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| Title | Multistate kinetics of the syringe-like injection mechanism of Tc toxins. |
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| Journal, issue, pages | Sci Adv, Vol. 11, Issue 1, Page eadr2019, Year 2025 |
| Publish date | Jan 3, 2025 |
Authors | Peter Njenga Ng'ang'a / Julian Folz / Svetlana Kucher / Daniel Roderer / Ying Xu / Oleg Sitsel / Alexander Belyy / Daniel Prumbaum / Ralf Kühnemuth / Tufa E Assafa / Min Dong / Claus A M Seidel / Enrica Bordignon / Stefan Raunser / ![]() |
| PubMed Abstract | Tc toxins are pore-forming virulence factors of many pathogenic bacteria. Following pH-induced conformational changes, they perforate the target membrane like a syringe to translocate toxic enzymes ...Tc toxins are pore-forming virulence factors of many pathogenic bacteria. Following pH-induced conformational changes, they perforate the target membrane like a syringe to translocate toxic enzymes into a cell. Although this complex transformation has been structurally well studied, the reaction pathway and the resulting temporal evolution have remained elusive. We used an integrated biophysical approach to monitor prepore-to-pore transition and found a reaction time of ~30 hours for a complete transition. We show two asynchronous general steps of the process, shell opening and channel ejection, with the overall reaction pathway being a slow multistep process involving three intermediates. Liposomes, an increasingly high pH, or receptors facilitate shell opening, which is directly correlated with an increased rate of the prepore-to-pore transition. Channel ejection is a near-instantaneous process which occurs with a transition time of <60 milliseconds. Understanding the mechanism of action of Tc toxins and unveiling modulators of the kinetics are key steps toward their application as biomedical devices or biopesticides. |
External links | Sci Adv / PubMed:39752508 / PubMed Central |
| Methods | EM (single particle) |
| Resolution | 2.9 - 3.6 Å |
| Structure data | EMDB-16791, PDB-8cpz: EMDB-16792, PDB-8cq0: EMDB-16793, PDB-8cq2: |
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Keywords | TOXIN / Bacterial toxin / Tc toxin |
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