Bacterial Virulence in the Moonlight: Multitasking Bacterial Moonlighting Proteins Are Virulence Determinants in Infectious Disease

Henderson, Brian E.; Martin, Andrew C.R.

doi:10.1128/iai.00179-11

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“…Similar to P. aeruginosa Lpd, Lpd derived from the pathogenic microbes Trypanosoma brucei and C. albicans is also surface localized (40,41). Lpd is a moonlighting protein that lacks a typical secretion signal (42). Therefore, it is unclear how Lpd and also the other microbial moonlighting proteins are exported to and anchored into the microbial membrane.…”

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Dihydrolipoamide Dehydrogenase of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Is a Surface-Exposed Immune Evasion Protein That Binds Three Members of the Factor H Family and Plasminogen

Hallström

Mörgelin

Barthel

et al. 2012

The Journal of Immunology

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The opportunistic human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa causes a wide range of diseases. To cross host innate immune barriers, P. aeruginosa has developed efficient strategies to escape host complement attack. In this study, we identify the 57-kDa dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase (Lpd) as a surface-exposed protein of P. aeruginosa that binds the four human plasma proteins, Factor H, Factor H-like protein-1 (FHL-1), complement Factor H-related protein 1 (CFHR1), and plasminogen. Factor H contacts Lpd via short consensus repeats 7 and 18–20. Factor H, FHL-1, and plasminogen when bound to Lpd were functionally active. Factor H and FHL-1 displayed complement-regulatory activity, and bound plasminogen, when converted to the active protease plasmin, cleaved the chromogenic substrate S-2251 and the natural substrate fibrinogen. The lpd of P. aeruginosa is a rather conserved gene; a total of 22 synonymous and 3 nonsynonymous mutations was identified in the lpd gene of the 5 laboratory strains and 13 clinical isolates. Lpd is surface exposed and contributes to survival of P. aeruginosa in human serum. Bacterial survival was reduced when Lpd was blocked on the surface prior to challenge with human serum. Similarly, bacterial survival was reduced up to 84% when the bacteria was challenged with complement active serum depleted of Factor H, FHL-1, and CFHR1, demonstrating a protective role of the attached human regulators from complement attack. In summary, Lpd is a novel surface-exposed virulence factor of P. aeruginosa that binds Factor H, FHL-1, CFHR1, and plasminogen, and the Lpd-attached regulators are relevant for innate immune escape and most likely contribute to tissue invasion.

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Dihydrolipoamide Dehydrogenase of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Is a Surface-Exposed Immune Evasion Protein That Binds Three Members of the Factor H Family and Plasminogen

Hallström

Mörgelin

Barthel

et al. 2012

The Journal of Immunology

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“…Besides their primary role in glycolysis taking place in the cytosol of cells, these enzymes are transported by an unknown mechanism to the surface of micro-organisms. Here, these proteins interact with components of the human extracellular matrix (ECM) and of the human fibrinolysis system (Henderson & Martin, 2011). The dual role of glycolytic enzymes was first described in streptococci (Pancholi & Fischetti, 1992).…”

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Characterization of pyruvate dehydrogenase subunit B and enolase as plasminogen-binding proteins in Mycoplasma pneumoniae

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The obligate pathogenic mycoplasma species Mycoplasma pneumoniae uses a limited but effective repertoire of virulence factors to infect and colonize the human respiratory tract. Besides the development of a unique adhesion complex and the expression of tissue-damaging factors, surface-located glycolytic enzymes and their capacity to bind to components of the human extracellular matrix (ECM) support pathogen-host interactions. Here, we demonstrated that the glycolytic enzymes enolase (Mpn606) and pyruvate dehydrogenase subunit B (Mpn392; PDHB) of M. pneumoniae show concentration-dependent binding to human plasminogen. Monospecific polyclonal antisera against both recombinant proteins reduced the binding to plasminogen significantly. The surface location of PDHB but not of enolase was demonstrated using Triton X fractionation of M. pneumoniae total protein content, membrane fractionation, colony blotting, mild proteolysis of mycoplasma cells, and immunofluorescence tests. To characterize the binding site of plasminogen in surface-displaced PDHB, the mycoplasmal protein was separated into four recombinant proteins followed by investigation of the binding behaviour of peptides that overlap the protein part interacting with plasminogen. Spot analysis resulted in a novel region of 12 amino acids (FPAMFQIFTHAA, position 91 to 102 of PDHB), which is responsible exclusively for binding of human plasminogen and also interacts in a dose-dependent manner with this host protein. The data indicate that the plasminogen-binding enzymes enolase and especially the surface-associated PDHB may contribute to the pathogenesis of M. pneumoniae infections.

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“…Some of these are classified as 'moonlighting' proteins. The term moonlighting means that, in addition to its well established activities, a protein also has an additional, but often completely unrelated, function (Henderson and Martin, 2011). A classic example is glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH).…”

Section: Secretome/exoproteomementioning

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“…Well-established as an important enzyme in glycolysis, with a typical cytoplasmic localization, GAPDH has also been found on the cell surface. First reported in group A streptococci, streptococcal GAPDH proteins are also located on the cell surface, where they bind to lysozyme, cytoskeletal proteins and fibronectin (Pancholi and Fischetti, 1992;Jeffery, 2009;Henderson and Martin, 2011). In addition to moonlighting proteins, contamination with cytosolic proteins released after cell lysis cannot be ignored.…”

Section: Secretome/exoproteomementioning

confidence: 99%

Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis in bacterial proteomics

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Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2-DE) is a gel-based technique widely used for analyzing the protein composition of biological samples. It is capable of resolving complex mixtures containing more than a thousand protein components into individual protein spots through the coupling of two orthogonal biophysical separation techniques: isoelectric focusing (first dimension) and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (second dimension). 2-DE is ideally suited for analyzing the entire expressed protein complement of a bacterial cell: its proteome. Its relative simplicity and good reproducibility have led to 2-DE being widely used for exploring proteomics within a wide range of environmental and medically-relevant bacteria. Here we give a broad overview of the basic principles and historical development of gel-based proteomics, and how this powerful approach can be applied for studying bacterial biology and physiology. We highlight specific 2-DE applications that can be used to analyze when, where and how much proteins are expressed. The links between proteomics, genomics and mass spectrometry are discussed. We explore how proteomics involving tandem mass spectrometry can be used to analyze (post-translational) protein modifications or to identify proteins of unknown origin by de novo peptide sequencing. The use of proteome fractionation techniques and non-gel-based proteomic approaches are also discussed. We highlight how the analysis of proteins secreted by bacterial cells (secretomes or exoproteomes) can be used to study infection processes or the immune response. This review is aimed at non-specialists who wish to gain a concise, comprehensive and contemporary overview of the nature and applications of bacterial proteomics.

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Bacterial Virulence in the Moonlight: Multitasking Bacterial Moonlighting Proteins Are Virulence Determinants in Infectious Disease

Cited by 420 publications

References 210 publications

Dihydrolipoamide Dehydrogenase of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Is a Surface-Exposed Immune Evasion Protein That Binds Three Members of the Factor H Family and Plasminogen

Dihydrolipoamide Dehydrogenase of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Is a Surface-Exposed Immune Evasion Protein That Binds Three Members of the Factor H Family and Plasminogen

Characterization of pyruvate dehydrogenase subunit B and enolase as plasminogen-binding proteins in Mycoplasma pneumoniae

Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis in bacterial proteomics

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