J 2018

Sequence Variation of Rare Outer Membrane Protein beta-Barrel Domains in Clinical Strains Provides Insights into the Evolution of Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum, the Syphilis Spirochete

KUMAR, Sanjiv), Melissa J. CAIMANO, Arvind ANAND, Abhishek DEY, Kelly L. HAWLEY et. al.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Sequence Variation of Rare Outer Membrane Protein beta-Barrel Domains in Clinical Strains Provides Insights into the Evolution of Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum, the Syphilis Spirochete

Autoři

KUMAR, Sanjiv) (840 Spojené státy), Melissa J. CAIMANO (840 Spojené státy), Arvind ANAND (840 Spojené státy), Abhishek DEY (840 Spojené státy), Kelly L. HAWLEY (840 Spojené státy), Morgan E. LEDOYT (840 Spojené státy), Carson J. LA VAKE (840 Spojené státy), Adriana R. CRUZ (170 Kolumbie), Lady G. RAMIREZ (170 Kolumbie), Lenka PAŠTĚKOVÁ (203 Česká republika, domácí), Irina BEZSONOVA (840 Spojené státy), David ŠMAJS (203 Česká republika, domácí), Juan C. SALAZAR (840 Spojené státy) a Justin D. RADOLF (840 Spojené státy, garant)

Vydání

MBIO, WASHINGTON, AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY, 2018, 2150-7511

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

10606 Microbiology

Stát vydavatele

Spojené státy

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 6.747

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14110/18:00101706

Organizační jednotka

Lékařská fakulta

UT WoS

000454748900021

Klíčová slova anglicky

Treponema pallidum; molecular subtyping; outer membrane proteins; spirochetes; syphilis

Štítky

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 19. 2. 2019 13:29, Soňa Böhmová

Anotace

V originále

In recent years, considerable progress has been made in topologically and functionally characterizing integral outer membrane proteins (OMPs) of Treponerna pallidum subspecies pallidum, the syphilis spirochete, and identifying its surface-exposed p-barrel domains. Extracellular loops in OMPs of Gram-negative bacteria are known to be highly variable. We examined the sequence diversity of beta-barrel-encoding regions of tprC, tprD, and bamA in 31 specimens from Cali, Colombia; San Francisco, California; and the Czech Republic and compared them to allelic variants in the 41 reference genomes in the NCBI database. To establish a phylogenetic framework, we used T. pallidum 0548 (tp0548) genotyping and tp0558 sequences to assign strains to the Nichols or SS14 clades. We found that (i) beta-barrels in clinical strains could be grouped according to allelic variants in T. pallidum subsp. pallidum reference genomes; (ii) for all three OMP loci, clinical strains within the Nichols or SS14 clades often harbored beta-barrel variants that differed from the Nichols and SS14 reference strains; and (iii) OMP variable regions often reside in predicted extracellular loops containing B-cell epitopes. On the basis of structural models, nonconservative amino acid substitutions in predicted transmembrane beta-strands of T. pallidum repeat C (TprC) and TprD2 could give rise to functional differences in their porin channels. OMP profiles of some clinical strains were mosaics of different reference strains and did not correlate with results from enhanced molecular typing. Our observations suggest that human host selection pressures drive T. pallidum subsp. pallidum OMP diversity and that genetic exchange contributes to the evolutionary biology of T. pallidum subsp. pallidum. They also set the stage for topology-based analysis of antibody responses to OMPs and help frame strategies for syphilis vaccine development. IMPORTANCE Despite recent progress characterizing outer membrane proteins (OMPs) of Treponema pallidum, little is known about how their surface-exposed, beta-barrel-forming domains vary among strains circulating within high-risk populations. In this study, sequences for the beta-barrel-encoding regions of three OMP loci, tprC, tprD, and bamA, in T. pallidum subsp. pallidum isolates from a large number of patient specimens from geographically disparate sites were examined. Structural models predict that sequence variation within beta-barrel domains occurs predominantly within predicted extracellular loops. Amino acid substitutions in predicted transmembrane strands that could potentially affect porin channel function were also noted. Our findings suggest that selection pressures exerted within human populations drive T. pallidum subsp. pallidum OMP diversity and that recombination at OMP loci contributes to the evolutionary biology of syphilis spirochetes. These results also set the stage for topology-based analysis of antibody responses that promote clearance of T. pallidum subsp. pallidum and frame strategies for vaccine development based upon conserved OMP extracellular loops.

Návaznosti

GA17-25455S, projekt VaV
Název: Studium genomů patogenních treponem na základě analýzy jednotlivých buněk
Investor: Grantová agentura ČR, Studium genomů patogenních treponem na základě analýzy jednotlivých buněk
NV17-31333A, projekt VaV
Název: Vývoj nového typovacího systému pro původce syfilis, Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum, zaměřeného na proteomické rozdíly