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YeeJ is an inverse autotransporter from Escherichia coli that binds to peptidoglycan and promotes biofilm formation

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YeeJ is an inverse autotransporter from Escherichia coli that binds to peptidoglycan and promotes biofilm formation

Auteurs : Marta Martinez-Gil [Espagne] ; Kelvin G. K. Goh ; Elze Rackaityte [États-Unis] ; Chizuko Sakamoto ; Bianca Audrain ; Danilo G. Moriel [Italie] ; Makrina Totsika ; Jean-Marc Ghigo ; Mark A. Schembri ; Christophe Beloin

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RBID : PMC:5595812

Abstract

Escherichia coli is a commensal or pathogenic bacterium that can survive in diverse environments. Adhesion to surfaces is essential for E. coli colonization, and thus it is important to understand the molecular mechanisms that promote this process in different niches. Autotransporter proteins are a class of cell-surface factor used by E. coli for adherence. Here we characterized the regulation and function of YeeJ, a poorly studied but widespread representative from an emerging class of autotransporter proteins, the inverse autotransporters (IAT). We showed that the yeeJ gene is present in ~40% of 96 completely sequenced E. coli genomes and that YeeJ exists as two length variants, albeit with no detectable functional differences. We demonstrated that YeeJ promotes biofilm formation in different settings through exposition at the cell-surface. We also showed that YeeJ contains a LysM domain that interacts with peptidoglycan and thus assists its localization into the outer membrane. Additionally, we identified the Polynucleotide Phosphorylase PNPase as a repressor of yeeJ transcription. Overall, our work provides new insight into YeeJ as a member of the recently defined IAT class, and contributes to our understanding of how commensal and pathogenic E. coli colonise their environments.


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DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-10902-0
PubMed: 28900103
PubMed Central: 5595812

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<italic>Escherichia coli</italic>
is a commensal or pathogenic bacterium that can survive in diverse environments. Adhesion to surfaces is essential for
<italic>E. coli</italic>
colonization, and thus it is important to understand the molecular mechanisms that promote this process in different niches. Autotransporter proteins are a class of cell-surface factor used by
<italic>E. coli</italic>
for adherence. Here we characterized the regulation and function of YeeJ, a poorly studied but widespread representative from an emerging class of autotransporter proteins, the inverse autotransporters (IAT). We showed that the
<italic>yeeJ</italic>
gene is present in ~40% of 96 completely sequenced
<italic>E. coli</italic>
genomes and that YeeJ exists as two length variants, albeit with no detectable functional differences. We demonstrated that YeeJ promotes biofilm formation in different settings through exposition at the cell-surface. We also showed that YeeJ contains a LysM domain that interacts with peptidoglycan and thus assists its localization into the outer membrane. Additionally, we identified the Polynucleotide Phosphorylase PNPase as a repressor of
<italic>yeeJ</italic>
transcription. Overall, our work provides new insight into YeeJ as a member of the recently defined IAT class, and contributes to our understanding of how commensal and pathogenic
<italic>E. coli</italic>
colonise their environments.</p>
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<institution-id institution-id-type="ISNI">0000 0001 2353 6535</institution-id>
<institution-id institution-id-type="GRID">grid.428999.7</institution-id>
<institution>Institut Pasteur, Unité de Génétique des Biofilms,</institution>
</institution-wrap>
28 rue du Dr. Roux, 75724 Paris, CEDEX 15 France</aff>
<aff id="Aff2">
<label>2</label>
<institution-wrap>
<institution-id institution-id-type="ISNI">0000 0000 9320 7537</institution-id>
<institution-id institution-id-type="GRID">grid.1003.2</institution-id>
<institution>School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland,</institution>
</institution-wrap>
Brisbane, QLD 4072 Australia</aff>
<aff id="Aff3">
<label>3</label>
<institution-wrap>
<institution-id institution-id-type="ISNI">0000 0000 9320 7537</institution-id>
<institution-id institution-id-type="GRID">grid.1003.2</institution-id>
<institution>Australian Infectious Diseases Research Centre, The University of Queensland,</institution>
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Brisbane, QLD 4072 Australia</aff>
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<label>4</label>
<institution-wrap>
<institution-id institution-id-type="ISNI">0000 0001 2298 7828</institution-id>
<institution-id institution-id-type="GRID">grid.10215.37</institution-id>
<institution>Present Address: Departamento de Biología Celular,</institution>
<institution>Genética y Fisiología, Facultad de Ciencias. Universidad de Málaga,</institution>
</institution-wrap>
Málaga, Spain</aff>
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<label>5</label>
<institution-wrap>
<institution-id institution-id-type="ISNI">0000 0001 2297 6811</institution-id>
<institution-id institution-id-type="GRID">grid.266102.1</institution-id>
<institution>Present Address: University of California San Francisco, Department of Medicine,</institution>
</institution-wrap>
San Francisco, CA USA</aff>
<aff id="Aff6">
<label>6</label>
<institution-wrap>
<institution-id institution-id-type="GRID">grid.425088.3</institution-id>
<institution>Present Address: GSK Vaccines Institute for Global Health S.r.l.,</institution>
</institution-wrap>
53100 Siena, Italy</aff>
<aff id="Aff7">
<label>7</label>
<institution-wrap>
<institution-id institution-id-type="ISNI">0000000089150953</institution-id>
<institution-id institution-id-type="GRID">grid.1024.7</institution-id>
<institution>Present Address: Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, and School of Biomedical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology,</institution>
</institution-wrap>
Kelvin Grove, QLD 4059 Australia</aff>
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<day>12</day>
<month>9</month>
<year>2017</year>
</pub-date>
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<day>12</day>
<month>9</month>
<year>2017</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="collection">
<year>2017</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>7</volume>
<elocation-id>11326</elocation-id>
<history>
<date date-type="received">
<day>3</day>
<month>4</month>
<year>2017</year>
</date>
<date date-type="accepted">
<day>16</day>
<month>8</month>
<year>2017</year>
</date>
</history>
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<copyright-statement>© The Author(s) 2017</copyright-statement>
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<bold>Open Access</bold>
This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit
<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</ext-link>
.</license-p>
</license>
</permissions>
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<p id="Par1">
<italic>Escherichia coli</italic>
is a commensal or pathogenic bacterium that can survive in diverse environments. Adhesion to surfaces is essential for
<italic>E. coli</italic>
colonization, and thus it is important to understand the molecular mechanisms that promote this process in different niches. Autotransporter proteins are a class of cell-surface factor used by
<italic>E. coli</italic>
for adherence. Here we characterized the regulation and function of YeeJ, a poorly studied but widespread representative from an emerging class of autotransporter proteins, the inverse autotransporters (IAT). We showed that the
<italic>yeeJ</italic>
gene is present in ~40% of 96 completely sequenced
<italic>E. coli</italic>
genomes and that YeeJ exists as two length variants, albeit with no detectable functional differences. We demonstrated that YeeJ promotes biofilm formation in different settings through exposition at the cell-surface. We also showed that YeeJ contains a LysM domain that interacts with peptidoglycan and thus assists its localization into the outer membrane. Additionally, we identified the Polynucleotide Phosphorylase PNPase as a repressor of
<italic>yeeJ</italic>
transcription. Overall, our work provides new insight into YeeJ as a member of the recently defined IAT class, and contributes to our understanding of how commensal and pathogenic
<italic>E. coli</italic>
colonise their environments.</p>
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