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Subversion of actin dynamics by EspM effectors of attaching and effacing bacterial pathogens
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Arbeloa, Ana, Bulgin, Richard R., MacKenzie, Georgina, Shaw, Robert K., Pallen, Mark J., Crepin, Valerie F., Berger, Cedric N. and Frankel, Gad (2008) Subversion of actin dynamics by EspM effectors of attaching and effacing bacterial pathogens. Cellular Microbiology, 10 (7). pp. 1429-1441. doi:10.1111/j.1462-5822.2008.01136.x ISSN 1462-5814.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-5822.2008.01136.x
Abstract
Rho GTPases are common targets of bacterial toxins and type III secretion system effectors. IpgB1 and IpgB2 of Shigella and Map of enteropathogenic (EPEC) and enterohemorrhagic (EHEC) Escherichia coli were recently grouped together on the basis that they share a conserved WxxxE motif. In this study, we characterized six WxxxE effectors from attaching and effacing pathogens: TrcA and EspM1 of EPEC strain B171, EspM1 and EspM2 of EHEC strain Sakai and EspM2 and EspM3 of Citrobacter rodentium. We show that EspM2 triggers formation of global parallel stress fibres, TrcA and EspM1 induce formation of localized parallel stress fibres and EspM3 triggers formation of localized radial stress fibres. Using EspM2 and EspM3 as model effectors, we report that while substituting the conserved Trp with Ala abolished activity, conservative Trp to Tyr or Glu to Asp substitutions did not affect stress-fibre formation. We show, using dominant negative constructs and chemical inhibitors, that the activity of EspM2 and EspM3 is RhoA and ROCK-dependent. Using Rhotekin pull-downs, we have shown that EspM2 and EspM3 activate RhoA; translocation of EspM2 and EspM3 triggered phosphorylation of cofilin. These results suggest that the EspM effectors modulate actin dynamics by activating the RhoA signalling pathway.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Biomedical Sciences > Microbiology & Infection Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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| Journal or Publication Title: | Cellular Microbiology | ||||
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||
| ISSN: | 1462-5814 | ||||
| Official Date: | 2008 | ||||
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| Volume: | 10 | ||||
| Number: | 7 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1429-1441 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2008.01136.x | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
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