The Enterococcus faecalis virulence factor ElrA interacts with the human Four-and-a-Half LIM Domains Protein 2.
Sci Rep
; 7(1): 4581, 2017 07 04.
Article
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-28676674
ABSTRACT
The commensal bacterium Enterococcus faecalis is a common cause of nosocomial infections worldwide. The increasing prevalence of multi-antibiotic resistant E. faecalis strains reinforces this public health concern. Despite numerous studies highlighting several pathology-related genetic traits, the molecular mechanisms of E. faecalis virulence remain poorly understood. In this work, we studied 23 bacterial proteins that could be considered as virulence factors or involved in the Enterococcus interaction with the host. We systematically tested their interactions with human proteins using the Human ORFeome library, a set of 12,212 human ORFs, in yeast. Among the thousands of tested interactions, one involving the E. faecalis virulence factor ElrA and the human protein FHL2 was evidenced by yeast two-hybrid and biochemically confirmed. Further molecular characterizations allowed defining an FHL2-interacting domain (FID) of ElrA. Deletion of the FID led to an attenuated in vivo phenotype of the mutated strain clearly indicating that this interaction is likely to contribute to the multifactorial virulence of this opportunistic pathogen. Altogether, our results show that FHL2 is the first host cellular protein directly targeted by an E. faecalis virulence factor and that this interaction is involved in Enterococcus pathogenicity.
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Assunto principal:
Proteínas de Bactérias
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Fatores de Transcrição
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Infecções por Bactérias Gram-Positivas
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Enterococcus faecalis
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Fatores de Virulência
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Interações Hospedeiro-Patógeno
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Proteínas com Homeodomínio LIM
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Proteínas Musculares
Tipo de estudo:
Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Animals
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Female
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Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Sci Rep
Ano de publicação:
2017
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
França