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Methylation of Salmonella Typhimurium flagella promotes bacterial adhesion and host cell invasion

ABSTRACT: The long external filament of bacterial flagella is composed of several thousand copies of a single protein, flagellin. Here, we explore the role played by lysine methylation of flagellin in Salmonella, which requires the methylase FliB. We show that both flagellins of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, FliC and FljB, are methylated at surface-exposed lysine residues by FliB. A Salmonella Typhimurium mutant deficient in flagellin methylation is outcompeted for gut colonization in a gastroenteritis mouse model, and methylation of flagellin promotes bacterial invasion of epithelial cells in vitro. Lysine methylation increases the surface hydrophobicity of flagellin and enhances flagella-dependent adhesion of Salmonella to phosphatidylcholine vesicles and epithelial cells.

INSTRUMENT(S): Q Exactive

ORGANISM(S): Salmonella Enterica Subsp. Enterica Serovar Typhimurium Str. Sl1344

SUBMITTER: Christoph Krisp

LAB HEAD: Marc Erhardt

PROVIDER: PXD017935 | Pride | 2020-04-27

REPOSITORIES: Pride

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Methylation of Salmonella Typhimurium flagella promotes bacterial adhesion and host cell invasion.

Horstmann Julia A JA Lunelli Michele M Cazzola Hélène H Heidemann Johannes J Kühne Caroline C Steffen Pascal P Szefs Sandra S Rossi Claire C Lokareddy Ravi K RK Wang Chu C Lemaire Laurine L Hughes Kelly T KT Uetrecht Charlotte C Schlüter Hartmut H Grassl Guntram A GA Stradal Theresia E B TEB Rossez Yannick Y Kolbe Michael M Erhardt Marc M

Nature communications 20200424 1

The long external filament of bacterial flagella is composed of several thousand copies of a single protein, flagellin. Here, we explore the role played by lysine methylation of flagellin in Salmonella, which requires the methylase FliB. We show that both flagellins of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, FliC and FljB, are methylated at surface-exposed lysine residues by FliB. A Salmonella Typhimurium mutant deficient in flagellin methylation is outcompeted for gut colonization in a gastroe ...[more]

PMID: 32332720

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Methylation of Salmonella Typhimurium flagella promotes bacterial adhesion and host cell invasion

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Methylation of Salmonella Typhimurium flagella promotes bacterial adhesion and host cell invasion.

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