Nature Communications (Dec 2016)

Actin activates Pseudomonas aeruginosa ExoY nucleotidyl cyclase toxin and ExoY-like effector domains from MARTX toxins

  • Alexander Belyy,
  • Dorothée Raoux-Barbot,
  • Cosmin Saveanu,
  • Abdelkader Namane,
  • Vasily Ogryzko,
  • Lina Worpenberg,
  • Violaine David,
  • Veronique Henriot,
  • Souad Fellous,
  • Christien Merrifield,
  • Elodie Assayag,
  • Daniel Ladant,
  • Louis Renault,
  • Undine Mechold

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13582
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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The ExoY toxin is injected by Pseudomonas aeruginosainto host cells, where it is activated by an unknown host factor. Here the authors identify such factor as filamentous actin.