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Gentile R, Modric M, Thiele B, Jaeger KE, Kovacic F, Schott-Verdugo S, Gohlke H. Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Medium-Chain Free Fatty Acid-Regulated Activity of the Phospholipase PlaF from Pseudomonas aeruginosa. JACS AU 2024; 4:958-973. [PMID: 38559719 PMCID: PMC10976570 DOI: 10.1021/jacsau.3c00725] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2023] [Revised: 01/08/2024] [Accepted: 01/09/2024] [Indexed: 04/04/2024]
Abstract
PlaF is a membrane-bound phospholipase A1 from Pseudomonas aeruginosa that is involved in remodeling membrane glycerophospholipids (GPLs) and modulating virulence-associated signaling and metabolic pathways. Previously, we identified the role of medium-chain free fatty acids (FFAs) in inhibiting PlaF activity and promoting homodimerization, yet the underlying molecular mechanism remained elusive. Here, we used unbiased and biased molecular dynamics simulations and free energy computations to assess how PlaF interacts with FFAs localized in the water milieu surrounding the bilayer or within the bilayer and how these interactions regulate PlaF activity. Medium-chain FFAs localized in the upper bilayer leaflet can stabilize inactive dimeric PlaF, likely through interactions with charged surface residues, as has been experimentally validated. Potential of mean force (PMF) computations indicate that membrane-bound FFAs may facilitate the activation of monomeric PlaF by lowering the activation barrier for changing into a tilted, active configuration. We estimated that the coupled equilibria of PlaF monomerization-dimerization and tilting at the physiological concentration of PlaF lead to the majority of PlaF forming inactive dimers when in a cell membrane loaded with decanoic acid (C10). This is in agreement with a suggested in vivo product feedback loop and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry profiling results, indicating that PlaF catalyzes the release of C10 from P. aeruginosa membranes. Additionally, we found that C10 in the water milieu can access the catalytic site of active monomeric PlaF, contributing to the competitive component of C10-mediated PlaF inhibition. Our study provides mechanistic insights into how medium-chain FFAs may regulate the activity of PlaF, a potential bacterial drug target.
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Affiliation(s)
- Rocco Gentile
- Institute
for Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute
of Molecular Enzyme Technology, Heinrich
Heine University Düsseldorf, Forschungszentrum Jülich
GmbH, 52425 Jülich, Germany
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- Institute
of Bio- and Geosciences (IBG-2: Plant Sciences and IBG-3: Agrosphere), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52425 Jülich, Germany
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- Institute
of Molecular Enzyme Technology, Heinrich
Heine University Düsseldorf, Forschungszentrum Jülich
GmbH, 52425 Jülich, Germany
- Institute
of Bio- and Geosciences (IBG-1: Biotechnology), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52425 Jülich, Germany
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- Institute
of Molecular Enzyme Technology, Heinrich
Heine University Düsseldorf, Forschungszentrum Jülich
GmbH, 52425 Jülich, Germany
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- Institute
of Bio- and Geosciences (IBG-4: Bioinformatics), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52425 Jülich, Germany
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- Institute
for Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
- Institute
of Bio- and Geosciences (IBG-4: Bioinformatics), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52425 Jülich, Germany
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Akram F, Fatima T, Shabbir I, Haq IU, Ibrar R, Mukhtar H. Abridgement of Microbial Esterases and Their Eminent Industrial Endeavors. Mol Biotechnol 2024:10.1007/s12033-024-01108-7. [PMID: 38461181 DOI: 10.1007/s12033-024-01108-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2023] [Accepted: 02/05/2024] [Indexed: 03/11/2024]
Abstract
Esterases are hydrolases that contribute to the hydrolysis of ester bonds into both water-soluble acyl esters and emulsified glycerol-esters containing short-chain acyl groups. They have garnered significant attention from biotechnologists and organic chemists due to their immense commercial value. Esterases, with their diverse and significant properties, have become highly sought after for various industrial applications. Synthesized ubiquitously by a wide range of living organisms, including animals, plants, and microorganisms, these enzymes have found microbial esterases to be the preferred choice in industrial settings. The cost-effective production of microbial esterases ensures higher yields, unaffected by seasonal variations. Their applications span diverse sectors, such as food manufacturing, leather tanneries, paper and pulp production, textiles, detergents, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, biodiesel synthesis, bioremediation, and waste treatment. As the global trend shifts toward eco-friendly and sustainable practices, industrial processes are evolving with reduced waste generation, lower energy consumption, and the utilization of biocatalysts derived from renewable and unconventional raw materials. This review explores the background, structural characteristics, thermostability, and multifaceted roles of bacterial esterases in crucial industries, aiming to optimize and analyze their properties for continued successful utilization in diverse industrial processes. Additionally, recent advancements in esterase research are overviewed, showcasing novel techniques, innovations, and promising areas for further exploration.
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- Fatima Akram
- Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Government College University, Lahore, 54000, Pakistan.
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- Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Government College University, Lahore, 54000, Pakistan
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- Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Government College University, Lahore, 54000, Pakistan
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- Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Government College University, Lahore, 54000, Pakistan
- Pakistan Academy of Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Government College University, Lahore, 54000, Pakistan
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- Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Government College University, Lahore, 54000, Pakistan
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Sarnaik AP, Shinde S, Mhatre A, Jansen A, Jha AK, McKeown H, Davis R, Varman AM. Unravelling the hidden power of esterases for biomanufacturing of short-chain esters. Sci Rep 2023; 13:10766. [PMID: 37402758 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-37542-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2023] [Accepted: 06/23/2023] [Indexed: 07/06/2023] Open
Abstract
Microbial production of esters has recently garnered wide attention, but the current production metrics are low. Evidently, the ester precursors (organic acids and alcohols) can be accumulated at higher titers by microbes like Escherichia coli. Hence, we hypothesized that their 'direct esterification' using esterases will be efficient. We engineered esterases from various microorganisms into E. coli, along with overexpression of ethanol and lactate pathway genes. High cell density fermentation exhibited the strains possessing esterase-A (SSL76) and carbohydrate esterase (SSL74) as the potent candidates. Fed-batch fermentation at pH 7 resulted in 80 mg/L of ethyl acetate and 10 mg/L of ethyl lactate accumulation by SSL76. At pH 6, the total ester titer improved by 2.5-fold, with SSL76 producing 225 mg/L of ethyl acetate, and 18.2 mg/L of ethyl lactate, the highest reported titer in E. coli. To our knowledge, this is the first successful demonstration of short-chain ester production by engineering 'esterases' in E. coli.
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- Aditya P Sarnaik
- Chemical Engineering Program, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- Bioresource and Environmental Security, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA, USA
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- Chemical Engineering Program, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- Chemical Engineering Program, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- Chemical Engineering Program, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
- Bioresource and Environmental Security, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA, USA
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- Chemical Engineering Program, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- Bioresource and Environmental Security, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA, USA.
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- Chemical Engineering Program, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
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Bleffert F, Granzin J, Caliskan M, Schott-Verdugo SN, Siebers M, Thiele B, Rahme L, Felgner S, Dörmann P, Gohlke H, Batra-Safferling R, Jaeger KE, Kovacic F. Structural, mechanistic, and physiological insights into phospholipase A-mediated membrane phospholipid degradation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. eLife 2022; 11:e72824. [PMID: 35536643 PMCID: PMC9132575 DOI: 10.7554/elife.72824] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2021] [Accepted: 05/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Cells steadily adapt their membrane glycerophospholipid (GPL) composition to changing environmental and developmental conditions. While the regulation of membrane homeostasis via GPL synthesis in bacteria has been studied in detail, the mechanisms underlying the controlled degradation of endogenous GPLs remain unknown. Thus far, the function of intracellular phospholipases A (PLAs) in GPL remodeling (Lands cycle) in bacteria is not clearly established. Here, we identified the first cytoplasmic membrane-bound phospholipase A1 (PlaF) from Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which might be involved in the Lands cycle. PlaF is an important virulence factor, as the P. aeruginosa ΔplaF mutant showed strongly attenuated virulence in Galleria mellonella and macrophages. We present a 2.0-Å-resolution crystal structure of PlaF, the first structure that reveals homodimerization of a single-pass transmembrane (TM) full-length protein. PlaF dimerization, mediated solely through the intermolecular interactions of TM and juxtamembrane regions, inhibits its activity. The dimerization site and the catalytic sites are linked by an intricate ligand-mediated interaction network, which might explain the product (fatty acid) feedback inhibition observed with the purified PlaF protein. We used molecular dynamics simulations and configurational free energy computations to suggest a model of PlaF activation through a coupled monomerization and tilting of the monomer in the membrane, which constrains the active site cavity into contact with the GPL substrates. Thus, these data show the importance of the PlaF-mediated GPL remodeling pathway for virulence and could pave the way for the development of novel therapeutics targeting PlaF.
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- Florian Bleffert
- Institute of Molecular Enzyme Technology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbHJülichGermany
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- Institute of Biological Information Processing - Structural Biochemistry (IBI-7: Structural Biochemistry), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbHJülichGermany
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- Institute of Molecular Enzyme Technology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbHJülichGermany
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- Institute for Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, Heinrich Heine University DüsseldorfDuesseldorfGermany
- Centro de Bioinformática y Simulación Molecular (CBSM), Faculty of Engineering, University of TalcaTalcaChile
- John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC), Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), and Institute of Bio- and Geosciences (IBG-4: Bioinformatics), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbHJülichGermany
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- Institute of Molecular Physiology, and Biotechnology of Plants (IMBIO), University of BonnBonnGermany
- Institute for Plant Genetics, Heinrich Heine University DüsseldorfDüsseldorfGermany
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- Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, Plant Sciences (IBG-2), and Agrosphere (IBG-3), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbHJülichGermany
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- Department of Microbiology, and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical SchoolBostonUnited States
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- Department of Molecular Bacteriology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection ResearchBraunschweigGermany
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- Institute of Molecular Physiology, and Biotechnology of Plants (IMBIO), University of BonnBonnGermany
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- Institute of Biological Information Processing - Structural Biochemistry (IBI-7: Structural Biochemistry), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbHJülichGermany
- Institute for Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, Heinrich Heine University DüsseldorfDuesseldorfGermany
- John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC), Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), and Institute of Bio- and Geosciences (IBG-4: Bioinformatics), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbHJülichGermany
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- Institute of Biological Information Processing - Structural Biochemistry (IBI-7: Structural Biochemistry), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbHJülichGermany
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- Institute of Molecular Enzyme Technology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbHJülichGermany
- Institute of Bio- and Geosciences (IBG-1: Biotechnology), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbHJülichGermany
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- Institute of Molecular Enzyme Technology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbHJülichGermany
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Weiler AJ, Spitz O, Gudzuhn M, Schott-Verdugo SN, Kamel M, Thiele B, Streit WR, Kedrov A, Schmitt L, Gohlke H, Kovacic F. A phospholipase B from Pseudomonas aeruginosa with activity towards endogenous phospholipids affects biofilm assembly. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Biol Lipids 2022; 1867:159101. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbalip.2021.159101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2021] [Revised: 12/09/2021] [Accepted: 12/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Bleffert F, Granzin J, Gohlke H, Batra-Safferling R, Jaeger KE, Kovacic F. Pseudomonas aeruginosa esterase PA2949, a bacterial homolog of the human membrane esterase ABHD6: expression, purification and crystallization. Acta Crystallogr F Struct Biol Commun 2019; 75:270-277. [PMID: 30950828 PMCID: PMC6450514 DOI: 10.1107/s2053230x19002152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2018] [Accepted: 02/10/2019] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
Abstract
The human membrane-bound α/β-hydrolase domain 6 (ABHD6) protein modulates endocannabinoid signaling, which controls appetite, pain and learning, as well as being linked to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, through the degradation of the key lipid messenger 2-arachidonylglycerol (2-AG). This makes ABHD6 an attractive therapeutic target that lacks structural information. In order to better understand the molecular mechanism of 2-AG-hydrolyzing enzymes, the PA2949 protein from Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which has 49% sequence similarity to the ABHD6 protein, was cloned, overexpressed, purified and crystallized. Overexpression of PA2949 in the homologous host yielded the membrane-bound enzyme, which was purified in milligram amounts. Besides their sequence similarity, the enzymes both show specificity for the hydrolysis of 2-AG and esters of medium-length fatty acids. PA2949 in the presence of n-octyl β-D-glucoside showed a higher activity and stability at room temperature than those previously reported for PA2949 overexpressed and purified from Escherichia coli. A suitable expression host and stabilizing detergent were crucial for obtaining crystals, which belonged to the tetragonal space group I4122 and diffracted to a resolution of 2.54 Å. This study provides hints on the functional similarity of ABHD6-like proteins in prokaryotes and eukaryotes, and might guide the structural study of these difficult-to-crystallize proteins.
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- Florian Bleffert
- Institute of Molecular Enzyme Technology, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, D-52426 Jülich, Germany
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- Institute of Complex Systems ICS-6: Structural Biochemistry, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, D-52425 Jülich, Germany
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- Institute of Complex Systems ICS-6: Structural Biochemistry, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, D-52425 Jülich, Germany
- Institute of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
- John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC) and Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, D-52425 Jülich, Germany
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- Institute of Complex Systems ICS-6: Structural Biochemistry, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, D-52425 Jülich, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Enzyme Technology, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, D-52426 Jülich, Germany
- Institute of Bio- and Geosciences IBG-1: Biotechnology, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, D-52426 Jülich, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Enzyme Technology, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, D-52426 Jülich, Germany
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Gao X, Sun J, Liu Z, Huang WC, Secundo F, Zhao Y, Xue C, Mao X. Highly efficient preparation of free all-trans-astaxanthin fromHaematococcus pluvialisextract by a rapid biocatalytic method based on crude extracellular enzyme extract. Int J Food Sci Technol 2018. [DOI: 10.1111/ijfs.13947] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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- Xinwei Gao
- College of Food Science and Engineering; Ocean University of China; Qingdao 266003 China
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- College of Food Science and Engineering; Ocean University of China; Qingdao 266003 China
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- College of Food Science and Engineering; Ocean University of China; Qingdao 266003 China
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- College of Food Science and Engineering; Ocean University of China; Qingdao 266003 China
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- Istituto di Chimica del Riconoscimento Molecolare; CNR; v. Mario Bianco 9 Milan 20131 Italy
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- College of Food Science and Engineering; Ocean University of China; Qingdao 266003 China
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- College of Food Science and Engineering; Ocean University of China; Qingdao 266003 China
- Laboratory for Marine Drugs and Bioproducts of Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology; Qingdao 266237 China
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- College of Food Science and Engineering; Ocean University of China; Qingdao 266003 China
- Laboratory for Marine Drugs and Bioproducts of Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology; Qingdao 266237 China
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Siebers M, Rohr T, Ventura M, Schütz V, Thies S, Kovacic F, Jaeger KE, Berg M, Dörmann P, Schulz M. Disruption of microbial community composition and identification of plant growth promoting microorganisms after exposure of soil to rapeseed-derived glucosinolates. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0200160. [PMID: 29969500 PMCID: PMC6029813 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0200160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2018] [Accepted: 06/20/2018] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Land plants are engaged in intricate communities with soil bacteria and fungi indispensable for plant survival and growth. The plant-microbial interactions are largely governed by specific metabolites. We employed a combination of lipid-fingerprinting, enzyme activity assays, high-throughput DNA sequencing and isolation of cultivable microorganisms to uncover the dynamics of the bacterial and fungal community structures in the soil after exposure to isothiocyanates (ITC) obtained from rapeseed glucosinolates. Rapeseed-derived ITCs, including the cyclic, stable goitrin, are secondary metabolites with strong allelopathic affects against other plants, fungi and nematodes, and in addition can represent a health risk for human and animals. However, the effects of ITC application on the different bacterial and fungal organisms in soil are not known in detail. ITCs diminished the diversity of bacteria and fungi. After exposure, only few bacterial taxa of the Gammaproteobacteria, Bacteriodetes and Acidobacteria proliferated while Trichosporon (Zygomycota) dominated the fungal soil community. Many surviving microorganisms in ITC-treated soil where previously shown to harbor plant growth promoting properties. Cultivable fungi and bacteria were isolated from treated soils. A large number of cultivable microbial strains was capable of mobilizing soluble phosphate from insoluble calcium phosphate, and their application to Arabidopsis plants resulted in increased biomass production, thus revealing growth promoting activities. Therefore, inclusion of rapeseed-derived glucosinolates during biofumigation causes losses of microbiota, but also results in enrichment with ITC-tolerant plant microorganisms, a number of which show growth promoting activities, suggesting that Brassicaceae plants can shape soil microbiota community structure favoring bacteria and fungi beneficial for Brassica plants.
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- Meike Siebers
- Institute of Molecular Physiology and Biotechnology of Plants (IMBIO), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Physiology and Biotechnology of Plants (IMBIO), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Physiology and Biotechnology of Plants (IMBIO), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Physiology and Biotechnology of Plants (IMBIO), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Enzyme Technology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Enzyme Technology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Enzyme Technology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
- Institute of Bio- and Geosciences IBG-1: Biotechnology, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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- Institute for Organic Agriculture, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Experimental Farm Wiesengut of University of Bonn, Hennef, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Physiology and Biotechnology of Plants (IMBIO), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Physiology and Biotechnology of Plants (IMBIO), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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K D, M SP, Gautam P. Purification, immobilization and kinetic characterization of G-x-S-x-G esterase with short chain fatty acid specificity from Lysinibacillus fusiformis AU01. BIOCATALYSIS AND AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bcab.2017.09.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Wittgens A, Kovacic F, Müller MM, Gerlitzki M, Santiago-Schübel B, Hofmann D, Tiso T, Blank LM, Henkel M, Hausmann R, Syldatk C, Wilhelm S, Rosenau F. Novel insights into biosynthesis and uptake of rhamnolipids and their precursors. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2016; 101:2865-2878. [PMID: 27988798 PMCID: PMC5352749 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-016-8041-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2016] [Revised: 11/25/2016] [Accepted: 11/29/2016] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
Abstract
The human pathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa produces rhamnolipids, glycolipids with functions for bacterial motility, biofilm formation, and uptake of hydrophobic substrates. Rhamnolipids represent a chemically heterogeneous group of secondary metabolites composed of one or two rhamnose molecules linked to one or mostly two 3-hydroxyfatty acids of various chain lengths. The biosynthetic pathway involves rhamnosyltransferase I encoded by the rhlAB operon, which synthesizes 3-(3-hydroxyalkanoyloxy)alkanoic acids (HAAs) followed by their coupling to one rhamnose moiety. The resulting mono-rhamnolipids are converted to di-rhamnolipids in a third reaction catalyzed by the rhamnosyltransferase II RhlC. However, the mechanism behind the biosynthesis of rhamnolipids containing only a single fatty acid is still unknown. To understand the role of proteins involved in rhamnolipid biosynthesis the heterologous expression of rhl-genes in non-pathogenic Pseudomonas putida KT2440 strains was used in this study to circumvent the complex quorum sensing regulation in P. aeruginosa. Our results reveal that RhlA and RhlB are independently involved in rhamnolipid biosynthesis and not in the form of a RhlAB heterodimer complex as it has been previously postulated. Furthermore, we demonstrate that mono-rhamnolipids provided extracellularly as well as HAAs as their precursors are generally taken up into the cell and are subsequently converted to di-rhamnolipids by P. putida and the native host P. aeruginosa. Finally, our results throw light on the biosynthesis of rhamnolipids containing one fatty acid, which occurs by hydrolyzation of typical rhamnolipids containing two fatty acids, valuable for the production of designer rhamnolipids with desired physicochemical properties.
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- Andreas Wittgens
- Ulm Center for Peptide Pharmaceuticals (U-PEP), Ulm University, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89081, Ulm, Germany. .,Institute for Molecular Enzyme Technology (IMET), Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Wilhelm-Johnen-Straße, 52428, Jülich, Germany.
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- Institute for Molecular Enzyme Technology (IMET), Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Wilhelm-Johnen-Straße, 52428, Jülich, Germany
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- Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG, Biopharmaceutical and Analytical Development, Birkendorfer Straße 65, 88400, Biberach an der Riß, Germany
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- Institute of Process Engineering in Life Sciences, Section II: Technical Biology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Engler-Bunte-Ring 1, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Central Institute for Engineering, Electronics and Analytics, Section Analytics (ZEA-3), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Wilhelm-Johnen-Straße, 52428, Jülich, Germany
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- Institute for Bio- and Geosciences, IBG-3: Agrosphere, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Wilhelm-Johnen-Straße, 52428, Jülich, Germany
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- Institute of Applied Microbiology (iAMB), Aachen Biology and Biotechnology (ABBt), RWTH Aachen University, Worringerweg 1, 52074, Aachen, Germany
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- Institute of Applied Microbiology (iAMB), Aachen Biology and Biotechnology (ABBt), RWTH Aachen University, Worringerweg 1, 52074, Aachen, Germany
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- Institute of Food Science and Biotechnology, Department of Bioprocess Engineering (150k), University of Hohenheim, Fruwirthstraße 12, 70599, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Institute of Food Science and Biotechnology, Department of Bioprocess Engineering (150k), University of Hohenheim, Fruwirthstraße 12, 70599, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Institute of Process Engineering in Life Sciences, Section II: Technical Biology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Engler-Bunte-Ring 1, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Institute for Molecular Enzyme Technology (IMET), Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Wilhelm-Johnen-Straße, 52428, Jülich, Germany.,iQu Collegiate-Didactics, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Universitätsstraße 1, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Ulm Center for Peptide Pharmaceuticals (U-PEP), Ulm University, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89081, Ulm, Germany.,Institute for Molecular Enzyme Technology (IMET), Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Wilhelm-Johnen-Straße, 52428, Jülich, Germany
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