Abstract:
:CTXphi is a filamentous bacteriophage that encodes cholera toxin. CTXphi infection of its host bacterium, Vibrio cholerae, requires the toxin-coregulated pilus (TCP) and the products of the V. cholerae tolQRA genes. Here, we have explored the role of OrfU, a predicted CTXphi minor coat protein, in CTXphi infection. Prior to the discovery that it was part of a prophage, orfU was initially described as an open reading frame of unknown function that lacked similarity to known protein sequences. Based on its size and position in the CTXphi genome, we hypothesized that OrfU may function in a manner similar to that of the coliphage fd protein pIII and mediate CTXphi infection as well as playing a role in CTXphi assembly and release. Deletion of orfU from CTXphi dramatically reduced the number of CTXphi virions detected in supernatants from CTXphi-bearing cells. This defect was complemented by expression of orfU in trans, thereby confirming a role for this gene in CTXphi assembly and/or release. To evaluate the requirement for OrfU in CTXphi infection, we introduced fragments of orfU into gIII in an fd derivative to create OrfU-pIII fusions. While fd is ordinarily unable to infect V. cholerae, an fd phage displaying the N-terminal 274 amino acids of OrfU could infect V. cholerae in a TCP- and TolA-dependent fashion. Since our findings indicate that OrfU functions as the CTXphi pIII, we propose to rename OrfU as pIII(CTX). Our data also provide new evidence for a conserved pathway for filamentous phage infection.
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J Bacterioljournal_title
Journal of bacteriologyauthors
Heilpern AJ,Waldor MKdoi
10.1128/jb.185.3.1037-1044.2003keywords:
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2003-02-01 00:00:00pages
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0021-9193issn
1098-5530journal_volume
185pub_type
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