Fimbrial adhesins: Similarities and variations in structure and biogenesis

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 127-139

  Smyth, Cyril J ^a   Marron, Marie B ^a   Twohig, Jane M G J ^a   Smith, Stephen G J ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

biogenesis; CFA I; chaperone; CS1; CS2; curli; Escherichia coli; fimbriae; fimbrin; Neisseria gonorrhoeae; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; structure; type IV; usher

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; CHAPERONE;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIOGENESIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIA; GLYCOSYLATION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLYCOSYLATION; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES;

EID: 0030560597     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-8244(96)00074-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (65)

1. [1] Ofek, I. and Doyle, R.J. (1994) Bacterial Adherence to Cells and Tissues. Chapman and Hall, London.
2. [2] Klemm, P. (1994) Fimbriae: Adhesion, Genetics, Biogenesis and Vaccines. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
3. [3] Smyth, C.J. and Smith, S.G.J. (1992) Bacterial fimbriae: variation and regulatory mechanisms. In: Molecular Biology of Bacterial Infection: Current Status and Future Perspectives, Symposium No. 49 of the Society for General Microbiology (Hormaeche, C.E., Penn C.W. and Smyth, C.J., Eds.), pp. 267-297. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
4. [4] Anderson, T.F. (1949) On the mechanism of adsorption of bacteriophages on host cells. In: The Nature of the Bacterial Surface, Symp. No. 1 of the Society for General Microbiology (Miles, A.A. and Pirie, N.W., Eds.), pp. 76-95. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford.
5. [5] Houwink, A.L. and van Iterson, W. (1950) Electron microscopical observations on bacterial cytology. II. A study on flagellation. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 5, 10-44.
6. [6] Brinton, C.C., Jr. (1967) Contributions of pili to the specificity of the bacterial surface, and a unitary hypothesis of conjugal infectious heredity. In: The Specificity of Cell Surfaces (Davis, B.D. and Warren, L., Eds.), pp. 37-70. Prentice-Hall Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
7. [7] Orndorff, P.E. (1994) Escherichia coli type 1 pili. In: Molecular Genetics of Bacterial Pathogenesis (Miller, V.L., Kaper, J.B., Portnoy, D.A. and Isberg, R.R., Eds.), pp. 91-111. ASM Press, Washington, DC.
8. [8] Parge, H.E., Forest, K.T., Hickey, M.J., Christensen, D.A., Getzoff, E.D. and Tainer, J.A. (1995) Structure of the fibre-forming protein pilin at 2.6 Å resolution. Nature (London) 378, 32-38.
9. [9] Paranchych, W. (1990) Molecular studies on N-methylphenylalanine pili. In: Molecular Basis of Bacterial Pathogenesis: The Bacteria, Vol. XI (Iglewski, B.H. and Clark, V.L., Eds.), pp. 61-78. Academic Press, London.
10. [10] Tennent, J.M. and Mattick, J.S. (1994) Type 4 fimbriae. In: Fimbriae: Adhesion, Genetics, Biogenesis and Vaccines (Klemm, P., Ed.), pp. 127-146. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
11. [11] Marrs, C.F. (1994) Type 4 pili in the families Moraxellaceae and Neisseriaceae. In: Molecular Genetics of Bacterial Pathogenesis (Miller, V.L., Kaper, J.B., Portnoy, D.A. and Isberg, R.R., Eds.), pp. 127-143. ASM Press, Washington, DC.
12. [12] Davies, J.K., Koomey, J.M. and Seifert, H.S. (1994) Pili (fimbriae) of Neisseria gonorrhoeae. In: Fimbriae: Adhesion. Genetics, Biogenesis and Vaccines (Klemm, P., Ed.), pp. 147-155. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
13. [13] Meyer, T.F. (1990) Variation of pilin and opacity-associated protein in pathogenic Neisseria species. In: Molecular Basis of Bacterial Pathogenesis: The Bacteria, Vol. XI (Iglewski, B.H. and Clark, V.L.,Eds.), pp. 137-153. Academic Press, London.
14. [14] Koomey, M. (1994) Mechanisms of pilus antigenic variation in Neisseria. In: Molecular Genetics of Bacterial Pathogenesis (Miller, V.L., Kaper, J.B., Portnoy, D.A. and Isberg, R.R., Eds.), pp. 113-126. ASM Press, Washington, DC.
15. [15] Elleman, T.C. and Peterson, J.E. (1987) Expression of multiple types of N-methyl Phe pili in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Mol. Microbiol. 1, 377-380.
16. [16] Mattick, J.S., Bills, M.M., Anderson, B.J., Dalrymple, B., Mott, M.R. and Egerton, J.R. (1987) Morphogenetic expression of Bacteroides nodosus fimbriae in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. J. Bacteriol. 169, 33-41.
17. [17] Beard, M.K.M., Mattick, J.S., Moore, L.J., Mott, M.R., Marrs, C.F. and Egerton, J.R. (1990) Morphogenetic expression of Moraxella bovis fimbriae (pili) in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. J. Bacteriol. 172, 2601-2607.
18. [18] Hoyne, P.A., Haas, R., Meyer, T.F., Davies, J.K. and Elleman, T.C. (1992) Production of Neisseria gonorrhoeae pili (fimbriae) in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. J. Bacteriol. 174, 7321-7327.
19. [19] Watts, T.H., Kay, C.M. and Paranchych, W. (1983) Spectral properties of three quaternary arrangements of Pseudomonas pilin. Biochemistry 22, 3640-3646.
20. [20] Folkhard, W., Marvin, D.A., Watts, T.H. and Paranchych, W. (1981) Structure of polar pili from Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains K and O. J. Mol. Biol. 149, 79-93.
21. [21] Parge, H. E., Bernstein, S.L., Deal, C.D., McRee, D.E., Christensen, D., Capozza, M.A., Kays, B.W., Fieser, T.M., Draper, D., So, M., Getzoff, E.D. and Tainer, J.A. (1990) Biochemical purification and crystallographic characterization of the fiber-forming protein pilin of Neisseria gonorrhoeae. J. Biol. Chem. 265, 2278-2285.
22. [22] Lechner, J. and Wicland, F. (1989) Structure and biosynthesis of procaryotic glycoproteins. Annu. Rev. Biochem. 58, 173-194.
23. [23] Robertson, J.N., Vincent, P. and Ward, M.E. (1977) The preparation and properties of gonococcal pili. J. Gen. Microbiol. 102, 169-177.
24. [24] Armstrong, G.D., Frost, L.S., Vogel, H.J. and Paranchych, W. (1981) Nature of the carbohydrate and phosphate associated with ColB2 and EDP208 pilin. J. Bacteriol. 145, 1167-1176.
25. [25] Virji, M., Saunders, J.R., Sims, G., Makepeace, K., Maskell, D. and Ferguson, D.J.P. (1993) Pilus-facilitated adherence of Neisseria meningitidis to human epithelial and endothelial cells: modulation of adherence phenotype occurs concurrently with changes in primary amino acid sequence and the glycosylation status of pilin. Mol. Microbiol. 10, 1013-1028.
26. [26] Hamadeh, R.M., Estabrook, M.M., Zhou, P., Jarvis, G.A. and Griffiss, J.M. (1995) Anti-Gal binds to pili of Neisseria meningitidis: the immunoglobulin A isotype blocks complement mediated killing. Infect. Immun. 63, 4900-4906.
27. [27] Gastric, P. (1995) pilO, a gene required for glycosylation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa 1244 pilin. Microbiology 141, 1247-1254.
28. [28] Montreuil, J., Bouquelet, S., Debray, H., Fournet, B., Spit, G. and Strecker, G. (1986) Glycoproteins. In: Carbohydrate Analysis: A Practical Approach (Chaplin, M.F. and Kennedy, J.F., Eds.), pp. 143-204. IRL Press, Oxford.
29. [29] Bullitt, E. and Makowski, L. (1995) Structural polymorphism of bacterial adhesion pili. Nature (London) 373, 164-167.
30. [30] Kamiya, R. and Asakura, S. (1976) Helical transformations of Salmonella flagella in vitro. J. Mol. Biol. 106, 167-186.
31. [31] Macnab, R.M. and Ornston, M.K. (1977) Normal-to-curly flagellar transitions and their role in bacterial tumbling. Stabilization of an alternative quaternary structure by mechanical force. J. Mol. Biol. 112, 1-30.
32. [32] Calladine, C.R. (1978) Change of waveform in bacterial flagella: the role of mechanics at the molecular level. J. Mol. Biol. 118, 457-479.
33. [33] Hultgren, S.J., Normark, S. and Abraham, S.N. (1991) Chaperone-assisted assembly and molecular architecture of adhesive pili. Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 45, 383-415.
34. [34] Kuehn, M.J., Haslam, D., Normark, S. and Hultgren, S.J. (1994) Structure, function and biogenesis of Escherichia coli P pili. In: Fimbriae: Adhesion, Genetics, Biogenesis and Vaccines (Klemm, P., Ed.), pp. 37-51. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
35. [35] Jacob-Dubuisson, F., Kuehn, M. and Hultgren, S.J. (1993) A novel secretion apparatus for the assembly of adhesive bacterial pili. Trends Microbiol. 1, 50-55.
36. [36] Hultgren, S.J. and Jones, C.H. (1995) Utility of the immunoglobulin-like fold of chaperones in shaping organelles of attachment in pathogenic bacteria. ASM News 61, 457-464.
37. [37] Hultgren, S.J., Jacob-Dubuisson, F. Jones, C.H. and Brändén, C.-I. (1993) PapD and superfamily of periplasmic immunoglobulin-like pilus chaperones. Adv. Protein Chem. 44, 99-123.
38. [38] Klemm, P. and Krogfelt, K A. (1994) Type 1 fimbriae of Escherichia coli. In: Fimbriae: Adhesion, Genetics, Biogenesis and Vaccines (Klemm, P., Ed.), pp. 9-26. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
39. [39] Jones, C.H., Pinkner, J.S., Roth, R., Heuser, J., Nicholoes, A.V., Abraham, S.N. and Hultgren, S.J. (1995) FimH adhesin of type I pili is assembled into a fibrillar tip structure in the Enterobacteriaceae. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 92, 2081-2085.
40. [40] Krogfelt, K.A. and Klemm, P. (1988) Investigation of minor components of E. coli type I fimbriae: protein chemical and immunological aspects. Microb. Pathog. 4, 231-238.
41. [41] Mooi, F.R. and de Graaf, F.K. (1985) Molecular biology of fimbriae of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli. Curr. Top. Microbiol. Immunol. 118, 119-138.
42. [42] Beveridge, T.J. (1995) The periplasmic space and the periplasm in Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. ASM News 61, 125-130.
43. [43] Freedman, R.B., Hirst, T.R. and Tuite, M.F. (1994) Protein disulphide isomerase: building bridges in protein folding. Trends Biochem. Sci. 19, 331-336.
44. [44] Holmgren, A. and Brändén, C. (1989) Crystal structure of chaperone protein PapD reveals an immunoglobulin fold. Nature (London) 342, 248-251.
45. [45] Holmgren, A., Kuehn, M.J., Brändén, C.-I. and Hultgren, S.J. (1992) Conserved immunoglobulin-like features in a family of periplasmic pilus chaperones in bacteria. EMBO J. 11, 1617-1622.
46. [46] Jones, C.H., Jacob-Dubuisson, F., Dodson, K., Kuehn, M., Slonim, L., Striker, R. and Hultgren, S.J. (1992) Adhesin presentation in bacteria requires molecular chaperones and ushers. Infect. Immun. 60, 4445-4451.
47. [47] Dodson, K.W., Jacob-Dubuisson, F., Striker, R.T. and Hultgren, S.J. (1993) Outer membrane protein PapC usher discriminately recognizes periplasmic chaperone-pilus subunit complexes. Proc. Natl. Scad. Sci. USA 90, 3670-3674.
48. [48] Hobbs, M. and Mattick, J.S. (1993) Common components in the assembly of type 4 fimbriae, DNA transfer systems, filamentous phage and protein-secretion apparatus: a general system for the formation of surface-associated protein complexes. Mol. Microbiol. 10, 233-243.
49. [49] Mattick, J.S. and Alm, R.A. (1995) Common architecture of type 4 fimbriae and complexes involved in macromolecular traffic. Trends Microbiol. 3, 411-413.
50. [50] Koomey, M. (1995) Prepilin-like molecules in type 4 pilus biogenesis: minor subunits, chaperones or mediators of organelle translocation? Trends Microbiol. 3, 409-411.
51. [51] Collinson, S.K., Emödy, L., Trust, T.J. and Kay, W.W. (1991) Thin aggregative fimbriae from diarrheagenic Escherichia coli.. J. Bacteriol. 174, 4490-4495.
52. [52] Collinson, S.K., Emödy, L., Müller, K.-H., Trust, T.J. and Kay, W.W. (1991) Purification and characterization of thin, aggregative fimbriae from Salmonella enteritidis. J. Bacteriol. 175, 4773-4781.
53. [53] Collinson, S.K., Clouthier, S.C., Doran, J.L., Banser, P.A. and Kay, W.W. (1996) Salmonella enteritidis agfBAC operon encoding thin aggregative fimbriae. J. Bacteriol. 178, 662-667.
54. [54] Olsén, A., Jonsson, A. and Normark, S. (1989) Fibronectin binding mediated by a novel class of surface organelles on Escherichia coli. Nature (London) 338. 652-655.
55. [55] Bühler, T., Hoschützky, H. and Jann, K. (1991) Analysis of colonization factor antigen I, an adhesin of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli O78:H11: fimbrial morphology and location of the receptor-binding site. Infect. Immun. 59, 3876-3882.
56. [56] Marron, M.B. and Smyth, C.J. (1995) Molecular analysis of the cso operon of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli reveals that CsoA is the adhesin of CS1 fimbriae and that the accessory genes are interchangeable with those of the cfa operon. Microbiology 141, 2849-2859.
57. [57] Marron, M.B. (1995) Molecular analysis of the structural and functional expression of CS1 fimbriae of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli. Ph.D. thesis, Trinity College, University of Dublin.
58. [58] de Graaf, F.K. and Gaastra, W. (1994) Fimbriae of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli. In: Fimbriae: Adhesion, Genetics, Biogenesis and Vaccines (Klemm, P., Ed.), pp. 53-83. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
59. [59] Froehlich, B.J., Karakashian, A., Melsen, L.R., Wakefield, J.C. and Scott, J.R. (1994) CooC and CooD are required for assembly of CS1 pili. Mol. Microbiol. 12, 387-401.
60. [60] Iredell, J.R. and Manning, P.A. (1994) The toxin-co-regulated pilus of Vibrio cholerae O1: a model for type 4 pilus biogenesis. Trends Microbiol. 2, 187-192.
61. [61] Pugsley, A.P. (1993) The complete general secretory pathway in Gram-negative bacteria. Microbiol. Rev. 57, 50-108.
62. [62] Jordi, B.J.A.M., van Vliet, A.H.M., Willshaw, G.A., van der Zeijst, B.A.M. and Gaastra, W. (1991) Analysis of the first two genes of the CS1 fimbrial operon in human enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli of serotype O139:H28. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 80, 265-270.
63. [63] Smith, S.G.J. (1995) Regulation of CS1 fimbrial expression. Ph.D. thesis, Trinity College, University of Dublin.
64. [64] Jordi, B.J.A.M., Willshaw, G.A., van der Zeijst, B.A.M. and Gaastra, W. (1992) The complete sequence of region 1 of the CFA/I fimbrial operon of human enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli. DNA Seq. 2, 257-263.
65. [65] Froehlich, B.J., Karakashian, A., Sakellaris, H. and Scott, J.R. (1995) Genes for CS2 pili of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli and their interchangeability with those for CS1 pili. Infect. Immun. 63, 4849-4856.