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. 2003 Oct 3;115(1):25-35.
doi: 10.1016/s0092-8674(03)00754-2.

Vesicle-mediated export and assembly of pore-forming oligomers of the enterobacterial ClyA cytotoxin

Sun Nyunt Wai  1 , Barbro Lindmark, Tomas Söderblom, Akemi Takade, Marie Westermark, Jan Oscarsson, Jana Jass, Agneta Richter-Dahlfors, Yoshimitsu Mizunoe, Bernt Eric Uhlin
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Vesicle-mediated export and assembly of pore-forming oligomers of the enterobacterial ClyA cytotoxin

Sun Nyunt Wai et al. Cell. .
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Abstract

The ClyA protein is a pore-forming cytotoxin expressed by Escherichia coli and some other enterobacteria VSports手机版. It confers cytotoxic activity toward mammalian cells, but it has remained unknown how ClyA is surface exposed and exported from bacterial cells. Outer-membrane vesicles (OMVs) released from the bacteria were shown to contain ClyA protein. ClyA formed oligomeric pore assemblies in the OMVs, and the cytotoxic activity toward mammalian cells was considerably higher than that of ClyA protein purified from the bacterial periplasm. The redox status of ClyA correlated with its ability to form the oligomeric pore assemblies. In bacterial cells with a defective periplasmic disulphide oxidoreductase system, the ClyA protein was phenotypically expressed in a constitutive manner. The results define a vesicle-mediated transport mechanism in bacteria, and our findings show that the localization of proteins to OMVs directly may contribute to the activation and delivery of pathogenic effector proteins. .

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