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Defining Substrate Specificities for Lipase and Phospholipase Candidates
Published on: November 23, 2016
ユーカリオット脂肪アシレーションは,プラズマ膜のターゲティングを推進し,Pseudomonas syringaeからのいくつかのIII型エフェクタタンパク質の機能を強化します
Z Nimchuk1, E Marois, S Kjemtrup
1Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27599, USA.
Cell
|June 1, 2000
まとめ
バクテリアのタイプIIIエフェクタは,アヴィルレンスのタンパク質 (Avr) を含め,宿主血をターゲットに機能します. これらのバクテリアのタンパク質は,効率的な局所化と毒性を確保するために,宿主ミリストイレーション,すなわち真核生物特異的な改変を用いる.
科学分野:
- 微生物学 微生物学とは
- 植物病理学 植物病理学
- 分子生物学は分子生物学である.
背景:
- バクテリアの病原体は,第3型分泌システム (T3SS) を使用して,エフェクタータンパク質を宿主細胞に供給します.
- 植物の免疫システムは,病気に対する耐性 (R) 遺伝子を介して,いくつかのT3SSエフェクター (アビルレンスのタンパク質,Avr) を認識します.
- AVRタンパク質は,感受性の高い (r) 植物における病原体の毒性を高めることができる.
研究 の 目的:
- バクテリア型IIIエフェクターの細胞下部位と機能的要件を調査する.
- バクテリアエフェクターが宿主特異の翻訳後の修正を機能のために利用するかどうかを判断する.
主な方法:
- 宿主細胞におけるPseudomonas syringae型IIIエフェクターの局所化に関する研究.
- マイリストイレーションコンセンサスサイトと,エフェクター局所化におけるその役割の分析.
- AVRタンパク質のインビボミリスチロール測定法.
主要な成果:
- Avrタンパク質を含むいくつかのT3SSエフェクターは,宿主血を標的とする.
- 効率的な膜結合は,エフェクター機能を強化する.
- 3つのAvrタンパク質のプラズマ膜の局所化には,ミリスチル化部位が必要である.
- AVRタンパク質は,宿主細胞内でミリスチル化を受けます.
結論:
- プロカリオット型IIIエフェクターは,ミリストイレーションのような,真核生物特異的な翻訳後の改変を利用して,特定の亜細胞区間にアクセスします.
- ミリスチル化により,バクテリアのAVRタンパク質のプラズマ膜標的化が容易になり,その機能が強化され,病原体の毒性を引き起こす可能性がある.
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