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Identification of a substrate domain that determines system specificity in mycobacterial type VII secretion systems

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Phan, Trang H., Ummels, Roy, Bitter, Wilbert, Houben, Edith N. G.·2017·Scientific Reports

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Type VII secretion (T7S) systems are specialized machineries used by mycobacterial pathogens to transport important virulence factors across their highly hydrophobic cell envelope. There are up to five mycobacterial T7S systems, named ESX-1 to ESX-5, at least three of which specifically secrete a different subset of substrates. The T7S substrates or substrate complexes are defined by the general secretion motif YxxxD/E. However this motif does not determine system specificity. Here, we show that the substrate domain recognized by the EspG chaperone is the determinant factor for this specificity. We first show that the introduction of point mutations into the EspG 1-binding domain of the ESX-1 substrate pair PE35/PPE68_1 affects their secretion. Subsequently, we demonstrate that replacing this domain by the EspG 5-binding domain of the ESX-5 substrate PPE18 resulted in EspG 5 dependence and exclusive rerouting to the ESX-5 system. This rerouting of PE35/PPE68_1 to the ESX-5 system had a negative effect on the secretion of endogenous ESX-5 substrates.

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Authors
Phan, T. H., Ummels, R., Bitter, W., & Houben, E. N. G.
Affiliations
  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)
  • Amsterdam UMC Location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)
Corresponding author
Houben, Edith N. G.
Venue
Scientific Reports
Published
2017-02-16
Volume
7
Issue
1
Pages
42704-42704
ISSN
2045-2322 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2588820084
Cited by
41
References
27
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4.42
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
Keywords
type VII secretion system, mycobacteria, ESX-1, substrate specificity, virulence factor secretion, cell envelope
MeSH terms
Type VII Secretion Systems, Bacterial Proteins, Microtubule-Associated Proteins, Models, Molecular, Mycobacterium, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Protein Binding, Protein Conformation, Substrate Specificity, Protein Transport, Protein Interaction Domains and Motifs

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