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Shigella applies molecular mimicry to subvert vinculin and invade host cells
Correspondence to Tina Izard: tina.izard{at}stjude.org
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Shigella flexneri, the causative agent of bacillary dysentery, injects invasin proteins through a type III secretion apparatus upon contacting the host cell, which triggers pathogen internalization. The invasin IpaA is essential for S. flexneri pathogenesis and binds to the cytoskeletal protein vinculin to facilitate host cell entry. We report that IpaA harbors two vinculin-binding sites (VBSs) within its C-terminal domain that bind to and activate vinculin in a mutually exclusive fashion. Only the highest affinity C-terminal IpaA VBS is necessary for efficient entry and cell–cell spread of S. flexneri, whereas the lower affinity VBS appears to contribute to vinculin recruitment at entry foci of the pathogen. Finally, the crystal structures of vinculin in complex with the VBSs of IpaA reveal the mechanism by which IpaA subverts vinculin's functions, where S. flexneri utilizes a remarkable level of molecular mimicry of the talin–vinculin interaction to activate vinculin. Mimicry of vinculin's interactions may therefore be a general mechanism applied by pathogens to infect the host cell.
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The crystal structure of vinculin in its resting, inactive state revealed that the protein contains five loosely packed 
-helical bundle domains clamped together through intramolecular hydrophobic interactions of vinculin's N-terminal, seven-helical bundle domain (Vh1) with its five-helical bundle tail (Vt) domain (Bakolitsa et al., 2004; Borgon et al., 2004; Izard et al., 2004). Vinculin activation requires severing of the Vh1–Vt interaction (Johnson and Craig, 1995; Gilmore and Burridge, 1996), and it was thought to be directed by the binding of phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) to the tail domain of vinculin (Gilmore and Burridge, 1996; Bakolitsa et al., 1999). However, the PIP2 binding site is occluded in inactive vinculin (Bakolitsa et al., 2004), and vinculin mutants defective in binding to PIP2 localize to focal adhesion complexes (Chandrasekar et al., 2005). More recently, the vinculin-binding sites (VBSs) of the adhesion proteins talin and -actinin have been revealed as triggers that are sufficient to activate vinculin by binding to its Vh1 domain and provoking remarkable changes in its structure that displace Vt from a distance (Izard et al., 2004; Izard and Vonrhein, 2004; Bois et al., 2005, 2006; Fillingham et al., 2005).
Vinculin plays an important role in S. flexneri pathogenesis, as entry of the pathogen is markedly impaired in vinculin-deficient cells (Tran Van Nhieu et al., 1997). Entry of the pathogen also depends on its invasin protein IpaA, which binds to vinculin through an interaction with vinculin's Vh1 domain (Bourdet-Sicard et al., 1999). IpaA is also capable of activating the latent F-actin– and vinexin-ß–binding functions of vinculin (Bourdet-Sicard et al., 1999; Chen et al., 2005). The amphipathic -helical VBSs of talin and -actinin are sufficient to alter the overall conformation of vinculin and to activate its ability to bind to F-actin (Bois et al., 2006). Therefore, we tested the hypotheses that S. flexneri's IpaA invasin would also harbor a VBS that is capable of triggering vinculin activation, and that this VBS plays an essential role in S. flexneri pathogenesis.
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-actinin are amphipathic helices (Izard and Vonrhein, 2004; Izard et al., 2004; Bois et al., 2005). IpaA binds to vinculin (Tran Van Nhieu et al., 1997; Bourdet-Sicard et al., 1999) through its C-terminal domain (IpaA-Cterm; IpaA residues 557–633; unpublished data). Therefore, we predicted that the ability of IpaA to bind to vinculin would be directed by an amphipathic -helical VBS within this domain. Indeed, structure-based predictions revealed two potential amphipathic helices in the IpaA-Cterm domain that might serve as VBSs. One, which we coined IpaA-VBS, was located at the C terminus of IpaA (residues 611–633; Fig. 1, A–C), whereas the second, IpaA-VBS2 (residues 565–587), is located only 24 residues N-terminal to IpaA-VBS (Fig. 1, A, B, and D).
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VBS; deletion of residues 589–633) or IpaA-VBS2 (ipaA/AVBS2; deletion of residues 565–586), or the entire C terminus of IpaA (ipaA/ACterm; lacking residues 559–633). All IpaA mutant proteins were secreted at levels similar to that of wild-type IpaA, as determined by Western blot analysis (Fig. 1 E). Wild-type and mutant IpaA proteins were tested for their ability to bind to vinculin in an overlay assay (Bourdet-Sicard et al., 1999). IpaA-Cterm failed to bind to vinculin, whereas binding to vinculin was detected for both IpaA-VBS and -VBS2 proteins (Fig. 1 E). Therefore, the C terminus of IpaA has two potential VBSs for vinculin, and either of them is sufficient to bind to vinculin. To determine whether these potential VBSs of IpaA could also bind to vinculin in solution, we tested whether IpaA-VBS, -VBS2, or -Cterm could form stable complexes with recombinant Vh1 protein, as detected by native PAGE assays (Izard et al., 2004). Indeed, IpaA-VBS, -VBS2, or -Cterm readily formed stable, single complexes with the Vh1 domain of vinculin that were easily distinguishable from unbound Vh1 (Fig. 2 A). In contrast, a peptide comprised of the 23 residues linking the two IpaA-VBSs (IpaA-NB, for "nonbinder"; residues 588–610; Fig. 1 B) failed to bind to the Vh1 domain of vinculin (Fig. 2 A). Therefore, the two VBSs of IpaA can also bind to vinculin in solution.
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-actinin (with Kds ranging from 1.8 to 32.8 nM; Izard and Vonrhein, 2004; Bois et al., 2005, 2006). IpaA-VBS2 interacted with the Vh1 domain with a Kd of 6.61 nM (Fig. 2 C), which is comparable to the highest affinity VBS of talin (talin-VBS3; Izard and Vonrhein, 2004) and which approaches that estimated for the intramolecular head–tail interaction that clamps vinculin in its inactive state (Cohen et al., 2005). Nonetheless, the affinity of IpaA-VBS2 for Vh1 was still 60-fold lower than that of IpaA-VBS for the N-terminal domain of vinculin. Strikingly, SPR analyses with IpaA-Cterm showed an even higher affinity for vinculin as, quite remarkably, the Kd of the Vh1–IpaA-Cterm interaction was 6.2 femtomolar, and the Kd of the IpaA-Cterm interaction with full-length vinculin was 35.2 picomolar (Fig. 2, D and E). Furthermore, off-rate analysis demonstrated that, once bound to the Vh1 domain of vinculin, IpaA-Cterm essentially did not dissociate (Fig. 2 F), and that it also had a very slow off-rate for full-length vinculin (Fig. 2 G). Indeed, the affinity of the IpaA-Cterm domain for vinculin is approximately two orders of magnitude greater than that reported for any other binding partner of vinculin, including the low nanomolar affinity of the intramolecular interaction of vinculin's head and tail domains, which clamp vinculin in its inactive state (Cohen et al., 2005).
IpaA-VBSs determine vinculin recruitment at bacterial-induced actin foci
To test the effects of S. flexneri's IpaA-VBSs on IpaA function, we analyzed the invasion and cell–cell dissemination of wild-type S. flexneri (strain M90T; Perdomo et al., 1994) and ipaA mutant S. flexneri strains complemented with full-length IpaA (IpaA/A), or IpaA derivatives lacking the IpaA-Cterm domain (Cterm), the IpaA-VBS (VBS), or the IpaA-VBS2 (VBS2). We first tested if IpaA translocation into infected HeLa cells was comparable between the ipaA/A strain and mutant IpaA strains by immunoprecipitating translocated IpaA derivatives from lysates of HeLa cells infected with the various S. flexneri strains. As negative controls, we used the ipaA deletion mutant S. flexneri strain, as well as the mxiD ( deficient type III secretion apparatus) mutant strain, which, as expected, did not show any ipaA translocated into HeLa cells. Although, as observed for other translocated type III effectors (Kubori and Galán, 2003), some degradation of IpaA proteins was observed, the overall levels of the IpaA-VBS, -VBS2, and -Cterm proteins in infected HeLa cells were similar to those of wild-type IpaA protein in HeLa cells infected with the ipaA/A strain (Fig. 3 A).
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Cterm, ipaA/VBS, or ipaA/VBS2 strains (Fig. 3, B and D), indicating that both VBSs are required for efficient recruitment at bacterial entry sites. Although quantification of the average intensity of vinculin staining at sites of actin foci confirmed the deficiency of vinculin recruitment in cells infected with the ipaA/Cterm, ipaA/VBS, or ipaA/VBS2 strains (Fig. 3 C), there were also differences in the sublocalization of vinculin observed at entry foci induced by the ipaA/VBS2, ipaA/Cterm, and ipaA/VBS strains (Fig. 3 C). This difference was most clearly apparent in the formation of the "actin cup" that normally surrounds the internalized pathogen (Tran Van Nhieu et al., 1997), and which is also characterized by intense vinculin staining around the internalized bacterium (Fig. 3 C, WT and ipaA/A). Notably, actin–vinculin cups around the internalized bacterium were not observed in cells infected with the ipaA/Cterm strain, and these were reduced, by 10- or 4-fold, in cells infected with the ipaA/VBS and ipaA/VBS2 strains, respectively (Fig. 3 C). Therefore, IpaA-VBS and -VBS2 of S. flexneri are both essential for efficient recruitment of vinculin to bacterial actin foci at S. flexneri entry sites (Fig. 3 C), whereas the IpaA-VBS plays a more important role in recruiting vinculin to the actin cups that surround the internalized pathogen (Fig. 3, D and E).
The IpaA-VBS is essential for efficient host cell entry and spread of S. flexneri
We next tested whether S. flexneri's IpaA mutants were compromised in their ability to invade the host cell by performing gentamicin protection assays (Isberg and Falkow, 1985). Notably, the Cterm and VBS deletion mutants were markedly impaired in their ability to invade HeLa cells compared with wild-type S. flexneri or the ipaA deletion strain engineered to reexpress IpaA (ipaA/A; Fig. 4 A).
In contrast, the ipaA/AVBS2 strain was as effective as wild-type S. flexneri and the ipaA/A strain in cell entry (Fig. 4 A). The reduction in bacterial invasion linked to these mutations was, however, not as drastic as that observed for the ipaA mutant strain, indicating that in addition to the IpaA C terminus, other domains of IpaA also contribute to bacterial invasion.
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VBS2 strain forming essentially as many plaques as the ipaA/A strain, whereas the ipaA/AVBS and ipaA/Cterm strains showed a similar twofold reduction in plaque frequency (Fig. 4 B). Remarkably, analysis of bacterial dissemination provided results that paralleled invasion. Plaques formed by the ipaA mutant contained two times less infected cells than the ipaA/A strain (Fig. 4 C). Importantly, the ipaA-Cterm or ipaA-VBS mutant strains were as defective in their dissemination as the ipaA strain lacking IpaA. In contrast, the spread of the ipaA/AVBS2 strain was similar to that of the ipaA/A strain that expresses wild-type IpaA (Fig. 4 C). Therefore, IpaA-VBS, but not IpaA-VBS2, plays an important role for entry into the host cell, and for cell–cell spread of S. flexneri.
S. flexneri's IpaA-VBSs activate vinculin
The high affinity of IpaA-VBS or -VBS2 for vinculin, and their sequence similarity with the VBSs of talin and -actinin (Fig. 1 A), suggested that, like the VBSs of talin and -actinin (Izard et al., 2004; Izard and Vonrhein, 2004; Bois et al., 2005, 2006), S. flexneri's IpaA-VBSs might also be sufficient to sever vinculin's head–tail interactions, which normally clamp the molecule in its inactive conformation (Bakolitsa et al., 2004; Borgon et al., 2004; Izard et al., 2004). Indeed, native gel analyses demonstrated that relatively low molar ratios of either IpaA-VBS, -VBS2, or -Cterm were sufficient to completely displace Vt from preexisting Vh1–Vt complexes (Fig. 5, A and B).
Therefore, the VBSs of IpaA are sufficient to disrupt the intramolecular head–tail interactions of vinculin, which is the initiating event of vinculin activation (Johnson and Craig, 1995; Gilmore and Burridge, 1996).
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–actinin bind to vinculin in a mutually exclusive manner and can efficiently displace one another from preexisting complexes with Vh1 (Izard et al., 2004). The very high affinity of S. flexneri's IpaA-VBSs for vinculin (Fig. 2), however, suggested that the interaction of the VBSs of IpaA with vinculin in solution might be resistant to displacement by the VBSs of talin or -actinin. Indeed, the VBSs of talin (VBS1 and VBS3) and -actinin (VBS) were not capable of displacing IpaA-VBS from preexisting Vh1–IpaA-VBS complexes (Fig. 5, C–E). Similarly, despite a 60-fold lower affinity of IpaA-VBS2 for vinculin (Fig. 2 C), talin-VBS3 and VBS were not capable of displacing IpaA-VBS2 from preexisting Vh1–IpaA-VBS2 complexes (Fig. 5, F and G). Therefore, once bound, IpaA would be predicted to compromise contacts of vinculin with its endogenous partners. Surprisingly, IpaA-VBS and -VBS2 were relatively ineffective at displacing talin-VBS1, talin-VBS3, or VBS from preexisting Vh1–talin-VBS1,–talin-VBS3, or –VBS complexes (Fig. 5, C–G). These results suggest that S. flexneri's IpaA protein would preferentially interact with pools of free vinculin, rather than with vinculin bound by talin or -actinin at sites of focal adhesions or adherens junctions.
A hallmark of vinculin activation is its ability to bind to F-actin (Johnson and Craig, 1995), and IpaA activates this latent binding activity (Bourdet-Sicard et al., 1999). To address the role of IpaA-VBS and IpaA-VBS2 in this process, we used F-actin cosedimentation assays (Bois et al., 2006). Although native vinculin or vinculin incubated with the IpaA-NB peptide failed to bind to F-actin, IpaA-VBS–, IpaA-VBS2–, or IpaA-Cterm–bound vinculin efficiently cosedimented with F-actin (Fig. 5, H and I). Finally, neither IpaA-VBS or IpaA-Cterm contained a cryptic F-actin–binding domain, as IpaA-VBS or IpaA-Cterm bound to a vinculin mutant that lacks its actin-binding tail domain (hVVt; human vinculin residues 1–840; Bois et al., 2006) failed to cosediment F-actin (Fig. 5 H). Therefore, the VBSs of IpaA, and its C-terminal domain, are sufficient to promote binding of vinculin to F-actin.
S. flexneri's IpaA-VBSs mimic talin to bind to and activate vinculin
The amphipathic -helical nature of the VBSs of IpaA, their high-affinity binding to vinculin, and their similarity to the VBSs of talin and -actinin in displacing the head–tail interaction of vinculin, suggested they might bind to vinculin in a manner akin to talin or -actinin. The VBSs of talin and -actinin insert between Vh1 helices 1 and 2, and make extensive hydrophobic contacts with Vh1 helices 1, 2, and 4 that provoke drastic changes in its structure, displacing Vt from a distance (Izard et al., 2004; Izard and Vonrhein, 2004; Bois et al., 2005; Fillingham et al., 2005). To determine the precise nature of the IpaA–vinculin interaction, we solved the crystal structure the Vh1 domain in complex with IpaA residues 602–633 (containing the IpaA-VBS; Fig. 6 A, and Tables S1 and S2, available at http://www.jcb.org/cgi/content/full/jcb.200605091/DC1), as well as with IpaA residues 565–587 (IpaA-VBS2; Fig. 6 B and Tables S3 and S4).
These structures established that IpaA-VBS and -VBS2 are indeed amphipathic helices (Fig. 6), confirming their sequence alignments (Fig. 1 A) and predictions of their secondary structure (Fig. 1, C and D). Both IpaA-VBS and -VBS2 bind to the Vh1 domain of vinculin in an intimate fashion, largely through van der Waals interactions, where the hydrophobic faces of these VBSs interact with the hydrophobic core of the N-terminal four-helical bundle subdomain of Vh1 (Fig. 6), events that would displace Vt's interactions with the Vh1 domain from a distance.
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-actinin, which produce dramatic changes in the structure of the Vh1 domain, yet bind to Vh1 in an inverted orientation and provoke unique conformational changes in full-length vinculin (Izard and Vonrhein, 2004; Izard et al., 2004; Bois et al., 2005). Superposition revealed that IpaA-VBSs behaved as striking and selective mimic of talin's VBSs in altering the structure of vinculin (Fig. 6). Therefore, S. flexneri applies molecular mimicry of talin to bind to and activate vinculin.
The unusual behavior of S. flexneri's IpaA-VBSs in displacement assays with talin– or -actinin–VBS–bound vinculin, and their higher affinity for vinculin, suggested there might be some unique features of their hydrophobic interactions with the Vh1 domain of vinculin. Indeed, inspection of their structures established that Phe-126 of vinculin interacts with Tyr-613 or -567 of IpaA-VBS or -VBS2, respectively (Fig. S2 A, available at http://www.jcb.org/cgi/content/full/jcb.200605091/DC1), whereas the interaction of vinculin Phe-126 with the VBSs of talin are through interactions with small, aliphatic sidechains (Fig. 1 A). To test our hypothesis that the presence of Tyr-613 (IpaA-VBS) and -567 (IpaA-VBS2) strengthened their binding to Vh1, we synthesized mutant IpaA-VBS and -VBS2 peptides where these tyrosine residues were replaced by isoleucine residues as seen in talin-VBS3 (Fig. 1 A; Ile-1950; Fig. S2 A). SPR analysis showed a decrease in the affinity of the mutant peptides for Vh1, where the Kd of IpaA-VBS for Vh1 was reduced from 0.11 (WT) to 0.27 nM (Y613I), and where the Kd of IpaA-VBS2 was reduced from 6.61 (WT) to 15 nM (Y567I). Furthermore, comparison of the Vh1–IpaA-VBS and Vh1–IpaA-VBS2 crystal structures revealed that the sidechain of Lys-569 was near the IpaA-VBS2–vinculin interface, where it could potentially sterically interfere with binding. Indeed, mutating lysine-569 to an alanine (as seen in IpaA-VBS Ala-615; Fig. 1 A, Fig. 6 B, and Fig. S2 B) converted IpaA-VBS2 into a much stronger VBS as assessed by SPR assays, where the Kd of IpaA-VBS2 K569A was 0.53 nM, which is an order of magnitude higher than wild-type IpaA-VBS2 (6.61 nM). Therefore, at least two residues of the IpaA-VBS, Tyr-613 and Ala-615, contribute to its unique, very high-affinity interactions with the hydrophobic interface with vinculin.
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The data presented clearly demonstrate that, using evolutionary convergence, S. flexneri has engineered two VBSs that modulate the structure and function of vinculin by using a remarkable level of mimicry of the VBSs of talin. This is most strikingly shown by the crystal structures of the VBSs of IpaA in complex with vinculin, which also bind to vinculin in the same orientation as the VBSs of talin (Fig. 6). However, our structural and biochemical studies have indicated that there are unique features of the IpaA–vinculin interaction that might explain the high affinities of the VBSs of IpaA (Fig. 2) and their rather unusual behavior in displacement assays (Fig. 5), and it is possible that these differences could be exploited for deriving new therapeutics to treat and/or protect humans from this devastating pathogen.
Although the proteins of other pathogens have been shown to be mimic other components and regulators of the actin cytoskeleton (Stebbins and Galán, 2001), thus far S. flexneri is unique in that one of its invasins functions as a talin mimic to invade the host cell and to recruit vinculin to sites of bacterial entry. Furthermore, the requirement for the IpaA-VBS–vinculin interaction in cell–cell dissemination suggests that IpaA alters vinculin functions in unique ways that allow for intercellular motility of S. flexneri, possibly through influencing vinculin–Arp2/3 complexes that are required for spread of the pathogen (Loisel et al., 1999; Gouin et al., 2005).
The most C-terminal VBS of IpaA, IpaA-VBS, functions by all measurable criteria as a bona fide trigger that activates vinculin. First, IpaA-VBS has a remarkably high affinity for vinculin (Fig. 2), at least 10-fold higher than any other VBS (e.g., the VBS of the -actinin–vinculin interaction has a Kd of 
1.8 nM; Bois et al., 2005), and the femtomolar–picomolar affinities of the C terminus of IpaA for vinculin indicate that once vinculin is bound by IpaA, it cannot be displaced by the binding of vinculin's other partners, a notion supported by VBS displacement assays (Fig. 5). Furthermore, IpaA-VBS can efficiently sever vinculin's head–tail interaction and trigger the latent F-actin–binding activity of vinculin (Fig. 5), both hallmarks of vinculin activation (Johnson and Craig, 1995; Gilmore and Burridge, 1996). Finally, and most importantly, the IpaA-VBS plays critical roles in directing host cell entry and dissemination of S. flexneri (Fig. 4).
At face value, the second VBS of IpaA, IpaA-VBS2, would also appear to have all the hallmarks of a trigger that should activate vinculin in cells, especially given its ability to sever the vinculin head–tail interaction and to promote F-actin binding (Fig. 2). However, in tests of its biological activity, IpaA-VBS2 appeared less critical than IpaA-VBS for cell entry and dissemination of S. flexneri. However, possible clues to the potential function and relevance of S. flexneri having these two VBSs have come from further revelations regarding the overall scope of the interactions between S. flexneri and vinculin (Fig. 3). Although IpaA and vinculin were known to interact locally at sites of pathogen–host contact, and to provoke changes in the actin cytoskeleton to form the pseudoadhesion complex or the actin cup that forms around the internalized bacterium (Trans Van Nhieu and Ben-Ze'ev, 1997; Trans Van Nhieu et al., 2000), this interaction clearly requires the functions of both of the VBSs of IpaA. Strikingly, however, IpaA-VBS appears to play a more crucial role than IpaA-VBS2 in recruiting vinculin, a finding that is consistent with the estimated 60-fold difference in affinity. Thus, the two VBSs of S. flexneri's IpaA protein appear to facilitate both the recruitment of vinculin at sites of bacterial entry, and in forming the actin-vinculin cup that surrounds the membranes of the internalized pathogen. The precise role that this highly effective recruitment of vinculin by the VBSs of IpaA is unclear because recruitment mediated by IpaA-VBS alone appears sufficient for bacterial invasion and cell–cell spread in epithelial cells in vitro. It is possible, however, that more efficient vinculin recruitment mediated by both of the VBSs of IpaA becomes critical for invasion of enterocytes during in vivo infection.
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VBS (residues 731–760), talin-VBS1 (residues 607–636), or talin-VBS3 (residues 1,949–1,970), the six wild-type IpaA-VBSs of varying lengths, and a nonbinding IpaA peptide, as well as the three mutant IpaA-VBSs (IpaA-VBS-Y613I [NIIKAAKDVTTSLSKVLKNINKD], IpaA-VBS2-Y567I [AIIEKAKEVSSALSKVLLSKIDDT], and IpaA-VBS2-K569A [AIYEAAKEVSSALSKVLSKIDDT]) were synthesized and HPLC purified in our in-house facility.
SPR studies
Binding studies were performed by SPR using a biosensor (Biacore 2000; Biacore) equipped with a carboxymethyldextran-coated gold surface (CM-5) sensor, as previously described (Izard and Vonrhein, 2004).
Vinculin-IpaA gel retardation assays
65 nM Vh1 protein was incubated with IpaA-VBS2, -NB (nonbinder), -VBS, or -Cterm (Fig. 2 A) in PBS at room temperature using an 1:2 molar ratio of Vh1/IpaA. Complexes were run on 20% homogeneous native polyacrylamide PhastGels (GE Healthcare). Protein detection was performed using Coomassie blue staining. Only a single Vh1–IpaA-Cterm complex was detected, indicating that IpaA-Cterm protein, at this molar ratio, interacted with Vh1 with a 1:1 stoichiometry.
Vinculin and Vh1–VBS displacement assays
All binding assays were performed in PBS buffer. 130 nM Vh1 protein was added to Vt at room temperature using a 1:2 molar ratio of Vh1/Vt (i.e., Vt at 260 nM), to ensure that all Vh1 was in complex with Vt. Analysis on native polyacrylamide gels confirmed formation of the Vh1–Vt complex. IpaA-VBS, -VBS2, or -Cterm were added to the Vh1–Vt complex. IpaA-VBS was titrated at 2-, 3.5-, 10-, and 20-fold molar ratios, and IpaA-Cterm was titrated at 0.9-, 1.7-, 3.4-, and 6.8-fold molar ratios. Complexes formed were resolved on native polyacrylamide PhastGels and stained with Coomassie blue.
Vinculin–actin binding assays
Vinculin (in PBS) was incubated at ambient temperature with IpaA-VBS, -VBS2, or -Cterm, and the ability to cosediment with F-actin was assessed as previously described (Bois et al., 2006).
Immunoblot analyses
Levels of IpaA proteins expressed by wild-type and mutant strains of S. flexneri were determined using an anti-IpaA–specific antibody (Tran Van Nhieu et al., 1997). Binding of IpaA mutant proteins to vinculin was also assessed in a vinculin overlay assay using I125-labeled vinculin, as previously described (Bourdet-Sicard et al., 1999).
IpaA translocation assays
Levels of IpaA protein translocated inside HeLa cells were assessed as previously described (Kubori and Galán, 2003). Immunoprecipitation was performed using the anti-IpaA2 serum (Tran Van Nhieu et al., 1997). Western blot was performed with anti-IpaA (working dilution 1:10,000) as a primary antibody and protein A-HRP (working dilution 1:10,000; BioRad Laboratories) as a secondary antibody.
Crystallization of the Vh1–IpaA-VBS and –IpaA-VBS2 complexes
Details regarding crystallization of the Vh1–IpaA-VBS and –IpaA-VBS2 complexes can be found in Table S1 and S2, respectively.
X-ray data collection, structure determination, and refinement
Details regarding the collection of x-ray data (Collaborative Computational Project number 4, 1994; Otwinowski and Minor, 1997) and the determination and refinement (Tronrud et al., 1987; Jones et al., 1991; Bricogne, 1997) of the structures of the Vh1–IpaA-VBS and –IpaA-VBS2 complexes are provided in the captions of Table S1 and S2 and S3 and S4, respectively.
Cell culture, S. flexneri strains, and bacterial internalization and dissemination assays
HeLa cells were grown in DME supplemented with 10% FCS, Hepes, penicillin, streptomycin, and L-glutamine in 9% CO2. Caco-2/TC-7 cells were cultured in DME supplemented with 20% FCS and allowed to form polarized monolayers, as previously described (Tran Van Nhieu et al., 2003). Wild-type S. flexneri serotype 5 M90T and the ipaA mutant were cultured as previously described (Tran Van Nhieu et al., 1997). The Cterm mutant was generated by cutting pBad:ipaA with SnaBI and PvuII, followed by religation to generate a deletion of the last 81 C-terminal residues. The VBS mutation was created using the QuickChange II (Stratagene) method using the primer 5'-GACGATACCTCTGCAGAATAACTTACAGATGATATATCTG-3', which generates a deletion of the last 44 C-terminal residues. The VBS2 mutation was created using the primers 5'-GATACAATTGATAAAAATCATTCTGCAGAATTACTTA CAGATG-3' and 5'-CATCTGTAAGTAATTCTGCAGAATGATTTTTATCAATTGTATC-3' and PCR, which generates a deletion of residues 564–586 of IpaA. Plasmid constructs were subcloned into the vector pCR2.1 (Invitrogen) and transformed into the ipaA mutant strain to generate ipaA/A-Cterm, ipaA/A-VBS, and ipaA/A-VBS2 strains (Fig. S1 A).
Wild-type S. flexneri, ipaA, ipaA/A, ipaA/A-Cterm, and ipaA/ A-VBS strains were tested for internalization in HeLa cells using the gentamicin protection assay, as previously described (Perdomo et al., 1994). Bacterial entry and dissemination in polarized Caco-2 cells was determined as follows. Bacteria grown in exponential phase were resuspended in DME containing 20 mM Hepes, pH 7.3, at a final optical density600nm of 0.06 and used to challenge cell monolayers for 90 min at 37°C. Samples were rinsed and incubated for 6 h in DME containing 10% FCS and 50 mg/ml gentamicin to prevent bacterial extracellular growth and to allow for intercellular dissemination. Samples were fixed and stained for F-actin and LPS, as previously described (Tran Van Nhieu et al., 1997, 2000). Quantification of bacterial invasion and cell–cell spreading in Caco-2 cells monolayers was performed using an epifluorescence microscope (BX50; Olympus). For invasion, the number of infection foci per field was scored with a 20x objective (Olympus) on at least 100 fields in two independent experiments. To assess cell–cell spread of bacteria, the number of infected cells/foci was scored using a 40x immersion objective (Olympus) on at least 30 foci in three independent experiments. Statistical quantification of the surface area and the intensity of vinculin recruitment at S. flexneri entry sites was performed from images reconstructed from z stacks corresponding to planes spaced by 0.2 mm, acquired with an epifluorescence microscope (DRMIBe; Leica) equipped with a 63x immersion objective and a piezo (P-721.17, Physik Instrumente), connected to a charge-coupled device camera (CoolSNAP HQ; Princeton Instruments) under the Metamorph software (version 6.3 r1; Universal Imaging Corp.). The plotted data are representative of at least 30 foci in two independent experiments.
The assay used to evaluate cell–cell spreading of wild-type and mutant strains of S. flexneri (Tran Van Nhieu et al., 2003) was derived from the plaque assay that has been extensively used to assess S. flexneri dissemination (Oaks et al., 1985). Translocation and immunofluorescence assays to determine levels of intracellular IpaA proteins and vinculin localization were performed as previously described (Tran Van Nhieu et al., 1997).
Accession codes
The atomic coordinates of the Vh1–IpaA-VBS and Vh1–IpaA-VBS2 crystal structures have been deposited in the Protein Data Bank under accession codes 2GWW and 2HSQ, respectively.
Online supplemental material
Fig. S1 shows a schematic of the various IpaA and vinculin constructs used in this study. Fig. S2 shows a stereo view of Tyr-613 of IpaA-VBS and Tyr-567 of IpaA-VBS superimposed onto Ile-1950, as seen in the vinculin–talin-VBS3 crystal structure (Izard et al., 2004), as well as details of the interaction of Lys-569 or Ala-615 of IpaA with Leu-54 and Val-57 of vinculin. Tables S1–S4 show the data reduction and crystallographic refinement statistics for the Vh1–IpaA-VBS and–IpaA–VBS2 structures. Online supplemental material is available at http://www.jcb.org/cgi/content/full/jcb.200605091/DC1.
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This work was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (AI067949 and GM071596 to T. Izard), a Cancer Center Support grant (CA21765), and by the American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities.
Note added in proof. While our article was under review, Hamiaux et al. (Hamiaux, C. van Eerde, C. Parsot, J. Broos, and B.W. Dijkstra. 2006. EMBO Reports. 7:794–799) reported that the C-terminal domain of IpaA (residues 560–633) was capable of binding to vinculin's Vh1 domain in a 2:1 stoichiometry. Our findings that the binding of IpaA-VBS and IpaA-VBS2 to the Vh1 domain is mutually exclusive suggests that the IpaA may be able to simultaneously bind to two molecules of vinculin.
Submitted: 15 May 2006
Accepted: 5 October 2006
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