Identification of the C. sordellii lethal toxin receptor elucidates principles of receptor specificity in clostridial toxins
Lee, H.; Beilhartz, G. L.; Kucharska, I.; Raman, S.; Cui, H.; Lam, M.; Rubinstein, J. L.; Schramek, D.; Julien, J.-P.; Melnyk, R.; Taipale, M.
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Clostridium sordellii lethal toxin (TcsL) is responsible for an almost invariably lethal toxic shock syndrome associated with gynecological C. sordellii infections. Here, using CRISPR/Cas9 screening, we identify semaphorins SEMA6A and SEMA6B as the cellular receptors for TcsL and demonstrate that soluble extracellular SEMA6A can protect mice from TcsL-induced edema. A 3.3 [A] cryo-EM structure shows that TcsL binds SEMA6A with the same region that the highly related C. difficile TcdB toxin uses to bind structurally unrelated Frizzled receptors. Remarkably, reciprocal mutations in this evolutionarily divergent surface are sufficient to switch receptor specificity between the toxins. Our findings establish semaphorins as physiologically relevant receptors for TcsL, and reveal the molecular basis for the difference in tissue targeting and disease pathogenesis between highly related toxins.
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