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Chen S, Wang Y, Cui T, Zheng Y, Zhang F, Ma Q, Zhang C, Liu X. Characterization of three non-canonical N-glycosylation motifs indicates N glyco-A reduces DNA N6-methyladenine and N glyco-D alters G/F actin ratio in Phytophthora sojae. Int J Biol Macromol 2024; 277:133943. [PMID: 39025174 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2024.133943] [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: 04/08/2024] [Revised: 07/08/2024] [Accepted: 07/15/2024] [Indexed: 07/20/2024]
Abstract
Asparagine (Asn, N)-linked glycosylation is an abundant post-translational modification in which Asn, typically in Nglyco-X-S/T; X ≠ P motifs, are modified with N-glycans. It has essential regulatory roles in multicellular organisms. In this study, we systematically investigate the function of three N-glycosylation motifs (Nglyco-A, Nglyco-D and Nglyco-S) previously identified in Phytophthora sojae, through site-directed mutagenesis and functional assays. In P. sojae expressing glycosylation-dead variants pre-PsDMAP1N70A (Nglyco-A motif) or PsADFN64A (Nglyco-D motif), zoospore release or cyst germination is impaired. In particular, the pre-PsDMAP1N70A mutant reduces DNA methylation levels, and the PsADFN64A mutant disrupts the actin forms, which could explain the decrease in pathogenicity after N-glycosylation is destroyed. Similarly, P. sojae expressing PsNRXN132A (Nglyco-S motif) shows increased sensitivity to H2O2 and heat. Through autophagy or 26S proteasome pathway inhibition assays, we found that unglycosylated pre-PsDMAP1N70A and PsADFN64A are degraded via the 26S proteasome pathway, while the autophagy pathway is responsible for PsNRXN132A clearance. These findings demonstrate that glycosylation of these motifs regulates the stability and function of glycoproteins necessary for P. sojae growth, reproduction and pathogenicity, which expands the scope of known N-glycosylation regulatory functions in oomycetes.
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- Shanshan Chen
- Department of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
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- Department of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
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- Department of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
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- Department of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
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- Department of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
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- Department of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
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- Department of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China.
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- Department of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China; State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China.
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Berndsen ZT, Akhtar M, Thapa M, Vickers TJ, Schmitz A, Torres JL, Baboo S, Kumar P, Khatoon N, Sheikh A, Hamrick M, Diedrich JK, Martinez-Bartolome S, Garrett PT, Yates JR, Turner JS, Laird RM, Poly F, Porter CK, Copps J, Ellebedy AH, Ward AB, Fleckenstein JM. Repeat modules and N-linked glycans define structure and antigenicity of a critical enterotoxigenic E. coli adhesin. PLoS Pathog 2024; 20:e1012241. [PMID: 39283948 PMCID: PMC11463764 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1012241] [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: 05/07/2024] [Revised: 10/09/2024] [Accepted: 08/12/2024] [Indexed: 09/25/2024] Open
Abstract
Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) cause hundreds of millions of cases of infectious diarrhea annually, predominantly in children from low-middle income regions. Notably, in children, as well as volunteers challenged with ETEC, diarrheal severity is significantly increased in blood group A (bgA) individuals. EtpA, is a secreted glycoprotein adhesin that functions as a blood group A lectin to promote critical interactions between ETEC and blood group A glycans on intestinal epithelia for effective bacterial adhesion and toxin delivery. EtpA is highly immunogenic resulting in robust antibody responses following natural infection and experimental challenge of volunteers with ETEC. To understand how EtpA directs ETEC-blood group A interactions and stimulates adaptive immunity, we mutated EtpA, mapped its glycosylation by mass-spectrometry (MS), isolated polyclonal (pAbs) and monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) from vaccinated mice and ETEC-infected volunteers, and determined structures of antibody-EtpA complexes by cryo-electron microscopy. Both bgA and mAbs that inhibited EtpA-bgA interactions and ETEC adhesion, bound to the C-terminal repeat domain highlighting this region as crucial for ETEC pathogen-host interaction. MS analysis uncovered extensive and heterogeneous N-linked glycosylation of EtpA and cryo-EM structures revealed that mAbs directly engage these unique glycan containing epitopes. Finally, electron microscopy-based polyclonal epitope mapping revealed antibodies targeting numerous distinct epitopes on N and C-terminal domains, suggesting that EtpA vaccination generates responses against neutralizing and decoy regions of the molecule. Collectively, we anticipate that these data will inform our general understanding of pathogen-host glycan interactions and adaptive immunity relevant to rational vaccine subunit design.
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- Zachary T. Berndsen
- Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, Scripps Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University in Saint Louis, School of Medicine. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University in Saint Louis, School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University in Saint Louis, School of Medicine. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University in Saint Louis, School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, Scripps Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University in Saint Louis, School of Medicine. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University in Saint Louis, School of Medicine. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University in Saint Louis, School of Medicine. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University in Saint Louis, School of Medicine. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University in Saint Louis, School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- Operationally Relevant Infections Department, Naval Medical Research Command (NMRC), Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America
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- Operationally Relevant Infections Department, Naval Medical Research Command (NMRC), Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America
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- Translational and Clinical Research Department, Naval Medical Research Command (NMRC), Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, Scripps Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University in Saint Louis, School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Center for Vaccines and Immunity to Microbial Pathogens, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- The Andrew M. and Jane M. Bursky Center for Human Immunology and Immunotherapy Programs, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, Scripps Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University in Saint Louis, School of Medicine. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Operationally Relevant Infections Department, Naval Medical Research Command (NMRC), Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America
- Medicine Service, Infectious Diseases, Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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Tkalec KI, Hayes AJ, Lim KS, Lewis JM, Davies MR, Scott NE. Glycan-Tailored Glycoproteomic Analysis Reveals Serine is the Sole Residue Subjected to O-Linked Glycosylation in Acinetobacter baumannii. J Proteome Res 2024; 23:2474-2494. [PMID: 38850255 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.4c00148] [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] [Indexed: 06/10/2024]
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Protein glycosylation is a ubiquitous process observed across all domains of life. Within the human pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii, O-linked glycosylation is required for virulence; however, the targets and conservation of glycosylation events remain poorly defined. In this work, we expand our understanding of the breadth and site specificity of glycosylation within A. baumannii by demonstrating the value of strain specific glycan electron-transfer/higher-energy collision dissociation (EThcD) triggering for bacterial glycoproteomics. By coupling tailored EThcD-triggering regimes to complementary glycopeptide enrichment approaches, we assessed the observable glycoproteome of three A. baumannii strains (ATCC19606, BAL062, and D1279779). Combining glycopeptide enrichment techniques including ion mobility (FAIMS), metal oxide affinity chromatography (titanium dioxide), and hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography (ZIC-HILIC), as well as the use of multiple proteases (trypsin, GluC, pepsin, and thermolysis), we expand the known A. baumannii glycoproteome to 33 unique glycoproteins containing 42 glycosylation sites. We demonstrate that serine is the sole residue subjected to glycosylation with the substitution of serine for threonine abolishing glycosylation in model glycoproteins. An A. baumannii pan-genome built from 576 reference genomes identified that serine glycosylation sites are highly conserved. Combined this work expands our knowledge of the conservation and site specificity of A. baumannii O-linked glycosylation.
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- Kristian I Tkalec
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne 3000, Australia
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne 3000, Australia
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne 3000, Australia
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne 3000, Australia
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne 3000, Australia
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne 3000, Australia
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Berndsen ZT, Akhtar M, Thapa M, Vickers T, Schmitz A, Torres JL, Baboo S, Kumar P, Khatoom N, Sheikh A, Hamrick M, Diedrich JK, Martinez-Bartolome S, Garrett PT, Yates JR, Turner JS, Laird RM, Poly F, Porter CK, Copps J, Ellebedy AH, Ward AB, Fleckenstein JM. Repeat modules and N-linked glycans define structure and antigenicity of a critical enterotoxigenic E. coli adhesin. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.05.08.593125. [PMID: 38766097 PMCID: PMC11100705 DOI: 10.1101/2024.05.08.593125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2024]
Abstract
Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) cause hundreds of millions of cases of infectious diarrhea annually, predominantly in children from low-middle income regions. Notably, in children, as well as human volunteers challenged with ETEC, diarrheal severity is significantly increased severity in blood group A (bgA) individuals. EtpA, is a secreted glycoprotein adhesin that functions as a blood group A lectin to promote critical interactions between ETEC and blood group A glycans on intestinal epithelia for effective bacterial adhesion and toxin delivery. EtpA is highly immunogenic resulting in robust antibody responses following natural infection and experimental challenge of human volunteers with ETEC. To understand how EtpA directs ETEC-blood group A interactions and stimulates adaptive immunity, we mutated EtpA, mapped its glycosylation by mass-spectrometry (MS), isolated polyclonal (pAbs) and monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) from vaccinated mice and ETEC-infected human volunteers, and determined structures of antibody-EtpA complexes by cryo-electron microscopy. Both bgA and mAbs that inhibited EtpA-bgA interactions and ETEC adhesion, bound to the C-terminal repeat domain highlighting this region as crucial for ETEC pathogen-host interaction. MS analysis uncovered extensive and heterogeneous N-linked glycosylation of EtpA and cryo-EM structures revealed that mAbs directly engage these unique glycan containing epitopes. Finally, electron microscopy-based polyclonal epitope mapping revealed antibodies targeting numerous distinct epitopes on N and C-terminal domains, suggesting that EtpA vaccination generates responses against neutralizing and decoy regions of the molecule. Collectively, we anticipate that these data will inform our general understanding of pathogen-host glycan interactions and adaptive immunity relevant to rational vaccine subunit design.
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- Zachary T Berndsen
- Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, Scripps Research, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University in Saint Louis, School of Medicine. Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University in Saint Louis, School of Medicine. Saint Louis, Missouri, USA. Center for Vaccines and Immunity to Microbial Pathogens, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA and The Andrew M. and Jane M. Bursky Center for Human Immunology and Immunotherapy Programs, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University in Saint Louis, School of Medicine. Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University in Saint Louis, School of Medicine. Saint Louis, Missouri, USA. Center for Vaccines and Immunity to Microbial Pathogens, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA and The Andrew M. and Jane M. Bursky Center for Human Immunology and Immunotherapy Programs, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, Scripps Research, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University in Saint Louis, School of Medicine. Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University in Saint Louis, School of Medicine. Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University in Saint Louis, School of Medicine. Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University in Saint Louis, School of Medicine. Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University in Saint Louis, School of Medicine. Saint Louis, Missouri, USA. Center for Vaccines and Immunity to Microbial Pathogens, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA and The Andrew M. and Jane M. Bursky Center for Human Immunology and Immunotherapy Programs, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA
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- Operationally Relevant Infections Department, Naval Medical Research Command (NMRC), Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
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- Operationally Relevant Infections Department, Naval Medical Research Command (NMRC), Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
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- Naval Medical Research Command (NMRC), Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
- Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, Scripps Research, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University in Saint Louis, School of Medicine. Saint Louis, Missouri, USA. Center for Vaccines and Immunity to Microbial Pathogens, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA and The Andrew M. and Jane M. Bursky Center for Human Immunology and Immunotherapy Programs, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, Scripps Research, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University in Saint Louis, School of Medicine. Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
- Medicine Service, Infectious Diseases, Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Saint Louis Missouri, USA
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Piniello B, Macías-León J, Miyazaki S, García-García A, Compañón I, Ghirardello M, Taleb V, Veloz B, Corzana F, Miyagawa A, Rovira C, Hurtado-Guerrero R. Molecular basis for bacterial N-glycosylation by a soluble HMW1C-like N-glycosyltransferase. Nat Commun 2023; 14:5785. [PMID: 37723184 PMCID: PMC10507012 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41238-1] [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: 05/18/2023] [Accepted: 08/24/2023] [Indexed: 09/20/2023] Open
Abstract
Soluble HMW1C-like N-glycosyltransferases (NGTs) catalyze the glycosylation of Asn residues in proteins, a process fundamental for bacterial autoaggregation, adhesion and pathogenicity. However, our understanding of their molecular mechanisms is hindered by the lack of structures of enzymatic complexes. Here, we report structures of binary and ternary NGT complexes of Aggregatibacter aphrophilus NGT (AaNGT), revealing an essential dyad of basic/acidic residues located in the N-terminal all α-domain (AAD) that intimately recognizes the Thr residue within the conserved motif Asn0-X+1-Ser/Thr+2. Poor substrates and inhibitors such as UDP-galactose and UDP-glucose mimetics adopt non-productive conformations, decreasing or impeding catalysis. QM/MM simulations rationalize these results, showing that AaNGT follows a SN2 reaction mechanism in which the acceptor asparagine uses its imidic form for catalysis and the UDP-glucose phosphate group acts as a general base. These findings provide key insights into the mechanism of NGTs and will facilitate the design of structure-based inhibitors to treat diseases caused by non-typeable H. influenzae or other Gram-negative bacteria.
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- Beatriz Piniello
- Departament de Química Inorgànica i Orgànica (Secció de Química Orgànica) and Institut de Química Teòrica i Computacional (IQTCUB), Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès 1, 08028, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute of Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems, University of Zaragoza, Mariano Esquillor s/n, Campus Rio Ebro, Edificio I+D, Zaragoza, Spain
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- Department of Life Science and Applied Chemistry, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, 466-8555, Japan
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- Institute of Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems, University of Zaragoza, Mariano Esquillor s/n, Campus Rio Ebro, Edificio I+D, Zaragoza, Spain
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- Departamento de Química, Universidad de La Rioja, Centro de Investigación en Síntesis Química, E-26006, Logroño, Spain
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- Departamento de Química, Universidad de La Rioja, Centro de Investigación en Síntesis Química, E-26006, Logroño, Spain
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- Institute of Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems, University of Zaragoza, Mariano Esquillor s/n, Campus Rio Ebro, Edificio I+D, Zaragoza, Spain
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- Institute of Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems, University of Zaragoza, Mariano Esquillor s/n, Campus Rio Ebro, Edificio I+D, Zaragoza, Spain
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- Departamento de Química, Universidad de La Rioja, Centro de Investigación en Síntesis Química, E-26006, Logroño, Spain
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- Department of Life Science and Applied Chemistry, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, 466-8555, Japan
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- Departament de Química Inorgànica i Orgànica (Secció de Química Orgànica) and Institut de Química Teòrica i Computacional (IQTCUB), Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès 1, 08028, Barcelona, Spain.
- Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Passeig Lluís Companys 23, 08010, Barcelona, Spain.
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- Institute of Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems, University of Zaragoza, Mariano Esquillor s/n, Campus Rio Ebro, Edificio I+D, Zaragoza, Spain.
- Copenhagen Center for Glycomics, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Fundación ARAID, 50018, Zaragoza, Spain.
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Strauss P, Nuti F, Quagliata M, Papini AM, Hurevich M. Accelerated solid-phase synthesis of glycopeptides containing multiple N-glycosylated sites. Org Biomol Chem 2023; 21:1674-1679. [PMID: 36385318 DOI: 10.1039/d2ob01886a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
Abstract
Peptide fragments of glycoproteins containing multiple N-glycosylated sites are essential biochemical tools not only to investigate protein-protein interactions but also to develop glycopeptide-based diagnostics and immunotherapy. However, solid-phase synthesis of glycopeptides containing multiple N-glycosylated sites is hampered by difficult couplings, which results in a substantial drop in yield. To increase the final yield, large amounts of reagents but also time-consuming steps are required. Therefore, we propose herein to utilize heating and stirring in combination with low-loading solid supports to set up an accelerated route to obtain, by an efficient High-Temperature Fast Stirring Peptide Synthesis (HTFS-PS), glycopeptides containing multiple N-glycosylated sites using equimolar excess of the precious glycosylated building blocks.
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- Poriah Strauss
- The Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel.
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- Interdepartmental Research Unit of Peptide and Protein Chemistry and Biology, Department of Chemistry "Ugo Schiff", University of Florence, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.
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- Interdepartmental Research Unit of Peptide and Protein Chemistry and Biology, Department of Chemistry "Ugo Schiff", University of Florence, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.
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- Interdepartmental Research Unit of Peptide and Protein Chemistry and Biology, Department of Chemistry "Ugo Schiff", University of Florence, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.
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- The Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel.
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Reintjens NR, Yakovlieva L, Marinus N, Hekelaar J, Nuti F, Papini AM, Witte MD, Minnaard AJ, Walvoort M. Palladium‐Catalyzed Oxidation of Glucose in Glycopeptides. European J Org Chem 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.202200677] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Niels R.M. Reintjens
- University of Groningen: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Stratingh Institute for Chemistry NETHERLANDS
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- University of Groningen: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Stratingh Institute for Chemistry NETHERLANDS
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- University of Groningen: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Stratingh Institute for Chemistry NETHERLANDS
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- University of Groningen: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Stratingh Institute for Chemistry NETHERLANDS
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- University of Florence: Universita degli Studi di Firenze Department of Chemistry “Ugo Schiff” ITALY
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- University of Florence: Universita degli Studi di Firenze Department of Chemistry “Ugo Schiff” ITALY
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- University of Groningen: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Stratingh Institute for Chemistry NETHERLANDS
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- University of Groningen: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Stratingh Institute for Chemistry NETHERLANDS
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- University of Groningen: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Stratingh Institute for Chemistry Nijenborgh 7 9747 AG Groningen NETHERLANDS
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Mekasha S, Linke D. Secretion Systems in Gram-Negative Bacterial Fish Pathogens. Front Microbiol 2022; 12:782673. [PMID: 34975803 PMCID: PMC8714846 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.782673] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2021] [Accepted: 11/24/2021] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
Abstract
Bacterial fish pathogens are one of the key challenges in the aquaculture industry, one of the fast-growing industries worldwide. These pathogens rely on arsenal of virulence factors such as toxins, adhesins, effectors and enzymes to promote colonization and infection. Translocation of virulence factors across the membrane to either the extracellular environment or directly into the host cells is performed by single or multiple dedicated secretion systems. These secretion systems are often key to the infection process. They can range from simple single-protein systems to complex injection needles made from dozens of subunits. Here, we review the different types of secretion systems in Gram-negative bacterial fish pathogens and describe their putative roles in pathogenicity. We find that the available information is fragmented and often descriptive, and hope that our overview will help researchers to more systematically learn from the similarities and differences between the virulence factors and secretion systems of the fish-pathogenic species described here.
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- Sophanit Mekasha
- Section for Genetics and Evolutionary Biology, Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Section for Genetics and Evolutionary Biology, Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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Liu Z, Li K, Liu X, Zhao J, Yu Y, Wang L, Kong Y, Chen M. Production of microhomogeneous glycopeptide by a mutated NGT according FuncLib with unique sugar as substrate. Enzyme Microb Technol 2021; 154:109949. [PMID: 34864335 DOI: 10.1016/j.enzmictec.2021.109949] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2021] [Revised: 11/03/2021] [Accepted: 11/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
N-glycosylation is one of the most important post-translational modifications of proteins. Cytoplasmic soluble N-glycosyltransferase (NGT) exists in bacteria, which is able to transfer different monosaccharide from sugar nucleotide to the NXS/T(X ≠ Pro) consensus sequence in a polypeptide. At present, the NGT enzymes reported could transfer a variety of different sugars to protein, which will lead to the heterogeneity of the sugar chain and the complexity and instability of the structure and function of glycopeptides. According to the FuncLib algorithm, we obtained mutant ApNGT-P1 from ApNGT (the NGT from Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae) with increased substrate specificity. Compared with the wild-type ApNGT, mutant ApNGT-P1 could only utilize UDP-Glc as sugar donors. The optimum temperature of ApNGT-P1 was about 40 °C and the optimum pH was 7.5-8.0 in PBS buffer. ApNGT-P1 exhibited better tolerance for K+, Mn2+, Ca2+, and Mg2+, but was strongly inhibited by Na+, Cu2+ and Zn2+. The mutant can be applied to the efficient production of glycosylated peptides or proteins with uniform glucose at their glycosylation sites. Besides, this work provided a feasible pathway for further studies on the improving donor substrates selectivity of NGTs.
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- Zhaoxi Liu
- The State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, National Glycoengineering Research Centers, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237, China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, National Glycoengineering Research Centers, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237, China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, National Glycoengineering Research Centers, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237, China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, National Glycoengineering Research Centers, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, Shandong 250013, China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, National Glycoengineering Research Centers, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237, China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, National Glycoengineering Research Centers, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237, China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, National Glycoengineering Research Centers, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237, China.
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Yakovlieva L, Fülleborn JA, Walvoort MTC. Opportunities and Challenges of Bacterial Glycosylation for the Development of Novel Antibacterial Strategies. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:745702. [PMID: 34630370 PMCID: PMC8498110 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.745702] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2021] [Accepted: 08/27/2021] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
Abstract
Glycosylation is a ubiquitous process that is universally conserved in nature. The various products of glycosylation, such as polysaccharides, glycoproteins, and glycolipids, perform a myriad of intra- and extracellular functions. The multitude of roles performed by these molecules is reflected in the significant diversity of glycan structures and linkages found in eukaryotes and prokaryotes. Importantly, glycosylation is highly relevant for the virulence of many bacterial pathogens. Various surface-associated glycoconjugates have been identified in bacteria that promote infectious behavior and survival in the host through motility, adhesion, molecular mimicry, and immune system manipulation. Interestingly, bacterial glycosylation systems that produce these virulence factors frequently feature rare monosaccharides and unusual glycosylation mechanisms. Owing to their marked difference from human glycosylation, bacterial glycosylation systems constitute promising antibacterial targets. With the rise of antibiotic resistance and depletion of the antibiotic pipeline, novel drug targets are urgently needed. Bacteria-specific glycosylation systems are especially promising for antivirulence therapies that do not eliminate a bacterial population, but rather alleviate its pathogenesis. In this review, we describe a selection of unique glycosylation systems in bacterial pathogens and their role in bacterial homeostasis and infection, with a focus on virulence factors. In addition, recent advances to inhibit the enzymes involved in these glycosylation systems and target the bacterial glycan structures directly will be highlighted. Together, this review provides an overview of the current status and promise for the future of using bacterial glycosylation to develop novel antibacterial strategies.
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- Liubov Yakovlieva
- Faculty of Science and Engineering, Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Faculty of Science and Engineering, Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Faculty of Science and Engineering, Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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Integrated mass spectrometry-based multi-omics for elucidating mechanisms of bacterial virulence. Biochem Soc Trans 2021; 49:1905-1926. [PMID: 34374408 DOI: 10.1042/bst20191088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2021] [Revised: 07/19/2021] [Accepted: 07/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
Abstract
Despite being considered the simplest form of life, bacteria remain enigmatic, particularly in light of pathogenesis and evolving antimicrobial resistance. After three decades of genomics, we remain some way from understanding these organisms, and a substantial proportion of genes remain functionally unknown. Methodological advances, principally mass spectrometry (MS), are paving the way for parallel analysis of the proteome, metabolome and lipidome. Each provides a global, complementary assay, in addition to genomics, and the ability to better comprehend how pathogens respond to changes in their internal (e.g. mutation) and external environments consistent with infection-like conditions. Such responses include accessing necessary nutrients for survival in a hostile environment where co-colonizing bacteria and normal flora are acclimated to the prevailing conditions. Multi-omics can be harnessed across temporal and spatial (sub-cellular) dimensions to understand adaptation at the molecular level. Gene deletion libraries, in conjunction with large-scale approaches and evolving bioinformatics integration, will greatly facilitate next-generation vaccines and antimicrobial interventions by highlighting novel targets and pathogen-specific pathways. MS is also central in phenotypic characterization of surface biomolecules such as lipid A, as well as aiding in the determination of protein interactions and complexes. There is increasing evidence that bacteria are capable of widespread post-translational modification, including phosphorylation, glycosylation and acetylation; with each contributing to virulence. This review focuses on the bacterial genotype to phenotype transition and surveys the recent literature showing how the genome can be validated at the proteome, metabolome and lipidome levels to provide an integrated view of organism response to host conditions.
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Kadry NA, Porsch EA, Shen H, St Geme JW. Immunization with HMW1 and HMW2 adhesins protects against colonization by heterologous strains of nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021; 118:e2019923118. [PMID: 34344825 PMCID: PMC8364133 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2019923118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
Abstract
Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) is a common cause of localized respiratory tract disease and results in significant morbidity. The pathogenesis of NTHi disease begins with nasopharyngeal colonization, and therefore, the prevention of colonization represents a strategy to prevent disease. The NTHi HMW1 and HMW2 proteins are a family of conserved adhesins that are present in 75 to 80% of strains and have been demonstrated to play a critical role in colonization of the upper respiratory tract in rhesus macaques. In this study, we examined the vaccine potential of HMW1 and HMW2 using a mouse model of nasopharyngeal colonization. Immunization with HMW1 and HMW2 by either the subcutaneous or the intranasal route resulted in a strain-specific antibody response associated with agglutination of bacteria and restriction of bacterial adherence. Despite the specificity of the antibody response, immunization resulted in protection against colonization by both the parent NTHi strain and heterologous strains expressing distinct HMW1 and HMW2 proteins. Pretreatment with antibody against IL-17A eliminated protection against heterologous strains, indicating that heterologous protection is IL-17A dependent. This work demonstrates the vaccine potential of the HMW1 and HMW2 proteins and highlights the importance of IL-17A in protection against diverse NTHi strains.
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- Nadia A Kadry
- Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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- Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104
- Shanghai Institute of Immunology, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, China
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104;
- Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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Wang B, Wu G, Li K, Ling J, Zhao Y, Liu F. A Glycoside Hydrolase Family 99-Like Domain-Containing Protein Modifies Outer Membrane Proteins to Maintain Xanthomonas Pathogenicity and Viability in Stressful Environments. PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2021; 111:929-939. [PMID: 33174820 DOI: 10.1094/phyto-08-20-0327-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
Abstract
Protein glycosylation is an essential process that plays an important role in proteome stability, protein structure, and protein function modulation in eukaryotes. However, in bacteria, especially plant pathogenic bacteria, similar studies are lacking. Here, we investigated the relationship between protein glycosylation and pathogenicity by using Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae, the causal agent of bacterial leaf blight in rice, as a well-defined example. In our previous work, we identified a virulence-related hypothetical protein, PXO_03177, but how this protein regulates X. oryzae pv. oryzae virulence has remained unclear. BLAST analysis showed that most homologous proteins of PXO_03177 are glycoside hydrolase family 99-like domain-containing proteins. In the current study, we found that the outer membrane integrity of ΔPXO_03177 appeared to be disrupted. Extracting the outer membrane proteins (OMPs) and performing comparative proteomics and sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis gel staining analyses revealed that PXO_03177 deletion altered the protein levels of 13 OMPs. Western blot analyses showed that the protein level and glycosylation modification of PXO_02523, a related OmpA family-like protein, was changed in the ΔPXO_03177 mutant background strain. Additionally, the interaction between PXO_03177 and PXO_02523 was confirmed by coimmunoprecipitation. Both PXO_03177 and PXO_02523 play important roles in regulating pathogen virulence and viability in stressful environments. This work provides the first evidence that protein glycosylation is necessary for the virulence of plant pathogenic bacteria.
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- Bo Wang
- Institute of Plant Protection, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing 210014, P.R. China
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- Institute of Plant Protection, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing 210014, P.R. China
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- Institute of Plant Protection, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing 210014, P.R. China
- Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- Institute of Plant Protection, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing 210014, P.R. China
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- Institute of Plant Protection, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing 210014, P.R. China
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- Institute of Plant Protection, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing 210014, P.R. China
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Dautin N. Folding Control in the Path of Type 5 Secretion. Toxins (Basel) 2021; 13:341. [PMID: 34064645 PMCID: PMC8151025 DOI: 10.3390/toxins13050341] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2021] [Revised: 05/04/2021] [Accepted: 05/05/2021] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
Abstract
The type 5 secretion system (T5SS) is one of the more widespread secretion systems in Gram-negative bacteria. Proteins secreted by the T5SS are functionally diverse (toxins, adhesins, enzymes) and include numerous virulence factors. Mechanistically, the T5SS has long been considered the simplest of secretion systems, due to the paucity of proteins required for its functioning. Still, despite more than two decades of study, the exact process by which T5SS substrates attain their final destination and correct conformation is not totally deciphered. Moreover, the recent addition of new sub-families to the T5SS raises additional questions about this secretion mechanism. Central to the understanding of type 5 secretion is the question of protein folding, which needs to be carefully controlled in each of the bacterial cell compartments these proteins cross. Here, the biogenesis of proteins secreted by the Type 5 secretion system is discussed, with a focus on the various factors preventing or promoting protein folding during biogenesis.
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- Nathalie Dautin
- Laboratoire de Biologie Physico-Chimique des Protéines Membranaires, Université de Paris, LBPC-PM, CNRS, UMR7099, 75005 Paris, France;
- Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Fondation Edmond de Rothschild pour le Développement de la Recherche Scientifique, 75005 Paris, France
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Ahangama Liyanage L, Harris MS, Cook GA. In Vitro Glycosylation of Membrane Proteins Using N-Glycosyltransferase. ACS OMEGA 2021; 6:12133-12142. [PMID: 34056367 PMCID: PMC8154143 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.1c00835] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2021] [Accepted: 04/08/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
Abstract
Glycoproteins are post-translationally modified proteins that take part in nearly every biological process and make up a large percent of the proteome. N-Linked glycosylation can be performed by N-glycosyltransferase (NGT), which recognizes the consensus amino acid sequence, -Asn-X-Ser/Thr- (NXT), within the protein. The enzyme catalyzes glycosidic bond formation between the oligosaccharide donor, containing nucleoside phosphatase, and the amide nitrogen of the asparagine residue. The attachment of the sugar moiety can influence physiological and biological properties of the protein by affecting their folding, modulating interactions with other biomolecules, and modifying their functions at the cellular level. We are specifically interested in the properties of membrane glycoproteins, which are key components in a number of different disease states. Therefore, the use of in vitro protein glycosylation can help further evaluate the effects of the properties for these important macromolecules. In vitro studies of N-linked glycosylation were done in a stepwise fashion in a membrane-mimetic environment to confirm that the methods for glycosylating soluble proteins could be applicable to membrane proteins. Detergent and lipid systems were used since hydrophobic peptides and membrane proteins are insoluble in aqueous solvents. The stepwise method consisted of the glycosylation of a soluble 7-residue peptide, a hydrophobic WALP-NVT peptide, and a γ-sarcoglycan membrane protein, all of which contained the glycosylation site Asn-Val-Thr (NVT). Glycosylation of the samples was performed using Escherichia coli-expressed NGT from the Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae genome, and a single sugar moiety of glucose, provided from a nucleotide-linked donor, was added to the glycosylation site. Gel electrophoresis, mass spectrometry, and NMR studies were used for the detection of glycosyltransferase activity and to show the attachment of a single glucose molecule. Our experiments demonstrated that small or large membrane proteins that contain an N-glycosylation consensus sequence can be glycosylated by NGT in membrane-mimetic environments.
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Zhang C, Cai M, Chen S, Zhang F, Cui T, Xue Z, Wang W, Zhang B, Liu X. The consensus N glyco -X-S/T motif and a previously unknown N glyco -N-linked glycosylation are necessary for growth and pathogenicity of Phytophthora. Environ Microbiol 2021; 23:5147-5163. [PMID: 33728790 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.15468] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2021] [Revised: 03/10/2021] [Accepted: 03/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Asparagine (Asn, N)-linked glycosylation within Nglyco -X-S/T; X ≠ P motif is a ubiquitously distributed post-translational modification that participates in diverse cellular processes. In this work, N-glycosylation inhibitor was shown to prevent Phytophthora sojae growth, suggesting that N-glycosylation is necessary for oomycete development. We conducted a glycoproteomic analysis of P. sojae to identify and map N-glycosylated proteins and to quantify differentially expressed glycoproteins associated with mycelia, asexual cyst, and sexual oospore developmental stages. A total of 355 N-glycosylated proteins was found, containing 496 glycosites, potentially involved in glycan degradation, carbon metabolism, glycolysis, or other metabolic pathways. Through PNGase F deglycosylation assays and site-directed mutagenesis of a GPI transamidase protein (GPI16) upregulated in cysts and a heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) upregulated in oospores, we demonstrated that both proteins were N-glycosylated and that the Nglyco -N motif is a target site for asparagine - oligosaccharide linkage. Glycosite mutations of Asn 94 Nglyco -X-S/T in the GPI16 led to impaired cyst germination and pathogenicity, while mutation of the previously unknown Asn 270 Nglyco -N motif in HSP70 led to decreased oospore production. In addition to providing a map of the oomycete N-glycoproteome, this work confirms that P. sojae has evolved multiple N-glycosylation motifs essential for growth.
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- Can Zhang
- Department of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China
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- Department of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China
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- Department of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China
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- Department of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China
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- Department of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China
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- Department of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China
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- Department of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China
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- Department of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China
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- Department of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China.,State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, China
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Yakovlieva L, Ramírez-Palacios C, Marrink SJ, Walvoort MTC. Semiprocessive Hyperglycosylation of Adhesin by Bacterial Protein N-Glycosyltransferases. ACS Chem Biol 2021; 16:165-175. [PMID: 33401908 PMCID: PMC7812588 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.0c00848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
Abstract
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Processivity is an important feature
of enzyme families such as
DNA polymerases, polysaccharide synthases, and protein kinases, to
ensure high fidelity in biopolymer synthesis and modification. Here,
we reveal processive character in the family of cytoplasmic protein N-glycosyltransferases (NGTs). Through various activity
assays, intact protein mass spectrometry, and proteomics analysis,
we established that NGTs from nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae and Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae modify an adhesin
protein fragment in a semiprocessive manner. Molecular modeling studies
suggest that the processivity arises from the shallow substrate binding
groove in NGT, which promotes the sliding of the adhesin over the
surface to allow further glycosylations without temporary dissociation.
We hypothesize that the processive character of these bacterial protein
glycosyltransferases is the mechanism to ensure multisite glycosylation
of adhesins in vivo, thereby creating the densely
glycosylated proteins necessary for bacterial self-aggregation and
adherence to human cells, as a first step toward infection.
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- Liubov Yakovlieva
- Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 7, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, Nijenborgh 7, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, Nijenborgh 7, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 7, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
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Moulton KD, Adewale AP, Carol HA, Mikami SA, Dube DH. Metabolic Glycan Labeling-Based Screen to Identify Bacterial Glycosylation Genes. ACS Infect Dis 2020; 6:3247-3259. [PMID: 33186014 PMCID: PMC7808405 DOI: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.0c00612] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Bacterial cell surface glycans are quintessential drug targets due to their critical role in colonization of the host, pathogen survival, and immune evasion. The dense cell envelope glycocalyx contains distinctive monosaccharides that are stitched together into higher order glycans to yield exclusively bacterial structures that are critical for strain fitness and pathogenesis. However, the systematic study and inhibition of bacterial glycosylation enzymes remains challenging. Bacteria produce glycans containing rare sugars refractory to traditional glycan analysis, complicating the study of bacterial glycans and the identification of their biosynthesis machinery. To ease the study of bacterial glycans in the absence of detailed structural information, we used metabolic glycan labeling to detect changes in glycan biosynthesis. Here, we screened wild-type versus mutant strains of the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori, ultimately permitting the identification of genes involved in glycoprotein and lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis. Our findings provide the first evidence that H. pylori protein glycosylation proceeds via a lipid carrier-mediated pathway that overlaps with lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis. Protein glycosylation mutants displayed fitness defects consistent with those induced by small molecule glycosylation inhibitors. Broadly, our results suggest a facile approach to screen for bacterial glycosylation genes and gain insight into their biosynthesis and functional importance, even in the absence of glycan structural information.
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- Karen D. Moulton
- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Bowdoin College, 6600 College Station, Brunswick, ME 04011, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Bowdoin College, 6600 College Station, Brunswick, ME 04011, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Bowdoin College, 6600 College Station, Brunswick, ME 04011, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Bowdoin College, 6600 College Station, Brunswick, ME 04011, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Bowdoin College, 6600 College Station, Brunswick, ME 04011, USA
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Gast D, Koller F, Krafczyk R, Bauer L, Wunder S, Lassak J, Hoffmann-Röder A. A set of rhamnosylation-specific antibodies enables detection of novel protein glycosylations in bacteria. Org Biomol Chem 2020; 18:6823-6828. [PMID: 32936181 DOI: 10.1039/d0ob01289k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Despite its potential importance for bacterial virulence, protein rhamnosylation has not yet been sufficiently studied. Specific anti-SerRha, anti-ThrRha and anti-AsnRha antibodies allowed the identification of previously unknown monorhamnosylated proteins in cytosol and membrane fractions of bacterial cell lysates. Mapping of the complete rhamnoproteome in pathogens should facilitate development of targeted therapies against bacterial infections.
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- Daniel Gast
- Department of Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany.
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Kightlinger W, Warfel KF, DeLisa MP, Jewett MC. Synthetic Glycobiology: Parts, Systems, and Applications. ACS Synth Biol 2020; 9:1534-1562. [PMID: 32526139 PMCID: PMC7372563 DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.0c00210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Abstract
Protein glycosylation, the attachment of sugars to amino acid side chains, can endow proteins with a wide variety of properties of great interest to the engineering biology community. However, natural glycosylation systems are limited in the diversity of glycoproteins they can synthesize, the scale at which they can be harnessed for biotechnology, and the homogeneity of glycoprotein structures they can produce. Here we provide an overview of the emerging field of synthetic glycobiology, the application of synthetic biology tools and design principles to better understand and engineer glycosylation. Specifically, we focus on how the biosynthetic and analytical tools of synthetic biology have been used to redesign glycosylation systems to obtain defined glycosylation structures on proteins for diverse applications in medicine, materials, and diagnostics. We review the key biological parts available to synthetic biologists interested in engineering glycoproteins to solve compelling problems in glycoscience, describe recent efforts to construct synthetic glycoprotein synthesis systems, and outline exemplary applications as well as new opportunities in this emerging space.
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- Weston Kightlinger
- Department
of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Tech E136, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
- Center
for Synthetic Biology, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Tech B486, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department
of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Tech E136, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
- Center
for Synthetic Biology, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Tech B486, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department
of Microbiology, Cornell University, 123 Wing Drive, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
- Robert
Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, 120 Olin Hall, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
- Nancy
E. and Peter C. Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Weill Hall, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department
of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Tech E136, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
- Center
for Synthetic Biology, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Tech B486, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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Lin B, Qing X, Liao J, Zhuo K. Role of Protein Glycosylation in Host-Pathogen Interaction. Cells 2020; 9:E1022. [PMID: 32326128 PMCID: PMC7226260 DOI: 10.3390/cells9041022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2020] [Revised: 04/11/2020] [Accepted: 04/16/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
Abstract
Host-pathogen interactions are fundamental to our understanding of infectious diseases. Protein glycosylation is one kind of common post-translational modification, forming glycoproteins and modulating numerous important biological processes. It also occurs in host-pathogen interaction, affecting host resistance or pathogen virulence often because glycans regulate protein conformation, activity, and stability, etc. This review summarizes various roles of different glycoproteins during the interaction, which include: host glycoproteins prevent pathogens as barriers; pathogen glycoproteins promote pathogens to attack host proteins as weapons; pathogens glycosylate proteins of the host to enhance virulence; and hosts sense pathogen glycoproteins to induce resistance. In addition, this review also intends to summarize the roles of lectin (a class of protein entangled with glycoprotein) in host-pathogen interactions, including bacterial adhesins, viral lectins or host lectins. Although these studies show the importance of protein glycosylation in host-pathogen interaction, much remains to be discovered about the interaction mechanism.
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- Borong Lin
- Laboratory of Plant Nematology, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China; (B.L.); (J.L.)
- Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Microbial Signals and Disease Control, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
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- College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China;
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- Laboratory of Plant Nematology, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China; (B.L.); (J.L.)
- Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Microbial Signals and Disease Control, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
- Guangdong Eco-Engineering Polytechnic, Guangzhou 510520, China
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- Laboratory of Plant Nematology, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China; (B.L.); (J.L.)
- Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Microbial Signals and Disease Control, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
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Type III Secretion Effectors with Arginine N-Glycosyltransferase Activity. Microorganisms 2020; 8:microorganisms8030357. [PMID: 32131463 PMCID: PMC7142665 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms8030357] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2020] [Revised: 02/27/2020] [Accepted: 02/29/2020] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Type III secretion systems are used by many Gram-negative bacterial pathogens to inject proteins, known as effectors, into the cytosol of host cells. These virulence factors interfere with a diverse array of host signal transduction pathways and cellular processes. Many effectors have catalytic activities to promote post-translational modifications of host proteins. This review focuses on a family of effectors with glycosyltransferase activity that catalyze addition of N-acetyl-d-glucosamine to specific arginine residues in target proteins, leading to reduced NF-κB pathway activation and impaired host cell death. This family includes NleB from Citrobacter rodentium, NleB1 and NleB2 from enteropathogenic and enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli, and SseK1, SseK2, and SseK3 from Salmonella enterica. First, we place these effectors in the general framework of the glycosyltransferase superfamily and in the particular context of the role of glycosylation in bacterial pathogenesis. Then, we provide detailed information about currently known members of this family, their role in virulence, and their targets.
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Harding CM, Feldman MF. Glycoengineering bioconjugate vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics in E. coli. Glycobiology 2020; 29:519-529. [PMID: 30989179 DOI: 10.1093/glycob/cwz031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2019] [Revised: 04/05/2019] [Accepted: 04/11/2019] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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The first, general glycosylation pathway in bacteria, the N-linked glycosylation system of Campylobacter jejuni, was discovered two decades ago. Since then, many diverse prokaryotic glycosylation systems have been characterized, including O-linked glycosylation systems that have no homologous counterparts in eukaryotic organisms. Shortly after these discoveries, glycosylation pathways were recombinantly introduced into E. coli creating the field of bacterial glycoengineering. Bacterial glycoengineering is an emerging biotechnological tool that harnesses prokaryotic glycosylation systems for the generation of recombinantly glycosylated proteins using E. coli as a host. Over the last decade, as our understanding of prokaryotic glycosylation systems has advanced, so too has the glycoengineering toolbox. Currently, glycoengineering utilizes two broad approaches to recombinantly glycosylate proteins, both of which can generate N- or O-linkages: oligosaccharyltransferase (OTase)-dependent and OTase-independent. This review discusses the applications of these bacterial glycoengineering techniques as they relate to the development of glycoconjugate vaccines, therapeutic proteins, and diagnostics.
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- VaxNewMo, St. Louis, MO, USA.,Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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Extracellular polysaccharides and glycoproteins of pathogenic bacteria assist in adherence, autoaggregation, biofilm formation, and host immune system evasion. As a result, considerable research in the field of glycobiology is dedicated to study the composition and function of glycans associated with virulence, as well as the enzymes involved in their biosynthesis with the aim to identify novel antibiotic targets. Especially, insights into the enzyme mechanism, substrate binding, and transition-state structures are valuable as a starting point for rational inhibitor design. An intriguing aspect of enzymes that generate or process polysaccharides and glycoproteins is the level of processivity. The existence of enzymatic processivity reflects the need for regulation of the final glycan/glycoprotein length and structure, depending on the role they perform. In this Review, we describe the currently reported examples of various processive enzymes involved in polymerization and transfer of sugar moieties, predominantly in bacterial pathogens, with a focus on the biochemical methods, to showcase the importance of studying processivity for understanding the mechanism.
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- Liubov Yakovlieva
- Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
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Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) is a leading cause of respiratory tract infections worldwide and continues to be a global health burden. Adhesion and colonization of host cells are crucial steps in bacterial pathogenesis, and in many strains of NTHi, the interaction with the host is mediated by the high molecular weight adhesins HMW1A and HMW2A. These adhesins are N-glycoproteins that are modified by cytoplasmic glycosyltransferases HMW1C and HMW2C. Phase variation in the number of short sequence repeats in the promoters of hmw1A and hmw2A directly affects their expression. Here, we report the presence of similar variable repeat elements in the promoters of hmw1C and hmw2C in diverse NTHi isolates. In an ex vivo assay, we systematically altered the substrate and glycosyltransferase expression and showed that both of these factors quantitatively affected the site-specific efficiency of glycosylation on HMW-A. This represents a novel mechanism through which phase variation can generate diversity in the quantitative extent of site-specific post-translational modifications on antigenic surface proteins. Glycosylation occupancy was incomplete at many sites, variable between sites, and generally lower close to the C-terminus of HMW-A. We investigated the causes of this variability. As HMW-C glycosylates HMW-A in the cytoplasm, we tested how secretion affected glycosylation on HMW-A and showed that retaining HMW-A in the cytoplasm indeed increased glycosylation occupancy across the full length of the protein. Site-directed mutagenesis showed that HMW-C had no inherent preference for glycosylating asparagines in NxS or NxT sequons. This work provides key insights into factors contributing to the heterogenous modifications of NTHi HMW-A adhesins, expands knowledge of NTHi population diversity and pathogenic capability, and is relevant to vaccine design for NTHi and related pathogens.
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Nothaft H, Szymanski CM. New discoveries in bacterial N-glycosylation to expand the synthetic biology toolbox. Curr Opin Chem Biol 2019; 53:16-24. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2019.05.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2019] [Revised: 05/21/2019] [Accepted: 05/31/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Many important interactions between bacterial pathogens and their hosts are highly specific binding events that involve host or pathogen carbohydrate structures (glycans). Glycan interactions can mediate adhesion, invasion and immune evasion and can act as receptors for toxins. Several bacterial pathogens can also enzymatically alter host glycans to reveal binding targets, degrade the host cell glycans or alter the function of host glycoproteins. In recent years, high-throughput screening technologies, such as lectin, glycan and mucin microarrays, have transformed the field by identifying new bacterial-host glycointeractions, which are crucial for colonization, persistence and disease. In this Review, we discuss interactions involving both host and bacterial glycans that have a role in bacterial pathogenesis. We also highlight recent technological advances that have illuminated the glycoscience of microbial pathogenesis.
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Lassak J, Koller F, Krafczyk R, Volkwein W. Exceptionally versatile – arginine in bacterial post-translational protein modifications. Biol Chem 2019; 400:1397-1427. [DOI: 10.1515/hsz-2019-0182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2019] [Accepted: 06/01/2019] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Post-translational modifications (PTM) are the evolutionary solution to challenge and extend the boundaries of genetically predetermined proteomic diversity. As PTMs are highly dynamic, they also hold an enormous regulatory potential. It is therefore not surprising that out of the 20 proteinogenic amino acids, 15 can be post-translationally modified. Even the relatively inert guanidino group of arginine is subject to a multitude of mostly enzyme mediated chemical changes. The resulting alterations can have a major influence on protein function. In this review, we will discuss how bacteria control their cellular processes and develop pathogenicity based on post-translational protein-arginine modifications.
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- Jürgen Lassak
- Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich (CiPSM), Department of Biology I, Microbiology , Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München , Grosshaderner Strasse 2-4 , D-82152 Planegg , Germany
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- Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich (CiPSM), Department of Biology I, Microbiology , Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München , Grosshaderner Strasse 2-4 , D-82152 Planegg , Germany
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- Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich (CiPSM), Department of Biology I, Microbiology , Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München , Grosshaderner Strasse 2-4 , D-82152 Planegg , Germany
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- Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich (CiPSM), Department of Biology I, Microbiology , Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München , Grosshaderner Strasse 2-4 , D-82152 Planegg , Germany
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Parrish JM, Soni M, Mittal R. Subversion of host immune responses by otopathogens during otitis media. J Leukoc Biol 2019; 106:943-956. [PMID: 31075181 PMCID: PMC7166519 DOI: 10.1002/jlb.4ru0119-003r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2019] [Revised: 03/11/2019] [Accepted: 04/05/2019] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Otitis media (OM) is one of the most common ear diseases affecting humans. Children are at greater risk and suffer most frequently from OM, which can cause serious deterioration in the quality of life. OM is generally classified into two main types: acute and chronic OM (AOM and COM). AOM is characterized by tympanic membrane swelling or otorrhea and is accompanied by signs or symptoms of ear infection. In COM, there is a tympanic membrane perforation and purulent discharge. The most common pathogens that cause AOM are Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, and Moraxella catarrhalis whereas Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus are commonly associated with COM. Innate and adaptive immune responses provide protection against OM. However, pathogens employ a wide arsenal of weapons to evade potent immune responses and these mechanisms likely contribute to AOM and COM. Immunologic evasion is multifactorial, and involves damage to host mucociliary tract, genetic polymorphisms within otopathogens, the number and variety of different otopathogens in the nasopharynx as well as the interaction between the host's innate and adaptive immune responses. Otopathogens utilize host mucin production, phase variation, biofilm production, glycans, as well as neutrophil and eosinophilic extracellular traps to induce OM. The objective of this review article is to discuss our current understanding about the mechanisms through which otopathogens escape host immunity to induce OM. A better knowledge about the molecular mechanisms leading to subversion of host immune responses will provide novel clues to develop effective treatment modalities for OM.
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- James M Parrish
- Department of Otolaryngology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA
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- Department of Otolaryngology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA
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- Department of Otolaryngology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA
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Bello C, Rovero P, Papini AM. Just a spoonful of sugar: Short glycans affect protein properties and functions. J Pept Sci 2019; 25:e3167. [PMID: 30924227 DOI: 10.1002/psc.3167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2018] [Revised: 02/21/2019] [Accepted: 02/22/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Glycosylation has a strong impact on the chemical and physical properties of proteins and on their activity. The heterogeneous nature of this modification complicates the elucidation of the role of each glycan, thus slowing down the progress in glycobiology. Nevertheless, the great advances recently made in protein engineering and in the chemical synthesis, and semisynthesis of glycoproteins are giving impulse to the field, fostering important discoveries. In this review, we report on the findings of the last two decades on the importance that the attachment site, linkage, and composition of short glycans have in affecting protein properties and functions.
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- Claudia Bello
- Laboratory of Peptide and Protein Chemistry and Biology, Department of Chemistry "Ugo Schiff", University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- Laboratory of Peptide and Protein Chemistry and Biology, Department of NeuroFarBa, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- Laboratory of Peptide and Protein Chemistry and Biology, Department of Chemistry "Ugo Schiff", University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.,PeptLab@UCP Platform and Laboratory of Chemical Biology EA4505, University Paris-Seine, Cergy-Pontoise CEDEX, France
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Bhat AH, Maity S, Giri K, Ambatipudi K. Protein glycosylation: Sweet or bitter for bacterial pathogens? Crit Rev Microbiol 2019; 45:82-102. [PMID: 30632429 DOI: 10.1080/1040841x.2018.1547681] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Protein glycosylation systems in many bacteria are often associated with crucial biological processes like pathogenicity, immune evasion and host-pathogen interactions, implying the significance of protein-glycan linkage. Similarly, host protein glycosylation has been implicated in antimicrobial activity as well as in promoting growth of beneficial strains. In fact, few pathogens notably modulate host glycosylation machineries to facilitate their survival. To date, diverse chemical and biological strategies have been developed for conjugate vaccine production for disease control. Bioconjugate vaccines, largely being produced by glycoengineering using PglB (the N-oligosaccharyltransferase from Campylobacter jejuni) in suitable bacterial hosts, have been highly promising with respect to their effectiveness in providing protective immunity and ease of production. Recently, a novel method of glycoconjugate vaccine production involving an O-oligosaccharyltransferase, PglL from Neisseria meningitidis, has been optimized. Nevertheless, many questions on defining antigenic determinants, glycosylation markers, species-specific differences in glycosylation machineries, etc. still remain unanswered, necessitating further exploration of the glycosylation systems of important pathogens. Hence, in this review, we will discuss the impact of bacterial protein glycosylation on its pathogenesis and the interaction of pathogens with host protein glycosylation, followed by a discussion on strategies used for bioconjugate vaccine development.
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- Aadil Hussain Bhat
- a Department of Biotechnology , Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee , Roorkee , Uttarakhand 247667 , India
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- a Department of Biotechnology , Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee , Roorkee , Uttarakhand 247667 , India
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- a Department of Biotechnology , Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee , Roorkee , Uttarakhand 247667 , India
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- a Department of Biotechnology , Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee , Roorkee , Uttarakhand 247667 , India
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Passmore IJ, Andrejeva A, Wren BW, Cuccui J. Cytoplasmic glycoengineering of Apx toxin fragments in the development of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae glycoconjugate vaccines. BMC Vet Res 2019; 15:6. [PMID: 30606265 PMCID: PMC6318927 DOI: 10.1186/s12917-018-1751-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2018] [Accepted: 12/17/2018] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae is the causative agent of porcine pleuropneumonia and represents a major burden to the livestock industry. Virulence can largely be attributed to the secretion of a series of haemolytic toxins, which are highly immunogenic. A. pleuropneumoniae also encodes a cytoplasmic N-glycosylation system, which involves the modification of high molecular weight adhesins with glucose residues. Central to this process is the soluble N-glycosyl transferase, ngt, which is encoded in an operon with a subsequent glycosyl transferase, agt. Plasmid-borne recombinant expression of these genes in E. coli results in the production of a glucose polymer on peptides containing the appropriate acceptor sequon, NX(S/T). However to date, there is little evidence to suggest that such a glucose polymer is formed on its target peptides in A. pleuropneumoniae. Both the toxins and glycosylation system represent potential targets for the basis of a vaccine against A. pleuropneumoniae infection. RESULTS In this study, we developed cytoplasmic glycoengineering to construct glycoconjugate vaccine candidates composed of soluble toxin fragments modified by glucose. We transferred ngt and agt to the chromosome of Escherichia coli in order to generate a native-like operon for glycoengineering. A single chromosomal copy of ngt and agt resulted in the glucosylation of toxin fragments by a short glycan, rather than a polymer. CONCLUSIONS A vaccine candidate that combines toxin fragment with a conserved glycan offers a novel approach to generating epitopes important for both colonisation and disease progression.
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- Ian J Passmore
- Department of Pathogen Molecular Biology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT, UK
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- Cambridge Centre for Proteomics, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge, CB2 1QR, UK
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- Department of Pathogen Molecular Biology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT, UK
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- Department of Pathogen Molecular Biology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT, UK.
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Jervis AJ, Wood AG, Cain JA, Butler JA, Frost H, Lord E, Langdon R, Cordwell SJ, Wren BW, Linton D. Functional analysis of the Helicobacter pullorum N-linked protein glycosylation system. Glycobiology 2018; 28:233-244. [PMID: 29340583 PMCID: PMC6025236 DOI: 10.1093/glycob/cwx110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2017] [Accepted: 01/10/2018] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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N-linked protein glycosylation systems operate in species from all three domains of life. The model bacterial N-linked glycosylation system from Campylobacter jejuni is encoded by pgl genes present at a single chromosomal locus. This gene cluster includes the pglB oligosaccharyltransferase responsible for transfer of glycan from lipid carrier to protein. Although all genomes from species of the Campylobacter genus contain a pgl locus, among the related Helicobacter genus only three evolutionarily related species (H. pullorum, H. canadensis and H. winghamensis) potentially encode N-linked protein glycosylation systems. Helicobacter putative pgl genes are scattered in five chromosomal loci and include two putative oligosaccharyltransferase-encoding pglB genes per genome. We have previously demonstrated the in vitro N-linked glycosylation activity of H. pullorum resulting in transfer of a pentasaccharide to a peptide at asparagine within the sequon (D/E)XNXS/T. In this study, we identified the first H. pullorum N-linked glycoprotein, termed HgpA. Production of histidine-tagged HgpA in the background of insertional knockout mutants of H. pullorum pgl/wbp genes followed by analysis of HgpA glycan structures demonstrated the role of individual gene products in the PglB1-dependent N-linked protein glycosylation pathway. Glycopeptide purification by zwitterionic-hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry identified six glycosites from five H. pullorum proteins, which was consistent with proteins reactive with a polyclonal antiserum generated against glycosylated HgpA. This study demonstrates functioning of a H. pullorum N-linked general protein glycosylation system.
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- Adrian J Jervis
- Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, SYNBIOCHEM, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
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- School of Molecular Bioscience and Charles Perkins Centre, The University of Sydney, 2006Australia
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- School of Healthcare Science, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester M1 5GD, UK
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- Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Michael Smith Building, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, UK
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- Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Michael Smith Building, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, UK
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- Pathogen Molecular Biology Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK
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- School of Molecular Bioscience and Charles Perkins Centre, The University of Sydney, 2006Australia
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- Pathogen Molecular Biology Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK
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- Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Michael Smith Building, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, UK
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Differential recognition of Haemophilus influenzae whole bacterial cells and isolated lipooligosaccharides by galactose-specific lectins. Sci Rep 2018; 8:16292. [PMID: 30389954 PMCID: PMC6215012 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-34383-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2018] [Accepted: 10/18/2018] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Bacterial surfaces are decorated with carbohydrate structures that may serve as ligands for host receptors. Based on their ability to recognize specific sugar epitopes, plant lectins are extensively used for bacteria typing. We previously observed that the galactose-specific agglutinins from Ricinus communis (RCA) and Viscum album (VAA) exhibited differential binding to nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) clinical isolates, their binding being distinctly affected by truncation of the lipooligosaccharide (LOS). Here, we examined their binding to the structurally similar LOS molecules isolated from strains NTHi375 and RdKW20, using microarray binding assays, saturation transfer difference NMR, and molecular dynamics simulations. RCA bound the LOSRdKW20 glycoform displaying terminal Galβ(1,4)Glcβ, whereas VAA recognized the Galα(1,4)Galβ(1,4)Glcβ epitope in LOSNTHi375 but not in LOSRdKW20, unveiling a different presentation. Binding assays to whole bacterial cells were consistent with LOSNTHi375 serving as ligand for VAA, and also suggested recognition of the glycoprotein HMW1. Regarding RCA, comparable binding to NTHi375 and RdKW20 cells was observed. Interestingly, an increase in LOSNTHi375 abundance or expression of HMW1 in RdKW20 impaired RCA binding. Overall, the results revealed that, besides the LOS, other carbohydrate structures on the bacterial surface serve as lectin ligands, and highlighted the impact of the specific display of cell surface components on lectin binding.
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Glycosylation is one of the most prevalent posttranslational modifications that profoundly affects the structure and functions of proteins in a wide variety of biological recognition events. However, the structural complexity and heterogeneity of glycoproteins, usually resulting from the variations of glycan components and/or the sites of glycosylation, often complicates detailed structure-function relationship studies and hampers the therapeutic applications of glycoproteins. To address these challenges, various chemical and biological strategies have been developed for producing glycan-defined homogeneous glycoproteins. This review highlights recent advances in the development of chemoenzymatic methods for synthesizing homogeneous glycoproteins, including the generation of various glycosynthases for synthetic purposes, endoglycosidase-catalyzed glycoprotein synthesis and glycan remodeling, and direct enzymatic glycosylation of polypeptides and proteins. The scope, limitation, and future directions of each method are discussed.
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- Chao Li
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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Metabolic engineering of glycoprotein biosynthesis in bacteria. Emerg Top Life Sci 2018; 2:419-432. [PMID: 33525794 DOI: 10.1042/etls20180004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2018] [Revised: 07/12/2018] [Accepted: 08/06/2018] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The demonstration more than a decade ago that glycoproteins could be produced in Escherichia coli cells equipped with the N-linked protein glycosylation machinery from Campylobacter jejuni opened the door to using simple bacteria for the expression and engineering of complex glycoproteins. Since that time, metabolic engineering has played an increasingly important role in developing and optimizing microbial cell glyco-factories for the production of diverse glycoproteins and other glycoconjugates. It is becoming clear that future progress in creating efficient glycoprotein expression platforms in bacteria will depend on the adoption of advanced strain engineering strategies such as rational design and assembly of orthogonal glycosylation pathways, genome-wide identification of metabolic engineering targets, and evolutionary engineering of pathway performance. Here, we highlight recent advances in the deployment of metabolic engineering tools and strategies to develop microbial cell glyco-factories for the production of high-value glycoprotein targets with applications in research and medicine.
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Kong Y, Li J, Hu X, Wang Y, Meng Q, Gu G, Wang PG, Chen M. N-Glycosyltransferase from Aggregatibacter aphrophilus synthesizes glycopeptides with relaxed nucleotide-activated sugar donor selectivity. Carbohydr Res 2018; 462:7-12. [PMID: 29609090 DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2018.03.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2018] [Revised: 03/03/2018] [Accepted: 03/16/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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N-Glycosyltransferase (NGT) is an inverting glycosyltransferase for an unusual pathway of N-linked protein glycosylation and glycosylates polypeptides in the consensus sequon (N-(X≠P)-T/S) with hexose monosaccharides. Here, we expressed and characterized a novel N-glycosyltransferase from Aggregatibacter aphrophilus (named AaNGT). RP-HPLC and Mass Spectrometry were used to assay and quantify glycopeptide formation by AaNGT and determine its substrate specificities. AaNGT could utilize a variety of nucleotide-activated sugar donors, including UDP-Glc, UDP-Gal, UDP-Xyl, GDP-Glc, dGDP-Glc and UDP-GlcN, to glycosylate the tested peptides. To the best of our knowledge, AaNGT was the first identified natural glycosyltransferase able to transfer GlcN moiety onto asparagine residues. AaNGT also exhibited a different position-specific residue preference of substrate peptides from the NGT of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae (ApNGT). In vitro assays with diverse synthesized peptides revealed that AaNGT preferred different peptide substrates from ApNGT. The efficient glycosylation of natural short peptides by AaNGT showed its potential to modify important therapeutic mammalian N-glycoproteins.
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- Yun Kong
- The State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, National Glycoengineering Research Center and School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250100, China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, National Glycoengineering Research Center and School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250100, China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, National Glycoengineering Research Center and School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250100, China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, National Glycoengineering Research Center and School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250100, China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, National Glycoengineering Research Center and School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250100, China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, National Glycoengineering Research Center and School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250100, China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, National Glycoengineering Research Center and School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250100, China; Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, United States
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- The State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, National Glycoengineering Research Center and School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250100, China.
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Fulton KM, Li J, Tomas JM, Smith JC, Twine SM. Characterizing bacterial glycoproteins with LC-MS. Expert Rev Proteomics 2018; 15:203-216. [PMID: 29400572 DOI: 10.1080/14789450.2018.1435276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Though eukaryotic glycoproteins have been studied since their discovery in the 1930s, the first bacterial glycoprotein was not identified until the 1970s. As a result, their role in bacterial pathogenesis is still not well understood and they remain an understudied component of bacterial virulence. In recent years, mass spectrometry has emerged as a leading technology for the study of bacterial glycoproteins, largely due to its sensitivity and versatility. Areas covered: Identification and comprehensive characterization of bacterial glycoproteins usually requires multiple complementary mass spectrometry approaches, including intact protein analysis, top-down analysis, and bottom-up methods used in combination with specialized liquid chromatography. This review provides an overview of liquid chromatography separation technologies, as well as current and emerging mass spectrometry approaches used specifically for bacterial glycoprotein identification and characterization. Expert commentary: Bacterial glycoproteins may have significant clinical utility as a result of their unique structures and exposure on the surface of the cells. Better understanding of these glycoconjugates is an essential first step towards that goal. These often unique structures, and by extension the key enzymes involved in their synthesis, represent promising targets for novel antimicrobials, while unique carbohydrate structures may be used as antigens in vaccines or as biomarkers.
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- Kelly M Fulton
- a Human Health Therapeutics Portfolio , National Research Council Canada , Ottawa , Canada
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- a Human Health Therapeutics Portfolio , National Research Council Canada , Ottawa , Canada
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- b Departament de Microbiologia, Facultat de Biologia , Universitat de Barcelona , Barcelona , Spain
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- c Department of Chemistry , Carleton University , Ottawa , Canada
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- a Human Health Therapeutics Portfolio , National Research Council Canada , Ottawa , Canada
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Yates LE, Mills DC, DeLisa MP. Bacterial Glycoengineering as a Biosynthetic Route to Customized Glycomolecules. ADVANCES IN BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING/BIOTECHNOLOGY 2018; 175:167-200. [PMID: 30099598 DOI: 10.1007/10_2018_72] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Bacteria have garnered increased interest in recent years as a platform for the biosynthesis of a variety of glycomolecules such as soluble oligosaccharides, surface-exposed carbohydrates, and glycoproteins. The ability to engineer commonly used laboratory species such as Escherichia coli to efficiently synthesize non-native sugar structures by recombinant expression of enzymes from various carbohydrate biosynthesis pathways has allowed for the facile generation of important products such as conjugate vaccines, glycosylated outer membrane vesicles, and a variety of other research reagents for studying and understanding the role of glycans in living systems. This chapter highlights some of the key discoveries and technologies for equipping bacteria with the requisite biosynthetic machinery to generate such products. As the bacterial glyco-toolbox continues to grow, these technologies are expected to expand the range of glycomolecules produced recombinantly in bacterial systems, thereby opening up this platform to an even larger number of applications.
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- Laura E Yates
- School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
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Cuccui J, Terra VS, Bossé JT, Naegeli A, Abouelhadid S, Li Y, Lin CW, Vohra P, Tucker AW, Rycroft AN, Maskell DJ, Aebi M, Langford PR, Wren BW. The N-linking glycosylation system from Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae is required for adhesion and has potential use in glycoengineering. Open Biol 2017; 7:rsob.160212. [PMID: 28077594 PMCID: PMC5303269 DOI: 10.1098/rsob.160212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2016] [Accepted: 11/28/2016] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae is a mucosal respiratory pathogen causing contagious porcine pleuropneumonia. Pathogenesis studies have demonstrated a major role for the capsule, exotoxins and outer membrane proteins. Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae can also glycosylate proteins, using a cytoplasmic N-linked glycosylating enzyme designated NGT, but its transcriptional arrangement and role in virulence remains unknown. We investigated the NGT locus and demonstrated that the putative transcriptional unit consists of rimO, ngt and a glycosyltransferase termed agt. From this information we used the A. pleuropneumoniae glycosylation locus to decorate an acceptor protein, within Escherichia coli, with a hexose polymer that reacted with an anti-dextran antibody. Mass spectrometry analysis of a truncated protein revealed that this operon could add up to 29 repeat units to the appropriate sequon. We demonstrated the importance of NGT in virulence, by creating deletion mutants and testing them in a novel respiratory cell line adhesion model. This study demonstrates the importance of the NGT glycosylation system for pathogenesis and its potential biotechnological application for glycoengineering.
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- Jon Cuccui
- Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
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- Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
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- Section of Paediatrics, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, St. Mary's Campus, London W2 1PG, UK
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- Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zürich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
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- Section of Paediatrics, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, St. Mary's Campus, London W2 1PG, UK
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- Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zürich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ES, UK
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- The Royal Veterinary College, Hawkshead Campus, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL9 7TA, UK
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ES, UK
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- Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zürich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Section of Paediatrics, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, St. Mary's Campus, London W2 1PG, UK
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- Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
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Freudenberger Catanzaro KC, Champion AE, Mohapatra N, Cecere T, Inzana TJ. Glycosylation of a Capsule-Like Complex (CLC) by Francisella novicida Is Required for Virulence and Partial Protective Immunity in Mice. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:935. [PMID: 28611741 PMCID: PMC5447757 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.00935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2017] [Accepted: 05/09/2017] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Francisella tularensis is a Gram-negative bacterium and the etiologic agent of tularemia. F. tularensis may appear encapsulated when examined by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), which is due to production of an extracellular capsule-like complex (CLC) when the bacterium is grown under specific environmental conditions. Deletion of two glycosylation genes in the live vaccine strain (LVS) results in loss of apparent CLC and attenuation of LVS in mice. In contrast, F. novicida, which is also highly virulent for mice, is reported to be non-encapsulated. However, the F. novicida genome contains a putative polysaccharide locus with homology to the CLC glycosylation locus in F. tularensis. Following daily subculture of F. novicida in Chamberlain's defined medium, an electron dense material surrounding F. novicida, similar to the F. tularensis CLC, was evident. Extraction with urea effectively removed the CLC, and compositional analysis indicated the extract contained galactose, glucose, mannose, and multiple proteins, similar to those found in the F. tularensis CLC. The same glycosylation genes deleted in LVS were targeted for deletion in F. novicida by allelic exchange using the same mutagenesis vector used for mutagenesis of LVS. In contrast, this mutation also resulted in the loss of five additional genes immediately upstream of the targeted mutation (all within the glycosylation locus), resulting in strain F. novicida Δ1212-1218. The subcultured mutant F. novicida Δ1212-1218 was CLC-deficient and the CLC contained significantly less carbohydrate than the subcultured parent strain. The mutant was severely attenuated in BALB/c mice inoculated intranasally, as determined by the lower number of F. novicida Δ1212-1218 recovered in tissues compared to the parent, and by clearance of the mutant by 10-14 days post-challenge. Mice immunized intranasally with F. novicida Δ1212-1218 were partially protected against challenge with the parent, produced significantly reduced levels of inflammatory cytokines, and their spleens contained only areas of lymphoid hyperplasia, whereas control mice challenged with the parent exhibited hypercytokinemia and splenic necrosis. Therefore, F. novicida is capable of producing a CLC similar to that of F. tularensis, and glycosylation of the CLC contributed to F. novicida virulence and immunoprotection.
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- Kelly C Freudenberger Catanzaro
- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology, Center for Molecular Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia TechBlacksburg, VA, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology, Center for Molecular Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia TechBlacksburg, VA, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology, Center for Molecular Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia TechBlacksburg, VA, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology, Center for Molecular Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia TechBlacksburg, VA, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology, Center for Molecular Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia TechBlacksburg, VA, United States.,Department of Biomedical Sciences, Virginia Tech Carilion School of MedicineRoanoke, VA, United States
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Omidi A, Esterhuizen-Londt M, Pflugmacher S. Still challenging: the ecological function of the cyanobacterial toxin microcystin – What we know so far. TOXIN REV 2017. [DOI: 10.1080/15569543.2017.1326059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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- Azam Omidi
- Institute of Biotechnology, Chair Ecological Impact Research and Ecotoxicology, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany and
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- Institute of Biotechnology, Chair Ecological Impact Research and Ecotoxicology, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany and
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- Institute of Biotechnology, Chair Ecological Impact Research and Ecotoxicology, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany and
- Joint laboratory of Applied Ecotoxicology, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Europe (KIST), Saarbrücken, Germany
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Stiers KM, Muenks AG, Beamer LJ. Biology, Mechanism, and Structure of Enzymes in the α-d-Phosphohexomutase Superfamily. ADVANCES IN PROTEIN CHEMISTRY AND STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY 2017; 109:265-304. [PMID: 28683921 PMCID: PMC5802415 DOI: 10.1016/bs.apcsb.2017.04.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Enzymes in the α-d-phosphohexomutases superfamily catalyze the reversible conversion of phosphosugars, such as glucose 1-phosphate and glucose 6-phosphate. These reactions are fundamental to primary metabolism across the kingdoms of life and are required for a myriad of cellular processes, ranging from exopolysaccharide production to protein glycosylation. The subject of extensive mechanistic characterization during the latter half of the 20th century, these enzymes have recently benefitted from biophysical characterization, including X-ray crystallography, NMR, and hydrogen-deuterium exchange studies. This work has provided new insights into the unique catalytic mechanism of the superfamily, shed light on the molecular determinants of ligand recognition, and revealed the evolutionary conservation of conformational flexibility. Novel associations with inherited metabolic disease and the pathogenesis of bacterial infections have emerged, spurring renewed interest in the long-appreciated functional roles of these enzymes.
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- University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United States.
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Guérin J, Bigot S, Schneider R, Buchanan SK, Jacob-Dubuisson F. Two-Partner Secretion: Combining Efficiency and Simplicity in the Secretion of Large Proteins for Bacteria-Host and Bacteria-Bacteria Interactions. Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2017; 7:148. [PMID: 28536673 PMCID: PMC5422565 DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2017.00148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2017] [Accepted: 04/10/2017] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Initially identified in pathogenic Gram-negative bacteria, the two-partner secretion (TPS) pathway, also known as Type Vb secretion, mediates the translocation across the outer membrane of large effector proteins involved in interactions between these pathogens and their hosts. More recently, distinct TPS systems have been shown to secrete toxic effector domains that participate in inter-bacterial competition or cooperation. The effects of these systems are based on kin vs. non-kin molecular recognition mediated by specific immunity proteins. With these new toxin-antitoxin systems, the range of TPS effector functions has thus been extended from cytolysis, adhesion, and iron acquisition, to genome maintenance, inter-bacterial killing and inter-bacterial signaling. Basically, a TPS system is made up of two proteins, the secreted TpsA effector protein and its TpsB partner transporter, with possible additional factors such as immunity proteins for protection against cognate toxic effectors. Structural studies have indicated that TpsA proteins mainly form elongated β helices that may be followed by specific functional domains. TpsB proteins belong to the Omp85 superfamily. Open questions remain on the mechanism of protein secretion in the absence of ATP or an electrochemical gradient across the outer membrane. The remarkable dynamics of the TpsB transporters and the progressive folding of their TpsA partners at the bacterial surface in the course of translocation are thought to be key elements driving the secretion process.
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- Jeremy Guérin
- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of HealthBethesda, MD, USA
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- Molecular Microbiology and Structural Biochemistry, Centre National de La Recherche Scientifique UMR 5086-Université Lyon 1, Institute of Biology and Chemistry of ProteinsLyon, France
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- NMR and Molecular Interactions, Université de Lille, Centre National de La Recherche Scientifique, UMR 8576-Unité de Glycobiologie Structurale et FonctionnelleLille, France
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- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of HealthBethesda, MD, USA
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- Université de Lille, Centre National de La Recherche Scientifique, Institut National de La Santé et de La Recherche Médicale, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019-UMR 8204-Centre d'Infection et d'Immunité de LilleLille, France
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Cuccui J, Terra VS, Bossé JT, Naegeli A, Abouelhadid S, Li Y, Lin CW, Vohra P, Tucker AW, Rycroft AN, Maskell DJ, Aebi M, Langford PR, Wren BW. The N-linking glycosylation system from Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae is required for adhesion and has potential use in glycoengineering. Open Biol 2017. [PMID: 28077594 DOI: 10.1098/rsob.160212.] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae is a mucosal respiratory pathogen causing contagious porcine pleuropneumonia. Pathogenesis studies have demonstrated a major role for the capsule, exotoxins and outer membrane proteins. Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae can also glycosylate proteins, using a cytoplasmic N-linked glycosylating enzyme designated NGT, but its transcriptional arrangement and role in virulence remains unknown. We investigated the NGT locus and demonstrated that the putative transcriptional unit consists of rimO, ngt and a glycosyltransferase termed agt. From this information we used the A. pleuropneumoniae glycosylation locus to decorate an acceptor protein, within Escherichia coli, with a hexose polymer that reacted with an anti-dextran antibody. Mass spectrometry analysis of a truncated protein revealed that this operon could add up to 29 repeat units to the appropriate sequon. We demonstrated the importance of NGT in virulence, by creating deletion mutants and testing them in a novel respiratory cell line adhesion model. This study demonstrates the importance of the NGT glycosylation system for pathogenesis and its potential biotechnological application for glycoengineering.
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- Jon Cuccui
- Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
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- Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
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- Section of Paediatrics, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, St. Mary's Campus, London W2 1PG, UK
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- Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zürich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
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- Section of Paediatrics, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, St. Mary's Campus, London W2 1PG, UK
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- Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zürich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ES, UK
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- The Royal Veterinary College, Hawkshead Campus, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL9 7TA, UK
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ES, UK
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- Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zürich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Section of Paediatrics, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, St. Mary's Campus, London W2 1PG, UK
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- Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
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Walvoort MTC, Testa C, Eilam R, Aharoni R, Nuti F, Rossi G, Real-Fernandez F, Lanzillo R, Brescia Morra V, Lolli F, Rovero P, Imperiali B, Papini AM. Antibodies from multiple sclerosis patients preferentially recognize hyperglucosylated adhesin of non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae. Sci Rep 2016; 6:39430. [PMID: 28008952 PMCID: PMC5180199 DOI: 10.1038/srep39430] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2016] [Accepted: 11/21/2016] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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In autoimmune diseases, there have been proposals that exogenous “molecular triggers”, i.e., specific ‘non-self antigens’ accompanying infectious agents, might disrupt control of the adaptive immune system resulting in serious pathologies. The etiology of multiple sclerosis (MS) remains unclear. However, epidemiologic data suggest that exposure to infectious agents may be associated with increased MS risk and progression may be linked to exogenous, bacterially-derived, antigenic molecules, mimicking mammalian cell surface glycoconjugates triggering autoimmune responses. Previously, antibodies specific to a gluco-asparagine (N-Glc) glycopeptide, CSF114(N-Glc), were identified in sera of an MS patient subpopulation. Since the human glycoproteome repertoire lacks this uniquely modified amino acid, we turned our attention to bacteria, i.e., Haemophilus influenzae, expressing cell-surface adhesins including N-Glc, to establish a connection between H. influenzae infection and MS. We exploited the biosynthetic machinery from the opportunistic pathogen H. influenzae (and the homologous enzymes from A. pleuropneumoniae) to produce a unique set of defined glucosylated adhesin proteins. Interestingly we revealed that a hyperglucosylated protein domain, based on the cell-surface adhesin HMW1A, is preferentially recognized by antibodies from sera of an MS patient subpopulation. In conclusion the hyperglucosylated adhesin is the first example of an N-glucosylated native antigen that can be considered a relevant candidate for triggering pathogenic antibodies in MS.
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- Marthe T. C. Walvoort
- Departments of Biology and Chemistry Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA, USA
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- French-Italian Interdepartmental Laboratory of Peptide and Protein Chemistry and Biology, University of Florence, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
- Department of Neurosciences, Psychology, Drug Research and Child Health - Section of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Nutraceutics, University of Florence, Via Ugo Schiff 6, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Resources, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 761001, Israel
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- Department of Immunology, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 761001, Israel
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- French-Italian Interdepartmental Laboratory of Peptide and Protein Chemistry and Biology, University of Florence, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
- Department of Chemistry “Ugo Schiff”, University of Florence, Via della Lastruccia 13, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- French-Italian Interdepartmental Laboratory of Peptide and Protein Chemistry and Biology, University of Florence, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
- Department of Neurosciences, Psychology, Drug Research and Child Health - Section of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Nutraceutics, University of Florence, Via Ugo Schiff 6, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- French-Italian Interdepartmental Laboratory of Peptide and Protein Chemistry and Biology, University of Florence, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
- Department of Neurosciences, Psychology, Drug Research and Child Health - Section of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Nutraceutics, University of Florence, Via Ugo Schiff 6, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- Multiple Sclerosis Clinical Care and Research Centre, Department of Neurosciences, Reproductive Sciences and Odontostomatology, Federico II University, Via Sergio Pansini 5, 80131 Naples, Italy
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- Multiple Sclerosis Clinical Care and Research Centre, Department of Neurosciences, Reproductive Sciences and Odontostomatology, Federico II University, Via Sergio Pansini 5, 80131 Naples, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical, Experimental and Clinical Sciences, University of Florence, Viale Morgagni 50, 50134 Firenze, Italy
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- French-Italian Interdepartmental Laboratory of Peptide and Protein Chemistry and Biology, University of Florence, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
- Department of Neurosciences, Psychology, Drug Research and Child Health - Section of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Nutraceutics, University of Florence, Via Ugo Schiff 6, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- Departments of Biology and Chemistry Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA, USA
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- French-Italian Interdepartmental Laboratory of Peptide and Protein Chemistry and Biology, University of Florence, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
- Department of Chemistry “Ugo Schiff”, University of Florence, Via della Lastruccia 13, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
- PeptLab@UCP and Laboratory of Chemical Biology EA4505, Université Paris-Seine, 5 Mail Gay-Lussac, 95031 Cergy-Pontoise, France
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Barenkamp SJ, Ogra PL, Bakaletz LO, Chonmaitree T, Heikkinen T, Hurst DS, Kawauchi H, Kurono Y, Leiberman A, Murphy TF, Patel JA, Sih TM, St Geme JW, Stenfors LE. 5. Microbiology and Immunology. Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol 2016. [DOI: 10.1177/00034894051140s109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Domenech M, Pedrero-Vega E, Prieto A, García E. Evidence of the presence of nucleic acids and β-glucan in the matrix of non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae in vitro biofilms. Sci Rep 2016; 6:36424. [PMID: 27805043 PMCID: PMC5090351 DOI: 10.1038/srep36424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2016] [Accepted: 10/14/2016] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) is a Gram-negative bacterium that frequently colonizes the human nasopharynx; it is a common cause of chronic and recurrent otitis media in children and of exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. To date, no exopolysaccharide clearly contributing to NTHi biofilms has been identified. Consequently, there is some debate as to whether NTHi forms biofilms during colonization and infection. The present work shows that NTHi can form biofilms in vitro, producing an extracellular matrix composed of proteins, nucleic acids, and a β-glucan. Extracellular DNA, visualized by immunostaining and using fluorochromes, is an important component of this matrix and appears to be essential in biofilm maintenance. Extracellular RNA appears to be required only in the first steps of biofilm formation. Evidence of a matrix polysaccharide was obtained by staining with Calcofluor white M2R and by disaggregating biofilms with cellulase. Using strain 54997, residues of Glcp(1→4) in the NTHi biofilm were confirmed by gas-liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. Evidence that N-acetyl-L-cysteine shows notable killing activity towards in vitro NTHi biofilm-forming bacteria is also provided.
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- Mirian Domenech
- Departamento de Microbiología Molecular y Biología de las Infecciones, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CSIC), Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain
- CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Monforte de Lemos 3–5, 28029 Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Microbiología Molecular y Biología de las Infecciones, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CSIC), Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Medioambiental, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CSIC), Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Microbiología Molecular y Biología de las Infecciones, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CSIC), Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain
- CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Monforte de Lemos 3–5, 28029 Madrid, Spain
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Li H, Debowski AW, Liao T, Tang H, Nilsson HO, Marshall BJ, Stubbs KA, Benghezal M. Understanding protein glycosylation pathways in bacteria. Future Microbiol 2016; 12:59-72. [PMID: 27689684 DOI: 10.2217/fmb-2016-0166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Through advances in analytical methods to detect glycoproteins and to determine glycan structures, there have been increasing reports of protein glycosylation in bacteria. In this review, we summarize the known pathways for bacterial protein glycosylation: lipid carrier-mediated 'en bloc' glycosylation; and cytoplasmic stepwise protein glycosylation. The exploitation of bacterial protein glycosylation systems, especially the 'mix and match' of three independent but similar pathways (oligosaccharyltransferase-mediated protein glycosylation, lipopolysaccharide and peptidoglycan biosynthesis) in Gram-negative bacteria for glycoengineering recombinant glycoproteins is also discussed.
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Affiliation(s)
- Hong Li
- West China Marshall Research Centre for Infectious Diseases, Centre of Infectious Diseases, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.,Helicobacter Pylori Research Laboratory, School of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Marshall Centre for Infectious Disease Research & Training, The University of Western Australia, M504, L Block, QEII Medical Centre, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia
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- Helicobacter Pylori Research Laboratory, School of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Marshall Centre for Infectious Disease Research & Training, The University of Western Australia, M504, L Block, QEII Medical Centre, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia.,School of Chemistry & Biochemistry, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
| | - Tingting Liao
- Helicobacter Pylori Research Laboratory, School of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Marshall Centre for Infectious Disease Research & Training, The University of Western Australia, M504, L Block, QEII Medical Centre, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia
| | - Hong Tang
- West China Marshall Research Centre for Infectious Diseases, Centre of Infectious Diseases, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
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- Ondek Pty Ltd, School of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Marshall Centre for Infectious Disease Research & Training, The University of Western Australia, M504, L Block, QEII Medical Centre, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia
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- Helicobacter Pylori Research Laboratory, School of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Marshall Centre for Infectious Disease Research & Training, The University of Western Australia, M504, L Block, QEII Medical Centre, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia
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- School of Chemistry & Biochemistry, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
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- Helicobacter Pylori Research Laboratory, School of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Marshall Centre for Infectious Disease Research & Training, The University of Western Australia, M504, L Block, QEII Medical Centre, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia.,Swiss Vitamin Institute, Route de la Corniche 1, CH-1066 Epalinges, Switzerland
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A novel mass spectrometric strategy "BEMAP" reveals Extensive O-linked protein glycosylation in Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli. Sci Rep 2016; 6:32016. [PMID: 27562176 PMCID: PMC5000012 DOI: 10.1038/srep32016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2016] [Accepted: 08/01/2016] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
Abstract
The attachment of sugars to proteins via side-chain oxygen atoms (O-linked glycosylation) is seen in all three domains of life. However, a lack of widely-applicable analytical tools has restricted the study of this process, particularly in bacteria. In E. coli, only four O-linked glycoproteins have previously been characterized. Here we present a glycoproteomics technique, termed BEMAP, which is based on the beta-elimination of O-linked glycans followed by Michael-addition of a phosphonic acid derivative, and subsequent titanium dioxide enrichment. This strategy allows site-specific mass-spectrometric identification of proteins with O-linked glycan modifications in a complex biological sample. Using BEMAP we identified cell surface-associated and membrane vesicle glycoproteins from Enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC) and non-pathogenic E. coli K-12. We identified 618 glycosylated Serine and Threonine residues mapping to 140 proteins in ETEC, including several known virulence factors, and 34 in E. coli K-12. The two strains had 32 glycoproteins in common. Remarkably, the majority of the ETEC glycoproteins were conserved in both strains but nevertheless were only glycosylated in the pathogen. Therefore, bacterial O-linked glycosylation is much more extensive than previously thought, and is especially important to the pathogen.
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