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MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 92, Issue 6, Pages 1164-1176Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12585
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- Institute Pasteur de Lille
- Region Nord Pas de Calais
- [ANR-2010-BLANC-1306 DYN FHAC]
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FhaC is an integral outer membrane protein of the whooping cough agent Bordetella pertussis that mediates the transport to the cell surface of a major virulence factor, the filamentous haemagglutinin adhesin FHA. The FHA/FhaC pair is a prototypic TpsA/TpsB system of the widespread Two-Partner Secretion' pathway, dedicated to the transport of long extracellular proteins in various pathogenic and environmental Gram-negative bacteria. FhaC belongs to the ubiquitous Omp85 superfamily of protein transporters. The X-ray structure of FhaC shows that the transmembrane -barrel channel hypothesized to serve as the FHA-conducting pore is obstructed by two structural elements conserved among TpsB transporters, an N-terminal helix and an extracellular loop. Here, we provide evidence for conformational dynamics of FhaC related to the secretion mechanism. Using paramagnetic electron resonance, electrophysiology and in vivo approaches, we showed that FhaC exchanges between open and closed conformations. The interaction with its secretory partner FHA alters this distribution of conformations. The open conformation of FhaC implies a large displacement from the channel of the N-terminal plug' helix, which remains in the periplasm during FHA secretion. The membrane environment favours the dynamics of the TpsB transporter.
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