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Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Ehrlichia chaffeensis type IV secretion and Ank proteins.


ABSTRACT: The obligatory intracellular bacterial pathogens Anaplasma and Ehrlichia infect leukocytes by hijacking host-cell components and processes. The type IV secretion system is up-regulated during infection. Among type IV secretion candidate substrates, an ankyrin repeat protein of Anaplasma phagocytophilum, AnkA, is delivered into the host cytoplasm via a complex that includes VirD4. AnkA is highly tyrosine phosphorylated and binds to the Abl interactor 1, SHP-1, and nuclear DNA fragments. Ehrlichia chaffeensis AnkA was recently reported to be translocated into host-cell nucleus. The recent discovery of several ankyrin repeat proteins secreted via the type IV secretion system of different intracellular bacteria suggests that a common strategy evolved to subvert host-cell functions.

SUBMITTER: Rikihisa Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3251840 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Ehrlichia chaffeensis type IV secretion and Ank proteins.

Rikihisa Yasuko Y   Lin Mingqun M  

Current opinion in microbiology 20100105 1


The obligatory intracellular bacterial pathogens Anaplasma and Ehrlichia infect leukocytes by hijacking host-cell components and processes. The type IV secretion system is up-regulated during infection. Among type IV secretion candidate substrates, an ankyrin repeat protein of Anaplasma phagocytophilum, AnkA, is delivered into the host cytoplasm via a complex that includes VirD4. AnkA is highly tyrosine phosphorylated and binds to the Abl interactor 1, SHP-1, and nuclear DNA fragments. Ehrlichia  ...[more]

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