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Redundancy and specificity of multiple Trigger Factor chaperones in Desulfitobacteria

Maillard, Julien  
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Genevaux, Pierre
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Holliger, Christof  
2011
Microbiology

The ribosome-bound Trigger Factor (TF) chaperone assists folding of newly synthesized polypeptides and participates in the assembly of macromolecular complexes. In the present study we showed that multiple distinct TF paralogues are present in genomes of Desulfitobacteria, a bacterial genus known for its ability to grow upon organohalide respiration. Two full-length TF chaperones and at least one truncated TF (lacking the N-terminal ribosome-binding domain) were identified, the latter being systematically linked to clusters of reductive dehalogenase genes encoding the key enzymes in organohalide respiration. Using a well characterized heterologous chaperone-deficient E. coli strain lacking both TF and DnaK chaperones, we demonstrated that all three TF chaperones were functional in vivo, as judged by their ability to partially suppress bacterial growth defect and protein aggregation in the absence of both major E. coli chaperones. Next, we found that the N-terminal truncated TF-like protein PceT functions as a dedicated chaperone for the cognate reductive dehalogenase PceA by solubilizing and stabilizing it in the heterologous system. Finally we showed that PceT specifically interacts with the twin-arginine signal peptide of PceA. Taken together, our data defines PceT (and more generally the new RdhT family) as a class of TF-like chaperones involved in the maturation of proteins secreted by the Twin-arginine translocation pathway.

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research article
DOI
10.1099/mic.0.050880-0
Web of Science ID

WOS:000294396100023

Author(s)
Maillard, Julien  
Genevaux, Pierre
Holliger, Christof  
Date Issued

2011

Published in
Microbiology
Volume

157

Start page

2410

End page

2421

Subjects

Tetrachloroethene Reductive Dehalogenase

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Newly Synthesized Proteins

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Escherichia-Coli K-12

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C-Terminal Domain

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Translating Ribosomes

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Low-Temperatures

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Gene-Cluster

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Strain Y51

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In-Vivo

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Binding

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REVIEWED

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July 5, 2011
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