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J Bacteriol
1999 Feb 01;1813:869-78. doi: 10.1128/JB.181.3.869-878.1999.
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Functional analysis of a rickettsial OmpA homology domain of Shigella flexneri icsA.
Charles M
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Magdalena J
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Theriot JA
,
Goldberg MB
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Shigella flexneri is a gram-negative bacterium that causes diarrhea and dysentery by invasion and spread through the colonic epithelium. Bacteria spread by assembling actin and other cytoskeletal proteins of the host into "actin tails" at the bacterial pole; actin tail assembly provides the force required to move bacteria through the cell cytoplasm and into adjacent cells. The 120-kDa S. flexneri outer membrane protein IcsA is essential for actin assembly. IcsA is anchored in the outer membrane by a carboxy-terminal domain (the beta domain), such that the amino-terminal 706 amino acid residues (the alpha domain) are exposed on the exterior of the bacillus. The alpha domain is therefore likely to contain the domains that are important to interactions with host factors. We identify and characterize a domain of IcsA within the alpha domain that bears significant sequence similarity to two repeated domains of rickettsial OmpA, which has been implicated in rickettsial actin tail formation. Strains of S. flexneri and Escherichia coli that carry derivatives of IcsA containing deletions within this domain display loss of actin recruitment and increased accessibility to IcsA-specific antibody on the surface of intracytoplasmic bacteria. However, site-directed mutagenesis of charged residues within this domain results in actin assembly that is indistinguishable from that of the wild type, and in vitro competition of a polypeptide of this domain fused to glutathione S-transferase did not alter the motility of the wild-type construct. Taken together, our data suggest that the rickettsial homology domain of IcsA is required for the proper conformation of IcsA and that its disruption leads to loss of interactions of other IcsA domains within the amino terminus with host cytoskeletal proteins.
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