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dc.contributor.authorWalden, Patricia M
dc.contributor.authorHalili, Maria A
dc.contributor.authorArchbold, Julia K
dc.contributor.authorLindahl, Fredrik
dc.contributor.authorFairlie, David P
dc.contributor.authorInaba, Kenji
dc.contributor.authorMartin, Jennifer L
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-19T05:11:49Z
dc.date.available2018-01-19T05:11:49Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0081440
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/171884
dc.description.abstractThe a-proteobacterium Wolbachia pipientis infects more than 65% of insect species worldwide and manipulates the host reproductive machinery to enable its own survival. It can live in mutualistic relationships with hosts that cause human disease, including mosquitoes that carry the Dengue virus. Like many other bacteria, Wolbachia contains disulfide bond forming (Dsb) proteins that introduce disulfide bonds into secreted effector proteins. The genome of the Wolbachia strain wMel encodes two DsbA-like proteins sharing just 21% sequence identity to each other, a-DsbA1 and a-DsbA2, and an integral membrane protein, a-DsbB. a-DsbA1 and a-DsbA2 both have a Cys-X-X-Cys active site that, by analogy with Escherichia coli DsbA, would need to be oxidized to the disulfide form to serve as a disulfide bond donor toward substrate proteins. Here we show that the integral membrane protein a-DsbB oxidizes a-DsbA1, but not a-DsbA2. The interaction between a-DsbA1 and a-DsbB is very specific, involving four essential cysteines located in the two periplasmic loops of a- DsbB. In the electron flow cascade, oxidation of a-DsbA1 by a-DsbB is initiated by an oxidizing quinone cofactor that interacts with the cysteine pair in the first periplasmic loop. Oxidizing power is transferred to the second cysteine pair, which directly interacts with a-DsbA1. This reaction is inhibited by a non-catalytic disulfide present in a-DsbA1, conserved in other a-proteobacterial DsbAs but not in c-proteobacterial DsbAs. This is the first characterization of the integral membrane protein a-DsbB from Wolbachia and reveals that the non-catalytic cysteines of a-DsbA1 regulate the redox relay system in cooperation with a-DsbB.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherPublic Library of Sciences
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrome81440-1
dc.relation.ispartofpagetoe81440-9
dc.relation.ispartofissue11
dc.relation.ispartofjournalPLoS One
dc.relation.ispartofvolume8
dc.subject.fieldofresearchBiochemistry and cell biology not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode310199
dc.titleThe α-proteobacteria Wolbachia pipientis protein disulfide machinery has a regulatory mechanism absent in γ-proteobacteria
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
dcterms.licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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gro.rights.copyright© 2013 Walden et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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gro.griffith.authorMartin, Jennifer


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