scholarly journals The Evolution of Protein Secretion Systems by Co-option and Tinkering of Cellular Machineries

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 372-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rémi Denise ◽  
Sophie S. Abby ◽  
Eduardo P.C. Rocha
Keyword(s):  
Protein Secretion ◽  
Secretion Systems ◽  
Protein Secretion Systems

Super-resolution imaging of bacterial pathogens and visualization of their secreted effectors

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moirangthem Kiran Singh ◽  
Linda J Kenney
Keyword(s):  
Virulence Factors ◽  
Protein Secretion ◽  
Fluorescent Probes ◽  
Imaging Techniques ◽  
Super Resolution ◽  
Bacterial Pathogenesis ◽  
Secretion Systems ◽  
Complex Protein ◽  
Resolution Imaging ◽  
Protein Secretion Systems

ABSTRACT Recent advances in super-resolution imaging techniques, together with new fluorescent probes have enhanced our understanding of bacterial pathogenesis and their interplay within the host. In this review, we provide an overview of what these techniques have taught us about the bacterial lifestyle, the nucleoid organization, its complex protein secretion systems, as well as the secreted virulence factors.

scholarly journals Comparison of ATPase-Encoding Type III Secretion System hrcN Genes in Biocontrol Fluorescent Pseudomonads and in Phytopathogenic Proteobacteria

2004 ◽  
Vol 70 (9) ◽  
pp. 5119-5131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio Rezzonico ◽  
Geneviève Défago ◽  
Yvan Moënne-Loccoz
Keyword(s):  
Pseudomonas Syringae ◽  
Protein Secretion ◽  
Type Iii Secretion ◽  
Fluorescent Pseudomonads ◽  
Secretion Systems ◽  
Associated Bacteria ◽  
Type Iii ◽  
Encoding Gene ◽  
Type Iii Protein Secretion ◽  
Protein Secretion Systems

ABSTRACT Type III protein secretion systems play a key role in the virulence of many pathogenic proteobacteria, but they also occur in nonpathogenic, plant-associated bacteria. Certain type III protein secretion genes (e.g., hrcC) have been found in Pseudomonas sp. strain SBW25 (and other biocontrol pseudomonads), but other type III protein secretion genes, such as the ATPase-encoding gene hrcN, have not been found. Using both colony hybridization and a PCR approach, we show here that hrcN is nevertheless present in many biocontrol fluorescent pseudomonads. The phylogeny of biocontrol Pseudomonas strains based on partial hrcN sequences was largely congruent with the phylogenies derived from analyses of rrs (encoding 16S rRNA) and, to a lesser extent, biocontrol genes, such as phlD (for 2,4-diacetylphloroglucinol production) and hcnBC (for HCN production). Most biocontrol pseudomonads clustered separately from phytopathogenic proteobacteria, including pathogenic pseudomonads, in the hrcN tree. The exception was strain KD, which clustered with phytopathogenic pseudomonads, such as Pseudomonas syringae, suggesting that hrcN was acquired from the latter species. Indeed, strain KD (unlike strain SBW25) displayed the same organization of the hrpJ operon, which contains hrcN, as P. syringae. These results indicate that the occurrence of hrcN in most biocontrol pseudomonads is not the result of recent horizontal gene transfer from phytopathogenic bacteria, although such transfer might have occurred for a minority of biocontrol strains.

scholarly journals Genomic analysis of the protein secretion systems in Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824

2005 ◽  
Vol 1745 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mickaël Desvaux ◽  
Arshad Khan ◽  
Anthony Scott-Tucker ◽  
Roy R. Chaudhuri ◽  
Mark J. Pallen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protein Secretion ◽  
Clostridium Acetobutylicum ◽  
Genomic Analysis ◽  
Secretion Systems ◽  
Protein Secretion Systems ◽  
Clostridium Acetobutylicum Atcc 824
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