Agrobacterium tumefaciens VirB6 domains direct the ordered export of a DNA substrate through a type IV secretion System

Journal of Molecular Biology
Simon J JakubowskiP J Christie

Abstract

The Agrobacterium tumefaciens VirB/D4 type IV secretion system (T4SS) translocates DNA and protein substrates across the bacterial cell envelope. Six presumptive channel subunits of this T4SS (VirD4, VirBll, VirB6, VirB8, VirB2, and VirB9) form close contacts with the VirD2-T-strand transfer intermediate during export, as shown recently by a novel transfer DNA immunoprecipitation (TrIP) assay. Here, we characterize the contribution of the hydrophobic channel component VirB6 to substrate translocation. Results of reporter protein fusion and cysteine accessibility studies support a model for VirB6 as a polytopic membrane protein with a periplasmic N terminus, five transmembrane segments, and a cytoplasmic C terminus. TrIP studies aimed at characterizing the effects of VirB6 insertion and deletion mutations on substrate translocation identified several VirB6 functional domains: (i) a central region composed of a large periplasmic loop (P2) (residues 84 to 165) mediates the interaction of VirB6 with the exiting T-strand; (ii) a multi-membrane-spanning region carboxyl-terminal to loop P2 (residues 165 to 245) is required for substrate transfer from VirB6 to the bitopic membrane subunit VirB8; and (iii) the two terminal regions (resi...Continue Reading

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