NDLI: Amino-Terminal Hydrophobic Region of Helicobacter pylori Vacuolating Cytotoxin (VacA) Mediates Transmembrane Protein Dimerization

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Author	Mcclain, Mark S. Cao, Ping Cover, Timothy L.
Editor	Burns, D. L.
Copyright Year	2001
Abstract	Helicobacter pylori VacA is a secreted protein toxin that forms channels in lipid bilayers and induces multiple structural and functional alterations in eukaryotic cells. A unique hydrophobic segment at the amino terminus of VacA contains three tandem repeats of a GxxxG motif that is characteristic of transmembrane dimerization sequences. To examine functional properties of this region, we expressed and analyzed ToxR-VacA-maltose binding protein fusions using the TOXCAT system, which was recently developed by W. P. Russ and D. M. Engelman (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 96:863–868, 1999) to study transmembrane helix-helix associations in a natural membrane environment. A wild-type VacA hydrophobic region mediated insertion of the fusion protein into the inner membrane of Escherichia coli and mediated protein dimerization. A fusion protein containing a mutant VacA hydrophobic region (in which glycine 14 of VacA was replaced by alanine) also inserted into the inner membrane but dimerized significantly less efficiently than the fusion protein containing the wild-type VacA sequence. Based on these results, we speculate that the wild-type VacA amino-terminal hydrophobic region contributes to oligomerization of the toxin within membranes of eukaryotic cells.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/IAI.69.2.1181-1184.2001
Starting Page	1181
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10985522
e-ISSN	10985522
Journal	Infection and Immunity
Issue Number	2
Volume Number	69
Language	English
Publisher	American Society for Microbiology
Publisher Date	2001-02-01
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	American Society for Microbiology
Subject Keyword	Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Infectious Diseases Parasitology Immunology Microbiology

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