Analysis of Shiga toxin subunit association by using hybrid A polypeptides and site-specific mutagenesis.

Abstract:

:Shiga toxin (STX), a bacterial toxin produced by Shigella dysenteriae type 1, is a hexamer composed of five receptor-binding B subunits which encircle an alpha-helix at the carboxyl terminus of the enzymatic A polypeptide. Hybrid toxins constructed by fusing the A polypeptide sequences of STX and Shiga-like toxin type II were used to confirm that the carboxyl terminus of the A subunits governs association with the B pentamers. The alpha-helix of the 293-amino-acid STX A subunit contains nine residues (serine 279 to methionine 287) which penetrate the nonpolar pore of the B-subunit pentamer. Site-directed mutagenesis was used to establish the involvement of two residues bordering this alpha-helix, aspartic acid 278 and arginine 288, in coupling the C terminus of StxA to the B pentamer. Amino acid substitutions at StxB residues arginine 33 and tryptophan 34, which are on the membrane-contacting surface of the pentamer, reduced cytotoxicity without affecting holotoxin formation. Although these B-subunit mutations did not involve receptor-binding residues, they may have induced an electrostatic repulsion between the holotoxin and the mammalian cell membrane or disrupted cytoplasmic translocation.

journal_name

J Bacteriol

journal_title

Journal of bacteriology

authors

Jemal C,Haddad JE,Begum D,Jackson MP

doi

10.1128/jb.177.11.3128-3132.1995

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1995-06-01 00:00:00

pages

3128-32

issue

11

eissn

0021-9193

issn

1098-5530

journal_volume

177

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