DOI: 10.1128/jb.180.10.2711-2717.1998. Processed VirB2 Is the Major Subunit of the Promiscuous Pilus of <i>Agrobacterium tumefaciens</i>

Processed VirB2 Is the Major Subunit of the Promiscuous Pilus of Agrobacterium tumefaciens

10.1128/jb.180.10.2711-2717.1998

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Previous studies have implicated the obligatory requirement for the vir regulon (or “virulon”) of the Ti plasmid for the transfer of oncogenes from Agrobacterium tumefaciens to plant cells. The machinery used in this horizontal gene transfer has been long thought to be a transformation or conjugative delivery system. Based on recent protein sequence comparisons, the proteins encoded by the virB operon are strikingly similar to proteins involved in the synthesis and assembly of conjugative pili such as the conjugative pilus of F plasmid in Escherichia coli . The F pilus is composed of TraA pilin subunits derived from TraA propilin. In the present study, evidence is provided showing that the counterpart of TraA is VirB2, which like TraA propilin is processed into a 7.2-kDa product that comprises the pilus subunit as demonstrated by biochemical and electron microscopic analyses. The processed VirB2 protein is present exocellularly on medium on which induced A. tumefaciens had grown and appears as thin filaments of 10 nm that react specifically to VirB2 antibody. Exocellular VirB2 is produced abundantly at 19°C as compared with 28°C, an observation that parallels the effect of low temperature on the production of vir gene-specific pili observed previously (K. J. Fullner, L. C. Lara, and E. W. Nester, Science 273:1107–1109, 1996). Export of the processed VirB2 requires other virB genes since mutations in these genes cause the loss of VirB2 pilus formation and result in processed VirB2 accumulation in the cell. The presence of exocellular processed VirB2 is directly correlated with the formation of pili, and it appears as the major protein in the purified pilus preparation. The evidence provides a compelling argument for VirB2 as the propilin whose 7.2-kDa processed product is the pilin subunit of the promiscuous conjugative pilus, hereafter called the “T pilus” of A. tumefaciens.

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Lai, E.-M., & Kado, C. I. (1998). Processed VirB2 Is the Major Subunit of the Promiscuous Pilus of Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Journal of Bacteriology, 180(10), 2711â2717.

Authors 2

Erh-Min Lai (first)
Clarence I. Kado (additional)

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