processes in membrane microdomains (FMMs), functionally similar to the eukaryotic lipid rafts, prompted us to explore FMMs diversity in the bacterial model Bacillus subtilis. We show that diversification of FMMs occurs in cells and gives rise to functionally distinct microdomains, which compartmentalize distinct signal transduction pathways and regulate the expression of different genetic programs. We discovered that FMMs diversification does not occur randomly. Cells sequentially regulate the specialization of the FMMs during cell growth to ensure an effective and diverse activation of signaling processes.
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- Johannes Schneider
- Research Center for Infectious Diseases ZINF, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Biotechnology and Biophysics, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Research Center for Infectious Diseases ZINF, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Research Center for Infectious Diseases ZINF, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Biotechnology and Biophysics, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Molecular Genetics Group,Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Terrestrial Biofilms Group, Institute of Microbiology, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Biotechnology and Biophysics, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Research Center for Infectious Diseases ZINF, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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Farnoud AM, Toledo AM, Konopka JB, Del Poeta M, London E. Raft-like membrane domains in pathogenic microorganisms. CURRENT TOPICS IN MEMBRANES 2015; 75:233-68. [PMID: 26015285 DOI: 10.1016/bs.ctm.2015.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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The lipid bilayer of the plasma membrane is thought to be compartmentalized by the presence of lipid-protein microdomains. In eukaryotic cells, microdomains composed of sterols and sphingolipids, commonly known as lipid rafts, are believed to exist, and reports on the presence of sterol- or protein-mediated microdomains in bacterial cell membranes are also appearing. Despite increasing attention, little is known about microdomains in the plasma membrane of pathogenic microorganisms. This review attempts to provide an overview of the current state of knowledge of lipid rafts in pathogenic fungi and bacteria. The current literature on characterization of microdomains in pathogens is reviewed, and their potential role in growth, pathogenesis, and drug resistance is discussed. Better insight into the structure and function of membrane microdomains in pathogenic microorganisms might lead to a better understanding of their pathogenesis and development of raft-mediated approaches for therapy.
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- Amir M Farnoud
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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The assembly of GM1 glycolipid- and cholesterol-enriched raft-like membrane microdomains is important for giardial encystation. Infect Immun 2015; 83:2030-42. [PMID: 25733521 DOI: 10.1128/iai.03118-14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2014] [Accepted: 02/22/2015] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Although encystation (or cyst formation) is an important step of the life cycle of Giardia, the cellular events that trigger encystation are poorly understood. Because membrane microdomains are involved in inducing growth and differentiation in many eukaryotes, we wondered if these raft-like domains are assembled by this parasite and participate in the encystation process. Since the GM1 ganglioside is a major constituent of mammalian lipid rafts (LRs) and known to react with cholera toxin B (CTXB), we used Alexa Fluor-conjugated CTXB and GM1 antibodies to detect giardial LRs. Raft-like structures in trophozoites are located in the plasma membranes and on the periphery of ventral discs. In cysts, however, they are localized in the membranes beneath the cyst wall. Nystatin and filipin III, two cholesterol-binding agents, and oseltamivir (Tamiflu), a viral neuraminidase inhibitor, disassembled the microdomains, as evidenced by reduced staining of trophozoites with CTXB and GM1 antibodies. GM1- and cholesterol-enriched LRs were isolated from Giardia by density gradient centrifugation and found to be sensitive to nystatin and oseltamivir. The involvement of LRs in encystation could be supported by the observation that raft inhibitors interrupted the biogenesis of encystation-specific vesicles and cyst production. Furthermore, culturing of trophozoites in dialyzed medium containing fetal bovine serum (which is low in cholesterol) reduced raft assembly and encystation, which could be rescued by adding cholesterol from the outside. Our results suggest that Giardia is able to form GM1- and cholesterol-enriched lipid rafts and these raft domains are important for encystation.
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An interesting concept in the organization of cellular membranes is the proposed existence of lipid rafts. Membranes of eukaryotic cells organize signal transduction proteins into membrane rafts or lipid rafts that are enriched in particular lipids such as cholesterol and are important for the correct functionality of diverse cellular processes. The assembly of lipid rafts in eukaryotes has been considered a fundamental step during the evolution of cellular complexity, suggesting that bacteria and archaea were organisms too simple to require such a sophisticated organization of their cellular membranes. However, it was recently discovered that bacteria organize many signal transduction, protein secretion, and transport processes in functional membrane microdomains, which are equivalent to the lipid rafts of eukaryotic cells. This review contains the most significant advances during the last 4 years in understanding the structural and biological role of lipid rafts in bacteria. Furthermore, this review shows a detailed description of a number of molecular and genetic approaches related to the discovery of bacterial lipid rafts as well as an overview of the group of tentative lipid-protein and protein-protein interactions that give consistency to these sophisticated signaling platforms. Additional data suggesting that lipid rafts are widely distributed in bacteria are presented in this review. Therefore, we discuss the available techniques and optimized protocols for the purification and analysis of raft-associated proteins in various bacterial species to aid in the study of bacterial lipid rafts in other laboratories that could be interested in this topic. Overall, the discovery of lipid rafts in bacteria reveals a new level of sophistication in signal transduction and membrane organization that was unexpected for bacteria and shows that bacteria are more complex than previously appreciated.
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- Marc Bramkamp
- Department of Biology I, University of Munich (LMU), Planegg/Martinsried, Germany
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- Research Center for Infectious Diseases ZINF, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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Mielich-Süss B, Lopez D. Molecular mechanisms involved in Bacillus subtilis biofilm formation. Environ Microbiol 2015; 17:555-65. [PMID: 24909922 PMCID: PMC4188541 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12527] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2014] [Accepted: 06/01/2014] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Biofilms are the predominant lifestyle of bacteria in natural environments, and they severely impact our societies in many different fashions. Therefore, biofilm formation is a topic of growing interest in microbiology, and different bacterial models are currently studied to better understand the molecular strategies that bacteria undergo to build biofilms. Among those, biofilms of the soil-dwelling bacterium Bacillus subtilis are commonly used for this purpose. Bacillus subtilis biofilms show remarkable architectural features that are a consequence of sophisticated programmes of cellular specialization and cell-cell communication within the community. Many laboratories are trying to unravel the biological role of the morphological features of biofilms, as well as exploring the molecular basis underlying cellular differentiation. In this review, we present a general perspective of the current state of knowledge of biofilm formation in B. subtilis and thereby placing a special emphasis on summarizing the most recent discoveries in the field.
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- Research Centre for Infectious Diseases (ZINF). University of Würzburg, Germany
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Dempwolff F, Graumann PL. Genetic links between bacterial dynamin and flotillin proteins. Commun Integr Biol 2014; 7:970972. [PMID: 26842743 PMCID: PMC4594503 DOI: 10.4161/cib.29578] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2014] [Revised: 06/12/2014] [Accepted: 06/13/2014] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Dynamin is a membrane-associated GTPase that confers motor-like functions in membrane
dynamics, such as endocytosis, in eukaryotic cells. Flotillin (reggie) proteins are also a
widely conserved class of membrane proteins, associated with the formation of protein
assemblies within the membrane, and with endocytotic processes. Bacterial dynamin has been
shown to bind to membranes in vitro and to mediate membrane fusion. Bacillus
subtilis DynA localizes to the cell division septum, and it was recently shown
that it indeed plays a role in cell division. Interestingly, dynamin shows a genetic
interaction with flotillin proteins in this prokaryotic model organism and the absence of
both proteins results in a cell division and cell shape defect. Here, we show that in
addition to the morphological phenotypes, a dynamin/flotillin double deletion strain shows
a synthetic defect in cell motility, much stronger than that of flotillin single mutant
cells. While the contribution of altered cell shape and slower growth of the double
deletion strain on motility cannot be clearly assessed, our data emphasize the fact that
dynamin and flotillin proteins play tightly connected functions in a wide range of aspects
in membrane processes in bacteria.
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- Felix Dempwolff
- SYNMIKRO; LOEWE-Centre for Synthetic Microbiology ; Marburg, Germany
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- SYNMIKRO; LOEWE-Centre for Synthetic Microbiology; Department of Chemistry ; Marburg, Germany
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Mhatre E, Monterrosa RG, Kovács AT. From environmental signals to regulators: modulation of biofilm development in Gram-positive bacteria. J Basic Microbiol 2014; 54:616-32. [PMID: 24771632 DOI: 10.1002/jobm.201400175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2014] [Accepted: 03/30/2014] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Bacterial lifestyle is influenced by environmental signals, and many differentiation processes in bacteria are governed by the threshold concentrations of molecules present in their niche. Biofilm is one such example where bacteria in their sessile state adapt to a lifestyle that causes several adaptive alterations in the population. Here, a brief overview is given on a variety of environmental signals that bias biofilm development in Gram-positive bacteria, including nutrient conditions, self- and heterologously produced substances, like quorum sensing and host produced molecules. The Gram-positive model organism, Bacillus subtilis is a superb example to illustrate how distinct signals activate sensor proteins that integrate the environmental signals towards global regulators related to biofilm formation. The role of reduced oxygen level, polyketides, antimicrobials, plant secreted carbohydrates, plant cell derived polymers, glycerol, and osmotic conditions are discussed during the transcriptional activation of biofilm related genes in B. subtilis.
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- Eisha Mhatre
- Terrestrial Biofilms Group, Institute of Microbiology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
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