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Journal of Bacteriology, August 2008, p. 5597-5606, Vol. 190, No. 16
0021-9193/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JB.00587-08
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Extracellular Loops of Lipid A 3-O-Deacylase PagL Are Involved in Recognition of Aminoarabinose-Based Membrane Modifications in Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium{triangledown}

Takayuki Manabe and Kiyoshi Kawasaki*

Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Doshisha Women's College, Kyotanabe, Kyoto 610-0395, Japan

Received 29 April 2008/ Accepted 12 June 2008

Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium modifies its lipopolysaccharide (LPS), including the lipid A portion, in response to changes in its environment including host tissues. The lipid A 3-O-deacylase PagL, the expression of which is promoted under a host-mimetic environment, exhibits latency in S. enterica; deacylation of lipid A is not usually observed in vivo, despite the expression of the outer membrane protein PagL. In contrast, PagL does not exhibit latency in S. enterica pmrA and pmrE mutants, both of which are deficient in the aminoarabinose-based modification of lipid A, indicating that aminoarabinose-modified LPS species were involved in the latency. In order to analyze the machinery for PagL's repression, we generated PagL mutants in which an amino acid residue located at four extracellular loops was replaced with alanine. Apparent lipid A 3-O deacylation was observed in S. enterica expressing the recombinant mutants PagL(R43A), PagL(R44A), PagL(C85A), and PagL(R135A), but not in S. enterica expressing wild-type PagL, suggesting that the point mutations released PagL from the latency. In addition, mutations at Arg-43, Arg-44, Cys-85, and Arg-135 did not affect lipid A 3-O-deacylase activity in an S. enterica pmrA mutant or in Escherichia coli BL21(DE3). These results, taken together, indicate that specific amino acid residues located at extracellular loops of PagL are involved in the recognition of aminoarabinose-modified LPS. Furthermore, S. enterica expressing the recombinant PagL(R43A) or PagL(R135A) mutant showed apparent growth arrest at 43°C compared with S. enterica expressing wild-type PagL, indicating that the latency of PagL is important for bacterial growth.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Doshisha Women's College, Kodo, Kyotanabe, Kyoto 610-0395, Japan. Phone: 81-774-65-8588. Fax: 81-774-65-8585. E-mail: kkawasak{at}dwc.doshisha.ac.jp

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 20 June 2008.

Journal of Bacteriology, August 2008, p. 5597-5606, Vol. 190, No. 16
0021-9193/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JB.00587-08
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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