Localization of Outer Membrane Proteins inTreponema denticolaby Quantitative Proteome Analyses of Outer Membrane Vesicles and Cellular Fractions

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 1567-1581 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul D. Veith ◽  
Michelle D. Glew ◽  
Dhana G. Gorasia ◽  
Dina Chen ◽  
Neil M. O’Brien-Simpson ◽  
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2001 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darren J. Trott ◽  
David P. Alt ◽  
Richard L. Zuerner ◽  
Michael J. Wannemuehler ◽  
Thaddeus B. Stanton

AbstractLittle is known about the outer membrane structure ofBrachyspira hyodysenteriae and Brachyspira pilosicolior the role of outer membrane proteins (OMPs) in host colonization and the development of disease. The isolation of outer membrane vesicles fromB. hyodysenteriaehas confirmed that cholesterol is a significant outer membrane constituent and that it may impart unique characteristics to the lipid bilayer structure, including a reduced density. Unique proteins that have been identified in theB. hyodysenteriaeouter membrane include the variable surface proteins (Vsp) and lipoproteins such as SmpA and BmpB. While the function of these proteins remains to be determined, there is indirect evidence to suggest that they may be involved in immune evasion. These data may explain the ability of the organism to initiate chronic infection. OMPs may be responsible for the unique attachment ofB. pilosicolito colonic epithelial cells; however, the onlyB. pilosicoliOMPs that have been identified to date are involved in metabolism. In order to identify furtherB. pilosicoliOMPs we have isolated membrane vesicle fractions from porcine strain 95–1000 by osmotic lysis and isopycnic centrifugation. The fractions were free of contamination by cytoplasm and fla-gella and contained outer membrane. Inner membrane contamination was minimal but could not be completely excluded. An abundant 45-kDa, heat-modifiable protein was shown to have significant homology withB. hyodysenteriaeVsp, and monoclonal antibodies were produced that reacted with fiveB. pilosicoli-specificmembrane protein epitopes. The first of these proteins to be characterized is a unique surface-exposed lipoprotein.


2010 ◽  
Vol 79 (2) ◽  
pp. 887-894 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maneesha Muralinath ◽  
Meta J. Kuehn ◽  
Kenneth L. Roland ◽  
Roy Curtiss

ABSTRACTGram-negative bacteria produce outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) that serve a variety of functions related to survival and pathogenicity. Periplasmic and outer membrane proteins are naturally captured during vesicle formation. This property has been exploited as a method to derive immunogenic vesicle preparations for use as vaccines. In this work, we constructed aSalmonella entericaserovar Typhimurium strain that synthesized a derivative of the pneumococcal protein PspA engineered to be secreted into the periplasmic space. Vesicles isolated from this strain contained PspA in the lumen. Mice intranasally immunized with the vesicle preparation developed serum antibody responses against vesicle components that included PspA andSalmonella-derived lipopolysaccharide and outer membrane proteins, while no detectable responses developed in mice immunized with an equivalent dose of purified PspA. Mucosal IgA responses developed against theSalmonellacomponents, while the response to PspA was less apparent in most mice. Mice immunized with the vesicle preparation were completely protected against a 10× 50% lethal dose (LD50) challenge ofStreptococcus pneumoniaeand significantly protected against a 200× LD50challenge, while control mice immunized with purified PspA or empty vesicles were not protected. These results establish that vesicles can be used to mucosally deliver an antigen from a Gram-positive organism and induce a protective immune response.


2003 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 2032-2037 ◽  
Author(s):  
Puneet Khandelwal ◽  
Nirupama Banerjee-Bhatnagar

ABSTRACT Xenorhabdus nematophilus secretes a large number of proteins into the culture supernatant as soluble proteins and also as large molecular complexes associated with the outer membrane. Transmission electron micrographs of X. nematophilus cells showed that there was blebbing of the outer membrane from the surface of the bacterium. The naturally secreted outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) were purified from the culture supernatant of X. nematophilus and analyzed. Electron microscopy revealed a vesicular organization of the large molecular complexes, whose diameters varied from 20 to 100 nm. A sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis profile of the vesicles showed that in addition to outer membrane proteins, several other polypeptides were also present. The membrane vesicles contained lipopolysaccharide, which appeared to be of the smooth type. Live cells of X. nematophilus and the OMV proteins derived from them exhibited oral insecticidal activity against neonatal larvae of Helicoverpa armigera. The proteins present in the OMVs are apparently responsible for the biological activity of the OMVs. The soluble proteins left after removal of the OMVs and the outer membrane proteins also showed low levels of oral toxicity to H. armigera neonatal larvae. The OMV protein preparations were cytotoxic to Sf-21 cells in an in vitro assay. The OMV proteins showed chitinase activity. This is the first report showing toxicity of outer membrane blebs secreted by the insect pathogen X. nematophilus into the extracellular medium.


2012 ◽  
Vol 195 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aimee K. Wessel ◽  
Jean Liew ◽  
Taejoon Kwon ◽  
Edward M. Marcotte ◽  
Marvin Whiteley

ABSTRACTGram-negative bacteria produce outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) that package and deliver proteins, small molecules, and DNA to prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. The molecular details of OMV biogenesis have not been fully elucidated, but peptidoglycan-associated outer membrane proteins that tether the outer membrane to the underlying peptidoglycan have been shown to be critical for OMV formation in multipleEnterobacteriaceae. In this study, we demonstrate that the peptidoglycan-associated outer membrane proteins OprF and OprI, but not OprL, impact production of OMVs by the opportunistic pathogenPseudomonas aeruginosa. Interestingly, OprF does not appear to be important for tethering the outer membrane to peptidoglycan but instead impacts OMV formation through modulation of the levels of thePseudomonasquinolone signal (PQS), a quorum signal previously shown by our laboratory to be critical for OMV formation. Thus, the mechanism by which OprF impacts OMV formation is distinct from that for other peptidoglycan-associated outer membrane proteins, including OprI.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Daniel Avila-Calderón ◽  
María del Socorro Ruiz-Palma ◽  
Ma. Guadalupe Aguilera-Arreola ◽  
Norma Velázquez-Guadarrama ◽  
Enrico A. Ruiz ◽  
...  

Outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) from Gram-negative bacteria were first described more than 50 years ago. However, the molecular mechanisms involved in biogenesis began to be studied only in the last few decades. Presently, the biogenesis and molecular mechanisms for their release are not completely known. This review covers the most recent information on cellular components involved in OMV biogenesis, such as lipoproteins and outer membrane proteins, lipopolysaccharide, phospholipids, quorum-sensing molecules, and flagella.


2011 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 359-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Toledo ◽  
J. L. Coleman ◽  
C. J. Kuhlow ◽  
J. T. Crowley ◽  
J. L. Benach

ABSTRACTThe agent of Lyme disease,Borrelia burgdorferi, has a number of outer membrane proteins that are differentially regulated during its life cycle. In addition to their physiological functions in the organism, these proteins also likely serve different functions in invasiveness and immune evasion. In borreliae, as well as in other bacteria, a number of membrane proteins have been implicated in binding plasminogen. The activation and transformation of plasminogen into its proteolytically active form, plasmin, enhances the ability of the bacteria to disseminate in the host. Outer membrane vesicles ofB. burgdorfericontain enolase, a glycolytic-cycle enzyme that catalyzes 2-phosphoglycerate to form phosphoenolpyruvate, which is also a known plasminogen receptor in Gram-positive bacteria. The enolase was cloned, expressed, purified, and used to generate rabbit antienolase serum. The enolase binds plasminogen in a lysine-dependent manner but not through ionic interactions. Although it is present in the outer membrane, microscopy and proteinase K treatment showed that enolase does not appear to be exposed on the surface. However, enolase in the outer membrane vesicles is accessible to proteolytic degradation by proteinase K. Samples from experimentally and tick-infected mice and rabbits as well as from Lyme disease patients exhibit recognition of enolase in serologic assays. Thus, this immunogenic plasminogen receptor released in outer membrane vesicles could be responsible for external proteolysis in the pericellular environment and have roles in nutrition and in enhancing dissemination.


2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony W. Confer ◽  
Sahlu Ayalew

AbstractMannheimia haemolyticais the major cause of severe pneumonia in bovine respiratory disease (BRD). EarlyM. haemolyticabacterins were either ineffective or even enhanced disease in vaccinated cattle, which led to studies of the bacterium's virulence factors and potential immunogens to determine ways to improve vaccines. Studies have focused on the capsule, lipopolysaccharide, various adhesins, extracellular enzymes, outer membrane proteins, and leukotoxin (LKT) resulting in a strong database for understanding immune responses to the bacterium and production of more efficacious vaccines. The importance of immunity to LKT and to surface antigens in stimulating immunity led to studies of individual native or recombinant antigens, bacterial extracts, live-attenuated or mutant organisms, culture supernatants, combined bacterin-toxoids, outer membrane vesicles, and bacterial ghosts. Efficacy of several of these potential vaccines can be shown following experimentalM. haemolyticachallenge; however, efficacy in field trials is harder to determine due to the complexity of factors and etiologic agents involved in naturally occurring BRD. Studies of potential vaccines have led current commercial vaccines, which are composed primarily of culture supernatant, bacterin-toxoid, or live mutant bacteria. Several of those can be augmented experimentally by addition of recombinant LKT or outer membrane proteins.


1983 ◽  
Vol 216 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
S M Russell ◽  
R J Mayer

Reductively [3H]methylated 3H mitochondrial-outer-membrane vesicles from rat liver and vesicles where monoamine oxidase has been derivatized irreversibly by [3H]-pargyline have been deliberately miscompartmentalized by heterologous transplantation into hepatoma (HTC) cells by poly(ethylene glycol)-mediated vesicle-cell fusion. Fluorescein-conjugated mitochondrial-outer-membrane vesicles have also been used to show that transplanted material is patched, capped and internalized. Reductively methylated outer-membrane proteins and monoamine oxidase are destroyed at the same rate (t1/2 24 h). Mitochondrial-outer-membrane proteins are not degraded at the same rate as HTC plasma-membrane proteins, endogenous cell protein, or endocytosed protein. Transplanted radiolabelled mitochondrial-outer-membrane proteins accumulate intracellularly in structures that are distinct from plasma membrane and lysosomes. However, when mitochondrial-outer-membrane vesicles derivatized with [14C]sucrose are transplanted, the acid-soluble degradation products accumulate in the lysosomal fraction. [14C]Sucrose-conjugated HTC cell plasma membrane accumulates in intracellular structures that are again distinct from plasma membrane and lysosomes. In contrast with the above observations, homologously transplanted mitochondrial-outer-membrane proteins from rat liver are destroyed in hepatocytes at rates that are remarkably similar (t1/2 60-70 h) to the rates in rat liver in vivo [Evans & Mayer (1982) Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 107, 51-58].


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