Decoding the stoichiometric composition and organisation of bacterial metabolosomes



Yang, Mengru, Simpson, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-3962-4895, Wenner, Nicolas, Brownridge, Philip, Harman, Victoria ORCID: 0000-0002-0990-153X, Hinton, Jay ORCID: 0000-0003-2671-6026, Beynon, Robert ORCID: 0000-0003-0857-495X and Liu, Luning ORCID: 0000-0002-8884-4819
(2020) Decoding the stoichiometric composition and organisation of bacterial metabolosomes. Nature Communications, 11 (1). 1976-.

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Abstract

Some enteric bacteria including Salmonella have evolved the propanediol-utilising microcompartment (Pdu MCP), a specialised proteinaceous organelle that is essential for 1,2-propanediol degradation and enteric pathogenesis. Pdu MCPs are a family of bacterial microcompartments that are self-assembled from hundreds of proteins within the bacterial cytosol. Here, we seek a comprehensive understanding of the stoichiometric composition and organisation of Pdu MCPs. We obtain accurate stoichiometry of shell proteins and internal enzymes of the natural Pdu MCP by QconCAT-driven quantitative mass spectrometry. Genetic deletion of the major shell protein and absolute quantification reveal the stoichiometric and structural remodelling of metabolically functional Pdu MCPs. Decoding the precise protein stoichiometry allows us to develop an organisational model of the Pdu metabolosome. The structural insights into the Pdu MCP are critical for both delineating the general principles underlying bacterial organelle formation, structural robustness and function, and repurposing natural microcompartments using synthetic biology for biotechnological applications.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: bacterial pathogenesis, mass spectrometry, organelles, proteomics
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 27 Apr 2020 10:22
Last Modified: 18 Jan 2023 23:53
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15888-4
Open Access URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-15888-4
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3084602