Secretion systems in Gram-negative bacteria: structural and mechanistic insights

TRD Costa, C Felisberto-Rodrigues, A Meir… - Nature Reviews …, 2015 - nature.com
Bacteria have evolved a remarkable array of sophisticated nanomachines to export various
virulence factors across the bacterial cell envelope. In recent years, considerable progress …

Bacterial type III secretion systems: specialized nanomachines for protein delivery into target cells

JE Galán, M Lara-Tejero, TC Marlovits… - Annual review of …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
One of the most exciting developments in the field of bacterial pathogenesis in recent years
is the discovery that many pathogens utilize complex nanomachines to deliver bacterially …

The NLRC4 inflammasome receptors for bacterial flagellin and type III secretion apparatus

Y Zhao, J Yang, J Shi, YN Gong, Q Lu, H Xu, L Liu… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Inflammasomes are large cytoplasmic complexes that sense microbial infections/danger
molecules and induce caspase-1 activation-dependent cytokine production and …

Protein export according to schedule: architecture, assembly, and regulation of type III secretion systems from plant-and animal-pathogenic bacteria

D Büttner - Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
Flagellar and translocation-associated type III secretion (T3S) systems are present in most
Gram-negative plant-and animal-pathogenic bacteria and are often essential for bacterial …

Human NAIP and mouse NAIP1 recognize bacterial type III secretion needle protein for inflammasome activation

J Yang, Y Zhao, J Shi, F Shao - Proceedings of the National …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Inflammasome mediated by central nucleotide-binding and oligomerization domain (NOD)-
like receptor (NLR) protein is critical for defense against bacterial infection. Here we show …

Bacterial type III secretion systems: a complex device for the delivery of bacterial effector proteins into eukaryotic host cells

S Wagner, I Grin, S Malmsheimer… - FEMS microbiology …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Virulence-associated type III secretion systems (T3SS) serve the injection of bacterial
effector proteins into eukaryotic host cells. They are able to secrete a great diversity of …

Atomic model of the type III secretion system needle

A Loquet, NG Sgourakis, R Gupta, K Giller, D Riedel… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Pathogenic bacteria using a type III secretion system (T3SS), to manipulate host cells cause
many different infections including Shigella dysentery, typhoid fever, enterohaemorrhagic …

Assembly of the bacterial type III secretion machinery

A Diepold, S Wagner - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Many bacteria that live in contact with eukaryotic hosts, whether as symbionts or as
pathogens, have evolved mechanisms that manipulate host cell behaviour to their benefit …

[HTML][HTML] Assembly and structure of the T3SS

BJ Burkinshaw, NCJ Strynadka - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular Cell …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Type III Secretion System (T3SS) is a multi-mega Dalton apparatus assembled
from more than twenty components and is found in many species of animal and plant …

The structure and function of type III secretion systems

RQ Notti, CE Stebbins - Virulence mechanisms of bacterial …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Type III secretion systems (T3SSs) afford Gram‐negative bacteria an intimate means of
altering the biology of their eukaryotic hosts—the direct delivery of effector proteins from the …