U.S. Army DEVCOM Chemical Biological Center, BioSciences Division, BioChemistry Branch, Aberdeen Proving Ground, United States.
Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, Oak Ridge, United States.
Elife. 2021 Oct 13;10:e60049. doi: 10.7554/eLife.60049.
Bin/Amphiphysin/RVS (BAR) domain proteins belong to a superfamily of coiled-coil proteins influencing membrane curvature in eukaryotes and are associated with vesicle biogenesis, vesicle-mediated protein trafficking, and intracellular signaling. Here, we report a bacterial protein with BAR domain-like activity, BdpA, from MR-1, known to produce redox-active membrane vesicles and micrometer-scale outer membrane extensions (OMEs). BdpA is required for uniform size distribution of membrane vesicles and influences scaffolding of OMEs into a consistent diameter and curvature. Cryo-TEM reveals that a strain lacking BdpA produces lobed, disordered OMEs rather than membrane tubules or narrow chains produced by the wild-type strain. Overexpression of BdpA promotes OME formation during planktonic growth of where they are not typically observed. Heterologous expression results in OME production in and . Based on the ability of BdpA to alter membrane architecture in vivo, we propose that BdpA and its homologs comprise a newly identified class of bacterial BAR domain-like proteins.
Bin/Amphiphysin/RVS (BAR) 结构域蛋白属于卷曲螺旋蛋白超家族,影响真核生物的膜曲率,与囊泡发生、囊泡介导的蛋白质运输和细胞内信号转导有关。在这里,我们报告了一种来自 MR-1 的具有 BAR 结构域样活性的细菌蛋白 BdpA,MR-1 已知会产生氧化还原活性的膜囊泡和微米尺度的外膜延伸(OME)。BdpA 是膜囊泡大小均匀分布所必需的,并影响 OME 成束到一致的直径和曲率。低温透射电镜显示,缺乏 BdpA 的菌株产生的是有叶的、无序的 OME,而不是野生型菌株产生的管状或窄链状囊泡。BdpA 的过表达促进了浮游生长过程中 OME 的形成,而在浮游生长中通常不会观察到 OME。异源表达导致 和 中产生 OME。基于 BdpA 在体内改变膜结构的能力,我们提出 BdpA 及其同源物构成了一个新发现的细菌 BAR 结构域样蛋白家族。