Jiang, Shan; Steup, Lydia C; Kippnich, Charlotte; Lazaridi, Symela; Malengo, Gabriele; Lemmin, Thomas; Yuan, Jing (2023). The inhibitory mechanism of a small protein reveals its role in antimicrobial peptide sensing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - PNAS, 120(41), e2309607120. National Academy of Sciences 10.1073/pnas.2309607120
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A large number of small membrane proteins have been uncovered in bacteria, but their mechanism of action has remained mostly elusive. Here, we investigate the mechanism of a physiologically important small protein, MgrB, which represses the activity of the sensor kinase PhoQ and is widely distributed among enterobacteria. The PhoQ/PhoP two-component system is a master regulator of the bacterial virulence program and interacts with MgrB to modulate bacterial virulence, fitness, and drug resistance. A combination of cross-linking approaches with functional assays and protein dynamic simulations revealed structural rearrangements due to interactions between MgrB and PhoQ near the membrane/periplasm interface and along the transmembrane helices. These interactions induce the movement of the PhoQ catalytic domain and the repression of its activity. Without MgrB, PhoQ appears to be much less sensitive to antimicrobial peptides, including the commonly used C18G. In the presence of MgrB, C18G promotes MgrB to dissociate from PhoQ, thus activating PhoQ via derepression. Our findings reveal the inhibitory mechanism of the small protein MgrB and uncover its importance in antimicrobial peptide sensing.
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
04 Faculty of Medicine > Pre-clinic Human Medicine > Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine |
UniBE Contributor: |
Lazaridi, Symela, Lemmin, Thomas Max |
Subjects: |
500 Science > 570 Life sciences; biology 600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health |
ISSN: |
1091-6490 |
Publisher: |
National Academy of Sciences |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Pubmed Import |
Date Deposited: |
05 Oct 2023 09:18 |
Last Modified: |
29 Oct 2023 02:25 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1073/pnas.2309607120 |
PubMed ID: |
37792514 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
antimicrobial peptide bacteria signaling sensor kinase small protein two-component system |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/186905 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/186905 |
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