Haloferax volcanii cells lacking the flagellin FlgA2 are hypermotile

Microbiology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 159, Issue PART11, 2013, Pages 2249-2258

  Tripepi, Manuela ^a   Esquivel, Rianne N ^a   Wirth, Reinhard ^b   Pohlschröder, Mechthild ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLAGELLIN; FLGA2 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM MOTILITY; CELL MUTANT; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; MICROBIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA PURIFICATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STOP CODON; WESTERN BLOTTING;

DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FLAGELLA; FLAGELLIN; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; LOCOMOTION; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED;

EID: 84886661633     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: 14652080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.069617-0     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Alam, M. & Oesterhelt, D. (1984). Morphology, function and isolation of halobacterial flagella. J Mol Biol 176, 459-475.
2. Albers, S. V. & Pohlschröder, M. (2009). Diversity of archaeal type IV pilin-like structures. Extremophiles 13, 403-410.
3. Albers, S. V., Szabó, Z. & Driessen, A. J. (2003). Archaeal homolog of bacterial type IV prepilin signal peptidases with broad substrate specificity. J Bacteriol 185, 3918-3925.
4. Allers, T. & Ngo, H. P. (2003). Genetic analysis of homologous recombination in Archaea: Haloferax volcanii as a model organism. Biochem Soc Trans 31, 706-710.
5. Allers, T., Ngo, H. P., Mevarech, M. & Lloyd, R. G. (2004). Development of additional selectable markers for the halophilic archaeon Haloferax volcanii based on the leuB and trpA genes. Appl Environ Microbiol 70, 943-953.
6. Allers, T., Barak, S., Liddell, S., Wardell, K. & Mevarech, M. (2010). Improved strains and plasmid vectors for conditional overexpression of His-tagged proteins in Haloferax volcanii. Appl Environ Microbiol 76, 1759-1769.
7. Banerjee, A., Ghosh, A., Mills, D. J., Kahnt, J., Vonck, J. & Albers, S. V. (2012). FlaX, a unique component of the crenarchaeal archaellum, forms oligomeric ring-shaped structures and interacts with the motor ATPase FlaI. J Biol Chem 287, 43322-43330.
8. Bardy, S. L. & Jarrell, K. F. (2002). FlaK of the archaeon Methanococcus maripaludis possesses preflagellin peptidase activity. FEMS Microbiol Lett 208, 53-59.
9. Bardy, S. L. & Jarrell, K. F. (2003). Cleavage of preflagellins by an aspartic acid signal peptidase is essential for flagellation in the archaeon Methanococcus voltae. Mol Microbiol 50, 1339-1347.
10. Bardy, S. L., Mori, T., Komoriya, K., Aizawa, S. & Jarrell, K. F. (2002). Identification and localization of flagellins FlaA and FlaB3 within flagella of Methanococcus voltae. J Bacteriol 184, 5223-5233.
11. Berg, H. C. (2003). The rotary motor of bacterial flagella. Annu Rev Biochem 72, 19-54.
12. Beznosov, S. N., Piatibratov, M. G. & Fedorov, O. V. (2007). [Multicomponent nature of Halobacterium salinarum flagella]. Mikrobiologiia 76, 494-501 (in Russian).
13. Blattner, F. R., Williams, B. G., Blechl, A. E., Denniston-Thompson, K., Faber, H. E., Furlong, L., Grunwald, D. J., Kiefer, D. O., Moore, D. D. & other authors (1977). Charon phages: safer derivatives of bacteriophage lambda for DNA cloning. Science 196, 161-169.
14. Blyn, L. B., Braaten, B. A. & Low, D. A. (1990). Regulation of pap pilin phase variation by a mechanism involving differential dam methylation states. EMBO J 9, 4045-4054.
15. Chaban, B., Ng, S. Y., Kanbe, M., Saltzman, I., Nimmo, G., Aizawa, S. & Jarrell, K. F. (2007). Systematic deletion analyses of the fla genes in the flagella operon identify several genes essential for proper assembly and function of flagella in the archaeon, Methanococcus maripaludis. Mol Microbiol 66, 596-609.
16. Cohen-Krausz, S. & Trachtenberg, S. (2008). The flagellar filament structure of the extreme acidothermophile Sulfolobus shibatae B12 suggests that archaeabacterial flagella have a unique and common symmetry and design. J Mol Biol 375, 1113-1124.
17. Craig, L., Volkmann, N., Arvai, A. S., Pique, M. E., Yeager, M., Egelman, E. H. & Tainer, J. A. (2006). Type IV pilus structure by cryoelectron microscopy and crystallography: implications for pilus assembly and functions. Mol Cell 23, 651-662.
18. Durand, E., Michel, G., Voulhoux, R., Kürner, J., Bernadac, A. & Filloux, A. (2005). XcpX controls biogenesis of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa XcpT-containing pseudopilus. J Biol Chem 280, 31378-31389.
19. Dyall-Smith, M. (2008). The Halohandbook: Protocols for Haloarchaeal Genetics. http://www.haloarchaea.com/resources/halohandbook/ Halohandbook_2008_v7.pdf.
20. Fedorov, O. V., Pyatibratov, M. G., Kostyukova, A. S., Osina, N. K. & Tarasov, V. Y. (1994). Protofilament as a structural element of flagella of haloalkalophilic archaebacteria. Can J Microbiol 40, 45-53.
21. Ghosh, A. & Albers, S. V. (2011). Assembly and function of the archaeal flagellum. Biochem Soc Trans 39, 64-69.
22. Ghosh, A., Hartung, S., van der Does, C., Tainer, J. A. & Albers, S. V. (2011). Archaeal flagellar ATPase motor shows ATP-dependent hexameric assembly and activity stimulation by specific lipid binding. Biochem J 437, 43-52.
23. Giltner, C. L., Habash, M. & Burrows, L. L. (2010). Pseudomonas aeruginosa minor pilins are incorporated into type IV pili. J Mol Biol 398, 444-461.
24. Giltner, C. L., Nguyen, Y. & Burrows, L. L. (2012). Type IV pilin proteins: versatile molecular modules. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 76, 740-772.
25. Hammelmann, M. & Soppa, J. (2008). Optimized generation of vectors for the construction of Haloferax volcanii deletion mutants. J Microbiol Methods 75, 201-204.
26. Herzog, B. & Wirth, R. (2012). Swimming behavior of selected species of Archaea. Appl Environ Microbiol 78, 1670-1674.
27. Jarrell, K. F. & Albers, S. V. (2012). The archaellum: an old motility structure with a new name. Trends Microbiol 20, 307-312.
28. Jarrell, K. F. & Koval, S. F. (1989). Ultrastructure and biochemistry of Methanococcus voltae. Crit Rev Microbiol 17, 53-87.
29. Jarrell, K. F. & McBride, M. J. (2008). The surprisingly diverse ways that prokaryotes move. Nat Rev Microbiol 6, 466-476.
30. Jarrell, K. F., Bayley, D. P., Florian, V. & Klein, A. (1996). Isolation and characterization of insertional mutations in flagellin genes in the archaeon Methanococcus voltae. Mol Microbiol 20, 657-666.
31. Jones, C. J. & Aizawa, S. (1991). The bacterial flagellum and flagellar motor: structure, assembly and function. AdvMicrob Physiol 32, 109-172.
32. Lassak, K., Ghosh, A. & Albers, S. V. (2012a). Diversity, assembly and regulation of archaeal type IV pili-like and non-type-IV pili-like surface structures. Res Microbiol 163, 630-644.
33. Lassak, K., Neiner, T., Ghosh, A., Klingl, A., Wirth, R. & Albers, S. V. (2012b). Molecular analysis of the crenarchaeal flagellum. Mol Microbiol 83, 110-124.
34. Marwan, W., Alam, M. & Oesterhelt, D. (1991). Rotation and switching of the flagellar motor assembly in Halobacterium halobium. J Bacteriol 173, 1971-1977.
35. Ng, S. Y., Zolghadr, B., Driessen, A. J., Albers, S. V. & Jarrell, K. F. (2008). Cell surface structures of archaea. J Bacteriol 190, 6039-6047.
36. Pohlschroder, M., Ghosh, A., Tripepi, M. & Albers, S. V. (2011). Archaeal type IV pilus-like structures-evolutionarily conserved prokaryotic surface organelles. Curr Opin Microbiol 14, 357-363.
37. Reindl, S., Ghosh, A., Williams, G. J., Lassak, K., Neiner, T., Henche, A. L., Albers, S. V. & Tainer, J. A. (2013). Insights into FlaI functions in archaeal motor assembly and motility from structures, conformations, and genetics. Mol Cell 49, 1069-1082.
38. Senesi, S., Ghelardi, E., Celandroni, F., Salvetti, S., Parisio, E. & Galizzi, A. (2004). Surface-associated flagellum formation and swarming differentiation in Bacillus subtilis are controlled by the ifm locus. J Bacteriol 186, 1158-1164.
39. Siutkin, A. S., Piatibratov, M. G., Beznosov, S. N. & Fedorov, O. V. (2012). [Various mechanisms of flagella helicity formation in Haloarchaea]. Mikrobiologiia 81, 620-629 (in Russian) Medline
40. Soppa, J., Baumann, A., Brenneis, M., Dambeck, M., Hering, O. & Lange, C. (2008). Genomics and functional genomics with Haloarchaea. Arch Microbiol 190, 197-215.
41. Streif, S., Staudinger, W. F., Marwan, W. & Oesterhelt, D. (2008). Flagellar rotation in the archaeon Halobacterium salinarum depends on ATP. J Mol Biol 384, 1-8.
42. Szabó, Z., Stahl, A. O., Albers, S. V., Kissinger, J. C., Driessen, A. J. & Pohlschröder, M. (2007). Identification of diverse archaeal proteins with class III signal peptides cleaved by distinct archaeal prepilin peptidases. J Bacteriol 189, 772-778.
43. Tarasov, V. Y., Pyatibratov, M. G., Tang, S. L., Dyall-Smith, M. & Fedorov, O. V. (2000). Role of flagellins from A and B loci in flagella formation of Halobacterium salinarum. Mol Microbiol 35, 69-78.
44. Thomas, N. A. & Jarrell, K. F. (2001). Characterization of flagellum gene families of methanogenic archaea and localization of novel flagellum accessory proteins. J Bacteriol 183, 7154-7164.
45. Thomas, N. A., Bardy, S. L. & Jarrell, K. F. (2001). The archaeal flagellum: a different kind of prokaryotic motility structure. FEMS Microbiol Rev 25, 147-174.
46. Trachtenberg, S. & Cohen-Krausz, S. (2006). The archaeabacterial flagellar filament: a bacterial propeller with a pilus-like structure. J Mol Microbiol Biotechnol 11, 208-220.
47. Tripepi, M., Imam, S. & Pohlschröder, M. (2010). Haloferax volcanii flagella are required for motility but are not involved in PibDdependent surface adhesion. J Bacteriol 192, 3093-3102.
48. Tripepi, M., You, J., Temel, S., Önder, O., Brisson, D. & Pohlschröder, M. (2012). N-glycosylation of Haloferax volcanii flagellins requires known Agl proteins and is essential for biosynthesis of stable flagella. J Bacteriol 194, 4876-4887.
49. Wirth, R. (2012). Response to Jarrell and Albers: seven letters less does not say more. Trends Microbiol 20, 511-512.
50. Yanisch-Perron, C., Vieira, J. & Messing, J. (1985). Improved M13 phage cloning vectors and host strains: nucleotide sequences of the M13mp18 and pUC19 vectors. Gene 33, 103-119.