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Journal Article
Functional analysis of Wolbachia Cid effectors unravels cooperative interactions to target host chromatin during replication
2023
Overview
Wolbachia are common bacteria among terrestrial arthropods. These endosymbionts transmitted through the female germline manipulate their host reproduction through several mechanisms whose most prevalent form called Cytoplasmic Incompatibility -CI- is a conditional sterility syndrome eventually favoring the infected progeny. Upon fertilization, the sperm derived from an infected male is only compatible with an egg harboring a compatible Wolbachia strain, this sperm leading otherwise to embryonic death. The Wolbachia Cif factors CidA and CidB responsible for CI and its neutralization function as a Toxin-Antitoxin system in the mosquito host Culex pipiens . However, the mechanism of CidB toxicity and its neutralization by the CidA antitoxin remain unexplored. Using transfected insect cell lines to perform a structure-function analysis of these effectors, we show that both CidA and CidB are chromatin interactors and CidA anchors CidB to the chromatin in a cell-cycle dependent-manner. In absence of CidA, the CidB toxin localizes to its own chromatin microenvironment and acts by preventing S-phase completion, independently of its deubiquitylase -DUB- domain. Experiments with transgenic Drosophila show that CidB DUB domain is required together with CidA during spermatogenesis to stabilize the CidA-CidB complex. Our study defines CidB functional regions and paves the way to elucidate the mechanism of its toxicity.
Publisher
Public Library of Science,Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subject
/ Animals
/ Animals, Genetically Modified
/ Bacteria
/ Centromere Protein A - metabolism
/ Domains
/ Drosophila Proteins - metabolism
/ Embryos
/ Females
/ Genomes
/ Insects
/ Male
/ Medicine and Health Sciences
/ Methods
/ Peptides
/ Progeny
/ Research and Analysis Methods
/ Sperm
/ Structure-function relationships
/ Toxicity
/ Toxins
