PMID:23295826
| Citation |
Allen, WJ, Phan, G, Hultgren, SJ and Waksman, G (2013) Dissection of pilus tip assembly by the FimD usher monomer. J. Mol. Biol. 425:958-67 |
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| Abstract |
Type 1 pili are representative of a class of bacterial surface structures assembled by the conserved chaperone/usher pathway and used by uropathogenic Escherichia coli to attach to bladder cells during infection. The outer membrane assembly platform-the usher-is critical for the formation of pili, catalysing the polymerisation of pilus subunits and enabling the secretion of the nascent pilus. Despite extensive structural characterisation of the usher, a number of questions about its mechanism remain, notably its oligomerisation state, and how it orchestrates the ordered assembly of pilus subunits. We demonstrate here that the FimD usher is able to catalyse in vitro pilus assembly effectively in its monomeric form. Furthermore, by establishing the kinetics of usher-catalysed reactions between various pilus subunits, we establish a complete kinetic model of tip fibrillum assembly, able to account for the order of subunits in native type 1 pili. |
| Links |
PubMed PMC3650583 Online version:10.1016/j.jmb.2012.12.024 |
| Keywords |
Adhesins, Escherichia coli/chemistry; Adhesins, Escherichia coli/metabolism; Escherichia coli/metabolism; Escherichia coli Proteins/chemistry; Escherichia coli Proteins/metabolism; Fimbriae Proteins/chemistry; Fimbriae Proteins/metabolism; Fimbriae, Bacterial/metabolism; Kinetics; Models, Molecular; Protein Binding; Protein Multimerization; Ultracentrifugation |
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