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Enteropathogenic (EPEC) is a major cause of infantile diarrhoea in developing countries. While colonizing the gut mucosa, EPEC triggers extensive actin-polymerization activity at the site of intimate bacterial attachment, which is mediated by avid interaction between the outer-membrane adhesin intimin and the type III secretion system (T3SS) effector Tir. The prevailing dogma is that actin polymerization by EPEC is achieved following tyrosine phosphorylation of Tir, recruitment of Nck and activation of neuronal Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome protein (N-WASP). In closely related enterohaemorrhagic (EHEC) O157 : H7, actin polymerization is triggered following recruitment of the T3SS effector TccP/EspF (instead of Nck) and local activation of N-WASP. In addition to , typical EHEC O157 : H7 harbour a pseudogene (). However, it has recently been found that atypical, sorbitol-fermenting EHEC O157 carries functional and alleles. Interestingly, intact has been identified in the incomplete genome sequence of the prototype EPEC strain B171 (serotype O111 : H−), but it is missing from another prototype EPEC strain E2348/69 (O127 : H7). E2348/69 and B171 belong to two distinct evolutionary lineages of EPEC, termed EPEC 1 and EPEC 2, respectively. Here, it is reported that while both EPEC 1 and EPEC 2 triggered actin polymerization via the Nck pathway, was found in 26 of 27 (96.2 %) strains belonging to EPEC 2, and in none of the 34 strains belonging to EPEC 1. It was shown that TccP2 was: (i) translocated by the locus of enterocyte effacement-encoded T3SS; (ii) localized at the tip of the EPEC 2-induced actin-rich pedestals in infected HeLa cells and human intestinal organ cultures ; and (iii) essential for actin polymerization in infected Nck−/− cells. Therefore, unlike strains belonging to EPEC 1, strains belonging to EPEC 2 can trigger actin polymerization using both Nck and TccP2 actin-polymerization signalling cascades.

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