The molecular genetics of type-4 fimbriae in Pseudomonas aeruginosa - A review

Gene

Volumn 179, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 147-155

  Mattick, John S ^a   Whitchurch, Cynthia B ^a   Alm, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biogenesis; DNA uptake; Pathogenesis; Pili; Protein secretion; Regulation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHEMOTACTIC FACTOR; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOGENESIS; BURN; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; FIMBRIA; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DICHELOBACTER NODOSUS; MORAXELLA BOVIS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PILA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0030574285     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00441-6     Document Type: Article

References (65)

1. Alm, R.A. and Mattick, J.S. (1995) Identification of a gene, pilV, required for type 4 fimbrial biogenesis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa whose product possesses a pre-pilin-like leader sequence. Mol. Microbiol. 16, 485-496.
2. Alm, R.A., Bodero, A.J., Free, P. and Mattick, J.S. (1996) Identification of a novel gene, pilZ, essential for type 4 fimbrial biogenesis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. J. Bacteriol. 178, 46-53.
3. 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.
4. Boyd, J.M., Koga, T. and Lory, S. (1994) Identification and characterization of PilS, an essential regulator of pilin expression in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Mol. Gen. Genet. 243, 565-574.
5. Bradley, D.E. (1972) Shortening of Pseudomonas aeruginosa pili after RNA-phage adsorption. J. Gen. Microbiol. 72, 303-319.
6. Bradley, D.E. (1974) The adsorption of Pseudomonas aeruginosa pilus-dependent bacteriophages to a host mutant with nonretractile pili. Virology 58, 149-163.
7. Bradley, D.E. (1980) A function of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO pili: twitching motility. Can. J. Microbiol. 26, 146-154.
8. Castric, P.A. and Deal, C.D. (1994) Differentiation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa pili based on sequence and B-cell epitope analyses. Infect. Immun. 62, 371-376.
9. Castric, P.A., Sidberry, H.F. and Sadoff, J.C. (1989) Cloning and sequencing of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa 1244 pilin structural gene. Mol. Gen. Genet. 216, 75-80.
10. d'Enfert, C., Reyss, I., Wandersman, C. and Pugsley, A.P. (1989) Protein secretion by Gram-negative bacteria. Characterization of two membrane proteins required for pullulanase secretion by Escherichia coli K-12. J. Biol. Chem. 264, 17462-17468.
11. Dalrymple, B. and Mattick, J.S. (1987) An analysis of the organization and evolution of type 4 fimbrial (MePhe) subunit proteins. J. Mol. Evol. 25, 261-269.
12. Darzins, A. (1993) The pilG gene product, required for Pseudomonas aeruginosa pilus production and twitching motility, is homologous to the enteric, single-domain response regulator CheY. J. Bacteriol. 175, 5934-5944.
13. Darzins, A. (1994) Characterization of a Pseudomonas aeruginosa gene cluster involved in pilus biosynthesis and twitching motility: sequence similarity to the chemotaxis proteins of enterics and the gliding bacterium Myxococcus xanthus. Mol. Microbiol. 11, 137-153.
14. Darzins, A. (1995) The Pseudomonas aeruginosa pilK gene encodes a chemotactic methyltransferase (CheR) homologue that is translationally regulated. Mol. Microbiol. 15, 703-717.
15. Donnenberg, M.S., Girón, J.A., Nataro, J.P. and Kaper, J.B. (1992) A plasmid-encoded type IV fimbrial gene of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli associated with localized adherence. Mol. Microbiol. 6, 3427-3437.
16. Dums, F., Dow, J.M. and Daniels, M.J. (1991) Structural characterization of protein secretion genes of the bacterial phytopathogen Xanthomonas campestris pathovar campestris: relatedness to secretion systems of other gram-negative bacteria. Mol. Gen. Genet. 229, 357-364.
17. Faast, R., Ogierman, M.A., Stroeher, U.K. and Manning, P.A. (1989) Nucleotide sequence of the structural gene, tcpA, for a major pilus subunit of Vibrio cholerae. Gene 85, 227-231.
18. Faguy, D.M., Jarrell, K.F., Kuzio, J. and Kalmokoff, M.L. (1994) Molecular analysis of acheal flagellins: similarity to the type IV pilin-transport superfamily widespread in bacteria. Can. J. Microbiol. 40, 67-71.
19. Farinha, M.A., Ronald, S.L., Kropinski, A.M. and Paranchych, W. (1993) Localization of the virulence-associated genes pilA, pilR, rpoN, fliA, fliC, ent, and fbp on the physical map of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 by pulsed-field electrophoresis. Infect. Immun. 61, 1571-1575.
20. Hazlett, L.D., Moon, M.M., Singh, A., Berk, R.S. and Rudner, X.L. (1991) Analysis of adhesion, piliation, protease production and ocular infectivity of several P. aeruginosa strains. Curr. Eye Res. 10, 351-362.
21. He, S.Y., Lindeberg, M., Chatterjee, A.K. and Collmer, A. (1991) Cloned Erwinia chrysanthemi out genes enable Escherichia coli to selectively secrete a diverse family of heterologous proteins to its milieu. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 88, 1079-1083.
22. Henrichsen, J. (1983) Twitching motility. Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 37, 81-93.
23. Henrichsen, J., Froholm, L.O. and Bøvre, K. (1972) Studies on bacterial surface translocation, 2. Correlation of twitching motility and fimbriation in colony variants of Moraxella nonliquefaciens, M. bovis and M. kingii. Acta. Path. Microbiol. Scand. Sect. B 80, 445-452.
24. Henriksen, S.D. and Henrichsen, J. (1975) Twitching motility and possession of polar fimbriae in spreading Streptococcus sanguis isolates from the human throat. Acta. Path. Microbiol. Scand. Sect. B 83, 133-140.
25. Hobbs, M., Dalrymple, B., Delaney, S.F. and Mattick, J.S. (1988) Transcription of the fimbrial subunit gene and an associated transfer RNA gene of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Gene 62, 219-227.
26. Hobbs, M., Dalrymple, B.P., Cox, P.T., Livingston, S.P., Delaney, S.F. and Mattick, J.S. (1991) Organization of the fimbrial gene region of Bacteroides nodosus: class I and class II strains. Mol. Microbiol. 5, 543-560.
27. Hobbs, M., Collie, E.S.R., Free, P.D., Livingston, S.P. and Mattick, J.S. (1993) PilS and PilR, a two-component transcriptional regulatory system controlling transcription of type 4 fimbriae in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Mol. Microbiol. 7, 669-682.
28. 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.
29. Howard, S.P., Crotch, J. and Bedi, A. (1993) Isolation and analysis of eight exe genes and their involvement in extracellular protein secretion and outer membrane assembly in Aeromonas hydrophila. J. Bacteriol. 175, 6695-6703.
30. 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.
31. Ishimoto, K.S. and Lory, S. (1989) Formation of pilin in Pseudomonas aeruginosa requires the alternative sigma factor (RpoN) of RNA polymerase. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 86, 1954-1957.
32. Ishimoto, K.S. and Lory, S. (1992) Identification of pilR, which encodes a transcriptional activator of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa pilin gene. J. Bacteriol. 174, 3514-3521.
33. Jennings, P.A., Bills, M.M., Irving, D.O. and Mattick, J.S. (1989) Fimbriae of Bacteroides nodosus: protein engineering of the structural subunit for the production of an exogenous peptide. Protein Eng. 2, 365-369.
34. Jin, S., Ishimoto. K.S. and Lory, S. (1994) PilR, a transcriptional regulator of piliation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, binds to a cis-acting sequence upstream of the pilin gene promoter. Mol. Microbiol. 14, 1049-1057.
35. Johnson, K., Parker, M.L. and Lory, S. (1986) Nucleotide sequence and transcriptional initiation site of two Pseudomonas aeruginosa pilin genes. J. Biol. Chem. 261, 15703-15708.
36. Lee, K.K., Sheth, H.B., Wong, W.Y., Sherburne, R., Paranchych, W., Hodges, R.S., Lingwood, C.A., Krivan, H. and Irvin, R.T. (1994) The binding of Pseudomonas aeruginosa pili to glycosphingolipids is a tip-associated event involving the C-terminal region of the structural pilin subunit. Mol. Microbiol. 11, 705-713.
37. Lepper, A.W.D., Elleman, T.C., Hoyne, P.A., Lehrbach, P.R., Atwell, J.L., Egerton, J.R., Schwartzkoff, L.C. and Tennent, J.M. (1993) A Moraxella bovis pili vaccine produced by recombinant DNA technology for the prevention of infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis. Vet. Microbiol. 36, 175-183.
38. Lindeberg, M. and Collmer, A. (1992) Analysis of eight out genes in a cluster required for pectic enzyme secretion by Erwinia chrysanthemi: sequence comparison with secretion genes from other Gram-negative bacteria. J. Bacteriol. 174, 7385-7397.
39. Martin, P.R., Hobbs, M., Free, P.D., Jeske, Y. and Mattick, J.S. (1993) Characterization of pilQ, a new gene required for the biogenesis of type 4 fimbriae in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Mol. Microbiol. 9, 857-868.
40. Martin, P.R., Watson, A.A., McCaul, T.F. and Mattick, J.S. (1995) Characterization of a five gene cluster required for the biogenesis of type 4 fimbriae in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Mol. Microbiol. 16, 497-508.
41. 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.
42. 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.
43. Mattick, J.S., Hobbs, M., Cox, P.T. and Dalrymple, B.P. (1993) Molecular biology of the fimbriae of Dichelobacter (prev. Bacteroides) nodosus. In: Sebald, M. (Ed.), Genetics and Molecular Biology of Anaerobic Bacteria. Springer-Verlag, New York, pp. 517-545.
44. Nunn, D., Bergman, S. and Lory, S. (1990) Products of three accessory genes, pilB, pilC and pilD, are required for biogenesis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa pili. J. Bacteriol. 172, 2911-2919.
45. Nunn, D.N. and Lory, S. (1991) Product of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa gene pilD is a prepilin leader peptidase. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 88, 3281-3285.
46. Ottow, J.C.G. (1975) Ecology, physiology and genetics of fimbriae and pili. Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 29, 79-108.
47. Paranchych, W. and Frost, L.S. (1988) The physiology and biochemistry of pili. Adv. Microb. Physiol. 29, 53-114.
48. Pasloske, B.L., Finlay, B.B. and Paranchych, W. (1985) Cloning and sequencing of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAK pilin gene. FEBS Lett. 183, 408-412.
49. Pasloske, B.L., Sastry, P.A., Finlay, B.B. and Paranchych, W. (1988) Two unusual pilin sequences from different isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. J. Bacteriol. 170, 3738-3741.
50. Pugsley, A.P. (1993) The complete general secretory pathway in Gram negative bacteria. Microbiol. Rev. 57, 50-108.
51. Pugsley, A.P., d'Enfert, C., Reyss, I. and Kornacker, M.G. (1990) Genetics of extracellular protein secretion by Gram-negative bacteria. Annu. Rev. Genet. 24, 67-90.
52. Rudel, T., Scheurerpflug, I. and Meyer, T.F. (1995) Neisseria PilC protein identified as type-4 pilus tip-located adhesin. Nature 373, 357-359.
53. Russel, M. (1994) Mutants at conserved positions in gene IV, a gene required for assembly and secretion of filamentous phage. Mol. Microbiol. 14, 357-369.
54. Russell, M.A. and Darzins, A. (1994) The pilE gene product of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, required for pilus biogenesis, shares amino acid sequence identity with the N-termini of type-4 prepilin proteins. Mol. Microbiol. 13, 973-985.
55. Sastry, P.A., Finlay, B.B., Pasloske, B.L., Paranchych, W., Pearlstone, J.R. and Smillie, L.B. (1985) Comparative studies of the amino acid and nucleotide sequences of pilin derived from Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAK and PAO. J. Bacteriol. 164, 571-577.
56. Sheth, H.B., Lee, K.K., Wong, W.Y., Srivastava, G., Hindsgaul, O., Hodges, R.S., Paranchych, W. and Irvin, R.T. (1994) The pili of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains PAK and PAO bind specifically to the carbohydrate sequence βGalNAc(1-4)βGal found in glycosphingolipids asialo-GM1 and asialo-GM2. Mol. Microbiol. 11, 715-723.
57. Simon, R., Quandt, J. and Klipp, W. (1989) New derivatives of transposon Tn5 suitable for mobilization of replicons, generation of operon fusions and induction of genes in Gram-negative bacteria. Gene 80, 161-169.
58. Strom, M.S. and Lory, S. (1993) Structure-function and biogenesis of the type IV pili. Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 47, 565-596.
59. Strom, M.S., Nunn, D.N. and Lory, S. (1993) A single bifunctional enzyme, PilD, catalyzes cleavage and N-methylation of proteins belonging to the type IV pilin family. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 90, 2404-2408.
60. Tennent, J. M and Mattick, J.S. (1994) Type-4 fimbriae. In: Klemm, P. (Ed.), Fimbriae: Aspects of Adhesion, Genetics, Biogenesis and Vaccines. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, pp. 127-146.
61. Tommassen, J., Filloux, A., Bally, M., Murgier, M. and Lazdunski, A. (1992) Protein secretion in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. FEMS Microbiol. Rev. 103, 73-90.
62. Watson, A.A., Alm, R.A. and Mattick, J.S. (1996) constuction of improved vectors for protein production in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Gene 172, 163-164.
63. Whitchurch, C.B., Hobbs, M., Livingston, S.P., Krishnapillai, V. and Mattick, J.S. (1991) Characterisation of a Pseudomonas aeruginosa twitching motility gene and evidence for a specialised protein export system widespread in eubacteria. Gene 101, 33-44.
64. Whitchurch, C.B. and Mattick, J.S. (1994a) Characterisation of a gene pilU required for twitching motility but not phage sensitivity in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Mol. Microbiol. 13, 1079-1091.
65. Whitchurch, C.B. and Mattick, J.S. (1994b) Escherichia coli contains a set of genes homologous to those involved in protein secretion, DNA uptake and the assembly of type-4 fimbriae in other bacteria. Gene 150, 9-15.