Binding and Internalization of Clostridium perfringens Iota-Toxin in Lipid Rafts

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American Society for Microbiology

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Clostridium perfringens iota-toxin is a binary toxin composed of an enzymatic component (Ia) and a binding component (Ib). The oligomer of Ib formed in membranes induces endocytosis. We examined the binding and internalization of Ib by using Cy3-labeled Ib. Labeled Ib was retained at the membranes of MDCK cells for 60 min of incubation at 37°C, and later it was detected in cytoplasmic vesicles. To determine whether Ib associates with lipid rafts, we incubated MDCK cells with Ib at 4 or 37°C and fractionated the Triton-insoluble membranes. An Ib complex of 500 kDa was localized at 37°C to the insoluble fractions that fulfilled the criteria of lipid rafts, but it did not form at 4°C. The amount of complex in the raft fraction reached a maximum after 60 min of incubation at 37°C. When the cells that were preincubated with Ib at 4°C were incubated at 37°C, the complex was detected in the raft fraction. The treatment of MDCK cells with methyl-β-cyclodextrin reduced the localization of the Ib complex to the rafts and the rounding of the cells induced by Ia plus Ib. When 125I-labeled Ia was incubated with the cells in the presence of Ib at 37°C, it was localized in the raft fraction. Surface plasmon resonance analysis revealed that Ia binds to the oligomer of Ib. We conclude that Ib binds to a receptor in membranes and then moves to rafts and that Ia bound to the oligomer of Ib formed in the rafts is internalized.

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