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Selective sorting of cargo proteins into bacterial membrane vesicles.


ABSTRACT: In contrast to the well established multiple cellular roles of membrane vesicles in eukaryotic cell biology, outer membrane vesicles (OMV) produced via blebbing of prokaryotic membranes have frequently been regarded as cell debris or microscopy artifacts. Increasingly, however, bacterial membrane vesicles are thought to play a role in microbial virulence, although it remains to be determined whether OMV result from a directed process or from passive disintegration of the outer membrane. Here we establish that the human oral pathogen Porphyromonas gingivalis has a mechanism to selectively sort proteins into OMV, resulting in the preferential packaging of virulence factors into OMV and the exclusion of abundant outer membrane proteins from the protein cargo. Furthermore, we show a critical role for lipopolysaccharide in directing this sorting mechanism. The existence of a process to package specific virulence factors into OMV may significantly alter our current understanding of host-pathogen interactions.

SUBMITTER: Haurat MF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3020734 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Selective sorting of cargo proteins into bacterial membrane vesicles.

Haurat M Florencia MF   Aduse-Opoku Joseph J   Rangarajan Minnie M   Dorobantu Loredana L   Gray Murray R MR   Curtis Michael A MA   Feldman Mario F MF  

The Journal of biological chemistry 20101105 2


In contrast to the well established multiple cellular roles of membrane vesicles in eukaryotic cell biology, outer membrane vesicles (OMV) produced via blebbing of prokaryotic membranes have frequently been regarded as cell debris or microscopy artifacts. Increasingly, however, bacterial membrane vesicles are thought to play a role in microbial virulence, although it remains to be determined whether OMV result from a directed process or from passive disintegration of the outer membrane. Here we  ...[more]

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