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Type: Journal article
Title: Analysis of Shigella flexneri Wzz (Rol) function by mutagenesis and cross-linking: Wzz is able to oligomerise.
Author: Daniels, C.
Morona, R.
Citation: Molecular Microbiology, 1999; 34(1):181-194
Publisher: BLACKWELL SCIENCE LTD
Issue Date: 1999
ISSN: 0950-382X
1365-2958
Abstract: The modal length or degree of polymerization (dp) of the Shigella flexneri O-antigen is determined in an unknown manner by the Wzz/Rol protein. The Wzz protein is anchored into the cytoplasmic membrane by two transmembrane domains (TM1 amino acids 32-52; TM2 amino acids 295-315) with the central loop of the protein located in the periplasm. Plasmids were constructed encoding hybrid Wzz proteins consisting of regions of S. flexneri Wzz (WzzSF) and Salmonella typhimurium Wzz (WzzST). These imparted O-antigen modal chain lengths that implied that the carboxy-terminal region of Wzz was involved in chain length determination. Site-directed mutagenesis was undertaken to investigate the functional significance of highly conserved residues in amino-/carboxy-terminal domains of WzzSF. Some of the WzzSF variants resulted in O-antigen modal chain lengths much shorter than those of wild-type WzzSF, whereas other mutants inactivated WzzSF function entirely and a third class had a longer O-antigen chain length distribution. The data indicate that amino acids throughout the length of the WzzSF protein are important in determination of O-antigen modal chain length. In vivo cross-linking experiments were performed to investigate the interactions between Wzz proteins. The experiments indicated that the WzzSF protein is able to form dimers and oligomers of at least six WzzSF proteins. A carboxy-terminal-truncated WzzSF protein having the amino terminal 194 amino acids was able to oligomerize, indicating that the amino-terminal region is sufficient for the Wzz-Wzz interaction observed. Shortened WzzSF proteins having internal deletions in the amino-terminal region were also able to oligomerize, suggesting that residues 59-194 are not essential for oligomerization. Cross-linking of WzzSF proteins with mutationally altered residues showed that loss of WzzSF function may be correlated to a reduced/altered ability to form oligomers, and that mutational alteration of glycine residues in the TM2 segment affects WzzSF-WzzSF dimer mobility in SDS polyacrylamide gels. These results provide the first evidence of protein-protein interactions for proteins involved in O-antigen polysaccharide biosynthesis.
Keywords: Salmonella typhimurium
Shigella flexneri
Formaldehyde
Succinimides
Proline
Glycine
Bacterial Proteins
Recombinant Proteins
Immune Sera
Cross-Linking Reagents
Genetic Complementation Test
Mutagenesis, Site-Directed
Amino Acid Sequence
Conserved Sequence
Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
Dimerization
Molecular Sequence Data
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01591.x
Published version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01591.x
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