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Feng YX, Tian P, Li CZ, Hu XD, Lin YJ. Elucidating the intricacies of the H 2S signaling pathway in gasotransmitters: Highlighting the regulation of plant thiocyanate detoxification pathways. ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY 2024; 276:116307. [PMID: 38593497 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2024.116307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2023] [Revised: 04/02/2024] [Accepted: 04/06/2024] [Indexed: 04/11/2024]
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In recent decades, there has been increasing interest in elucidating the role of sulfur-containing compounds in plant metabolism, particularly emphasizing their function as signaling molecules. Among these, thiocyanate (SCN-), a compound imbued with sulfur and nitrogen, has emerged as a significant environmental contaminant frequently detected in irrigation water. This compound is known for its potential to adversely impact plant growth and agricultural yield. Although adopting exogenous SCN- as a nitrogen source in plant cells has been the subject of thorough investigation, the fate of sulfur resulting from the assimilation of exogenous SCN- has not been fully explored. There is burgeoning curiosity in probing the fate of SCN- within plant systems, especially considering the possible generation of the gaseous signaling molecule, hydrogen sulfide (H2S) during the metabolism of SCN-. Notably, the endogenous synthesis of H2S occurs predominantly within chloroplasts, the cytosol, and mitochondria. In contrast, the production of H2S following the assimilation of exogenous SCN- is explicitly confined to chloroplasts and mitochondria. This phenomenon indicates complex interplay and communication among various subcellular organelles, influencing signal transduction and other vital physiological processes. This review, augmented by a small-scale experimental study, endeavors to provide insights into the functional characteristics of H2S signaling in plants subjected to SCN--stress. Furthermore, a comparative analysis of the occurrence and trajectory of endogenous H2S and H2S derived from SCN--assimilation within plant organisms was performed, providing a focused lens for a comprehensive examination of the multifaceted roles of H2S in rice plants. By delving into these dimensions, our objective is to enhance the understanding of the regulatory mechanisms employed by the gasotransmitter H2S in plant adaptations and responses to SCN--stress, yielding invaluable insights into strategies for plant resilience and adaptive capabilities.
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- Yu-Xi Feng
- College of Environmental Science & Engineering, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541004, People's Republic of China; Jiangmen Laboratory of Carbon Science and Technology, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Jiangmen, Guangdong 529199, People's Republic of China; The Guangxi Key Laboratory of Theory and Technology for Environmental Pollution Control, Guilin 541004, People's Republic of China.
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- College of Environmental Science & Engineering, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541004, People's Republic of China
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- College of Environmental Science & Engineering, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541004, People's Republic of China
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- Jiangmen Laboratory of Carbon Science and Technology, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Jiangmen, Guangdong 529199, People's Republic of China
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- College of Environmental Science & Engineering, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541004, People's Republic of China; The Guangxi Key Laboratory of Theory and Technology for Environmental Pollution Control, Guilin 541004, People's Republic of China; Collaborative Innovation Center for Water Pollution Control and Water Safety in Karst Area, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541006, People's Republic of China.
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Gamalero E, Lingua G, Glick BR. Ethylene, ACC, and the Plant Growth-Promoting Enzyme ACC Deaminase. BIOLOGY 2023; 12:1043. [PMID: 37626930 PMCID: PMC10452086 DOI: 10.3390/biology12081043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2023] [Revised: 07/20/2023] [Accepted: 07/24/2023] [Indexed: 08/27/2023]
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Here, a brief summary of the biosynthesis of 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC) and ethylene in plants, as well as overviews of how ACC and ethylene act as signaling molecules in plants, is presented. Next, how the bacterial enzyme ACC deaminase cleaves plant-produced ACC and thereby decreases or prevents the ethylene or ACC modulation of plant gene expression is considered. A detailed model of ACC deaminase functioning, including the role of indoleacetic acid (IAA), is presented. Given that ACC is a signaling molecule under some circumstances, this suggests that ACC, which appears to have evolved prior to ethylene, may have been a major signaling molecule in primitive plants prior to the evolution of ethylene and ethylene signaling. Due to their involvement in stimulating ethylene production, the role of D-amino acids in plants is then considered. The enzyme D-cysteine desulfhydrase, which is structurally very similar to ACC deaminase, is briefly discussed and the possibility that ACC deaminase arose as a variant of D-cysteine desulfhydrase is suggested.
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- Elisa Gamalero
- Dipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Viale T. Michel 11, 15121 Alessandria, Italy;
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Viale T. Michel 11, 15121 Alessandria, Italy;
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- Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada;
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Darbyshire A, Mothersole R, Wolthers KR. Biosynthesis of meso-lanthionine in Fusobacterium nucleatum. Arch Biochem Biophys 2023:109666. [PMID: 37329940 DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2023.109666] [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: 03/29/2023] [Revised: 06/01/2023] [Accepted: 06/09/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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The opportunistic oral pathogen, Fusobacterium nucleatum contains meso-lanthionine as the diaminodicarboxylic acid in the pentapeptide crosslink of the peptidoglycan layer. The diastereomer, l,l-lanthionine is formed by lanthionine synthase, a PLP-dependent enzyme that catalyzes the β-replacement of l-cysteine with a second equivalent of l-cysteine. In this study, we explored possible enzymatic mechanisms for the formation of meso-lanthionine. Our inhibition studies with lanthionine synthase, described herein, revealed that meso-diaminopimelate, a bioisostere of meso-lanthionine, is a more potent inhibitor of lanthionine synthase compared to the diastereomer, l,l-diaminopimelate. These results suggested that lanthionine synthase could also form meso-lanthionine by the β-replacement of l-cysteine with d-cysteine. Through steady-state and pre-steady state kinetic analysis, we confirm that d-cysteine reacts with the ⍺-aminoacylate intermediate with a kon that was 2-3-fold faster and Kd value that was 2-3fold lower compared to l-cysteine. However, given that intracellular levels of d-cysteine levels are assumed to be significantly lower than that of l-cysteine, we also determined if the gene product, FN1732, with low sequence identity to diaminopimelate epimerase could convert l,l-lanthionine to meso-lanthionine. Using diaminopimelate dehydrogenase in a coupled spectrophotometric assay, we show that FN1732 can convert l,l-lanthionine to meso-lanthionine with a kcat of 0.07 ± 0.001 s-1 and a KM of 1.9 ± 0.1 mM. In summary, our results provide two possible enzymatic mechanisms for the biosynthesis of meso-lanthionine in F. nucleatum.
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- Amanda Darbyshire
- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Kelowna, B.C, V1V 1V7, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Kelowna, B.C, V1V 1V7, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, 3247 University Way, Kelowna, Canada.
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Roychaudhuri R, Snyder SH. Mammalian D-cysteine: A novel regulator of neural progenitor cell proliferation: Endogenous D-cysteine, the stereoisomer with rapid spontaneous in vitro racemization rate, has major neural roles: Endogenous D-cysteine, the stereoisomer with rapid spontaneous in vitro racemization rate, has major neural roles. Bioessays 2022; 44:e2200002. [PMID: 35484375 DOI: 10.1002/bies.202200002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2022] [Revised: 03/25/2022] [Accepted: 04/12/2022] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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D-amino acids are being recognized as functionally important molecules in mammals. We recently identified endogenous D-cysteine in mammalian brain. D-cysteine is present in neonatal brain in substantial amounts (mM) and decreases with postnatal development. D-cysteine binds to MARCKS and a host of proteins implicated in cell division and neurodevelopmental disorders. D-cysteine decreases phosphorylation of MARCKS in neural progenitor cells (NPCs) affecting its translocation. D-cysteine controls NPC proliferation by inhibiting AKT signaling. Exogenous D-cysteine inhibits AKT phosphorylation at Thr 308 and Ser 473 in NPCs. D-cysteine treatment of NPCs led to 50% reduction in phosphorylation of Foxo1 at Ser 256 and Foxo3a at Ser 253. We hypothesize that in the developing brain endogenous D-cysteine is as a physiologic regulator of NPC proliferation by inhibiting AKT signaling mediated by Foxo1 and Foxo3a. Endogenous D-cysteine may regulate mammalian neurodevelopment with roles in schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease (AD).
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- Robin Roychaudhuri
- Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.,Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.,Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Bibli SI, Fleming I. Oxidative Post-Translational Modifications: A Focus on Cysteine S-Sulfhydration and the Regulation of Endothelial Fitness. Antioxid Redox Signal 2021; 35:1494-1514. [PMID: 34346251 DOI: 10.1089/ars.2021.0162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Significance: Changes in the oxidative balance can affect cellular physiology and adaptation through redox signaling. The endothelial cells that line blood vessels are particularly sensitive to reactive oxygen species, which can alter cell function by a number of mechanisms, including the oxidative post-translational modification (oxPTM) of proteins on critical cysteine thiols. Such modifications can act as redox-switches to alter the function of targeted proteins. Recent Advances: Mapping the cysteine oxPTM proteome and characterizing the effects of individual oxPTMs to gain insight into consequences for cellular responses has proven challenging. A recent addition to the list of reversible oxPTMs that contributes to cellular redox homeostasis is persulfidation or S-sulfhydration. Critical Issues: It has been estimated that up to 25% of proteins are S-sulfhydrated, making this modification almost as abundant as phosphorylation. In the endothelium, persulfides are generated by the trans-sulfuration pathway that catabolizes cysteine and cystathionine to generate hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and H2S-related sulfane sulfur compounds (H2Sn). This pathway is of particular importance for the vascular system, as the enzyme cystathionine γ lyase (CSE) in endothelial cells accounts for a significant portion of total vascular H2S/H2Sn production. Future Directions: Impaired CSE activity in endothelial dysfunction has been linked with marked changes in the endothelial cell S-sulfhydrome and can contribute to the development of atherosclerosis and hypertension. It will be interesting to determine how changes in the S-sulfhydration of specific networks of proteins contribute to endothelial cell physiology and pathophysiology. Antioxid. Redox Signal. 35, 1494-1514.
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- Sofia-Iris Bibli
- Institute for Vascular Signalling, Centre for Molecular Medicine, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.,German Center of Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site RheinMain, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute for Vascular Signalling, Centre for Molecular Medicine, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.,German Center of Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site RheinMain, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Kunota TTR, Rahman MA, Truebody BE, Mackenzie JS, Saini V, Lamprecht DA, Adamson JH, Sevalkar RR, Lancaster JR, Berney M, Glasgow JN, Steyn AJC. Mycobacterium tuberculosis H 2S Functions as a Sink to Modulate Central Metabolism, Bioenergetics, and Drug Susceptibility. Antioxidants (Basel) 2021; 10:1285. [PMID: 34439535 PMCID: PMC8389258 DOI: 10.3390/antiox10081285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2021] [Revised: 08/04/2021] [Accepted: 08/07/2021] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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H2S is a potent gasotransmitter in eukaryotes and bacteria. Host-derived H2S has been shown to profoundly alter M. tuberculosis (Mtb) energy metabolism and growth. However, compelling evidence for endogenous production of H2S and its role in Mtb physiology is lacking. We show that multidrug-resistant and drug-susceptible clinical Mtb strains produce H2S, whereas H2S production in non-pathogenic M. smegmatis is barely detectable. We identified Rv3684 (Cds1) as an H2S-producing enzyme in Mtb and show that cds1 disruption reduces, but does not eliminate, H2S production, suggesting the involvement of multiple genes in H2S production. We identified endogenous H2S to be an effector molecule that maintains bioenergetic homeostasis by stimulating respiration primarily via cytochrome bd. Importantly, H2S plays a key role in central metabolism by modulating the balance between oxidative phosphorylation and glycolysis, and it functions as a sink to recycle sulfur atoms back to cysteine to maintain sulfur homeostasis. Lastly, Mtb-generated H2S regulates redox homeostasis and susceptibility to anti-TB drugs clofazimine and rifampicin. These findings reveal previously unknown facets of Mtb physiology and have implications for routine laboratory culturing, understanding drug susceptibility, and improved diagnostics.
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- Tafara T. R. Kunota
- Africa Health Research Institute, University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban 4001, South Africa; (T.T.R.K.); (M.A.R.); (B.E.T.); (J.S.M.); (D.A.L.); (J.H.A.)
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- Africa Health Research Institute, University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban 4001, South Africa; (T.T.R.K.); (M.A.R.); (B.E.T.); (J.S.M.); (D.A.L.); (J.H.A.)
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- Africa Health Research Institute, University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban 4001, South Africa; (T.T.R.K.); (M.A.R.); (B.E.T.); (J.S.M.); (D.A.L.); (J.H.A.)
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- Africa Health Research Institute, University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban 4001, South Africa; (T.T.R.K.); (M.A.R.); (B.E.T.); (J.S.M.); (D.A.L.); (J.H.A.)
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- Department of Biotechnology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029, India;
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- Africa Health Research Institute, University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban 4001, South Africa; (T.T.R.K.); (M.A.R.); (B.E.T.); (J.S.M.); (D.A.L.); (J.H.A.)
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- Africa Health Research Institute, University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban 4001, South Africa; (T.T.R.K.); (M.A.R.); (B.E.T.); (J.S.M.); (D.A.L.); (J.H.A.)
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA; (R.R.S.); (J.N.G.)
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- Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA;
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY 10462, USA;
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA; (R.R.S.); (J.N.G.)
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- Africa Health Research Institute, University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban 4001, South Africa; (T.T.R.K.); (M.A.R.); (B.E.T.); (J.S.M.); (D.A.L.); (J.H.A.)
- Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA; (R.R.S.); (J.N.G.)
- Centers for AIDS Research and Free Radical Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
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Nitrate-reducing bacteria (NRB) and sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) colonize diverse anoxic environments, including soil subsurface, groundwater, and wastewater. NRB and SRB compete for resources, and their interplay has major implications on the global cycling of nitrogen and sulfur species, with undesirable outcomes in some contexts. Competition between nitrate-reducing bacteria (NRB) and sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) for resources in anoxic environments is generally thought to be governed largely by thermodynamics. It is now recognized that intermediates of nitrogen and sulfur cycling (e.g., hydrogen sulfide, nitrite, etc.) can also directly impact NRB and SRB activities in freshwater, wastewater, and sediment and therefore may play important roles in competitive interactions. Here, through comparative transcriptomic and metabolomic analyses, we have uncovered mechanisms of hydrogen sulfide- and cysteine-mediated inhibition of nitrate respiratory growth for the NRB Intrasporangium calvum C5. Specifically, the systems analysis predicted that cysteine and hydrogen sulfide inhibit growth of I. calvum C5 by disrupting distinct steps across multiple pathways, including branched-chain amino acid (BCAA) biosynthesis, utilization of specific carbon sources, and cofactor metabolism. We have validated these predictions by demonstrating that complementation with BCAAs and specific carbon sources relieves the growth inhibitory effects of cysteine and hydrogen sulfide. We discuss how these mechanistic insights give new context to the interplay and stratification of NRB and SRB in diverse environments. IMPORTANCE Nitrate-reducing bacteria (NRB) and sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) colonize diverse anoxic environments, including soil subsurface, groundwater, and wastewater. NRB and SRB compete for resources, and their interplay has major implications on the global cycling of nitrogen and sulfur species, with undesirable outcomes in some contexts. For instance, the removal of reactive nitrogen species by NRB is desirable for wastewater treatment, but in agricultural soils, NRB can drive the conversion of nitrates from fertilizers into nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas. Similarly, the hydrogen sulfide produced by SRB can help sequester and immobilize toxic heavy metals but is undesirable in oil wells where competition between SRB and NRB has been exploited to suppress hydrogen sulfide production. By characterizing how reduced sulfur compounds inhibit growth and activity of NRB, we have gained systems-level and mechanistic insight into the interplay of these two important groups of organisms and drivers of their stratification in diverse environments.
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Göbbels L, Poehlein A, Dumnitch A, Egelkamp R, Kröger C, Haerdter J, Hackl T, Feld A, Weller H, Daniel R, Streit WR, Schoelmerich MC. Cysteine: an overlooked energy and carbon source. Sci Rep 2021; 11:2139. [PMID: 33495538 PMCID: PMC7835215 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-81103-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2020] [Accepted: 12/31/2020] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Biohybrids composed of microorganisms and nanoparticles have emerged as potential systems for bioenergy and high-value compound production from CO2 and light energy, yet the cellular and metabolic processes within the biological component of this system are still elusive. Here we dissect the biohybrid composed of the anaerobic acetogenic bacterium Moorella thermoacetica and cadmium sulphide nanoparticles (CdS) in terms of physiology, metabolism, enzymatics and transcriptomic profiling. Our analyses show that while the organism does not grow on l-cysteine, it is metabolized to acetate in the biohybrid system and this metabolism is independent of CdS or light. CdS cells have higher metabolic activity, despite an inhibitory effect of Cd2+ on key enzymes, because of an intracellular storage compound linked to arginine metabolism. We identify different routes how cysteine and its oxidized form can be innately metabolized by the model acetogen and what intracellular mechanisms are triggered by cysteine, cadmium or blue light.
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- Luise Göbbels
- Microbiology and Biotechnology, Institute of Plant Sciences and Microbiology, University of Hamburg, 22609, Hamburg, Germany
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- Genomic and Applied Microbiology and Göttingen Genomics Laboratory, Georg-August University Göttingen, Grisebachstraße 8, 37077, Göttingen, Germany
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- Microbiology and Biotechnology, Institute of Plant Sciences and Microbiology, University of Hamburg, 22609, Hamburg, Germany
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- Genomic and Applied Microbiology and Göttingen Genomics Laboratory, Georg-August University Göttingen, Grisebachstraße 8, 37077, Göttingen, Germany
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- Microbiology and Biotechnology, Institute of Plant Sciences and Microbiology, University of Hamburg, 22609, Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 6, 20146, Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 6, 20146, Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Hamburg, Grindelallee 117, 20146, Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Hamburg, Grindelallee 117, 20146, Hamburg, Germany
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- Genomic and Applied Microbiology and Göttingen Genomics Laboratory, Georg-August University Göttingen, Grisebachstraße 8, 37077, Göttingen, Germany
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- Microbiology and Biotechnology, Institute of Plant Sciences and Microbiology, University of Hamburg, 22609, Hamburg, Germany
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- Microbiology and Biotechnology, Institute of Plant Sciences and Microbiology, University of Hamburg, 22609, Hamburg, Germany.
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Yu L, Zhang S, Xu Y, Mi X, Xing T, Li J, Zhang L, Gao F, Jiang Y. Acid resistance of E. coli O157:H7 and O26:H11 exposure to lactic acid revealed by transcriptomic analysis. Lebensm Wiss Technol 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.lwt.2020.110352] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Sabrialabed S, Yang JG, Yariv E, Ben-Tal N, Lewinson O. Substrate recognition and ATPase activity of the E. coli cysteine/cystine ABC transporter YecSC-FliY. J Biol Chem 2020; 295:5245-5256. [PMID: 32144203 PMCID: PMC7170509 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra119.012063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2019] [Revised: 03/03/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Sulfur is essential for biological processes such as amino acid biogenesis, iron-sulfur cluster formation, and redox homeostasis. To acquire sulfur-containing compounds from the environment, bacteria have evolved high-affinity uptake systems, predominant among which is the ABC transporter family. Theses membrane-embedded enzymes use the energy of ATP hydrolysis for transmembrane transport of a wide range of biomolecules against concentration gradients. Three distinct bacterial ABC import systems of sulfur-containing compounds have been identified, but the molecular details of their transport mechanism remain poorly characterized. Here we provide results from a biochemical analysis of the purified Escherichia coli YecSC-FliY cysteine/cystine import system. We found that the substrate-binding protein FliY binds l-cystine, l-cysteine, and d-cysteine with micromolar affinities. However, binding of the l- and d-enantiomers induced different conformational changes of FliY, where the l- enantiomer-substrate-binding protein complex interacted more efficiently with the YecSC transporter. YecSC had low basal ATPase activity that was moderately stimulated by apo FliY, more strongly by d-cysteine-bound FliY, and maximally by l-cysteine- or l-cystine-bound FliY. However, at high FliY concentrations, YecSC reached maximal ATPase rates independent of the presence or nature of the substrate. These results suggest that FliY exists in a conformational equilibrium between an open, unliganded form that does not bind to the YecSC transporter and closed, unliganded and closed, liganded forms that bind this transporter with variable affinities but equally stimulate its ATPase activity. These findings differ from previous observations for similar ABC transporters, highlighting the extent of mechanistic diversity in this large protein family.
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- Siwar Sabrialabed
- Department of Biochemistry and the Rappaport Institute for Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 31096, Israel
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- Department of Chemistry, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94117
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6139001, Israel
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6139001, Israel
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- Department of Biochemistry and the Rappaport Institute for Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 31096, Israel.
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Svoboda T, Parich A, Güldener U, Schöfbeck D, Twaruschek K, Václavíková M, Hellinger R, Wiesenberger G, Schuhmacher R, Adam G. Biochemical Characterization of the Fusarium graminearum Candidate ACC-Deaminases and Virulence Testing of Knockout Mutant Strains. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2019; 10:1072. [PMID: 31552072 PMCID: PMC6746940 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2019.01072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2019] [Accepted: 08/07/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Fusarium graminearum is a plant pathogenic fungus which is able to infect wheat and other economically important cereal crop species. The role of ethylene in the interaction with host plants is unclear and controversial. We have analyzed the inventory of genes with a putative function in ethylene production or degradation of the ethylene precursor 1-aminocyclopropane carboxylic acid (ACC). F. graminearum, in contrast to other species, does not contain a candidate gene encoding ethylene-forming enzyme. Three genes with similarity to ACC synthases exist; heterologous expression of these did not reveal enzymatic activity. The F. graminearum genome contains in addition two ACC deaminase candidate genes. We have expressed both genes in E. coli and characterized the enzymatic properties of the affinity-purified products. One of the proteins had indeed ACC deaminase activity, with kinetic properties similar to ethylene-stress reducing enzymes of plant growth promoting bacteria. The other candidate was inactive with ACC but turned out to be a d-cysteine desulfhydrase. Since it had been reported that ethylene insensitivity in transgenic wheat increased Fusarium resistance and reduced the content of the mycotoxin deoxynivalenol (DON) in infected wheat, we generated single and double knockout mutants of both genes in the F. graminearum strain PH-1. No statistically significant effect of the gene disruptions on fungal spread or mycotoxin content was detected, indicating that the ability of the fungus to manipulate the production of the gaseous plant hormones ethylene and H2S is dispensable for full virulence.
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- Thomas Svoboda
- Department of Applied Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Tulln, Austria
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- BOKU, Department for Agrobiotechnology (IFA-Tulln), Institute of Bioanalytics and Agro-Metabolomics, Tulln, Austria
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- Department of Bioinformatics, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany
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- BOKU, Department for Agrobiotechnology (IFA-Tulln), Institute of Bioanalytics and Agro-Metabolomics, Tulln, Austria
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- Department of Applied Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Tulln, Austria
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- BOKU, Department for Agrobiotechnology (IFA-Tulln), Institute of Bioanalytics and Agro-Metabolomics, Tulln, Austria
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- BOKU, Department for Agrobiotechnology (IFA-Tulln), Institute of Bioanalytics and Agro-Metabolomics, Tulln, Austria
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- Department of Applied Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Tulln, Austria
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- BOKU, Department for Agrobiotechnology (IFA-Tulln), Institute of Bioanalytics and Agro-Metabolomics, Tulln, Austria
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- Department of Applied Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Tulln, Austria
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Grishin DV, Zhdanov DD, Pokrovskaya MV, Sokolov NN. D-amino acids in nature, agriculture and biomedicine. ALL LIFE 2019. [DOI: 10.1080/21553769.2019.1622596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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- Institute of Biomedical Chemistry, Moscow, Russia
- Peoples Friendship University of Russia, Moscow, Russia
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Li M, Yang S, Chen C, Ren JC, Fuentes-Cabrera M, Li S, Liu W. External strain-enhanced cysteine enantiomeric separation ability on alloyed stepped surfaces. J Chem Phys 2019; 150:154701. [PMID: 31005111 DOI: 10.1063/1.5090276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Using density functional theory with an accurate treatment of van der Waals interactions, we investigate the enantioselective recognition and separation of chiral molecules on stepped metal surfaces. Our calculations demonstrate that the separation ability of metal substrates can be significantly enhanced by surface decoration and external strain. For example, applying 2% tensile strain to the Ag-alloyed Au(532) surface leads to a dramatic increase (by 89%) in cysteine enantioselectivity as compared to that of pristine Au(532). Analysis on the computed binding energies shows that the interaction energy is the predominant factor that affects the separation efficiency in strongly bound systems. Our study presents a new strategy to modify the enantioselectivity of stepped metal surfaces and paves the way for exploring high efficiency chiral separation technology in pharmaceutical industry.
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- Meng Li
- Nano and Heterogeneous Materials Center, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
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- Nano and Heterogeneous Materials Center, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
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- Nano and Heterogeneous Materials Center, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
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- Nano and Heterogeneous Materials Center, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
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- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Nano and Heterogeneous Materials Center, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
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- Nano and Heterogeneous Materials Center, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
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Wang J, Zhang SS, Xu X, Fei KX, Peng YX. A Surface Mediated Supramolecular Chiral Phenomenon for Recognition of l- and d-Cysteine. NANOMATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2018; 8:E1027. [PMID: 30544706 PMCID: PMC6315486 DOI: 10.3390/nano8121027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2018] [Revised: 12/07/2018] [Accepted: 12/08/2018] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Chiral recognition is of fundamental importance in chemistry and life sciences and the principle of chiral recognition is instructive in chiral separation and enantioselective catalysis. Non-chiral Ag nanoparticles (NPs) conjugated with chiral cysteine (Cys) molecules demonstrate strong circular dichroism (CD) responses in the UV range. The optical activities of the l-/d-Cys capped Ag NPs are associated with the formation of order arrangements of chiral molecules on the surface of Ag NPs, which are promoted by the electrostatic attraction and hydrogen bonding interaction. The intensity of the chiroptical response is related to the total surface area of Ag NPs in the colloidal solution. The anisotropy factor on the order of 10-2 is acquired for Ag NPs with the size varying from ~2.4 to ~4.5 nm. We demonstrate a simple and effective method for the fabrication of a quantitative chiral sensing platform, in which mesoporous silica coated Ag nanoparticles (Ag@mSiO₂) were used as chiral probes for recognition and quantification of Cys enantiomers.
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- Jing Wang
- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212003, China.
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212003, China.
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212003, China.
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212003, China.
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212003, China.
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Ekimova GA, Fedorov DN, Tani A, Doronina NV, Trotsenko YA. Distribution of 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate deaminase and d-cysteine desulfhydrase genes among type species of the genus Methylobacterium. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 2018. [DOI: 10.1007/s10482-018-1061-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Partovi SE, Mus F, Gutknecht AE, Martinez HA, Tripet BP, Lange BM, DuBois JL, Peters JW. Coenzyme M biosynthesis in bacteria involves phosphate elimination by a functionally distinct member of the aspartase/fumarase superfamily. J Biol Chem 2018; 293:5236-5246. [PMID: 29414784 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra117.001234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2017] [Revised: 01/23/2018] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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For nearly 30 years, coenzyme M (CoM) was assumed to be present solely in methanogenic archaea. In the late 1990s, CoM was reported to play a role in bacterial propene metabolism, but no biosynthetic pathway for CoM has yet been identified in bacteria. Here, using bioinformatics and proteomic approaches in the metabolically versatile bacterium Xanthobacter autotrophicus Py2, we identified four putative CoM biosynthetic enzymes encoded by the xcbB1, C1, D1, and E1 genes. Only XcbB1 was homologous to a known CoM biosynthetic enzyme (ComA), indicating that CoM biosynthesis in bacteria involves enzymes different from those in archaea. We verified that the ComA homolog produces phosphosulfolactate from phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP), demonstrating that bacterial CoM biosynthesis is initiated similarly as the phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent methanogenic archaeal pathway. The bioinformatics analysis revealed that XcbC1 and D1 are members of the aspartase/fumarase superfamily (AFS) and that XcbE1 is a pyridoxal 5'-phosphate-containing enzyme with homology to d-cysteine desulfhydrases. Known AFS members catalyze β-elimination reactions of succinyl-containing substrates, yielding fumarate as the common unsaturated elimination product. Unexpectedly, we found that XcbC1 catalyzes β-elimination on phosphosulfolactate, yielding inorganic phosphate and a novel metabolite, sulfoacrylic acid. Phosphate-releasing β-elimination reactions are unprecedented among the AFS, indicating that XcbC1 is an unusual phosphatase. Direct demonstration of phosphosulfolactate synthase activity for XcbB1 and phosphate β-elimination activity for XcbC1 strengthened their hypothetical assignment to a CoM biosynthetic pathway and suggested functions also for XcbD1 and E1. Our results represent a critical first step toward elucidating the CoM pathway in bacteria.
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- Sarah E Partovi
- From the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717 and
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- From the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717 and
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- From the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717 and
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- From the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717 and
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- the Institute of Biological Chemistry and.,M. J. Murdock Metabolomics Laboratory, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164
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- From the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717 and
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Barton LL, Ritz NL, Fauque GD, Lin HC. Sulfur Cycling and the Intestinal Microbiome. Dig Dis Sci 2017; 62:2241-2257. [PMID: 28766244 DOI: 10.1007/s10620-017-4689-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2017] [Accepted: 07/19/2017] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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In this review, we focus on the activities transpiring in the anaerobic segment of the sulfur cycle occurring in the gut environment where hydrogen sulfide is produced. While sulfate-reducing bacteria are considered as the principal agents for hydrogen sulfide production, the enzymatic desulfhydration of cysteine by heterotrophic bacteria also contributes to production of hydrogen sulfide. For sulfate-reducing bacteria respiration, molecular hydrogen and lactate are suitable as electron donors while sulfate functions as the terminal electron acceptor. Dietary components provide fiber and macromolecules that are degraded by bacterial enzymes to monomers, and these are fermented by intestinal bacteria with the production to molecular hydrogen which promotes the metabolic dominance by sulfate-reducing bacteria. Sulfate is also required by the sulfate-reducing bacteria, and this can be supplied by sulfate- and sulfonate-containing compounds that are hydrolyzed by intestinal bacterial with the release of sulfate. While hydrogen sulfide in the intestinal biosystem may be beneficial to bacteria by increasing resistance to antibiotics, and protecting them from reactive oxygen species, hydrogen sulfide at elevated concentrations may become toxic to the host.
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- Larry L Barton
- Department of Biology, MSCO3 2020, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, USA.
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- New Mexico VA Health Care System, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, USA
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- CNRS, IRD, Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography (MIO) UM 110, Aix-Marseille Université, Université de Toulon, Campus de Luminy, Case 901, 13288, Marseille Cedex 09, France
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- New Mexico VA Health Care System, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, USA
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Anaerobic Cysteine Degradation and Potential Metabolic Coordination in Salmonella enterica and Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol 2017; 199:JB.00117-17. [PMID: 28607157 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00117-17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2017] [Accepted: 06/02/2017] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Salmonella enterica has two CyuR-activated enzymes that degrade cysteine, i.e., the aerobic CdsH and an unidentified anaerobic enzyme; Escherichia coli has only the latter. To identify the anaerobic enzyme, transcript profiling was performed for E. coli without cyuR and with overexpressed cyuR Thirty-seven genes showed at least 5-fold changes in expression, and the cyuPA (formerly yhaOM) operon showed the greatest difference. Homology suggested that CyuP and CyuA represent a cysteine transporter and an iron-sulfur-containing cysteine desulfidase, respectively. E. coli and S. enterica ΔcyuA mutants grown with cysteine generated substantially less sulfide and had lower growth yields. Oxygen affected the CyuR-dependent genes reciprocally; cyuP-lacZ expression was greater anaerobically, whereas cdsH-lacZ expression was greater aerobically. In E. coli and S. enterica, anaerobic cyuP expression required cyuR and cysteine and was induced by l-cysteine, d-cysteine, and a few sulfur-containing compounds. Loss of either CyuA or RidA, both of which contribute to cysteine degradation to pyruvate, increased cyuP-lacZ expression, which suggests that CyuA modulates intracellular cysteine concentrations. Phylogenetic analysis showed that CyuA homologs are present in obligate and facultative anaerobes, confirming an anaerobic function, and in archaeal methanogens and bacterial acetogens, suggesting an ancient origin. Our results show that CyuA is the major anaerobic cysteine-catabolizing enzyme in both E. coli and S. enterica, and it is proposed that anaerobic cysteine catabolism can contribute to coordination of sulfur assimilation and amino acid synthesis.IMPORTANCE Sulfur-containing compounds such as cysteine and sulfide are essential and reactive metabolites. Exogenous sulfur-containing compounds can alter the thiol landscape and intracellular redox reactions and are known to affect several cellular processes, including swarming motility, antibiotic sensitivity, and biofilm formation. Cysteine inhibits several enzymes of amino acid synthesis; therefore, increasing cysteine concentrations could increase the levels of the inhibited enzymes. This inhibition implies that control of intracellular cysteine levels, which is the immediate product of sulfide assimilation, can affect several pathways and coordinate metabolism. For these and other reasons, cysteine and sulfide concentrations must be controlled, and this work shows that cysteine catabolism contributes to this control.
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Fermentative Production of Cysteine by Pantoea ananatis. Appl Environ Microbiol 2017; 83:AEM.02502-16. [PMID: 28003193 DOI: 10.1128/aem.02502-16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2016] [Accepted: 12/15/2016] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Cysteine is a commercially important amino acid; however, it lacks an efficient fermentative production method. Due to its cytotoxicity, intracellular cysteine levels are stringently controlled via several regulatory modes. Managing its toxic effects as well as understanding and deregulating the complexities of regulation are crucial for establishing the fermentative production of cysteine. The regulatory modes include feedback inhibition of key metabolic enzymes, degradation, efflux pumps, and the transcriptional regulation of biosynthetic genes by a master cysteine regulator, CysB. These processes have been extensively studied using Escherichia coli for overproducing cysteine by fermentation. In this study, we genetically engineered Pantoea ananatis, an emerging host for the fermentative production of bio-based materials, to identify key factors required for cysteine production. According to this and our previous studies, we identified a major cysteine desulfhydrase gene, ccdA (formerly PAJ_0331), involved in cysteine degradation, and the cysteine efflux pump genes cefA and cefB (formerly PAJ_3026 and PAJ_p0018, respectively), which may be responsible for downregulating the intracellular cysteine level. Our findings revealed that ccdA deletion and cefA and cefB overexpression are crucial factors for establishing fermentative cysteine production in P. ananatis and for obtaining a higher cysteine yield when combined with genes in the cysteine biosynthetic pathway. To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of cysteine production in P. ananatis, which has fundamental implications for establishing overproduction in this microbe.IMPORTANCE The efficient production of cysteine is a major challenge in the amino acid fermentation industry. In this study, we identified cysteine efflux pumps and degradation pathways as essential elements and genetically engineered Pantoea ananatis, an emerging host for the fermentative production of bio-based materials, to establish the fermentative production of cysteine. This study provides crucial insights into the design and construction of cysteine-producing strains, which may play central roles in realizing commercial basis production.
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Shimada T, Tanaka K, Ishihama A. Transcription factor DecR (YbaO) controls detoxification of L-cysteine in Escherichia coli. Microbiology (Reading) 2016; 162:1698-1707. [DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.000337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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- Tomohiro Shimada
- Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Nagatsuta, 4259-R1-29, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan
- Research Center for Micro-Nano Technology, Hosei University, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8584, Japan
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- Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Nagatsuta, 4259-R1-29, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan
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- Research Center for Micro-Nano Technology, Hosei University, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8584, Japan
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Biological consilience of hydrogen sulfide and nitric oxide in plants: Gases of primordial earth linking plant, microbial and animal physiologies. Nitric Oxide 2016; 55-56:91-100. [DOI: 10.1016/j.niox.2016.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2016] [Revised: 04/03/2016] [Accepted: 04/11/2016] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Bacterial Cysteine-Inducible Cysteine Resistance Systems. J Bacteriol 2016; 198:1384-92. [PMID: 26883827 DOI: 10.1128/jb.01039-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/25/2015] [Accepted: 02/12/2016] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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UNLABELLED Cysteine donates sulfur to macromolecules and occurs naturally in many proteins. Because low concentrations of cysteine are cytotoxic, its intracellular concentration is stringently controlled. In bacteria, cysteine biosynthesis is regulated by feedback inhibition of the activities of serine acetyltransferase (SAT) and 3-phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase (3-PGDH) and is also regulated at the transcriptional level by inducing the cysteine regulon using the master regulator CysB. Here, we describe two novel cysteine-inducible systems that regulate the cysteine resistance of Pantoea ananatis, a member of the family Enterobacteriaceae that shows great potential for producing substances useful for biotechnological, medical, and industrial purposes. One locus, designated ccdA(formerly PAJ_0331), encodes a novel cysteine-inducible cysteine desulfhydrase (CD) that degrades cysteine, and its expression is controlled by the transcriptional regulator encoded byccdR(formerly PAJ_0332 orybaO), located just upstream of ccdA The other locus, designated cefA (formerly PAJ_3026), encodes a novel cysteine-inducible cysteine efflux pump that is controlled by the transcriptional regulator cefR(formerly PAJ_3027), located just upstream of cefA To our knowledge, this is the first example where the expression of CD and an efflux pump is regulated in response to cysteine and is directly involved in imparting resistance to excess levels of cysteine. We propose that ccdA and cefA function as safety valves that maintain homeostasis when the intra- or extracellular cysteine concentration fluctuates. Our findings contribute important insights into optimizing the production of cysteine and related biomaterials by P. ananatis IMPORTANCE Because of its toxicity, the bacterial intracellular cysteine level is stringently regulated at biosynthesis. This work describes the identification and characterization of two novel cysteine-inducible systems that regulate, through degradation and efflux, the cysteine resistance of Pantoea ananatis, a member of the family Enterobacteriaceae that shows great potential for producing substances useful for industrial purposes. We propose that this novel mechanism for sensing and regulating cysteine levels is a safety valve enabling adaptation to sudden changes in intra- or extracellular cysteine levels in bacteria. Our findings provide important insights into optimizing the production of cysteine and related biomaterials by P. ananatis and also a deep understanding of sulfur/cysteine metabolism and regulation in this plant pathogen and related bacteria.
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Luo J, Qiu W, Chen L, Anjum SI, Yu M, Shan C, Ilyas M, Li B, Wang Y, Sun G. Identification of Pathogenicity-Related Genes in Biofilm-Defective Acidovorax citrulli by Transposon Tn5 Mutagenesis. Int J Mol Sci 2015; 16:28050-62. [PMID: 26602922 PMCID: PMC4691024 DOI: 10.3390/ijms161226076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2015] [Revised: 11/10/2015] [Accepted: 11/16/2015] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Biofilm formation is important for virulence of a large number of plant pathogenic bacteria. Indeed, some virulence genes have been found to be involved in the formation of biofilm in bacterial fruit blotch pathogen Acidovorax citrulli. However, some virulent strains of A. citrulli were unable to format biofilm, indicating the complexity between biofilm formation and virulence. In this study, virulence-related genes were identified in the biofilm-defective strain A1 of A. citrulli by using Tn5 insertion, pathogenicity test, and high-efficiency thermal asymmetric interlaced PCR (hiTAIL-PCR). Results from this study indicated that 22 out of the obtained 301 mutants significantly decreased the virulence of strain A1 compared to the wild-type. Furthermore, sequence analysis indicated that the obtained 22 mutants were due to the insertion of Tn5 into eight genes, including Aave 4244 (cation diffusion facilitator family transporter), Aave 4286 (hypothetical protein), Aave 4189 (alpha/beta hydrolase fold), Aave 1911 (IMP dehydrogenase/GMP reductase domain), Aave 4383 (bacterial export proteins, family 1), Aave 4256 (Hsp70 protein), Aave 0003 (histidine kinase, DNA gyrase B, and HSP90-like ATPase), and Aave 2428 (pyridoxal-phosphate dependent enzyme). Furthermore, the growth of mutant Aave 2428 was unaffected and even increased by the change in incubation temperature, NaCl concentration and the pH of the LB broth, indicating that this gene may be directly involved in the bacterial virulence. Overall, the determination of the eight pathogenicity-related genes in strain A1 will be helpful to elucidate the pathogenesis of biofilm-defective A. citrulli.
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- Jinyan Luo
- Department of Plant Quarantine, Shanghai Extension and Service Center of Agriculture Technology, Shanghai 201103, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
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- Department of Plant Quarantine, Shanghai Extension and Service Center of Agriculture Technology, Shanghai 201103, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
- Department of Zoology, Kohat University of Science and Technology, Kohat 26000, Pakistan.
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
- Department of Plant Quarantine, Zhoushan Entry-Exit Inspections and Quarantine Bureau, Hangzhou 310012, China.
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- Department of Biotechnology, University of Sargodha, Sargodha 40100, Pakistan.
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
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- State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Zhejiang Sustainable Plant Pest and Disease Control, Key Laboratory of Detection for Pesticide Residues, Ministry of Agriculture, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China.
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- State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Zhejiang Sustainable Plant Pest and Disease Control, Key Laboratory of Detection for Pesticide Residues, Ministry of Agriculture, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China.
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The synthesis of L-cysteine from inorganic sulfur is the predominant mechanism by which reduced sulfur is incorporated into organic compounds. L-cysteineis used for protein and glutathione synthesis and serves as the primary source of reduced sulfur in L-methionine, lipoic acid, thiamin, coenzyme A (CoA), molybdopterin, and other organic molecules. Sulfate and thiosulfate uptake in E. coli and serovar Typhimurium are achieved through a single periplasmic transport system that utilizes two different but similar periplasmic binding proteins. Kinetic studies indicate that selenate and selenite share a single transporter with sulfate, but molybdate also has a separate transport system. During aerobic growth, the reduction of sulfite to sulfide is catalyzed by NADPH-sulfite reductase (SiR), and serovar Typhimurium mutants lacking this enzyme accumulate sulfite from sulfate, implying that sulfite is a normal intermediate in assimilatory sulfate reduction. L-Cysteine biosynthesis in serovar Typhimurium and E. coli ceases almost entirely when cells are grown on L-cysteine or L-cystine, owing to a combination of end product inhibition of serine transacetylase by L-cysteine and a gene regulatory system known as the cysteine regulon, wherein genes for sulfate assimilation and alkanesulfonate utilization are expressed only when sulfur is limiting. In vitro studies with the cysJIH, cysK, and cysP promoters have confirmed that they are inefficient at forming transcription initiation complexes without CysB and N-acetyl-L-serine. Activation of the tauA and ssuE promoters requires Cbl. It has been proposed that the three serovar Typhimurium anaerobic reductases for sulfite, thiosulfate, and tetrathionate may function primarily in anaerobic respiration.
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This review considers the pathways for the degradation of amino acids and a few related compounds (agmatine, putrescine, ornithine, and aminobutyrate), along with their functions and regulation. Nitrogen limitation and an acidic environment are two physiological cues that regulate expression of several amino acid catabolic genes. The review considers Escherichia coli, Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, and Klebsiella species. The latter is included because the pathways in Klebsiella species have often been thoroughly characterized and also because of interesting differences in pathway regulation. These organisms can essentially degrade all the protein amino acids, except for the three branched-chain amino acids. E. coli, Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, and Klebsiella aerogenes can assimilate nitrogen from D- and L-alanine, arginine, asparagine, aspartate, glutamate, glutamine, glycine, proline, and D- and L-serine. There are species differences in the utilization of agmatine, citrulline, cysteine, histidine, the aromatic amino acids, and polyamines (putrescine and spermidine). Regardless of the pathway of glutamate synthesis, nitrogen source catabolism must generate ammonia for glutamine synthesis. Loss of glutamate synthase (glutamineoxoglutarate amidotransferase, or GOGAT) prevents utilization of many organic nitrogen sources. Mutations that create or increase a requirement for ammonia also prevent utilization of most organic nitrogen sources.
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Physiological Roles and Adverse Effects of the Two Cystine Importers of Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol 2015; 197:3629-44. [PMID: 26350134 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00277-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2015] [Accepted: 09/02/2015] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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UNLABELLED When cystine is added to Escherichia coli, the bacterium becomes remarkably sensitive to hydrogen peroxide. This effect is due to enlarged intracellular pools of cysteine, which can drive Fenton chemistry. Genetic analysis linked the sensitivity to YdjN, a secondary transporter that along with the FliY-YecSC ABC system is responsible for cystine uptake. FliY-YecSC has a nanomolar Km and is essential for import of trace cystine, whereas YdjN has a micromolar Km and is the predominant importer when cystine is more abundant. Oddly, both systems are strongly induced by the CysB response to sulfur scarcity. The FliY-YecSC system can import a variety of biomolecules, including diaminopimelate; it is therefore vulnerable to competitive inhibition, presumably warranting YdjN induction under low-sulfur conditions. But the consequence is that if micromolar cystine then becomes available, the abundant YdjN massively overimports it, at >30 times the total sulfur demand of the cell. The imported cystine is rapidly reduced to cysteine in a glutathione-dependent process. This action avoids the hazard of disulfide stress, but it precludes feedback inhibition of YdjN by cystine. We conjecture that YdjN possesses no cysteine allosteric site because the isostructural amino acid serine might inappropriately bind in its place. Instead, the cell partially resolves the overaccumulation of cysteine by immediately excreting it, completing a futile import/reduction/export cycle that consumes a large amount of cellular energy. These unique, wasteful, and dangerous features of cystine metabolism are reproduced by other bacteria. We propose to rename ydjN as tcyP and fliY-yecSC as tcyJLN. IMPORTANCE In general, intracellular metabolite pools are kept at steady, nontoxic levels by a sophisticated combination of transcriptional and allosteric controls. Surprisingly, in E. coli allosteric control is utterly absent from the primary importer of cystine. This flaw allows massive overimport of cystine, which causes acute vulnerability to oxidative stress and is remedied only by wasteful cysteine efflux. The lack of import control may be rationalized by the unusual properties of cysteine itself. This phenomenon justifies the existence of countervailing cysteine export systems, whose purpose is otherwise hard to understand. It also highlights an unexpected link between sulfur metabolism and oxidative damage. Although this investigation focused upon E. coli, experiments confirmed that similar phenomena occur in other species.
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Hemmati R, Hosseinkhani S, Sajedi RH, Azad T, Tashakor A, Bakhtiari N, Ataei F. Luciferin-Regenerating Enzyme Mediates Firefly Luciferase Activation Through Direct Effects of D-Cysteine on Luciferase Structure and Activity. Photochem Photobiol 2015; 91:828-36. [PMID: 25665080 DOI: 10.1111/php.12430] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2014] [Accepted: 02/03/2015] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Luciferin-regenerating enzyme (LRE) contributes to in vitro recycling of D-luciferin. In this study, reinvestigation of the luciferase-based LRE assay is reported. Here, using quick change site-directed mutagenesis seven T-LRE (Lampyris turkestanicusLRE) mutants were constructed and the most functional mutant of T-LRE (T(69)R) was selected for this research and the effects of D- and L-cysteine on T(69)R T-LRE-luciferase-coupled assay are examined. Our results demonstrate that bioluminescent signal of T(69)R T-LRE-luciferase-coupled assay increases and then reach equilibrium state in the presence of 5 mm D-cysteine. In addition, results reveal that 5 mm D- and L-cysteine in the absence of T(69)R T-LRE cause a significant increase in bioluminescence intensity of luciferase over a long time as well as decrease in decay rate. Based on activity measurements, far-UV CD analysis, ANS fluorescence and DLS (Dynamic light scattering) results, D-cysteine increases the activity of luciferase due to weak redox potential, antiaggregatory effects, induction of changes in conformational structure and kinetics properties. In conclusion, in spite of previous reports on the effect of LRE on luciferase bioluminescent intensity, the majority of increase in luciferase light output and time-course originate from the direct effects of D-cysteine on structure and activity of firefly luciferase.
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- Roohullah Hemmati
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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Wang K, Peng H, Wang B. Recent advances in thiol and sulfide reactive probes. J Cell Biochem 2014; 115:1007-22. [PMID: 24415273 DOI: 10.1002/jcb.24762] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2013] [Accepted: 01/07/2014] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Because of the biological relevance of thiols and sulfides such as cysteine, homocysteine, glutathione and hydrogen sulfide, their detection has attracted a great deal of research interest. Fluorescent probes are emerging as a new strategy for thiol and hydrogen sulfide analysis due to their high sensitivity, low cost, and ability to detect and image thiols in biological samples. In this short review, we have summarized recent advances in the development of thiol and hydrogen sulfide reactive fluorescent probes. These probes are compared and contrasted with regard to their designing strategies, mechanisms, photophysical properties, and/or reaction kinetics. Biological applications of these probes are also discussed.
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- Ke Wang
- Department of Chemistry and Center for Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, 30303, Georgia, USA
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New insights into 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC) deaminase phylogeny, evolution and ecological significance. PLoS One 2014; 9:e99168. [PMID: 24905353 PMCID: PMC4048297 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0099168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2013] [Accepted: 05/09/2014] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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The main objective of this work is the study of the phylogeny, evolution and ecological importance of the enzyme 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC) deaminase, the activity of which represents one of the most important and studied mechanisms used by plant growth–promoting microorganisms. The ACC deaminase gene and its regulatory elements presence in completely sequenced organisms was verified by multiple searches in diverse databases, and based on the data obtained a comprehensive analysis was conducted. Strain habitat, origin and ACC deaminase activity were taken into account when analyzing the results. In order to unveil ACC deaminase origin, evolution and relationships with other closely related pyridoxal phosphate (PLP) dependent enzymes a phylogenetic analysis was also performed. The data obtained show that ACC deaminase is mostly prevalent in some Bacteria, Fungi and members of Stramenopiles. Contrary to previous reports, we show that ACC deaminase genes are predominantly vertically inherited in various bacterial and fungal classes. Still, results suggest a considerable degree of horizontal gene transfer events, including interkingdom transfer events. A model for ACC deaminase origin and evolution is also proposed. This study also confirms the previous reports suggesting that the Lrp-like regulatory protein AcdR is a common mechanism regulating ACC deaminase expression in Proteobacteria, however, we also show that other regulatory mechanisms may be present in some Proteobacteria and other bacterial phyla. In this study we provide a more complete view of the role for ACC deaminase than was previously available. The results show that ACC deaminase may not only be related to plant growth promotion abilities, but may also play multiple roles in microorganism's developmental processes. Hence, exploring the origin and functioning of this enzyme may be the key in a variety of important agricultural and biotechnological applications.
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Lachheb H, Dappozze F, Houas A, Guillard C. Adsorption and photocatalytic degradation of cysteine in presence of TiO2. J Photochem Photobiol A Chem 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2012.06.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Zeng Y, Kulkarni A, Yang Z, Patil PB, Zhou W, Chi X, Van Lanen S, Chen S. Biosynthesis of albomycin δ(2) provides a template for assembling siderophore and aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase inhibitor conjugates. ACS Chem Biol 2012; 7:1565-75. [PMID: 22704654 DOI: 10.1021/cb300173x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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"Trojan horse" antibiotic albomycins are peptidyl nucleosides consisting of a highly modified 4'-thiofuranosyl cytosine moiety and a ferrichrome siderophore that are linked by a peptide bond via a serine residue. While the latter component serves to sequester iron from the environment, the seryl nucleoside portion is a potent inhibitor of bacterial seryl-tRNA synthetases, resulting in broad-spectrum antimicrobial activities of albomycin δ(2). The isolation of albomycins has revealed this biological activity is optimized only following two unusual cytosine modifications, N4-carbamoylation and N3-methylation. We identified a genetic locus (named abm) for albomycin production in Streptomyces sp. ATCC 700974. Gene deletion and complementation experiments along with bioinformatic analysis suggested 18 genes are responsible for albomycin biosynthesis and resistance, allowing us to propose a potential biosynthetic pathway for installing the novel chemical features. The gene abmI, encoding a putative methyltransferase, was functionally assigned in vitro and shown to modify the N3 of a variety of cytosine-containing nucleosides and antibiotics such as blasticidin S. Furthermore, a ΔabmI mutant was shown to produce the descarbamoyl-desmethyl albomycin analogue, supporting that the N3-methylation occurs before the N4-carbamoylation in the biosynthesis of albomycin δ(2). The combined genetic information was utilized to identify an abm-related locus (named ctj) from the draft genome of Streptomyces sp. C. Cross-complementation experiments and in vitro studies with CtjF, the AbmI homologue, suggest the production of a similar 4'-thiofuranosyl cytosine in this organism. In total, the genetic and biochemical data provide a biosynthetic template for assembling siderophore-inhibitor conjugates and modifying the albomycin scaffold to generate new derivatives.
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- Yu Zeng
- Molecular and Cellular Biology
Program, Department of Biological Sciences, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, United States
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- Molecular and Cellular Biology
Program, Department of Biological Sciences, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical
Sciences, University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy, Lexington, Kentucky 40536, United States
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- Molecular and Cellular Biology
Program, Department of Biological Sciences, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, United States
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- Molecular and Cellular Biology
Program, Department of Biological Sciences, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical
Sciences, University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy, Lexington, Kentucky 40536, United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical
Sciences, University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy, Lexington, Kentucky 40536, United States
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- Molecular and Cellular Biology
Program, Department of Biological Sciences, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, United States
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Cysteine catabolism and cysteine desulfhydrase (CdsH/STM0458) in Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium. J Bacteriol 2012; 194:4366-76. [PMID: 22685283 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00729-12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Cysteine is potentially toxic and can affect diverse functions such as oxidative stress, antibiotic resistance, and swarming motility. The contribution of cysteine catabolism in modulating responses to cysteine has not been examined, in part because the genes have not been identified and mutants lacking these genes have not been isolated or characterized. We identified the gene for a previously described cysteine desulfhydrase, which we designated cdsH (formerly STM0458). We also identified a divergently transcribed gene that regulates cdsH expression, which we designated cutR (formerly ybaO, or STM0459). CdsH appears to be the major cysteine-degrading and sulfide-producing enzyme aerobically but not anaerobically. Mutants with deletions of cdsH and ybaO exhibited increased sensitivity to cysteine toxicity and altered swarming motility but unaltered cysteine-enhanced antibiotic resistance and survival in macrophages.
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Zhou XB, Chan WH, Lee AWM, Yeung CC. Ratiometric fluorescent probe for enantioselective detection of D-cysteine in aqueous solution. Beilstein J Org Chem 2011; 7:1508-15. [PMID: 22238525 PMCID: PMC3252851 DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.7.176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2011] [Accepted: 10/20/2011] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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A ratiometric fluorescent probe based on a Cd(2+)-ACAQ complex was designed and demonstrated for the chemo- and enantioselective detection of cysteine in 99:1 buffered HEPES:ACN solutions. Under the measuring conditions, the sensor demonstrates high selectivity toward Cys against Hcy and GSH, and an enantioselectivity of 3.35 can be achieved for antipodal forms of Cys.
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- Xiao-Bo Zhou
- Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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Zhang M, Ye BC. Colorimetric chiral recognition of enantiomers using the nucleotide-capped silver nanoparticles. Anal Chem 2011; 83:1504-9. [PMID: 21302899 DOI: 10.1021/ac102922f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 157] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Chiral recognition is among the important and special modes of molecular recognition. It is highly desirable to develop a simple, rapid, sensitive, and high-throughput routine assay for chiral recognition. In this study, we demonstrate that nucleotide-capped Ag nanoparticles (AgNPs) can be used as an ultrahigh efficiency enantioseparation and detection platform for D- and L-cysteine. The aggregation of AgNPs is selectively induced by an enantiomer of cysteine, which allowed the rapid colorimetric enantiodiscrimination of cysteine without any prior derivatization and specific instruments and left an excess of the other enantiomer in the solution, thus resulting in enantioseparation. This is the first application of a nucleotide-capped AgNP-based biosensing platform for chiral recognition and opens new opportunities for design of more novel enantiosensing strategies and enantiospecific adsorbents and expansion of its application in different fields.
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Gratzke C, Streng T, Waldkirch E, Sigl K, Stief C, Andersson KE, Hedlund P. Transient Receptor Potential A1 (TRPA1) Activity in the Human Urethra—Evidence for a Functional Role for TRPA1 in the Outflow Region. Eur Urol 2009; 55:696-704. [DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2008.04.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2008] [Accepted: 04/18/2008] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Lim IIS, Mott D, Engelhard MH, Pan Y, Kamodia S, Luo J, Njoki PN, Zhou S, Wang L, Zhong CJ. Interparticle Chiral Recognition of Enantiomers: A Nanoparticle-Based Regulation Strategy. Anal Chem 2008; 81:689-98. [DOI: 10.1021/ac802119p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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- I-Im S. Lim
- Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, New York 13902, EMSL, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, Department of Chemistry, City University of New York, Staten Island, New York 10314, and Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois 62901
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- Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, New York 13902, EMSL, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, Department of Chemistry, City University of New York, Staten Island, New York 10314, and Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois 62901
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- Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, New York 13902, EMSL, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, Department of Chemistry, City University of New York, Staten Island, New York 10314, and Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois 62901
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- Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, New York 13902, EMSL, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, Department of Chemistry, City University of New York, Staten Island, New York 10314, and Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois 62901
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- Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, New York 13902, EMSL, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, Department of Chemistry, City University of New York, Staten Island, New York 10314, and Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois 62901
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- Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, New York 13902, EMSL, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, Department of Chemistry, City University of New York, Staten Island, New York 10314, and Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois 62901
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- Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, New York 13902, EMSL, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, Department of Chemistry, City University of New York, Staten Island, New York 10314, and Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois 62901
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- Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, New York 13902, EMSL, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, Department of Chemistry, City University of New York, Staten Island, New York 10314, and Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois 62901
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- Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, New York 13902, EMSL, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, Department of Chemistry, City University of New York, Staten Island, New York 10314, and Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois 62901
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- Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, New York 13902, EMSL, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, Department of Chemistry, City University of New York, Staten Island, New York 10314, and Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois 62901
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Todorovic B, Glick BR. The interconversion of ACC deaminase and D-cysteine desulfhydrase by directed mutagenesis. PLANTA 2008; 229:193-205. [PMID: 18825405 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-008-0820-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2008] [Accepted: 09/08/2008] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Progress in DNA sequencing of plant genomes has revealed that, in addition to microorganisms, a number of plants contain genes which share similarity to microbial 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC) deaminases. These enzymes cleave ACC, the immediate precursor of ethylene in plants, into ammonia and alpha-ketobutyrate. We therefore sought to isolate putative ACC deaminase cDNAs from tomato plants with the objective of establishing whether the product of this gene is a functional ACC deaminase. In the work reported here, it was demonstrated that the enzyme encoded by the putative ACC deaminase cDNA does not have the ability to break the cyclopropane ring of ACC, but rather it utilizes D: -cysteine as a substrate, and in fact encodes a D: -cysteine desulfhydrase. Kinetic characterization of the tomato enzyme indicates that it is similar to other, previously characterized, D: -cysteine desulfhydrases. Using site-directed mutagenesis, it was shown that altering only two amino acid residues within the predicted active site served to change the enzyme from D: -cysteine desulfhydrase to ACC deaminase. Conversely, by altering two amino acid residues at the same positions within the active site of ACC deaminase from Pseudomonas putida UW4 the enzyme was converted into D: -cysteine desulfhydrase. Therefore, it is possible that a change in these two residues may have occurred in an ancestral protein to result in two different enzymatic activities.
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- Biljana Todorovic
- Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada.
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Starkenmann C, Troccaz M, Howell K. The role of cysteine and cysteine-S conjugates as odour precursors in the flavour and fragrance industry. FLAVOUR FRAG J 2008. [DOI: 10.1002/ffj.1907] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Walther UI, Walther SC, Mückter H, Fichtl B. Enhancing glutathione synthesis can decrease zinc-mediated toxicity. Biol Trace Elem Res 2008; 122:216-28. [PMID: 18193173 DOI: 10.1007/s12011-007-8072-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2007] [Accepted: 11/27/2007] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Zinc toxicity has been linked to cellular glutathione: A decrease in glutathione is followed by an increase in zinc-mediated toxicity. The question arises whether an increase in glutathione synthesis might decrease zinc-mediated cytotoxicity. We incubated five cell lines (hepatoma and lung-derived) with zinc chloride and 2 mmol/l N-acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC) to support glutathione synthesis. In all but one hepatic cell line, the glutathione content was increased by NAC as compared to the D-enantiomere NADC, whereas NADC did not increase GSH content as compared to not treated controls. In both alveolar epithelial cell lines, an increase in zinc tolerance was observed due to NAC as compared to NADC. In native fibroblast-like and the hepatoma cell lines, no changes in zinc tolerance were found due to NAC. In the fibroblast-like cells, zinc tolerance was increased due to NAC only after cellular glutathione had been previously decreased (by lowered cysteine concentrations in the medium). Enhancing glutathione synthesis can antagonize zinc-mediated toxicity in the alveolar epithelial cell lines, whereas some other characteristics than glutathione synthesis might be more important in other cell types. Furthermore, NAC acted as a GSH precursor only at cysteine medium concentrations of 10 micromol/l or below and therefore might be described as a poor cysteine repletor for glutathione synthesis.
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- Udo Ingbert Walther
- Walther Straub-Institut für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Nubbaumstr. 26, 80336, Munich, Germany.
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Papenbrock J, Riemenschneider A, Kamp A, Schulz-Vogt HN, Schmidt A. Characterization of cysteine-degrading and H2S-releasing enzymes of higher plants - from the field to the test tube and back. PLANT BIOLOGY (STUTTGART, GERMANY) 2007; 9:582-8. [PMID: 17853358 DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-965424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Due to the clean air acts and subsequent reduction of emission of gaseous sulfur compounds sulfur deficiency became one of the major nutrient disorders in Northern Europe. Typical sulfur deficiency symptoms can be diagnosed. Especially plants of the Cruciferae family are more susceptible against pathogen attack. Sulfur fertilization can in part recover or even increase resistance against pathogens in comparison to sulfur-deficient plants. The term sulfur-induced resistance (SIR) was introduced, however, the molecular basis for SIR is largely unknown. There are several sulfur-containing compounds in plants which might be involved in SIR, such as high levels of thiols, glucosinolates, cysteine-rich proteins, phytoalexins, elemental sulfur, or H2S. Probably more than one strategy is used by plants. Species- or even variety-dependent differences in the development of SIR are probably used. Our research focussed mainly on the release of H2S as defence strategy. In field experiments using different BRASSICA NAPUS genotypes it was shown that the genetic differences among BRASSICA genotypes lead to differences in sulfur content and L-cysteine desulfhydrase activity. Another field experiment demonstrated that sulfur supply and infection with PYRENOPEZIZA BRASSICA influenced L-cysteine desulfhydrase activity in BRASSICA NAPUS. Cysteine-degrading enzymes such as cysteine desulfhydrases are hypothesized to be involved in H2S release. Several L- and D-cysteine-specific desulfhydrase candidates have been isolated and partially analyzed from the model plant ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA. However, it cannot be excluded that H2S is also released in a partial back reaction of O-acetyl-L-serine(thiol)lyase or enzymes not yet characterized. For the exact determination of the H2S concentration in the cell a H2S-specific microsensor was used the first time for plant cells. The transfer of the results obtained for application back on BRASSICA was initiated.
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- J Papenbrock
- Institut für Botanik, Universität Hannover, Herrenhäuser Strasse 2, 30419 Hannover, Germany.
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Walther UI, Walther SC, Temrück O. Effect of enlarged glutathione on zinc-mediated toxicity in lung-derived cell lines. Toxicol In Vitro 2007; 21:380-6. [PMID: 17084062 DOI: 10.1016/j.tiv.2006.09.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2006] [Revised: 09/08/2006] [Accepted: 09/15/2006] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Zinc-mediated toxicity has been linked to cellular glutathione content in isolated cells. In addition, treatment of alveolar epithelial type II cells with glucocorticoids diminishes cellular glutathione content, and this is followed by an increase in zinc-mediated toxicity. The question arises whether an increase in glutathione synthesis might decrease zinc-mediated toxicity. For this purpose an administration of 200 micromol/l N-acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC) was given to the cells, while cysteine was used up to 100 micromol/l. Zinc-mediated toxicity was assessed by measuring protein synthesis inhibition and glutathione dependent parameters. De novo synthesis of glutathione was assessed as compared to controls by N-acetyl-D-cysteine (NADC) treatment. Comparing NAC and NADC treatment no differences in zinc-mediated toxicity were found. Furthermore only in one (of three) cell line tested a significant increase in GSH content by NAC as compared to NADC treatment was achieved. But even in this cell line no changes by zinc-mediated toxicity were found. It is concluded that the cell lines tested can use other sources of cys for glutathione synthesis. Furthermore the increased zinc-mediated toxicity due to hydrocortisone was abolished in the alveolar epithelial cell lines by the NADC/NAC treatment. It is therefore discussed that additionally to glutathione some other antioxidative defence mechanisms can influence zinc-mediated toxicity as well.
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- U I Walther
- Walther Straub-Institut für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie der Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Goethestr. 33, 80336 München, Germany.
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Tarze A, Dauplais M, Grigoras I, Lazard M, Ha-Duong NT, Barbier F, Blanquet S, Plateau P. Extracellular Production of Hydrogen Selenide Accounts for Thiol-assisted Toxicity of Selenite against Saccharomyces cerevisiae. J Biol Chem 2007; 282:8759-67. [PMID: 17261587 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m610078200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Administration of selenium in humans has anticarcinogenic effects. However, the boundary between cancer-protecting and toxic levels of selenium is extremely narrow. The mechanisms of selenium toxicity need to be fully understood. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, selenite in the millimolar range is well tolerated by cells. Here we show that the lethal dose of selenite is reduced to the micromolar range by the presence of thiols in the growth medium. Glutathione and selenite spontaneously react to produce several selenium-containing compounds (selenodiglutathione, glutathioselenol, hydrogen selenide, and elemental selenium) as well as reactive oxygen species. We studied which compounds in the reaction pathway between glutathione and sodium selenite are responsible for this toxicity. Involvement of selenodiglutathione, elemental selenium, or reactive oxygen species could be ruled out. In contrast, extracellular formation of hydrogen selenide can fully explain the exacerbation of selenite toxicity by thiols. Indeed, direct production of hydrogen selenide with D-cysteine desulfhydrase induces high mortality. Selenium uptake by S. cerevisiae is considerably enhanced in the presence of external thiols, most likely through internalization of hydrogen selenide. Finally, we discuss the possibility that selenium exerts its toxicity through consumption of intracellular reduced glutathione, thus leading to severe oxidative stress.
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- Agathe Tarze
- Laboratoire de Biochimie, UMR CNRS 7654, Département de Biologie, Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France
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Operons are clusters of genes that are transcribed as a single message, and regulated by the same gene expression machinery. They are found primarily in prokaryotic genomes. Because genes in the same operon are likely to have related functions, identification of the operon structure is potentially useful for assigning gene function. We report the development and benchmarking of two different methods for detecting operons, based on an analysis of 42 fully sequenced prokaryotic organisms. The Gene Neighbor method (GNM) utilizes the relatively high conservation of gene order in operons, compared with genes in general. The Gene Gap Method (GGM) makes use of the relatively short gap between genes in operons compared with that otherwise found between adjacent genes. The methods have been benchmarked using KEGG pathway data and RegulonDB Escherichia coli operon data. With optimum parameters, the specificity of the GNM is 93% and the sensitivity is 70%. For the GGM, the specificity is 95% and the sensitivity is 68%. Together, the two methods have a sensitivity of 87.2%, while joint predictions have a sensitivity of 50% and a specificity of 98%. The methods are used to infer possible functions for some hypothetical genes in prokaryotic genomes. The methods have proven a useful addition to structure information in deriving protein function in a structural genomics project.
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- Yongpan Yan
- Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Rockville, Maryland 20850, USA
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Iwanicka-Nowicka R, Zielak A, Cook AM, Thomas MS, Hryniewicz MM. Regulation of sulfur assimilation pathways in Burkholderia cenocepacia: identification of transcription factors CysB and SsuR and their role in control of target genes. J Bacteriol 2006; 189:1675-88. [PMID: 16997956 PMCID: PMC1855706 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00592-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Two genes encoding transcriptional regulators involved in sulfur assimilation pathways in Burkholderia cenocepacia strain 715j have been identified and characterized functionally. Knockout mutations in each of the B. cenocepacia genes were constructed and introduced into the genome of 715j by allelic replacement. Studies on the utilization of various sulfur sources by 715j and the obtained mutants demonstrated that one of the B. cenocepacia regulators, designated CysB, is preferentially involved in the control of sulfate transport and reduction, while the other, designated SsuR, is required for aliphatic sulfonate utilization. Using transcriptional promoter-lacZ fusions and DNA-binding experiments, we identified several target promoters for positive control by CysB and/or SsuR--sbpp (preceding the sbp cysT cysW cysA ssuR cluster), cysIp (preceding the cysI cysD1 cysN cysH cysG cluster), cysD2p (preceding a separate cluster, cysD2 cysNC), and ssuDp (located upstream of the ssuDCB operon)--and we demonstrated overlapping functions of CysB and SsuR at particular promoters. We also demonstrated that the cysB gene is negatively controlled by both CysB and SsuR but the ssuR gene itself is not significantly regulated as a separate transcription unit. The function of B. cenocepacia CysB (in vivo and in vitro) appeared to be independent of the presence of acetylserine, the indispensable coinducer of the CysB regulators of Escherichia coli and Salmonella. The phylogenetic relationships among members of the "CysB family" in the gamma and beta subphyla are presented.
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- Roksana Iwanicka-Nowicka
- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Pawinskiego 5A, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland
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Blaha D, Prigent-Combaret C, Mirza MS, Moënne-Loccoz Y. Phylogeny of the 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid deaminase-encoding gene acdS in phytobeneficial and pathogenic Proteobacteria and relation with strain biogeography. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2006; 56:455-70. [PMID: 16689877 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2006.00082.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 207] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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Deamination of the ethylene precursor 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC) is a key plant-beneficial trait found in plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) and phytosymbiotic bacteria, but the diversity of the corresponding gene (acdS) is poorly documented. Here, acdS sequences were obtained by screening putative ACC deaminase sequences listed in databases, based on phylogenetic properties and key residues. In addition, acdS was sought in 71 proteobacterial strains by PCR amplification and/or hybridization using colony dot blots. The presence of acdS was confirmed in established AcdS+ bacteria and evidenced noticeably in Azospirillum (previously reported as AcdS-), in 10 species of Burkholderia and six Burkholderia cepacia genomovars (which included PGPR, phytopathogens and opportunistic human pathogens), and in five Agrobacterium genomovars. The occurrence of acdS in true and opportunistic pathogens raises new questions concerning their ecology in plant-associated habitats. Many (but not all) acdS+ bacteria displayed ACC deaminase activity in vitro, including two Burkholderia clinical isolates. Phylogenetic analysis of partial acdS and deduced AcdS sequences evidenced three main phylogenetic clusters, each gathering pathogens and plant-beneficial strains of contrasting geographic and habitat origins. The acdS phylogenetic tree was only partly congruent with the rrs tree. Two clusters gathered both Betaprotobacteria and Gammaproteobacteria, suggesting extensive horizontal transfers of acdS, noticeably between plant-associated Proteobacteria.
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- Didier Blaha
- UMR CNRS 5557 Ecologie Microbienne, Université Claude Bernard, Villeurbanne, France
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Denger K, Smits T, Cook A. L-cysteate sulpho-lyase, a widespread pyridoxal 5'-phosphate-coupled desulphonative enzyme purified from Silicibacter pomeroyi DSS-3(T). Biochem J 2006; 394:657-64. [PMID: 16302849 PMCID: PMC1383715 DOI: 10.1042/bj20051311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2005] [Revised: 11/14/2005] [Accepted: 11/23/2005] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Quantitative utilization of L-cysteate (2-amino-3-sulphopropionate) as the sole source of carbon and energy for growth of the aerobic, marine bacterium Silicibacter pomeroyi DSS-3(T) was observed. The sulphonate moiety was recovered in the medium largely as sulphite, and the appropriate amount of the ammonium ion was also observed. Genes [suyAB (3-sulpholactate sulpho-lyase)] encoding the known desulphonation reaction in cysteate degradation were absent from the genome, but a homologue of a putative sulphate exporter gene (suyZ) was found, and its neighbour, annotated as a D-cysteine desulphhydrase, was postulated to encode pyridoxal 5'-phosphate-coupled L-cysteate sulpho-lyase (CuyA), a novel enzyme. Inducible CuyA was detected in cysteate-grown cells. The enzyme released equimolar pyruvate, sulphite and the ammonium ion from L-cysteate and was purified to homogeneity by anion-exchange, hydrophobic-interaction and gel-filtration chromatography. The N-terminal amino acid sequence of this 39-kDa subunit confirmed the identification of the cuyA gene. The native enzyme was soluble and homomultimeric. The K(m)-value for L-cysteate was high (11.7 mM) and the enzyme also catalysed the D-cysteine desulphhydrase reaction. The gene cuyZ, encoding the putative sulphite exporter, was co-transcribed with cuyA. Sulphite was exported despite the presence of a ferricyanide-coupled sulphite dehydrogenase. CuyA was found in many bacteria that utilize cysteate.
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- Karin Denger
- Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, D-78457 Konstanz, Germany
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- Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, D-78457 Konstanz, Germany
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- Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, D-78457 Konstanz, Germany
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Tuite NL, Fraser KR, O'Byrne CP. Homocysteine toxicity in Escherichia coli is caused by a perturbation of branched-chain amino acid biosynthesis. J Bacteriol 2005; 187:4362-71. [PMID: 15968045 PMCID: PMC1151774 DOI: 10.1128/jb.187.13.4362-4371.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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In Escherichia coli the sulfur-containing amino acid homocysteine (Hcy) is the last intermediate on the methionine biosynthetic pathway. Supplementation of a glucose-based minimal medium with Hcy at concentrations greater than 0.2 mM causes the growth of E. coli Frag1 to be inhibited. Supplementation of Hcy-treated cultures with combinations of branched-chain amino acids containing isoleucine or with isoleucine alone reversed the inhibitory effects of Hcy on growth. The last intermediate of the isoleucine biosynthetic pathway, alpha-keto-beta-methylvalerate, could also alleviate the growth inhibition caused by Hcy. Analysis of amino acid pools in Hcy-treated cells revealed that alanine, valine, and glutamate levels are depleted. Isoleucine could reverse the effects of Hcy on the cytoplasmic pools of valine and alanine. Supplementation of the culture medium with alanine gave partial relief from the inhibitory effects of Hcy. Enzyme assays revealed that the first step of the isoleucine biosynthetic pathway, catalyzed by threonine deaminase, was sensitive to inhibition by Hcy. The gene encoding threonine deaminase, ilvA, was found to be transcribed at higher levels in the presence of Hcy. Overexpression of the ilvA gene from a plasmid could overcome Hcy-mediated growth inhibition. Together, these data indicate that in E. coli Hcy toxicity is caused by a perturbation of branched-chain amino acid biosynthesis that is caused, at least in part, by the inhibition of threonine deaminase.
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- Nina L. Tuite
- Department of Microbiology, National University of Ireland-Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Department of Microbiology, National University of Ireland-Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Department of Microbiology, National University of Ireland-Galway, Galway, Ireland
- Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Microbiology, National University of Ireland-Galway, Galway, Ireland. Phone: (353) 91-512342. Fax: (353) 91-525700. E-mail:
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Gyaneshwar P, Paliy O, McAuliffe J, Popham DL, Jordan MI, Kustu S. Sulfur and nitrogen limitation in Escherichia coli K-12: specific homeostatic responses. J Bacteriol 2005; 187:1074-90. [PMID: 15659685 PMCID: PMC545709 DOI: 10.1128/jb.187.3.1074-1090.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We determined global transcriptional responses of Escherichia coli K-12 to sulfur (S)- or nitrogen (N)-limited growth in adapted batch cultures and cultures subjected to nutrient shifts. Using two limitations helped to distinguish between nutrient-specific changes in mRNA levels and common changes related to the growth rate. Both homeostatic and slow growth responses were amplified upon shifts. This made detection of these responses more reliable and increased the number of genes that were differentially expressed. We analyzed microarray data in several ways: by determining expression changes after use of a statistical normalization algorithm, by hierarchical and k-means clustering, and by visual inspection of aligned genome images. Using these tools, we confirmed known homeostatic responses to global S limitation, which are controlled by the activators CysB and Cbl, and found that S limitation propagated into methionine metabolism, synthesis of FeS clusters, and oxidative stress. In addition, we identified several open reading frames likely to respond specifically to S availability. As predicted from the fact that the ddp operon is activated by NtrC, synthesis of cross-links between diaminopimelate residues in the murein layer was increased under N-limiting conditions, as was the proportion of tripeptides. Both of these effects may allow increased scavenging of N from the dipeptide D-alanine-D-alanine, the substrate of the Ddp system.
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- Prasad Gyaneshwar
- Department of Plant & Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 111 Koshland Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-3102, USA
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Riemenschneider A, Wegele R, Schmidt A, Papenbrock J. Isolation and characterization of a D-cysteine desulfhydrase protein from Arabidopsis thaliana. FEBS J 2005; 272:1291-304. [PMID: 15720402 DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2005.04567.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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In several organisms D-cysteine desulfhydrase (D-CDes) activity (EC 4.1.99.4) was measured; this enzyme decomposes D-cysteine into pyruvate, H2S, and NH3. A gene encoding a putative D-CDes protein was identified in Arabidopsis thaliana (L) Heynh. based on high homology to an Escherichia coli protein called YedO that has D-CDes activity. The deduced Arabidopsis protein consists of 401 amino acids and has a molecular mass of 43.9 kDa. It contains a pyridoxal-5'-phosphate binding site. The purified recombinant mature protein had a Km for D-cysteine of 0.25 mm. Only D-cysteine but not L-cysteine was converted by D-CDes to pyruvate, H2S, and NH3. The activity was inhibited by aminooxy acetic acid and hydroxylamine, inhibitors specific for pyridoxal-5'-phosphate dependent proteins, at low micromolar concentrations. The protein did not exhibit 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate deaminase activity (EC 3.5.99.7) as homologous bacterial proteins. Western blot analysis of isolated organelles and localization studies using fusion constructs with the green fluorescent protein indicated an intracellular localization of the nuclear encoded D-CDes protein in the mitochondria. D-CDes RNA levels increased with proceeding development of Arabidopsis but decreased in senescent plants; D-CDes protein levels remained almost unchanged in the same plants whereas specific D-CDes activity was highest in senescent plants. In plants grown in a 12-h light/12-h dark rhythm D-CDes RNA levels were highest in the dark, whereas protein levels and enzyme activity were lower in the dark period than in the light indicating post-translational regulation. Plants grown under low sulfate concentration showed an accumulation of D-CDes RNA and increased protein levels, the D-CDes activity was almost unchanged. Putative in vivo functions of the Arabidopsisd-CDes protein are discussed.
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Wheeler PR, Coldham NG, Keating L, Gordon SV, Wooff EE, Parish T, Hewinson RG. Functional demonstration of reverse transsulfuration in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex reveals that methionine is the preferred sulfur source for pathogenic Mycobacteria. J Biol Chem 2004; 280:8069-78. [PMID: 15576367 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m412540200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Methionine can be used as the sole sulfur source by the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex although it is not obvious from examination of the genome annotation how these bacteria utilize methionine. Given that genome annotation is a largely predictive process, key challenges are to validate these predictions and to fill in gaps for known functions for which genes have not been annotated. We have addressed these issues by functional analysis of methionine metabolism. Transport, followed by metabolism of (35)S methionine into the cysteine adduct mycothiol, demonstrated the conversion of exogenous methionine to cysteine. Mutational analysis and cloning of the Rv1079 gene showed it to encode the key enzyme required for this conversion, cystathionine gamma-lyase (CGL). Rv1079, annotated metB, was predicted to encode cystathionine gamma-synthase (CGS), but demonstration of a gamma-elimination reaction with cystathionine as well as the gamma-replacement reaction yielding cystathionine showed it encodes a bifunctional CGL/CGS enzyme. Consistent with this, a Rv1079 mutant could not incorporate sulfur from methionine into cysteine, while a cysA mutant lacking sulfate transport and a methionine auxotroph was hypersensitive to the CGL inhibitor propargylglycine. Thus, reverse transsulfuration alone, without any sulfur recycling reactions, allows M. tuberculosis to use methionine as the sole sulfur source. Intracellular cysteine was undetectable so only the CGL reaction occurs in intact mycobacteria. Cysteine desulfhydrase, an activity we showed to be separable from CGL/CGS, may have a role in removing excess cysteine and could explain the ability of M. tuberculosis to recycle sulfur from cysteine, but not methionine.
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- Paul R Wheeler
- Tuberculosis Research Group, Veterinary Laboratories Agency (Weybridge), New Haw, Addlestone KT15 3NB, United Kingdom.
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