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Title: Structures of chaperone-substrate complexes docked onto the export gate in a type III secretion system

Abstract

The flagellum and the injectisome enable bacterial locomotion and pathogenesis, respectively. These nanomachines assemble and function using a type III secretion system (T3SS). Exported proteins are delivered to the export apparatus by dedicated cytoplasmic chaperones for their transport through the membrane. The structural and mechanistic basis of this process is poorly understood. Here we report the structures of two ternary complexes among flagellar chaperones (FliT and FliS), protein substrates (the filament-capping FliD and flagellin FliC), and the export gate platform protein FlhA. The substrates do not interact directly with FlhA; however, they are required to induce a binding-competent conformation to the chaperone that exposes the recognition motif featuring a highly conserved sequence recognized by FlhA. The structural data reveal the recognition signal in a class of T3SS proteins and provide new insight into the assembly of key protein complexes at the export gate.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1];  [2];  [3];  [1];  [3]; ORCiD logo [1]
  1. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN (United States)
  2. Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States)
  3. Katholicke Univ. Leuven (Belgium)
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Research Org.:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities Division; US National Inst. of Health; NIH-ORIP HEI
OSTI Identifier:
1436776
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-06CH11357; AI094623; NIGMS P41-GM103403; S10 RR029205
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nature Communications
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 9; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
ENGLISH
Subject:
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; Bacterial secretion; Bacterial structural biology; NMR spectroscopy; X-ray crystallography

Citation Formats

Xing, Qiong, Shi, Ke, Portaliou, Athina, Rossi, Paolo, Economou, Anastassios, and Kalodimos, Charalampos G. Structures of chaperone-substrate complexes docked onto the export gate in a type III secretion system. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-04137-4.
Xing, Qiong, Shi, Ke, Portaliou, Athina, Rossi, Paolo, Economou, Anastassios, & Kalodimos, Charalampos G. Structures of chaperone-substrate complexes docked onto the export gate in a type III secretion system. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04137-4
Xing, Qiong, Shi, Ke, Portaliou, Athina, Rossi, Paolo, Economou, Anastassios, and Kalodimos, Charalampos G. Wed . "Structures of chaperone-substrate complexes docked onto the export gate in a type III secretion system". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04137-4. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1436776.
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title = {Structures of chaperone-substrate complexes docked onto the export gate in a type III secretion system},
author = {Xing, Qiong and Shi, Ke and Portaliou, Athina and Rossi, Paolo and Economou, Anastassios and Kalodimos, Charalampos G.},
abstractNote = {The flagellum and the injectisome enable bacterial locomotion and pathogenesis, respectively. These nanomachines assemble and function using a type III secretion system (T3SS). Exported proteins are delivered to the export apparatus by dedicated cytoplasmic chaperones for their transport through the membrane. The structural and mechanistic basis of this process is poorly understood. Here we report the structures of two ternary complexes among flagellar chaperones (FliT and FliS), protein substrates (the filament-capping FliD and flagellin FliC), and the export gate platform protein FlhA. The substrates do not interact directly with FlhA; however, they are required to induce a binding-competent conformation to the chaperone that exposes the recognition motif featuring a highly conserved sequence recognized by FlhA. The structural data reveal the recognition signal in a class of T3SS proteins and provide new insight into the assembly of key protein complexes at the export gate.},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-018-04137-4},
journal = {Nature Communications},
number = 1,
volume = 9,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed May 02 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Wed May 02 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}

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