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Universal architecture of bacterial chemoreceptor arrays.


ABSTRACT: Chemoreceptors are key components of the high-performance signal transduction system that controls bacterial chemotaxis. Chemoreceptors are typically localized in a cluster at the cell pole, where interactions among the receptors in the cluster are thought to contribute to the high sensitivity, wide dynamic range, and precise adaptation of the signaling system. Previous structural and genomic studies have produced conflicting models, however, for the arrangement of the chemoreceptors in the clusters. Using whole-cell electron cryo-tomography, here we show that chemoreceptors of different classes and in many different species representing several major bacterial phyla are all arranged into a highly conserved, 12-nm hexagonal array consistent with the proposed "trimer of dimers" organization. The various observed lengths of the receptors confirm current models for the methylation, flexible bundle, signaling, and linker sub-domains in vivo. Our results suggest that the basic mechanism and function of receptor clustering is universal among bacterial species and was thus conserved during evolution.

SUBMITTER: Briegel A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2761316 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Universal architecture of bacterial chemoreceptor arrays.

Briegel Ariane A   Ortega Davi R DR   Tocheva Elitza I EI   Wuichet Kristin K   Li Zhuo Z   Chen Songye S   Müller Axel A   Iancu Cristina V CV   Murphy Gavin E GE   Dobro Megan J MJ   Zhulin Igor B IB   Jensen Grant J GJ  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20090923 40


Chemoreceptors are key components of the high-performance signal transduction system that controls bacterial chemotaxis. Chemoreceptors are typically localized in a cluster at the cell pole, where interactions among the receptors in the cluster are thought to contribute to the high sensitivity, wide dynamic range, and precise adaptation of the signaling system. Previous structural and genomic studies have produced conflicting models, however, for the arrangement of the chemoreceptors in the clus  ...[more]

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