Title |
Reductive evolution in outer membrane protein biogenesis has not compromised cell surface complexity in Helicobacter pylori
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Published in |
MicrobiologyOpen, October 2017
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DOI | 10.1002/mbo3.513 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Chaille T. Webb, Dilini Chandrapala, Siti Nurbaya Oslan, Rebecca S. Bamert, Rhys D. Grinter, Rhys A. Dunstan, Rebecca J. Gorrell, Jiangning Song, Richard A. Strugnell, Trevor Lithgow, Terry Kwok |
Abstract |
Helicobacter pylori is a gram-negative bacterial pathogen that chronically inhabits the human stomach. To survive and maintain advantage, it has evolved unique host-pathogen interactions mediated by Helicobacter-specific proteins in the bacterial outer membrane. These outer membrane proteins (OMPs) are anchored to the cell surface via a C-terminal β-barrel domain, which requires their assembly by the β-barrel assembly machinery (BAM). Here we have assessed the complexity of the OMP C-terminal β-barrel domains employed by H. pylori, and characterized the H. pyloriBAM complex. Around 50 Helicobacter-specific OMPs were assessed with predictive structural algorithms. The data suggest that H. pylori utilizes a unique β-barrel architecture that might constitute H. pylori-specific Type V secretions system. The structural and functional diversity in these proteins is encompassed by their extramembrane domains. Bioinformatic and biochemical characterization suggests that the low β-barrel-complexity requires only minimalist assembly machinery. The H. pylori proteins BamA and BamD associate to form a BAM complex, with features of BamA enabling an oligomerization that might represent a mechanism by which a minimalist BAM complex forms a larger, sophisticated machinery capable of servicing the outer membrane proteome of H. pylori. |
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