Vassilis Koronakis

Repetitive N-WASP-binding elements of the enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli effector EspF(U) synergistically activate actin assembly (2008)

Campellone, Kenneth Geno, Cheng, Hui-Chun, Robbins, Douglas, Siripala, Anosha D., McGhie, Emma J., Hayward, Richard D., ...

Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) generate F-actin-rich adhesion pedestals by delivering effector proteins into mammalian cells. These effectors include the translocated receptor Tir, along...

Flexibility in a Drug Transport Accessory Protein: Molecular Dynamics Simulations of MexA (2008)

Loredana Vaccaro, Vassilis Koronakis

ABSTRACT Drug resistance in Gram-negative bacteria may be conferred via efflux through a tripartite complex of an inner membrane pump, an outer membrane pore, and a periplasmic adaptor protein. These...

Exploiting pathogenic Escherichia coli to model transmembrane receptor signalling (2006)

Hayward, Richard D., Leong, John M., Koronakis, Vassilis, Campellone, Kenneth Geno

Many microbial pathogens manipulate the actin cytoskeleton of eukaryotic target cells to promote their internalization, intracellular motility and dissemination. Enteropathogenic and...

Expression of the E.coli hemolysin secretion gene hlyB involves transcript anti-termination within the hly operon (1988)

Koronakis, Vassilis, Cross, Michael, Hughes, Colin

The genes hly A and hly B dictating synthesis and secretion of hemolytic toxin by Escherichia coli are transcribed as part of an operon hly C,hly A,hly B but are separated by an inverted repeat and...

Membrane Interaction of Escherichia coli Hemolysin: Flotation and Insertion-Dependent Labeling by Phospholipid Vesicles

Hyland, Caroline, Vuillard, Laurent, Hughes, Colin, Koronakis, Vassilis

The 1,024-amino-acid acylated hemolysin of Escherichia coli subverts host cell functions and causes cell lysis. Both activities require insertion of the toxin into target mammalian cell membranes. To...

Acylation of Escherichia coli Hemolysin: A Unique Protein Lipidation Mechanism Underlying Toxin Function

Stanley, Peter, Koronakis, Vassilis, Hughes, Colin

The pore-forming hemolysin (HlyA) of Escherichia coli represents a unique class of bacterial toxins that require a posttranslational modification for activity. The inactive protoxin pro-HlyA is...

Transition to the open state of the TolC periplasmic tunnel entrance

Andersen, Christian, Koronakis, Eva, Bokma, Evert, Eswaran, Jeyanthy, Humphreys, Daniel, Hughes, Colin, ...

The TolC channel-tunnel spans the bacterial outer membrane and periplasm, providing a large exit duct for protein export and multidrug efflux when recruited by substrate-engaged inner membrane...

Cooperation between actin-binding proteins of invasive Salmonella: SipA potentiates SipC nucleation and bundling of actin

McGhie, Emma J., Hayward, Richard D., Koronakis, Vassilis

Pathogen-induced remodelling of the host cell actin cytoskeleton drives internalization of invasive Salmon ella by non-phagocytic intestinal epithelial cells. Two Salmonella actin-binding proteins...

Structure of the periplasmic component of a bacterial drug efflux pump

Higgins, Matthew K., Bokma, Evert, Koronakis, Eva, Hughes, Colin, Koronakis, Vassilis

Multidrug resistance among Gram-negative bacteria is conferred by three-component membrane pumps that expel diverse antibiotics from the cell. These efflux pumps consist of an inner membrane...

Chunnel vision: Export and efflux through bacterial channel-tunnels

Andersen, Christian, Hughes, Colin, Koronakis, Vassilis

The Escherichia coli TolC protein is central to toxin export and drug efflux across the inner and outer cell membranes and the intervening periplasmic space. The crystal structure has revealed that...

Membrane Interaction of Escherichia coli Hemolysin: Flotation and Insertion-Dependent Labeling by Phospholipid Vesicles

Hyland, Caroline, Vuillard, Laurent, Hughes, Colin, Koronakis, Vassilis

The 1,024-amino-acid acylated hemolysin of Escherichia coli subverts host cell functions and causes cell lysis. Both activities require insertion of the toxin into target mammalian cell membranes. To...

Acylation of Escherichia coli Hemolysin: A Unique Protein Lipidation Mechanism Underlying Toxin Function

Stanley, Peter, Koronakis, Vassilis, Hughes, Colin

The pore-forming hemolysin (HlyA) of Escherichia coli represents a unique class of bacterial toxins that require a posttranslational modification for activity. The inactive protoxin pro-HlyA is...

Transition to the open state of the TolC periplasmic tunnel entrance

Andersen, Christian, Koronakis, Eva, Bokma, Evert, Eswaran, Jeyanthy, Humphreys, Daniel, Hughes, Colin, ...

The TolC channel-tunnel spans the bacterial outer membrane and periplasm, providing a large exit duct for protein export and multidrug efflux when recruited by substrate-engaged inner membrane...

Cooperation between actin-binding proteins of invasive Salmonella: SipA potentiates SipC nucleation and bundling of actin

McGhie, Emma J., Hayward, Richard D., Koronakis, Vassilis

Pathogen-induced remodelling of the host cell actin cytoskeleton drives internalization of invasive Salmon ella by non-phagocytic intestinal epithelial cells. Two Salmonella actin-binding proteins...

Structure of the periplasmic component of a bacterial drug efflux pump

Higgins, Matthew K., Bokma, Evert, Koronakis, Eva, Hughes, Colin, Koronakis, Vassilis

Multidrug resistance among Gram-negative bacteria is conferred by three-component membrane pumps that expel diverse antibiotics from the cell. These efflux pumps consist of an inner membrane...

Chunnel vision: Export and efflux through bacterial channel-tunnels

Andersen, Christian, Hughes, Colin, Koronakis, Vassilis

The Escherichia coli TolC protein is central to toxin export and drug efflux across the inner and outer cell membranes and the intervening periplasmic space. The crystal structure has revealed that...

Salmonella SPI1 Effector SipA Persists after Entry and Cooperates with a SPI2 Effector to Regulate Phagosome Maturation and Intracellular Replication

Brawn, Lyndsey C., Hayward, Richard D., Koronakis, Vassilis

Salmonellae employ two type III secretion systems (T3SSs), SPI1 and SPI2, to deliver virulence effectors into mammalian cells. SPI1 effectors, including actin-binding SipA, trigger initial bacterial...

Flexibility in a Drug Transport Accessory Protein: Molecular Dynamics Simulations of MexA

Vaccaro, Loredana, Koronakis, Vassilis, Sansom, Mark S. P.

Drug resistance in Gram-negative bacteria may be conferred via efflux through a tripartite complex of an inner membrane pump, an outer membrane pore, and a periplasmic adaptor protein. These are...

A periplasmic coiled-coil interface underlying TolC recruitment and the assembly of bacterial drug efflux pumps

Lobedanz, Sune, Bokma, Evert, Symmons, Martyn F., Koronakis, Eva, Hughes, Colin, Koronakis, Vassilis

Bacteria such as Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa expel antibiotics and other inhibitors via tripartite multidrug efflux pumps spanning the inner and outer membranes and the intervening...

Deciphering Interplay between Salmonella Invasion Effectors

Cain, Robert J., Hayward, Richard D., Koronakis, Vassilis

Bacterial pathogens have evolved a specialized type III secretion system (T3SS) to translocate virulence effector proteins directly into eukaryotic target cells. Salmonellae deploy effectors that...

Repetitive N-WASP–Binding Elements of the Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli Effector EspFU Synergistically Activate Actin Assembly

Campellone, Kenneth G., Cheng, Hui-Chun, Robbins, Douglas, Siripala, Anosha D., McGhie, Emma J., Hayward, Richard D., ...

Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) generate F-actin–rich adhesion pedestals by delivering effector proteins into mammalian cells. These effectors include the translocated receptor Tir, along...

Salmonella takes control: effector-driven manipulation of the host

McGhie, Emma J, Brawn, Lyndsey C, Hume, Peter J, Humphreys, Daniel, Koronakis, Vassilis

Salmonella pathogenesis relies upon the delivery of over thirty specialised effector proteins into the host cell via two distinct type III secretion systems. These effectors act in concert to subvert...

The Salmonella Effector SptP Dephosphorylates Host AAA+ ATPase VCP to Promote Development of its Intracellular Replicative Niche

Humphreys, Daniel, Hume, Peter J., Koronakis, Vassilis

Virulence effectors delivered into intestinal epithelial cells by Salmonella trigger actin remodeling to direct pathogen internalization and intracellular replication in Salmonella-containing...

The assembled structure of a complete tripartite bacterial multidrug efflux pump

Symmons, Martyn F., Bokma, Evert, Koronakis, Eva, Hughes, Colin, Koronakis, Vassilis

Bacteria like Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa expel drugs via tripartite multidrug efflux pumps spanning both inner and outer membranes and the intervening periplasm. In these pumps a...