TY - JOUR
T1 - A unique network of attack, defence and competence on the outer membrane of the periodontitis pathogen Tannerella forsythia
AU - Książek, Mirosław
AU - Goulas, Theodoros
AU - Mizgalska, Danuta
AU - Rodríguez-Banqueri, Arturo
AU - Eckhard, Ulrich
AU - Veillard, Florian
AU - Waligórska, Irena
AU - Benedyk-Machaczka, Małgorzata
AU - Sochaj-Gregorczyk, Alicja M.
AU - Madej, Mariusz
AU - Thøgersen, Ida B.
AU - Enghild, Jan J.
AU - Cuppari, Anna
AU - Arolas, Joan L.
AU - de Diego, Iñaki
AU - López-Pelegrín, Mar
AU - Garcia-Ferrer, Irene
AU - Guevara, Tibisay
AU - Dive, Vincent
AU - Zani, Marie Louise
AU - Moreau, Thierry
AU - Potempa, Jan
AU - Gomis-Rüth, F. Xavier
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank Laura Company, Xandra Kreplin and Joan Pous from the joint IBMB/IRB Automated Crystallography Platform and the Protein Purification Service for assistance during purification, crystallization and SEC-MALLS experiments. The authors also thank the ESRF and ALBA synchrotrons for beamtime and the beamline staff for assistance during diffraction data collection and Dr Ashu Sharma (University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA) for providing rabbit antiserum against the BspA protein of T. forsythia. This study was supported in part by grants from Polish (National Science Centre and Ministry of Science and Higher Education), US (NIH/NIDR), Spanish, Danish and Catalan public and private bodies (grant/fellowship references PID2019-107725RG-I00 and PDC2022-133344-I00 by MICIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033, 2017SGR3, 2016/21/B/NZ1/00292, 1306/MOB/IV/2015/0, 2019/35/B/NZ1/03118, DE026280, Fundació “La Marató de TV3” 201815, and Novo Nordisk Foundation grant NNF18OC0032724). The authors thank Richard M. Twyman for editing the manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The Royal Society of Chemistry.
PY - 2023/1
Y1 - 2023/1
N2 - Periodontopathogenic Tannerella forsythia uniquely secretes six peptidases of disparate catalytic classes and families that operate as virulence factors during infection of the gums, the KLIKK-peptidases. Their coding genes are immediately downstream of novel ORFs encoding the 98-132 residue potempins (Pot) A, B1, B2, C, D and E. These are outer-membrane-anchored lipoproteins that specifically and potently inhibit the respective downstream peptidase through stable complexes that protect the outer membrane of T. forsythia, as shown in vivo. Remarkably, PotA also contributes to bacterial fitness in vivo and specifically inhibits matrix metallopeptidase (MMP) 12, a major defence component of oral macrophages, thus featuring a novel and highly-specific physiological MMP inhibitor. Information from 11 structures and high-confidence homology models showed that the potempins are distinct ß-barrels with either a five-stranded OB-fold (PotA, PotC and PotD) or an eight-stranded up-and-down fold (PotE, PotB1 and PotB2), which are novel for peptidase inhibitors. Particular loops insert like wedges into the active-site cleft of the genetically-linked peptidases to specifically block them either via a new “bilobal” or the classic “standard” mechanism of inhibition. These results discover a unique, tightly-regulated proteolytic armamentarium for virulence and competence, the KLIKK-peptidase/potempin system.
AB - Periodontopathogenic Tannerella forsythia uniquely secretes six peptidases of disparate catalytic classes and families that operate as virulence factors during infection of the gums, the KLIKK-peptidases. Their coding genes are immediately downstream of novel ORFs encoding the 98-132 residue potempins (Pot) A, B1, B2, C, D and E. These are outer-membrane-anchored lipoproteins that specifically and potently inhibit the respective downstream peptidase through stable complexes that protect the outer membrane of T. forsythia, as shown in vivo. Remarkably, PotA also contributes to bacterial fitness in vivo and specifically inhibits matrix metallopeptidase (MMP) 12, a major defence component of oral macrophages, thus featuring a novel and highly-specific physiological MMP inhibitor. Information from 11 structures and high-confidence homology models showed that the potempins are distinct ß-barrels with either a five-stranded OB-fold (PotA, PotC and PotD) or an eight-stranded up-and-down fold (PotE, PotB1 and PotB2), which are novel for peptidase inhibitors. Particular loops insert like wedges into the active-site cleft of the genetically-linked peptidases to specifically block them either via a new “bilobal” or the classic “standard” mechanism of inhibition. These results discover a unique, tightly-regulated proteolytic armamentarium for virulence and competence, the KLIKK-peptidase/potempin system.
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U2 - 10.1039/d2sc04166a
DO - 10.1039/d2sc04166a
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 36755705
AN - SCOPUS:85145923124
SN - 2041-6520
VL - 14
SP - 869
EP - 888
JO - Chemical Science
JF - Chemical Science
IS - 4
ER -