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标题：A phage protein that inhibits the bacterial ATPase required for type IV pilus assembly
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作者：In-Young Chung ; Hye-Jeong Jang ; Hee-Won Bae 等
期刊名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0027-8424
电子版ISSN：1091-6490
出版年度：2014
卷号：111
期号：31
页码：11503-11508
DOI：10.1073/pnas.1403537111
语种：English
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：Type IV pili (TFPs) are required for bacterial twitching motility and for phage infection in the opportunistic human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Here we describe a phage-encoded protein, D3112 protein gp05 (hereafter referred to as Tip, representing twitching inhibitory protein), whose expression is necessary and sufficient to mediate the inhibition of twitching motility. Tip interacts with and blocks the activity of bacterial-encoded PilB, the TFP assembly/extension ATPase, at an internal 40-aa region unique to PilB. Tip expression results in the loss of surface piliation. Based on these observations and the fact that many P. aeruginosa phages require TFPs for infection, Tip-mediated twitching inhibition may represent a generalized strategy for superinfection exclusion. Moreover, because TFPs are required for full virulence, PilB may be an attractive target for the development of novel antiinfectives.
关键词：phage-host interaction ; protein–protein interaction ; lysogenic conversion ; antipathogenics