GW domains of the Listeria monocytogenes invasion protein InlB are SH3-like and mediate binding to host ligands.
InlB, a surface-localized protein of Listeria monocytogenes, induces phagocytosis in non-phagocytic mammalian cells by activating Met, a receptor tyrosine kinase. InlB also binds glycosaminoglycans and the protein gC1q-R, two additional host ligands implicated in invasion. We present the structure of InlB, revealing a highly elongated molecule with leucine-rich repeats that bind Met at one end, and GW domains that dissociably bind the bacterial surface at the other. Surprisingly, the GW domains are seen to resemble SH3 domains. Despite this, GW domains are unlikely to act as functional mimics of SH3 domains since their potential proline-binding sites are blocked or destroyed. However, we do show that the GW domains, in addition to binding glycosaminoglycans, bind gC1q-R specifically, and that this binding requires release of InlB from the bacterial surface. Dissociable attachment to the bacterial surface via the GW domains may be responsible for restricting Met activation to a small, localized area of the host cell and for coupling InlB-induced host membrane dynamics with bacterial proximity during invasion.
Marino
Michael
M
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla 92093-0314, USA.
Banerjee
Manidipa
M
Jonquières
Renaud
R
Cossart
Pascale
P
Ghosh
Partho
P
D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000502:physiology*; D008089:Listeria monocytogenes / Q000737:chemistry / Q000502:physiology*; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000502:physiology*; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011487:Protein Conformation; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D018909:src Homology Domains
D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D008565:Membrane Proteins; C095768:inlB protein, Listeria monocytogenes