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XB-ART-36338
Infect Immun 2007 Jul 01;757:3581-93. doi: 10.1128/IAI.00214-07.
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Adapter protein SH2-Bbeta stimulates actin-based motility of Listeria monocytogenes in a vasodilator-stimulated phosphoprotein (VASP)-dependent fashion.

Diakonova M , Helfer E , Seveau S , Swanson JA , Kocks C , Rui L , Carlier MF , Carter-Su C .


Abstract
SH2-Bbeta (Src homology 2 Bbeta) is an adapter protein that is required for maximal growth hormone-dependent actin reorganization in membrane ruffling and cell motility. Here we show that SH2-Bbeta is also required for maximal actin-based motility of Listeria monocytogenes. SH2-Bbeta localizes to Listeria-induced actin tails and increases the rate of bacterial propulsion in infected cells and in cell extracts. Furthermore, Listeria motility is decreased in mouse embryo fibroblasts from SH2-B(-/-) mice. Both recruitment of SH2-Bbeta to Listeria and SH2-Bbeta stimulation of actin-based propulsion require the vasodilator-stimulated phosphoprotein (VASP), which binds ActA at the surfaces of Listeria cells and enhances bacterial actin-based motility. SH2-Bbeta enhances actin-based movement of ActA-coated beads in a biomimetic actin-based motility assay, provided that VASP is present. In vitro binding assays show that SH2-Bbeta binds ActA but not VASP; however, binding to ActA is greater in the presence of VASP. Because VASP also plays an essential regulatory role in actin-based processes in eukaryotic cells, the present results provide mechanistic insight into the functions of both SH2-Bbeta and VASP in motility and also increase our understanding of the fundamental mechanism by which Listeria spreads.

PubMed ID: 17452473
PMC ID: PMC1932951
Article link: Infect Immun
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Species referenced: Xenopus laevis
Genes referenced: acta1 actl6a vasp

References [+] :
Barzik, Ena/VASP proteins enhance actin polymerization in the presence of barbed end capping proteins. 2005, Pubmed