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serovar Typhimurium is a facultative intracellular pathogen causing disease in several hosts. These bacteria use two distinct type III secretion systems that inject effector proteins into the host cell for invasion and to alter maturation of the -containing vacuole. Members of the translocated effector (STE) family contain a conserved N-terminal translocation signal of approximately 140 aa. In this study, the STE family member SifA was examined using deletion strategies. Small deletions (approx. 20 residues long) throughout SifA were sufficient to block its secretion and/or translocation into host cells. Transfection of HeLa cells with a GFP-SifA fusion was previously shown to be sufficient to induce formation of Sif-like tubules resembling structures present in -infected cells. The present study showed that both N- and C-terminal domains of SifA are required for this phenotype. Furthermore, both domains could induce aggregation of Lamp1-positive compartments, provided they were coupled to the minimal C-terminal membrane-anchoring motif of SifA. Mutation or deletion of the conserved STE N-terminal WEK(I/M)xxFF translocation motif of SopD2 disrupted its association with Lamp1-positive compartments, implicating these residues in both effector translocation and subcellular localization. Interestingly, one GFP-SifA deletion mutant lacking residues 42–101, but retaining the WEK(I/M)xxFF motif, targeted the Golgi apparatus. In addition, short peptides containing the signature WEK(I/M)xxFF motif derived from the N-termini of effectors SopD2, SseJ and SspH2 were sufficient to localize GFP to the Golgi. These studies suggest that effectors contain multifunctional motifs or domains that regulate several effector traits, including protein secretion/translocation, localization and subversion of host cell systems. Conditions that perturb the tertiary structure of effectors can influence their localization in host cells by liberating cryptic intracellular targeting motifs.

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