Modification of the signal sequence cleavage site of listeriolysin O does not affect protein secretion but impairs the virulence of Listeria monocytogenes.

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Laboratoire de Microbiologie, INSERM U-570, Faculté de Médecine Necker, 156 rue de Vaugirard, 75730 Paris Cedex 15, France.

Published: May 2003

Listeriolysin O (LLO, hly-encoded), a major virulence factor secreted by the bacterial pathogen Listeria monocytogenes, is synthesized as a precursor of 529 residues. To impair LLO secretion, the four residues of the predicted signal sequence cleavage site (EA-KD) were deleted and the mutant LLO protein was expressed in a hly-negative derivative of L. monocytogenes. Unexpectedly, the mutant protein was secreted in normal amounts in the culture supernatant and was fully haemolytic. N-terminal sequencing of the secreted LLO molecule revealed that N-terminal processing of the preprotein occurred three residues downstream of the natural cleavage site. L. monocytogenes expressing this truncated LLO showed a reduced capacity to disrupt the phagosomal membranes of bone marrow macrophages and of hepatocytes; and the mutant strain showed a 100-fold decrease in virulence in the mouse model. These results suggest that the first N-terminal residues of mature LLO participate directly in phagosomal escape and bacterial infection.

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