RRC ID 34834
著者 Oh YJ, Cui Y, Kim H, Li Y, Hinterdorfer P, Park S.
タイトル Characterization of curli A production on living bacterial surfaces by scanning probe microscopy.
ジャーナル Biophys J
Abstract Curli are adhesive surface fibers produced by many Enterobacteriaceae, such as Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica. They are implicated in bacterial attachment and invasion to epithelial cells. In this study, atomic force microscopy was used to determine the effects of curli on topology and mechanical properties of live E. coli cells. Young's moduli of both curli-deficient and curli-overproducing mutants were significantly lower than that of their wild-type (WT) strain, while decay lengths of the former strains were higher than that of the latter strain. Surprisingly, topological images showed that, unlike the WT and curli-overproducing mutant, the curli-deficient mutant produced a large number of flagella-like fibers, which may explain why the strain had a lower Young's modulus than the WT. These results suggest that the mechanical properties of bacterial surfaces are greatly affected by the presence of filamentous structures such as curli and flagella.
巻・号 103(8)
ページ 1666-71
公開日 2012-10-17
DOI 10.1016/j.bpj.2012.09.004
PII S0006-3495(12)01016-8
PMID 23083709
PMC PMC3475329
MeSH Bacterial Proteins / genetics Bacterial Proteins / metabolism* Elastic Modulus Escherichia coli / metabolism Escherichia coli / physiology Escherichia coli / ultrastructure* Flagella Locomotion Microscopy, Atomic Force Pressure
IF 3.854
引用数 12
WOS 分野 BIOPHYSICS
リソース情報
原核生物(大腸菌) JW1025