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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
卷 114, 期 25, 页码 6593-6598出版社
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1702395114
关键词
Synechocystis sp PCC6803; twitching motility; phototaxis; signal transduction; fluorescence
资金
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan [JP24117002]
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science KAKENHI [JP16H06230, JP15H04364]
- [JP16H00808]
- [JP87003306]
- [JP15H01329]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [16H06230, 15H04364, 16H00808] Funding Source: KAKEN
The type IV pili (T4P) system is a supermolecular machine observed in prokaryotes. Cells repeat the cycle of T4P extension, surface attachment, and retraction to drive twitching motility. Although the properties of T4P as a motor have been scrutinized with biophysics techniques, the mechanism of regulation remains unclear. Here we provided the framework of the T4P dynamics at the single-cell level in Synechocystis sp. PCC6803, which can recognize light direction. We demonstrated that the dynamics was detected by fluorescent beads under an optical microscope and controlled by blue light that induces negative phototaxis; extension and retraction of T4P was activated at the forward side of lateral illumination to move away from the light source. Additionally, we directly visualized each pilus by fluorescent labeling, allowing us to quantify their asymmetric distribution. Finally, quantitative analyses of cell tracking indicated that T4P was generated uniformly within 0.2 min after blue-light exposure, and within the next 1 min the activation became asymmetric along the light axis to achieve directional cell motility; this process was mediated by the photo-sensing protein, PixD. This sequential process provides clues toward a general regulation mechanism of T4P system, which might be essentially common between archaella and other secretion apparatuses.
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