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Measuring prion propagation in single bacteria elucidates mechanism of loss
Prions are self-propagating protein aggregates formed by specific proteins that can adopt alternative folds. Prions were discovered as the cause of the fatal transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in mammals, but prions can also constitute non-toxic protein-based elements of inheritance in fungi...
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9882039/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36712035 http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.11.523042 |
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author | Jager, Krista Orozco-Hidalgo, Maria Teresa Springstein, Benjamin Lennart Joly-Smith, Euan Papazotos, Fotini McDonough, EmilyKate Fleming, Eleanor McCallum, Giselle Hilfinger, Andreas Hochschild, Ann Potvin-Trottier, Laurent |
author_facet | Jager, Krista Orozco-Hidalgo, Maria Teresa Springstein, Benjamin Lennart Joly-Smith, Euan Papazotos, Fotini McDonough, EmilyKate Fleming, Eleanor McCallum, Giselle Hilfinger, Andreas Hochschild, Ann Potvin-Trottier, Laurent |
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description | Prions are self-propagating protein aggregates formed by specific proteins that can adopt alternative folds. Prions were discovered as the cause of the fatal transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in mammals, but prions can also constitute non-toxic protein-based elements of inheritance in fungi and other species. Prion propagation has recently been shown to occur in bacteria for more than a hundred cell divisions, yet a fraction of cells in these lineages lost the prion through an unknown mechanism. Here, we investigate prion propagation in single bacterial cells as they divide using microfluidics and fluorescence microscopy. We show that the propagation occurs in two distinct modes with distinct stability and inheritance characteristics. We find that the prion is lost through random partitioning of aggregates to one of the two daughter cells at division. Extending our findings to prion domains from two orthologous proteins, we observe similar propagation and loss properties. Our findings also provide support for the suggestion that bacterial prions can form more than one self-propagating state. We implement a stochastic version of the molecular model of prion propagation from yeast and mammals that recapitulates all the observed single-cell properties. This model highlights challenges for prion propagation that are unique to prokaryotes and illustrates the conservation of fundamental characteristics of prion propagation across domains of life. |
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spelling | pubmed-98820392023-01-28 Measuring prion propagation in single bacteria elucidates mechanism of loss Jager, Krista Orozco-Hidalgo, Maria Teresa Springstein, Benjamin Lennart Joly-Smith, Euan Papazotos, Fotini McDonough, EmilyKate Fleming, Eleanor McCallum, Giselle Hilfinger, Andreas Hochschild, Ann Potvin-Trottier, Laurent bioRxiv Article Prions are self-propagating protein aggregates formed by specific proteins that can adopt alternative folds. Prions were discovered as the cause of the fatal transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in mammals, but prions can also constitute non-toxic protein-based elements of inheritance in fungi and other species. Prion propagation has recently been shown to occur in bacteria for more than a hundred cell divisions, yet a fraction of cells in these lineages lost the prion through an unknown mechanism. Here, we investigate prion propagation in single bacterial cells as they divide using microfluidics and fluorescence microscopy. We show that the propagation occurs in two distinct modes with distinct stability and inheritance characteristics. We find that the prion is lost through random partitioning of aggregates to one of the two daughter cells at division. Extending our findings to prion domains from two orthologous proteins, we observe similar propagation and loss properties. Our findings also provide support for the suggestion that bacterial prions can form more than one self-propagating state. We implement a stochastic version of the molecular model of prion propagation from yeast and mammals that recapitulates all the observed single-cell properties. This model highlights challenges for prion propagation that are unique to prokaryotes and illustrates the conservation of fundamental characteristics of prion propagation across domains of life. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 2023-01-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9882039/ /pubmed/36712035 http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.11.523042 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) , which allows reusers to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format in unadapted form only, for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator. |
spellingShingle | Article Jager, Krista Orozco-Hidalgo, Maria Teresa Springstein, Benjamin Lennart Joly-Smith, Euan Papazotos, Fotini McDonough, EmilyKate Fleming, Eleanor McCallum, Giselle Hilfinger, Andreas Hochschild, Ann Potvin-Trottier, Laurent Measuring prion propagation in single bacteria elucidates mechanism of loss |
title | Measuring prion propagation in single bacteria elucidates mechanism of loss |
title_full | Measuring prion propagation in single bacteria elucidates mechanism of loss |
title_fullStr | Measuring prion propagation in single bacteria elucidates mechanism of loss |
title_full_unstemmed | Measuring prion propagation in single bacteria elucidates mechanism of loss |
title_short | Measuring prion propagation in single bacteria elucidates mechanism of loss |
title_sort | measuring prion propagation in single bacteria elucidates mechanism of loss |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9882039/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36712035 http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.11.523042 |
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