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Aleksandrova EV, Wu KJY, Tresco BIC, Syroegin EA, Killeavy EE, Balasanyants SM, Svetlov MS, Gregory ST, Atkinson GC, Myers AG, Polikanov YS. Structural basis of Cfr-mediated antimicrobial resistance and mechanisms to evade it. Nat Chem Biol 2024; 20:867-876. [PMID: 38238495 DOI: 10.1038/s41589-023-01525-w] [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: 02/07/2023] [Accepted: 12/11/2023] [Indexed: 01/30/2024]
Abstract
The bacterial ribosome is an essential drug target as many clinically important antibiotics bind and inhibit its functional centers. The catalytic peptidyl transferase center (PTC) is targeted by the broadest array of inhibitors belonging to several chemical classes. One of the most abundant and clinically prevalent resistance mechanisms to PTC-acting drugs in Gram-positive bacteria is C8-methylation of the universally conserved A2503 nucleobase by Cfr methylase in 23S ribosomal RNA. Despite its clinical importance, a sufficient understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying Cfr-mediated resistance is currently lacking. Here, we report a set of high-resolution structures of the Cfr-modified 70S ribosome containing aminoacyl- and peptidyl-transfer RNAs. These structures reveal an allosteric rearrangement of nucleotide A2062 upon Cfr-mediated methylation of A2503 that likely contributes to the reduced potency of some PTC inhibitors. Additionally, we provide the structural bases behind two distinct mechanisms of engaging the Cfr-methylated ribosome by the antibiotics iboxamycin and tylosin.
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- Elena V Aleksandrova
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
- Center for Biomolecular Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA
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- Department of Experimental Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
- Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
- Center for Biomolecular Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
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Koller TO, Berger MJ, Morici M, Paternoga H, Bulatov T, Di Stasi A, Dang T, Mainz A, Raulf K, Crowe-McAuliffe C, Scocchi M, Mardirossian M, Beckert B, Vázquez-Laslop N, Mankin A, Süssmuth RD, Wilson DN. Paenilamicins from the honey bee pathogen Paenibacillus larvae are context-specific translocation inhibitors of protein synthesis. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.05.21.595107. [PMID: 38826346 PMCID: PMC11142091 DOI: 10.1101/2024.05.21.595107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2024]
Abstract
The paenilamicins are a group of hybrid non-ribosomal peptide-polyketide compounds produced by the honey bee pathogen Paenibacillus larvae that display activity against Gram-positive pathogens, such as Staphylococcus aureus. While paenilamicins have been shown to inhibit protein synthesis, their mechanism of action has remained unclear. Here, we have determined structures of the paenilamicin PamB2 stalled ribosomes, revealing a unique binding site on the small 30S subunit located between the A- and P-site tRNAs. In addition to providing a precise description of interactions of PamB2 with the ribosome, the structures also rationalize the resistance mechanisms utilized by P. larvae. We could further demonstrate that PamB2 interferes with the translocation of mRNA and tRNAs through the ribosome during translation elongation, and that this inhibitory activity is influenced by the presence of modifications at position 37 of the A-site tRNA. Collectively, our study defines the paenilamicins as a new class of context-specific translocation inhibitors.
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- Timm O. Koller
- Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 6, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 6, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 6, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 6, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
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- Institut für Chemie, Technische Universität Berlin, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste, 34127 Trieste, Italy
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- Institut für Chemie, Technische Universität Berlin, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Chemie, Technische Universität Berlin, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 6, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 6, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste, 34127 Trieste, Italy
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- Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste, 34127 Trieste, Italy
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- Dubochet Center for Imaging (DCI) at EPFL, EPFL SB IPHYS DCI, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Center for Biomolecular Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607
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- Center for Biomolecular Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607
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- Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 6, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
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Zhang M, Li L, Li C, Ma A, Li J, Yang C, Chen X, Cao P, Li S, Zhang Y, Yuchi Z, Du X, Liu C, Wang X, Wang X, Xiang W. Natural product guvermectin inhibits guanosine 5'-monophosphate synthetase and confers broad-spectrum antibacterial activity. Int J Biol Macromol 2024; 267:131510. [PMID: 38608989 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2024.131510] [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: 02/19/2024] [Revised: 03/27/2024] [Accepted: 04/09/2024] [Indexed: 04/14/2024]
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Bacterial diseases caused substantial yield losses worldwide, with the rise of antibiotic resistance, there is a critical need for alternative antibacterial compounds. Natural products (NPs) from microorganisms have emerged as promising candidates due to their potential as cost-effective and environmentally friendly bactericides. However, the precise mechanisms underlying the antibacterial activity of many NPs, including Guvermectin (GV), remain poorly understood. Here, we sought to explore how GV interacts with Guanosine 5'-monophosphate synthetase (GMPs), an enzyme crucial in bacterial guanine synthesis. We employed a combination of biochemical and genetic approaches, enzyme activity assays, site-directed mutagenesis, bio-layer interferometry, and molecular docking assays to assess GV's antibacterial activity and its mechanism targeting GMPs. The results showed that GV effectively inhibits GMPs, disrupting bacterial guanine synthesis. This was confirmed through drug-resistant assays and direct enzyme inhibition studies. Bio-layer interferometry assays demonstrated specific binding of GV to GMPs, with dependency on Xanthosine 5'-monophosphate. Site-directed mutagenesis identified key residues crucial for the GV-GMP interaction. This study elucidates the antibacterial mechanism of GV, highlighting its potential as a biocontrol agent in agriculture. These findings contribute to the development of novel antibacterial agents and underscore the importance of exploring natural products for agricultural disease management.
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- Manman Zhang
- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China; Department of Entomology and MOA Key Lab of Pest Monitoring and Green Management, Plant Pathology Department, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology of Heilongjiang Province, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
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- College of Agriculture, Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology of Guizhou Province, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
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- Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources Collection and Preservation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China
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- Department of Entomology and MOA Key Lab of Pest Monitoring and Green Management, Plant Pathology Department, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
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- Key Laboratory of Drug Targets and Drug Leads for Degenerative Diseases, Affiliated Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory for Modern Drug Delivery & High-Efficiency, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering, School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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- Department of Entomology and MOA Key Lab of Pest Monitoring and Green Management, Plant Pathology Department, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology of Heilongjiang Province, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology of Heilongjiang Province, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
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- Department of Entomology and MOA Key Lab of Pest Monitoring and Green Management, Plant Pathology Department, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China.
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China; Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology of Heilongjiang Province, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China.
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Sharma MR, Manjari SR, Agrawal EK, Keshavan P, Koripella RK, Majumdar S, Marcinkiewicz AL, Lin YP, Agrawal RK, Banavali NK. The structure of a hibernating ribosome in a Lyme disease pathogen. Nat Commun 2023; 14:6961. [PMID: 37907464 PMCID: PMC10618245 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-42266-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2023] [Accepted: 10/04/2023] [Indexed: 11/02/2023] Open
Abstract
The spirochete bacterial pathogen Borrelia (Borreliella) burgdorferi (Bbu) affects more than 10% of the world population and causes Lyme disease in about half a million people in the US annually. Therapy for Lyme disease includes antibiotics that target the Bbu ribosome. Here we present the structure of the Bbu 70S ribosome obtained by single particle cryo-electron microscopy at 2.9 Å resolution, revealing a bound hibernation promotion factor protein and two genetically non-annotated ribosomal proteins bS22 and bL38. The ribosomal protein uL30 in Bbu has an N-terminal α-helical extension, partly resembling the mycobacterial bL37 protein, suggesting evolution of bL37 and a shorter uL30 from a longer uL30 protein. Its analogy to proteins uL30m and mL63 in mammalian mitochondrial ribosomes also suggests a plausible evolutionary pathway for expansion of protein content in mammalian mitochondrial ribosomes. Computational binding free energy predictions for antibiotics reflect subtle distinctions in antibiotic-binding sites in the Bbu ribosome. Discovery of these features in the Bbu ribosome may enable better ribosome-targeted antibiotic design for Lyme disease treatment.
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- Manjuli R Sharma
- Division of Translational Medicine, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY, USA
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- Division of Translational Medicine, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY, USA
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- Division of Translational Medicine, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY, USA
- University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Division of Translational Medicine, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY, USA
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- Division of Translational Medicine, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY, USA
- Apkarian Integrated Electron Microscopy Core, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Division of Translational Medicine, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY, USA
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Public Health, University at Albany, Albany, NY, USA
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- Division of Translational Medicine, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY, USA.
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Public Health, University at Albany, Albany, NY, USA.
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- Division of Translational Medicine, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY, USA.
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Public Health, University at Albany, Albany, NY, USA.
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Aleksandrova EV, Wu KJY, Tresco BIC, Syroegin EA, Killeavy EE, Balasanyants SM, Svetlov MS, Gregory ST, Atkinson GC, Myers AG, Polikanov YS. Structural basis of Cfr-mediated antimicrobial resistance and mechanisms for its evasion. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.09.27.559749. [PMID: 37808676 PMCID: PMC10557674 DOI: 10.1101/2023.09.27.559749] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/10/2023]
Abstract
The ribosome is an essential drug target as many classes of clinically important antibiotics bind and inhibit its functional centers. The catalytic peptidyl transferase center (PTC) is targeted by the broadest array of inhibitors belonging to several chemical classes. One of the most abundant and clinically prevalent mechanisms of resistance to PTC-acting drugs is C8-methylation of the universally conserved adenine residue 2503 (A2503) of the 23S rRNA by the methyltransferase Cfr. Despite its clinical significance, a sufficient understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying Cfr-mediated resistance is currently lacking. In this work, we developed a method to express a functionally-active Cfr-methyltransferase in the thermophilic bacterium Thermus thermophilus and report a set of high-resolution structures of the Cfr-modified 70S ribosome containing aminoacyl- and peptidyl-tRNAs. Our structures reveal that an allosteric rearrangement of nucleotide A2062 upon Cfr-methylation of A2503 is likely responsible for the inability of some PTC inhibitors to bind to the ribosome, providing additional insights into the Cfr resistance mechanism. Lastly, by determining the structures of the Cfr-methylated ribosome in complex with the antibiotics iboxamycin and tylosin, we provide the structural bases behind two distinct mechanisms of evading Cfr-mediated resistance.
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- Elena V. Aleksandrova
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA
- Center for Biomolecular Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA
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- Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
- Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA
- Center for Biomolecular Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA
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Bubunenko MG, Korepanov AP. The P-Site Loop of the Universally Conserved Bacterial Ribosomal Protein L5 Is Required for Maintaining Both Translation Rate and Fidelity. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:14285. [PMID: 37762588 PMCID: PMC10531944 DOI: 10.3390/ijms241814285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2023] [Revised: 09/07/2023] [Accepted: 09/09/2023] [Indexed: 09/29/2023] Open
Abstract
The bacterial ribosomal 5S rRNA-binding protein L5 is universally conserved (uL5). It contains the so-called P-site loop (PSL), which contacts the P-site tRNA in the ribosome. Certain PSL mutations in yeast are lethal, suggesting that the loop plays an important role in translation. In this work, for the first time, a viable Escherichia coli strain was obtained with the deletion of the major part of the PSL (residues 73-80) of the uL5 protein. The deletion conferred cold sensitivity and drastically reduced the growth rate and overall protein synthesizing capacity of the mutant. Translation rate is decreased in mutant cells as compared to the control. At the same time, the deletion causes increased levels of -1 frameshifting and readthrough of all three stop codons. In general, the results show that the PSL of the uL5 is required for maintaining both the accuracy and rate of protein synthesis in vivo.
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- Mikhail G. Bubunenko
- Basic Science Program, Leidos Biomedical Research Inc., Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702, USA;
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- Institute of Protein Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142290 Pushchino, Russia
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Girodat D, Wieden HJ, Blanchard SC, Sanbonmatsu KY. Geometric alignment of aminoacyl-tRNA relative to catalytic centers of the ribosome underpins accurate mRNA decoding. Nat Commun 2023; 14:5582. [PMID: 37696823 PMCID: PMC10495418 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-40404-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2022] [Accepted: 07/27/2023] [Indexed: 09/13/2023] Open
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Accurate protein synthesis is determined by the two-subunit ribosome's capacity to selectively incorporate cognate aminoacyl-tRNA for each mRNA codon. The molecular basis of tRNA selection accuracy, and how fidelity can be affected by antibiotics, remains incompletely understood. Using molecular simulations, we find that cognate and near-cognate tRNAs delivered to the ribosome by Elongation Factor Tu (EF-Tu) can follow divergent pathways of motion into the ribosome during both initial selection and proofreading. Consequently, cognate aa-tRNAs follow pathways aligned with the catalytic GTPase and peptidyltransferase centers of the large subunit, while near-cognate aa-tRNAs follow pathways that are misaligned. These findings suggest that differences in mRNA codon-tRNA anticodon interactions within the small subunit decoding center, where codon-anticodon interactions occur, are geometrically amplified over distance, as a result of this site's physical separation from the large ribosomal subunit catalytic centers. These insights posit that the physical size of both tRNA and ribosome are key determinants of the tRNA selection fidelity mechanism.
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- Dylan Girodat
- Theoretical Biology and Biophysics, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 87545, USA
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, 72701, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2N2, Canada
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- Department of Structural Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, 38105, USA.
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- Theoretical Biology and Biophysics, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 87545, USA.
- New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos, NM, 87545, USA.
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Leroy EC, Perry TN, Renault TT, Innis CA. Tetracenomycin X sequesters peptidyl-tRNA during translation of QK motifs. Nat Chem Biol 2023; 19:1091-1096. [PMID: 37322159 DOI: 10.1038/s41589-023-01343-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2022] [Accepted: 04/18/2023] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
Abstract
As antimicrobial resistance threatens our ability to treat common bacterial infections, new antibiotics with limited cross-resistance are urgently needed. In this regard, natural products that target the bacterial ribosome have the potential to be developed into potent drugs through structure-guided design, provided their mechanisms of action are well understood. Here we use inverse toeprinting coupled to next-generation sequencing to show that the aromatic polyketide tetracenomycin X primarily inhibits peptide bond formation between an incoming aminoacyl-tRNA and a terminal Gln-Lys (QK) motif in the nascent polypeptide. Using cryogenic electron microscopy, we reveal that translation inhibition at QK motifs occurs via an unusual mechanism involving sequestration of the 3' adenosine of peptidyl-tRNALys in the drug-occupied nascent polypeptide exit tunnel of the ribosome. Our study provides mechanistic insights into the mode of action of tetracenomycin X on the bacterial ribosome and suggests a path forward for the development of novel aromatic polyketide antibiotics.
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- Elodie C Leroy
- ARNA Laboratory, UMR 5320, U1212, Institut Européen de Chimie et Biologie, Univ. Bordeaux, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Pessac, France
- Human Technopole, Milan, Italy
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- ARNA Laboratory, UMR 5320, U1212, Institut Européen de Chimie et Biologie, Univ. Bordeaux, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Pessac, France
- Human Technopole, Milan, Italy
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- ARNA Laboratory, UMR 5320, U1212, Institut Européen de Chimie et Biologie, Univ. Bordeaux, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Pessac, France.
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- ARNA Laboratory, UMR 5320, U1212, Institut Européen de Chimie et Biologie, Univ. Bordeaux, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Pessac, France.
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Chen CW, Leimer N, Syroegin EA, Dunand C, Bulman ZP, Lewis K, Polikanov YS, Svetlov MS. Structural insights into the mechanism of overcoming Erm-mediated resistance by macrolides acting together with hygromycin-A. Nat Commun 2023; 14:4196. [PMID: 37452045 PMCID: PMC10349075 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-39653-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2023] [Accepted: 06/22/2023] [Indexed: 07/18/2023] Open
Abstract
The ever-growing rise of antibiotic resistance among bacterial pathogens is one of the top healthcare threats today. Although combination antibiotic therapies represent a potential approach to more efficiently combat infections caused by susceptible and drug-resistant bacteria, only a few known drug pairs exhibit synergy/cooperativity in killing bacteria. Here, we discover that well-known ribosomal antibiotics, hygromycin A (HygA) and macrolides, which target peptidyl transferase center and peptide exit tunnel, respectively, can act cooperatively against susceptible and drug-resistant bacteria. Remarkably, HygA slows down macrolide dissociation from the ribosome by 60-fold and enhances the otherwise weak antimicrobial activity of the newest-generation macrolide drugs known as ketolides against macrolide-resistant bacteria. By determining a set of high-resolution X-ray crystal structures of drug-sensitive wild-type and macrolide-resistant Erm-methylated 70S ribosomes in complex with three HygA-macrolide pairs, we provide a structural rationale for the binding cooperativity of these drugs and also uncover the molecular mechanism of overcoming Erm-type resistance by macrolides acting together with hygromycin A. Altogether our structural, biochemical, and microbiological findings lay the foundation for the subsequent development of synergistic antibiotic tandems with improved bactericidal properties against drug-resistant pathogens, including those expressing erm genes.
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- Chih-Wei Chen
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60607, USA
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- Department of Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60607, USA
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- Center for Biomolecular Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60607, USA
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- Department of Pharmacy Practice, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60612, USA
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- Department of Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60607, USA.
- Center for Biomolecular Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60607, USA.
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60607, USA.
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- Center for Biomolecular Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60607, USA.
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60607, USA.
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Schuler SMM, Jürjens G, Marker A, Hemmann U, Rey A, Yvon S, Lagrevol M, Hamiti M, Nguyen F, Hirsch R, Pöverlein C, Vilcinskas A, Hammann P, Wilson DN, Mourez M, Coyne S, Bauer A. Full Profiling of GE81112A, an Underexplored Tetrapeptide Antibiotic with Activity against Gram-Negative Pathogens. Microbiol Spectr 2023; 11:e0224722. [PMID: 37140391 PMCID: PMC10269895 DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.02247-22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2023] [Accepted: 01/19/2023] [Indexed: 05/05/2023] Open
Abstract
After the first total synthesis combined with structure revision, we performed thorough in vitro and in vivo profiling of the underexplored tetrapeptide GE81112A. From the determination of the biological activity spectrum and physicochemical and early absorption-distribution-metabolism-excretion-toxicity (eADMET) properties, as well as in vivo data regarding tolerability and pharmacokinetics (PK) in mice and efficacy in an Escherichia coli-induced septicemia model, we were able to identify the critical and limiting parameters of the original hit compound. Thus, the generated data will serve as the basis for further compound optimization programs and developability assessments to identify candidates for preclinical/clinical development derived from GE81112A as the lead structure. IMPORTANCE The spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is becoming a more and more important global threat to human health. With regard to current medical needs, penetration into the site of infection represents the major challenge in the treatment of infections caused by Gram-positive bacteria. Considering infections associated with Gram-negative bacteria, resistance is a major issue. Obviously, novel scaffolds for the design of new antibacterials in this arena are urgently needed to overcome this crisis. Such a novel potential lead structure is represented by the GE81112 compounds, which inhibit protein synthesis by interacting with the small 30S ribosomal subunit using a binding site distinct from that of other known ribosome-targeting antibiotics. Therefore, the tetrapeptide antibiotic GE81112A was chosen for further exploration as a potential lead for the development of antibiotics with a new mode of action against Gram-negative bacteria.
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- Sören M. M. Schuler
- Branch Bioresources of the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology, Giessen, Germany
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- Branch Bioresources of the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology, Giessen, Germany
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- Sanofi R&D, Therapeutic Area Infectious Diseases, Marcy L’Etoile, France
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- Sanofi R&D, Therapeutic Area Infectious Diseases, Marcy L’Etoile, France
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- Sanofi R&D, Therapeutic Area Infectious Diseases, Marcy L’Etoile, France
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- Sanofi R&D, Therapeutic Area Infectious Diseases, Marcy L’Etoile, France
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- Gene Center, Department for Biochemistry and Center for Protein Science Munich, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Branch Bioresources of the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology, Giessen, Germany
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- Branch Bioresources of the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology, Giessen, Germany
- Institute for Insect Biotechnology, Justus-Liebig University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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- Gene Center, Department for Biochemistry and Center for Protein Science Munich, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Sanofi R&D, Therapeutic Area Infectious Diseases, Marcy L’Etoile, France
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- Sanofi R&D, Therapeutic Area Infectious Diseases, Marcy L’Etoile, France
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- Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH, Frankfurt, Germany
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Obana N, Takada H, Crowe-McAuliffe C, Iwamoto M, Egorov AA, Wu KJY, Chiba S, Murina V, Paternoga H, Tresco BIC, Nomura N, Myers AG, Atkinson G, Wilson DN, Hauryliuk V. Genome-encoded ABCF factors implicated in intrinsic antibiotic resistance in Gram-positive bacteria: VmlR2, Ard1 and CplR. Nucleic Acids Res 2023; 51:4536-4554. [PMID: 36951104 PMCID: PMC10201436 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkad193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2022] [Revised: 02/17/2023] [Accepted: 03/06/2023] [Indexed: 03/24/2023] Open
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Genome-encoded antibiotic resistance (ARE) ATP-binding cassette (ABC) proteins of the F subfamily (ARE-ABCFs) mediate intrinsic resistance in diverse Gram-positive bacteria. The diversity of chromosomally-encoded ARE-ABCFs is far from being fully experimentally explored. Here we characterise phylogenetically diverse genome-encoded ABCFs from Actinomycetia (Ard1 from Streptomyces capreolus, producer of the nucleoside antibiotic A201A), Bacilli (VmlR2 from soil bacterium Neobacillus vireti) and Clostridia (CplR from Clostridium perfringens, Clostridium sporogenes and Clostridioides difficile). We demonstrate that Ard1 is a narrow spectrum ARE-ABCF that specifically mediates self-resistance against nucleoside antibiotics. The single-particle cryo-EM structure of a VmlR2-ribosome complex allows us to rationalise the resistance spectrum of this ARE-ABCF that is equipped with an unusually long antibiotic resistance determinant (ARD) subdomain. We show that CplR contributes to intrinsic pleuromutilin, lincosamide and streptogramin A resistance in Clostridioides, and demonstrate that C. difficile CplR (CDIF630_02847) synergises with the transposon-encoded 23S ribosomal RNA methyltransferase Erm to grant high levels of antibiotic resistance to the C. difficile 630 clinical isolate. Finally, assisted by uORF4u, our novel tool for detection of upstream open reading frames, we dissect the translational attenuation mechanism that controls the induction of cplR expression upon an antibiotic challenge.
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- Nozomu Obana
- Transborder Medical Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
- Microbiology Research Center for Sustainability (MiCS), University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Faculty of Life Sciences, Kyoto Sangyo University, Motoyama, Kamigamo, Kita-Ku, Kyoto 603-8555, Japan
- Department of Experimental Medical Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 6, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
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- Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Department of Experimental Medical Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Faculty of Life Sciences, Kyoto Sangyo University, Motoyama, Kamigamo, Kita-Ku, Kyoto 603-8555, Japan
- Institute for Protein Dynamics, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan
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- Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 6, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Microbiology Research Center for Sustainability (MiCS), University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
- Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Experimental Medical Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 6, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Experimental Medical Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
- University of Tartu, Institute of Technology, Tartu, Estonia
- Science for Life Laboratory, Lund, Sweden
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Holm M, Natchiar SK, Rundlet EJ, Myasnikov AG, Watson ZL, Altman RB, Wang HY, Taunton J, Blanchard SC. mRNA decoding in human is kinetically and structurally distinct from bacteria. Nature 2023; 617:200-207. [PMID: 37020024 PMCID: PMC10156603 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05908-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2022] [Accepted: 03/01/2023] [Indexed: 04/07/2023]
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In all species, ribosomes synthesize proteins by faithfully decoding messenger RNA (mRNA) nucleotide sequences using aminoacyl-tRNA substrates. Current knowledge of the decoding mechanism derives principally from studies on bacterial systems1. Although key features are conserved across evolution2, eukaryotes achieve higher-fidelity mRNA decoding than bacteria3. In human, changes in decoding fidelity are linked to ageing and disease and represent a potential point of therapeutic intervention in both viral and cancer treatment4-6. Here we combine single-molecule imaging and cryogenic electron microscopy methods to examine the molecular basis of human ribosome fidelity to reveal that the decoding mechanism is both kinetically and structurally distinct from that of bacteria. Although decoding is globally analogous in both species, the reaction coordinate of aminoacyl-tRNA movement is altered on the human ribosome and the process is an order of magnitude slower. These distinctions arise from eukaryote-specific structural elements in the human ribosome and in the elongation factor eukaryotic elongation factor 1A (eEF1A) that together coordinate faithful tRNA incorporation at each mRNA codon. The distinct nature and timing of conformational changes within the ribosome and eEF1A rationalize how increased decoding fidelity is achieved and potentially regulated in eukaryotic species.
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- Mikael Holm
- Department of Structural Biology, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
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- Department of Structural Biology, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
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- Department of Structural Biology, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
- Tri-Institutional PhD Program in Chemical Biology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Structural Biology, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
- Dubochet Center for Imaging (DCI), EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Structural Biology, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
- California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Structural Biology, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Structural Biology, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.
- Chemical Biology & Therapeutics, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.
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Sharma MR, Manjari SR, Agrawal EK, Keshavan P, Koripella RK, Majumdar S, Marcinkiewicz AL, Lin YP, Agrawal RK, Banavali NK. The structure of a hibernating ribosome in a Lyme disease pathogen. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.04.16.537070. [PMID: 37131667 PMCID: PMC10153394 DOI: 10.1101/2023.04.16.537070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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The spirochete bacterial pathogen Borrelia ( Borreliella) burgdorferi ( Bbu ) affects more than 10% of the world population and causes Lyme disease in about half a million people in the US annually. Therapy for Lyme disease includes antibiotics that target the Bbu ribosome. We determined the structure of the Bbu 70S ribosome by single particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) at a resolution of 2.9 Å, revealing its distinctive features. In contrast to a previous study suggesting that the single hibernation promoting factor protein present in Bbu (bbHPF) may not bind to its ribosome, our structure reveals a clear density for bbHPF bound to the decoding center of the small ribosomal 30S subunit. The 30S subunit has a non-annotated ribosomal protein, bS22, that has been found only in mycobacteria and Bacteroidetes so far. The protein bL38, recently discovered in Bacteroidetes, is also present in the Bbu large 50S ribosomal subunit. The protein bL37, previously seen only in mycobacterial ribosomes, is replaced by an N-terminal α-helical extension of uL30, suggesting that the two bacterial ribosomal proteins uL30 and bL37 may have evolved from one longer uL30 protein. The longer uL30 protein interacts with both the 23S rRNA and the 5S rRNA, is near the peptidyl transferase center (PTC), and could impart greater stability to this region. Its analogy to proteins uL30m and mL63 in mammalian mitochondrial ribosomes also suggests a plausible evolutionary pathway for expansion of protein content in mammalian mitochondrial ribosomes. Computational binding free energies are predicted for antibiotics, bound to the decoding center or PTC and are in clinical use for Lyme disease, that account for subtle distinctions in antibiotic-binding regions in the Bbu ribosome structure. Besides revealing unanticipated structural and compositional features for the Bbu ribosome, our study thus provides groundwork to enable ribosome-targeted antibiotic design for more effective treatment of Lyme disease.
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Wang J, Gao J, Guo T, Huo X, Zhang W, Liu J, Wang X. Bioinspired Total Synthesis of Complex Nucleoside Antibiotics A201A, A201D and A201E. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2023; 62:e202213810. [PMID: 36411245 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202213810] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2022] [Revised: 11/21/2022] [Accepted: 11/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Herein, bioinspired total syntheses of A201A, A201D, and A201E based on a previously reported biosynthetic pathway are presented. The challenging 1,2-cis-furanoside, a core structure of the A201 family, was obtained by remote 2-quinolinecarbonyl-assisted glycosylation. We accomplished the total synthesis of A201A and A201E based on the critical 1,2-cis-furanoside moiety through late-stage glycosylation without any interference from basic dimethyl adenosine. We also confirmed the absolute configuration of A201E by total synthesis. This modular synthesis strategy enables efficient preparation of A201 family antibiotics, allowing the study of their structure-activity relationships and mode of action. This study satisfies the increasing demand for developing novel antibiotics inspired by the A201 family.
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- Jiaxiang Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and School of Pharmacy, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and School of Pharmacy, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and School of Pharmacy, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and School of Pharmacy, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, P. R. China
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- School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and School of Pharmacy, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and School of Pharmacy, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, P. R. China
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Wang Y, Wang A, Mohanty U, Whitford PC. Precise Steric Features Control Aminoacyl-tRNA Accommodation on the Ribosome. J Phys Chem B 2022; 126:8447-8459. [PMID: 36251478 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c05513] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Protein synthesis involves a complex series of large-scale conformational changes in the ribosome. While long-lived intermediate states of these processes can be characterized by experiments, computational methods can be used to identify the interactions that contribute to the rate-limiting free-energy barriers. To this end, we use a simplified energetic model to perform molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of aminoacyl-tRNA (aa-tRNA) accommodation on the ribosome. While numerous studies have probed the energetics of the early stages of accommodation, we focus on the final stage of accommodation, where the 3'-CCA tail of aa-tRNA enters the peptidyl transferase center (PTC). These simulations show how a distinct intermediate is induced by steric confinement of the tail, immediately before it completes accommodation. Multiple pathways for 3'-CCA tail accommodation can be quantitatively distinguished, where the tail enters the PTC by moving past a pocket enclosed by Helix 89, 90, and 92, or through an alternate route formed by Helix 93 and the P-site tRNA. C2573, located within Helix 90, is shown to provide the largest contribution to this late-accommodation steric barrier, such that sub-Å perturbations to this residue can alter the time scale of tail accommodation by nearly an order of magnitude. In terms of biological function, these calculations suggest how this late-stage sterically induced barrier may contribute to tRNA proofreading by the ribosome.
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- Yang Wang
- Department of Chemistry, Boston College, 2609 Beacon Street, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts02467, United States
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- Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts02115, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Boston College, 2609 Beacon Street, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts02467, United States
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- Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts02115, United States.,Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Dana Research Center 111, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts02115, United States
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Xue L, Lenz S, Zimmermann-Kogadeeva M, Tegunov D, Cramer P, Bork P, Rappsilber J, Mahamid J. Visualizing translation dynamics at atomic detail inside a bacterial cell. Nature 2022; 610:205-211. [PMID: 36171285 PMCID: PMC9534751 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05255-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2021] [Accepted: 08/19/2022] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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Translation is the fundamental process of protein synthesis and is catalysed by the ribosome in all living cells1. Here we use advances in cryo-electron tomography and sub-tomogram analysis2,3 to visualize the structural dynamics of translation inside the bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae. To interpret the functional states in detail, we first obtain a high-resolution in-cell average map of all translating ribosomes and build an atomic model for the M. pneumoniae ribosome that reveals distinct extensions of ribosomal proteins. Classification then resolves 13 ribosome states that differ in their conformation and composition. These recapitulate major states that were previously resolved in vitro, and reflect intermediates during active translation. On the basis of these states, we animate translation elongation inside native cells and show how antibiotics reshape the cellular translation landscapes. During translation elongation, ribosomes often assemble in defined three-dimensional arrangements to form polysomes4. By mapping the intracellular organization of translating ribosomes, we show that their association into polysomes involves a local coordination mechanism that is mediated by the ribosomal protein L9. We propose that an extended conformation of L9 within polysomes mitigates collisions to facilitate translation fidelity. Our work thus demonstrates the feasibility of visualizing molecular processes at atomic detail inside cells.
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- Liang Xue
- Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany
- Collaboration for joint PhD degree between EMBL and Heidelberg University, Faculty of Biosciences, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Chair of Bioanalytics, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
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- Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany
- Yonsei Frontier Lab, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
- Department of Bioinformatics, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Chair of Bioanalytics, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany.
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Lombardi S, Testa MF, Pinotti M, Branchini A. Translation termination codons in protein synthesis and disease. ADVANCES IN PROTEIN CHEMISTRY AND STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY 2022; 132:1-48. [PMID: 36088072 DOI: 10.1016/bs.apcsb.2022.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Fidelity of protein synthesis, a process shaped by several mechanisms involving specialized ribosome regions and external factors, ensures the precise reading of sense as well as stop codons (UGA, UAG, UAA), which are usually localized at the 3' of mRNA and drive the release of the polypeptide chain. However, either natural (NTCs) or premature (PTCs) termination codons, the latter arising from nucleotide changes, can undergo a recoding process named ribosome or translational readthrough, which insert specific amino acids (NTCs) or subset(s) depending on the stop codon type (PTCs). This process is particularly relevant for nonsense mutations, a relatively frequent cause of genetic disorders, which impair gene expression at different levels by potentially leading to mRNA degradation and/or synthesis of truncated proteins. As a matter of fact, many efforts have been made to develop efficient and safe readthrough-inducing compounds, which have been challenged in several models of human disease to provide with a therapy. In this view, the dissection of the molecular determinants shaping the outcome of readthrough, namely nucleotide and protein contexts as well as their interplay and impact on protein structure/function, is crucial to identify responsive nonsense mutations resulting in functional full-length proteins. The interpretation of experimental and mechanistic findings is also important to define a possibly clear picture of potential readthrough-favorable features useful to achieve rescue profiles compatible with therapeutic thresholds typical of each targeted disorder, which is of primary importance for the potential translatability of readthrough into a personalized and mutation-specific, and thus patient-oriented, therapeutic strategy.
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- Silvia Lombardi
- Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
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- Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
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- Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.
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Tsai K, Stojković V, Noda-Garcia L, Young ID, Myasnikov AG, Kleinman J, Palla A, Floor SN, Frost A, Fraser JS, Tawfik DS, Fujimori DG. Directed evolution of the rRNA methylating enzyme Cfr reveals molecular basis of antibiotic resistance. eLife 2022; 11:e70017. [PMID: 35015630 PMCID: PMC8752094 DOI: 10.7554/elife.70017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2021] [Accepted: 11/25/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Alteration of antibiotic binding sites through modification of ribosomal RNA (rRNA) is a common form of resistance to ribosome-targeting antibiotics. The rRNA-modifying enzyme Cfr methylates an adenosine nucleotide within the peptidyl transferase center, resulting in the C-8 methylation of A2503 (m8A2503). Acquisition of cfr results in resistance to eight classes of ribosome-targeting antibiotics. Despite the prevalence of this resistance mechanism, it is poorly understood whether and how bacteria modulate Cfr methylation to adapt to antibiotic pressure. Moreover, direct evidence for how m8A2503 alters antibiotic binding sites within the ribosome is lacking. In this study, we performed directed evolution of Cfr under antibiotic selection to generate Cfr variants that confer increased resistance by enhancing methylation of A2503 in cells. Increased rRNA methylation is achieved by improved expression and stability of Cfr through transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms, which may be exploited by pathogens under antibiotic stress as suggested by natural isolates. Using a variant that achieves near-stoichiometric methylation of rRNA, we determined a 2.2 Å cryo-electron microscopy structure of the Cfr-modified ribosome. Our structure reveals the molecular basis for broad resistance to antibiotics and will inform the design of new antibiotics that overcome resistance mediated by Cfr.
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- Kaitlyn Tsai
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California San FranciscoSan FranciscoUnited States
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California San FranciscoSan FranciscoUnited States
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- Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of ScienceRehovotIsrael
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- Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California San FranciscoSan FranciscoUnited States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San FranciscoSan FranciscoUnited States
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California San FranciscoSan FranciscoUnited States
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California San FranciscoSan FranciscoUnited States
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- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San FranciscoSan FranciscoUnited States
- Department of Cell and Tissue Biology, University of California San FranciscoSan FranciscoUnited States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San FranciscoSan FranciscoUnited States
- Quantitative Biosciences Institute, University of California San FranciscoSan FranciscoUnited States
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- Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California San FranciscoSan FranciscoUnited States
- Quantitative Biosciences Institute, University of California San FranciscoSan FranciscoUnited States
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- Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of ScienceRehovotIsrael
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California San FranciscoSan FranciscoUnited States
- Quantitative Biosciences Institute, University of California San FranciscoSan FranciscoUnited States
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San FranciscoSan FranciscoUnited States
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Advances in Biosynthesis of Natural Products from Marine Microorganisms. Microorganisms 2021; 9:microorganisms9122551. [PMID: 34946152 PMCID: PMC8706298 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms9122551] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2021] [Revised: 11/27/2021] [Accepted: 12/07/2021] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Natural products play an important role in drug development, among which marine natural products are an underexplored resource. This review summarizes recent developments in marine natural product research, with an emphasis on compound discovery and production methods. Traditionally, novel compounds with useful biological activities have been identified through the chromatographic separation of crude extracts. New genome sequencing and bioinformatics technologies have enabled the identification of natural product biosynthetic gene clusters in marine microbes that are difficult to culture. Subsequently, heterologous expression and combinatorial biosynthesis have been used to produce natural products and their analogs. This review examines recent examples of such new strategies and technologies for the development of marine natural products.
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Lyme disease, which is caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, is on the rise. Current treatment relies on broad-spectrum antibiotics that perturb the gut microbiome. In a recent paper in Cell, Leimer et al. demonstrate the utility of a long-forgotten antibiotic, Hygromycin A, as a spirochete-specific antibacterial that is conducive to gut health.
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Leimer N, Wu X, Imai Y, Morrissette M, Pitt N, Favre-Godal Q, Iinishi A, Jain S, Caboni M, Leus IV, Bonifay V, Niles S, Bargabos R, Ghiglieri M, Corsetti R, Krumpoch M, Fox G, Son S, Klepacki D, Polikanov YS, Freliech CA, McCarthy JE, Edmondson DG, Norris SJ, D'Onofrio A, Hu LT, Zgurskaya HI, Lewis K. A selective antibiotic for Lyme disease. Cell 2021; 184:5405-5418.e16. [PMID: 34619078 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.09.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2021] [Revised: 07/22/2021] [Accepted: 09/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Lyme disease is on the rise. Caused by a spirochete Borreliella burgdorferi, it affects an estimated 500,000 people in the United States alone. The antibiotics currently used to treat Lyme disease are broad spectrum, damage the microbiome, and select for resistance in non-target bacteria. We therefore sought to identify a compound acting selectively against B. burgdorferi. A screen of soil micro-organisms revealed a compound highly selective against spirochetes, including B. burgdorferi. Unexpectedly, this compound was determined to be hygromycin A, a known antimicrobial produced by Streptomyces hygroscopicus. Hygromycin A targets the ribosomes and is taken up by B. burgdorferi, explaining its selectivity. Hygromycin A cleared the B. burgdorferi infection in mice, including animals that ingested the compound in a bait, and was less disruptive to the fecal microbiome than clinically relevant antibiotics. This selective antibiotic holds the promise of providing a better therapeutic for Lyme disease and eradicating it in the environment.
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- Nadja Leimer
- Antimicrobial Discovery Center, Department of Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Antimicrobial Discovery Center, Department of Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Antimicrobial Discovery Center, Department of Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Antimicrobial Discovery Center, Department of Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Antimicrobial Discovery Center, Department of Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Antimicrobial Discovery Center, Department of Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Antimicrobial Discovery Center, Department of Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Antimicrobial Discovery Center, Department of Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Antimicrobial Discovery Center, Department of Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
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- Antimicrobial Discovery Center, Department of Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Antimicrobial Discovery Center, Department of Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Antimicrobial Discovery Center, Department of Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Antimicrobial Discovery Center, Department of Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Antimicrobial Discovery Center, Department of Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Antimicrobial Discovery Center, Department of Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Antimicrobial Discovery Center, Department of Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Center for Biomolecular Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA
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- Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA 02111, USA
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- Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA 02111, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77225, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77225, USA
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- Antimicrobial Discovery Center, Department of Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA 02111, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
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- Antimicrobial Discovery Center, Department of Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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Beckert B, Leroy EC, Sothiselvam S, Bock LV, Svetlov MS, Graf M, Arenz S, Abdelshahid M, Seip B, Grubmüller H, Mankin AS, Innis CA, Vázquez-Laslop N, Wilson DN. Structural and mechanistic basis for translation inhibition by macrolide and ketolide antibiotics. Nat Commun 2021; 12:4466. [PMID: 34294725 PMCID: PMC8298421 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-24674-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2021] [Accepted: 06/30/2021] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
Abstract
Macrolides and ketolides comprise a family of clinically important antibiotics that inhibit protein synthesis by binding within the exit tunnel of the bacterial ribosome. While these antibiotics are known to interrupt translation at specific sequence motifs, with ketolides predominantly stalling at Arg/Lys-X-Arg/Lys motifs and macrolides displaying a broader specificity, a structural basis for their context-specific action has been lacking. Here, we present structures of ribosomes arrested during the synthesis of an Arg-Leu-Arg sequence by the macrolide erythromycin (ERY) and the ketolide telithromycin (TEL). Together with deep mutagenesis and molecular dynamics simulations, the structures reveal how ERY and TEL interplay with the Arg-Leu-Arg motif to induce translational arrest and illuminate the basis for the less stringent sequence-specific action of ERY over TEL. Because programmed stalling at the Arg/Lys-X-Arg/Lys motifs is used to activate expression of antibiotic resistance genes, our study also provides important insights for future development of improved macrolide antibiotics.
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- Bertrand Beckert
- Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Univ. Bordeaux, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, ARNA, UMR 5320, U1212, Institut Européen de Chimie et Biologie, Pessac, France
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- Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Department, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany.
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- Center for Biomolecular Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Univ. Bordeaux, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, ARNA, UMR 5320, U1212, Institut Européen de Chimie et Biologie, Pessac, France
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- Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Department, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
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- Center for Biomolecular Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Univ. Bordeaux, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, ARNA, UMR 5320, U1212, Institut Européen de Chimie et Biologie, Pessac, France.
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- Center for Biomolecular Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
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- Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
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Dmitriev SE, Vladimirov DO, Lashkevich KA. A Quick Guide to Small-Molecule Inhibitors of Eukaryotic Protein Synthesis. BIOCHEMISTRY (MOSCOW) 2021; 85:1389-1421. [PMID: 33280581 PMCID: PMC7689648 DOI: 10.1134/s0006297920110097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
Abstract
Eukaryotic ribosome and cap-dependent translation are attractive targets in the antitumor, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, and antiparasitic therapies. Currently, a broad array of small-molecule drugs is known that specifically inhibit protein synthesis in eukaryotic cells. Many of them are well-studied ribosome-targeting antibiotics that block translocation, the peptidyl transferase center or the polypeptide exit tunnel, modulate the binding of translation machinery components to the ribosome, and induce miscoding, premature termination or stop codon readthrough. Such inhibitors are widely used as anticancer, anthelmintic and antifungal agents in medicine, as well as fungicides in agriculture. Chemicals that affect the accuracy of stop codon recognition are promising drugs for the nonsense suppression therapy of hereditary diseases and restoration of tumor suppressor function in cancer cells. Other compounds inhibit aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, translation factors, and components of translation-associated signaling pathways, including mTOR kinase. Some of them have antidepressant, immunosuppressive and geroprotective properties. Translation inhibitors are also used in research for gene expression analysis by ribosome profiling, as well as in cell culture techniques. In this article, we review well-studied and less known inhibitors of eukaryotic protein synthesis (with the exception of mitochondrial and plastid translation) classified by their targets and briefly describe the action mechanisms of these compounds. We also present a continuously updated database (http://eupsic.belozersky.msu.ru/) that currently contains information on 370 inhibitors of eukaryotic protein synthesis.
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- S E Dmitriev
- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119234, Russia. .,Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119234, Russia.,Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119991, Russia
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- Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119234, Russia
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- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119234, Russia
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Crowe-McAuliffe C, Murina V, Turnbull KJ, Kasari M, Mohamad M, Polte C, Takada H, Vaitkevicius K, Johansson J, Ignatova Z, Atkinson GC, O'Neill AJ, Hauryliuk V, Wilson DN. Structural basis of ABCF-mediated resistance to pleuromutilin, lincosamide, and streptogramin A antibiotics in Gram-positive pathogens. Nat Commun 2021; 12:3577. [PMID: 34117249 PMCID: PMC8196190 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23753-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2021] [Accepted: 05/11/2021] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
Abstract
Target protection proteins confer resistance to the host organism by directly binding to the antibiotic target. One class of such proteins are the antibiotic resistance (ARE) ATP-binding cassette (ABC) proteins of the F-subtype (ARE-ABCFs), which are widely distributed throughout Gram-positive bacteria and bind the ribosome to alleviate translational inhibition from antibiotics that target the large ribosomal subunit. Here, we present single-particle cryo-EM structures of ARE-ABCF-ribosome complexes from three Gram-positive pathogens: Enterococcus faecalis LsaA, Staphylococcus haemolyticus VgaALC and Listeria monocytogenes VgaL. Supported by extensive mutagenesis analysis, these structures enable a general model for antibiotic resistance mediated by these ARE-ABCFs to be proposed. In this model, ABCF binding to the antibiotic-stalled ribosome mediates antibiotic release via mechanistically diverse long-range conformational relays that converge on a few conserved ribosomal RNA nucleotides located at the peptidyltransferase center. These insights are important for the future development of antibiotics that overcome such target protection resistance mechanisms.
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- University of Tartu, Institute of Technology, Tartu, Estonia
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- Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, School of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, School of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
- Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
- University of Tartu, Institute of Technology, Tartu, Estonia.
- Department of Experimental Medical Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
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- Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
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Zhang L, He J, Bai L, Ruan S, Yang T, Luo Y. Ribosome-targeting antibacterial agents: Advances, challenges, and opportunities. Med Res Rev 2021; 41:1855-1889. [PMID: 33501747 DOI: 10.1002/med.21780] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2020] [Revised: 12/08/2020] [Accepted: 12/19/2020] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
Abstract
Ribosomes, which synthesize proteins, are critical organelles for the survival and growth of bacteria. About 60% of approved antibiotics discovered so far combat pathogenic bacteria by targeting ribosomes. However, several issues, such as drug resistance and toxicity, have impeded the clinical use of ribosome-targeting antibiotics. Moreover, the complexity of the bacteria ribosome structure has retarded the discovery of new ribosome-targeting agents that are considered as the key to the drug-resistance and toxicity. To deal with these challenges, efforts such as medicinal chemistry optimization, combination treatment, and new drug delivery system have been developed. But not enough, the development of structural biology and new screening methods bring powerful tools, such as cryo-electron microscopy technology, advanced computer-aided drug design, and cell-free in vitro transcription/translation systems, for the discovery of novel ribosome-targeting antibiotics. Thus, in this paper, we overview the research on different aspects of bacterial ribosomes, especially focus on discussing the challenges in the discovery of ribosome-targeting antibacterial drugs and advances made to address issues such as drug-resistance and selectivity, which, we believe, provide perspectives for the discovery of novel antibiotics.
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- Laiying Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, West China Hospital, West China Medical School, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, West China Hospital, West China Medical School, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- Center of Infectious Diseases, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, West China Medical School, Sichuan University and Collaborative Innovation Center, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, West China Hospital, West China Medical School, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, West China Hospital, West China Medical School, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.,Laboratory of Human Diseases and Immunotherapy, West China Hospital, West China Medical School, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.,Institute of Immunology and Inflammation, Frontiers Science Center for Disease-Related Molecular Network, West China Hospital, West China Medical School, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, West China Hospital, West China Medical School, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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Jha V, Roy B, Jahagirdar D, McNutt ZA, Shatoff EA, Boleratz BL, Watkins DE, Bundschuh R, Basu K, Ortega J, Fredrick K. Structural basis of sequestration of the anti-Shine-Dalgarno sequence in the Bacteroidetes ribosome. Nucleic Acids Res 2021; 49:547-567. [PMID: 33330920 PMCID: PMC7797042 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkaa1195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2020] [Revised: 11/18/2020] [Accepted: 11/24/2020] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
Abstract
Genomic studies have indicated that certain bacterial lineages such as the Bacteroidetes lack Shine-Dalgarno (SD) sequences, and yet with few exceptions ribosomes of these organisms carry the canonical anti-SD (ASD) sequence. Here, we show that ribosomes purified from Flavobacterium johnsoniae, a representative of the Bacteroidetes, fail to recognize the SD sequence of mRNA in vitro. A cryo-electron microscopy structure of the complete 70S ribosome from F. johnsoniae at 2.8 Å resolution reveals that the ASD is sequestered by ribosomal proteins bS21, bS18 and bS6, explaining the basis of ASD inhibition. The structure also uncovers a novel ribosomal protein—bL38. Remarkably, in F. johnsoniae and many other Flavobacteriia, the gene encoding bS21 contains a strong SD, unlike virtually all other genes. A subset of Flavobacteriia have an alternative ASD, and in these organisms the fully complementary sequence lies upstream of the bS21 gene, indicative of natural covariation. In other Bacteroidetes classes, strong SDs are frequently found upstream of the genes for bS21 and/or bS18. We propose that these SDs are used as regulatory elements, enabling bS21 and bS18 to translationally control their own production.
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- Vikash Jha
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0C7, Canada.,Centre for Structural Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3G 0B1, Canada
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- Department of Microbiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.,Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0C7, Canada.,Centre for Structural Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3G 0B1, Canada
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- Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.,Ohio State Biochemistry Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.,Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Ohio State Biochemistry Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.,Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.,Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Division of Hematology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0C7, Canada.,Centre for Structural Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3G 0B1, Canada
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- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0C7, Canada.,Centre for Structural Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3G 0B1, Canada
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- Department of Microbiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.,Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.,Ohio State Biochemistry Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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Molecular Insights into Determinants of Translational Readthrough and Implications for Nonsense Suppression Approaches. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:ijms21249449. [PMID: 33322589 PMCID: PMC7764779 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21249449] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2020] [Revised: 11/27/2020] [Accepted: 12/05/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
Abstract
The fidelity of protein synthesis, a process shaped by several mechanisms involving specialized ribosome regions and external factors, ensures the precise reading of sense and stop codons. However, premature termination codons (PTCs) arising from mutations may, at low frequency, be misrecognized and result in PTC suppression, named ribosome readthrough, with production of full-length proteins through the insertion of a subset of amino acids. Since some drugs have been identified as readthrough inducers, this fidelity drawback has been explored as a therapeutic approach in several models of human diseases caused by nonsense mutations. Here, we focus on the mechanisms driving translation in normal and aberrant conditions, the potential fates of mRNA in the presence of a PTC, as well as on the results obtained in the research of efficient readthrough-inducing compounds. In particular, we describe the molecular determinants shaping the outcome of readthrough, namely the nucleotide and protein context, with the latter being pivotal to produce functional full-length proteins. Through the interpretation of experimental and mechanistic findings, mainly obtained in lysosomal and coagulation disorders, we also propose a scenario of potential readthrough-favorable features to achieve relevant rescue profiles, representing the main issue for the potential translatability of readthrough as a therapeutic strategy.
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Gong R, Yu L, Qin Y, Price NPJ, He X, Deng Z, Chen W. Harnessing synthetic biology-based strategies for engineered biosynthesis of nucleoside natural products in actinobacteria. Biotechnol Adv 2020; 46:107673. [PMID: 33276073 DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2020.107673] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2020] [Revised: 10/29/2020] [Accepted: 11/25/2020] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
Abstract
Antibiotic resistance poses an increasing threat to global health, and it is urgent to reverse the present trend by accelerating development of new natural product derived drugs. Nucleoside antibiotics, a valuable family of promising natural products with remarkable structural features and diverse biological activities, have played significant roles in healthcare and for plant protection. Understanding the biosynthesis of these intricate molecules has provided a foundation for bioengineering the microbial cell factory towards yield enhancement and structural diversification. In this review, we summarize the recent progresses in employing synthetic biology-based strategies to improve the production of target nucleoside antibiotics. Moreover, we delineate the advances on rationally accessing the chemical diversities of natural nucleoside antibiotics.
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- Rong Gong
- Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery, Ministry of Education, and School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China
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- Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery, Ministry of Education, and School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China
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- Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery, Ministry of Education, and School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China
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- US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, Peoria, IL, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, and School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery, Ministry of Education, and School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China; State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, and School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery, Ministry of Education, and School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China.
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Limbrick EM, Graf M, Derewacz DK, Nguyen F, Spraggins JM, Wieland M, Ynigez-Gutierrez AE, Reisman BJ, Zinshteyn B, McCulloch KM, Iverson TM, Green R, Wilson DN, Bachmann BO. Bifunctional Nitrone-Conjugated Secondary Metabolite Targeting the Ribosome. J Am Chem Soc 2020; 142:18369-18377. [PMID: 32709196 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c04675] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
Abstract
Many microorganisms possess the capacity for producing multiple antibiotic secondary metabolites. In a few notable cases, combinations of secondary metabolites produced by the same organism are used in important combination therapies for treatment of drug-resistant bacterial infections. However, examples of conjoined roles of bioactive metabolites produced by the same organism remain uncommon. During our genetic functional analysis of oxidase-encoding genes in the everninomicin producer Micromonospora carbonacea var. aurantiaca, we discovered previously uncharacterized antibiotics everninomicin N and O, comprised of an everninomicin fragment conjugated to the macrolide rosamicin via a rare nitrone moiety. These metabolites were determined to be hydrolysis products of everninomicin P, a nitrone-linked conjugate likely the result of nonenzymatic condensation of the rosamicin aldehyde and the octasaccharide everninomicin F, possessing a hydroxylamino sugar moiety. Rosamicin binds the erythromycin macrolide binding site approximately 60 Å from the orthosomycin binding site of everninomicins. However, while individual ribosomal binding sites for each functional half of everninomicin P are too distant for bidentate binding, ligand displacement studies demonstrated that everninomicin P competes with rosamicin for ribosomal binding. Chemical protection studies and structural analysis of everninomicin P revealed that everninomicin P occupies both the macrolide- and orthosomycin-binding sites on the 70S ribosome. Moreover, resistance mutations within each binding site were overcome by the inhibition of the opposite functional antibiotic moiety binding site. These data together demonstrate a strategy for coupling orthogonal antibiotic pharmacophores, a surprising tolerance for substantial covalent modification of each antibiotic, and a potential beneficial strategy to combat antibiotic resistance.
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- Emilianne M Limbrick
- Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, United States
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg 20146, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Munich, 81377 Munich, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, United States.,Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 37205, United States.,Mass Spectrometry Research Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 37232, United States
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg 20146, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, United States
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University. Baltimore, Maryland 21205, United States
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- Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37232, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 37205, United States.,Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37232, United States.,Vanderbilt Center for Structural Biology, Nashville, Tennessee 37232, United States
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University. Baltimore, Maryland 21205, United States.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, United States
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg 20146, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, United States.,Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 37205, United States.,Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37232, United States.,Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology, Nashville, Tennessee 37205, United States
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Osterman IA, Wieland M, Maviza TP, Lashkevich KA, Lukianov DA, Komarova ES, Zakalyukina YV, Buschauer R, Shiriaev DI, Leyn SA, Zlamal JE, Biryukov MV, Skvortsov DA, Tashlitsky VN, Polshakov VI, Cheng J, Polikanov YS, Bogdanov AA, Osterman AL, Dmitriev SE, Beckmann R, Dontsova OA, Wilson DN, Sergiev PV. Tetracenomycin X inhibits translation by binding within the ribosomal exit tunnel. Nat Chem Biol 2020; 16:1071-1077. [PMID: 32601485 DOI: 10.1038/s41589-020-0578-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2020] [Accepted: 05/28/2020] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The increase in multi-drug resistant pathogenic bacteria is making our current arsenal of clinically used antibiotics obsolete, highlighting the urgent need for new lead compounds with distinct target binding sites to avoid cross-resistance. Here we report that the aromatic polyketide antibiotic tetracenomycin (TcmX) is a potent inhibitor of protein synthesis, and does not induce DNA damage as previously thought. Despite the structural similarity to the well-known translation inhibitor tetracycline, we show that TcmX does not interact with the small ribosomal subunit, but rather binds to the large subunit, within the polypeptide exit tunnel. This previously unappreciated binding site is located adjacent to the macrolide-binding site, where TcmX stacks on the noncanonical basepair formed by U1782 and U2586 of the 23S ribosomal RNA. Although the binding site is distinct from the macrolide antibiotics, our results indicate that like macrolides, TcmX allows translation of short oligopeptides before further translation is blocked.
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- Ilya A Osterman
- Center of Life Sciences, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Skolkovo, Russia. .,Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics and Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.
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- Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Center of Life Sciences, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Skolkovo, Russia
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics and Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Center of Life Sciences, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Skolkovo, Russia
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- Center of Life Sciences, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Skolkovo, Russia.,Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics and Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Soil Science and Department of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Gene Center, Department of Biochemistry, University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics and Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Infectious and Inflammatory Disease Center, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA.,A.A. Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Infectious and Inflammatory Disease Center, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Soil Science and Department of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics and Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics and Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Center for Magnetic Tomography and Spectroscopy, Faculty of Fundamental Medicine, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Gene Center, Department of Biochemistry, University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics and Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Infectious and Inflammatory Disease Center, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics and Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Gene Center, Department of Biochemistry, University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Center of Life Sciences, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Skolkovo, Russia.,Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics and Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.,Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
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- Center of Life Sciences, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Skolkovo, Russia. .,Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics and Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.
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Herrero Del Valle A, Seip B, Cervera-Marzal I, Sacheau G, Seefeldt AC, Innis CA. Ornithine capture by a translating ribosome controls bacterial polyamine synthesis. Nat Microbiol 2020; 5:554-561. [PMID: 32094585 PMCID: PMC7250644 DOI: 10.1038/s41564-020-0669-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2019] [Accepted: 01/10/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Polyamines are essential metabolites that play an important role in cell growth, stress adaptation, and microbial virulence1–3. In order to survive and multiply within a human host, pathogenic bacteria adjust the expression and activity of polyamine biosynthetic enzymes in response to different environmental stresses and metabolic cues2. Here, we show that ornithine capture by the ribosome and the nascent peptide SpeFL controls polyamine synthesis in γ-proteobacteria by inducing the expression of the ornithine decarboxylase SpeF4, via a mechanism involving ribosome stalling and transcription antitermination. In addition, we present the cryo-EM structure of an Escherichia coli (E. coli) ribosome stalled during translation of speFL in the presence of ornithine. The structure shows how the ribosome and the SpeFL sensor domain form a highly selective binding pocket that accommodates a single ornithine molecule but excludes near-cognate ligands. Ornithine pre-associates with the ribosome and is then held in place by the sensor domain, leading to the compaction of the SpeFL effector domain and blocking the action of release factor RF1. Thus, our study not only reveals basic strategies by which nascent peptides assist the ribosome in detecting a specific metabolite, but also provides a framework for assessing how ornithine promotes virulence in several human pathogens.
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- Alba Herrero Del Valle
- Institut Européen de Chimie et Biologie, Université de Bordeaux, Pessac, France.,Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (U1212), Bordeaux, France.,Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (UMR 5320), Bordeaux, France
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- Institut Européen de Chimie et Biologie, Université de Bordeaux, Pessac, France.,Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (U1212), Bordeaux, France.,Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (UMR 5320), Bordeaux, France.,Evotec International GmbH, Göttingen, Germany
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- Institut Européen de Chimie et Biologie, Université de Bordeaux, Pessac, France.,Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (U1212), Bordeaux, France.,Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (UMR 5320), Bordeaux, France.,Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, INSERM, CIML, Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy, Marseille, France
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- Institut Européen de Chimie et Biologie, Université de Bordeaux, Pessac, France.,Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (U1212), Bordeaux, France.,Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (UMR 5320), Bordeaux, France.,Sopra Steria, Saint-Herblain, France
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- Institut Européen de Chimie et Biologie, Université de Bordeaux, Pessac, France.,Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (U1212), Bordeaux, France.,Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (UMR 5320), Bordeaux, France.,Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Biomedical Center, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Institut Européen de Chimie et Biologie, Université de Bordeaux, Pessac, France. .,Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (U1212), Bordeaux, France. .,Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (UMR 5320), Bordeaux, France.
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Elongation factor-Tu can repetitively engage aminoacyl-tRNA within the ribosome during the proofreading stage of tRNA selection. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:3610-3620. [PMID: 32024753 PMCID: PMC7035488 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1904469117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Elongation factor Tu (EF-Tu) facilitates rapid and accurate selection of aminoacyl-tRNA (aa-tRNA) by the bacterial ribosome during protein synthesis. We show that EF-Tu dissociates from the ribosome as aa-tRNA navigates the accommodation corridor en route to peptide bond formation. We find that EF-Tu’s release from the ribosome during aa-tRNA selection can be reversible. We also demonstrate that new ternary complex formation, accompanied by futile cycles of GTP hydrolysis, can occur on aa-tRNA bound within the ribosome. These findings inform on the decoding mechanism, the contributions of EF-Tu to the fidelity of translation, and the potential consequences of reduced rates of peptide bond formation on cellular physiology. The substrate for ribosomes actively engaged in protein synthesis is a ternary complex of elongation factor Tu (EF-Tu), aminoacyl-tRNA (aa-tRNA), and GTP. EF-Tu plays a critical role in mRNA decoding by increasing the rate and fidelity of aa-tRNA selection at each mRNA codon. Here, using three-color single-molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer imaging and molecular dynamics simulations, we examine the timing and role of conformational events that mediate the release of aa-tRNA from EF-Tu and EF-Tu from the ribosome after GTP hydrolysis. Our investigations reveal that conformational changes in EF-Tu coordinate the rate-limiting passage of aa-tRNA through the accommodation corridor en route to the peptidyl transferase center of the large ribosomal subunit. Experiments using distinct inhibitors of the accommodation process further show that aa-tRNA must at least partially transit the accommodation corridor for EF-Tu⋅GDP to release. aa-tRNAs failing to undergo peptide bond formation at the end of accommodation corridor passage after EF-Tu release can be reengaged by EF-Tu⋅GTP from solution, coupled to GTP hydrolysis. These observations suggest that additional rounds of ternary complex formation can occur on the ribosome during proofreading, particularly when peptide bond formation is slow, which may serve to increase both the rate and fidelity of protein synthesis at the expense of GTP hydrolysis.
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Warias M, Grubmüller H, Bock LV. tRNA Dissociation from EF-Tu after GTP Hydrolysis: Primary Steps and Antibiotic Inhibition. Biophys J 2020; 118:151-161. [PMID: 31711607 PMCID: PMC6950810 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2019.10.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2019] [Revised: 09/25/2019] [Accepted: 10/22/2019] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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In each round of ribosomal translation, the translational GTPase elongation factor Tu (EF-Tu) delivers a transfer RNA (tRNA) to the ribosome. After successful decoding, EF-Tu hydrolyzes GTP, which triggers a conformational change that ultimately results in the release of the tRNA from EF-Tu. To identify the primary steps of these conformational changes and how they are prevented by the antibiotic kirromycin, we employed all-atom explicit-solvent molecular dynamics simulations of the full ribosome-EF-Tu complex. Our results suggest that after GTP hydrolysis and Pi release, the loss of interactions between the nucleotide and the switch 1 loop of EF-Tu allows domain D1 of EF-Tu to rotate relative to domains D2 and D3 and leads to an increased flexibility of the switch 1 loop. This rotation induces a closing of the D1-D3 interface and an opening of the D1-D2 interface. We propose that the opening of the D1-D2 interface, which binds the CCA tail of the tRNA, weakens the crucial EF-Tu-tRNA interactions, which lowers tRNA binding affinity, representing the first step of tRNA release. Kirromycin binds within the D1-D3 interface, sterically blocking its closure, but does not prevent hydrolysis. The resulting increased flexibility of switch 1 explains why it is not resolved in kirromycin-bound structures.
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- Malte Warias
- Theoretical and Computational Biophysics, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
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- Theoretical and Computational Biophysics, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
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- Theoretical and Computational Biophysics, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany.
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cfr(B), cfr(C), and a New cfr-Like Gene, cfr(E), in Clostridium difficile Strains Recovered across Latin America. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2019; 64:AAC.01074-19. [PMID: 31685464 DOI: 10.1128/aac.01074-19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2019] [Accepted: 10/08/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Cfr is a radical S-adenosyl-l-methionine (SAM) enzyme that confers cross-resistance to antibiotics targeting the 23S rRNA through hypermethylation of nucleotide A2503. Three cfr-like genes implicated in antibiotic resistance have been described, two of which, cfr(B) and cfr(C), have been sporadically detected in Clostridium difficile However, the methylase activity of Cfr(C) has not been confirmed. We found cfr(B), cfr(C), and a cfr-like gene that shows only 51 to 58% protein sequence identity to Cfr and Cfr-like enzymes in clinical C. difficile isolates recovered across nearly a decade in Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Chile. This new resistance gene was termed cfr(E). In agreement with the anticipated function of the cfr-like genes detected, all isolates exhibited high MIC values for several ribosome-targeting antibiotics. In addition, in vitro assays confirmed that Cfr(C) and Cfr(E) methylate Escherichia coli and, to a lesser extent, C. difficile 23S rRNA fragments at the expected positions. The analyzed isolates do not have mutations in 23S rRNA genes or genes encoding the ribosomal proteins L3 and L4 and lack poxtA, optrA, and pleuromutilin resistance genes. Moreover, these cfr-like genes were found in Tn6218-like transposons or integrative and conjugative elements (ICE) that could facilitate their transfer. These results indicate selection of potentially mobile cfr-like genes in C. difficile from Latin America and provide the first assessment of the methylation activity of Cfr(C) and Cfr(E), which belong to a cluster of Cfr-like proteins that does not include the functionally characterized enzymes Cfr, Cfr(B), and Cfr(D).
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Dynamics of the context-specific translation arrest by chloramphenicol and linezolid. Nat Chem Biol 2019; 16:310-317. [PMID: 31844301 PMCID: PMC7036023 DOI: 10.1038/s41589-019-0423-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2019] [Accepted: 10/30/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Chloramphenicol (CHL) and linezolid (LZD) are antibiotics that inhibit translation. Both were thought to block peptide bond formation between all combinations of amino acids. Yet recently, a strong nascent peptide context-dependency of CHL- and LZD-induced translation arrest was discovered. Here, we probed the mechanism of action of CHL and LZD by using single-molecule Förster resonance energy transfer spectroscopy (smFRET) to monitor translation arrest induced by antibiotics. The presence of CHL or LZD does not significantly alter dynamics of protein synthesis until the arrest-motif of the nascent peptide is generated. Inhibition of peptide-bond formation compels the fully accommodated A-site tRNA to undergo repeated rounds of dissociation and non-productive rebinding. The glycyl amino-acid moiety on the A-site Gly-tRNA manages to overcome the arrest by CHL. Our results illuminate the mechanism of CHL and LZD action through their interactions with the ribosome, the nascent peptide and the incoming amino acid, perturbing elongation dynamics.
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Chemical modifications of RNAs have long been established as key modulators of nonprotein-coding RNA structure and function in cells. There is a growing appreciation that messenger RNA (mRNA) sequences responsible for directing protein synthesis can also be posttranscriptionally modified. The enzymatic incorporation of mRNA modifications has many potential outcomes, including changing mRNA stability, protein recruitment, and translation. We tested how one of the most common modifications present in mRNA coding regions, pseudouridine (Ψ), impacts protein synthesis using a fully reconstituted bacterial translation system and human cells. Our work reveals that replacing a single uridine nucleotide with Ψ in an mRNA codon impedes amino acid addition and EF-Tu GTPase activation. A crystal structure of the Thermus thermophilus 70S ribosome with a tRNAPhe bound to a ΨUU codon in the A site supports these findings. We also find that the presence of Ψ can promote the low-level synthesis of multiple peptide products from a single mRNA sequence in the reconstituted translation system as well as human cells, and increases the rate of near-cognate Val-tRNAVal reacting on a ΨUU codon. The vast majority of Ψ moieties in mRNAs are found in coding regions, and our study suggests that one consequence of the ribosome encountering Ψ can be to modestly alter both translation speed and mRNA decoding.
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Yang H, Bandarkar P, Horne R, Leite VBP, Chahine J, Whitford PC. Diffusion of tRNA inside the ribosome is position-dependent. J Chem Phys 2019; 151:085102. [PMID: 31470725 DOI: 10.1063/1.5113814] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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In recent years, there has been a growing interest to quantify the energy landscape that governs ribosome dynamics. However, in order to quantitatively integrate theoretical predictions and experimental measurements, it is essential that one has a detailed understanding of the associated diffusive properties. Here, all-atom explicit-solvent simulations (50 μs of aggregate sampling) predict that the diffusion coefficient of a tRNA molecule will depend on its position within the ribosome. Specifically, during aa-tRNA accommodation (i.e., the process by which tRNA enters the ribosome), the apparent diffusion coefficient decreases by approximately an order of magnitude. By comparing these to values obtained with an energetically "smooth" model, we show that the observed nonuniform behavior likely arises from electrostatic and solvation interactions between the tRNA and ribosome. These calculations also reveal the hierarchical character of ribosomal energetics, where steric interactions induce a large-scale free-energy barrier, and short-scale roughness determines the rate of diffusive movement across the landscape.
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- Huan Yang
- Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Dana Research Center 111, 360 Huntington Ave., Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Dana Research Center 111, 360 Huntington Ave., Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Dana Research Center 111, 360 Huntington Ave., Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- São Paulo State University (UNESP), IBILCE, São José do Rio Preto, Brazil
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- São Paulo State University (UNESP), IBILCE, São José do Rio Preto, Brazil
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- Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Dana Research Center 111, 360 Huntington Ave., Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Structure of ribosome-bound azole-modified peptide phazolicin rationalizes its species-specific mode of bacterial translation inhibition. Nat Commun 2019; 10:4563. [PMID: 31594941 PMCID: PMC6783444 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-12589-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2019] [Accepted: 09/09/2019] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Ribosome-synthesized post-translationally modified peptides (RiPPs) represent a rapidly expanding class of natural products with various biological activities. Linear azol(in)e-containing peptides (LAPs) comprise a subclass of RiPPs that display outstanding diversity of mechanisms of action while sharing common structural features. Here, we report the discovery of a new LAP biosynthetic gene cluster in the genome of Rhizobium Pop5, which encodes the precursor peptide and modification machinery of phazolicin (PHZ) – an extensively modified peptide exhibiting narrow-spectrum antibacterial activity against some symbiotic bacteria of leguminous plants. The cryo-EM structure of the Escherichia coli 70S-PHZ complex reveals that the drug interacts with the 23S rRNA and uL4/uL22 proteins and obstructs ribosomal exit tunnel in a way that is distinct from other compounds. We show that the uL4 loop sequence determines the species-specificity of antibiotic action. PHZ expands the known diversity of LAPs and may be used in the future as biocontrol agent for agricultural needs. The authors report the identification of phazolicin (PHZ) - a prokaryotic translation inhibitory peptide - and its structure in complex with the E. coli ribosome, delineating PHZ’s mode of action and suggesting a basis for its bacterial species-specific activity.
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Kavaliauskas D, Chen C, Liu W, Cooperman BS, Goldman YE, Knudsen CR. Structural dynamics of translation elongation factor Tu during aa-tRNA delivery to the ribosome. Nucleic Acids Res 2019; 46:8651-8661. [PMID: 30107527 PMCID: PMC6144866 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gky651] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2017] [Accepted: 08/06/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The GTPase elongation factor EF-Tu delivers aminoacyl-tRNAs to the mRNA-programmed ribosome during translation. Cognate codon-anticodon interaction stimulates GTP hydrolysis within EF-Tu. It has been proposed that EF-Tu undergoes a large conformational change subsequent to GTP hydrolysis, which results in the accommodation of aminoacyl-tRNA into the ribosomal A-site. However, this proposal has never been tested directly. Here, we apply single-molecule total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy to study the conformational dynamics of EF-Tu when bound to the ribosome. Our studies show that GTP hydrolysis initiates a partial, comparatively small conformational change of EF-Tu on the ribosome, not directly along the path from the solution 'GTP' to the 'GDP' structure. The final motion is completed either concomitant with or following dissociation of EF-Tu from the ribosome. The structural transition of EF-Tu on the ribosome is slower when aa-tRNA binds to a cognate versus a near-cognate codon. The resulting longer residence time of EF-Tu on the ribosome may be important for promoting accommodation of the cognate aminoacyl-tRNA into the A-site.
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- Darius Kavaliauskas
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics and Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO), Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Pennsylvania Muscle Institute, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Pennsylvania Muscle Institute, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics and Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO), Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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Sergiev PV, Aleksashin NA, Chugunova AA, Polikanov YS, Dontsova OA. Structural and evolutionary insights into ribosomal RNA methylation. Nat Chem Biol 2019; 14:226-235. [PMID: 29443970 DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.2569] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2017] [Accepted: 01/02/2018] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Methylation of nucleotides in ribosomal RNAs (rRNAs) is a ubiquitous feature that occurs in all living organisms. Identification of all enzymes responsible for rRNA methylation, as well as mapping of all modified rRNA residues, is now complete for a number of model species, such as Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Recent high-resolution structures of bacterial ribosomes provided the first direct visualization of methylated nucleotides. The structures of ribosomes from various organisms and organelles have also lately become available, enabling comparative structure-based analysis of rRNA methylation sites in various taxonomic groups. In addition to the conserved core of modified residues in ribosomes from the majority of studied organisms, structural analysis points to the functional roles of some of the rRNA methylations, which are discussed in this Review in an evolutionary context.
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- Petr V Sergiev
- Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Skolkovo, Moscow Region, Russia.,Department of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.,A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Center for Biomolecular Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Skolkovo, Moscow Region, Russia.,Department of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.,Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Skolkovo, Moscow Region, Russia.,Department of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.,A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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Zhu Q, Song Y, Huang H, Li Q, Ju J. Characterization of MtdV as a chorismate lyase essential to A201A biosynthesis and precursor-directed biosynthesis of new analogs. Org Biomol Chem 2019; 17:3760-3764. [DOI: 10.1039/c8ob02852d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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MtdV is a chorismate lyase involved in converting chorismate to 4HB, a vital precursor of A201A; precursor-directed biosynthesis enabled production of new A201A analogs.
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- Qinghua Zhu
- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology
- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica
- RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology
- South China Sea Institute of Oceanology
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology
- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica
- RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology
- South China Sea Institute of Oceanology
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology
- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica
- RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology
- South China Sea Institute of Oceanology
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology
- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica
- RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology
- South China Sea Institute of Oceanology
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology
- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica
- RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology
- South China Sea Institute of Oceanology
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
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The ribosome is a major antibiotic target. Many types of inhibitors can stop cells from growing by binding at functional centers of the ribosome and interfering with its ability to synthesize proteins. These antibiotics were usually viewed as general protein synthesis inhibitors, which indiscriminately stop translation at every codon of every mRNA, preventing the ribosome from making any protein. However, at each step of the translation cycle, the ribosome interacts with multiple ligands (mRNAs, tRNA substrates, translation factors, etc.), and as a result, the properties of the translation complex vary from codon to codon and from gene to gene. Therefore, rather than being indiscriminate inhibitors, many ribosomal antibiotics impact protein synthesis in a context-specific manner. This review presents a snapshot of the growing body of evidence that some, and possibly most, ribosome-targeting antibiotics manifest site specificity of action, which is modulated by the nature of the nascent protein, the mRNA, or the tRNAs.
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- Nora Vázquez-Laslop
- Center for Biomolecular Sciences, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois 60607, USA; ,
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- Center for Biomolecular Sciences, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois 60607, USA; ,
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Jürjens G, Schuler SMM, Kurz M, Petit S, Couturier C, Jeannot F, Nguyen F, Wende RC, Hammann PE, Wilson DN, Bacqué E, Pöverlein C, Bauer A. Totalsynthese und Strukturkorrektur des antibiotisch wirksamen Tetrapeptids GE81112A. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201805901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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- Gerrit Jürjens
- Fraunhofer IME; Projektgruppe Bioressourcen; Gießen Deutschland
- Helmholtz Zentrum München; Institut für Medizinalchemie; Hannover Deutschland
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- R&D Integrated Drug Discovery; Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH; Industriepark Höchst 65926 Frankfurt am Main Deutschland
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- Therapeutic Area Infectious Diseases; Sanofi R&D; Marcy L'Etoile Frankreich
- Derzeitige Adresse: UCB Pharma SA; Braine-L'Alleud Belgien
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- Therapeutic Area Infectious Diseases; Sanofi R&D; Marcy L'Etoile Frankreich
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- Therapeutic Area Infectious Diseases; Sanofi R&D; Marcy L'Etoile Frankreich
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- Gene Center; Department for Biochemistry and Center for Protein Science Munich (CiPSM); Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; Deutschland
- Derzeitige Adresse: Institut für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie; Universität Hamburg; Deutschland
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- R&D Therapeutic Area Infectious Diseases; Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH; Industriepark Höchst 65926 Frankfurt am Main Deutschland
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- Gene Center; Department for Biochemistry and Center for Protein Science Munich (CiPSM); Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; Deutschland
- Derzeitige Adresse: Institut für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie; Universität Hamburg; Deutschland
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- Therapeutic Area Infectious Diseases; Sanofi R&D; Marcy L'Etoile Frankreich
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- R&D Integrated Drug Discovery; Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH; Industriepark Höchst 65926 Frankfurt am Main Deutschland
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- R&D Therapeutic Area Infectious Diseases; Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH; Industriepark Höchst 65926 Frankfurt am Main Deutschland
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Jürjens G, Schuler SMM, Kurz M, Petit S, Couturier C, Jeannot F, Nguyen F, Wende RC, Hammann PE, Wilson DN, Bacqué E, Pöverlein C, Bauer A. Total Synthesis and Structural Revision of the Antibiotic Tetrapeptide GE81112A. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2018; 57:12157-12161. [PMID: 30004165 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201805901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2018] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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The total synthesis of the naturally occurring antibiotic GE81112A, a densely functionalized tetrapeptide, is reported. Comparison of spectral data with those of the natural product and the lack of biological activity of the synthesized compound led us to revise the published configuration of the 3-hydroxypipecolic acid moiety. This hypothesis was fully validated by the synthesis of the corresponding epimer.
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- Gerrit Jürjens
- Fraunhofer IME, Projektgruppe Bioressourcen, Gießen, Germany.,Helmholtz Zentrum München, Institut für Medizinalchemie, Hannover, Germany
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- R&D Integrated Drug Discovery, Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH, Industriepark Höchst, 65926, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Therapeutic Area Infectious Diseases, Sanofi R&D, Marcy L'Etoile, France.,Present address: UCB Pharma SA, Braine-L'Alleud, Belgium
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- Therapeutic Area Infectious Diseases, Sanofi R&D, Marcy L'Etoile, France
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- Therapeutic Area Infectious Diseases, Sanofi R&D, Marcy L'Etoile, France
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- Gene Center, Department for Biochemistry and Center for Protein Science Munich (CiPSM), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany.,Present address: Institut für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie, Universität Hamburg, Germany
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- Fraunhofer IME, Projektgruppe Bioressourcen, Gießen, Germany
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- R&D Therapeutic Area Infectious Diseases, Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH, Industriepark Höchst, 65926, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Gene Center, Department for Biochemistry and Center for Protein Science Munich (CiPSM), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany.,Present address: Institut für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie, Universität Hamburg, Germany
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- Therapeutic Area Infectious Diseases, Sanofi R&D, Marcy L'Etoile, France
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- R&D Integrated Drug Discovery, Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH, Industriepark Höchst, 65926, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- R&D Therapeutic Area Infectious Diseases, Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH, Industriepark Höchst, 65926, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Stojković V, Chu T, Therizols G, Weinberg DE, Fujimori DG. miCLIP-MaPseq, a Substrate Identification Approach for Radical SAM RNA Methylating Enzymes. J Am Chem Soc 2018; 140:7135-7143. [PMID: 29782154 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b02618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Although present across bacteria, the large family of radical SAM RNA methylating enzymes is largely uncharacterized. Escherichia coli RlmN, the founding member of the family, methylates an adenosine in 23S rRNA and several tRNAs to yield 2-methyladenosine (m2A). However, varied RNA substrate specificity among RlmN enzymes, combined with the ability of certain family members to generate 8-methyladenosine (m8A), makes functional predictions across this family challenging. Here, we present a method for unbiased substrate identification that exploits highly efficient, mechanism-based cross-linking between the enzyme and its RNA substrates. Additionally, by determining that the thermostable group II intron reverse transcriptase introduces mismatches at the site of the cross-link, we have identified the precise positions of RNA modification using mismatch profiling. These results illustrate the capability of our method to define enzyme-substrate pairs and determine modification sites of the largely uncharacterized radical SAM RNA methylating enzyme family.
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- Vanja Stojković
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology , University of California , San Francisco , California 94158 , United States
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology , University of California , San Francisco , California 94158 , United States
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology , University of California , San Francisco , California 94158 , United States
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology , University of California , San Francisco , California 94158 , United States
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology , University of California , San Francisco , California 94158 , United States.,Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry , University of California , 600 16th Street, MC2280 San Francisco , California 94158 , United States
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Lin J, Zhou D, Steitz TA, Polikanov YS, Gagnon MG. Ribosome-Targeting Antibiotics: Modes of Action, Mechanisms of Resistance, and Implications for Drug Design. Annu Rev Biochem 2018; 87:451-478. [PMID: 29570352 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biochem-062917-011942] [Citation(s) in RCA: 161] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Genetic information is translated into proteins by the ribosome. Structural studies of the ribosome and of its complexes with factors and inhibitors have provided invaluable information on the mechanism of protein synthesis. Ribosome inhibitors are among the most successful antimicrobial drugs and constitute more than half of all medicines used to treat infections. However, bacterial infections are becoming increasingly difficult to treat because the microbes have developed resistance to the most effective antibiotics, creating a major public health care threat. This has spurred a renewed interest in structure-function studies of protein synthesis inhibitors, and in few cases, compounds have been developed into potent therapeutic agents against drug-resistant pathogens. In this review, we describe the modes of action of many ribosome-targeting antibiotics, highlight the major resistance mechanisms developed by pathogenic bacteria, and discuss recent advances in structure-assisted design of new molecules.
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- Jinzhong Lin
- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China;
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China;
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- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA; .,Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, and Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607, USA;
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- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA; .,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.,Current affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas 77555, USA;
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The cfr and cfr-like multiple resistance genes. Res Microbiol 2018; 169:61-66. [DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2017.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2017] [Revised: 12/07/2017] [Accepted: 12/11/2017] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Rodnina MV, Fischer N, Maracci C, Stark H. Ribosome dynamics during decoding. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2017; 372:rstb.2016.0182. [PMID: 28138068 PMCID: PMC5311926 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/16/2016] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Elongation factors Tu (EF-Tu) and SelB are translational GTPases that deliver aminoacyl-tRNAs (aa-tRNAs) to the ribosome. In each canonical round of translation elongation, aa-tRNAs, assisted by EF-Tu, decode mRNA codons and insert the respective amino acid into the growing peptide chain. Stop codons usually lead to translation termination; however, in special cases UGA codons are recoded to selenocysteine (Sec) with the help of SelB. Recruitment of EF-Tu and SelB together with their respective aa-tRNAs to the ribosome is a multistep process. In this review, we summarize recent progress in understanding the role of ribosome dynamics in aa-tRNA selection. We describe the path to correct codon recognition by canonical elongator aa-tRNA and Sec-tRNASec and discuss the local and global rearrangements of the ribosome in response to correct and incorrect aa-tRNAs. We present the mechanisms of GTPase activation and GTP hydrolysis of EF-Tu and SelB and summarize what is known about the accommodation of aa-tRNA on the ribosome after its release from the elongation factor. We show how ribosome dynamics ensures high selectivity for the cognate aa-tRNA and suggest that conformational fluctuations, induced fit and kinetic discrimination play major roles in maintaining the speed and fidelity of translation. This article is part of the themed issue ‘Perspectives on the ribosome’.
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- Marina V Rodnina
- Department of Physical Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, Göttingen 37077, Germany
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- Department of Structural Dynamics, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, Göttingen 37077, Germany
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- Department of Physical Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, Göttingen 37077, Germany
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- Department of Structural Dynamics, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, Göttingen 37077, Germany
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Osterman IA, Khabibullina NF, Komarova ES, Kasatsky P, Kartsev VG, Bogdanov AA, Dontsova OA, Konevega AL, Sergiev PV, Polikanov YS. Madumycin II inhibits peptide bond formation by forcing the peptidyl transferase center into an inactive state. Nucleic Acids Res 2017; 45:7507-7514. [PMID: 28505372 PMCID: PMC5499580 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkx413] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2017] [Accepted: 05/04/2017] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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The emergence of multi-drug resistant bacteria is limiting the effectiveness of commonly used antibiotics, which spurs a renewed interest in revisiting older and poorly studied drugs. Streptogramins A is a class of protein synthesis inhibitors that target the peptidyl transferase center (PTC) on the large subunit of the ribosome. In this work, we have revealed the mode of action of the PTC inhibitor madumycin II, an alanine-containing streptogramin A antibiotic, in the context of a functional 70S ribosome containing tRNA substrates. Madumycin II inhibits the ribosome prior to the first cycle of peptide bond formation. It allows binding of the tRNAs to the ribosomal A and P sites, but prevents correct positioning of their CCA-ends into the PTC thus making peptide bond formation impossible. We also revealed a previously unseen drug-induced rearrangement of nucleotides U2506 and U2585 of the 23S rRNA resulting in the formation of the U2506•G2583 wobble pair that was attributed to a catalytically inactive state of the PTC. The structural and biochemical data reported here expand our knowledge on the fundamental mechanisms by which peptidyl transferase inhibitors modulate the catalytic activity of the ribosome.
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- Ilya A Osterman
- Lomonosov Moscow State University, Department of Chemistry and A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow 119992, Russia.,Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Skolkovo, Moscow region 143025, Russia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA
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- Lomonosov Moscow State University, Department of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Moscow 119992, Russia
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- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, NRC "Kurchatov Institute", Gatchina 188300, Russia
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- Lomonosov Moscow State University, Department of Chemistry and A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow 119992, Russia
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- Lomonosov Moscow State University, Department of Chemistry and A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow 119992, Russia.,Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Skolkovo, Moscow region 143025, Russia
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- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, NRC "Kurchatov Institute", Gatchina 188300, Russia.,Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University, Saint Petersburg, 195251, Russia
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- Lomonosov Moscow State University, Department of Chemistry and A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow 119992, Russia.,Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Skolkovo, Moscow region 143025, Russia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA.,Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA
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Combined Effect of the Cfr Methyltransferase and Ribosomal Protein L3 Mutations on Resistance to Ribosome-Targeting Antibiotics. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2017. [PMID: 28630201 DOI: 10.1128/aac.00862-17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Several groups of antibiotics inhibit bacterial growth by binding to bacterial ribosomes. Mutations in ribosomal protein L3 have been associated with resistance to linezolid and tiamulin, which both bind at the peptidyl transferase center in the ribosome. Resistance to these and other antibiotics also occurs through methylation of 23S rRNA at position A2503 by the methyltransferase Cfr. The mutations in L3 and the cfr gene have been found together in clinical isolates, raising the question of whether they have a combined effect on antibiotic resistance or growth. We transformed a plasmid-borne cfr gene into a uL3-depleted Escherichia coli strain containing either wild-type L3 or L3 with one of seven mutations, G147R, Q148F, N149S, N149D, N149R, Q150L, or T151P, expressed from plasmid-carried rplC genes. The L3 mutations are well tolerated, with small to moderate growth rate decreases. The presence of Cfr has a very minor influence on the growth rate. The resistance of the transformants to linezolid, tiamulin, florfenicol, and Synercid (a combination of quinupristin and dalfopristin [Q-D]) was measured by MIC assays. The resistance from Cfr was, in all cases, stronger than the effects of the L3 mutations, but various effects were obtained with the combinations of Cfr and L3 mutations ranging from a synergistic to an antagonistic effect. Linezolid and tiamulin susceptibility varied greatly among the L3 mutations, while no significant effects on florfenicol and Q-D susceptibility were seen. This study underscores the complex interplay between various resistance mechanisms and cross-resistance, even from antibiotics with overlapping binding sites.
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