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Masuda R, Ohira N, Kitaguchi K, Yabe T. Novel role of homogalacturonan region of pectin in disrupting the interaction between fibronectin and integrin β1. Carbohydr Polym 2024; 336:122122. [PMID: 38670769 DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2024.122122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2024] [Revised: 03/29/2024] [Accepted: 04/01/2024] [Indexed: 04/28/2024]
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Pectin interacts with fibronectin (FN), a modular protein in the extracellular matrix. This interaction is significant as FN plays a pivotal role by binding to the receptor integrin α5β1. However, the molecular mechanism underlying the pectin-FN interaction and its impact on integrin binding remains unknown. In this study, water-soluble pectins (WSPs) were extracted from three different pectin sources and subsequently characterized. These included Citrus WSP, which primarily comprises the homogalacturonan region, and Kaki and Yuzu WSPs, both of which are rich in rhamnogalacturonan regions. We investigated the molecular interactions between these WSPs and two FN fragments, Anastellin and RetroNectin, using surface plasmon resonance analysis. Citrus WSP exhibited a notable binding affinity to FN, with a dissociation constant (KD) of approximately 10-7 M. In contrast, Kaki and Yuzu WSPs displayed comparatively weaker or negligible binding affinities. The binding reactivity of Citrus WSP with FN was notably diminished following the enzymatic removal of its methyl-ester groups. Additionally, Citrus WSP disrupted the binding of integrin β1 to RetroNectin without altering the affinity, despite its minimal direct binding to integrin itself. This study furthers our understanding of the intricate pectin-FN interaction and sheds light on their potential physiological relevance and impact on cellular responses.
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- Ryoya Masuda
- The United Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Gifu University, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu 501-1193, Japan
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- Department of Applied Life Science, Faculty of Applied Biological Sciences, Gifu University, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu 501-1193, Japan
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- The United Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Gifu University, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu 501-1193, Japan; Department of Applied Life Science, Faculty of Applied Biological Sciences, Gifu University, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu 501-1193, Japan; Preemptive Food Research Center (PFRC), Gifu University Institute for Advanced Study, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu 501-1193, Japan
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- The United Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Gifu University, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu 501-1193, Japan; Department of Applied Life Science, Faculty of Applied Biological Sciences, Gifu University, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu 501-1193, Japan; Preemptive Food Research Center (PFRC), Gifu University Institute for Advanced Study, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu 501-1193, Japan; Institute for Glyco-core Research (iGCORE), Gifu University, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu 501-1193, Japan.
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St John FJ, Bynum L, Tauscheck DA, Crooks C. Use of xylosidase 3C from Segatella baroniae to discriminate xylan non-reducing terminus substitution characteristics. BMC Res Notes 2024; 17:175. [PMID: 38915023 PMCID: PMC11197168 DOI: 10.1186/s13104-024-06835-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2023] [Accepted: 06/17/2024] [Indexed: 06/26/2024] Open
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OBJECTIVE New characterized carbohydrate-active enzymes are needed for use as tools to discriminate complex carbohydrate structural features. Fungal glycoside hydrolase family 3 (GH3) β-xylosidases have been shown to be useful for the structural elucidation of glucuronic acid (GlcA) and arabinofuranose (Araf) substituted oligoxylosides. A homolog of these GH3 fungal enzymes from the bacterium Segatella baroniae (basonym Prevotella bryantii), Xyl3C, has been previously characterized, but those studies did not address important functional specificity features. In an interest to utilize this enzyme for laboratory methods intended to discriminate the structure of the non-reducing terminus of substituted xylooligosaccharides, we have further characterized this GH3 xylosidase. RESULTS In addition to verification of basic functional characteristics of this xylosidase we have determined its mode of action as it relates to non-reducing end xylose release from GlcA and Araf substituted oligoxylosides. Xyl3C cleaves xylose from the non-reducing terminus of β-1,4-xylan until occurrence of a penultimate substituted xylose. If this substitution is O2 linked, then Xyl3C removes the non-reducing xylose to leave the substituted xylose as the new non-reducing terminus. However, if the substitution is O3 linked, Xyl3C does not hydrolyze, thus leaving the substitution one-xylose (penultimate) from the non-reducing terminus. Hence, Xyl3C enables discrimination between O2 and O3 linked substitutions on the xylose penultimate to the non-reducing end. These findings are contrasted using a homologous enzyme also from S. baroniae, Xyl3B, which is found to yield a penultimate substituted nonreducing terminus regardless of which GlcA or Araf substitution exists.
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- Franz J St John
- Institute for Microbial and Biochemical Technology, Forest Products Laboratory, USDA Forest Service, One Gifford Pinchot Dr, Madison, WI, 53726, USA.
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- Institute for Microbial and Biochemical Technology, Forest Products Laboratory, USDA Forest Service, One Gifford Pinchot Dr, Madison, WI, 53726, USA
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- Institute for Microbial and Biochemical Technology, Forest Products Laboratory, USDA Forest Service, One Gifford Pinchot Dr, Madison, WI, 53726, USA
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- Institute for Microbial and Biochemical Technology, Forest Products Laboratory, USDA Forest Service, One Gifford Pinchot Dr, Madison, WI, 53726, USA
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Wang C, Zhao R, Fu W, Li S, Cheng J, Jiang S, Guo M. Insights from 4D Label-Free Proteomic Analysis into Variation of Milk Fat Globule Membrane Proteins of Human Milk Associated with Infant's Gender. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2023; 71:12116-12128. [PMID: 37503859 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.3c01257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/29/2023]
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Milk fat globule membrane (MFGM) protein profiles of breast milk collected from women in northeast China with male or female babies were investigated using a four-dimensional (4D) label-free proteomic technique. Altogether, 2538 proteins were detected and quantified and 249 were differentially expressed, with 198 decreased proteins compared to the samples of mothers with female babies. Different proteins associated with infant's gender were principally located in nuclear. The differentially expressed proteins were mainly involved in gene ontology (GO) functions of the cellular process, binding, and cell and found to be distributed in lipid-related biological processes and molecular functions to a large extent. The pathway of neurodegeneration-multiple disease ranked top for the altered proteins. The screened proteins were observed to contain some proteins related to typical functions of immunity, lipid metabolism, digestion, and growth and development. 114 proteins formed a relatively compact network (269 interactions) and dolichyl-diphospho-oligosaccharide-protein glycosyltransferase subunit 2 interacted the most with other proteins as the hub protein. MFGM proteins of breast milk were affected by the sex of offspring, and these findings may provide useful information for reasonable adjustments of infant formula powder specifically for boys or girls in the market.
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- Cuina Wang
- Department of Food Science, Jilin University, Changchun 130062, China
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- Department of Food Science, Jilin University, Changchun 130062, China
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- Department of Food Science, Jilin University, Changchun 130062, China
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- Department of Food Science, Jilin University, Changchun 130062, China
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- Department of Food Science, Northeast Agriculture University, Harbin 150036, China
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- R&D center, Heilongjiang Feihe Dairy Co., Ltd., Beijing 100015, China
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- Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05405, United States
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Hobbs EEM, Gloster TM, Pritchard L. cazy_webscraper: local compilation and interrogation of comprehensive CAZyme datasets. Microb Genom 2023; 9:mgen001086. [PMID: 37578822 PMCID: PMC10483417 DOI: 10.1099/mgen.0.001086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2023] [Accepted: 07/23/2023] [Indexed: 08/15/2023] Open
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Carbohydrate active enzymes (CAZymes) are pivotal in biological processes including energy metabolism, cell structure maintenance, signalling, and pathogen recognition. Bioinformatic prediction and mining of CAZymes improves our understanding of these activities and enables discovery of candidates of interest for industrial biotechnology, particularly the processing of organic waste for biofuel production. CAZy (www.cazy.org) is a high-quality, manually curated, and authoritative database of CAZymes that is often the starting point for these analyses. Automated querying and integration of CAZy data with other public datasets would constitute a powerful resource for mining and exploring CAZyme diversity. However, CAZy does not itself provide methods to automate queries, or integrate annotation data from other sources (except by following hyperlinks) to support further analysis. To overcome these limitations we developed cazy_webscraper, a command-line tool that retrieves data from CAZy and other online resources to build a local, shareable and reproducible database that augments and extends the authoritative CAZy database. cazy_webscraper's integration of curated CAZyme annotations with their corresponding protein sequences, up-to-date taxonomy assignments, and protein structure data facilitates automated large-scale and targeted bioinformatic CAZyme family analysis and candidate screening. This tool has found widespread uptake in the community, with over 35 000 downloads (from April 2021 to June 2023). We demonstrate the use and application of cazy_webscraper to: (i) augment, update and correct CAZy database accessions; (ii) explore the taxonomic distribution of CAZymes recorded in CAZy, identifying under-represented taxa and unusual CAZy class distributions; and (iii) investigate three CAZymes having potential biotechnological application for degradation of biomass, but lacking a representative structure in the PDB database. We describe in general how cazy_webscraper facilitates functional, structural and evolutionary studies to aid identification of candidate enzymes for further characterization, and specifically note that CAZy provides supporting evidence for recent expansion of the Auxiliary Activities (AA) CAZy family in eukaryotes, consistent with functions potentially specific to eukaryotic lifestyles.
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- Emma E. M. Hobbs
- School of Biology and Biomedical Sciences Research Complex, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9ST, UK
- Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G4 0RE, UK
- Cell and Molecular Sciences, James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee, DD2 5DA, UK
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- School of Biology and Biomedical Sciences Research Complex, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9ST, UK
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- Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G4 0RE, UK
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He J, Steffen JH, Thulstrup PW, Pedersen JN, Sauerland MB, Otzen DE, Hawkins CL, Gourdon P, Davies MJ, Hägglund P. Anastellin impacts on the processing of extracellular matrix fibronectin and stimulates release of cytokines from coronary artery smooth muscle cells. Sci Rep 2022; 12:22051. [PMID: 36543832 PMCID: PMC9772232 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-26359-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2022] [Accepted: 12/13/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Anastellin, a recombinant protein fragment from the first type III module of fibronectin, mimics a partially unfolded intermediate implicated in the assembly of fibronectin fibrils. Anastellin influences the structure of fibronectin and initiates in vitro fibrillation, yielding "superfibronectin", a polymer with enhanced cell-adhesive properties. This ability is absent in an anastellin double mutant, L37AY40A. Here we demonstrate that both wild-type and L37AY40A anastellin affect fibronectin processing within the extracellular matrix (ECM) of smooth muscle cells. Fibronectin fibrils are diminished in the ECM from cells treated with anastellin, but are partially rescued by supplementation with plasma fibronectin in cell media. Proteomic analyses reveal that anastellin also impacts on the processing of other ECM proteins, with increased collagen and decreased laminin detected in media from cells exposed to wild-type anastellin. Moreover, both anastellin forms stimulate release of inflammatory cytokines, including interleukin 6. At the molecular level, L37AY40A does not exhibit major perturbations of structural features relative to wild-type anastellin, though the mutant showed differences in heparin binding characteristics. These findings indicate that wild-type and L37AY40A anastellin share similar molecular features but elicit slightly different, but partially overlapping, responses in smooth muscle cells resulting in altered secretion of cytokines and proteins involved in ECM processing.
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- Jianfei He
- grid.5254.60000 0001 0674 042XDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- grid.5254.60000 0001 0674 042XDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- grid.5254.60000 0001 0674 042XDepartment of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- grid.7048.b0000 0001 1956 2722Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO), Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark ,grid.432104.0Present Address: Arla Foods Ingredients Group P/S, Sønderupvej 26, 6920 Videbæk, Denmark
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- grid.5254.60000 0001 0674 042XDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- grid.7048.b0000 0001 1956 2722Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO), Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- grid.5254.60000 0001 0674 042XDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- grid.5254.60000 0001 0674 042XDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- grid.5254.60000 0001 0674 042XDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- grid.5254.60000 0001 0674 042XDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Nathawat R, Maku RV, Patel HK, Sankaranarayanan R, Sonti RV. Role of the FnIII domain associated with a cell wall-degrading enzyme cellobiosidase of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae. MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY 2022; 23:1011-1021. [PMID: 35278018 PMCID: PMC9190976 DOI: 10.1111/mpp.13205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2021] [Revised: 02/15/2022] [Accepted: 02/15/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Cellobiosidase (CbsA) is an important secreted virulence factor of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo), which causes bacterial blight of rice. CbsA is one of several cell wall-degrading enzymes secreted by Xoo via the type II secretion system (T2SS). CbsA is considered a fundamental virulence factor for vascular pathogenesis. CbsA has an N-terminal glycosyl hydrolase domain and a C-terminal fibronectin type III (FnIII) domain. Interestingly, the secreted form of CbsA lacks the FnIII domain during in planta growth. Here we show that the presence of the FnIII domain inhibits the enzyme activity of CbsA on polysaccharide substrates like carboxymethylcellulose. The FnIII domain is required for the interaction of CbsA with SecB chaperone, and this interaction is crucial for the stability and efficient transport of CbsA across the inner membrane. Deletion of the FnIII domain reduced virulence similar to ΔcbsA Xoo, which corroborates the importance of the FnIII domain in CbsA. Our work elucidates a hitherto unknown function of the FnIII domain in enabling the virulence-promoting activity of CbsA.
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- CSIR – Centre for Cellular and Molecular BiologyHyderabadIndia
- Present address:
DBT – National Institute of Animal BiotechnologyHyderabadIndia
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- CSIR – Centre for Cellular and Molecular BiologyHyderabadIndia
- Present address:
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research TirupatiTirupatiIndia
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Wang Y, Zhang Y, Mi J, Jiang C, Wang Q, Li X, Zhao M, Geng Z, Song X, Li J, Zuo L, Ge S, Zhang Z, Wen H, Wang Z, Su F. ANKFN1 plays both protumorigenic and metastatic roles in hepatocellular carcinoma. Oncogene 2022; 41:3680-3693. [PMID: 35725908 PMCID: PMC9287179 DOI: 10.1038/s41388-022-02380-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2021] [Revised: 05/19/2022] [Accepted: 06/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Ankyrin repeat and fibronectin type III domain containing 1 (ANKFN1) is reported to be involved in human height and developmental abnormalities, but the expression profile and molecular function of ANKFN1 in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remain unknown. This study aimed to evaluate the clinical significance and biological function of ANKFN1 in HCC and investigate whether ANKFN1 can be used for differential diagnosis in HCC. Here, we showed that ANKFN1 was upregulated in 126 tumor tissues compared with adjacent nontumorous tissues in HCC patients. The upregulation of ANKFN1 in HCC was associated with cirrhosis, alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) levels and poor prognosis. Moreover, silencing ANKFN1 expression suppressed HCC cell proliferation, migration, invasion, and metastasis in vitro and subcutaneous tumorigenesis in vivo. However, ANKFN1 overexpression promoted HCC proliferation and metastasis in an orthotopic liver transplantation model and attenuated the above biological effects in HCC cells. ANKFN1 significantly affected HCC cell proliferation by inducing G1/S transition and cell apoptosis. Mechanistically, we demonstrated that ANKFN1 promoted cell proliferation, migration, and invasion via activation of the cyclin D1/Cdk4/Cdk6 pathway by stimulating the MEK1/2-ERK1/2 pathway. Moreover, ANKFN1-induced cell proliferation, migration, and invasion were partially reversed by ERK1/2 inhibitors. Taken together, our results indicate that ANKFN1 promotes HCC cell proliferation and metastasis by activating the MEK1/2-ERK1/2 signaling pathway. Our work also suggests that ANKFN1 is a potential therapeutic target for HCC.
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- Yanyan Wang
- The First Affiliated Hospital of Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu, 233004, Anhui, PR China
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- The First Affiliated Hospital of Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu, 233004, Anhui, PR China
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- The First Affiliated Hospital of Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu, 233004, Anhui, PR China
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- Cancer Neurobiology Group, School of Biomedical Sciences & Pharmacy, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, 2308, Australia.,School of Medicine & Public Health, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, 2308, Australia
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- Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu, 233004, Anhui, PR China
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- The First Affiliated Hospital of Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu, 233004, Anhui, PR China
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- The First Affiliated Hospital of Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu, 233004, Anhui, PR China
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- The First Affiliated Hospital of Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu, 233004, Anhui, PR China
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- The First Affiliated Hospital of Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu, 233004, Anhui, PR China
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- The First Affiliated Hospital of Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu, 233004, Anhui, PR China
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- The First Affiliated Hospital of Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu, 233004, Anhui, PR China
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- The First Affiliated Hospital of Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu, 233004, Anhui, PR China
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- The First Affiliated Hospital of Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu, 233004, Anhui, PR China
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- The First Affiliated Hospital of Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu, 233004, Anhui, PR China
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- The First Affiliated Hospital of Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu, 233004, Anhui, PR China.
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- The First Affiliated Hospital of Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu, 233004, Anhui, PR China.
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Cohen LJ, Han SM, Lau P, Guisado D, Liang Y, Nakashige TG, Ali T, Chiang D, Rahman A, Brady SF. Unraveling function and diversity of bacterial lectins in the human microbiome. Nat Commun 2022; 13:3101. [PMID: 35661736 PMCID: PMC9166713 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-29949-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2021] [Accepted: 04/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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The mechanisms by which commensal organisms affect human physiology remain poorly understood. Lectins are non-enzymatic carbohydrate binding proteins that all organisms employ as part of establishing a niche, evading host-defenses and protecting against pathogens. Although lectins have been extensively studied in plants, bacterial pathogens and human immune cells for their role in disease pathophysiology and as therapeutics, the role of bacterial lectins in the human microbiome is largely unexplored. Here we report on the characterization of a lectin produced by a common human associated bacterium that interacts with myeloid cells in the blood and intestine. In mouse and cell-based models, we demonstrate that this lectin induces distinct immunologic responses in peripheral and intestinal leukocytes and that these responses are specific to monocytes, macrophages and dendritic cells. Our analysis of human microbiota sequencing data reveal thousands of unique sequences that are predicted to encode lectins, many of which are highly prevalent in the human microbiome yet completely uncharacterized. Based on the varied domain architectures of these lectins we predict they will have diverse effects on the human host. The systematic investigation of lectins in the human microbiome should improve our understanding of human health and provide new therapeutic opportunities.
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- Louis J Cohen
- Department of Medicine, Icahn Genomics Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
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- Department of Medicine, Icahn Genomics Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Icahn Genomics Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Icahn Genomics Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
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- Laboratory of Genetically Encoded Small Molecules, Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
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- Laboratory of Genetically Encoded Small Molecules, Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Internal Medicine-Pediatrics, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA
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- Human Immune Monitoring Core, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Laboratory of Genetically Encoded Small Molecules, Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA.
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Xing M, Wang Y, Zhao Y, Chi Z, Chi Z, Liu G. C-Terminal Bacterial Immunoglobulin-like Domain of κ-Carrageenase Serves as a Multifunctional Module to Promote κ-Carrageenan Hydrolysis. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2022; 70:1212-1222. [PMID: 35057622 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.1c07233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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κ-Carrageenase is an important component for κ-carrageenan oligosaccharide production. Generally, noncatalytic domains are appended to carbohydrate-active domains and potentiate catalytic activity. However, studies devoted to κ-carrageenase are relatively few. Here, a C-terminal bacterial immunoglobulin-like domain (Big_2) was identified in κ-carrageenase (PpCgk) from Pseudoalteromonas porphyrae. Biochemical characterization of native PpCgk and its two truncations, PpCgkCD (catalytic domain) and PpBig_2 (Big_2 domain), revealed that the specific activity, catalytic efficiency (kcat/Km(app)), specific κ-carrageenan-binding capacity, and thermostability of PpCgk were significantly higher than those of PpCgkCD, suggesting that the noncatalytic PpBig_2 domain is a multifunctional module and essential for maintaining the activity and thermostability of PpCgk. Furthermore, it was found that the mode of action of PpCgk was more processive on both the dissolved and gelled substrates than that of PpCgkCD, indicating that PpBig_2 contributes to the processivity of PpCgk. Interestingly, PpBig_2 can be used as an independent module to enhance the hydrolysis of κ-carrageenan through its disruptive function. In addition, sequence analysis suggests that Big_2 domains are highly conserved in bacterial κ-carrageenases, implying the universality of their noncatalytic functions. These findings reveal the multifunctional role of the noncatalytic PpBig_2 and will guide future functional analyses and biotechnology applications of Big_2 domains.
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- Mengdan Xing
- College of Marine Life Science, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China
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- College of Marine Life Science, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China
- Institute of Evolution & Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China
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- College of Marine Life Science, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China
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- College of Marine Life Science, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China
- Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266003, China
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- College of Marine Life Science, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China
- Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266003, China
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- College of Marine Life Science, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China
- Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266003, China
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Development of a Phage Cocktail to Target Salmonella Strains Associated with Swine. Pharmaceuticals (Basel) 2022; 15:ph15010058. [PMID: 35056115 PMCID: PMC8777603 DOI: 10.3390/ph15010058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2021] [Revised: 12/20/2021] [Accepted: 12/30/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Infections caused by multidrug resistant Salmonella strains are problematic in swine and are entering human food chains. Bacteriophages (phages) could be used to complement or replace antibiotics to reduce infection within swine. Here, we extensively characterised six broad host range lytic Salmonella phages, with the aim of developing a phage cocktail to prevent or treat infection. Intriguingly, the phages tested differed by one to five single nucleotide polymorphisms. However, there were clear phenotypic differences between them, especially in their heat and pH sensitivity. In vitro killing assays were conducted to determine the efficacy of phages alone and when combined, and three cocktails reduced bacterial numbers by ~2 × 103 CFU/mL within two hours. These cocktails were tested in larvae challenge studies, and prophylactic treatment with phage cocktail SPFM10-SPFM14 was the most efficient. Phage treatment improved larvae survival to 90% after 72 h versus 3% in the infected untreated group. In 65% of the phage-treated larvae, Salmonella counts were below the detection limit, whereas it was isolated from 100% of the infected, untreated larvae group. This study demonstrates that phages effectively reduce Salmonella colonisation in larvae, which supports their ability to similarly protect swine.
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New Family of Carbohydrate-Binding Modules Defined by a Galactosyl-Binding Protein Module from a Cellvibrio japonicus Endo-Xyloglucanase. Appl Environ Microbiol 2021; 87:e0263420. [PMID: 33355108 DOI: 10.1128/aem.02634-20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Carbohydrate-binding modules (CBMs) are usually appended to carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes) and serve to potentiate catalytic activity, for example, by increasing substrate affinity. The Gram-negative soil saprophyte Cellvibrio japonicus is a valuable source for CAZyme and CBM discovery and characterization due to its innate ability to degrade a wide array of plant polysaccharides. Bioinformatic analysis of the CJA_2959 gene product from C. japonicus revealed a modular architecture consisting of a fibronectin type III (Fn3) module, a cryptic module of unknown function (X181), and a glycoside hydrolase family 5 subfamily 4 (GH5_4) catalytic module. We previously demonstrated that the last of these, CjGH5F, is an efficient and specific endo-xyloglucanase (M. A. Attia, C. E. Nelson, W. A. Offen, N. Jain, et al., Biotechnol Biofuels 11:45, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1186/s13068-018-1039-6). In the present study, C-terminal fusion of superfolder green fluorescent protein in tandem with the Fn3-X181 modules enabled recombinant production and purification from Escherichia coli. Native affinity gel electrophoresis revealed binding specificity for the terminal galactose-containing plant polysaccharides galactoxyloglucan and galactomannan. Isothermal titration calorimetry further evidenced a preference for galactoxyloglucan polysaccharide over short oligosaccharides comprising the limit-digest products of CjGH5F. Thus, our results identify the X181 module as the defining member of a new CBM family, CBM88. In addition to directly revealing the function of this CBM in the context of xyloglucan metabolism by C. japonicus, this study will guide future bioinformatic and functional analyses across microbial (meta)genomes. IMPORTANCE This study reveals carbohydrate-binding module family 88 (CBM88) as a new family of galactose-binding protein modules, which are found in series with diverse microbial glycoside hydrolases, polysaccharide lyases, and carbohydrate esterases. The definition of CBM88 in the carbohydrate-active enzymes classification (http://www.cazy.org/CBM88.html) will significantly enable future microbial (meta)genome analysis and functional studies.
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Pineau C, Guschinskaya N, Gonçalves IR, Ruaudel F, Robert X, Gouet P, Ballut L, Shevchik VE. Structure-function analysis of pectate lyase Pel3 reveals essential facets of protein recognition by the bacterial type 2 secretion system. J Biol Chem 2021; 296:100305. [PMID: 33465378 PMCID: PMC7949064 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2021.100305] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2020] [Revised: 01/11/2021] [Accepted: 01/14/2021] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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The type II secretion system (T2SS) transports fully folded proteins of various functions and structures through the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria. The molecular mechanisms of substrate recruitment by T2SS remain elusive but a prevailing view is that the secretion determinants could be of a structural nature. The phytopathogenic γ-proteobacteria, Pectobacterium carotovorum and Dickeya dadantii, secrete similar sets of homologous plant cell wall degrading enzymes, mainly pectinases, by similar T2SSs, called Out. However, the orthologous pectate lyases Pel3 and PelI from these bacteria, which share 67% of sequence identity, are not secreted by the counterpart T2SS of each bacterium, indicating a fine-tuned control of protein recruitment. To identify the related secretion determinants, we first performed a structural characterization and comparison of Pel3 with PelI using X-ray crystallography. Then, to assess the biological relevance of the observed structural variations, we conducted a loop-substitution analysis of Pel3 combined with secretion assays. We showed that there is not one element with a definite secondary structure but several distant and structurally flexible loop regions that are essential for the secretion of Pel3 and that these loop regions act together as a composite secretion signal. Interestingly, depending on the crystal contacts, one of these key secretion determinants undergoes disorder-to-order transitions that could reflect its transient structuration upon the contact with the appropriate T2SS components. We hypothesize that such T2SS-induced structuration of some intrinsically disordered zones of secretion substrates could be part of the recruitment mechanism used by T2SS.
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- Camille Pineau
- Microbiologie Adaptation et Pathogénie, Univ Lyon, Université de Lyon 1, UMR5240 CNRS, Villeurbanne, France; Microbiologie Adaptation et Pathogénie, Univ Lyon, INSA Lyon, UMR5240, Villeurbanne, France
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- Microbiologie Adaptation et Pathogénie, Univ Lyon, Université de Lyon 1, UMR5240 CNRS, Villeurbanne, France; Microbiologie Adaptation et Pathogénie, Univ Lyon, INSA Lyon, UMR5240, Villeurbanne, France
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- Microbiologie Adaptation et Pathogénie, Univ Lyon, Université de Lyon 1, UMR5240 CNRS, Villeurbanne, France
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- Microbiologie Adaptation et Pathogénie, Univ Lyon, Université de Lyon 1, UMR5240 CNRS, Villeurbanne, France
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- Molecular Microbiology and Structural Biochemistry, Univ Lyon, UMR5086 CNRS, Lyon, France
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- Molecular Microbiology and Structural Biochemistry, Univ Lyon, UMR5086 CNRS, Lyon, France
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- Molecular Microbiology and Structural Biochemistry, Univ Lyon, UMR5086 CNRS, Lyon, France.
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- Microbiologie Adaptation et Pathogénie, Univ Lyon, Université de Lyon 1, UMR5240 CNRS, Villeurbanne, France; Microbiologie Adaptation et Pathogénie, Univ Lyon, INSA Lyon, UMR5240, Villeurbanne, France.
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Souto BDM, de Araújo ACB, Hamann PRV, Bastos ADR, Cunha IDS, Peixoto J, Kruger RH, Noronha EF, Quirino BF. Functional screening of a Caatinga goat (Capra hircus) rumen metagenomic library reveals a novel GH3 β-xylosidase. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0245118. [PMID: 33449963 PMCID: PMC7810302 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0245118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2020] [Accepted: 12/23/2020] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Functional screening of metagenomic libraries is an effective approach for identification of novel enzymes. A Caatinga biome goat rumen metagenomic library was screened using esculin as a substrate, and a gene from an unknown bacterium encoding a novel GH3 enzyme, BGL11, was identified. None of the BGL11 closely related genes have been previously characterized. Recombinant BGL11 was obtained and kinetically characterized. Substrate specificity of the purified protein was assessed using seven synthetic aryl substrates. Activity towards nitrophenyl-β-D-glucopyranoside (pNPG), 4-nitrophenyl-β-D-xylopyranoside (pNPX) and 4-nitrophenyl-β-D-cellobioside (pNPC) suggested that BGL11 is a multifunctional enzyme with β-glucosidase, β-xylosidase, and cellobiohydrolase activities. However, further testing with five natural substrates revealed that, although BGL11 has multiple substrate specificity, it is most active towards xylobiose. Thus, in its native goat rumen environment, BGL11 most likely functions as an extracellular β-xylosidase acting on hemicellulose. Biochemical characterization of BGL11 showed an optimal pH of 5.6, and an optimal temperature of 50°C. Enzyme stability, an important parameter for industrial application, was also investigated. At 40°C purified BGL11 remained active for more than 15 hours without reduction in activity, and at 50°C, after 7 hours of incubation, BGL11 remained 60% active. The enzyme kinetic parameters of Km and Vmax using xylobiose were determined to be 3.88 mM and 38.53 μmol.min-1.mg-1, respectively, and the Kcat was 57.79 s-1. In contrast to BLG11, most β-xylosidases kinetically studied belong to the GH43 family and have been characterized only using synthetic substrates. In industry, β-xylosidases can be used for plant biomass deconstruction, and the released sugars can be fermented into valuable bio-products, ranging from the biofuel ethanol to the sugar substitute xylitol.
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- Genomic Sciences and Biotechnology Program, Universidade Católica de Brasília, Brasília, DF, Brazil
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- Department of Cellular Biology, Laboratory of Enzymology, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, DF, Brazil
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- Department of Cellular Biology, Laboratory of Enzymology, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, DF, Brazil
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- Department of Cellular Biology, Laboratory of Enzymology, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, DF, Brazil
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Nakamura A, Ishiwata D, Visootsat A, Uchiyama T, Mizutani K, Kaneko S, Murata T, Igarashi K, Iino R. Domain architecture divergence leads to functional divergence in binding and catalytic domains of bacterial and fungal cellobiohydrolases. J Biol Chem 2020; 295:14606-14617. [PMID: 32816991 PMCID: PMC7586223 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra120.014792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2020] [Revised: 08/15/2020] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Cellobiohydrolases directly convert crystalline cellulose into cellobiose and are of biotechnological interest to achieve efficient biomass utilization. As a result, much research in the field has focused on identifying cellobiohydrolases that are very fast. Cellobiohydrolase A from the bacterium Cellulomonas fimi (CfCel6B) and cellobiohydrolase II from the fungus Trichoderma reesei (TrCel6A) have similar catalytic domains (CDs) and show similar hydrolytic activity. However, TrCel6A and CfCel6B have different cellulose-binding domains (CBDs) and linkers: TrCel6A has a glycosylated peptide linker, whereas CfCel6B's linker consists of three fibronectin type 3 domains. We previously found that TrCel6A's linker plays an important role in increasing the binding rate constant to crystalline cellulose. However, it was not clear whether CfCel6B's linker has similar function. Here we analyze kinetic parameters of CfCel6B using single-molecule fluorescence imaging to compare CfCel6B and TrCel6A. We find that CBD is important for initial binding of CfCel6B, but the contribution of the linker to the binding rate constant or to the dissociation rate constant is minor. The crystal structure of the CfCel6B CD showed longer loops at the entrance and exit of the substrate-binding tunnel compared with TrCel6A CD, which results in higher processivity. Furthermore, CfCel6B CD showed not only fast surface diffusion but also slow processive movement, which is not observed in TrCel6A CD. Combined with the results of a phylogenetic tree analysis, we propose that bacterial cellobiohydrolases are designed to degrade crystalline cellulose using high-affinity CBD and high-processivity CD.
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- Akihiko Nakamura
- Department of Applied Life Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan.
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- Department of Functional Molecular Science, School of Physical Sciences, SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Hayama, Kanagawa, Japan; Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan
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- Department of Functional Molecular Science, School of Physical Sciences, SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Hayama, Kanagawa, Japan; Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan
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- Department of Biomaterials Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Tsurumi, Yokohama, Japan
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- Department of Subtropical Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of the Ryukyus, Nishihara, Okinawa, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Chiba University, Inage, Chiba, Japan
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- Department of Biomaterials Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Functional Molecular Science, School of Physical Sciences, SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Hayama, Kanagawa, Japan; Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan.
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da Silva VM, Cabral AD, Sperança MA, Squina FM, Muniz JRC, Martin L, Nicolet Y, Garcia W. High-resolution structure of a modular hyperthermostable endo-β-1,4-mannanase from Thermotoga petrophila: The ancillary immunoglobulin-like module is a thermostabilizing domain. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS 2020; 1868:140437. [PMID: 32325255 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2020.140437] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2020] [Revised: 03/20/2020] [Accepted: 04/18/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The endo-β-1,4-mannanase from the hyperthermostable bacterium Thermotoga petrophila (TpMan) is an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of mannan and heteromannan polysaccharides. Of the three domains that comprise TpMan, the N-terminal GH5 catalytic domain and the C-terminal carbohydrate-binding domain are connected through a central ancillary domain of unknown structure and function. In this study, we report the partial crystal structure of the TpMan at 1.45 Å resolution, so far, the first modular hyperthermostable endo-β-1,4-mannanase structure determined. The structure exhibits two domains, a (β/α)8-barrel GH5 catalytic domain connected via a linker to the central domain with an immunoglobulin-like β-sandwich fold formed of seven β-strands. Functional analysis showed that whereas the immunoglobulin-like domain does not have the carbohydrate-binding function, it stacks on the GH5 catalytic domain acting as a thermostabilizing domain and allowing operation at hyperthermophilic conditions. The carbohydrate-binding domain is absent in the crystal structure most likely due to its high flexibility around the immunoglobulin-like domain which may act also as a pivot. These results represent new structural and functional information useful on biotechnological applications for biofuel and food industries.
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- Viviam M da Silva
- Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas, Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC), Santo André, SP, Brazil; Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS, IBS, Metalloproteins Unit, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas, Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC), São Bernardo do Campo, SP, Brazil
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- Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas, Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC), São Bernardo do Campo, SP, Brazil
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- Programa de Processos Tecnológicos e Ambientais, Universidade de Sorocaba (UNISO), Sorocaba, SP, Brazil
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- São Carlos Institute of Physics (IFSC), University of São Paulo (USP), São Carlos, SP, Brazil
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS, IBS, Metalloproteins Unit, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS, IBS, Metalloproteins Unit, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas, Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC), Santo André, SP, Brazil.
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Kaur G, Burroughs AM, Iyer LM, Aravind L. Highly regulated, diversifying NTP-dependent biological conflict systems with implications for the emergence of multicellularity. eLife 2020; 9:e52696. [PMID: 32101166 PMCID: PMC7159879 DOI: 10.7554/elife.52696] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2019] [Accepted: 02/25/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Social cellular aggregation or multicellular organization pose increased risk of transmission of infections through the system upon infection of a single cell. The generality of the evolutionary responses to this outside of Metazoa remains unclear. We report the discovery of several thematically unified, remarkable biological conflict systems preponderantly present in multicellular prokaryotes. These combine thresholding mechanisms utilizing NTPase chaperones (the MoxR-vWA couple), GTPases and proteolytic cascades with hypervariable effectors, which vary either by using a reverse transcriptase-dependent diversity-generating system or through a system of acquisition of diverse protein modules, typically in inactive form, from various cellular subsystems. Conciliant lines of evidence indicate their deployment against invasive entities, like viruses, to limit their spread in multicellular/social contexts via physical containment, dominant-negative interactions or apoptosis. These findings argue for both a similar operational 'grammar' and shared protein domains in the sensing and limiting of infections during the multiple emergences of multicellularity.
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- Gurmeet Kaur
- Computational Biology Branch, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of HealthBethesdaUnited States
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- Computational Biology Branch, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of HealthBethesdaUnited States
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- Computational Biology Branch, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of HealthBethesdaUnited States
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- Computational Biology Branch, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of HealthBethesdaUnited States
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Cheung JK, Adams V, D'Souza D, James M, Day CJ, Jennings MP, Lyras D, Rood JI. The EngCP endo α-N-acetylgalactosaminidase is a virulence factor involved in Clostridium perfringens gas gangrene infections. Int J Med Microbiol 2020; 310:151398. [PMID: 31987726 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmm.2020.151398] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2019] [Revised: 11/11/2019] [Accepted: 12/15/2019] [Indexed: 10/25/2022] Open
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Clostridium perfringens is the causative agent of human clostridial myonecrosis; the major toxins involved in this disease are α-toxin and perfringolysin O. The RevSR two-component regulatory system has been shown to be involved in regulating virulence in a mouse myonecrosis model. Previous microarray and RNAseq analysis of a revR mutant implied that factors other than the major toxins may play a role in virulence. The RNAseq data showed that the expression of the gene encoding the EngCP endo α-N-acetylgalactosaminidase (CPE0693) was significantly down-regulated in a revR mutant. Enzymes from this family have been identified in several Gram-positive pathogens and have been postulated to contribute to their virulence. In this study, we constructed an engCP mutant of C. perfringens and showed that it was significantly less virulent than its wild-type parent strain. Virulence was restored by complementation in trans with the wild-type engCP gene. We also demonstrated that purified EngCP was able to hydrolyse α-dystroglycan derived from C2C12 mouse myotubes. However, EngCP had little effect on membrane permeability in mice, suggesting that EngCP may play a role other than the disruption of the structural integrity of myofibres. Glycan array analysis indicated that EngCP could recognise structures containing the monosaccharide N-acetlygalactosamine at 4C, but could recognise structures terminating in galactose, glucose and N-acetylglucosamine under conditions where EngCP was enzymatically active. In conclusion, we have obtained evidence that EngCP is required for virulence in C. perfringens and, although classical exotoxins are important for disease, we have now shown that an O-glycosidase also plays an important role in the disease process.
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- Jackie K Cheung
- Infection and Immunity Program, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute and Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton 3800, Australia
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- Infection and Immunity Program, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute and Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton 3800, Australia
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- Infection and Immunity Program, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute and Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton 3800, Australia
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- Infection and Immunity Program, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute and Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton 3800, Australia
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- Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University, Gold Coast 4222, Australia
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- Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University, Gold Coast 4222, Australia
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- Infection and Immunity Program, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute and Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton 3800, Australia
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- Infection and Immunity Program, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute and Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton 3800, Australia.
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Xu Q, Alahuhta M, Wei H, Knoshaug EP, Wang W, Baker JO, Vander Wall T, Himmel ME, Zhang M. Expression of an endoglucanase-cellobiohydrolase fusion protein in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Yarrowia lipolytica, and Lipomyces starkeyi. BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS 2018; 11:322. [PMID: 30524504 PMCID: PMC6278004 DOI: 10.1186/s13068-018-1301-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2018] [Accepted: 10/25/2018] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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The low secretion levels of cellobiohydrolase I (CBHI) in yeasts are one of the key barriers preventing yeast from directly degrading and utilizing lignocellulose. To overcome this obstacle, we have explored the approach of genetically linking an easily secreted protein to CBHI, with CBHI being the last to be folded. The Trichoderma reesei eg2 (TrEGII) gene was selected as the leading gene due to its previously demonstrated outstanding secretion in yeast. To comprehensively characterize the effects of this fusion protein, we tested this hypothesis in three industrially relevant yeasts: Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Yarrowia lipolytica, and Lipomyces starkeyi. Our initial assays with the L. starkeyi secretome expressing differing TrEGII domains fused to a chimeric Talaromyces emersonii-T. reesei CBHI (TeTrCBHI) showed that the complete TrEGII enzyme, including the glycoside hydrolase (GH) 5 domain is required for increased expression level of the fusion protein when linked to CBHI. We found that this new construct (TrEGII-TeTrCBHI, Fusion 3) had an increased secretion level of at least threefold in L. starkeyi compared to the expression level of the chimeric TeTrCBHI. However, the same improvements were not observed when Fusion 3 construct was expressed in S. cerevisiae and Y. lipolytica. Digestion of pretreated corn stover with the secretomes of Y. lipolytica and L. starkeyi showed that conversion was much better using Y. lipolytica secretomes (50% versus 29%, respectively). In Y. lipolytica, TeTrCBHI performed better than the fusion construct. Furthermore, S. cerevisiae expression of Fusion 3 construct was poor and only minimal activity was observed when acting on the substrate, pNP-cellobiose. No activity was observed for the pNP-lactose substrate. Clearly, this approach is not universally applicable to all yeasts, but works in specific cases. With purified protein and soluble substrates, the exoglucanase activity of the GH7 domain embedded in the Fusion 3 construct in L. starkeyi was significantly higher than that of the GH7 domain in TeTrCBHI expressed alone. It is probable that a higher fraction of fusion construct CBHI is in an active form in Fusion 3 compared to just TeTrCBHI. We conclude that the strategy of leading TeTrCBHI expression with a linked TrEGII module significantly improved the expression of active CBHI in L. starkeyi.
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- Qi Xu
- Biosciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401 USA
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- Biosciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401 USA
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- Biosciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401 USA
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- Biosciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401 USA
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- Biosciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401 USA
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- Biosciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401 USA
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- Biosciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401 USA
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- Biosciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401 USA
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- Biosciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401 USA
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Andreou A, Giastas P, Christoforides E, Eliopoulos EE. Structural and Evolutionary Insights within the Polysaccharide Deacetylase Gene Family of Bacillus anthracis and Bacillus cereus. Genes (Basel) 2018; 9:E386. [PMID: 30065210 PMCID: PMC6115787 DOI: 10.3390/genes9080386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2018] [Revised: 07/24/2018] [Accepted: 07/25/2018] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Functional and folding constraints impose interdependence between interacting sites along the protein chain that are envisaged through protein sequence evolution. Studying the influence of structure in phylogenetic models requires detailed and reliable structural models. Polysaccharide deacetylases (PDAs), members of the carbohydrate esterase family 4, perform mainly metal-dependent deacetylation of O- or N-acetylated polysaccharides such as peptidoglycan, chitin and acetylxylan through a conserved catalytic core termed the NodB homology domain. Genomes of Bacillus anthracis and its relative Bacillus cereus contain multiple genes of putative or known PDAs. A comparison of the functional domains of the recently determined PDAs from B. anthracis and B. cereus and multiple amino acid and nucleotide sequence alignments and phylogenetic analysis performed on these closely related species showed that there were distinct differences in binding site formation, despite the high conservation on the protein sequence, the folding level and the active site assembly. This may indicate that, subject to biochemical verification, the binding site-forming sequence fragments are under functionally driven evolutionary pressure to accommodate and recognize distinct polysaccharide residues according to cell location, use, or environment. Finally, we discuss the suggestion of the paralogous nature of at least two genes of B. anthracis, ba0330 and ba0331, via specific differences in gene sequence, protein structure, selection pressure and available localization patterns. This study may contribute to understanding the mechanisms under which sequences evolve in their structures and how evolutionary processes enable structural variations.
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- Athena Andreou
- Department of Biotechnology, Laboratory of Genetics, Agricultural University of Athens, Iera Odos 75, 11855 Athens, Greece.
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- Department of Neurobiology, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Vasilissis Sofias 127, 11521 Athens, Greece.
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- Department of Biotechnology, Laboratory of Genetics, Agricultural University of Athens, Iera Odos 75, 11855 Athens, Greece.
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- Department of Biotechnology, Laboratory of Genetics, Agricultural University of Athens, Iera Odos 75, 11855 Athens, Greece.
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O'Riordan N, O'Callaghan J, Buttò LF, Kilcoyne M, Joshi L, Hickey RM. Bovine glycomacropeptide promotes the growth of Bifidobacterium longum ssp. infantis and modulates its gene expression. J Dairy Sci 2018; 101:6730-6741. [PMID: 29803426 DOI: 10.3168/jds.2018-14499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2018] [Accepted: 04/06/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Bovine milk glycomacropeptide (GMP) is derived from κ-casein, with exclusively o-linked glycosylation. Glycomacropeptide promoted the growth of Bifidobacterium longum ssp. infantis in a concentration-dependent manner, and this activity was lost following periodate treatment of the GMP (GMP-P), which disables biological recognition of the conjugated oligosaccharides. Transcriptional analysis of B. longum ssp. infantis following exposure to GMP revealed a substantial response to GMP relative to bacteria treated with GMP-P, with a greater number of differentially expressed transcripts and larger fold changes versus the control. Therefore, stimulation of B. longum ssp. infantis growth by GMP is intrinsically linked to the peptide's O-linked glycosylation. The pool of differentially expressed transcripts included 2 glycoside hydrolase (family 25) genes, which were substantially upregulated following exposure to GMP, but not GMP-P. These GH25 genes were present in duplicated genomic islands that also contained genes encoding fibronectin type III binding domain proteins and numerous phage-related proteins, all of which were also upregulated. Homologs of this genomic arrangement were present in other Bifidobacterium species, which suggest it may be a conserved domain for the utilization of glycosylated peptides. This study provides insights into the molecular basis for the prebiotic effect of bovine milk GMP on B. longum ssp. infantis.
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- N O'Riordan
- Teagasc Food Research Centre, Moorepark, Fermoy, P61C996, Co. Cork, Ireland; Advanced Glycoscience Research Cluster, National Centre for Biomedical Engineering Science, National University of Ireland Galway, H91TK33 Galway, Ireland
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- Department of Microbiology, University College Cork, T12K8AF Cork, Ireland
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- Department of Microbiology, University College Cork, T12K8AF Cork, Ireland; Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, University College Cork, T12K8AF Cork, Ireland
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- Advanced Glycoscience Research Cluster, National Centre for Biomedical Engineering Science, National University of Ireland Galway, H91TK33 Galway, Ireland
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- Advanced Glycoscience Research Cluster, National Centre for Biomedical Engineering Science, National University of Ireland Galway, H91TK33 Galway, Ireland
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- Teagasc Food Research Centre, Moorepark, Fermoy, P61C996, Co. Cork, Ireland.
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Munir R, Levin DB. Enzyme Systems of Anaerobes for Biomass Conversion. ADVANCES IN BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING/BIOTECHNOLOGY 2016; 156:113-138. [PMID: 26907548 DOI: 10.1007/10_2015_5002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Biofuels from abundantly available cellulosic biomass are an attractive alternative to current petroleum-based fuels (fossil fuels). Although several strategies exist for commercial production of biofuels, conversion of biomass to biofuels via consolidated bioprocessing offers the potential to reduce production costs and increase processing efficiencies. In consolidated bioprocessing (CBP), enzyme production, cellulose hydrolysis, and fermentation are all carried out in a single-step by microorganisms that efficiently employ a multitude of intricate enzymes which act synergistically to breakdown cellulose and its associated cell wall components. Various strategies employed by anaerobic cellulolytic bacteria for biomass hydrolysis are described in this chapter. In addition, the regulation of CAZymes, the role of "omics" technologies in assessing lignocellulolytic ability, and current strategies for improving biomass hydrolysis for optimum biofuel production are highlighted.
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- Riffat Munir
- Department of Biosystems Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, R3T 5V6
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- Department of Biosystems Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, R3T 5V6.
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Voss BJ, Loh JT, Hill S, Rose KL, McDonald WH, Cover TL. Alteration of the Helicobacter pylori membrane proteome in response to changes in environmental salt concentration. Proteomics Clin Appl 2015; 9:1021-34. [PMID: 26109032 DOI: 10.1002/prca.201400176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2014] [Revised: 05/18/2015] [Accepted: 06/22/2015] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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PURPOSE Helicobacter pylori infection and a high dietary salt intake are each risk factors for the development of gastric cancer. We hypothesize that changes in environmental salt concentrations lead to alterations in the H. pylori membrane proteome. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN Label-free and iTRAQ methods were used to identify H. pylori proteins that change in abundance in response to alterations in environmental salt concentrations. In addition, we biotinylated intact bacteria that were grown under high- or low-salt conditions, and thereby analyzed salt-induced changes in the abundance of surface-exposed proteins. RESULTS Proteins with increased abundance in response to high salt conditions included CagA, the outer membrane protein HopQ, and fibronectin domain-containing protein HP0746. Proteins with increased abundance in response to low salt conditions included VacA, two VacA-like proteins (ImaA and FaaA), outer-membrane iron transporter FecA3, and several proteins involved in flagellar activity. Consistent with the proteomic data, bacteria grown in high salt conditions exhibited decreased motility compared to bacteria grown in lower salt conditions. CONCLUSION AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE Alterations in the H. pylori membrane proteome in response to high salt conditions may contribute to the increased risk of gastric cancer associated with a high salt diet.
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- Bradley J Voss
- Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Proteomics Laboratory, Mass Spectrometry Research Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Proteomics Laboratory, Mass Spectrometry Research Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA.,Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Proteomics Laboratory, Mass Spectrometry Research Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA.,Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA.,Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA.,Veterans Affairs Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Nashville, TN, USA
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Zhong W, Ding S, Guo H. The chitinase C gene PsChiC from Pseudomonas sp. and its synergistic effects on larvicidal activity. Genet Mol Biol 2015; 38:366-72. [PMID: 26500441 PMCID: PMC4612601 DOI: 10.1590/s1415-475738320140320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2014] [Accepted: 01/28/2015] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Pseudomonas sp. strain TXG6-1, a chitinolytic gram-negative bacterium, was isolated from a vegetable field in Taixing city, Jiangsu Province, China. In this study, a Pseudomonas chitinase C gene (PsChiC) was isolated from the chromosomal DNA of this bacterium using a pair of specific primers. The PsChiC gene consisted of an open reading frame of 1443 nucleotides and encoded 480 amino acid residues with a calculated molecular mass of 51.66 kDa. The deduced PsChiC amino acid sequence lacked a signal sequence and consisted of a glycoside hydrolase family 18 catalytic domain responsible for chitinase activity, a fibronectin type III-like domain (FLD) and a C-terminal chitin-binding domain (ChBD). The amino acid sequence of PsChiCshowed high sequence homology (> 95%) with chitinase C from Serratia marcescens. SDS-PAGE showed that the molecular mass of chitinase PsChiC was 52 kDa. Chitinase assays revealed that the chitobiosidase and endochitinase activities of PsChiCwere 51.6- and 84.1-fold higher than those of pET30a, respectively. Although PsChiC showed little insecticidal activity towards Spodoptera litura larvae, an insecticidal assay indicated that PsChiC increased the insecticidal toxicity of SpltNPV by 1.78-fold at 192 h and hastened death. These results suggest that PsChiC from Pseudomonas sp. could be useful in improving the pathogenicity of baculoviruses.
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- Wanfang Zhong
- Institute of Plant Protection, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Lab of Food Quality and Safety of Jiangsu Province, State Key Laboratory Breeding Base, Nanjing, People's Republic of China. ; Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Plant Protection, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Lab of Food Quality and Safety of Jiangsu Province, State Key Laboratory Breeding Base, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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Fan TP, Su YH. FGF signaling repertoire of the indirect developing hemichordate Ptychodera flava. Mar Genomics 2015; 24 Pt 2:167-75. [PMID: 26232261 DOI: 10.1016/j.margen.2015.07.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2015] [Revised: 07/20/2015] [Accepted: 07/20/2015] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Fibroblast growth factors (FGFs) are a group of ligands that play multiple roles during development by transducing signals through FGF receptors (FGFRs) to downstream factors. At least 22 FGF ligands and 4 receptors have been identified in vertebrates, while six to eight FGF ligands and a single FGFR are present in invertebrate chordates, such as tunicates and amphioxus. The chordate FGFs can be categorized into at least seven subfamilies, and the members of which expanded during the evolution of early vertebrates. In contrast, only one FGF and two FGFRs have been found in sea urchins. Thus, it is unclear whether the FGF subfamilies duplicated in the lineage leading to the chordates, or sea urchins lost several fgf genes. Analyses of the FGF signaling repertoire in hemichordates, which together with echinoderms form the closest group to the chordates, may provide insights into the evolution of FGF signaling in deuterostomes. In this study, we identified five FGFs and three FGFRs from Ptychodera flava, an indirect-developing hemichordate acorn worm. Phylogenetic analyses revealed that hemichordates possess a conserved FGF8/17/18 in addition to several putative hemichordate-specific FGFs. Analyses of sequence similarity and protein domain organizations suggested that the sea urchin and hemichordate FGFRs arose from independent lineage-specific duplications. Furthermore, the acorn worm fgf and fgfr genes were demonstrated to be expressed during P. flava embryogenesis. These results set the foundations for further functional studies of FGF signaling in hemichordates and provided insights into the evolutionary history of the FGF repertoire.
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- Tzu-Pei Fan
- Molecular and Biological Agricultural Sciences Program, Taiwan International Graduate Program, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan; Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan; Graduate Institute of Biotechnology, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung 40227, Taiwan
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- Molecular and Biological Agricultural Sciences Program, Taiwan International Graduate Program, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan; Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan; Biotechnology Center, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung 40227, Taiwan.
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Lim S, Seo J, Choi H, Yoon D, Nam J, Kim H, Cho S, Chang J. Metagenome Analysis of Protein Domain Collocation within Cellulase Genes of Goat Rumen Microbes. ASIAN-AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCES 2014; 26:1144-51. [PMID: 25049895 PMCID: PMC4093234 DOI: 10.5713/ajas.2013.13219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2013] [Revised: 05/11/2013] [Accepted: 04/29/2013] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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In this study, protein domains with cellulase activity in goat rumen microbes were investigated using metagenomic and bioinformatic analyses. After the complete genome of goat rumen microbes was obtained using a shotgun sequencing method, 217,892,109 pair reads were filtered, including only those with 70% identity, 100-bp matches, and thresholds below E(-10) using METAIDBA. These filtered contigs were assembled and annotated using blastN against the NCBI nucleotide database. As a result, a microbial community structure with 1431 species was analyzed, among which Prevotella ruminicola 23 bacteria and Butyrivibrio proteoclasticus B316 were the dominant groups. In parallel, 201 sequences related with cellulase activities (EC.3.2.1.4) were obtained through blast searches using the enzyme.dat file provided by the NCBI database. After translating the nucleotide sequence into a protein sequence using Interproscan, 28 protein domains with cellulase activity were identified using the HMMER package with threshold E values below 10(-5). Cellulase activity protein domain profiling showed that the major protein domains such as lipase GDSL, cellulase, and Glyco hydro 10 were present in bacterial species with strong cellulase activities. Furthermore, correlation plots clearly displayed the strong positive correlation between some protein domain groups, which was indicative of microbial adaption in the goat rumen based on feeding habits. This is the first metagenomic analysis of cellulase activity protein domains using bioinformatics from the goat rumen.
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- SooYeon Lim
- Department of Agricultural Biotechnology and Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
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- Department of Agricultural Biotechnology and Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
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- Department of Agricultural Biotechnology and Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
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- Department of Agricultural Biotechnology and Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
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- Department of Agricultural Biotechnology and Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
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- Department of Agricultural Biotechnology and Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
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- Department of Agricultural Biotechnology and Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
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- Department of Agricultural Biotechnology and Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
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Frederiksen RF, Paspaliari DK, Larsen T, Storgaard BG, Larsen MH, Ingmer H, Palcic MM, Leisner JJ. Bacterial chitinases and chitin-binding proteins as virulence factors. MICROBIOLOGY (READING, ENGLAND) 2013; 159:833-847. [PMID: 23519157 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.051839-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Bacterial chitinases (EC 3.2.1.14) and chitin-binding proteins (CBPs) play a fundamental role in the degradation of the ubiquitous biopolymer chitin, and the degradation products serve as an important nutrient source for marine- and soil-dwelling bacteria. However, it has recently become clear that representatives of both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacterial pathogens encode chitinases and CBPs that support infection of non-chitinous mammalian hosts. This review addresses this biological role of bacterial chitinases and CBPs in terms of substrate specificities, regulation, secretion and involvement in cellular and animal infection.
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- Rikki F Frederiksen
- Department of Veterinary Disease Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Grønnegaardsvej 15, 1870 Frederiksberg C., Denmark
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- Department of Veterinary Disease Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Grønnegaardsvej 15, 1870 Frederiksberg C., Denmark
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- Department of Veterinary Disease Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Grønnegaardsvej 15, 1870 Frederiksberg C., Denmark
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- Carlsberg Laboratory, Gamle Carlsbergvej 10, 1799 Copenhagen V., Denmark
- Department of Veterinary Disease Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Grønnegaardsvej 15, 1870 Frederiksberg C., Denmark
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- Department of Veterinary Disease Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Grønnegaardsvej 15, 1870 Frederiksberg C., Denmark
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- Department of Veterinary Disease Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Grønnegaardsvej 15, 1870 Frederiksberg C., Denmark
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- Carlsberg Laboratory, Gamle Carlsbergvej 10, 1799 Copenhagen V., Denmark
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- Department of Veterinary Disease Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Grønnegaardsvej 15, 1870 Frederiksberg C., Denmark
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Chen S, Kaufman MG, Miazgowicz KL, Bagdasarian M, Walker ED. Molecular characterization of a cold-active recombinant xylanase from Flavobacterium johnsoniae and its applicability in xylan hydrolysis. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2013; 128:145-155. [PMID: 23196234 PMCID: PMC4106359 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2012.10.087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2012] [Revised: 10/16/2012] [Accepted: 10/19/2012] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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A novel xylanase gene, xyn10A, was cloned from Flavobacterium johsoniae, overexpressed in a flavobacterial expression system, the recombinant enzyme purified by Ni-affinity chromatography, and enzyme structure and activity analyzed. Xyn10A was found to be a modular xylanase with an Fn3 accessory domain on its N-terminal and a catalytic region on the C-terminal. The optimum pH and temperature for Xyn10A was 8.0 and 30 °C, but Xyn10A retained 50% activity at 4 °C, indicating that Xyn10A is a cold-active xylanase. A Fn3-deletion xylanase had relative activity ca. 3.6-fold lower than the wild-type, indicating that Fn3 promotes xylanase activity. The Fn3 region also contributed to stability of the enzyme at elevated temperatures. However, Fn3 did not bind this xylanase to insoluble substrates. The enzyme hydrolyzed xylo-oligosaccharides into xylobiose, and xylose with xylobiose as the main product, confirming that Xyn10A is a strict endo-β-1,4-xylanase. Xyn10A also hydrolyzed birchwood and beechwood xylan to yield mainly xylose, xylobiose and xylotriose.
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- Shicheng Chen
- Dept of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.
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Kumar S, Haque AS, Jha G, Sonti RV, Sankaranarayanan R. Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic studies of CbsA, a secretory exoglucanase from Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae. Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun 2012; 68:1191-4. [PMID: 23027745 DOI: 10.1107/s1744309112034197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2012] [Accepted: 08/01/2012] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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The bacterial pathogen Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae causes bacterial leaf blight, a serious disease of rice. The secreted exoglucanase CbsA is an important virulence factor of this pathogen. It belongs to the glycosyl hydrolase 6 family of proteins based on the carbohydrate-active enzyme (CAZY) classification. In this study, CbsA has been overexpressed, purified and crystallized. The crystal diffracted to a resolution of 1.86 Å and belonged to space group P2(1)2(1)2(1). It contained one monomer per asymmetric unit, with a solvent content of 45.8%.
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- Sushil Kumar
- Structural Biology Laboratory, CSIR - Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad 500 007, India
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Han Y, Agarwal V, Dodd D, Kim J, Bae B, Mackie RI, Nair SK, Cann IKO. Biochemical and structural insights into xylan utilization by the thermophilic bacterium Caldanaerobius polysaccharolyticus. J Biol Chem 2012; 287:34946-34960. [PMID: 22918832 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m112.391532] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Hemicellulose is the next most abundant plant cell wall component after cellulose. The abundance of hemicellulose such as xylan suggests that their hydrolysis and conversion to biofuels can improve the economics of bioenergy production. In an effort to understand xylan hydrolysis at high temperatures, we sequenced the genome of the thermophilic bacterium Caldanaerobius polysaccharolyticus. Analysis of the partial genome sequence revealed a gene cluster that contained both hydrolytic enzymes and also enzymes key to the pentose-phosphate pathway. The hydrolytic enzymes in the gene cluster were demonstrated to convert products from a large endoxylanase (Xyn10A) predicted to anchor to the surface of the bacterium. We further use structural and calorimetric studies to demonstrate that the end products of Xyn10A hydrolysis of xylan are recognized and bound by XBP1, a putative solute-binding protein, likely for transport into the cell. The XBP1 protein showed preference for xylo-oligosaccharides as follows: xylotriose > xylobiose > xylotetraose. To elucidate the structural basis for the oligosaccharide preference, we solved the co-crystal structure of XBP1 complexed with xylotriose to a 1.8-Å resolution. Analysis of the biochemical data in the context of the co-crystal structure reveals the molecular underpinnings of oligosaccharide length specificity.
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- Yejun Han
- Energy Biosciences Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801; Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801
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- Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801; Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801
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- Energy Biosciences Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801; Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801; Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801
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- Energy Biosciences Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801; Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801; Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801
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- Energy Biosciences Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801; Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801; Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801
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- Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801; Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801; Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801.
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- Energy Biosciences Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801; Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801; Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801; Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801; Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801.
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Brunecky R, Alahuhta M, Bomble YJ, Xu Q, Baker JO, Ding SY, Himmel ME, Lunin VV. Structure and function of theClostridium thermocellumcellobiohydrolase A X1-module repeat: enhancement through stabilization of the CbhA complex. ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION D: BIOLOGICAL CRYSTALLOGRAPHY 2012; 68:292-9. [DOI: 10.1107/s0907444912001680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2011] [Accepted: 01/13/2012] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Baker PJ, Chan YM, Hertel M, Montclare JK. Characterization and identification of the protein partners of Fn3 domain in FnTm2. Protein Expr Purif 2011; 81:42-48. [PMID: 21907285 DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2011.08.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2011] [Revised: 08/18/2011] [Accepted: 08/22/2011] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Recently, a novel transmembrane protein was found to be up-regulated in the auditory learning pathway of birds and mammals. The protein, FnTm2, was predicted to have an extracellular fibronectin III (Fn3) domain and a single transmembrane domain. By contrast to other studied Fn3 domains the extracellular domain of FnTm2 bears several cysteine residues, which are predicted to form disulfide bonds. The Fn3 domain of the FnTm2 protein was expressed in DH5-α Escherichia coli (E. coli) cells, purified and characterized by circular dichroism (CD). In order to identify binding partners to Fn3, the isolated protein was incubated with bird brain lysate for a pull down treatment. Of the proteins recognized, myelin basic protein (MBP) was identified as a bona fide partner; it was further characterized for binding to Fn3 in vitro via fluorescence spectroscopy and confirmed via isothermal calorimetry (ITC).
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- Peter James Baker
- Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, 6 Metrotech Center, Brooklyn, NY 11201, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, 6 Metrotech Center, Brooklyn, NY 11201, United States
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- Laboratory of Animal Behavior, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, 6 Metrotech Center, Brooklyn, NY 11201, United States; Department of Biochemistry, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY 11203, United States.
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Henderson B, Nair S, Pallas J, Williams MA. Fibronectin: a multidomain host adhesin targeted by bacterial fibronectin-binding proteins. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2011; 35:147-200. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2010.00243.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 227] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Kuang XL, Zhao XM, Xu HF, Shi YY, Deng JB, Sun GT. Spatio-temporal expression of a novel neuron-derived neurotrophic factor (NDNF) in mouse brains during development. BMC Neurosci 2010; 11:137. [PMID: 20969804 PMCID: PMC2984559 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-11-137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2010] [Accepted: 10/25/2010] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Background Neuron-derived neurotrophic factor (NDNF) is evolutionarily well conserved, being present in invertebrate animals such as the nematode, Caenorhabditis elegans, as well as in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. Multiple cysteines are conserved between species and secondary structure prediction shows that NDNF is mainly composed of beta-strands. In this study, we aimed to investigate the function of NDNF. Results NDNF is a glycosylated, disulfide-bonded secretory protein that contains a fibronectin type III domain. NDNF promoted migration and growth and elicited neurite outgrowth of mouse hippocampal neurons in culture. NDNF also protected cultured hippocamal neurons against excitotoxicity and amyloid beta-peptide toxicity. Western blotting showed that NDNF was exclusively expressed in the brain and spinal cord. Immunostaining indicated that NDNF was expressed by neurons and not by astrocytes. Cajal-Retzius cells, cortex neurons, hippocampus neurons, olfactory mitral cells, cerebellar purkinje cells, cerebellar granular cells and spinal neurons were found to be NDNF-positive. NDNF expression was observed in the neurons during development. Conclusions The results of this study indicated that NDNF is a novel neurotrophic factor derived from neurons that may be useful in the treatment of neuronal degeneration diseases and nerve injuries.
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- Xiu-Li Kuang
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Medical School, Henan University, KaiFeng, PR China
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Marín-Navarro J, Gurgu L, Alamar S, Polaina J. Structural and functional analysis of hybrid enzymes generated by domain shuffling between Saccharomyces cerevisiae (var. diastaticus) Sta1 glucoamylase and Saccharomycopsis fibuligera Bgl1 β-glucosidase. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2010; 89:121-30. [DOI: 10.1007/s00253-010-2845-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2010] [Revised: 08/11/2010] [Accepted: 08/11/2010] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Alahuhta M, Xu Q, Brunecky R, Adney WS, Ding SY, Himmel ME, Lunin VV. Structure of a fibronectin type III-like module from Clostridium thermocellum. Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun 2010; 66:878-80. [PMID: 20693658 PMCID: PMC2917281 DOI: 10.1107/s1744309110022529] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2010] [Accepted: 06/11/2010] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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The 1.6 A resolution structure of a fibronectin type III-like module from Clostridium thermocellum (PDB code 3mpc) with two molecules in the asymmetric unit is reported. The crystals used for data collection belonged to space group P2(1)2(1)2(1), with unit-cell parameters a=35.43, b=45.73, c=107.72 A, and the structure was refined to an R factor of 0.166. Structural comparisons found over 800 similar structures in the Protein Data Bank. The broad range of different proteins or protein domains with high structural similarity makes it especially demanding to classify these proteins. Previous studies of fibronectin type III-like modules have indicated that they might function as ligand-binding modules, as a compact form of peptide linkers or spacers between other domains, as cellulose-disrupting modules or as proteins that help large enzyme complexes remain soluble.
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- Markus Alahuhta
- BioSciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1617 Cole Boulevard, Golden, Colorado 80401-3305, USA
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- BioSciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1617 Cole Boulevard, Golden, Colorado 80401-3305, USA
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- BioSciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1617 Cole Boulevard, Golden, Colorado 80401-3305, USA
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- BioSciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1617 Cole Boulevard, Golden, Colorado 80401-3305, USA
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- BioSciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1617 Cole Boulevard, Golden, Colorado 80401-3305, USA
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- BioSciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1617 Cole Boulevard, Golden, Colorado 80401-3305, USA
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- BioSciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1617 Cole Boulevard, Golden, Colorado 80401-3305, USA
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Pozzo T, Pasten JL, Karlsson EN, Logan DT. Structural and Functional Analyses of β-Glucosidase 3B from Thermotoga neapolitana: A Thermostable Three-Domain Representative of Glycoside Hydrolase 3. J Mol Biol 2010; 397:724-39. [PMID: 20138890 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2010.01.072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2009] [Revised: 01/24/2010] [Accepted: 01/27/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Moore AD, Björklund AK, Ekman D, Bornberg-Bauer E, Elofsson A. Arrangements in the modular evolution of proteins. Trends Biochem Sci 2008; 33:444-51. [PMID: 18656364 DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2008.05.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 171] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2007] [Revised: 05/28/2008] [Accepted: 05/28/2008] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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It has been known for the last couple of decades that proteins evolve partly through rearrangements of larger fragments, typically domains. These units are considered the basic modules of protein structure, evolution and function. In the last few years, the analysis of protein-domain rearrangements has provided us with functional and evolutionary insights and has aided improved functional predictions and domain assignments to previously uncharacterised genes and proteins. Although some mechanisms that govern modular rearrangements of protein domains have been uncovered, such as the addition or deletion of a single N- or C-terminal domain, much is still unknown about the genetics behind these arrangements.
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- Andrew D Moore
- Evolutionary Bioinformatics, IEB, University of Münster, Hüfferstrasse 1, Münster, Germany
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Rigden DJ, Galperin MY. Sequence analysis of GerM and SpoVS, uncharacterized bacterial 'sporulation' proteins with widespread phylogenetic distribution. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008; 24:1793-7. [PMID: 18562273 PMCID: PMC2732212 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btn314] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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UNLABELLED Sporulation in low-G+C gram-positive bacteria (Firmicutes) is an important survival mechanism that involves up to 150 genes, acting in a highly regulated manner. Many sporulation genes have close homologs in non-sporulating bacteria, including cyanobacteria, proteobacteria and spirochaetes, indicating that their products play a wider biological role. Most of them have been characterized as regulatory proteins or enzymes of peptidoglycan turnover; functions of others remain unknown but they are likely to have a general role in cell division and/or development. We have compiled a list of such widely conserved sporulation and germination proteins with poorly characterized functions, ranked them by the width of their phylogenetic distribution, and performed detailed sequence analysis and, where possible, structural modeling aimed at estimating their potential functions. Here we report the results of sequence analysis of Bacillus subtilis spore germination protein GerM, suggesting that it is a widespread cell development protein, whose function might involve binding to peptidoglycan. GerM consists of two tandem copies of a new domain (designated the GERMN domain) that forms phylum-specific fusions with two other newly described domains, GERMN-associated domains 1 and 2 (GMAD1 and GMAD2). Fold recognition reveals a beta-propeller fold for GMAD1, while ab initio modeling suggests that GMAD2 adopts a fibronectin type III fold. SpoVS is predicted to adopt the AlbA archaeal chromatin protein fold, which suggests that it is a DNA-binding protein, most likely a novel transcriptional regulator. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Supplementary data are available at ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/galperin/Sporulation.html.
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- Daniel J Rigden
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Crown St, Liverpool L69 7ZB, UK.
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Lin HY, Chuang HH, Lin FP. Biochemical characterization of engineered amylopullulanase from Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus 39E-implicating the non-necessity of its 100 C-terminal amino acid residues. Extremophiles 2008; 12:641-50. [PMID: 18500431 DOI: 10.1007/s00792-008-0168-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2007] [Accepted: 04/22/2008] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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The functional and structural significance of the C-terminal region of Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus 39E amylopullulanase (TetApu) was explored using C-terminal truncation mutagenesis. Comparative studies between the engineered full-length (TetApuM955) and its truncated mutant (TetApuR855) included initial rate kinetics, fluorescence and CD spectrometric properties, substrate-binding and hydrolysis abilities, thermostability, and thermodenaturation kinetics. Kinetic analyses revealed that the overall catalytic efficiency, k (cat)/K (m), was slightly decreased for the truncated enzymes toward the soluble starch or pullulan substrate. Changes to the substrate affinity, K (m), and turnover rate, k (cat), varied in different directions for both types of substrates between TetApuM955 and TetApuR855. TetApuR855 exhibited a higher thermostability than TetApuM955, and retained similar substrate-binding ability and hydrolyzing efficiency against the raw starch substrate as TetApuM955 did. Fluorescence spectroscopy indicated that TetApuR855 retained an active folding conformation similar to TetApuM955. A CD-melting unfolding study was able to distinguish between TetApuM955 and TetApuR855 by the higher apparent transition temperature in TetApuR855. These results indicate that up to 100 amino acid residues, including most of the C-terminal fibronectin typeIII (FnIII) motif of TetApuM955, could be further removed without causing a seriously aberrant change in structure and a dramatic decrease in soluble starch and pullulan hydrolysis.
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- Hsu-Yang Lin
- Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan
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Fraser JS, Maxwell KL, Davidson AR. Immunoglobulin-like domains on bacteriophage: weapons of modest damage? Curr Opin Microbiol 2007; 10:382-7. [PMID: 17765600 DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2007.05.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2007] [Accepted: 05/22/2007] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Recent work has shown that Immunoglobulin-like (Ig-like) domains occur frequently on the surface of tailed dsDNA bacteriophages. Several of these Ig-like domains are added to bacteriophage structural proteins via programmed ribosomal frameshifts, and their evolutionary patterns suggest that they can be exchanged by horizontal transfer, independently of the protein to which they are attached. We propose that Ig-like domains on phages interact with carbohydrates on the cell surface and facilitate phage adsorption. Furthermore, Ig-like domains appear to be one of a number of conserved domains displayed on phage surfaces that serve to increase infectivity by binding to or degrading polysaccharides.
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- James S Fraser
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, QB3, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States
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Cho KM, Hong SY, Lee SM, Kim YH, Kahng GG, Kim H, Yun HD. A cel44C-man26A gene of endophytic Paenibacillus polymyxa GS01 has multi-glycosyl hydrolases in two catalytic domains. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2006; 73:618-30. [PMID: 16912849 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-006-0523-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2006] [Revised: 05/27/2006] [Accepted: 05/29/2006] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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A bacterial strain Paenibacillus polymyxa GS01 was isolated from the interior of the roots of Korean cultivars of ginseng (Panax ginseng C. A. Meyer). The cel44C-man26A gene was cloned from this endophytic strain. This 4,056-bp gene encodes for a 1,352-aa protein which, based on BLAST search homologies, contains a glycosyl hydrolase family 44 (GH44) catalytic domain, a fibronectin domain type 3, a glycosyl hydrolase family 26 (GH26) catalytic domain, and a cellulose-binding module type 3. The multifunctional enzyme domain GH44 possesses cellulase, xylanase, and lichenase activities, while the enzyme domain GH26 possesses mannanase activity. The Cel44C enzyme expressed in and purified from Escherichia coli has an optimum pH of 7.0 for cellulase and lichenase activities, but is at an optimum pH of 5.0 for xylanase and mannanase activities. The optimum temperature for enzymatic activity was 50 degrees C for all substrates. No detectable enzymatic activity was detected for the Cel44C-Man26A mutants E91A and E222A. These results suggest that the amino acid residues Glu(91) and Glu(222) may play an important role in the glycosyl hydrolases activity of Cel44C-Man26A.
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- Kye Man Cho
- Division of Applied Life Science, Gyeongsang National University, Chinju 660-701, South Korea
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Toratani T, Kezuka Y, Nonaka T, Hiragi Y, Watanabe T. Structure of full-length bacterial chitinase containing two fibronectin type III domains revealed by small angle X-ray scattering. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2006; 348:814-8. [PMID: 16899221 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.07.096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2006] [Revised: 07/18/2006] [Accepted: 07/18/2006] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Chitinase A1 (ChiA1) from Bacillus circulans WL-12 consists of an N-terminal catalytic domain, two fibronectin type III domains (FnIIIDs), and a C-terminal chitin-binding domain. The full-length structure of ChiA1 was studied by small angle X-ray scattering. The obtained low-resolution structure showed that ChiA1 is an elongated molecule with a length of approximately 145 A composed of a large globular head and a rod-like tail. Combination with known high-resolution structures of individual ChiA1 domains provided a model of the domain arrangement. In this model, two FnIIIDs connect to each other in an extended rod-like shape without large bending between the FnIIIDs, and contribute largely to the length of ChiA1.
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- Tadayuki Toratani
- Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Niigata University, 8050 Ikarashi-2, Niigata 950-2181, Japan
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Maekawa A, Hayase M, Yubisui T, Minami Y. A cDNA cloned from Physarum polycephalum encodes new type of family 3 beta-glucosidase that is a fusion protein containing a calx-beta motif. Int J Biochem Cell Biol 2006; 38:2164-72. [PMID: 16914364 DOI: 10.1016/j.biocel.2006.06.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2006] [Revised: 06/18/2006] [Accepted: 06/20/2006] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The microplasmodia of Physarum polycephalum express three types of beta-glucosidases: secretory enzyme, a soluble cytoplasmic enzyme and a membrane-bound enzyme. We are interested in the physiological role of three enzymes. We report the sequence of cDNA for membrane beta-glucosidase 1, which consists of 3825 nucleotides that includes an open reading frame encoding 1248 amino acids. The molecular weight of membrane beta-glucosidase 1 was calculated to be 131,843 based on the predicted amino acid composition. Glycosyl hydrolase family 3 N-terminal and C-terminal domains were found within the N-terminal half of the membrane beta-glucosidase 1 sequence and were highly homologous with the primary structures of fungal beta-glucosidases. Notably, the C-terminal half of membrane beta-glucosidase 1 contains two calx-beta motifs, which are known to be Ca(2+) binding domains in the Drosophila Na(+)/Ca(2+) exchanger; an RGD sequence, which is known to be a cell attachment sequence; and a transmembrane region. In this way, Physarum membrane beta-glucosidase 1 differs from all previously identified family 3 beta-glucosidases. In addition to cDNA for membrane beta-glucosidase 1, two other distinctly different mRNAs were also isolated. Two sequences were largely identical to cDNA for membrane beta-glucosidase 1, but included a long insert sequence having a stop codon, leading to truncation of their products, which could account for other beta-glucosidase forms occurred in Physarum poycephalum. Thus, the membrane beta-glucosidase is a new type family 3 enzyme fused with the Calx-beta domain. We propose that Calx-beta domain may modulate the beta-glucosidase activity in response to changes in the Ca(2+) concentration.
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- Akinori Maekawa
- Department of Biochemistry, Okayama University of Science, 1-1 Ridai-cho, Okayama 700-0005, Japan
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Fraser JS, Yu Z, Maxwell KL, Davidson AR. Ig-like domains on bacteriophages: a tale of promiscuity and deceit. J Mol Biol 2006; 359:496-507. [PMID: 16631788 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2006.03.043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 154] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2005] [Revised: 03/15/2006] [Accepted: 03/17/2006] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The immunoglobulin (Ig) fold is one of the most important structures in biology, playing essential roles in the vertebrate immune response, cell adhesion, and many other processes. Through bioinformatic analysis, we have discovered that Ig-like domains are often found in the constituent proteins of tailed double-stranded (ds) DNA bacteriophage particles, and are likely displayed on the surface of these viruses. These phage Ig-like domains fall into three distinct sequence families, which are similar to the classic immunoglobulin domain (I-Set), the fibronectin type 3 repeat (FN3), and the bacterial Ig-like domain (Big2). The phage Ig-like domains are very promiscuous. They are attached to more than ten different functional classes of proteins, and found in all three morphogenetic classes of tailed dsDNA phages. In addition, they reside in phages that infect a diverse set of gram negative and gram positive bacteria. These domains are deceptive because many are added to larger proteins through programmed ribosomal frameshifting, so that they are not always detected by standard protein sequence searching procedures. In addition, the presence of unrecognized Ig-like domains in a variety of phage proteins with different functions has led to gene misannotation. Our results demonstrate that horizontal gene transfer involving Ig-like domain encoding DNA has occurred commonly between diverse classes of both lytic and temperate phages, which otherwise display very limited sequence similarities to one another. We suggest that phage may have been an important vector in the spread of Ig-like domains through diverse species of bacteria. While the function of the phage Ig-like domains is unknown, several lines of evidence suggest that they may play an accessory role in phage infection by weakly interacting with carbohydrates on the bacterial cell surface.
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- James S Fraser
- Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont., Canada M5S 1A8
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Karlsson EN, Hachem MA, Ramchuran S, Costa H, Holst O, Fex Svenningsen Å, Hreggvidsson GO. The modular xylanase Xyn10A fromRhodothermus marinusis cell-attached, and its C-terminal domain has several putative homologues among cell-attached proteins within the phylum Bacteroidetes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2004; 241:233-42. [PMID: 15598538 DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2004.10.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2004] [Revised: 10/13/2004] [Accepted: 10/14/2004] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Until recently, the function of the fifth domain of the thermostable modular xylanase Xyn10A from Rhodothermus marinus was unresolved. A putative homologue to this domain was however identified in a mannanase (Man26A) from the same microorganism which raised questions regarding a common function. An extensive search of all accessible data-bases as well as the partially sequenced genomes of R. marinus and Cytophaga hutchinsonii showed that homologues of this domain were encoded by multiple genes in microorganisms in the phylum Bacteroidetes. Moreover, the domain occurred invariably at the C-termini of proteins that were predominantly extra-cellular/cell attached. A primary structure motif of three conserved regions including structurally important glycines and a proline was also identified suggesting a conserved 3D fold. This bioinformatic evidence suggested a possible role of this domain in mediating cell attachment. To confirm this theory, R. marinus was grown, and activity assays showed that the major part of the xylanase activity was connected to whole cells. Moreover, immunocytochemical detection using a Xyn10A-specific antibody proved presence of Xyn10A on the R. marinus cell surface. In the light of this, a revision of experimental data present on both Xyn10A and Man26A was performed, and the results all indicate a cell-anchoring role of the domain, suggesting that this domain represents a novel type of module that mediates cell attachment in proteins originating from members of the phylum Bacteroidetes.
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- Eva Nordberg Karlsson
- Department Biotechnology, Center for Chemistry and Chemical engineering, Lund University, P.O.Box 124, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden.
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Boshuizen JA, Rossen JWA, Sitaram CK, Kimenai FFP, Simons-Oosterhuis Y, Laffeber C, Büller HA, Einerhand AWC. Rotavirus enterotoxin NSP4 binds to the extracellular matrix proteins laminin-beta3 and fibronectin. J Virol 2004; 78:10045-53. [PMID: 15331737 PMCID: PMC514988 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.78.18.10045-10053.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Rotavirus is the most important cause of viral gastroenteritis and dehydrating diarrhea in young children. Rotavirus nonstructural protein 4 (NSP4) is an enterotoxin that was identified as an important agent in symptomatic rotavirus infection. To identify cellular proteins that interact with NSP4, a two-hybrid technique with Saccharomyces cerevisiae was used. NSP4 cDNA, derived from the human rotavirus strain Wa, was cloned into the yeast shuttle vector pGBKT7. An intestinal cDNA library derived from Caco-2 cells cloned into the yeast shuttle vector pGAD10 was screened for proteins that interact with NSP4. Protein interactions were confirmed in vivo by coimmunoprecipitation and immunohistochemical colocalization. After two-hybrid library screening, we repeatedly isolated cDNAs encoding the extracellular matrix (ECM) protein laminin-beta3 (amino acids [aa] 274 to 878) and a cDNA encoding the ECM protein fibronectin (aa 1755 to 1884). Using deletion mutants of NSP4, we mapped the region of interaction with the ECM proteins between aa 87 and 145. Deletion analysis of laminin-beta3 indicated that the region comprising aa 726 to 875 of laminin-beta3 interacts with NSP4. Interaction of NSP4 with either laminin-beta3 or fibronectin was confirmed by coimmunoprecipitation. NSP4 was present in infected enterocytes and in the basement membrane (BM) of infected neonatal mice and colocalized with laminin-beta3, indicating a physiological interaction. In conclusion, two-hybrid screening with NSP4 yielded two potential target proteins, laminin-beta3 and fibronectin, interacting with the enterotoxin NSP4. The release of NSP4 from the basal side of infected epithelial cells and the subsequent binding to ECM proteins localized at the BM may signify a new mechanism by which rotavirus disease is established.
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- J A Boshuizen
- Laboratory of Pediatrics, Pediatric Gastroenterology & Nutrition, Erasmus MC, Rm. Ee1571A, Dr. Molewaterplein 50, 3015 GE Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Schwarz WH, Zverlov VV, Bahl H. Extracellular Glycosyl Hydrolases from Clostridia. ADVANCES IN APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY 2004; 56:215-61. [PMID: 15566981 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-2164(04)56007-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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- Wolfgang H Schwarz
- Technical University of Munich Institute of Microbiology, D-85350 Freising, Germany
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Ferchichi M, Rémond C, Simo R, O'Donohue MJ. Investigation of the functional relevance of the catalytically important Glu(28) in family 51 arabinosidases. FEBS Lett 2003; 553:381-6. [PMID: 14572655 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(03)01061-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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The alpha-L-arabinofuranosidase (AbfD3) from Thermobacillus xylanilyticus is a family 51 glycosyl hydrolase. According to classification hierarchy, family 51 belongs to clan GH-A. While the major GH-A motifs, the catalytic acid-base and nucleophile, are conserved in AbfD3, a third catalytically important residue (Glu(28)) does not appear to be analogous to any known GH-A motif. To evaluate the importance of Glu(28), bioinformatics analyses and site-saturation mutagenesis were performed. The results indicate that Glu(28) forms part of a family 51 arabinosidase motif which might be functionally homologous to a conserved N-terminal motif found in exo-acting enzymes from families 1 and 5. Importantly, the data reveal that Glu(28) is a key determinant of substrate recognition in the -1 subsite, where it may also play an important role in water-mediated deglycosylation of the glycosyl-enzyme covalent intermediate.
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- Mounir Ferchichi
- Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, UMR FARE, 8, rue Gabriel Voisin, P.O. Box 316, 51688 Cedex 2 Reims, France
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Wang FP, Li Q, Zhou Y, Li MG, Xiao X. The C-terminal module of Chi1 fromAeromonas caviae CB101 has a function in substrate binding and hydrolysis. Proteins 2003; 53:908-16. [PMID: 14635132 DOI: 10.1002/prot.10501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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The chitinase gene chi1 of Aeromonas caviae CB101 encodes an 865-amino-acid protein (with signal peptide) composed of four domains named from the N-terminal as an all-beta-sheet domain ChiN, a triosephosphate isomerase (TIM) catalytic domain, a function-unknown A region, and a putative chitin-binding domain (ChBD) composed of two repeated sequences. The N-terminal 563-amino-acid segment of Chi1 (Chi1DeltaADeltaChBD) shares 74% identity with ChiA of Serratia marcescens. By the homology modeling method, the three-dimensional (3D) structure of Chi1DeltaADeltaChBD was constructed. It fit the structure of ChiA very well. To understand fully the function of the C-terminal module of Chi1 (from 564 to 865 amino acids), two different C-terminal truncates, Chi1DeltaChBD and Chi1DeltaADeltaChBD, were constructed, based on polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Comparison studies of the substrate binding, hydrolysis capacity, and specificity among Chi1 and its two truncates showed that the C-terminal putative ChBD contributed to the insoluble substrate-protein binding and hydrolysis; the A region did not have any function in the insoluble substrate-protein binding, but it did have a role in the chitin hydrolysis: Deletion of the A region caused the enzyme to lose 30-40% of its activity toward amorphous colloidal chitin and soluble chitin, and around 50% toward p-nitrophenyl (pNP)-chitobiose pNP-chitotriose, and its activity toward low-molecular-weight chitooligomers (GlcNAc)3-6 also dropped, as shown by analysis of its digestion processes. This is the first clear demonstration that a domain or segment without a function in insoluble substrate-chitinase binding has a role in the digestion of a broad range of chitin substrates, including low-molecular-weight chitin oligomers. The reaction mode of Chi1 is also described and discussed.
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- F P Wang
- Key Laboratory of Marine Biogenetic Resources, State Oceanic Administration, and Third Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, China
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Kataeva IA, Uversky VN, Ljungdahl LG. Calcium and domain interactions contribute to the thermostability of domains of the multimodular cellobiohydrolase, CbhA, a subunit of the Clostridium thermocellum cellulosome. Biochem J 2003; 372:151-61. [PMID: 12570873 PMCID: PMC1223363 DOI: 10.1042/bj20021621] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2002] [Revised: 01/30/2003] [Accepted: 02/05/2003] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
Abstract
Each of three internal domains of multi-modular cellobiohydrolase CbhA from Clostridium thermocellum, X1(1), X1(2) (previously designated as fibronectin type 3-like modules, Fn3(1) and Fn3(2)) and family 3 carbohydrate-binding module (CBM3) binds 1 mol of Ca(2+). Structures and thermal stabilities of X1(1), X1(2), CBM3, X1(1)X1(2), and X1(1)X1(2)-CBM3 containing Ca(2+) (holo-proteins) and without Ca(2+) (apo-proteins) have been studied using CD spectroscopy. All domains are beta-proteins with irregular far-UV CD spectra due to the aromatic side chain contributions. The positive signal at 294 nm in the near-UV CD spectrum of X1(1) lacking a tryptophan residue might be attributed to the presence of aromatic clusters. Thermal denaturation of all proteins is reversible and results in the total loss of tertiary structure and preservation of significant amount of ordered secondary structure. Removal of Ca(2+) destabilizes polypeptides in a different way and to a different extent. It decreases the melting temperature ( T (m)) (by 20 degrees C) and co-operativity of thermal transition of X1(1), increases the number of transitions and lowers the co-operativity of unfolding of CBM3, and slightly decreases T (m)s (2.4-4.2 degrees C) of X1(2), X1(1)X1(2), and X1(1)X1(2)-CBM3. Transitions of X1(1)X1(2) and X1(1)X1(2)-CBM3 follow a two-state model regardless of the presence of Ca(2+). X1(1) is strongly stabilized in the apo-X1(1)X1(2) and apo-X1(1)X1(2)-CBM3 as they display T (m)s similar to those of individual and combined holo-modules. Observed CD spectra of X1(1)X1(2) and X1(1)X1(2)-CBM3 differ from those calculated as the simple weighted sum of individual modules. These differences are more prominent in spectra of apo-proteins. The results indicate the presence of inter-domain interactions in CbhA. Holo-modules, i.e. containing Ca(2+), behave essentially independently, but in the absence of Ca(2+) domain interactions are more important for the conformation of the polypeptides.
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Affiliation(s)
- Irina A Kataeva
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Center for Biological Resources Recovery, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-7229, U.S.A.
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