Paper Details
BPB Reports
Vol. 5
No. 3
p.66-69
2022
Report
Critical Residues of Clostridium perfringens Delta-Toxin for Oligomerization and Receptor Binding
- Masahiro Nagahama (Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokushima Bunri University / nagahama@ph.bunri-u.ac.jp)
Soshi Seike
1)
,
Masaya Takehara
2)
,
Keiko Kobayashi
2)
,
Masahiro Nagahama
2)
1) Laboratory of Molecular Microbiological Science, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hiroshima International University , 2) Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokushima Bunri University
1) Laboratory of Molecular Microbiological Science, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hiroshima International University , 2) Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokushima Bunri University
Received: May 16, 2022;
Accepted: June 21, 2022;
Released: July 06, 2022
Keywords: C. perfringens delta-toxin, pore-forming toxin, key amino acid residue
Abstracts
Delta-toxin produced by Clostridium perfringens types B and C is a β-pore-forming cytotoxin. Here, using site-directed mutagenesis, we identified the amino acid residues that contribute to delta-toxin oligomerization and binding. We replaced Lys-43 and Ser-109 located in the β-sandwich domain and Arg-200 located in the rim domain. Substitution of alanine for Ser-109 caused reductions in both cytotoxicity and oligomerization. However, exchange of Lys-43 for alanine resulted in a reduction in the cytotoxicity. Replacement of Arg-200 with alanine led to drastic reductions cytotoxicity and cell binding. Our results demonstrate that Ser-109 plays a role in oligomerization, and that Arg-200 is critical for binding of the toxin.
