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Castillo-Villanueva A, Reyes-Vivas H, Oria-Hernández J. Comparison of cysteine content in whole proteomes across the three domains of life. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0294268. [PMID: 37956129 PMCID: PMC10642813 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0294268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2023] [Accepted: 10/29/2023] [Indexed: 11/15/2023] Open
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An empirical observation suggests that Giardia lamblia proteins have larger cysteine content than their counterparts in other organisms. As this parasite lacks conventional antioxidant stress systems, it is generally accepted that high cysteine content helps G. lamblia cope with oxygen toxicity, a strategy apparently shared by other organisms. Here, we question whether the high cysteine content in some organisms is genuine or just a simple assumption based on singular observations. To this end, we analyzed the cysteine content in 78 proteomes of organisms spanning the three domains of life. The results indicate that the cysteine content in eukaryota is approximately double that in archaea and bacteria, with G. lamblia among the highest. Atypical cysteine contents were found in a few organisms correlating with specific environmental conditions, supporting the evolutionary amino acid-level selection of amino acid composition.
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- Adriana Castillo-Villanueva
- Laboratorio de Bioquímica-Genética, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Secretaría de Salud Ciudad de México, Ciudad de México, México
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- Laboratorio de Bioquímica-Genética, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Secretaría de Salud Ciudad de México, Ciudad de México, México
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- Laboratorio de Bioquímica-Genética, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Secretaría de Salud Ciudad de México, Ciudad de México, México
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Saporiti T, Cabrera M, Bentancur J, Ferrari ME, Cabrera N, Pérez-Montfort R, Aguirre-Crespo FJ, Gil J, Cuore U, Matiadis D, Sagnou M, Alvarez G. Phenotypic and Target-Directed Screening Yields New Acaricidal Alternatives for the Control of Ticks. MOLECULES (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 27:molecules27248863. [PMID: 36557996 PMCID: PMC9781803 DOI: 10.3390/molecules27248863] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2022] [Revised: 11/09/2022] [Accepted: 11/10/2022] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Rhipicephalus microplus, the "common cattle tick", is the most important ectoparasite in livestock worldwide due to the economic and health losses it produces. This tick is a vector for pathogens of several tick-borne diseases. In Latin American countries, damages reach approximately USD 500 million annually due to tick infections, as well as tick-borne diseases. Currently, resistant populations for every chemical group of acaricides have been reported, posing a serious problem for tick control. This study aims to find new alternatives for controlling resistant ticks with compounds derived from small synthetic organic molecules and natural origins. Using BME26 embryonic cells, we performed phenotypic screening of 44 natural extracts from 10 Mexican plants used in traditional medicine, and 33 compounds selected from our chemical collection. We found 10 extracts and 13 compounds that inhibited cell growth by 50% at 50 µg/mL and 100 µM, respectively; the dose-response profile of two of them was characterized, and these compounds were assayed in vitro against different life stages of Rhipicephalus microplus. We also performed a target-directed screening of the activity of triosephosphate isomerase, using 86 compounds selected from our chemical collection. In this collection, we found the most potent and selective inhibitor of tick triosephosphate isomerase reported until now. Two other compounds had a potent acaricidal effect in vitro using adults and larvae when compared with other acaricides such as ivermectin and Amitraz. Those compounds were also selective to the ticks compared with the cytotoxicity in mammalian cells like macrophages or bovine spermatozoids. They also had a good toxicological profile, resulting in promising acaricidal compounds for tick control in cattle raising.
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- Tatiana Saporiti
- Laboratorio de Moléculas Bioactivas, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, CENUR Litoral Norte, Universidad de la República, Paysandú 60000, Uruguay
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- Laboratorio de Moléculas Bioactivas, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, CENUR Litoral Norte, Universidad de la República, Paysandú 60000, Uruguay
- Correspondence: (M.C.); (G.A.)
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- Laboratorio de Moléculas Bioactivas, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, CENUR Litoral Norte, Universidad de la República, Paysandú 60000, Uruguay
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- Laboratorio de Moléculas Bioactivas, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, CENUR Litoral Norte, Universidad de la República, Paysandú 60000, Uruguay
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Estructural, Instituto de Fisiología Celular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de Mexico 04510, Mexico
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Estructural, Instituto de Fisiología Celular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de Mexico 04510, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Reproducción Animal, Producción y Reproducción de Rumiantes, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, CENUR Litoral Norte, Universidad de la República, Paysandú 60000, Uruguay
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- División de Laboratorios Veterinarios “Miguel C. Rubino”, Ministerio de Ganadería, Agricultura y Pesca, Montevideo 91600, Uruguay
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- National Center for Scientific Research ‘Demokritos’, Institute of Biosciences & Applications, 15310 Athens, Greece
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- National Center for Scientific Research ‘Demokritos’, Institute of Biosciences & Applications, 15310 Athens, Greece
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- Laboratorio de Moléculas Bioactivas, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, CENUR Litoral Norte, Universidad de la República, Paysandú 60000, Uruguay
- Correspondence: (M.C.); (G.A.)
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Fernández-Lainez C, de la Mora-de la Mora I, García-Torres I, Enríquez-Flores S, Flores-López LA, Gutiérrez-Castrellón P, Yépez-Mulia L, Matadamas-Martínez F, de Vos P, López-Velázquez G. Multilevel Approach for the Treatment of Giardiasis by Targeting Arginine Deiminase. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms22179491. [PMID: 34502400 PMCID: PMC8431557 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22179491] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2021] [Revised: 08/20/2021] [Accepted: 08/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Giardiasis represents a latent problem in public health due to the exceptionally pathogenic strategies of the parasite Giardia lamblia for evading the human immune system. Strains resistant to first-line drugs are also a challenge. Therefore, new antigiardial therapies are urgently needed. Here, we tested giardial arginine deiminase (GlADI) as a target against giardiasis. GlADI belongs to an essential pathway in Giardia for the synthesis of ATP, which is absent in humans. In silico docking with six thiol-reactive compounds was performed; four of which are approved drugs for humans. Recombinant GlADI was used in enzyme inhibition assays, and computational in silico predictions and spectroscopic studies were applied to follow the enzyme's structural disturbance and identify possible effective drugs. Inhibition by modification of cysteines was corroborated using Ellman's method. The efficacy of these drugs on parasite viability was assayed on Giardia trophozoites, along with the inhibition of the endogenous GlADI. The most potent drug against GlADI was assayed on Giardia encystment. The tested drugs inhibited the recombinant GlADI by modifying its cysteines and, potentially, by altering its 3D structure. Only rabeprazole and omeprazole decreased trophozoite survival by inhibiting endogenous GlADI, while rabeprazole also decreased the Giardia encystment rate. These findings demonstrate the potential of GlADI as a target against giardiasis.
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- Cynthia Fernández-Lainez
- Laboratorio de Errores Innatos del Metabolismo y Tamiz, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Ciudad de Mexico 04530, Mexico;
- Immunoendocrinology, Division of Medical Biology, Department of Pathology and Medical Biology, University of Groningen and University Medical Centre Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands;
- Posgrado en Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de Mexico 04510, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Biomoléculas y Salud Infantil, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Ciudad de Mexico 04530, Mexico; (I.d.l.M.-d.l.M.); (I.G.-T.); (S.E.-F.); (L.A.F.-L.)
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- Laboratorio de Biomoléculas y Salud Infantil, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Ciudad de Mexico 04530, Mexico; (I.d.l.M.-d.l.M.); (I.G.-T.); (S.E.-F.); (L.A.F.-L.)
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- Laboratorio de Biomoléculas y Salud Infantil, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Ciudad de Mexico 04530, Mexico; (I.d.l.M.-d.l.M.); (I.G.-T.); (S.E.-F.); (L.A.F.-L.)
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- Laboratorio de Biomoléculas y Salud Infantil, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Ciudad de Mexico 04530, Mexico; (I.d.l.M.-d.l.M.); (I.G.-T.); (S.E.-F.); (L.A.F.-L.)
- CONACYT-Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Secretaría de Salud, Ciudad de Mexico 04530, Mexico
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- Unidad de Investigación Médica en Enfermedades Infecciosas y Parasitarias, UMAE Hospital de Pediatría, Centro Médico Siglo XXI, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Ciudad de Mexico 06720, Mexico; (L.Y.-M.); (F.M.-M.)
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- Unidad de Investigación Médica en Enfermedades Infecciosas y Parasitarias, UMAE Hospital de Pediatría, Centro Médico Siglo XXI, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Ciudad de Mexico 06720, Mexico; (L.Y.-M.); (F.M.-M.)
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- Immunoendocrinology, Division of Medical Biology, Department of Pathology and Medical Biology, University of Groningen and University Medical Centre Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands;
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- Laboratorio de Biomoléculas y Salud Infantil, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Ciudad de Mexico 04530, Mexico; (I.d.l.M.-d.l.M.); (I.G.-T.); (S.E.-F.); (L.A.F.-L.)
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +52-5510840900 (ext. 1726)
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Native aggregation is a common feature among triosephosphate isomerases of different species. Sci Rep 2020; 10:1338. [PMID: 31992784 PMCID: PMC6987189 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-58272-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2019] [Accepted: 01/13/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Triosephosphate isomerase (TIM) is an enzyme of the glycolysis pathway which exists in almost all types of cells. Its structure is the prototype of a motif called TIM-barrel or (α/β)8 barrel, which is the most common fold of all known enzyme structures. The simplest form in which TIM is catalytically active is a homodimer, in many species of bacteria and eukaryotes, or a homotetramer in some archaea. Here we show that the purified homodimeric TIMs from nine different species of eukaryotes and one of an extremophile bacterium spontaneously form higher order aggregates that can range from 3 to 21 dimers per macromolecular complex. We analysed these aggregates with clear native electrophoresis with normal and inverse polarity, blue native polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, liquid chromatography, dynamic light scattering, thermal shift assay and transmission electron and fluorescence microscopies, we also performed bioinformatic analysis of the sequences of all enzymes to identify and predict regions that are prone to aggregation. Additionally, the capacity of TIM from Trypanosoma brucei to form fibrillar aggregates was characterized. Our results indicate that all the TIMs we studied are capable of forming oligomers of different sizes. This is significant because aggregation of TIM may be important in some of its non-catalytic moonlighting functions, like being a potent food allergen, or in its role associated with Alzheimer’s disease.
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López-Velázquez G, Fernández-Lainez C, de la Mora-de la Mora JI, Caudillo de la Portilla D, Reynoso-Robles R, González-Maciel A, Ridaura C, García-Torres I, Gutiérrez-Castrellón P, Olivos-García A, Flores-López LA, Enríquez-Flores S. On the molecular and cellular effects of omeprazole to further support its effectiveness as an antigiardial drug. Sci Rep 2019; 9:8922. [PMID: 31222100 PMCID: PMC6586891 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-45529-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2019] [Accepted: 06/05/2019] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Research on Giardia lamblia has accumulated large information about its molecular cell biology and infection biology. However, giardiasis is still one of the commonest parasitic diarrheal diseases affecting humans. Additionally, an alarming increase in cases refractory to conventional treatment has been reported in low prevalence settings. Consequently, efforts directed toward supporting the efficient use of alternative drugs, and the study of their molecular targets appears promising. Repurposing of proton pump inhibitors is effective in vitro against the parasite and the toxic activity is associated with the inhibition of the G. lamblia triosephosphate isomerase (GlTIM) via the formation of covalent adducts with cysteine residue at position 222. Herein, we evaluate the effectiveness of omeprazole in vitro and in situ on GlTIM mutants lacking the most superficial cysteines. We studied the influence on the glycolysis of Giardia trophozoites treated with omeprazole and characterized, for the first time, the morphological effect caused by this drug on the parasite. Our results support the effectiveness of omeprazole against GlTIM despite of the possibility to mutate the druggable amino acid targets as an adaptive response. Also, we further characterized the effect of omeprazole on trophozoites and discuss the possible mechanism involved in its antigiardial effect.
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- Gabriel López-Velázquez
- Grupo de Investigación en Biomoléculas y Salud Infantil, Laboratorio de EIMyT, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Ciudad de México, 04530, Mexico.
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- Laboratorio de Errores Innatos del Metabolismo y Tamiz, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Ciudad de México, 04530, Mexico
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- Grupo de Investigación en Biomoléculas y Salud Infantil, Laboratorio de EIMyT, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Ciudad de México, 04530, Mexico
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- Grupo de Investigación en Biomoléculas y Salud Infantil, Laboratorio de EIMyT, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Ciudad de México, 04530, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Morfología Celular y Tisular, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Ciudad de México, 04530, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Morfología Celular y Tisular, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Ciudad de México, 04530, Mexico
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- Departamento de Patología, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Ciudad de México, 04530, Mexico
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- Grupo de Investigación en Biomoléculas y Salud Infantil, Laboratorio de EIMyT, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Ciudad de México, 04530, Mexico
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- Unidad de Investigación en Medicina Experimental, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México y Hospital General, Ciudad de México, 04510, Mexico
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- Grupo de Investigación en Biomoléculas y Salud Infantil, Laboratorio de EIMyT, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Ciudad de México, 04530, Mexico.,CONACYT-Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Secretaría de Salud, Ciudad de México, 04530, Mexico
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- Grupo de Investigación en Biomoléculas y Salud Infantil, Laboratorio de EIMyT, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Ciudad de México, 04530, Mexico.
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de la Mora-de la Mora JI, Enríquez-Flores S, Fernández-Lainez C, Gutiérrez-Castrellón P, Olivos-García A, González-Canto A, Hernández R, Luján HD, García-Torres I, López-Velázquez G. Characterization of proteolytic activities of Giardia lamblia with the ability to cleave His-tagged N-terminal sequences. Mol Biochem Parasitol 2019; 228:16-26. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2019.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2018] [Revised: 12/24/2018] [Accepted: 01/03/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Argüello-García R, de la Vega-Arnaud M, Loredo-Rodríguez IJ, Mejía-Corona AM, Melgarejo-Trejo E, Espinoza-Contreras EA, Fonseca-Liñán R, González-Robles A, Pérez-Hernández N, Ortega-Pierres MG. Activity of Thioallyl Compounds From Garlic Against Giardia duodenalis Trophozoites and in Experimental Giardiasis. Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2018; 8:353. [PMID: 30374433 PMCID: PMC6196658 DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2018.00353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2018] [Accepted: 09/18/2018] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Fresh aqueous extracts (AGEs) and several thioallyl compounds (TACs) from garlic have an important antimicrobial activity that likely involves their interaction with exposed thiol groups at single aminoacids or target proteins. Since these groups are present in Giardia duodenalis trophozoites, in this work we evaluated the anti-giardial activity of AGE and several garlic's TACs. In vitro susceptibility assays showed that AGE affected trophozoite viability initially by a mechanism impairing cell integrity and oxidoreductase activities while diesterase activities were abrogated at higher AGE concentrations. The giardicidal activities of seven TACs were related to the molecular descriptor HOMO (Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital) energy and with their capacity to modify the -SH groups exposed in giardial proteins. Interestingly, the activity of several cysteine proteases in trophozoite lysates was inhibited by representative TACs as well as the cytopathic effect of the virulence factor giardipain-1. Of these, allicin showed the highest anti-giardial activity, the lower HOMO value, the highest thiol-modifying activity and the greatest inhibition of cysteine proteases. Allicin had a cytolytic mechanism in trophozoites with subsequent impairment of diesterase and oxidoreductase activities in a similar way to AGE. In addition, by electron microscopy a marked destruction of plasma membrane and endomembranes was observed in allicin-treated trophozoites while cytoskeletal elements were not affected. In further flow cytometry analyses pro-apoptotic effects of allicin concomitant to partial cell cycle arrest at G2 phase with the absence of oxidative stress were observed. In experimental infections of gerbils, the intragastric administration of AGE or allicin decreased parasite numbers and eliminated trophozoites in experimentally infected animals, respectively. These data suggest a potential use of TACs from garlic against G. duodenalis and in the treatment of giardiasis along with their additional benefits in the host's health.
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- Raúl Argüello-García
- Departamento de Genética y Biología Molecular, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Departamento de Genética y Biología Molecular, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Departamento de Genética y Biología Molecular, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Departamento de Genética y Biología Molecular, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Departamento de Genética y Biología Molecular, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Departamento de Genética y Biología Molecular, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Departamento de Genética y Biología Molecular, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Departamento de Infectómica y Patogénesis Experimental, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Escuela Nacional de Medicina y Homeopatía, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Departamento de Genética y Biología Molecular, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico
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Romero-Romero S, Becerril-Sesín LA, Costas M, Rodríguez-Romero A, Fernández-Velasco DA. Structure and conformational stability of the triosephosphate isomerase from Zea mays. Comparison with the chemical unfolding pathways of other eukaryotic TIMs. Arch Biochem Biophys 2018; 658:66-76. [PMID: 30261166 DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2018.09.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2018] [Revised: 09/18/2018] [Accepted: 09/23/2018] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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We studied the structure, function and thermodynamic properties for the unfolding of the Triosephosphate isomerase (TIM) from Zea mays (ZmTIM). ZmTIM shows a catalytic efficiency close to the diffusion limit. Native ZmTIM is a dimer that dissociates upon dilution into inactive and unfolded monomers. Its thermal unfolding is irreversible with a Tm of 61.6 ± 1.4 °C and an activation energy of 383.4 ± 11.5 kJ mol-1. The urea-induced unfolding of ZmTIM is reversible. Transitions followed by catalytic activity and spectroscopic properties are monophasic and superimposable, indicating that ZmTIM unfolds/refolds in a two-state behavior with an unfolding ΔG°(H20) = 99.8 ± 5.3 kJ mol-1. This contrasts with most other studied TIMs, where folding intermediates are common. The three-dimensional structure of ZmTIM was solved at 1.8 Å. A structural comparison with other eukaryotic TIMs shows a similar number of intramolecular and intermolecular interactions. Interestingly the number of interfacial water molecules found in ZmTIM is lower than those observed in most TIMs that show folding intermediates. Although with the available data, there is no clear correlation between structural properties and the number of equilibrium intermediates in the unfolding of TIM, the identification of such structural properties should increase our understanding of folding mechanisms.
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- Sergio Romero-Romero
- Laboratorio de Fisicoquímica e Ingeniería de Proteínas, Departamento de Bioquímica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Fisicoquímica e Ingeniería de Proteínas, Departamento de Bioquímica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Biofisicoquímica, Departamento de Fisicoquímica, Facultad de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Química de Biomacromoléculas 3, Departamento de Química de Biomacromoléculas, Instituto de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Fisicoquímica e Ingeniería de Proteínas, Departamento de Bioquímica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510, Mexico.
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Disulfiram as a novel inactivator of Giardia lamblia triosephosphate isomerase with antigiardial potential. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY-DRUGS AND DRUG RESISTANCE 2017; 7:425-432. [PMID: 29197728 PMCID: PMC5727346 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpddr.2017.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2017] [Revised: 10/18/2017] [Accepted: 11/20/2017] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Giardiasis, the infestation of the intestinal tract by Giardia lamblia, is one of the most prevalent parasitosis worldwide. Even though effective therapies exist for it, the problems associated with its use indicate that new therapeutic options are needed. It has been shown that disulfiram eradicates trophozoites in vitro and is effective in vivo in a murine model of giardiasis; disulfiram inactivation of carbamate kinase by chemical modification of an active site cysteine has been proposed as the drug mechanism of action. The triosephosphate isomerase from G. lamblia (GlTIM) has been proposed as a plausible target for the development of novel antigiardial pharmacotherapies, and chemical modification of its cysteine 222 (C222) by thiol-reactive compounds is evidenced to inactivate the enzyme. Since disulfiram is a cysteine modifying agent and GlTIM can be inactivated by modification of C222, in this work we tested the effect of disulfiram over the recombinant and trophozoite-endogenous GlTIM. The results show that disulfiram inactivates GlTIM by modification of its C222. The inactivation is species-specific since disulfiram does not affect the human homologue enzyme. Disulfiram inactivation induces only minor conformational changes in the enzyme, but substantially decreases its stability. Recombinant and endogenous GlTIM inactivates similarly, indicating that the recombinant protein resembles the natural enzyme. Disulfiram induces loss of trophozoites viability and inactivation of intracellular GlTIM at similar rates, suggesting that both processes may be related. It is plausible that the giardicidal effect of disulfiram involves the inactivation of more than a single enzyme, thus increasing its potential for repurposing it as an antigiardial drug. Disulfiram inactivates efficiently the triosephosphate isomerase of Giardia lamblia. Inactivation is species-specific; the human enzyme is insusceptible to disulfiram. Recombinant and GlTIM extracted from trophozoites inactivates similarly. Disulfiram inhibits endogenous GlTIM and trophozoite viability simultaneously. Disulfiram is a promissory option for drug repurposing against giardiasis.
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Novel giardicidal compounds bearing proton pump inhibitor scaffold proceeding through triosephosphate isomerase inactivation. Sci Rep 2017; 7:7810. [PMID: 28798383 PMCID: PMC5552691 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-07612-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2017] [Accepted: 06/30/2017] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Giardiasis is a worldwide parasitic disease that affects mainly children and immunosuppressed people. Side effects and the emergence of resistance over current used drugs make imperative looking for new antiparasitics through discovering of new biological targets and designing of novel drugs. Recently, it has determined that gastric proton-pump inhibitors (PPI) have anti-giardiasic activity. The glycolytic enzyme, triosephosphate isomerase (GlTIM), is one of its potential targets. Therefore, we employed the scaffold of PPI to design new compounds aimed to increase their antigiardial capacity by inactivating GlTIM. Here we demonstrated that two novel PPI-derivatives (BHO2 and BHO3), have better anti-giardiasic activity than omeprazole in concentrations around 120–130 µM, without cytotoxic effect on mammal cell cultures. The derivatives inactivated GlTIM through the chemical modification of Cys222 promoting local structural changes in the enzyme. Furthermore, derivatives forms adducts linked to Cys residues through a C-S bond. We demonstrated that PPI can be used as scaffolds to design better antiparasitic molecules; we also are proposing a molecular mechanism of reaction for these novel derivatives.
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Olivares-Illana V, Riveros-Rosas H, Cabrera N, Tuena de Gómez-Puyou M, Pérez-Montfort R, Costas M, Gómez-Puyou A. A guide to the effects of a large portion of the residues of triosephosphate isomerase on catalysis, stability, druggability, and human disease. Proteins 2017; 85:1190-1211. [PMID: 28378917 DOI: 10.1002/prot.25299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2016] [Revised: 03/14/2017] [Accepted: 03/27/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Triosephosphate isomerase (TIM) is a ubiquitous enzyme, which appeared early in evolution. TIM is responsible for obtaining net ATP from glycolysis and producing an extra pyruvate molecule for each glucose molecule, under aerobic and anaerobic conditions. It is placed in a metabolic crossroad that allows a quick balance of the triose phosphate aldolase produced by glycolysis, and is also linked to lipid metabolism through the alternation of glycerol-3-phosphate and the pentose cycle. TIM is one of the most studied enzymes with more than 199 structures deposited in the PDB. The interest for this enzyme stems from the fact that it is involved in glycolysis, but also in aging, human diseases and metabolism. TIM has been a target in the search for chemical compounds against infectious diseases and is a model to study catalytic features. Until February 2017, 62% of all residues of the protein have been studied by mutagenesis and/or using other approaches. Here, we present a detailed and comprehensive recompilation of the reported effects on TIM catalysis, stability, druggability and human disease produced by each of the amino acids studied, contributing to a better understanding of the properties of this fundamental protein. The information reviewed here shows that the role of the noncatalytic residues depend on their molecular context, the delicate balance between the short and long-range interactions in concerted action determining the properties of the protein. Each protein should be regarded as a unique entity that has evolved to be functional in the organism to which it belongs. Proteins 2017; 85:1190-1211. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Vanesa Olivares-Illana
- Laboratorio de Interacciones Biomoleculares y Cáncer. Instituto de Física, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, SLP, 78290, México
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- Departamento de Bioquímica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, 04510, México
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Estructural, Instituto de Fisiología Celular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, 04510, México
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Estructural, Instituto de Fisiología Celular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, 04510, México
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Estructural, Instituto de Fisiología Celular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, 04510, México
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- Laboratorio de Biofisicoquímica, Departamento de Fisicoquímica, Facultad de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, 04510, México
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Estructural, Instituto de Fisiología Celular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, 04510, México
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Lopez-Zavala AA, Carrasco-Miranda JS, Ramirez-Aguirre CD, López-Hidalgo M, Benitez-Cardoza CG, Ochoa-Leyva A, Cardona-Felix CS, Diaz-Quezada C, Rudiño-Piñera E, Sotelo-Mundo RR, Brieba LG. Structural insights from a novel invertebrate triosephosphate isomerase from Litopenaeus vannamei. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS 2016; 1864:1696-1706. [PMID: 27614148 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2016.09.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2016] [Revised: 08/17/2016] [Accepted: 09/03/2016] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Triosephosphate isomerase (TIM; EC 5.3.1.1) is a key enzyme involved in glycolysis and gluconeogenesis. Glycolysis is one of the most regulated metabolic pathways, however little is known about the structural mechanisms for its regulation in non-model organisms, like crustaceans. To understand the structure and function of this enzyme in invertebrates, we obtained the crystal structure of triosephosphate isomerase from the marine Pacific whiteleg shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei, LvTIM) in complex with its inhibitor 2-phosphogyceric acid (2-PG) at 1.7Å resolution. LvTIM assembles as a homodimer with residues 166-176 covering the active site and residue Glu166 interacting with the inhibitor. We found that LvTIM is the least stable TIM characterized to date, with the lowest range of melting temperatures, and with the lowest activation enthalpy associated with the thermal unfolding process reported. In TIMs dimer stabilization is maintained by an interaction of loop 3 by a set of hydrophobic contacts between subunits. Within these contacts, the side chain of a hydrophobic residue of one subunit fits into a cavity created by a set of hydrophobic residues in the neighboring subunit, via a "ball and socket" interaction. LvTIM presents a Cys47 at the "ball" inter-subunit contact indicating that the character of this residue is responsible for the decrease in dimer stability. Mutational studies show that this residue plays a role in dimer stability but is not a solely determinant for dimer formation.
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- Alonso A Lopez-Zavala
- Laboratorio de Estructura Biomolecular, Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo, A.C. (CIAD), Carretera a Ejido La Victoria Km 0.6, Apartado Postal 1735, Hermosillo, Sonora 83304, Mexico; Departamento de Ciencias Quimico Biologicas, Universidad de Sonora, Blvd. Luis Encinas y Rosales S/N, Col. Centro, Hermosillo, Sonora 83000, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Estructura Biomolecular, Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo, A.C. (CIAD), Carretera a Ejido La Victoria Km 0.6, Apartado Postal 1735, Hermosillo, Sonora 83304, Mexico
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- Laboratorio Nacional de Genómica para la Biodiversidad (LANGEBIO), Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV Unidad Irapuato), Km 9.6 Libramiento Norte Carretera Irapuato-León, Apartado Postal 629, Irapuato, Guanajuato 36500, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Investigación Bioquímica, Programa Institucional en Biomedicina Molecular ENMyH-Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Ave. Guillermo Massieu Helguera, No. 239, Fracc. "La Escalera", Ticoman, Ciudad de México, 07320, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Investigación Bioquímica, Programa Institucional en Biomedicina Molecular ENMyH-Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Ave. Guillermo Massieu Helguera, No. 239, Fracc. "La Escalera", Ticoman, Ciudad de México, 07320, Mexico
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- Departamento de Microbiologia Molecular, Instituto de Biotecnología (IBT), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Av. Universidad #2001, Col. Chamilpa, Cuernavaca, Morelos 62210, Mexico
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- Laboratorio Nacional de Genómica para la Biodiversidad (LANGEBIO), Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV Unidad Irapuato), Km 9.6 Libramiento Norte Carretera Irapuato-León, Apartado Postal 629, Irapuato, Guanajuato 36500, Mexico; Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas (CICIMAR-IPN), Av. Instituto Politécnico Nacional. s/n., 23096, La Paz, Baja California Sur 23096, Mexico; Cátedras CONACyT, Dirección Adjunta de Desarrollo Científico, Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, Av. Insurgentes Sur 1582, Ciudad de Mexico, 03940, Mexico
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- Laboratorio Nacional de Genómica para la Biodiversidad (LANGEBIO), Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV Unidad Irapuato), Km 9.6 Libramiento Norte Carretera Irapuato-León, Apartado Postal 629, Irapuato, Guanajuato 36500, Mexico
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- Departamento de Medicina Molecular y Bioprocesos, Instituto de Biotecnología (IBT), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Av. Universidad #2001, Col. Chamilpa, Cuernavaca, Morelos 62210, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Estructura Biomolecular, Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo, A.C. (CIAD), Carretera a Ejido La Victoria Km 0.6, Apartado Postal 1735, Hermosillo, Sonora 83304, Mexico.
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- Laboratorio Nacional de Genómica para la Biodiversidad (LANGEBIO), Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV Unidad Irapuato), Km 9.6 Libramiento Norte Carretera Irapuato-León, Apartado Postal 629, Irapuato, Guanajuato 36500, Mexico.
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Romero-Romero S, Costas M, Rodríguez-Romero A, Fernández-Velasco DA. Reversibility and two state behaviour in the thermal unfolding of oligomeric TIM barrel proteins. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015. [DOI: 10.1039/c5cp01599e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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The reversible thermal unfolding of oligomeric TIM barrels results from a delicate balance of physicochemical properties related to the sequence, the native and unfolded states and the transition between them.
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- Sergio Romero-Romero
- Laboratorio de Fisicoquímica e Ingeniería de Proteínas
- Departamento de Bioquímica
- Facultad de Medicina
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- 04510 Ciudad de México
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- Laboratorio de Biofisicoquímica
- Departamento de Fisicoquímica
- Facultad de Química
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- 04510 Ciudad de México
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- Laboratorio de Química de Biomacromoléculas 3
- Departamento de Química de Biomacromoléculas
- Instituto de Química
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- 04510 Ciudad de México
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- Laboratorio de Fisicoquímica e Ingeniería de Proteínas
- Departamento de Bioquímica
- Facultad de Medicina
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- 04510 Ciudad de México
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Giardial triosephosphate isomerase as possible target of the cytotoxic effect of omeprazole in Giardia lamblia. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2014; 58:7072-82. [PMID: 25223993 DOI: 10.1128/aac.02900-14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Giardiasis is highly prevalent in the developing world, and treatment failures with the standard drugs are common. This work deals with the proposal of omeprazole as a novel antigiardial drug, focusing on a giardial glycolytic enzyme used to follow the cytotoxic effect at the molecular level. We used recombinant technology and enzyme inactivation to demonstrate the capacity of omeprazole to inactivate giardial triosephosphate isomerase, with no adverse effects on its human counterpart. To establish the specific target in the enzyme, we used single mutants of every cysteine residue in triosephosphate isomerase. The effect on cellular triosephosphate isomerase was evaluated by following the remnant enzyme activity on trophozoites treated with omeprazole. The interaction of omeprazole with giardial proteins was analyzed by fluorescence spectroscopy. The susceptibility to omeprazole of drug-susceptible and drug-resistant strains of Giardia lamblia was evaluated to demonstrate its potential as a novel antigiardial drug. Our results demonstrate that omeprazole inhibits giardial triosephosphate isomerase in a species-specific manner through interaction with cysteine at position 222. Omeprazole enters the cytoplasmic compartment of the trophozoites and inhibits cellular triosephosphate isomerase activity in a dose-dependent manner. Such inhibition takes place concomitantly with the cytotoxic effect caused by omeprazole on trophozoites. G. lamblia triosephosphate isomerase (GlTIM) is a cytoplasmic protein which can help analyses of how omeprazole works against the proteins of this parasite and in the effort to understand its mechanism of cytotoxicity. Our results demonstrate the mechanism of giardial triosephosphate isomerase inhibition by omeprazole and show that this drug is effective in vitro against drug-resistant and drug-susceptible strains of G. lamblia.
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Zaffagnini M, Michelet L, Sciabolini C, Di Giacinto N, Morisse S, Marchand CH, Trost P, Fermani S, Lemaire SD. High-resolution crystal structure and redox properties of chloroplastic triosephosphate isomerase from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. MOLECULAR PLANT 2014; 7:101-20. [PMID: 24157611 DOI: 10.1093/mp/sst139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Triosephosphate isomerase (TPI) catalyzes the interconversion of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate to dihydroxyacetone phosphate. Photosynthetic organisms generally contain two isoforms of TPI located in both cytoplasm and chloroplasts. While the cytoplasmic TPI is involved in the glycolysis, the chloroplastic isoform participates in the Calvin-Benson cycle, a key photosynthetic process responsible for carbon fixation. Compared with its cytoplasmic counterpart, the functional features of chloroplastic TPI have been poorly investigated and its three-dimensional structure has not been solved. Recently, several studies proposed TPI as a potential target of different redox modifications including dithiol/disulfide interchanges, glutathionylation, and nitrosylation. However, neither the effects on protein activity nor the molecular mechanisms underlying these redox modifications have been investigated. Here, we have produced recombinantly and purified TPI from the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Cr). The biochemical properties of the enzyme were delineated and its crystallographic structure was determined at a resolution of 1.1 Å. CrTPI is a homodimer with subunits containing the typical (β/α)8-barrel fold. Although no evidence for TRX regulation was obtained, CrTPI was found to undergo glutathionylation by oxidized glutathione and trans-nitrosylation by nitrosoglutathione, confirming its sensitivity to multiple redox modifications.
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- Mirko Zaffagnini
- Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire des Eucaryotes, FRE3354 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, 13 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005 Paris, France
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Aguirre Y, Cabrera N, Aguirre B, Pérez-Montfort R, Hernandez-Santoyo A, Reyes-Vivas H, Enríquez-Flores S, de Gómez-Puyou MT, Gómez-Puyou A, Sanchez-Ruiz JM, Costas M. Different contribution of conserved amino acids to the global properties of triosephosphate isomerases. Proteins 2013; 82:323-35. [DOI: 10.1002/prot.24398] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2013] [Revised: 07/30/2013] [Accepted: 08/14/2013] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Yolanda Aguirre
- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Estructural; Instituto de Fisiología Celular; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; México D.F México
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Estructural; Instituto de Fisiología Celular; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; México D.F México
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Estructural; Instituto de Fisiología Celular; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; México D.F México
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Estructural; Instituto de Fisiología Celular; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; México D.F México
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- Laboratorio de Bioquímica-Genética; Torre de Investigación, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Secretaría de Salud; 04530, México, D.F México
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- Laboratorio de Bioquímica-Genética; Torre de Investigación, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Secretaría de Salud; 04530, México, D.F México
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Estructural; Instituto de Fisiología Celular; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; México D.F México
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Estructural; Instituto de Fisiología Celular; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; México D.F México
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- Departamento de Química Física; Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada; Granada Spain
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- Laboratorio de Biofisicoquímica, Departamento de Fisicoquímica; Facultad de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; México D.F México
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Hernández-Alcántara G, Torres-Larios A, Enríquez-Flores S, García-Torres I, Castillo-Villanueva A, Méndez ST, de la Mora-de la Mora I, Gómez-Manzo S, Torres-Arroyo A, López-Velázquez G, Reyes-Vivas H, Oria-Hernández J. Structural and functional perturbation of Giardia lamblia triosephosphate isomerase by modification of a non-catalytic, non-conserved region. PLoS One 2013; 8:e69031. [PMID: 23894402 PMCID: PMC3718800 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2013] [Accepted: 06/04/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND We have previously proposed triosephosphate isomerase of Giardia lamblia (GlTIM) as a target for rational drug design against giardiasis, one of the most common parasitic infections in humans. Since the enzyme exists in the parasite and the host, selective inhibition is a major challenge because essential regions that could be considered molecular targets are highly conserved. Previous biochemical evidence showed that chemical modification of the non-conserved non-catalytic cysteine 222 (C222) inactivates specifically GlTIM. The inactivation correlates with the physicochemical properties of the modifying agent: addition of a non-polar, small chemical group at C222 reduces the enzyme activity by one half, whereas negatively charged, large chemical groups cause full inactivation. RESULTS In this work we used mutagenesis to extend our understanding of the functional and structural effects triggered by modification of C222. To this end, six GlTIM C222 mutants with side chains having diverse physicochemical characteristics were characterized. We found that the polarity, charge and volume of the side chain in the mutant amino acid differentially alter the activity, the affinity, the stability and the structure of the enzyme. The data show that mutagenesis of C222 mimics the effects of chemical modification. The crystallographic structure of C222D GlTIM shows the disruptive effects of introducing a negative charge at position 222: the mutation perturbs loop 7, a region of the enzyme whose interactions with the catalytic loop 6 are essential for TIM stability, ligand binding and catalysis. The amino acid sequence of TIM in phylogenetic diverse groups indicates that C222 and its surrounding residues are poorly conserved, supporting the proposal that this region is a good target for specific drug design. CONCLUSIONS The results demonstrate that it is possible to inhibit species-specifically a ubiquitous, structurally highly conserved enzyme by modification of a non-conserved, non-catalytic residue through long-range perturbation of essential regions.
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- Gloria Hernández-Alcántara
- Laboratorio de Bioquímica-Genética, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Secretaría de Salud, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Instituto de Fisiología Celular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Bioquímica-Genética, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Secretaría de Salud, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Bioquímica-Genética, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Secretaría de Salud, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Bioquímica-Genética, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Secretaría de Salud, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Bioquímica-Genética, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Secretaría de Salud, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Bioquímica-Genética, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Secretaría de Salud, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Bioquímica-Genética, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Secretaría de Salud, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Bioquímica-Genética, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Secretaría de Salud, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Bioquímica-Genética, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Secretaría de Salud, Mexico City, Mexico
- * E-mail: (JOH); (HRV)
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- Laboratorio de Bioquímica-Genética, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Secretaría de Salud, Mexico City, Mexico
- * E-mail: (JOH); (HRV)
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Cellular and biochemical characterization of two closely related triosephosphate isomerases from Trichomonas vaginalis. Parasitology 2012; 139:1729-38. [DOI: 10.1017/s003118201200114x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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SUMMARYThe glycolytic enzyme triosephosphate isomerase catalyses the isomerization between glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate and dihydroxyacetone phosphate. Here we report that Trichomonas vaginalis contains 2 fully functional tpi genes. Both genes are located in separated chromosomal context with different promoter regulatory elements and encode ORFs of 254 amino acids; the only differences between them are the character of 4 amino acids located in α-helices 1, 2 and 8. Semi-quantitative RT-PCR assays showed that tpi2 transcript is approximately 3·3-fold more abundant than tpi1. Using an anti-TvTIM2 polyclonal antibody it was demonstrated that TIM proteins have a cytoplasmic localization and both enzymes are able to complement an Escherichia coli strain carrying a deletion of its endogenous tpi gene. Both TIM proteins assemble as dimers and their secondary structure assessment is essentially identical to TIM from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The kinetic catalytic constants of the recombinant enzymes using glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate as substrate are similar to the catalytic constants of TIMs from other organisms including parasitic protozoa. As T. vaginalis depends on glycolysis for ATP production, we speculate 2 possible reasons to maintain a duplicated tpi copy on its genome: an increase in gene dosage or an early event of neofunctionalization of TIM as a moonlighting protein.
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Enríquez-Flores S, Rodríguez-Romero A, Hernández-Alcántara G, Oria-Hernández J, Gutiérrez-Castrellón P, Pérez-Hernández G, de la Mora-de la Mora I, Castillo-Villanueva A, García-Torres I, Méndez ST, Gómez-Manzo S, Torres-Arroyo A, López-Velázquez G, Reyes-Vivas H. Determining the molecular mechanism of inactivation by chemical modification of triosephosphate isomerase from the human parasite Giardia lamblia: a study for antiparasitic drug design. Proteins 2011; 79:2711-24. [PMID: 21786322 DOI: 10.1002/prot.23100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2010] [Revised: 05/17/2011] [Accepted: 05/27/2011] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Giardiasis, the most prevalent intestinal parasitosis in humans, is caused by Giardia lamblia. Current drug therapies have adverse effects on the host, and resistant strains against these drugs have been reported, demonstrating an urgent need to design more specific antigiardiasic drugs. ATP production in G. lamblia depends mainly on glycolysis; therefore, all enzymes of this pathway have been proposed as potential drug targets. We previously demonstrated that the glycolytic enzyme triosephosphate isomerase from G. lamblia (GlTIM), could be completely inactivated by low micromolar concentrations of thiol-reactive compounds, whereas, in the same conditions, the activity of human TIM (HuTIM) was almost unaltered. We found that the chemical modification (derivatization) of at least one Cys, of the five Cys residues per monomer in GlTIM, causes this inactivation. In this study, structural and functional studies were performed to describe the molecular mechanism of GlTIM inactivation by thiol-reactive compounds. We found that the Cys222 derivatization is responsible for GlTIM inactivation; this information is relevant because HuTIM has a Cys residue in an equivalent position (Cys217). GlTIM inactivation is associated with a decrease in ligand affinity, which affects the entropic component of ligand binding. In summary, this work describes a mechanism of inactivation that has not been previously reported for TIMs from other parasites and furthermore, we show that the difference in reactivity between the Cys222 in GlTIM and the Cys217 in HuTIM, indicates that the surrounding environment of each Cys residue has unique structural differences that can be exploited to design specific antigiardiasic drugs.
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- Sergio Enríquez-Flores
- Laboratorio de Bioquímica-Genética, Torre de Investigación, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Secretaría de Salud, 04530, México, D.F
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Schulz EC, Tietzel M, Tovy A, Ankri S, Ficner R. Structure analysis of Entamoeba histolytica enolase. ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION D: BIOLOGICAL CRYSTALLOGRAPHY 2011; 67:619-27. [PMID: 21697600 DOI: 10.1107/s0907444911016544] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2011] [Accepted: 05/02/2011] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Entamoeba histolytica enolase (EhENO) reversibly interconverts 2-phosphoglyceric acid (2-PGA) and phosphoenolpyruvic acid (PEP). The crystal structure of the homodimeric EhENO is presented at a resolution of 1.9 Å. In the crystal structure EhENO presents as an asymmetric dimer with one active site in the open conformation and the other active site in the closed conformation. Interestingly, both active sites contain a copurified 2-PGA molecule. While the 2-PGA molecule in the closed active site closely resembles the conformation known from other enolase-2-PGA complexes, the conformation in the open active site is different. Here, 2-PGA is shifted approximately 1.6 Å away from metal ion I, most likely representing a precatalytic situation.
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- Eike C Schulz
- Abteilung für Molekulare Strukturbiologie, Institut für Mikrobiologie und Genetik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Justus-von-Liebig Weg, Germany.
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Moraes J, Arreola R, Cabrera N, Saramago L, Freitas D, Masuda A, da Silva Vaz I, Tuena de Gomez-Puyou M, Perez-Montfort R, Gomez-Puyou A, Logullo C. Structural and biochemical characterization of a recombinant triosephosphate isomerase from Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus. INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2011; 41:400-409. [PMID: 21396445 DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2011.02.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2008] [Revised: 02/17/2011] [Accepted: 02/28/2011] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Triosephosphate isomerase (TIM) is an enzyme with a role in glycolysis and gluconeogenesis by catalyzing the interconversion between glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate and dihydroxyacetone phosphate. This enzyme has been used as a target in endoparasite drug development. In this work we cloned, expressed, purified and studied kinetic and structural characteristics of TIM from tick embryos, Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus (BmTIM). The Km and Vmax of the recombinant BmTIM with glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate as substrate, were 0.47 mM and 6031 μmol min⁻¹ mg protein⁻¹, respectively. The resolution of the diffracted crystal was estimated to be 2.4 Å and the overall data showed that BmTIM is similar to other reported dimeric TIMs. However, we found that, in comparison to other TIMs, BmTIM has the highest content of cysteine residues (nine cysteine residues per monomer). Only two cysteines could make disulfide bonds in monomers of BmTIM. Furthermore, BmTIM was highly sensitive to the action of the thiol reagents dithionitrobenzoic acid and methyl methane thiosulfonate, suggesting that there are five cysteines exposed in each dimer and that these residues could be employed in the development of species-specific inhibitors.
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- Jorge Moraes
- Laboratório de Química e Função de Proteínas e Peptídeos and Unidade de Experimentação Animal-RJ, CBB, UENF, Avenida Alberto Lamego 2000, Horto, Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ, CEP 28015-620, Brazil
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Nolan MJ, Hofmann A, Jex AR, Gasser RB. A theoretical study to establish the relationship between the three-dimensional structure of triose-phosphate isomerase of Giardia duodenalis and point mutations in the respective gene. Mol Cell Probes 2010; 24:281-5. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mcp.2010.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2010] [Revised: 06/01/2010] [Accepted: 06/03/2010] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Banerjee M, Balaram H, Balaram P. Structural effects of a dimer interface mutation on catalytic activity of triosephosphate isomerase. The role of conserved residues and complementary mutations. FEBS J 2009; 276:4169-83. [PMID: 19583769 DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2009.07126.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The active site of triosephosphate isomerase (TIM, EC: 5.3.1.1), a dimeric enzyme, lies very close to the subunit interface. Attempts to engineer monomeric enzymes have yielded well-folded proteins with dramatically reduced activity. The role of dimer interface residues in the stability and activity of the Plasmodium falciparum enzyme, PfTIM, has been probed by analysis of mutational effects at residue 74. The PfTIM triple mutant W11F/W168F/Y74W (Y74W*) has been shown to dissociate at low protein concentrations, and exhibits considerably reduced stability in the presence of denaturants, urea and guanidinium chloride. The Y74W* mutant exhibits concentration-dependent activity, with an approximately 22-fold enhancement of k(cat) over a concentration range of 2.5-40 microM, suggesting that dimerization is obligatory for enzyme activity. The Y74W* mutant shows an approximately 20-fold reduction in activity compared to the control enzyme (PfTIM WT*, W11F/W168F). Careful inspection of the available crystal structures of the enzyme, together with 412 unique protein sequences, revealed the importance of conserved residues in the vicinity of the active site that serve to position the functional K12 residue. The network of key interactions spans the interacting subunits. The Y74W* mutation can perturb orientations of the active site residues, due to steric clashes with proximal aromatic residues in PfTIM. The available crystal structures of the enzyme from Giardia lamblia, which contains a Trp residue at the structurally equivalent position, establishes the need for complementary mutations and maintenance of weak interactions in order to accommodate the bulky side chain and preserve active site integrity.
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- Mousumi Banerjee
- Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
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Devenish SRA, Gerrard JA. The role of quaternary structure in (β/α)8-barrel proteins: evolutionary happenstance or a higher level of structure-function relationships? Org Biomol Chem 2009; 7:833-9. [DOI: 10.1039/b818251p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Barranco-Medina S, Krell T, Bernier-Villamor L, Sevilla F, Lázaro JJ, Dietz KJ. Hexameric oligomerization of mitochondrial peroxiredoxin PrxIIF and formation of an ultrahigh affinity complex with its electron donor thioredoxin Trx-o. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2008; 59:3259-69. [PMID: 18632730 PMCID: PMC2529245 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ern177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2008] [Revised: 05/21/2008] [Accepted: 06/05/2008] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Mitochondria from plants, yeast, and animals each contain at least one peroxiredoxin (Prx) that is involved in peroxide detoxification and redox signalling. The supramolecular dynamics of atypical type II Prx targeted to the mitochondrion was addressed in pea. Microcalorimetric (ITC) titrations identified an extremely high-affinity binding between the mitochondrial PsPrxIIF and Trx-o with a K(D) of 126+/-14 pM. Binding was driven by a favourable enthalpy change (DeltaH= -60.6 kcal mol(-1)) which was counterbalanced by unfavourable entropy changes (TDeltaS= -47.1 kcal mol(-1)). This is consistent with the occurrence of large conformational changes during binding which was abolished upon site-directed mutaganesis of the catalytic C59S and C84S. The redox-dependent interaction was confirmed by gel filtration of mitochondrial extracts and co-immunoprecipitation from extracts. The heterocomplex of PsPrxIIF and Trx-o reduced peroxide substrates more efficiently than free PsPrxIIF suggesting that Trx-o serves as an efficient and specific electron donor to PsPrxIIF in vivo. Other Trx-s tested by ITC analysis failed to interact with PsPrxIIF indicating a specific recognition of PsPrxIIF by Trx-o. PsPrxIIF exists primarily as a dimer or a hexamer depending on the redox state. In addition to the well-characterized oligomerization of classical 2-Cys Prx the results also show that atypical Prx undergo large structural reorganization with implications for protein-protein interaction and function.
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- Sergio Barranco-Medina
- Biochemistry and Physiology of Plants, W5-134, Bielefeld University, D-33501 Bielefeld, Germany.
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Hernández-Alcántara G, Rodríguez-Romero A, Reyes-Vivas H, Peon J, Cabrera N, Ortiz C, Enríquez-Flores S, De la Mora-De la Mora I, López-Velázquez G. Unraveling the mechanisms of tryptophan fluorescence quenching in the triosephosphate isomerase from Giardia lamblia. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS 2008; 1784:1493-500. [PMID: 18620084 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2008.05.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2007] [Revised: 05/09/2008] [Accepted: 05/29/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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In the native state several proteins exhibit a quenching of fluorescence of their tryptophans. We studied triosephosphate isomerase from Giardia lamblia (GlTIM) to dissect the mechanisms that account for the quenching of fluorescence of its Trp. GlTIM contains four Trp per monomer (Trp75, Trp162, Trp173, and Trp196) distributed throughout the 3D structure. The fluorescence of the denatured enzyme is 3-fold higher than that of native GlTIM. To ascertain the origin of this phenomenon, single and triple mutants of Trp per Phe were made. The intrinsic fluorescence was determined, and the data were interpreted on the basis of the crystal structure of the enzyme. Our data show that the fluorescence of all Trp residues is quenched through two different mechanisms. In one, fluorescence is quenched by aromatic-aromatic interactions due to the proximity and orientation of the indole groups of Trp196 and Trp162. The magnitude of the quenching of fluorescence in Trp162 is higher than in the other three Trp. Fluorescence quenching is also due to energy transfer to the charged residues that surround Trp 75, 173 and 196. Further analysis of the fluorescence of GlTIM showed that, among TIMs from other parasites, Trp at position 12 exhibits rather unique properties.
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Enriquez-Flores S, Rodriguez-Romero A, Hernandez-Alcantara G, De la Mora-De la Mora I, Gutierrez-Castrellon P, Carvajal K, Lopez-Velazquez G, Reyes-Vivas H. Species-specific inhibition of Giardia lamblia triosephosphate isomerase by localized perturbation of the homodimer. Mol Biochem Parasitol 2007; 157:179-86. [PMID: 18077010 DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2007.10.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2007] [Revised: 10/05/2007] [Accepted: 10/30/2007] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Giardia lamblia depends on glycolysis to obtain ATP, highlighting the suitability of glycolytic enzymes as targets for drug design. We studied triosephosphate isomerase from G. lamblia (GlTIM) as a potential species-specific drug target. Cysteine-reactive agents were used as probes, in order to test those regions near to cysteine residues as targets to perturb enzyme structure and activity. Methyl methanethiosulfonate (MMTS) derivatized three of the five Cys per subunit of dimeric GlTIM and induced 50% of inactivation. The 2-carboxyethyl methanethiosulfonate (MTSCE) modified four Cys and induced 97% of inactivation. Inactivation by MMTS or MTSCE did not affect secondary structure, nor induce dimer dissociation; however, Cys modification decreased thermal stability of enzyme. Inactivation and dissociation of the dimer to stable monomers were reached when four Cys were derivatized by 5,5'-dithio-bis(2-nitrobenzoic acid) (DTNB). The effects of DTNB were completely abolished when GlTIM was first treated with MMTS. The effect of thiol reagents on human TIM was also assayed; it is 180-fold less sensitive than GlTIM. Collectively, the data illustrate GlTIM as a good target for drug design.
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- Sergio Enriquez-Flores
- Laboratorio de Bioquímica-Genética y Dirección de Investigación, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, 04530 México, DF, Mexico
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