Department of Microbiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Gifu University, Gifu 501-1194, Japan.
Center for Highly Advanced Integration of Nano and Life Sciences, Gifu University, Gifu 501-1194, Japan.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 Jun 7;119(23):e2122872119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2122872119. Epub 2022 Jun 2.
Adenosine diphosphate (ADP) ribosylation is a reversible posttranslational modification involved in the regulation of numerous cellular processes. Prototype ADP ribosyltransferases (ARTs) from many pathogenic bacteria are known to function as toxins, while other bacterial ARTs have just recently emerged. Recent studies have shown that bacteria also possess enzymes that function as poly-ADP ribose (ADPr) glycohydrolases (PARGs), which reverse poly-ADP ribosylation. However, how bacteria manipulate host target proteins by coordinated reactions of ARTs and ADPr hydrolases (ARHs) remains elusive. The intracellular bacterial pathogen Legionella pneumophila, the causative agent of Legionnaires’ disease, transports a large array of effector proteins via the Dot/Icm type IV secretion system to host cells. The effector proteins, which mostly function as enzymes, modulate host cellular processes for the bacteria’s benefit. In this study, we identified a pair of L. pneumophila effector proteins, Lpg0080 and Lpg0081, which function as an ART and an ARH, respectively. The two proteins were shown to coordinately modulate mitochondrial ADP/adenosine triphosphate (ATP) translocases (ANTs) by their enzymatic activities to conjugate ADPr to, and remove it from, a key arginine residue. The crystal structures of Lpg0081 and the Lpg0081:ADPr complex indicated that Lpg0081 is a macroD-type ARH with a noncanonical macrodomain, whose folding topology is strikingly distinct from that of the canonical macrodomain that is ubiquitously found in eukaryotic PARGs and ARHs. Our results illustrate that L. pneumophila has acquired an effector pair that coordinately manipulate mitochondrial activity via reversible chemical modification of ANTs.
二磷酸腺苷(ADP)核糖基化是一种参与调节许多细胞过程的可逆翻译后修饰。许多致病细菌的原型 ADP 核糖基转移酶(ARTs)已知作为毒素发挥作用,而其他细菌的 ART 则刚刚出现。最近的研究表明,细菌还拥有作为聚 ADP 核糖(ADPr)糖基水解酶(PARGs)的酶,它们可以逆转聚 ADP 核糖基化。然而,细菌如何通过 ART 和 ADPr 水解酶(ARHs)的协调反应来操纵宿主靶蛋白仍然难以捉摸。细胞内细菌病原体嗜肺军团菌是军团病的病原体,通过 Dot/Icm 型 IV 型分泌系统将大量效应蛋白输送到宿主细胞。这些效应蛋白主要作为酶发挥作用,调节宿主细胞过程以利于细菌。在这项研究中,我们鉴定了一对嗜肺军团菌效应蛋白 Lpg0080 和 Lpg0081,它们分别作为 ART 和 ARH 发挥作用。这两种蛋白被证明通过其酶活性协同调节线粒体 ADP/三磷酸腺苷(ATP)转运蛋白(ANTs),将 ADPr 缀合到关键精氨酸残基上,并将其从该残基上移除。Lpg0081 和 Lpg0081:ADPr 复合物的晶体结构表明,Lpg0081 是一种具有非典型宏结构域的宏 D 型 ARH,其折叠拓扑结构与普遍存在于真核 PARGs 和 ARHs 中的典型宏结构域明显不同。我们的结果表明,嗜肺军团菌已经获得了一对效应蛋白,通过对 ANTs 的可逆化学修饰来协调地操纵线粒体活性。