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Analysis of Yersinia enterocolitica Effector Translocation into Host Cells Using Beta-lactamase Effector Fusions
Published on: October 13, 2015
Recombinant Yersinia YopT leads to uncoupling of RhoA-effector interaction
I Sorg1, U M Goehring, K Aktories
1Institut für Experimentelle und Klinische Pharmakologie und Toxikologie der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany.
Abstract:
Yersinia enterocolitica, Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, and Yersinia pestis deliver different Yop (Yersinia outer proteins) effector proteins into mammalian cells by a type III secretion mechanism. Recently, it was shown that Yersinia producing YopT leads to disruption of the actin cytoskeleton of HeLa cells (M. Iriarte and G. R. Cornelis, Mol. Microbiol. 29:915-929, 1998). To analyze the molecular mechanism of YopT, we cloned and expressed YopT as a glutathione S-transferase fusion protein. Recombinant YopT caused rounding up of embryonic bovine lung cells and redistribution of the actin cytoskeleton rapidly after microinjection. The Escherichia coli cytotoxic necrotizing factor (CNF1), which constitutively activates Rho proteins, was not able to inhibit or revert YopT-induced cell rounding. YopT caused release of RhoA from embryonic bovine lung membranes and released recombinant isoprenylated RhoA from artificial PE or PE/PIP2 vesicles. Incubation of lysate or cytosol with YopT caused inhibition of the RhoA-rhotekin interaction but led to increased RhoA-RhoGDI interaction. It is suggested that inhibition of the interaction between RhoA and effectors is the underlying mechanism of the YopT action on the cytoskeleton.
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