Helical reconstruction of Salmonella and Shigella needle filaments attached to type 3 basal bodies

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Helical reconstruction of Salmonella and Shigella needle filaments attached to type 3 basal bodies. / Kotov, Vadim; Lunelli, Michele; Wald, Jiri; Kolbe, Michael; Marlovits, Thomas C.

In: BIOCHEM BIOPHYS REP, Vol. 27, 09.2021, p. 101039.

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title = "Helical reconstruction of Salmonella and Shigella needle filaments attached to type 3 basal bodies",
abstract = "Gram-negative pathogens evolved a syringe-like nanomachine, termed type 3 secretion system, to deliver protein effectors into the cytoplasm of host cells. An essential component of this system is a long helical needle filament that protrudes from the bacterial surface and connects the cytoplasms of the bacterium and the eukaryotic cell. Previous structural research was predominantly focused on reconstituted type 3 needle filaments, which lacked the biological context. In this work we introduce a facile procedure to obtain high-resolution cryo-EM structure of needle filaments attached to the basal body of type 3 secretion systems. We validate our approach by solving the structure of Salmonella PrgI filament and demonstrate its utility by obtaining the first high-resolution cryo-EM reconstruction of Shigella MxiH filament. Our work paves the way to systematic structural characterization of attached type 3 needle filaments in the context of mutagenesis studies, protein structural evolution and drug development.",
author = "Vadim Kotov and Michele Lunelli and Jiri Wald and Michael Kolbe and Marlovits, {Thomas C}",
note = "{\textcopyright} 2021 Published by Elsevier B.V.",
year = "2021",
month = sep,
doi = "10.1016/j.bbrep.2021.101039",
language = "English",
volume = "27",
pages = "101039",
journal = "BIOCHEM BIOPHYS REP",
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T1 - Helical reconstruction of Salmonella and Shigella needle filaments attached to type 3 basal bodies

AU - Kotov, Vadim

AU - Lunelli, Michele

AU - Wald, Jiri

AU - Kolbe, Michael

AU - Marlovits, Thomas C

N1 - © 2021 Published by Elsevier B.V.

PY - 2021/9

Y1 - 2021/9

N2 - Gram-negative pathogens evolved a syringe-like nanomachine, termed type 3 secretion system, to deliver protein effectors into the cytoplasm of host cells. An essential component of this system is a long helical needle filament that protrudes from the bacterial surface and connects the cytoplasms of the bacterium and the eukaryotic cell. Previous structural research was predominantly focused on reconstituted type 3 needle filaments, which lacked the biological context. In this work we introduce a facile procedure to obtain high-resolution cryo-EM structure of needle filaments attached to the basal body of type 3 secretion systems. We validate our approach by solving the structure of Salmonella PrgI filament and demonstrate its utility by obtaining the first high-resolution cryo-EM reconstruction of Shigella MxiH filament. Our work paves the way to systematic structural characterization of attached type 3 needle filaments in the context of mutagenesis studies, protein structural evolution and drug development.

AB - Gram-negative pathogens evolved a syringe-like nanomachine, termed type 3 secretion system, to deliver protein effectors into the cytoplasm of host cells. An essential component of this system is a long helical needle filament that protrudes from the bacterial surface and connects the cytoplasms of the bacterium and the eukaryotic cell. Previous structural research was predominantly focused on reconstituted type 3 needle filaments, which lacked the biological context. In this work we introduce a facile procedure to obtain high-resolution cryo-EM structure of needle filaments attached to the basal body of type 3 secretion systems. We validate our approach by solving the structure of Salmonella PrgI filament and demonstrate its utility by obtaining the first high-resolution cryo-EM reconstruction of Shigella MxiH filament. Our work paves the way to systematic structural characterization of attached type 3 needle filaments in the context of mutagenesis studies, protein structural evolution and drug development.

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DO - 10.1016/j.bbrep.2021.101039

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JO - BIOCHEM BIOPHYS REP

JF - BIOCHEM BIOPHYS REP

SN - 2405-5808

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