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Jiang Y, Chang Z, Xu Y, Zhan X, Wang Y, Gao M. Advances in molecular enzymology of β-1,3-glucanases: A comprehensive review. Int J Biol Macromol 2024; 279:135349. [PMID: 39242004 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2024.135349] [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: 07/26/2024] [Revised: 08/14/2024] [Accepted: 09/03/2024] [Indexed: 09/09/2024]
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β-1,3-Glucanases are essential enzymes involved in the hydrolysis of β-1,3-glucans, with significant biological and industrial relevance. These enzymes are derived from diverse sources, including bacteria, fungi, plants, and animals, each exhibiting unique substrate specificities and biochemical properties. This review provides an in-depth analysis of the natural sources and ecological roles of β-1,3-glucanases, exploring their enzymatic properties such as optimal pH, temperature, molecular weight, isoelectric points, and kinetic parameters, which are crucial for understanding their functionality and stability. Advances in molecular enzymology are discussed, focusing on gene cloning, expression in systems like Escherichia coli and Pichia pastoris, and structural-functional relationships. The reaction mechanisms and the role of non-catalytic carbohydrate-binding modules in enhancing substrate hydrolysis are examined. Industrial applications of β-1,3-glucanases are highlighted, including the production of β-1,3-glucooligosaccharides, uses in the food industry, biological control of plant pathogens, and nutritional roles. This review aims to provide a foundation for future research, improving the efficiency and robustness of β-1,3-glucanases for various industrial applications.
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- Yun Jiang
- School of Biotechnology and Key Laboratory of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biotechnology of Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China
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- School of Biotechnology and Key Laboratory of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biotechnology of Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China
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- School of Biotechnology and Key Laboratory of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biotechnology of Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China
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- School of Biotechnology and Key Laboratory of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biotechnology of Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China
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- School of Biotechnology and Key Laboratory of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biotechnology of Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China.
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- School of Biotechnology and Key Laboratory of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biotechnology of Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China.
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Kalenborn S, Zühlke D, Reintjes G, Riedel K, Amann RI, Harder J. Genes for laminarin degradation are dispersed in the genomes of particle-associated Maribacter species. Front Microbiol 2024; 15:1393588. [PMID: 39188312 PMCID: PMC11345257 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2024.1393588] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/29/2024] [Accepted: 07/17/2024] [Indexed: 08/28/2024] Open
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Laminarin is a cytosolic storage polysaccharide of phytoplankton and macroalgae and accounts for over 10% of the world's annually fixed carbon dioxide. Algal disruption, for example, by viral lysis releases laminarin. The soluble sugar is rapidly utilized by free-living planktonic bacteria, in which sugar transporters and the degrading enzymes are frequently encoded in polysaccharide utilization loci. The annotation of flavobacterial genomes failed to identify canonical laminarin utilization loci in several particle-associated bacteria, in particular in strains of Maribacter. In this study, we report in vivo utilization of laminarin by Maribacter forsetii accompanied by additional cell growth and proliferation. Laminarin utilization coincided with the induction of an extracellular endo-laminarinase, SusC/D outer membrane oligosaccharide transporters, and a periplasmic glycosyl hydrolase family 3 protein. An ABC transport system and sugar kinases were expressed. Endo-laminarinase activity was also observed in Maribacter sp. MAR_2009_72, Maribacter sp. Hel_I_7, and Maribacter dokdonensis MAR_2009_60. Maribacter dokdonensis MAR_2009_71 lacked the large endo-laminarinase gene in the genome and had no endo-laminarinase activity. In all genomes, genes of induced proteins were scattered across the genome rather than clustered in a laminarin utilization locus. These observations revealed that the Maribacter strains investigated in this study participate in laminarin utilization, but in contrast to many free-living bacteria, there is no co-localization of genes encoding the enzymatic machinery for laminarin utilization.
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- Saskia Kalenborn
- Department of Molecular Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
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- Department for Microbial Physiology and Molecular Biology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Microbial Carbohydrate Interaction Group, Department of Biology and Chemistry, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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- Department for Microbial Physiology and Molecular Biology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
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Zühlke MK, Ficko-Blean E, Bartosik D, Terrapon N, Jeudy A, Jam M, Wang F, Welsch N, Dürwald A, Martin LT, Larocque R, Jouanneau D, Eisenack T, Thomas F, Trautwein-Schult A, Teeling H, Becher D, Schweder T, Czjzek M. Unveiling the role of novel carbohydrate-binding modules in laminarin interaction of multimodular proteins from marine Bacteroidota during phytoplankton blooms. Environ Microbiol 2024; 26:e16624. [PMID: 38757353 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.16624] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2023] [Accepted: 04/05/2024] [Indexed: 05/18/2024]
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Laminarin, a β(1,3)-glucan, serves as a storage polysaccharide in marine microalgae such as diatoms. Its abundance, water solubility and simple structure make it an appealing substrate for marine bacteria. Consequently, many marine bacteria have evolved strategies to scavenge and decompose laminarin, employing carbohydrate-binding modules (CBMs) as crucial components. In this study, we characterized two previously unassigned domains as laminarin-binding CBMs in multimodular proteins from the marine bacterium Christiangramia forsetii KT0803T, thereby introducing the new laminarin-binding CBM families CBM102 and CBM103. We identified four CBM102s in a surface glycan-binding protein (SGBP) and a single CBM103 linked to a glycoside hydrolase module from family 16 (GH16_3). Our analysis revealed that both modular proteins have an elongated shape, with GH16_3 exhibiting greater flexibility than SGBP. This flexibility may aid in the recognition and/or degradation of laminarin, while the constraints in SGBP could facilitate the docking of laminarin onto the bacterial surface. Exploration of bacterial metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) from phytoplankton blooms in the North Sea showed that both laminarin-binding CBM families are widespread among marine Bacteroidota. The high protein abundance of CBM102- and CBM103-containing proteins during phytoplankton blooms further emphasizes their significance in marine laminarin utilization.
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- Marie-Katherin Zühlke
- Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Institute of Pharmacy, University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Institute of Marine Biotechnology, Greifswald, Germany
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- Integrative Biology of Marine Models (LBI2M), Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR), Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Roscoff, France
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- Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Institute of Pharmacy, University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Institute of Marine Biotechnology, Greifswald, Germany
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- Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques (AFMB), Aix-Marseille Université (AMU, UMR7257), CNRS, Marseille, France
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- Integrative Biology of Marine Models (LBI2M), Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR), Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Roscoff, France
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- Integrative Biology of Marine Models (LBI2M), Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR), Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Roscoff, France
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- Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
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- Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Institute of Pharmacy, University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Institute of Marine Biotechnology, Greifswald, Germany
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- Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Institute of Pharmacy, University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Helmholtz Institute for One Health, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research HZI, Greifswald, Germany
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- Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Institute of Pharmacy, University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Integrative Biology of Marine Models (LBI2M), Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR), Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Roscoff, France
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- Integrative Biology of Marine Models (LBI2M), Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR), Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Roscoff, France
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- Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Institute of Pharmacy, University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Integrative Biology of Marine Models (LBI2M), Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR), Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Roscoff, France
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- Microbial Proteomics, Institute of Microbiology, University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
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- Microbial Proteomics, Institute of Microbiology, University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Institute of Pharmacy, University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Institute of Marine Biotechnology, Greifswald, Germany
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- Integrative Biology of Marine Models (LBI2M), Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR), Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Roscoff, France
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Sun X, Ye Y, Sakurai N, Wang H, Kato K, Yu J, Yuasa K, Tsuji A, Yao M. Structural basis of EHEP-mediated offense against phlorotannin-induced defense from brown algae to protect akuBGL activity. eLife 2023; 12:RP88939. [PMID: 37910430 PMCID: PMC10619976 DOI: 10.7554/elife.88939] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2023] Open
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The defensive-offensive associations between algae and herbivores determine marine ecology. Brown algae utilize phlorotannin as their chemical defense against the predator Aplysia kurodai, which uses β-glucosidase (akuBGL) to digest the laminarin in algae into glucose. Moreover, A. kurodai employs Eisenia hydrolysis-enhancing protein (EHEP) as an offense to protect akuBGL activity from phlorotannin inhibition by precipitating phlorotannin. To underpin the molecular mechanism of this digestive-defensive-offensive system, we determined the structures of the apo and tannic acid (TNA, a phlorotannin analog) bound forms of EHEP, as well as the apo akuBGL. EHEP consisted of three peritrophin-A domains arranged in a triangular shape and bound TNA in the center without significant conformational changes. Structural comparison between EHEP and EHEP-TNA led us to find that EHEP can be resolubilized from phlorotannin precipitation at an alkaline pH, which reflects a requirement in the digestive tract. akuBGL contained two GH1 domains, only one of which conserved the active site. Combining docking analysis, we propose the mechanisms by which phlorotannin inhibits akuBGL by occupying the substrate-binding pocket, and EHEP protects akuBGL against this inhibition by binding with phlorotannin to free the akuBGL pocket.
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- Xiaomei Sun
- Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido UniversitySapporoJapan
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- Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido UniversitySapporoJapan
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- Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido UniversitySapporoJapan
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- Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido UniversitySapporoJapan
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- Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido UniversitySapporoJapan
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- Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido UniversitySapporoJapan
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- Graduate School of Bioscience and Bioindustry, Tokushima UniversityTokushimaJapan
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- Graduate School of Bioscience and Bioindustry, Tokushima UniversityTokushimaJapan
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- Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido UniversitySapporoJapan
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Manat G, Fanuel M, Jouanneau D, Jam M, Mac-Bear J, Rogniaux H, Mora T, Larocque R, Lipinska A, Czjzek M, Ropartz D, Ficko-Blean E. Specificity of a β-porphyranase produced by the carrageenophyte red alga Chondrus crispus and implications of this unexpected activity on red algal biology. J Biol Chem 2022; 298:102707. [PMID: 36402445 PMCID: PMC9771727 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2022.102707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2022] [Revised: 11/03/2022] [Accepted: 11/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The carrageenophyte red alga Chondrus crispus produces three family 16 glycoside hydrolases (CcGH16-1, CcGH16-2, and CcGH16-3). Phylogenetically, the red algal GH16 members are closely related to bacterial GH16 homologs from subfamilies 13 and 14, which have characterized marine bacterial β-carrageenase and β-porphyranase activities, respectively, yet the functions of these CcGH16 hydrolases have not been determined. Here, we first confirmed the gene locus of the ccgh16-3 gene in the alga to facilitate further investigation. Next, our biochemical characterization of CcGH16-3 revealed an unexpected β-porphyranase activity, since porphyran is not a known component of the C. crispus extracellular matrix. Kinetic characterization was undertaken on natural porphyran substrate with an experimentally determined molecular weight. We found CcGH16-3 has a pH optimum between 7.5 and 8.0; however, it exhibits reasonably stable activity over a large pH range (pH 7.0-9.0). CcGH16-3 has a KM of 4.0 ± 0.8 μM, a kcat of 79.9 ± 6.9 s-1, and a kcat/KM of 20.1 ± 1.7 μM-1 s-1. We structurally examined fine enzymatic specificity by performing a subsite dissection. CcGH16-3 has a strict requirement for D-galactose and L-galactose-6-sulfate in its -1 and +1 subsites, respectively, whereas the outer subsites are less restrictive. CcGH16-3 is one of a handful of algal enzymes characterized with a specificity for a polysaccharide unknown to be found in their own extracellular matrix. This β-porphyranase activity in a carrageenophyte red alga may provide defense against red algal pathogens or provide a competitive advantage in niche colonization.
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- Guillaume Manat
- CNRS, Integrative Biology of Marine Models (LBI2M), Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR), Sorbonne Université, Roscoff, France
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- INRAE, UR BIA, Nantes, France,INRAE, BIBS Facility, Nantes, France
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- CNRS, FR 2424, Station Biologique de Roscoff, Sorbonne Université, Roscoff, France
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- CNRS, Integrative Biology of Marine Models (LBI2M), Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR), Sorbonne Université, Roscoff, France
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- INRAE, UR BIA, Nantes, France,INRAE, BIBS Facility, Nantes, France
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- CNRS, Integrative Biology of Marine Models (LBI2M), Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR), Sorbonne Université, Roscoff, France
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- CNRS, FR 2424, Station Biologique de Roscoff, Sorbonne Université, Roscoff, France
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- CNRS, Integrative Biology of Marine Models (LBI2M), Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR), Sorbonne Université, Roscoff, France
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- CNRS, Integrative Biology of Marine Models (LBI2M), Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR), Sorbonne Université, Roscoff, France
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- INRAE, UR BIA, Nantes, France,INRAE, BIBS Facility, Nantes, France
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- CNRS, Integrative Biology of Marine Models (LBI2M), Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR), Sorbonne Université, Roscoff, France,For correspondence: Elizabeth Ficko-Blean
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Li J, Liang Y, He Z, Zhong M, Hu Z. Mutation of conserved residues in the laminarinase Lam1092 increases the antioxidant activity of the laminarin product hydrolysates. Enzyme Microb Technol 2022; 162:110135. [DOI: 10.1016/j.enzmictec.2022.110135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2022] [Revised: 08/28/2022] [Accepted: 09/23/2022] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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Consuming fresh macroalgae induces specific catabolic pathways, stress reactions and Type IX secretion in marine flavobacterial pioneer degraders. THE ISME JOURNAL 2022; 16:2027-2039. [PMID: 35589967 PMCID: PMC9296495 DOI: 10.1038/s41396-022-01251-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2021] [Revised: 04/28/2022] [Accepted: 05/09/2022] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
Abstract
Macroalgae represent huge amounts of biomass worldwide, largely recycled by marine heterotrophic bacteria. We investigated the strategies of bacteria within the flavobacterial genus Zobellia to initiate the degradation of whole algal tissues, which has received little attention compared to the degradation of isolated polysaccharides. Zobellia galactanivorans DsijT has the capacity to use fresh brown macroalgae as a sole carbon source and extensively degrades algal tissues via the secretion of extracellular enzymes, even in the absence of physical contact with the algae. Co-cultures experiments with the non-degrading strain Tenacibaculum aestuarii SMK-4T showed that Z. galactanivorans can act as a pioneer that initiates algal breakdown and shares public goods with other bacteria. A comparison of eight Zobellia strains, and strong transcriptomic shifts in Z. galactanivorans cells using fresh macroalgae vs. isolated polysaccharides, revealed potential overlooked traits of pioneer bacteria. Besides brown algal polysaccharide degradation, they notably include oxidative stress resistance proteins, type IX secretion system proteins and novel uncharacterized polysaccharide utilization loci. Overall, this work highlights the relevance of studying fresh macroalga degradation to fully understand the metabolic and ecological strategies of pioneer microbial degraders, key players in macroalgal biomass remineralization.
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Brott S, Thomas F, Behrens M, Methling K, Bartosik D, Dutschei T, Lalk M, Michel G, Schweder T, Bornscheuer U. Connecting algal polysaccharide degradation to formaldehyde detoxification. Chembiochem 2022; 23:e202200269. [PMID: 35561127 PMCID: PMC9400963 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.202200269] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Formaldehyde is a toxic metabolite that is formed in large quantities during bacterial utilization of the methoxy sugar 6‐O‐methyl‐d‐galactose, an abundant monosaccharide in the red algal polysaccharide porphyran. Marine bacteria capable of metabolizing porphyran must therefore possess suitable detoxification systems for formaldehyde. We demonstrate here that detoxification of formaldehyde in the marine Flavobacterium Zobellia galactanivorans proceeds via the ribulose monophosphate pathway. Simultaneously, we show that the genes encoding the key enzymes of this pathway are important for maintaining high formaldehyde resistance. Additionally, these genes are upregulated in the presence of porphyran, allowing us to connect porphyran degradation to the detoxification of formed formaldehyde.
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- Stefan Brott
- Universität Greifswald: Universitat Greifswald, Institute of Biochemistry, GERMANY
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- University of Greifswald: Universitat Greifswald, Institute of Biochemistry, GERMANY
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- Universität Greifswald: Universitat Greifswald, Institute of Biochemistry, GERMANY
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- Universität Greifswald: Universitat Greifswald, Institute of Pharmacy, GERMANY
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- Universität Greifswald: Universitat Greifswald, Institute of Biochemistry, GERMANY
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- Universität Greifswald: Universitat Greifswald, Institute of Biochemistry, GERMANY
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- Sorbonne Universite, Station Biologique de Roscoff, FRANCE
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- Universität Greifswald: Universitat Greifswald, Institute of Pharmacy, GERMANY
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- Greifswald University, Dept. of Biotechnology & Enzyme Catalysis, Felix-Hausdorff-Str. 4, 17487, Greifswald, GERMANY
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Caseiro C, Dias JNR, de Andrade Fontes CMG, Bule P. From Cancer Therapy to Winemaking: The Molecular Structure and Applications of β-Glucans and β-1, 3-Glucanases. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:3156. [PMID: 35328577 PMCID: PMC8949617 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23063156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2022] [Revised: 03/11/2022] [Accepted: 03/11/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
Abstract
β-glucans are a diverse group of polysaccharides composed of β-1,3 or β-(1,3-1,4) linked glucose monomers. They are mainly synthesized by fungi, plants, seaweed and bacteria, where they carry out structural, protective and energy storage roles. Because of their unique physicochemical properties, they have important applications in several industrial, biomedical and biotechnological processes. β-glucans are also major bioactive molecules with marked immunomodulatory and metabolic properties. As such, they have been the focus of many studies attesting to their ability to, among other roles, fight cancer, reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases and control diabetes. The physicochemical and functional profiles of β-glucans are deeply influenced by their molecular structure. This structure governs β-glucan interaction with multiple β-glucan binding proteins, triggering myriad biological responses. It is then imperative to understand the structural properties of β-glucans to fully reveal their biological roles and potential applications. The deconstruction of β-glucans is a result of β-glucanase activity. In addition to being invaluable tools for the study of β-glucans, these enzymes have applications in numerous biotechnological and industrial processes, both alone and in conjunction with their natural substrates. Here, we review potential applications for β-glucans and β-glucanases, and explore how their functionalities are dictated by their structure.
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- Catarina Caseiro
- CIISA—Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Lisbon, 1300-477 Lisbon, Portugal; (C.C.); (J.N.R.D.)
- Associate Laboratory for Animal and Veterinary Sciences (AL4AnimalS), 1300-477 Lisbon, Portugal
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- CIISA—Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Lisbon, 1300-477 Lisbon, Portugal; (C.C.); (J.N.R.D.)
- Associate Laboratory for Animal and Veterinary Sciences (AL4AnimalS), 1300-477 Lisbon, Portugal
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- CIISA—Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Lisbon, 1300-477 Lisbon, Portugal; (C.C.); (J.N.R.D.)
- Associate Laboratory for Animal and Veterinary Sciences (AL4AnimalS), 1300-477 Lisbon, Portugal
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Nikolić Chenais J, Marion L, Larocque R, Jam M, Jouanneau D, Cladiere L, Le Gall S, Fanuel M, Desban N, Rogniaux H, Ropartz D, Ficko-Blean E, Michel G. Systematic comparison of eight methods for preparation of high purity sulfated fucans extracted from the brown alga Pelvetia canaliculata. Int J Biol Macromol 2022; 201:143-157. [PMID: 34968546 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2021.12.122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2021] [Revised: 12/16/2021] [Accepted: 12/19/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Sulfated fucans from brown algae are a heterogeneous group of biologically active molecules. To learn more on their structure and to analyze and exploit their biological activities, there is a growing need to develop reliable and cost effective protocols for their preparation. In the present study, a brown alga Pelvetia canaliculata (Linnaeus) was used as a rich source of sulfated fucans. Sulfated fucan preparation methods included neutral and acidic extractions followed by purification with activated charcoal (AC), polyvinylpolypyrrolidone (PVPP), or cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC). Final products were compared in terms of yield, purity, monosaccharide composition and molecular weight. Acidic extractions provided higher yields compared to neutral ones, whereas the AC purification provided sulfated fucan products with the highest purity. Mass spectrometry analyses were done on oligosaccharides produced by the fucanase MfFcnA from the marine bacterium Mariniflexille fucanivorans. This has provided unique insight into enzyme specificity and the structural characteristics of sulfated fucans.
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- Jasna Nikolić Chenais
- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratory of Integrative Biology of Marine Models (LBI2M), Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR), 29688 Roscoff, Bretagne, France
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- INRAE, UR BIA, F-44316 Nantes, France; INRAE, BIBS facility, PROBE infrastructure, F-44316 Nantes, France
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratory of Integrative Biology of Marine Models (LBI2M), Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR), 29688 Roscoff, Bretagne, France
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratory of Integrative Biology of Marine Models (LBI2M), Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR), 29688 Roscoff, Bretagne, France
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratory of Integrative Biology of Marine Models (LBI2M), Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR), 29688 Roscoff, Bretagne, France
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratory of Integrative Biology of Marine Models (LBI2M), Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR), 29688 Roscoff, Bretagne, France
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- INRAE, UR BIA, F-44316 Nantes, France; INRAE, BIBS facility, PROBE infrastructure, F-44316 Nantes, France
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- INRAE, UR BIA, F-44316 Nantes, France; INRAE, BIBS facility, PROBE infrastructure, F-44316 Nantes, France
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratory of Integrative Biology of Marine Models (LBI2M), Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR), 29688 Roscoff, Bretagne, France
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- INRAE, UR BIA, F-44316 Nantes, France; INRAE, BIBS facility, PROBE infrastructure, F-44316 Nantes, France
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- INRAE, UR BIA, F-44316 Nantes, France; INRAE, BIBS facility, PROBE infrastructure, F-44316 Nantes, France
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratory of Integrative Biology of Marine Models (LBI2M), Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR), 29688 Roscoff, Bretagne, France.
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratory of Integrative Biology of Marine Models (LBI2M), Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR), 29688 Roscoff, Bretagne, France.
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Li J, He Z, Liang Y, Peng T, Hu Z. Insights into Algal Polysaccharides: A Review of Their Structure, Depolymerases, and Metabolic Pathways. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2022; 70:1749-1765. [PMID: 35124966 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.1c05365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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In recent years, marine macroalgae with extensive biomass have attracted the attention of researchers worldwide. Furthermore, algal polysaccharides have been widely studied in the food, pharmaceutical, and cosmetic fields because of their various kinds of bioactivities. However, there are immense barriers to their application as a result of their high molecular size, poor solubility, hydrocolloid nature, and low physiological activities. Unique polysaccharides, such as laminarin, alginate, fucoidan, agar, carrageenan, porphyran, ulvan, and other complex structural polysaccharides, can be digested by marine bacteria with many carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes) by breaking down the limitation of glycosidic bonds. However, structural elucidation of algal polysaccharides, metabolic pathways, and identification of potential polysaccharide hydrolases that participate in different metabolic pathways remain major obstacles restricting the efficient utilization of algal oligosaccharides. This review focuses on the structure, hydrolase families, metabolic pathways, and potential applications of seven macroalgae polysaccharides. These results will contribute to progressing our understanding of the structure of algal polysaccharides and their metabolic pathways and will be valuable for clearing the way for the compelling utilization of bioactive oligosaccharides.
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- Jin Li
- Department of Biology, College of Science, Shantou University, Shantou, Guangdong 515063, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Biology, College of Science, Shantou University, Shantou, Guangdong 515063, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Biology, College of Science, Shantou University, Shantou, Guangdong 515063, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Biology, College of Science, Shantou University, Shantou, Guangdong 515063, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Biology, College of Science, Shantou University, Shantou, Guangdong 515063, People's Republic of China
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory, Guangzhou, Guangdong 511458, People's Republic of China
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Feng J, Xu S, Feng R, Kovalevsky A, Zhang X, Liu D, Wan Q. Identification and structural analysis of a thermophilic β-1,3-glucanase from compost. BIORESOUR BIOPROCESS 2021; 8:102. [PMID: 38650272 PMCID: PMC10992293 DOI: 10.1186/s40643-021-00449-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2021] [Accepted: 09/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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β-1,3-glucanase can specifically hydrolyze glucans to oligosaccharides and has potential applications in biotechnology. We used the metatranscriptomic technology to discover a thermophilic β-1,3-glucanase from compost. The phylogenetic study shows that it belongs to the family 16 glycoside hydrolase (GH16) and is most homologous with an enzyme from Streptomyces sioyaensis, an actinobacterium. It has the activity of 146.9 U/mg in the optimal reaction condition (75 °C and pH 5.5). Its catalytic domain was crystallized and diffracted to 1.14 Å resolution. The crystal structure shows a sandwich-like β-jelly-roll fold with two disulfide bonds. After analyzing the occurring frequencies of these cysteine residues, we designed two mutants (C160G and C180I) to study the role of these disulfide bonds. Both mutants have decreased their optimal temperature from 75 to 70 °C, which indicate that the disulfide bonds are important to maintain thermostability. Interestingly, the activity of C160G has increased ~ 17% to reach 171.4 U/mg. We speculate that the increased activity of C160G mutant is due to increased dynamics near the active site. Our studies give a good example of balancing the rigidity and flexibility for enzyme activity, which is helpful for protein engineering.
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- Jianwei Feng
- College of Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Synthesis of Zhejiang Province, College of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China
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- College of Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, People's Republic of China
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- Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Qingdao Vland Biotech Group Inc., Qingdao, Shandong, 266000, People's Republic of China
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- College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, People's Republic of China
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- College of Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, People's Republic of China.
- Key Laboratory of Plant Immunity, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, People's Republic of China.
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Wang Y, Zhao Y, Wang X, Zhong L, Fan Q, Lan Z, Ye X, Huang Y, Li Z, Cui Z. Functional Characterization of the Novel Laminaripentaose-Producing β-1,3-Glucanase MoGluB and Its Biocontrol of Magnaporthe oryzae. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2021; 69:9571-9584. [PMID: 34378924 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.1c03072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Fungal cell wall synthesizing enzymes or remodeling enzymes represent key factors for the interaction of plant pathogen and antifungal agents, which are regarded as potential biocontrol agents. In this study, a novel endo-β-1,3-glucanase from Magnaporthe oryzae was expressed and characterized. The expression of MoGluB was significantly upregulated after 2 days of liquid culture and 48 h after infection, indicating that it may be involved in cell wall reconstitution. Purified MoGluB exhibited high activity on insoluble β-glucans, with a specific activity of 8.18 U/mg toward yeast glucan at pH 9.0 and 50 °C. MoGluB hydrolyzed pachymaran and yeast glucan into oligosaccharides dominated by laminaripentaose, suggesting that it is an endo-β-1,3-glucanase. Incubation of 8 μg of MoGluB with 106 spores/mL resulted in the inhibition of conidial germination and appressorium formation of M. oryzae, illustrating effective biocontrol activity. Hydrolysates of pachymaran induced the expression of defense genes restricting M. oryzae infection in rice plants, indicating an immunostimulatory effect of MoGluB hydrolysates.
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- Yanxin Wang
- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environmental Microbiology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Life Sciences of Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environmental Microbiology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Life Sciences of Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, P. R. China
- Institute of Botany, Jiangsu Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences (Nanjing Botanical Garden Mem. Sun Yat-Sen), Nanjing 210014, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environmental Microbiology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Life Sciences of Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environmental Microbiology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Life Sciences of Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environmental Microbiology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Life Sciences of Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environmental Microbiology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Life Sciences of Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environmental Microbiology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Life Sciences of Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environmental Microbiology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Life Sciences of Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environmental Microbiology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Life Sciences of Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environmental Microbiology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Life Sciences of Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, P. R. China
- Key Laboratory of Plant Immunity, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, P. R. China
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Francis B, Urich T, Mikolasch A, Teeling H, Amann R. North Sea spring bloom-associated Gammaproteobacteria fill diverse heterotrophic niches. ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOME 2021; 16:15. [PMID: 34404489 PMCID: PMC8371827 DOI: 10.1186/s40793-021-00385-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2021] [Accepted: 08/10/2021] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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BACKGROUND The planktonic bacterial community associated with spring phytoplankton blooms in the North Sea is responsible for a large amount of carbon turnover in an environment characterised by high primary productivity. Individual clades belonging to the Gammaproteobacteria have shown similar population dynamics to Bacteroidetes species, and are thus assumed to fill competing ecological niches. Previous studies have generated large numbers of metagenome assembled genomes and metaproteomes from these environments, which can be readily mined to identify populations performing potentially important ecosystem functions. In this study we attempt to catalogue these spring bloom-associated Gammaproteobacteria, which have thus far attracted less attention than sympatric Alphaproteobacteria and Bacteroidetes. METHODS We annotated 120 non-redundant species-representative gammaproteobacterial metagenome assembled genomes from spring bloom sampling campaigns covering the four years 2010-2012 and 2016 using a combination of Prokka and PfamScan, with further confirmation via BLAST against NCBI-NR. We also matched these gene annotations to 20 previously published metaproteomes covering those sampling periods plus the spring of 2009. RESULTS Metagenome assembled genomes with clear capacity for polysaccharide degradation via dedicated clusters of carbohydrate active enzymes were among the most abundant during blooms. Many genomes lacked gene clusters with clearly identifiable predicted polysaccharide substrates, although abundantly expressed loci for the uptake of large molecules were identified in metaproteomes. While the larger biopolymers, which are the most abundant sources of reduced carbon following algal blooms, are likely the main energy source, some gammaproteobacterial clades were clearly specialised for smaller organic compounds. Their substrates range from amino acids, monosaccharides, and DMSP, to the less expected, such as terpenoids, and aromatics and biphenyls, as well as many 'unknowns'. In particular we uncover a much greater breadth of apparent methylotrophic capability than heretofore identified, present in several order level clades without cultivated representatives. CONCLUSIONS Large numbers of metagenome assembled genomes are today publicly available, containing a wealth of readily accessible information. Here we identified a variety of predicted metabolisms of interest, which include diverse potential heterotrophic niches of spring bloom-associated Gammaproteobacteria. Features such as those identified here could well be fertile ground for future experimental studies.
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- Ben Francis
- Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
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- Institute for Microbiology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Institute for Microbiology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
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Carvalho VSD, Gómez-Delgado L, Curto MÁ, Moreno MB, Pérez P, Ribas JC, Cortés JCG. Analysis and application of a suite of recombinant endo-β(1,3)-D-glucanases for studying fungal cell walls. Microb Cell Fact 2021; 20:126. [PMID: 34217291 PMCID: PMC8254974 DOI: 10.1186/s12934-021-01616-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2021] [Accepted: 06/19/2021] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Background The fungal cell wall is an essential and robust external structure that protects the cell from the environment. It is mainly composed of polysaccharides with different functions, some of which are necessary for cell integrity. Thus, the process of fractionation and analysis of cell wall polysaccharides is useful for studying the function and relevance of each polysaccharide, as well as for developing a variety of practical and commercial applications. This method can be used to study the mechanisms that regulate cell morphogenesis and integrity, giving rise to information that could be applied in the design of new antifungal drugs. Nonetheless, for this method to be reliable, the availability of trustworthy commercial recombinant cell wall degrading enzymes with non-contaminating activities is vital. Results Here we examined the efficiency and reproducibility of 12 recombinant endo-β(1,3)-d-glucanases for specifically degrading the cell wall β(1,3)-d-glucan by using a fast and reliable protocol of fractionation and analysis of the fission yeast cell wall. This protocol combines enzymatic and chemical degradation to fractionate the cell wall into the four main polymers: galactomannoproteins, α-glucan, β(1,3)-d-glucan and β(1,6)-d-glucan. We found that the GH16 endo-β(1,3)-d-glucanase PfLam16A from Pyrococcus furiosus was able to completely and reproducibly degrade β(1,3)-d-glucan without causing the release of other polymers. The cell wall degradation caused by PfLam16A was similar to that of Quantazyme, a recombinant endo-β(1,3)-d-glucanase no longer commercially available. Moreover, other recombinant β(1,3)-d-glucanases caused either incomplete or excessive degradation, suggesting deficient access to the substrate or release of other polysaccharides. Conclusions The discovery of a reliable and efficient recombinant endo-β(1,3)-d-glucanase, capable of replacing the previously mentioned enzyme, will be useful for carrying out studies requiring the digestion of the fungal cell wall β(1,3)-d-glucan. This new commercial endo-β(1,3)-d-glucanase will allow the study of the cell wall composition under different conditions, along the cell cycle, in response to environmental changes or in cell wall mutants. Furthermore, this enzyme will also be greatly valuable for other practical and commercial applications such as genome research, chromosomes extraction, cell transformation, protoplast formation, cell fusion, cell disruption, industrial processes and studies of new antifungals that specifically target cell wall synthesis. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12934-021-01616-0.
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- Vanessa S D Carvalho
- Instituto de Biología Funcional y Genómica Zacarías González, 2. CSIC and Universidad de Salamanca, 37007, Salamanca, Spain
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- Instituto de Biología Funcional y Genómica Zacarías González, 2. CSIC and Universidad de Salamanca, 37007, Salamanca, Spain
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- Instituto de Biología Funcional y Genómica Zacarías González, 2. CSIC and Universidad de Salamanca, 37007, Salamanca, Spain
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- Instituto de Biología Funcional y Genómica Zacarías González, 2. CSIC and Universidad de Salamanca, 37007, Salamanca, Spain
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- Instituto de Biología Funcional y Genómica Zacarías González, 2. CSIC and Universidad de Salamanca, 37007, Salamanca, Spain
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- Instituto de Biología Funcional y Genómica Zacarías González, 2. CSIC and Universidad de Salamanca, 37007, Salamanca, Spain.
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- Instituto de Biología Funcional y Genómica Zacarías González, 2. CSIC and Universidad de Salamanca, 37007, Salamanca, Spain.
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Chernysheva N, Bystritskaya E, Likhatskaya G, Nedashkovskaya O, Isaeva M. Genome-Wide Analysis of PL7 Alginate Lyases in the Genus Zobellia. Molecules 2021; 26:2387. [PMID: 33924031 PMCID: PMC8073546 DOI: 10.3390/molecules26082387] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2021] [Accepted: 04/15/2021] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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We carried out a detailed investigation of PL7 alginate lyases across the Zobellia genus. The main findings were obtained using the methods of comparative genomics and spatial structure modeling, as well as a phylogenomic approach. Initially, in order to elucidate the alginolytic potential of Zobellia, we calculated the content of polysaccharide lyase (PL) genes in each genome. The genus-specific PLs were PL1, PL6, PL7 (the most abundant), PL14, PL17, and PL40. We revealed that PL7 belongs to subfamilies 3, 5, and 6. They may be involved in local and horizontal gene transfer and gene duplication processes. Most likely, an individual evolution of PL7 genes promotes the genetic variability of the Alginate Utilization System across Zobellia. Apparently, the PL7 alginate lyases may acquire a sub-functionalization due to diversification between in-paralogs.
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- G.B. Elyakov Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 159, Pr. 100 let Vladivostoku, 690022 Vladivostok, Russia; (N.C.); (E.B.); (G.L.); (O.N.)
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Wolter LA, Mitulla M, Kalem J, Daniel R, Simon M, Wietz M. CAZymes in Maribacter dokdonensis 62-1 From the Patagonian Shelf: Genomics and Physiology Compared to Related Flavobacteria and a Co-occurring Alteromonas Strain. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:628055. [PMID: 33912144 PMCID: PMC8072126 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.628055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2020] [Accepted: 03/10/2021] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes) are an important feature of bacteria in productive marine systems such as continental shelves, where phytoplankton and macroalgae produce diverse polysaccharides. We herein describe Maribacter dokdonensis 62–1, a novel strain of this flavobacterial species, isolated from alginate-supplemented seawater collected at the Patagonian continental shelf. M. dokdonensis 62–1 harbors a diverse array of CAZymes in multiple polysaccharide utilization loci (PUL). Two PUL encoding polysaccharide lyases from families 6, 7, 12, and 17 allow substantial growth with alginate as sole carbon source, with simultaneous utilization of mannuronate and guluronate as demonstrated by HPLC. Furthermore, strain 62-1 harbors a mixed-feature PUL encoding both ulvan- and fucoidan-targeting CAZymes. Core-genome phylogeny and pangenome analysis revealed variable occurrence of these PUL in related Maribacter and Zobellia strains, indicating specialization to certain “polysaccharide niches.” Furthermore, lineage- and strain-specific genomic signatures for exopolysaccharide synthesis possibly mediate distinct strategies for surface attachment and host interaction. The wide detection of CAZyme homologs in algae-derived metagenomes suggests global occurrence in algal holobionts, supported by sharing multiple adaptive features with the hydrolytic model flavobacterium Zobellia galactanivorans. Comparison with Alteromonas sp. 76-1 isolated from the same seawater sample revealed that these co-occurring strains target similar polysaccharides but with different genomic repertoires, coincident with differing growth behavior on alginate that might mediate ecological specialization. Altogether, our study contributes to the perception of Maribacter as versatile flavobacterial polysaccharide degrader, with implications for biogeochemical cycles, niche specialization and bacteria-algae interactions in the oceans.
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- Laura A Wolter
- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Oldenburg, Germany.,JST ERATO Nomura Project, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Oldenburg, Germany
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- Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Genomic and Applied Microbiology and Göttingen Genomics Laboratory, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Oldenburg, Germany
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- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Oldenburg, Germany.,Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
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Molecular Basis for Substrate Recognition and Catalysis by a Marine Bacterial Laminarinase. Appl Environ Microbiol 2020; 86:AEM.01796-20. [PMID: 32917756 DOI: 10.1128/aem.01796-20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2020] [Accepted: 09/09/2020] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Laminarin is an abundant algal polysaccharide that serves as carbon storage and fuel to meet the nutrition demands of heterotrophic microbes. Laminarin depolymerization catalyzed by microbial extracellular enzymes initiates remineralization, a key process in ocean biogeochemical cycles. Here, we described a glycoside hydrolase 16 (GH16) family laminarinase from a marine alga-associated Flavobacterium at the biochemical and structural levels. We found that the endolytic enzyme cleaved laminarin with a preference for β-1,3-glycoside linkages and showed transglycosylation activity across a broad range of acceptors. We also solved and compared high-resolution crystal structures of laminarinase in the apo form and in complex with β-1,3-tetrasaccharides, revealing an expanded catalytic cleft formed following substrate binding. Moreover, structure and mutagenesis studies identified multiple specific contacts between the enzyme and glucosyl residues essential for the substrate specificity for β-1,3-glucan. These results provide novel insights into the structural requirements for substrate binding and catalysis of GH16 family laminarinase, enriching our understanding of bacterial utilization of algal laminarin.IMPORTANCE Heterotrophic bacterial communities are key players in marine biogeochemical cycling due to their ability to remineralize organic carbon. Processing of complex organic matter requires heterotrophic bacteria to produce extracellular enzymes with precise specificity to depolymerize substrates to sizes sufficiently small for uptake. Thus, extracellular enzymatic hydrolysis initiates microbe-driven heterotrophic carbon cycling. In this study, based on biochemical and structural analyses, we revealed the depolymerization mechanism of β-1,3-glucan, a carbon reserve in algae, by laminarinase from an alga-associated marine Flavobacterium The findings provide new insights into the substrate recognition and catalysis of bacterial laminarinase and promote a better understanding of how extracellular enzymes are involved in organic matter cycling.
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Glowacki RWP, Martens EC. If you eat it, or secrete it, they will grow: the expanding list of nutrients utilized by human gut bacteria. J Bacteriol 2020; 203:JB.00481-20. [PMID: 33168637 PMCID: PMC8092160 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00481-20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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In order to persist, successful bacterial inhabitants of the human gut need to adapt to changing nutrient conditions, which are influenced by host diet and a variety of other factors. For members of the Bacteroidetes and several other phyla, this has resulted in diversification of a variety of enzyme-based systems that equip them to sense and utilize carbohydrate-based nutrients from host, diet, and bacterial origin. In this review, we focus first on human gut Bacteroides and describe recent findings regarding polysaccharide utilization loci (PULs) and the mechanisms of the multi-protein systems they encode, including their regulation and the expanding diversity of substrates that they target. Next, we highlight previously understudied substrates such as monosaccharides, nucleosides, and Maillard reaction products that can also affect the gut microbiota by feeding symbionts that possess specific systems for their metabolism. Since some pathogens preferentially utilize these nutrients, they may represent nutrient niches competed for by commensals and pathogens. Finally, we address recent work to describe nutrient acquisition mechanisms in other important gut species such as those belonging to the Gram-positive anaerobic phyla Actinobacteria and Firmicutes, as well as the Proteobacteria Because gut bacteria contribute to many aspects of health and disease, we showcase advances in the field of synthetic biology, which seeks to engineer novel, diet-controlled nutrient utilization pathways within gut symbionts to create rationally designed live therapeutics.
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- Robert W. P. Glowacki
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Li Z, Liu W, Lyu Q. Biochemical Characterization of a Novel Endo-1,3-β-Glucanase from the Scallop Chlamys farreri. Mar Drugs 2020; 18:md18090466. [PMID: 32947865 PMCID: PMC7551256 DOI: 10.3390/md18090466] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2020] [Revised: 09/11/2020] [Accepted: 09/13/2020] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Endo-1,3-β-glucanases derived from marine mollusks have attracted much attention in recent years because of their unique transglycosylation activity. In this study, a novel endo-1,3-β-glucanase from the scallop Chlamys farreri, named Lcf, was biochemically characterized. Unlike in earlier studies on marine mollusk endo-1,3-β-glucanases, Lcf was expressed in vitro first. Enzymatic analysis demonstrated that Lcf preferred to hydrolyze laminarihexaose than to hydrolyze laminarin. Furthermore, Lcf was capable of catalyzing transglycosylation reactions with different kinds of glycosyl acceptors. More interestingly, the transglycosylation specificity of Lcf was different from that of other marine mollusk endo-1,3-β-glucanases, although they share a high sequence identity. This study enhanced our understanding of the diverse enzymatic specificities of marine mollusk endo-1,3-β-glucanases, which facilitated development of a unique endo-1,3-β-glucanase tool in the synthesis of novel glycosides.
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- Zhijian Li
- MOE Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics and Breeding, College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China; (Z.L.); (W.L.)
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics and Breeding, College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China; (Z.L.); (W.L.)
- Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266235, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics and Breeding, College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China; (Z.L.); (W.L.)
- Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266235, China
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Prominent members of the human gut microbiota express endo-acting O-glycanases to initiate mucin breakdown. Nat Commun 2020; 11:4017. [PMID: 32782292 PMCID: PMC7419316 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17847-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2020] [Accepted: 07/21/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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The thick mucus layer of the gut provides a barrier to infiltration of the underlying epithelia by both the normal microbiota and enteric pathogens. Some members of the microbiota utilise mucin glycoproteins as a nutrient source, but a detailed understanding of the mechanisms used to breakdown these complex macromolecules is lacking. Here we describe the discovery and characterisation of endo-acting enzymes from prominent mucin-degrading bacteria that target the polyLacNAc structures within oligosaccharide side chains of both animal and human mucins. These O-glycanases are part of the large and diverse glycoside hydrolase 16 (GH16) family and are often lipoproteins, indicating that they are surface located and thus likely involved in the initial step in mucin breakdown. These data provide a significant advance in our knowledge of the mechanism of mucin breakdown by the normal microbiota. Furthermore, we also demonstrate the potential use of these enzymes as tools to explore changes in O-glycan structure in a number of intestinal disease states. Epithelial cells that line the gut secrete complex glycoproteins that form a mucus layer to protect the gut wall from enteric pathogens. Here, the authors provide a comprehensive characterisation of endo-acting glycoside hydrolases expressed by mucin-degrading members of the microbiome that are able to cleave the O-glycan chains of a range of different animal and human mucins.
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Li J, Cao C, Jiang Y, Huang Q, Shen Y, Ni J. A Novel Digestive GH16 β-1,3(4)-Glucanase from the Fungus-Growing Termite Macrotermes barneyi. Appl Biochem Biotechnol 2020; 192:1284-1297. [PMID: 32725373 DOI: 10.1007/s12010-020-03368-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2020] [Accepted: 06/22/2020] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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β-1,3-glucanases are the main digestive enzymes of plant and fungal cell wall. Transcriptomic analysis of the fungus-growing termite Macrotermes barneyi revealed a high expression of a predicted β-1,3(4)-glucanase (Mbbgl) transcript in termite gut. Here, we described the cDNA cloning, heterologous expression, and enzyme characterization of Mbbgl. Sequence analysis and RT-PCR results showed that Mbbgl is a termite-origin GH16 β-1,3(4)-glucanase. The recombinant enzyme showed the highest activity towards laminarin and was active optimally at 50 °C, pH 5.5. The enzyme displayed endo/exo β-1,3(4)-glucanase activities. Moreover, Mbbgl had weak transglycosylation activity. The results indicate that Mbbgl is an endogenous digestive β-1,3(4)-glucanase, which contributes to the decomposition of plant biomass and fungal hyphae. Additionally, the multiple activities, pH, and ion stabilities make Mbbgl a potential candidate for application in the food industry.
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- Jingjing Li
- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China.,Biotechnology Development Institute, Qilu Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., Jinan, 250100, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China.
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Becker S, Tebben J, Coffinet S, Wiltshire K, Iversen MH, Harder T, Hinrichs KU, Hehemann JH. Laminarin is a major molecule in the marine carbon cycle. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:6599-6607. [PMID: 32170018 PMCID: PMC7104365 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1917001117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Marine microalgae sequester as much CO2 into carbohydrates as terrestrial plants. Polymeric carbohydrates (i.e., glycans) provide carbon for heterotrophic organisms and constitute a carbon sink in the global oceans. The quantitative contributions of different algal glycans to cycling and sequestration of carbon remain unknown, partly because of the analytical challenge to quantify glycans in complex biological matrices. Here, we quantified a glycan structural type using a recently developed biocatalytic strategy, which involves laminarinase enzymes that specifically cleave the algal glycan laminarin into readily analyzable fragments. We measured laminarin along transects in the Arctic, Atlantic, and Pacific oceans and during three time series in the North Sea. These data revealed a median of 26 ± 17% laminarin within the particulate organic carbon pool. The observed correlation between chlorophyll and laminarin suggests an annual production of algal laminarin of 12 ± 8 gigatons: that is, approximately three times the annual atmospheric carbon dioxide increase by fossil fuel burning. Moreover, our data revealed that laminarin accounted for up to 50% of organic carbon in sinking diatom-containing particles, thus substantially contributing to carbon export from surface waters. Spatially and temporally variable laminarin concentrations in the sunlit ocean are driven by light availability. Collectively, these observations highlight the prominent ecological role and biogeochemical function of laminarin in oceanic carbon export and energy flow to higher trophic levels.
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- Stefan Becker
- MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany
- Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, 28359 Bremen, Germany
- Department of Geosciences, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany
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- Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, 27570 Bremerhaven, Germany
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- MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany
- Department of Geosciences, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany
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- Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, 27570 Bremerhaven, Germany
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- MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany
- Department of Geosciences, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany
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- Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, 27570 Bremerhaven, Germany
- Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany
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- MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany
- Department of Geosciences, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany
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- MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany;
- Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, 28359 Bremen, Germany
- Department of Geosciences, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany
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Crystal structure of a neoagarobiose-producing GH16 family β-agarase from Persicobacter sp. CCB-QB2. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2019; 104:633-641. [PMID: 31784792 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-019-10237-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2019] [Revised: 10/02/2019] [Accepted: 11/04/2019] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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PdAgaC from the marine bacterium Persicobacter sp. CCB-QB2 is a β-agarase belonging to the glycoside hydrolase family 16 (GH16). It is one of only a handful of endo-acting GH16 β-agarases able to degrade agar completely to produce neoagarobiose (NA2). The crystal structure of PdAgaC's catalytic domain, which has one of the highest Vmax value at 2.9 × 103 U/mg, was determined in order to understand its unique mechanism. The catalytic domain is made up of a typical β-jelly roll fold with two additional insertions, and a well-conserved but wider substrate-binding cleft with some minor changes. Among the unique differences, two unconserved residues, Asn226 and Arg286, may potentially contribute additional hydrogen bonds to subsites -1 and +2, respectively, while a third, His185 from one of the additional insertions, may further contribute another bond to subsite +2. These additional hydrogen bonds may probably have enhanced PdAgaC's affinity for short agaro-oligosaccharides such as neoagarotetraose (NA4), rendering it capable of binding NA4 strongly enough for rapid degradation into NA2.
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Badur AH, Ammar EM, Yalamanchili G, Hehemann JH, Rao CV. Characterization of the GH16 and GH17 laminarinases from Vibrio breoganii 1C10. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2019; 104:161-171. [PMID: 31754764 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-019-10243-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2019] [Revised: 10/28/2019] [Accepted: 11/04/2019] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Laminarin is an abundant glucose polymer used as an energy reserve by micro- and macroalgae. Bacteria digest and consume laminarin with laminarinases. Their genomes frequently contain multiple homologs; however, the biological role for this replication remains unclear. We investigated the four laminarinases of glycoside hydrolase families GH16 and GH17 from the marine bacterium Vibrio breoganii 1C10, which can use laminarin as its sole carbon source. All four laminarinases employ an endolytic mechanism and specifically cleave the β-1,3-glycosidic bond. Two primarily produce low-molecular weight laminarin oligomers (DP 3-4) whereas the others primarily produce high-molecular weight oligomers (DP > 8), which suggests that these enzymes sequentially degrade laminarin. The results from this work provide an overview of the laminarinases from a single marine bacterium and also provide insights regarding how multiple laminarinases are used to degrade laminarin.
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- Ahmet H Badur
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 600 S. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 600 S. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.,Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Research Institute, University of Sadat City, El Sadat City, Egypt
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 600 S. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
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- MARUM MPG Bridge Group Marine Glycobiology, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 600 S. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.
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Comparative Analysis and Biochemical Characterization of Two Endo-β-1,3-Glucanases from the Thermophilic Bacterium Fervidobacterium sp. Catalysts 2019. [DOI: 10.3390/catal9100830] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Laminarinases exhibit potential in a wide range of industrial applications including the production of biofuels and pharmaceuticals. In this study, we present the genetic and biochemical characteristics of FLamA and FLamB, two laminarinases derived from a metagenomic sample from a hot spring in the Azores. Sequence comparison revealed that both genes had high similarities to genes from Fervidobacterium nodosum Rt17-B1. The two proteins showed sequence similarities of 62% to each other and belong to the glycoside hydrolase (GH) family 16. For biochemical characterization, both laminarinases were heterologously produced in Escherichia coli and purified to homogeneity. FLamA and FLamB exhibited similar properties and both showed highest activity towards laminarin at 90 °C and pH 6.5. The two enzymes were thermostable but differed in their half-life at 80 °C with 5 h and 1 h for FLamA and FLamB, respectively. In contrast to other laminarinases, both enzymes prefer β-1,3-glucans and mixed-linked glucans as substrates. However, FLamA and FLamB differ in their catalytic efficiency towards laminarin. Structure predictions were made and showed minor differences particularly in a kink adjacent to the active site cleft. The high specific activities and resistance to elevated temperatures and various additives make both enzymes suitable candidates for application in biomass conversion.
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Liu J, Xue CX, Sun H, Zheng Y, Meng Z, Zhang XH. Carbohydrate catabolic capability of a Flavobacteriia bacterium isolated from hadal water. Syst Appl Microbiol 2019; 42:263-274. [DOI: 10.1016/j.syapm.2019.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2018] [Revised: 12/17/2018] [Accepted: 01/15/2019] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Koch H, Freese HM, Hahnke RL, Simon M, Wietz M. Adaptations of Alteromonas sp. 76-1 to Polysaccharide Degradation: A CAZyme Plasmid for Ulvan Degradation and Two Alginolytic Systems. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:504. [PMID: 30936857 PMCID: PMC6431674 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2018] [Accepted: 02/27/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Studying the physiology and genomics of cultured hydrolytic bacteria is a valuable approach to decipher the biogeochemical cycling of marine polysaccharides, major nutrients derived from phytoplankton and macroalgae. We herein describe the profound potential of Alteromonas sp. 76-1, isolated from alginate-enriched seawater at the Patagonian continental shelf, to degrade the algal polysaccharides alginate and ulvan. Phylogenetic analyses indicated that strain 76-1 might represent a novel species, distinguished from its closest relative (Alteromonas naphthalenivorans) by adaptations to their contrasting habitats (productive open ocean vs. coastal sediments). Ecological distinction of 76-1 was particularly manifested in the abundance of carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes), consistent with its isolation from alginate-enriched seawater and elevated abundance of a related OTU in the original microcosm. Strain 76-1 encodes multiple alginate lyases from families PL6, PL7, PL17, and PL18 largely contained in two polysaccharide utilization loci (PUL), which may facilitate the utilization of different alginate structures in nature. Notably, ulvan degradation relates to a 126 Kb plasmid dedicated to polysaccharide utilization, encoding several PL24 and PL25 ulvan lyases and monomer-processing genes. This extensive and versatile CAZyme repertoire allowed substantial growth on polysaccharides, showing comparable doubling times with alginate (2 h) and ulvan (3 h) in relation to glucose (3 h). The finding of homologous ulvanolytic systems in distantly related Alteromonas spp. suggests CAZyme plasmids as effective vehicles for PUL transfer that mediate niche gain. Overall, the demonstrated CAZyme repertoire substantiates the role of Alteromonas in marine polysaccharide degradation and how PUL exchange influences the ecophysiology of this ubiquitous marine taxon.
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- Hanna Koch
- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute DSMZ – German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute DSMZ – German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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Naretto A, Fanuel M, Ropartz D, Rogniaux H, Larocque R, Czjzek M, Tellier C, Michel G. The agar-specific hydrolase ZgAgaC from the marine bacterium Zobellia galactanivorans defines a new GH16 protein subfamily. J Biol Chem 2019; 294:6923-6939. [PMID: 30846563 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra118.006609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2018] [Revised: 02/28/2019] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Agars are sulfated galactans from red macroalgae and are composed of a d-galactose (G unit) and l-galactose (L unit) alternatively linked by α-1,3 and β-1,4 glycosidic bonds. These polysaccharides display high complexity, with numerous modifications of their backbone (e.g. presence of a 3,6-anhydro-bridge (LA unit) and sulfations and methylation). Currently, bacterial polysaccharidases that hydrolyze agars (β-agarases and β-porphyranases) have been characterized on simple agarose and more rarely on porphyran, a polymer containing both agarobiose (G-LA) and porphyranobiose (GL6S) motifs. How bacteria can degrade complex agars remains therefore an open question. Here, we studied an enzyme from the marine bacterium Zobellia galactanivorans (ZgAgaC) that is distantly related to the glycoside hydrolase 16 (GH16) family β-agarases and β-porphyranases. Using a large red algae collection, we demonstrate that ZgAgaC hydrolyzes not only agarose but also complex agars from Ceramiales species. Using tandem MS analysis, we elucidated the structure of a purified hexasaccharide product, L6S-G-LA2Me-G(2Pentose)-LA2S-G, released by the activity of ZgAgaC on agar extracted from Osmundea pinnatifida By resolving the crystal structure of ZgAgaC at high resolution (1.3 Å) and comparison with the structures of ZgAgaB and ZgPorA in complex with their respective substrates, we determined that ZgAgaC recognizes agarose via a mechanism different from that of classical β-agarases. Moreover, we identified conserved residues involved in the binding of complex oligoagars and demonstrate a probable influence of the acidic polysaccharide's pH microenvironment on hydrolase activity. Finally, a phylogenetic analysis supported the notion that ZgAgaC homologs define a new GH16 subfamily distinct from β-porphyranases and classical β-agarases.
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- Anaïs Naretto
- From Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Integrative Biology of Marine Models (LBI2M), Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR), 29680 Roscoff, Bretagne, France
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- the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Unité de Recherche Biopolymères Interactions Assemblages (BIA), 44000 Nantes, France, and
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- the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Unité de Recherche Biopolymères Interactions Assemblages (BIA), 44000 Nantes, France, and
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- the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Unité de Recherche Biopolymères Interactions Assemblages (BIA), 44000 Nantes, France, and
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- From Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Integrative Biology of Marine Models (LBI2M), Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR), 29680 Roscoff, Bretagne, France
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- From Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Integrative Biology of Marine Models (LBI2M), Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR), 29680 Roscoff, Bretagne, France
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- the Unité Fonctionnalité et Ingénierie des Protéines (UFIP), UMR 6286 CNRS, Université de Nantes, 2 Rue de la Houssinière, 44322 Nantes, France
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- From Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Integrative Biology of Marine Models (LBI2M), Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR), 29680 Roscoff, Bretagne, France,
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Koch H, Dürwald A, Schweder T, Noriega-Ortega B, Vidal-Melgosa S, Hehemann JH, Dittmar T, Freese HM, Becher D, Simon M, Wietz M. Biphasic cellular adaptations and ecological implications of Alteromonas macleodii degrading a mixture of algal polysaccharides. THE ISME JOURNAL 2019; 13:92-103. [PMID: 30116038 PMCID: PMC6298977 DOI: 10.1038/s41396-018-0252-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2018] [Revised: 07/10/2018] [Accepted: 07/19/2018] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Algal polysaccharides are an important bacterial nutrient source and central component of marine food webs. However, cellular and ecological aspects concerning the bacterial degradation of polysaccharide mixtures, as presumably abundant in natural habitats, are poorly understood. Here, we contextualize marine polysaccharide mixtures and their bacterial utilization in several ways using the model bacterium Alteromonas macleodii 83-1, which can degrade multiple algal polysaccharides and contributes to polysaccharide degradation in the oceans. Transcriptomic, proteomic and exometabolomic profiling revealed cellular adaptations of A. macleodii 83-1 when degrading a mix of laminarin, alginate and pectin. Strain 83-1 exhibited substrate prioritization driven by catabolite repression, with initial laminarin utilization followed by simultaneous alginate/pectin utilization. This biphasic phenotype coincided with pronounced shifts in gene expression, protein abundance and metabolite secretion, mainly involving CAZymes/polysaccharide utilization loci but also other functional traits. Distinct temporal changes in exometabolome composition, including the alginate/pectin-specific secretion of pyrroloquinoline quinone, suggest that substrate-dependent adaptations influence chemical interactions within the community. The ecological relevance of cellular adaptations was underlined by molecular evidence that common marine macroalgae, in particular Saccharina and Fucus, release mixtures of alginate and pectin-like rhamnogalacturonan. Moreover, CAZyme microdiversity and the genomic predisposition towards polysaccharide mixtures among Alteromonas spp. suggest polysaccharide-related traits as an ecophysiological factor, potentially relating to distinct 'carbohydrate utilization types' with different ecological strategies. Considering the substantial primary productivity of algae on global scales, these insights contribute to the understanding of bacteria-algae interactions and the remineralization of chemically diverse polysaccharide pools, a key step in marine carbon cycling.
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- Hanna Koch
- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
- Department of Microbiology, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Marine Biotechnology, Greifswald, Germany
- Institute of Pharmacy, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Institute of Marine Biotechnology, Greifswald, Germany
- Institute of Pharmacy, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- ICBM-MPI Bridging Group for Marine Geochemistry, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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- MARUM-MPI Bridge Group for Marine Glycobiology, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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- MARUM-MPI Bridge Group for Marine Glycobiology, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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- ICBM-MPI Bridging Group for Marine Geochemistry, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Institute of Marine Biotechnology, Greifswald, Germany
- Institute of Microbiology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany.
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The laterally acquired GH5 ZgEngA GH5_4 from the marine bacterium Zobellia galactanivorans is dedicated to hemicellulose hydrolysis. Biochem J 2018; 475:3609-3628. [PMID: 30341165 DOI: 10.1042/bcj20180486] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2018] [Revised: 10/10/2018] [Accepted: 10/17/2018] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Cell walls of marine macroalgae are composed of diverse polysaccharides that provide abundant carbon sources for marine heterotrophic bacteria. Among them, Zobellia galactanivorans is considered as a model for studying algae-bacteria interactions. The degradation of typical algal polysaccharides, such as agars or alginate, has been intensively studied in this model bacterium, but the catabolism of plant-like polysaccharides is essentially uncharacterized. Here, we identify a polysaccharide utilization locus in the genome of Z. galactanivorans, induced by laminarin (β-1,3-glucans), and containing a putative GH5 subfamily 4 (GH5_4) enzyme, currently annotated as a endoglucanase (ZgEngAGH5_4). A phylogenetic analysis indicates that ZgEngAGH5_4 was laterally acquired from an ancestral Actinobacteria We performed the biochemical and structural characterization of ZgEngAGH5_4 and demonstrated that this GH5 is, in fact, an endo-β-glucanase, most active on mixed-linked glucan (MLG). Although ZgEngAGH5_4 and GH16 lichenases both hydrolyze MLG, these two types of enzymes release different series of oligosaccharides. Structural analyses of ZgEngAGH5_4 reveal that all the amino acid residues involved in the catalytic triad and in the negative glucose-binding subsites are conserved, when compared with the closest relative, the cellulase EngD from Clostridium cellulovorans, and some other GH5s. In contrast, the positive glucose-binding subsites of ZgEngAGH5_4 are different and this could explain the preference for MLG, with respect to cellulose or laminarin. Molecular dynamics computer simulations using different hexaoses reveal that the specificity for MLG occurs through the +1 and +2 subsites of the binding pocket that display the most important differences when compared with the structures of other GH5_4 enzymes.
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Mystkowska AA, Robb C, Vidal-Melgosa S, Vanni C, Fernandez-Guerra A, Höhne M, Hehemann JH. Molecular recognition of the beta-glucans laminarin and pustulan by a SusD-like glycan-binding protein of a marine Bacteroidetes. FEBS J 2018; 285:4465-4481. [PMID: 30300505 DOI: 10.1111/febs.14674] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2018] [Revised: 09/19/2018] [Accepted: 10/05/2018] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Marine bacteria catabolize carbohydrate polymers of algae, which synthesize these structurally diverse molecules in ocean surface waters. Although algal glycans are an abundant carbon and energy source in the ocean, the molecular details that enable specific recognition between algal glycans and bacterial degraders remain largely unknown. Here we characterized a surface protein, GMSusD from the planktonic Bacteroidetes-Gramella sp. MAR_2010_102 that thrives during algal blooms. Our biochemical and structural analyses show that GMSusD binds glucose polysaccharides such as branched laminarin and linear pustulan. The 1.8 Å crystal structure of GMSusD indicates that three tryptophan residues form the putative glycan-binding site. Mutagenesis studies confirmed that these residues are crucial for laminarin recognition. We queried metagenomes of global surface water datasets for the occurrence of SusD-like proteins and found sequences with the three structurally conserved residues in different locations in the ocean. The molecular selectivity of GMSusD underscores that specific interactions are required for laminarin recognition. In conclusion, our findings provide insight into the molecular details of β-glucan binding by GMSusD and our bioinformatic analysis reveals that this molecular interaction may contribute to glucan cycling in the surface ocean.
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- Agata Anna Mystkowska
- Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM), University of Bremen, Germany.,Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
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- Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM), University of Bremen, Germany.,Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
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- Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM), University of Bremen, Germany.,Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany.,Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH, Bremen, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany.,Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH, Bremen, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Greifswald University, Germany
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- Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM), University of Bremen, Germany.,Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
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Chen J, Robb CS, Unfried F, Kappelmann L, Markert S, Song T, Harder J, Avcı B, Becher D, Xie P, Amann RI, Hehemann JH, Schweder T, Teeling H. Alpha- and beta-mannan utilization by marine Bacteroidetes. Environ Microbiol 2018; 20:4127-4140. [PMID: 30246424 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.14414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2018] [Accepted: 09/12/2018] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Marine microscopic algae carry out about half of the global carbon dioxide fixation into organic matter. They provide organic substrates for marine microbes such as members of the Bacteroidetes that degrade algal polysaccharides using carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes). In Bacteroidetes genomes CAZyme encoding genes are mostly grouped in distinct regions termed polysaccharide utilization loci (PULs). While some studies have shown involvement of PULs in the degradation of algal polysaccharides, the specific substrates are for the most part still unknown. We investigated four marine Bacteroidetes isolated from the southern North Sea that harbour putative mannan-specific PULs. These PULs are similarly organized as PULs in human gut Bacteroides that digest α- and β-mannans from yeasts and plants respectively. Using proteomics and defined growth experiments with polysaccharides as sole carbon sources we could show that the investigated marine Bacteroidetes express the predicted functional proteins required for α- and β-mannan degradation. Our data suggest that algal mannans play an as yet unknown important role in the marine carbon cycle, and that biochemical principles established for gut or terrestrial microbes also apply to marine bacteria, even though their PULs are evolutionarily distant.
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- Jing Chen
- Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany.,Donghu Experimental Station of Lake Ecosystems, State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology of China, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.,College of Ocean, Hebei Agricultural University, Qinhuangdao, China
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- Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany.,MARUM, Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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- Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Institute of Pharmacy, University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.,Institute of Marine Biotechnology, Greifswald, Germany
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- Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Institute of Pharmacy, University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.,Institute of Marine Biotechnology, Greifswald, Germany
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- MARUM, Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
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- Institute of Microbiology, University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Donghu Experimental Station of Lake Ecosystems, State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology of China, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany.,MARUM, Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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- Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Institute of Pharmacy, University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.,Institute of Marine Biotechnology, Greifswald, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
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Kappelmann L, Krüger K, Hehemann JH, Harder J, Markert S, Unfried F, Becher D, Shapiro N, Schweder T, Amann RI, Teeling H. Polysaccharide utilization loci of North Sea Flavobacteriia as basis for using SusC/D-protein expression for predicting major phytoplankton glycans. ISME JOURNAL 2018; 13:76-91. [PMID: 30111868 PMCID: PMC6298971 DOI: 10.1038/s41396-018-0242-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2018] [Revised: 06/17/2018] [Accepted: 06/30/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Marine algae convert a substantial fraction of fixed carbon dioxide into various polysaccharides. Flavobacteriia that are specialized on algal polysaccharide degradation feature genomic clusters termed polysaccharide utilization loci (PULs). As knowledge on extant PUL diversity is sparse, we sequenced the genomes of 53 North Sea Flavobacteriia and obtained 400 PULs. Bioinformatic PUL annotations suggest usage of a large array of polysaccharides, including laminarin, α-glucans, and alginate as well as mannose-, fucose-, and xylose-rich substrates. Many of the PULs exhibit new genetic architectures and suggest substrates rarely described for marine environments. The isolates’ PUL repertoires often differed considerably within genera, corroborating ecological niche-associated glycan partitioning. Polysaccharide uptake in Flavobacteriia is mediated by SusCD-like transporter complexes. Respective protein trees revealed clustering according to polysaccharide specificities predicted by PUL annotations. Using the trees, we analyzed expression of SusC/D homologs in multiyear phytoplankton bloom-associated metaproteomes and found indications for profound changes in microbial utilization of laminarin, α-glucans, β-mannan, and sulfated xylan. We hence suggest the suitability of SusC/D-like transporter protein expression within heterotrophic bacteria as a proxy for the temporal utilization of discrete polysaccharides.
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- Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany.,Zentrum für Marine Umweltwissenschaften, Bremen, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
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- Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.,Institute of Marine Biotechnology, Greifswald, Germany
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- Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.,Institute of Marine Biotechnology, Greifswald, Germany
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- Institute for Microbiology, University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany. .,Institute of Marine Biotechnology, Greifswald, Germany.
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- Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany.
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- Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany.
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Adaptive mechanisms that provide competitive advantages to marine bacteroidetes during microalgal blooms. ISME JOURNAL 2018; 12:2894-2906. [PMID: 30061707 PMCID: PMC6246565 DOI: 10.1038/s41396-018-0243-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2018] [Revised: 06/22/2018] [Accepted: 06/30/2018] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Polysaccharide degradation by heterotrophic microbes is a key process within Earth's carbon cycle. Here, we use environmental proteomics and metagenomics in combination with cultivation experiments and biochemical characterizations to investigate the molecular details of in situ polysaccharide degradation mechanisms during microalgal blooms. For this, we use laminarin as a model polysaccharide. Laminarin is a ubiquitous marine storage polymer of marine microalgae and is particularly abundant during phytoplankton blooms. In this study, we show that highly specialized bacterial strains of the Bacteroidetes phylum repeatedly reached high abundances during North Sea algal blooms and dominated laminarin turnover. These genomically streamlined bacteria of the genus Formosa have an expanded set of laminarin hydrolases and transporters that belonged to the most abundant proteins in the environmental samples. In vitro experiments with cultured isolates allowed us to determine the functions of in situ expressed key enzymes and to confirm their role in laminarin utilization. It is shown that laminarin consumption of Formosa spp. is paralleled by enhanced uptake of diatom-derived peptides. This study reveals that genome reduction, enzyme fusions, transporters, and enzyme expansion as well as a tight coupling of carbon and nitrogen metabolism provide the tools, which make Formosa spp. so competitive during microalgal blooms.
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Mitsuya D, Sugiyama T, Zhang S, Takeuchi Y, Okai M, Urano N, Ishida M. Enzymatic properties and the gene structure of a cold-adapted laminarinase from Pseudoalteromonas species LA. J Biosci Bioeng 2018; 126:169-175. [PMID: 29627318 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiosc.2018.02.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2017] [Revised: 02/17/2018] [Accepted: 02/22/2018] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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We isolated a laminarin-degrading cold-adapted bacterium strain LA from coastal seawater in Sagami Bay, Japan and identified it as a Pseudoalteromonas species. We named the extracellular laminarinase LA-Lam, and purified and characterized it. LA-Lam showed high degradation activity for Laminaria digitata laminarin in the ranges of 15-50°C and pH 5.0-9.0. The major terminal products degraded from L. digitata laminarin with LA-Lam were glucose, laminaribiose, and laminaritriose. The degradation profile of laminarioligosaccharides with LA-Lam suggested that the enzyme has a high substrate binding ability toward tetrameric or larger saccharides. Our results of the gene sequence and the SDS-PAGE analyses revealed that the major part of mature LA-Lam is a catalytic domain that belongs to the GH16 family, although its precursor is composed of a signal peptide, the catalytic domain, and three-repeated unknown regions.
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- Daisuke Mitsuya
- Graduate School of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, 4-5-7 Konan, Minato, Tokyo 108-8477, Japan
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- Graduate School of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, 4-5-7 Konan, Minato, Tokyo 108-8477, Japan
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- Graduate School of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, 4-5-7 Konan, Minato, Tokyo 108-8477, Japan
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- Graduate School of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, 4-5-7 Konan, Minato, Tokyo 108-8477, Japan
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- Graduate School of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, 4-5-7 Konan, Minato, Tokyo 108-8477, Japan
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- Graduate School of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, 4-5-7 Konan, Minato, Tokyo 108-8477, Japan
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- Graduate School of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, 4-5-7 Konan, Minato, Tokyo 108-8477, Japan.
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Oda M, Inaba S, Kamiya N, Bekker GJ, Mikami B. Structural and thermodynamic characterization of endo-1,3-β-glucanase: Insights into the substrate recognition mechanism. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS 2018; 1866:415-425. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2017.12.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2017] [Revised: 11/24/2017] [Accepted: 12/11/2017] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Salmeán AA, Guillouzo A, Duffieux D, Jam M, Matard-Mann M, Larocque R, Pedersen HL, Michel G, Czjzek M, Willats WGT, Hervé C. Double blind microarray-based polysaccharide profiling enables parallel identification of uncharacterized polysaccharides and carbohydrate-binding proteins with unknown specificities. Sci Rep 2018; 8:2500. [PMID: 29410423 PMCID: PMC5802718 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-20605-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2017] [Accepted: 01/17/2018] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Marine algae are one of the largest sources of carbon on the planet. The microbial degradation of algal polysaccharides to their constitutive sugars is a cornerstone in the global carbon cycle in oceans. Marine polysaccharides are highly complex and heterogeneous, and poorly understood. This is also true for marine microbial proteins that specifically degrade these substrates and when characterized, they are frequently ascribed to new protein families. Marine (meta)genomic datasets contain large numbers of genes with functions putatively assigned to carbohydrate processing, but for which empirical biochemical activity is lacking. There is a paucity of knowledge on both sides of this protein/carbohydrate relationship. Addressing this 'double blind' problem requires high throughput strategies that allow large scale screening of protein activities, and polysaccharide occurrence. Glycan microarrays, in particular the Comprehensive Microarray Polymer Profiling (CoMPP) method, are powerful in screening large collections of glycans and we described the integration of this technology to a medium throughput protein expression system focused on marine genes. This methodology (Double Blind CoMPP or DB-CoMPP) enables us to characterize novel polysaccharide-binding proteins and to relate their ligands to algal clades. This data further indicate the potential of the DB-CoMPP technique to accommodate samples of all biological sources.
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- Armando A Salmeán
- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensvej 40, 1871, Frederiksberg, Denmark
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, UMR 8227, Integrative Biology of Marine Models, Station Biologique de Roscoff, CS 90074, Roscoff, France
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, UMR 8227, Integrative Biology of Marine Models, Station Biologique de Roscoff, CS 90074, Roscoff, France
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, UMR 8227, Integrative Biology of Marine Models, Station Biologique de Roscoff, CS 90074, Roscoff, France
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, UMR 8227, Integrative Biology of Marine Models, Station Biologique de Roscoff, CS 90074, Roscoff, France
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, UMR 8227, Integrative Biology of Marine Models, Station Biologique de Roscoff, CS 90074, Roscoff, France
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- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensvej 40, 1871, Frederiksberg, Denmark
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, UMR 8227, Integrative Biology of Marine Models, Station Biologique de Roscoff, CS 90074, Roscoff, France
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, UMR 8227, Integrative Biology of Marine Models, Station Biologique de Roscoff, CS 90074, Roscoff, France
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- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensvej 40, 1871, Frederiksberg, Denmark.
- William G.T. Willats, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, UMR 8227, Integrative Biology of Marine Models, Station Biologique de Roscoff, CS 90074, Roscoff, France.
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Thomas F, Bordron P, Eveillard D, Michel G. Gene Expression Analysis of Zobellia galactanivorans during the Degradation of Algal Polysaccharides Reveals both Substrate-Specific and Shared Transcriptome-Wide Responses. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:1808. [PMID: 28983288 PMCID: PMC5613140 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01808] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2017] [Accepted: 09/05/2017] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Flavobacteriia are recognized as key players in the marine carbon cycle, due to their ability to efficiently degrade algal polysaccharides both in the open ocean and in coastal regions. The chemical complexity of algal polysaccharides, their differences between algal groups and variations through time and space, imply that marine flavobacteria have evolved dedicated degradation mechanisms and regulation of their metabolism during interactions with algae. In the present study, we report the first transcriptome-wide gene expression analysis for an alga-associated flavobacterium during polysaccharide degradation. Zobellia galactanivorans DsijT, originally isolated from a red alga, was grown in minimal medium with either glucose (used as a reference monosaccharide) or one selected algal polysaccharide from brown (alginate, laminarin) or red algae (agar, porphyran, ι- or κ-carrageenan) as sole carbon source. Expression profiles were determined using whole-genome microarrays. Integration of genomic knowledge with the automatic building of a co-expression network allowed the experimental validation of operon-like transcription units. Differential expression analysis revealed large transcriptomic shifts depending on the carbon source. Unexpectedly, transcriptomes shared common signatures when growing on chemically divergent polysaccharides from the same algal phylum. Together with the induction of numerous transcription factors, this hints at complex regulation events that fine-tune the cell behavior during interactions with algal biomass in the marine environment. The results further highlight genes and loci that may participate in polysaccharide utilization, notably encoding Carbohydrate Active enZymes (CAZymes) and glycan binding proteins together with a number of proteins of unknown function. This constitutes a set of candidate genes potentially representing new substrate specificities. By providing an unprecedented view of global transcriptomic responses during polysaccharide utilization in an alga-associated model flavobacterium, this study expands the current knowledge on the functional role of flavobacteria in the marine carbon cycle and on their interactions with algae.
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- François Thomas
- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UMR 8227, Integrative Biology of Marine Models, Station Biologique de RoscoffRoscoff, France
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, FR2424, Analysis and Bioinformatics for Marine Science, Station Biologique de RoscoffRoscoff, France.,Mathomics, Center for Mathematical Modeling, Universidad de ChileSantiago, Chile.,Center for Genome Regulation (Fondap 15090007), Universidad de ChileSantiago, Chile
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- Université de Nantes, Laboratoire des Sciences du Numérique de Nantes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, ECN, IMTANantes, France
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UMR 8227, Integrative Biology of Marine Models, Station Biologique de RoscoffRoscoff, France
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Qin HM, Miyakawa T, Inoue A, Nakamura A, Nishiyama R, Ojima T, Tanokura M. Laminarinase from Flavobacterium sp. reveals the structural basis of thermostability and substrate specificity. Sci Rep 2017; 7:11425. [PMID: 28900273 PMCID: PMC5595797 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-11542-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2017] [Accepted: 08/29/2017] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Laminarinase from Flavobacterium sp. strain UMI-01, a new member of the glycosyl hydrolase 16 family of a marine bacterium associated with seaweeds, mainly degrades β-1,3-glucosyl linkages of β-glucan (such as laminarin) through the hydrolysis of glycosidic bonds. We determined the crystal structure of ULam111 at 1.60-Å resolution to understand the structural basis for its thermostability and substrate specificity. A calcium-binding motif located on the opposite side of the β-sheet from catalytic cleft increased its degrading activity and thermostability. The disulfide bridge Cys31-Cys34, located on the β2-β3 loop near the substrate-binding site, is responsible for the thermostability of ULam111. The substrates of β-1,3-linked laminarin and β-1,3-1,4-linked glucan bound to the catalytic cleft in a completely different mode at subsite -3. Asn33 and Trp113, together with Phe212, formed hydrogen bonds with preferred substrates to degrade β-1,3-linked laminarin based on the structural comparisons. Our structural information provides new insights concerning thermostability and substrate recognition that will enable the design of industrial biocatalysts.
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- Hui-Min Qin
- Laboratory of Basic Science on Healthy Longevity, Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8657, Japan.,College of Biotechnology, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, No. 29, 13th Avenue, Tianjin, 300457, China
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- Laboratory of Basic Science on Healthy Longevity, Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8657, Japan
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- Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology and Microbiology, Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, 3-1-1 Minato-cho, Hakodate, 041-8611, Japan
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- Laboratory of Basic Science on Healthy Longevity, Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8657, Japan
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- Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology and Microbiology, Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, 3-1-1 Minato-cho, Hakodate, 041-8611, Japan
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- Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology and Microbiology, Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, 3-1-1 Minato-cho, Hakodate, 041-8611, Japan
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- Laboratory of Basic Science on Healthy Longevity, Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8657, Japan. .,College of Biotechnology, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, No. 29, 13th Avenue, Tianjin, 300457, China.
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Salmeán AA, Duffieux D, Harholt J, Qin F, Michel G, Czjzek M, Willats WGT, Hervé C. Insoluble (1 → 3), (1 → 4)-β-D-glucan is a component of cell walls in brown algae (Phaeophyceae) and is masked by alginates in tissues. Sci Rep 2017; 7:2880. [PMID: 28588313 PMCID: PMC5460208 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-03081-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2016] [Accepted: 04/24/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Brown algae are photosynthetic multicellular marine organisms. They belong to the phylum of Stramenopiles, which are not closely related to land plants and green algae. Brown algae share common evolutionary features with other photosynthetic and multicellular organisms, including a carbohydrate-rich cell-wall. Brown algal cell walls are composed predominantly of the polyanionic polysaccharides alginates and fucose-containing sulfated polysaccharides. These polymers are prevalent over neutral and crystalline components, which are believed to be mostly, if not exclusively, cellulose. In an attempt to better understand brown algal cell walls, we performed an extensive glycan array analysis of a wide range of brown algal species. Here we provide the first demonstration that mixed-linkage (1 → 3), (1 → 4)-β-D-glucan (MLG) is common in brown algal cell walls. Ultra-Performance Liquid Chromatography analyses indicate that MLG in brown algae solely consists of trisaccharide units of contiguous (1 → 4)-β-linked glucose residues joined by (1 → 3)-β-linkages. This regular conformation may allow long stretches of the molecule to align and to form well-structured microfibrils. At the tissue level, immunofluorescence studies indicate that MLG epitopes in brown algae are unmasked by a pre-treatment with alginate lyases to remove alginates. These findings are further discussed in terms of the origin and evolution of MLG in the Stramenopile lineage.
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- Armando A Salmeán
- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensvej 40, 1871, Frederiksberg, Denmark
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 8227, Integrative Biology of Marine Models, Station Biologique de Roscoff, CS 90074, Roscoff, France
- CNRS, UMR 8227, Integrative Biology of Marine Models, Station Biologique de Roscoff, CS 90074, Roscoff, France
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- Carlsberg Research Laboratory, J.C. Jacobsens Gade 4, 1799, København V, Denmark
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- Carlsberg Research Laboratory, J.C. Jacobsens Gade 4, 1799, København V, Denmark
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 8227, Integrative Biology of Marine Models, Station Biologique de Roscoff, CS 90074, Roscoff, France
- CNRS, UMR 8227, Integrative Biology of Marine Models, Station Biologique de Roscoff, CS 90074, Roscoff, France
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 8227, Integrative Biology of Marine Models, Station Biologique de Roscoff, CS 90074, Roscoff, France
- CNRS, UMR 8227, Integrative Biology of Marine Models, Station Biologique de Roscoff, CS 90074, Roscoff, France
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- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensvej 40, 1871, Frederiksberg, Denmark.
- William G.T. Willats, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 8227, Integrative Biology of Marine Models, Station Biologique de Roscoff, CS 90074, Roscoff, France.
- CNRS, UMR 8227, Integrative Biology of Marine Models, Station Biologique de Roscoff, CS 90074, Roscoff, France.
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Accurate Quantification of Laminarin in Marine Organic Matter with Enzymes from Marine Microbes. Appl Environ Microbiol 2017; 83:AEM.03389-16. [PMID: 28213541 DOI: 10.1128/aem.03389-16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2016] [Accepted: 02/12/2017] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Marine algae produce a variety of glycans, which fulfill diverse biological functions and fuel the carbon and energy demands of heterotrophic microbes. A common approach to analysis of marine organic matter uses acid to hydrolyze the glycans into measurable monosaccharides. The monosaccharides may be derived from different glycans that are built with the same monosaccharides, however, and this approach does not distinguish between glycans in natural samples. Here we use enzymes to digest selectively and thereby quantify laminarin in particulate organic matter. Environmental metaproteome data revealed carbohydrate-active enzymes from marine flavobacteria as tools for selective hydrolysis of the algal β-glucan laminarin. The enzymes digested laminarin into glucose and oligosaccharides, which we measured with standard methods to establish the amounts of laminarin in the samples. We cloned, expressed, purified, and characterized three new glycoside hydrolases (GHs) of Formosa bacteria: two are endo-β-1,3-glucanases, of the GH16 and GH17 families, and the other is a GH30 exo-β-1,6-glucanase. Formosa sp. nov strain Hel1_33_131 GH30 (FbGH30) removed the β-1,6-glucose side chains, and Formosa agariphila GH17A (FaGH17A) and FaGH16A hydrolyzed the β-1,3-glucose backbone of laminarin. Specificity profiling with a library of glucan oligosaccharides and polysaccharides revealed that FaGH17A and FbGH30 were highly specific enzymes, while FaGH16A also hydrolyzed mixed-linked glucans with β-1,4-glucose. Therefore, we chose the more specific FaGH17A and FbGH30 to quantify laminarin in two cultured diatoms, namely, Thalassiosira weissflogii and Thalassiosira pseudonana, and in seawater samples from the North Sea and the Arctic Ocean. Combined, these results demonstrate the potential of enzymes for faster, stereospecific, and sequence-specific analysis of select glycans in marine organic matter.IMPORTANCE Marine algae synthesize substantial amounts of the glucose polymer laminarin for energy and carbon storage. Its concentrations, rates of production by autotrophic organisms, and rates of digestion by heterotrophic organisms remain unknown. Here we present a method based on enzymes that hydrolyze laminarin and enable its quantification even in crude substrate mixtures, without purification. Compared to the commonly used acid hydrolysis, the enzymatic method presented here is faster and stereospecific and selectively cleaves laminarin in mixtures of glycans, releasing only glucose and oligosaccharides, which can be easily quantified with reducing sugar assays.
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Qin Z, Yang S, Zhao L, You X, Yan Q, Jiang Z. Catalytic Mechanism of a Novel Glycoside Hydrolase Family 16 "Elongating" β-Transglycosylase. J Biol Chem 2017; 292:1666-1678. [PMID: 27956553 PMCID: PMC5290943 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m116.762419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2016] [Revised: 11/28/2016] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Carbohydrates are complex macromolecules in biological metabolism. Enzymatic synthesis of carbohydrates is recognized as a powerful tool to overcome the problems associated with large scale synthesis of carbohydrates. Novel enzymes with significant transglycosylation ability are still in great demand in glycobiology studies. Here we report a novel glycoside hydrolase family 16 "elongating" β-transglycosylase from Paecilomyces thermophila (PtBgt16A), which efficiently catalyzes the synthesis of higher polymeric oligosaccharides using β-1,3/1,4-oligosaccharides as donor/acceptor substrates. Further structural information reveals that PtBgt16A has a binding pocket around the -1 subsite. The catalytic mechanism of PtBgt16A is partly similar to an exo-glycoside hydrolase, which cleaves the substrate from the non-reducing end one by one. However, PtBgt16A releases the reducing end product and uses the remainder glucosyl as a transglycosylation donor. This catalytic mechanism has similarity with the catalytic mode of amylosucrase, which catalyzes the transglycosylation products gradually extend by one glucose unit. PtBgt16A thus has the potential to be a tool enzyme for the enzymatic synthesis of new β-oligosaccharides and glycoconjugates.
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- Zhen Qin
- From the Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Food Nutrition and Human Health, College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China; the School of Biotechnology, State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, Research and Development Center of Separation and Extraction Technology in Fermentation Industry, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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- From the Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Food Nutrition and Human Health, College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China
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- the School of Biotechnology, State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, Research and Development Center of Separation and Extraction Technology in Fermentation Industry, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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- the Bioresource Utilization Laboratory, College of Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China
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- the Bioresource Utilization Laboratory, College of Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China
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- From the Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Food Nutrition and Human Health, College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China.
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McGregor N, Yin V, Tung CC, Van Petegem F, Brumer H. Crystallographic insight into the evolutionary origins of xyloglucan endotransglycosylases and endohydrolases. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2017; 89:651-670. [PMID: 27859885 PMCID: PMC5315667 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2016] [Revised: 10/14/2016] [Accepted: 11/04/2016] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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The xyloglucan endotransglycosylase/hydrolase (XTH) gene family encodes enzymes of central importance to plant cell wall remodeling. The evolutionary history of plant XTH gene products is incompletely understood vis-à-vis the larger body of bacterial endoglycanases in Glycoside Hydrolase Family 16 (GH16). To provide molecular insight into this issue, high-resolution X-ray crystal structures and detailed enzyme kinetics of an extant transitional plant endoglucanase (EG) were determined. Functionally intermediate between plant XTH gene products and bacterial licheninases of GH16, Vitis vinifera EG16 (VvEG16) effectively catalyzes the hydrolysis of the backbones of two dominant plant cell wall matrix glycans, xyloglucan (XyG) and β(1,3)/β(1,4)-mixed-linkage glucan (MLG). Crystallographic complexes with extended oligosaccharide substrates reveal the structural basis for the accommodation of both unbranched, mixed-linked (MLG) and highly decorated, linear (XyG) polysaccharide chains in a broad, extended active-site cleft. Structural comparison with representative bacterial licheninases, a xyloglucan endotranglycosylase (XET), and a xyloglucan endohydrolase (XEH) outline the functional ramifications of key sequence deletions and insertions across the phylogenetic landscape of GH16. Although the biological role(s) of EG16 orthologs remains to be fully resolved, the present biochemical and tertiary structural characterization provides key insight into plant cell wall enzyme evolution, which will continue to inform genomic analyses and functional studies across species.
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- Nicholas McGregor
- Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia,
2185 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada
- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia,
2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia,
2185 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada
- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia,
2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
University of British Columbia, 2350 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver, British
Columbia V6T 1Z3, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
University of British Columbia, 2350 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver, British
Columbia V6T 1Z3, Canada
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- Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia,
2185 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada
- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia,
2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
University of British Columbia, 2350 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver, British
Columbia V6T 1Z3, Canada
- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, 6270
University Boulevard, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada
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Barbeyron T, Thomas F, Barbe V, Teeling H, Schenowitz C, Dossat C, Goesmann A, Leblanc C, Oliver Glöckner F, Czjzek M, Amann R, Michel G. Habitat and taxon as driving forces of carbohydrate catabolism in marine heterotrophic bacteria: example of the model algae-associated bacterium Zobellia galactanivorans Dsij T. Environ Microbiol 2016; 18:4610-4627. [PMID: 27768819 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13584] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2016] [Revised: 10/12/2016] [Accepted: 10/17/2016] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The marine flavobacterium Zobellia galactanivorans DsijT was isolated from a red alga and by now constitutes a model for studying algal polysaccharide bioconversions. We present an in-depth analysis of its complete genome and link it to physiological traits. Z. galactanivorans exhibited the highest gene numbers for glycoside hydrolases, polysaccharide lyases and carbohydrate esterases and the second highest sulfatase gene number in a comparison to 125 other marine heterotrophic bacteria (MHB) genomes. Its genome contains 50 polysaccharide utilization loci, 22 of which contain sulfatase genes. Catabolic profiling confirmed a pronounced capacity for using algal polysaccharides and degradation of most polysaccharides could be linked to dedicated genes. Physiological and biochemical tests revealed that Z. galactanivorans stores and recycles glycogen, despite loss of several classic glycogen-related genes. Similar gene losses were observed in most Flavobacteriia, suggesting presence of an atypical glycogen metabolism in this class. Z. galactanivorans features numerous adaptive traits for algae-associated life, such as consumption of seaweed exudates, iodine metabolism and methylotrophy, indicating that this bacterium is well equipped to form profitable, stable interactions with macroalgae. Finally, using statistical and clustering analyses of the MHB genomes we show that their carbohydrate catabolism correlates with both taxonomy and habitat.
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- Tristan Barbeyron
- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, UMR 8227, Integrative Biology of Marine Models, Station Biologique de Roscoff, Roscoff, Bretagne, CS 90074, France
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, UMR 8227, Integrative Biology of Marine Models, Station Biologique de Roscoff, Roscoff, Bretagne, CS 90074, France
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- Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (CEA), institut de génomique (IG), Génoscope, 2, rue Gaston Crémieux, BP5706, 91057, Évry, France
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- Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Celsiusstraße 1, Bremen, Germany
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- Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (CEA), institut de génomique (IG), Génoscope, 2, rue Gaston Crémieux, BP5706, 91057, Évry, France
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- Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (CEA), institut de génomique (IG), Génoscope, 2, rue Gaston Crémieux, BP5706, 91057, Évry, France
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- Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Gießen, Germany
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, UMR 8227, Integrative Biology of Marine Models, Station Biologique de Roscoff, Roscoff, Bretagne, CS 90074, France
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- Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Celsiusstraße 1, Bremen, Germany.,Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH, Campusring 1, Bremen, Germany
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, UMR 8227, Integrative Biology of Marine Models, Station Biologique de Roscoff, Roscoff, Bretagne, CS 90074, France
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- Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Celsiusstraße 1, Bremen, Germany
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, UMR 8227, Integrative Biology of Marine Models, Station Biologique de Roscoff, Roscoff, Bretagne, CS 90074, France
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Effective production of fermentable sugars from brown macroalgae biomass. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2016; 100:9439-9450. [DOI: 10.1007/s00253-016-7857-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2016] [Revised: 09/06/2016] [Accepted: 09/13/2016] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Bennke CM, Krüger K, Kappelmann L, Huang S, Gobet A, Schüler M, Barbe V, Fuchs BM, Michel G, Teeling H, Amann RI. Polysaccharide utilisation loci ofBacteroidetesfrom two contrasting open ocean sites in the North Atlantic. Environ Microbiol 2016; 18:4456-4470. [DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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- Christin M. Bennke
- Max-Planck-Institute for Marine Microbiology, Department of Molecular Ecology; Celsiusstraße 1 28359 Bremen Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institute for Marine Microbiology, Department of Molecular Ecology; Celsiusstraße 1 28359 Bremen Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institute for Marine Microbiology, Department of Molecular Ecology; Celsiusstraße 1 28359 Bremen Germany
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- Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures; Inhoffenstraße 7B 38124 Braunschweig Germany
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- Sorbonne Université, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, UMR 8227, Integrative Biology of Marine Models; Station Biologique de Roscoff, CS 90074 F-29688 Roscoff cedex Bretagne France
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- University of Bayreuth; Biologie / Elektronenmikroskopie B1, Universitätsstraße 30 95447 Bayreuth Germany
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- Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire pour l'Étude des Génomes, C.E.A, Institut de Génomique - Genoscope; 2 rue Gaston Crémieux 91057 Évry cedex France
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- Max-Planck-Institute for Marine Microbiology, Department of Molecular Ecology; Celsiusstraße 1 28359 Bremen Germany
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- Sorbonne Université, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, UMR 8227, Integrative Biology of Marine Models; Station Biologique de Roscoff, CS 90074 F-29688 Roscoff cedex Bretagne France
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- Max-Planck-Institute for Marine Microbiology, Department of Molecular Ecology; Celsiusstraße 1 28359 Bremen Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institute for Marine Microbiology, Department of Molecular Ecology; Celsiusstraße 1 28359 Bremen Germany
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Jam M, Ficko-Blean E, Labourel A, Larocque R, Czjzek M, Michel G. Unraveling the multivalent binding of a marine family 6 carbohydrate-binding module with its native laminarin ligand. FEBS J 2016; 283:1863-79. [DOI: 10.1111/febs.13707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2015] [Revised: 02/12/2016] [Accepted: 03/07/2016] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Murielle Jam
- Sorbonne Université; UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, UMR 8227; Integrative Biology of Marine Models; Station Biologique de Roscoff; Roscoff Cedex Bretagne France
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- Sorbonne Université; UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, UMR 8227; Integrative Biology of Marine Models; Station Biologique de Roscoff; Roscoff Cedex Bretagne France
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- Sorbonne Université; UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, UMR 8227; Integrative Biology of Marine Models; Station Biologique de Roscoff; Roscoff Cedex Bretagne France
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- Sorbonne Université; UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, UMR 8227; Integrative Biology of Marine Models; Station Biologique de Roscoff; Roscoff Cedex Bretagne France
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- Sorbonne Université; UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, UMR 8227; Integrative Biology of Marine Models; Station Biologique de Roscoff; Roscoff Cedex Bretagne France
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- Sorbonne Université; UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, UMR 8227; Integrative Biology of Marine Models; Station Biologique de Roscoff; Roscoff Cedex Bretagne France
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Crystal structural basis for Rv0315, an immunostimulatory antigen and inactive beta-1,3-glucanase of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Sci Rep 2015; 5:15073. [PMID: 26469317 PMCID: PMC4606783 DOI: 10.1038/srep15073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2015] [Accepted: 09/15/2015] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, as two billion people are latently infected with Mtb. To address Mtb drug resistance and the limitations of current vaccines, the characteristics of candidate Mtb vaccines need to be explored. Here, we report the three-dimensional structure of Rv0315 at 1.70 Å resolution, a novel immunostimulatory antigen of Mtb, and demonstrate that Rv0315 is an inactive β-1,3-glucanase of the glycoside hydrolase 16 (GH16) family. Our study further elaborates the molecular basis for the lack of glucan recognition by Rv0315. Rv0315 has a large open groove, and this particular topology cannot bind oligosaccharide chains in solution, thus explaining the lack of detectable hydrolytic activity towards its substrate. Additionally, we identified Glu-176, a conserved catalytic residue in GH16 endo-β-1,3-glucanases, as essential for Rv0315 to induce immunological responses. These results indicate that Rv0315 likely diverged from a broad-specificity ancestral GH16 glucanase, and this inactive member of the GH16 family offers new insights into the GH16 glucanase. Together, our findings suggest that an inactive β-1,3-glucanase in Mtb drives T-helper 1 (Th1) immune responses, which may help develop more effective vaccines against Mtb infection.
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Bianchetti CM, Takasuka TE, Deutsch S, Udell HS, Yik EJ, Bergeman LF, Fox BG. Active site and laminarin binding in glycoside hydrolase family 55. J Biol Chem 2015; 290:11819-32. [PMID: 25752603 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m114.623579] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2014] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The Carbohydrate Active Enzyme (CAZy) database indicates that glycoside hydrolase family 55 (GH55) contains both endo- and exo-β-1,3-glucanases. The founding structure in the GH55 is PcLam55A from the white rot fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium (Ishida, T., Fushinobu, S., Kawai, R., Kitaoka, M., Igarashi, K., and Samejima, M. (2009) Crystal structure of glycoside hydrolase family 55 β-1,3-glucanase from the basidiomycete Phanerochaete chrysosporium. J. Biol. Chem. 284, 10100-10109). Here, we present high resolution crystal structures of bacterial SacteLam55A from the highly cellulolytic Streptomyces sp. SirexAA-E with bound substrates and product. These structures, along with mutagenesis and kinetic studies, implicate Glu-502 as the catalytic acid (as proposed earlier for Glu-663 in PcLam55A) and a proton relay network of four residues in activating water as the nucleophile. Further, a set of conserved aromatic residues that define the active site apparently enforce an exo-glucanase reactivity as demonstrated by exhaustive hydrolysis reactions with purified laminarioligosaccharides. Two additional aromatic residues that line the substrate-binding channel show substrate-dependent conformational flexibility that may promote processive reactivity of the bound oligosaccharide in the bacterial enzymes. Gene synthesis carried out on ∼30% of the GH55 family gave 34 active enzymes (19% functional coverage of the nonredundant members of GH55). These active enzymes reacted with only laminarin from a panel of 10 different soluble and insoluble polysaccharides and displayed a broad range of specific activities and optima for pH and temperature. Application of this experimental method provides a new, systematic way to annotate glycoside hydrolase phylogenetic space for functional properties.
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- Christopher M Bianchetti
- From the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, the Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Oshkosh, Wisconsin 54901
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- From the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, the Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8589, Japan
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- the Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California 94598, and
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- From the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
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- the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University-Fullerton, Fullerton, California 92831
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- From the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
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- From the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706,
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