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Infection and Immunity, September 2006, p. 5362-5373, Vol. 74, No. 9
0019-9567/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/IAI.00539-06
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

The GTPase Rab4 Interacts with Chlamydia trachomatis Inclusion Membrane Protein CT229

K. A. Rzomp, A. R. Moorhead, and M. A. Scidmore*

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853

Received 3 April 2006/ Returned for modification 25 April 2006/ Accepted 24 June 2006

Chlamydiae, which are obligate intracellular bacteria, replicate in a nonlysosomal vacuole, termed an inclusion. Although neither the host nor the chlamydial proteins that mediate the intracellular trafficking of the inclusion have been clearly identified, several enhanced green fluorescent protein (GFP)-tagged Rab GTPases, including Rab4A, are recruited to chlamydial inclusions. GFP-Rab4A associates with inclusions in a species-independent fashion by 2 h postinfection by mechanisms that have not yet been elucidated. To test whether chlamydial inclusion membrane proteins (Incs) recruit Rab4 to the inclusion, we screened a collection of chlamydial Incs for their ability to interact with Rab4A by using a yeast two-hybrid assay. From our analysis, we identified a specific interaction between Rab4A and Chlamydia trachomatis Inc CT229, which is expressed during the initial stages of infection. CT229 interacts with only wild-type Rab4A and the constitutively active GTPase-deficient Rab4AQ67L but not with the dominant-negative GDP-restricted Rab4AS22N mutant. To confirm the interaction between CT229 and Rab4A, we demonstrated that DsRed-CT229 colocalized with GFP-Rab4A in HeLa cells and more importantly wild-type and constitutively active GFP-Rab4A colocalized with CT229 at the inclusion membrane in C. trachomatis serovar L2-infected HeLa cells. Taken together, these data suggest that CT229 interacts with and recruits Rab4A to the inclusion membrane and therefore may play a role in regulating the intracellular trafficking or fusogenicity of the chlamydial inclusion.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853. Phone: (607) 253-4059. Fax: (607) 253-3384. E-mail: ms299{at}cornell.edu.

Editor: R. P. Morrison

Infection and Immunity, September 2006, p. 5362-5373, Vol. 74, No. 9
0019-9567/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/IAI.00539-06
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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