Topologically-guided continuous protein crystallization controls bacterial surface layer self-assembly
Abstract
Many bacteria and most archaea possess a crystalline protein surface layer (S-layer), which surrounds their growing and topologically complicated outer surface. Constructing a macromolecular structure of this scale generally requires localized enzymatic machinery, but a regulatory framework for S-layer assembly has not been identified. By labeling, superresolution imaging, and tracking the S-layer protein (SLP) from C. crescentus, we show that 2D protein self-assembly is sufficient to build and maintain the S-layer in living cells by efficient protein crystal nucleation and growth. We propose a model supported by single-molecule tracking whereby randomly secreted SLP monomers diffuse on the lipopolysaccharide (LPS) outer membrane until incorporated at the edges of growing 2D S-layer crystals. Surface topology creates crystal defects and boundaries, thereby guiding S-layer assembly. Unsupervised assembly poses challenges for therapeutics targeting S-layers. However, protein crystallization as an evolutionary driver rationalizes S-layer diversity and raises the potential for biologically inspired self-assembling macromolecular nanomaterials.
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1619527
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- OSTI ID: 1546945; OSTI ID: 1608960
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- AC02-76SF00515; R35-GM118067; R35-GM118071
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- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Nature Communications
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- Journal Name: Nature Communications Journal Volume: 10 Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
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Comerci, Colin J., Herrmann, Jonathan, Yoon, Joshua, Jabbarpour, Fatemeh, Zhou, Xiaofeng, Nomellini, John F., Smit, John, Shapiro, Lucy, Wakatsuki, Soichi, and Moerner, W. E.. Topologically-guided continuous protein crystallization controls bacterial surface layer self-assembly. United Kingdom: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1038/s41467-019-10650-x.
Comerci, Colin J., Herrmann, Jonathan, Yoon, Joshua, Jabbarpour, Fatemeh, Zhou, Xiaofeng, Nomellini, John F., Smit, John, Shapiro, Lucy, Wakatsuki, Soichi, & Moerner, W. E.. Topologically-guided continuous protein crystallization controls bacterial surface layer self-assembly. United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10650-x
Comerci, Colin J., Herrmann, Jonathan, Yoon, Joshua, Jabbarpour, Fatemeh, Zhou, Xiaofeng, Nomellini, John F., Smit, John, Shapiro, Lucy, Wakatsuki, Soichi, and Moerner, W. E.. Fri .
"Topologically-guided continuous protein crystallization controls bacterial surface layer self-assembly". United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10650-x.
@article{osti_1619527,
title = {Topologically-guided continuous protein crystallization controls bacterial surface layer self-assembly},
author = {Comerci, Colin J. and Herrmann, Jonathan and Yoon, Joshua and Jabbarpour, Fatemeh and Zhou, Xiaofeng and Nomellini, John F. and Smit, John and Shapiro, Lucy and Wakatsuki, Soichi and Moerner, W. E.},
abstractNote = {Many bacteria and most archaea possess a crystalline protein surface layer (S-layer), which surrounds their growing and topologically complicated outer surface. Constructing a macromolecular structure of this scale generally requires localized enzymatic machinery, but a regulatory framework for S-layer assembly has not been identified. By labeling, superresolution imaging, and tracking the S-layer protein (SLP) from C. crescentus, we show that 2D protein self-assembly is sufficient to build and maintain the S-layer in living cells by efficient protein crystal nucleation and growth. We propose a model supported by single-molecule tracking whereby randomly secreted SLP monomers diffuse on the lipopolysaccharide (LPS) outer membrane until incorporated at the edges of growing 2D S-layer crystals. Surface topology creates crystal defects and boundaries, thereby guiding S-layer assembly. Unsupervised assembly poses challenges for therapeutics targeting S-layers. However, protein crystallization as an evolutionary driver rationalizes S-layer diversity and raises the potential for biologically inspired self-assembling macromolecular nanomaterials.},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-019-10650-x},
journal = {Nature Communications},
number = 1,
volume = 10,
place = {United Kingdom},
year = {2019},
month = {6}
}
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