Conjugal transfer TrbC/type IV secretion VirB2 / TrbC/VIRB2 pilin / type IV secretion system complex / protein secretion by the type IV secretion system / cell outer membrane / : / Protein virB2
National Institutes of Health/National Institute Of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH/NIAID)
R01 AI127401
米国
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC, Australia)
APP1196924
オーストラリア
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC, Canada)
RGPIN 04345
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ジャーナル: Structure / 年: 2023 タイトル: Cryo-EM structure of the Agrobacterium tumefaciens T4SS-associated T-pilus reveals stoichiometric protein-phospholipid assembly. 著者: Stefan Kreida / Akihiro Narita / Matthew D Johnson / Elitza I Tocheva / Anath Das / Debnath Ghosal / Grant J Jensen / 要旨: Agrobacterium tumefaciens causes crown gall disease in plants by the horizontal transfer of oncogenic DNA. The conjugation is mediated by the VirB/D4 type 4 secretion system (T4SS) that assembles an ...Agrobacterium tumefaciens causes crown gall disease in plants by the horizontal transfer of oncogenic DNA. The conjugation is mediated by the VirB/D4 type 4 secretion system (T4SS) that assembles an extracellular filament, the T-pilus, and is involved in mating pair formation between A. tumefaciens and the recipient plant cell. Here, we present a 3 Å cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM) structure of the T-pilus solved by helical reconstruction. Our structure reveals that the T-pilus is a stoichiometric assembly of the VirB2 major pilin and phosphatidylglycerol (PG) phospholipid with 5-start helical symmetry. We show that PG head groups and the positively charged Arg 91 residues of VirB2 protomers form extensive electrostatic interactions in the lumen of the T-pilus. Mutagenesis of Arg 91 abolished pilus formation. While our T-pilus structure is architecturally similar to previously published conjugative pili structures, the T-pilus lumen is narrower and positively charged, raising questions of whether the T-pilus is a conduit for ssDNA transfer.
A: Protein virB2 B: Protein virB2 C: Protein virB2 D: Protein virB2 E: Protein virB2 F: Protein virB2 G: Protein virB2 H: Protein virB2 I: Protein virB2 J: Protein virB2 K: Protein virB2 L: Protein virB2 M: Protein virB2 N: Protein virB2 O: Protein virB2 ヘテロ分子