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Journal of Bacteriology, September 2001, p. 5082-5091, Vol. 183, No. 17
0021-9193/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JB.183.17.5082-5091.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

LcrG-LcrV Interaction Is Required for Control of Yops Secretion in Yersinia pestis

Jyl S. Matson and Matthew L. Nilles*

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota 58202

Received 9 March 2001/Accepted 12 June 2001

Yersinia pestis expresses a set of plasmid-encoded virulence proteins called Yops and LcrV that are secreted and translocated into eukaryotic cells by a type III secretion system. LcrV is a multifunctional protein with antihost and positive regulatory effects on Yops secretion that forms a stable complex with a negative regulatory protein, LcrG. LcrG has been proposed to block the secretion apparatus (Ysc) from the cytoplasmic face of the inner membrane under nonpermissive conditions for Yops secretion, when levels of LcrV in the cell are low. A model has been proposed to describe secretion control based on the relative levels of LcrG and LcrV in the bacterial cytoplasm. This model proposes that under secretion-permissive conditions, levels of LcrV are increased relative to levels of LcrG, so that the excess LcrV titrates LcrG away from the Ysc, allowing secretion of Yops to occur. To further test this model, a mutant LcrG protein that could no longer interact with LcrV was created. Expression of this LcrG variant blocked secretion of Yops and LcrV under secretion permissive conditions in vitro and in a tissue culture model. These results agree with the previously described secretion-blocking activity of LcrG and demonstrate that the interaction of LcrV with LcrG is necessary for controlling Yops secretion.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 58202. Phone: (701) 777-2750. Fax: (701) 772-2054. E-mail: mnilles{at}medicine.nodak.edu.

Journal of Bacteriology, September 2001, p. 5082-5091, Vol. 183, No. 17
0021-9193/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JB.183.17.5082-5091.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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