Journal article
Evolution of higher torque in Campylobacter-type bacterial fagellar motors
Scientific Reports, Vol.8, 97
2018
Abstract
Understanding the evolution of molecular machines underpins our understanding of the development of life on earth. A well-studied case are bacterial fagellar motors that spin helical propellers for bacterial motility. Diverse motors produce diferent torques, but how this diversity evolved remains unknown. To gain insights into evolution of the high-torque ε-proteobacterial motor exemplifed by the Campylobacter jejuni motor, we inferred ancestral states by combining phylogenetics, electron cryotomography, and motility assays to characterize motors from Wolinella succinogenes, Arcobacter butzleri and Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus. Observation of ~12 stator complexes in many proteobacteria, yet ~17 in ε-proteobacteria suggest a "quantum leap" evolutionary event. Campylobacter-type motors have high stator occupancy in wider rings of additional stator complexes that are scafolded by large proteinaceous periplasmic rings. We propose a model for motor evolution wherein independent innerand outer-membrane structures fused to form a scafold for additional stator complexes. Signifcantly, inner- and outer-membrane associated structures have evolved independently multiple times, suggesting that evolution of such structures is facile and poised the ε-proteobacteria to fuse them to form the high-torque Campylobacter-type motor
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- Title
- Evolution of higher torque in Campylobacter-type bacterial fagellar motors
- Authors
- Bonnie L Chaban (Author) - Imperial College London, United KingdomIzaak Coleman (Author) - Imperial College of London, United KingdomMorgan Beeby (Author) - Imperial College of London, United Kingdom
- Publication details
- Scientific Reports, Vol.8, 97; 11
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Date published
- 2018
- DOI
- 10.1038/s41598-017-18115-1
- ISSN
- 2045-2322
- Copyright note
- Copyright © The Author(s) 2017. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. Te images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Thompson Institute; Centre for Bioinnovation
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99451433002621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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