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Gomes Von Borowski R, Chat S, Schneider R, Nonin-Lecomte S, Bouaziz S, Giudice E, Rigon Zimmer A, Baggio Gnoatto SC, Macedo AJ, Gillet R. Capsicumicine, a New Bioinspired Peptide from Red Peppers Prevents Staphylococcal Biofilm In Vitro and In Vivo via a Matrix Anti-Assembly Mechanism of Action. Microbiol Spectr 2021; 9:e0047121. [PMID: 34704807 PMCID: PMC8549733 DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.00471-21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2021] [Accepted: 09/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Staphylococci are pathogenic biofilm-forming bacteria and a source of multidrug resistance and/or tolerance causing a broad spectrum of infections. These bacteria are enclosed in a matrix that allows them to colonize medical devices, such as catheters and tissues, and that protects against antibiotics and immune systems. Advances in antibiofilm strategies for targeting this matrix are therefore extremely relevant. Here, we describe the development of the Capsicum pepper bioinspired peptide "capsicumicine." By using microbiological, microscopic, and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) approaches, we demonstrate that capsicumicine strongly prevents methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis biofilm via an extracellular "matrix anti-assembly" mechanism of action. The results were confirmed in vivo in a translational preclinical model that mimics medical device-related infection. Since capsicumicine is not cytotoxic, it is a promising candidate for complementary treatment of infectious diseases. IMPORTANCE Pathogenic biofilms are a global health care concern, as they can cause extensive antibiotic resistance, morbidity, mortality, and thereby substantial economic loss. So far, no effective treatments targeting the bacteria in biofilms have been developed. Plants are constantly attacked by a wide range of pathogens and have protective factors, such as peptides, to defend themselves. These peptides are common components in Capsicum baccatum (red pepper). Here, we provide insights into an antibiofilm strategy based on the development of capsicumicine, a natural peptide that strongly controls biofilm formation by Staphylococcus epidermidis, the most prevalent pathogen in device-related infections.
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- Rafael Gomes Von Borowski
- Université de Rennes, CNRS, Institut de Génétique et de Développement de Rennes (IGDR), UMR6290, Rennes, France
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Farmacêuticas, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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- Université de Rennes, CNRS, Institut de Génétique et de Développement de Rennes (IGDR), UMR6290, Rennes, France
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- Université de Rennes, CNRS, Institut de Génétique et de Développement de Rennes (IGDR), UMR6290, Rennes, France
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Farmacêuticas, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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- Université de Paris, CNRS, CiTCoM (Cibles Thérapeutiques et Conception de Médicaments) UMR 8038, Faculté de Pharmacie, Paris, France
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- Université de Paris, CNRS, CiTCoM (Cibles Thérapeutiques et Conception de Médicaments) UMR 8038, Faculté de Pharmacie, Paris, France
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- Université de Rennes, CNRS, Institut de Génétique et de Développement de Rennes (IGDR), UMR6290, Rennes, France
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Farmacêuticas, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Farmacêuticas, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Farmacêuticas, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Centro de Biotecnologia da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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- Université de Rennes, CNRS, Institut de Génétique et de Développement de Rennes (IGDR), UMR6290, Rennes, France
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Balandin SV, Ovchinnikova TV. Antimicrobial peptides of invertebrates. Part 1. structure, biosynthesis, and evolution. RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY 2016. [DOI: 10.1134/s1068162016030055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Carvalho CC, Phan NN, Chen Y, Reilly PJ. Carbohydrate-binding module tribes. Biopolymers 2016; 103:203-14. [PMID: 25381933 DOI: 10.1002/bip.22584] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2014] [Revised: 10/28/2014] [Accepted: 10/31/2014] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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At present, 69 families of carbohydrate-binding modules (CBMs) have been isolated by statistically significant differences in the amino acid sequences (primary structures) of their members, with most members of different families showing little if any homology. On the other hand, members of the same family have primary and tertiary (three-dimensional) structures that can be computationally aligned, suggesting that they are descended from common protein ancestors. Members of the large majority of CBM families are β-sandwiches. This raises the question of whether members of different families are descended from distant common ancestors, and therefore are members of the same tribe. We have attacked this problem by attempting to computationally superimpose tertiary structure representatives of each of the 53 CBM families that have members with known tertiary structures. When successful, we have aligned locations of secondary structure elements and determined root mean square deviations and percentages of similarity between adjacent amino acid residues in structures from similar families. Further criteria leading to tribal membership are amino acid chain lengths and bound ligands. These considerations have led us to assign 27 families to nine tribes. Eight of the tribes have members with β-sandwich structures, while the ninth is composed of structures with β-trefoils.
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- Caio C Carvalho
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 50011
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Wang WJ, Cheng W, Luo M, Yan Q, Yu HM, Li Q, Cao DD, Huang S, Xu A, Mariuzza RA, Chen Y, Zhou CZ. Activity Augmentation of Amphioxus Peptidoglycan Recognition Protein BbtPGRP3 via Fusion with a Chitin Binding Domain. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0140953. [PMID: 26479246 PMCID: PMC4610682 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0140953] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2015] [Accepted: 10/02/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Peptidoglycan recognition proteins (PGRPs), which have been identified in most animals, are pattern recognition molecules that involve antimicrobial defense. Resulting from extraordinary expansion of innate immune genes, the amphioxus encodes many PGRPs of diverse functions. For instance, three isoforms of PGRP encoded by Branchiostoma belcheri tsingtauense, termed BbtPGRP1~3, are fused with a chitin binding domain (CBD) at the N-terminus. Here we report the 2.7 Å crystal structure of BbtPGRP3, revealing an overall structure of an N-terminal hevein-like CBD followed by a catalytic PGRP domain. Activity assays combined with site-directed mutagenesis indicated that the individual PGRP domain exhibits amidase activity towards both DAP-type and Lys-type peptidoglycans (PGNs), the former of which is favored. The N-terminal CBD not only has the chitin-binding activity, but also enables BbtPGRP3 to gain a five-fold increase of amidase activity towards the Lys-type PGNs, leading to a significantly broadened substrate spectrum. Together, we propose that modular evolution via domain shuffling combined with gene horizontal transfer makes BbtPGRP1~3 novel PGRPs of augmented catalytic activity and broad recognition spectrum.
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- Wen-Jie Wang
- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and the Innovation Center for Cell Signaling Network, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and the Innovation Center for Cell Signaling Network, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and the Innovation Center for Cell Signaling Network, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Functional Genes, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and the Innovation Center for Cell Signaling Network, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and the Innovation Center for Cell Signaling Network, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and the Innovation Center for Cell Signaling Network, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Functional Genes, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Functional Genes, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- University of Maryland Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research, W. M. Keck Laboratory for Structural Biology, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and the Innovation Center for Cell Signaling Network, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China
- * E-mail: (YC); (CZZ)
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and the Innovation Center for Cell Signaling Network, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China
- * E-mail: (YC); (CZZ)
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Loongyai W, Avarre JC, Cerutti M, Lubzens E, Chotigeat W. Isolation and functional characterization of a new shrimp ovarian peritrophin with antimicrobial activity from Fenneropenaeus merguiensis. MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2007; 9:624-37. [PMID: 17641929 DOI: 10.1007/s10126-007-9019-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2006] [Revised: 04/03/2007] [Accepted: 04/05/2007] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Shrimp ovarian peritrophin (SOP), a major protein in jelly layer (JL) and cortical rods (CRs), is proposed to play a role in the protection of spawned eggs. The full sequence of SOP cDNA from Fenneropenaeus merguiensis (Fm-SOP) shares approximately 50% identity with other SOP sequences and contains several putative chitin-binding or peritrophin-A domains. Interestingly, Fm-SOP contains a putative 61-amino acid propeptide located at the N-terminal end, downstream of a 19-amino acid signal peptide, which is unique among penaeid SOP sequences described so far. This 61-amino-acid sequence constitutes a putative chitin-binding domain with six conserved cysteines, and is cleaved at a dibasic recognition site for a furin (subtilisin-like endoprotease). Expression analyses indicated that Fm-SOP mRNA is abundant in early vitellogenic ovaries and scarce in late-vitellogenic ovaries. Conversely, Fm-SOP protein is the most abundant at the end of vitellogenesis. To investigate its biological function, a recombinant Fm-SOP was expressed to generate a glycosylated protein in Spodoptera frugiperda Sf9 cells (rSOP-Sf9) and a nonglycosylated protein (rSOP-Ec) in Escherichia coli. rSOP-Sf9 and rSOP-Ec were found to bind to chitin, similarly to the native protein extracted from F. merguiensis ovaries. Most interestingly, rSOP-Ec displayed a chitinase activity and efficiently inhibited the growth of Vibrio harveyi and Staphylococcus aureus, with minimum inhibitory concentrations of 2.4 and 15.7 microM, respectively. This first report shows that a major component of CR and JL is biologically active against known pathogens and predicts a significant role of JL in the protection of the spawned eggs against pathogens.
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- Wiriya Loongyai
- Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics Research, Faculty of Science, Prince of Songkla University, Hatyai, Songkla, Thailand
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Jiménez-Barbero J, Javier Cañada F, Asensio JL, Aboitiz N, Vidal P, Canales A, Groves P, Gabius HJ, Siebert HC. Hevein Domains: An Attractive Model to Study Carbohydrate–Protein Interactions at Atomic Resolution. Adv Carbohydr Chem Biochem 2006; 60:303-54. [PMID: 16750446 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-2318(06)60007-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Bachère E, Gueguen Y, Gonzalez M, de Lorgeril J, Garnier J, Romestand B. Insights into the anti-microbial defense of marine invertebrates: the penaeid shrimps and the oyster Crassostrea gigas. Immunol Rev 2004; 198:149-68. [PMID: 15199961 DOI: 10.1111/j.0105-2896.2004.00115.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 366] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Research on innate immunity of the penaeid shrimps and the oyster Crassostrea gigas is motivated greatly by economical necessities. Indeed, the aquaculture of these organisms is now limited by the development of infectious diseases. Studying anti-microbial peptides/proteins (AMPs), which are effector molecules of the host defense, is particularly attractive not only for progressing basic knowledge on immunity but also because they offer various possible applications for disease management in aquaculture. AMPs are explored with a global approach,considering their structure, properties, function, gene expression, and tissue distribution during the response to infections. In shrimp, investigations of the penaeidins, which are constitutively expressed peptides, have highlighted the importance of hemocytes and hematopoiesis as major elements of the immune response, providing both local and systemic reactions. The activation of hematopoiesis must be regarded as a regulatory way for the expression and distribution of constitutively expressed immune effectors. As complementary approaches, genomics and gene profiling are promising to deepen our understanding of the anti-microbial defense of the oyster and the shrimp. However, real progress will depend also on the characterization of hemocyte lineages and hematopoiesis of these marine invertebrates as well as on the ontogenesis of their immune systems.
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- Evelyne Bachère
- IFREMER-CNRS-UMII, Université de Montpellier II, Montpellier Cedex, France.
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van den Burg HA, Spronk CAEM, Boeren S, Kennedy MA, Vissers JPC, Vuister GW, de Wit PJGM, Vervoort J. Binding of the AVR4 elicitor of Cladosporium fulvum to chitotriose units is facilitated by positive allosteric protein-protein interactions: the chitin-binding site of AVR4 represents a novel binding site on the folding scaffold shared between the invertebrate and the plant chitin-binding domain. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:16786-96. [PMID: 14769793 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m312594200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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The attack of fungal cell walls by plant chitinases is an important plant defense response to fungal infection. Anti-fungal activity of plant chitinases is largely restricted to chitinases that contain a noncatalytic, plant-specific chitin-binding domain (ChBD) (also called Hevein domain). Current data confirm that the race-specific elicitor AVR4 of the tomato pathogen Cladosporium fulvum can protect fungi against plant chitinases, which is based on the presence of a novel type of ChBD in AVR4 that was first identified in invertebrates. Although these two classes of ChBDs (Hevein and invertebrate) are sequentially unrelated, they share structural homology. Here, we show that the chitin-binding sites of these two classes of ChBDs have different topologies and characteristics. The K(D), DeltaH, and DeltaS values obtained for the interaction between AVR4 and chito-oligomers are comparable with those obtained for Hevein. However, the binding site of AVR4 is larger than that of Hevein, i.e. AVR4 interacts strictly with chitotriose, whereas Hevein can also interact with the monomer N-acetylglucosamine. Moreover, binding of additional AVR4 molecules to chitin occurs through positive cooperative protein-protein interactions. By this mechanism AVR4 is likely to effectively shield chitin on the fungal cell wall, preventing the cell wall from being degraded by plant chitinases.
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- Harrold A van den Burg
- Laboratorie of Biochemistry, Wageningen University, NL-6703 HA Wageningen, The Netherlands
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