Disorder-to-order transition in PE-PPE proteins of Mycobacterium tuberculosis augments the pro-pathogen immune response.
FEBS Open Bio
; 10(1): 70-85, 2020 01.
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| ID: mdl-31643141
ABSTRACT
A growing body of evidence supports the hypothesis that intrinsically disordered proteins often mediate host-pathogen interactions and modulate host functions for pathogen survival and virulence. Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb) has evolved largely through reductive evolution, with a few exceptions such as the glycine-alanine-rich PE-PPE/PGRS protein family, which has been expanding in pathogenic mycobacteria. Here, our analyses of the M.tb proteome and secretome revealed that the PE-PGRS subfamily is enriched for disordered regions and disordered binding sites, pointing to their importance in host-pathogen interactions. As a case study, the secondary structure of PE35-PPE68 and PE32-PPE65 of the pathogenesis-related RD1 and RD8 regions was analyzed through Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy. These disordered proteins displayed a considerable structural shift from disordered to ordered while engaged in the formation of complexes. While these proteins are immunogenic individually and enhance the pro-pathogen response, their corresponding complexes enhanced the responses manifold as displayed here by PE35 and PPE68. It is likely that M.tb exploits such disorder-order structural dynamics as a strategy to mount a pro-pathogen response and subvert host defense for productive infection. This functional gain also serves as a means to compensate genomic content loss due to reductive evolution.
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Bacterial Proteins
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Proline
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Glutamic Acid
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis
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Animals
Language:
En
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FEBS Open Bio
Year:
2020
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Article
Affiliation country:
India