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Charlier P, Augias A, Weil R, Bouchet F, Poupon J, Popescu MS, Decloquement P, Azza S, Angelakis E, Richardin P, Colson P, Dubourg G, Million M, Raoult D. Scurvy complicated with Capnocytophaga sputigena sepsis as a possible cause of death of king Saint-Louis of France (1270 AD). Microb Pathog 2023; 185:106399. [PMID: 37884212 DOI: 10.1016/j.micpath.2023.106399] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2023] [Accepted: 10/17/2023] [Indexed: 10/28/2023]
Abstract
The cause of death of Saint-Louis is not known, but recent findings indicated that he presented scurvy and inflammatory jaw disease, which has been associated with infection by oral commensals. Here, we have the exceptional opportunity to analyze the relics of the viscera of King Saint-Louis. A 4.3 g sample from the viscera relics of King Saint-Louis conserved in Versailles' cathedral was subjected to radiocarbon dating, electronic and optic microscopy, and elementary, palynological, molecular, proteomics and microbiological analyses including specific PCR and v3v4 16 S rRNA gene amplification prior to large-scale sequencing using an Illumina MiSeq instrument. The measured radiocarbon age was Cal 1290 CE-1400, which was compatible with that of the viscera of St Louis viscera, considering the addition of lime, incense and vegetables within the human organs. Elemental and palynological analyses confirmed a medieval embalming process. Proteomics analysis identified mainly human muscle and blood proteins. Specific PCR for plague, amoebiasis, shigellosis and typhoid fever was negative. C. sputigena was identified as the main pathogenic species representing 10.8 % of all microbial sequences. In contrast, C. sputigena was found in only 0.001 % of samples sequenced in our center, and the 23 positive human samples showed a dramatically lower abundance (0.02-2.6 %). In the literature, human infections with C. sputigena included odontitis, dental abscess, sinusitis, thoracic infections and bacteremia, particularly in immunocompromised patients with oral and dental diseases consistent with recent analysis of King Saint-Louis' jaw. C. sputigena, a commensal of the mouth that is potentially pathogenic and responsible for fatal bacteremia, may have been the cause of the king's death.
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- Philippe Charlier
- Laboratory Anthropology, Archaeology, Biology (LAAB), UFR of Health Sciences (UVSQ), Paris-Saclay University, 2 Avenue de La Source de La Bièvre, 78180, Montigny-Le-Bretonneux, France; Museum of Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, 222 Rue de L'Université, 75007, Paris, France; Fondation Anthropologie, Archéologie, Biologie (FAAB) - Institut de France, Palais de L'Institut, 23 Quai de Conti, 75006, Paris, France.
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- Laboratory Anthropology, Archaeology, Biology (LAAB), UFR of Health Sciences (UVSQ), Paris-Saclay University, 2 Avenue de La Source de La Bièvre, 78180, Montigny-Le-Bretonneux, France
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- Laboratory Anthropology, Archaeology, Biology (LAAB), UFR of Health Sciences (UVSQ), Paris-Saclay University, 2 Avenue de La Source de La Bièvre, 78180, Montigny-Le-Bretonneux, France; Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, Cedex, 91405, France
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- Académie Nationale de Pharmacie, Avenue de L'Observatoire, 75006, Paris, France
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- Laboratory Anthropology, Archaeology, Biology (LAAB), UFR of Health Sciences (UVSQ), Paris-Saclay University, 2 Avenue de La Source de La Bièvre, 78180, Montigny-Le-Bretonneux, France; Laboratoire de Toxicologie Biologique, CHU Lariboisière (AP-HP), 2 Rue Ambroise Paré, 75010, Paris, France
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- Aix Marseille University, IRD, APHM, MEPHI, Marseille, France; IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France
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- Aix Marseille University, IRD, APHM, MEPHI, Marseille, France; IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France
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- Laboratory of Medical Microbiology, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Athens, Greece
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- Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France (C2RMF), Palais Du Louvre, Porte des Lions, 14 Quai François Mitterrand, 75001, Paris, France; UMR 7055, Préhistoire et Technologie (Pretech), Université Paris Nanterre / CNRS, 21 Allée de L'Université, 92023, Nanterre Cedex, France
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- Aix Marseille University, IRD, APHM, MEPHI, Marseille, France; IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France
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- Aix Marseille University, IRD, APHM, MEPHI, Marseille, France; IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France
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- Aix Marseille University, IRD, APHM, MEPHI, Marseille, France; IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France
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- Aix Marseille University, IRD, APHM, MEPHI, Marseille, France; IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France
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Diene SM, Pontarotti P, Azza S, Armstrong N, Pinault L, Chabrière E, Colson P, Rolain JM, Raoult D. Origin, Diversity, and Multiple Roles of Enzymes with Metallo-β-Lactamase Fold from Different Organisms. Cells 2023; 12:1752. [PMID: 37443786 PMCID: PMC10340364 DOI: 10.3390/cells12131752] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2023] [Revised: 06/23/2023] [Accepted: 06/28/2023] [Indexed: 07/15/2023] Open
Abstract
β-lactamase enzymes have generated significant interest due to their ability to confer resistance to the most commonly used family of antibiotics in human medicine. Among these enzymes, the class B β-lactamases are members of a superfamily of metallo-β-lactamase (MβL) fold proteins which are characterised by conserved motifs (i.e., HxHxDH) and are not only limited to bacteria. Indeed, as the result of several barriers, including low sequence similarity, default protein annotation, or untested enzymatic activity, MβL fold proteins have long been unexplored in other organisms. However, thanks to search approaches which are more sensitive compared to classical Blast analysis, such as the use of common ancestors to identify distant homologous sequences, we are now able to highlight their presence in different organisms including Bacteria, Archaea, Nanoarchaeota, Asgard, Humans, Giant viruses, and Candidate Phyla Radiation (CPR). These MβL fold proteins are multifunctional enzymes with diverse enzymatic or non-enzymatic activities of which, at least thirteen activities have been reported such as β-lactamase, ribonuclease, nuclease, glyoxalase, lactonase, phytase, ascorbic acid degradation, anti-cancer drug degradation, or membrane transport. In this review, we (i) discuss the existence of MβL fold enzymes in the different domains of life, (ii) present more suitable approaches to better investigating their homologous sequences in unsuspected sources, and (iii) report described MβL fold enzymes with demonstrated enzymatic or non-enzymatic activities.
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- Seydina M. Diene
- MEPHI, IRD, AP-HM, IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Aix Marseille University, 13005 Marseille, France
- IHU-Méditerranée Infection, 13005 Marseille, France; (S.A.)
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- MEPHI, IRD, AP-HM, IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Aix Marseille University, 13005 Marseille, France
- IHU-Méditerranée Infection, 13005 Marseille, France; (S.A.)
- CNRS SNC5039, 13005 Marseille, France
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- IHU-Méditerranée Infection, 13005 Marseille, France; (S.A.)
- Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille (AP-HM), IHU-Méditerranée Infection, 13005 Marseille, France
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- IHU-Méditerranée Infection, 13005 Marseille, France; (S.A.)
- Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille (AP-HM), IHU-Méditerranée Infection, 13005 Marseille, France
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- IHU-Méditerranée Infection, 13005 Marseille, France; (S.A.)
- Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille (AP-HM), IHU-Méditerranée Infection, 13005 Marseille, France
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- MEPHI, IRD, AP-HM, IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Aix Marseille University, 13005 Marseille, France
- IHU-Méditerranée Infection, 13005 Marseille, France; (S.A.)
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- MEPHI, IRD, AP-HM, IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Aix Marseille University, 13005 Marseille, France
- IHU-Méditerranée Infection, 13005 Marseille, France; (S.A.)
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- MEPHI, IRD, AP-HM, IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Aix Marseille University, 13005 Marseille, France
- IHU-Méditerranée Infection, 13005 Marseille, France; (S.A.)
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- IHU-Méditerranée Infection, 13005 Marseille, France; (S.A.)
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Diene SM, Pinault L, Baron SA, Azza S, Armstrong N, Hadjadj L, Chabrière E, Rolain JM, Pontarotti P, Raoult D. A metallo-β-lactamase enzyme for internal detoxification of the antibiotic thienamycin. Sci Rep 2021; 11:10062. [PMID: 33980996 PMCID: PMC8115136 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-89600-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2021] [Accepted: 04/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
Abstract
Thienamycin, the first representative of carbapenem antibiotics was discovered in the mid-1970s from soil microorganism, Streptomyces cattleya, during the race to discover inhibitors of bacterial peptidoglycan synthesis. Chemically modified into imipenem (N-formimidoyl thienamycin), now one of the most clinically important antibiotics, thienamycin is encoded by a thienamycin gene cluster composed of 22 genes (thnA to thnV) from S. cattleya NRRL 8057 genome. Interestingly, the role of all thn-genes has been experimentally demonstrated in the thienamycin biosynthesis, except thnS, despite its annotation as putative β-lactamase. Here, we expressed thnS gene and investigated its activities against various substrates. Our analyses revealed that ThnS belonged to the superfamily of metallo-β-lactamase fold proteins. Compared to known β-lactamases such as OXA-48 and NDM-1, ThnS exhibited a lower affinity and less efficiency toward penicillin G and cefotaxime, while imipenem is more actively hydrolysed. Moreover, like most MBL fold enzymes, additional enzymatic activities of ThnS were detected such as hydrolysis of ascorbic acid, single strand DNA, and ribosomal RNA. ThnS appears as a MBL enzyme with multiple activities including a specialised β-lactamase activity toward imipenem. Thus, like toxin/antitoxin systems, the role of thnS gene within the thienamycin gene cluster appears as an antidote against the produced thienamycin.
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- Seydina M Diene
- IRD, APHM, MEPHI, IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Aix Marseille Univ, 19-21 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13005, Marseille, France.,IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France
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- Publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille (AP-HM), IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France.,IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France
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- Publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille (AP-HM), IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France.,IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France
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- IRD, APHM, MEPHI, IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Aix Marseille Univ, 19-21 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13005, Marseille, France.,IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France
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- Publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille (AP-HM), IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France.,IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France
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- IRD, APHM, MEPHI, IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Aix Marseille Univ, 19-21 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13005, Marseille, France.,IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France
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- IRD, APHM, MEPHI, IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Aix Marseille Univ, 19-21 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13005, Marseille, France.,IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France
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- IRD, APHM, MEPHI, IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Aix Marseille Univ, 19-21 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13005, Marseille, France.,IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France
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- IRD, APHM, MEPHI, IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Aix Marseille Univ, 19-21 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13005, Marseille, France.,IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France.,CNRS, Marseille, France
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- IRD, APHM, MEPHI, IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Aix Marseille Univ, 19-21 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13005, Marseille, France. .,IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France.
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Caputo A, Lagier JC, Azza S, Robert C, Mouelhi D, Fournier PE, Raoult D. Microvirga massiliensis sp. nov., the human commensal with the largest genome. Microbiologyopen 2016; 5:307-22. [PMID: 26749561 PMCID: PMC4831475 DOI: 10.1002/mbo3.329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2015] [Revised: 11/12/2015] [Accepted: 11/19/2015] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Microvirga massiliensis sp. nov. strain JC119(T) is a bacteria isolated in Marseille from a stool sample collected in Senegal. The 16S rRNA (JF824802) of M. massiliensis JC119(T) revealed 95% sequence identity with Microvirga lotononidis WSM3557(T) (HM362432). This bacterium is aerobic, gram negative, catalase positive, and oxidase negative. The draft genome of M. massiliensis JC119(T) comprises a 9,207,211-bp-long genome that is the largest bacterial genome of an isolate in humans. The genome exhibits a G+C content of 63.28% and contains 8685 protein-coding genes and 77 RNA genes, including 21 rRNA genes. Here, we describe the features of M. massiliensis JC119(T), together with the genome sequence information and its annotation.
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- Aurélia Caputo
- Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Émergentes, CNRS, UMR 7278 - IRD 198, Faculté de médecine, Aix-Marseille Université, 27 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13385, Marseille Cedex 05, France
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- Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Émergentes, CNRS, UMR 7278 - IRD 198, Faculté de médecine, Aix-Marseille Université, 27 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13385, Marseille Cedex 05, France
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- Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Émergentes, CNRS, UMR 7278 - IRD 198, Faculté de médecine, Aix-Marseille Université, 27 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13385, Marseille Cedex 05, France
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- Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Émergentes, CNRS, UMR 7278 - IRD 198, Faculté de médecine, Aix-Marseille Université, 27 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13385, Marseille Cedex 05, France
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- Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Émergentes, CNRS, UMR 7278 - IRD 198, Faculté de médecine, Aix-Marseille Université, 27 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13385, Marseille Cedex 05, France
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- Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Émergentes, CNRS, UMR 7278 - IRD 198, Faculté de médecine, Aix-Marseille Université, 27 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13385, Marseille Cedex 05, France
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- Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Émergentes, CNRS, UMR 7278 - IRD 198, Faculté de médecine, Aix-Marseille Université, 27 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13385, Marseille Cedex 05, France.,Special Infectious Agents Unit, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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Temmam S, Monteil-Bouchard S, Sambou M, Aubadie-Ladrix M, Azza S, Decloquement P, Khalil JYB, Baudoin JP, Jardot P, Robert C, La Scola B, Mediannikov OY, Raoult D, Desnues C. Faustovirus-Like Asfarvirus in Hematophagous Biting Midges and Their Vertebrate Hosts. Front Microbiol 2015; 6:1406. [PMID: 26733117 PMCID: PMC4679923 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2015] [Accepted: 11/25/2015] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
Abstract
Faustovirus, a new Asfarviridae-related giant virus, was recently isolated in Vermamoeba vermiformis, a protist found in sewage water in various geographical locations and occasionally reported in human eye infection cases. As part of a global metagenomic analysis of viral communities existing in biting midges, we report here for the first time the identification and isolation of a Faustovirus-like virus in hematophagous arthropods and its detection in their animal hosts. The DNA virome analysis of three pools of Culicoides sp., engorged female Culicoides imicola and non-engorged male/female C. imicola biting midges collected in Senegal, revealed the presence of amoeba-infecting giant viruses and, among them, a majority of sequences related to Faustovirus. Phylogenetic analyses conducted on several structural genes of Faustovirus confirmed the clustering of the arthropod-borne Faustovirus with sewage-borne Faustoviruses, with a distinct geographical clustering of Senegalese Faustovirus strains. Transmission electron microscopy identified viral particles with morphologies and diameters which were compatible with Faustovirus. The presence of infectious arthropod-borne Faustovirus was finally confirmed by successful isolation on V. vermiformis amoeba. Global proteomic analysis of biting midges identified that arthropods' blood meal originating from cattle, rodents and humans. Further screening of cattle sera and rodent tissue resulted in prevalence of Faustovirus being estimated at 38% in rodents and 14% in cattle, suggesting a possible origin of Faustovirus presence in arthropods via the ingestion of contaminated blood meal. Viral loads were the highest in rodents' urine and kidney samples, suggesting a possible excretion of viral particles into the environment. Faustovirus DNA polymerase-related sequences were also detected in more than 9 and 11% of febrile patients and healthy Senegalese human sera, respectively. Our study thus, highlights the need to investigate the role of arthropods, wildlife, and domestic animals in the lifecycle of amoeba-infecting giant viruses and, in particular, the environmental cycle of Faustovirus.
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- Sarah Temmam
- Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes, UM63 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 7278 IRD 198 Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U1095, Aix-Marseille Université Marseille, France
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- Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes, UM63 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 7278 IRD 198 Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U1095, Aix-Marseille Université Marseille, France
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- Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes, UM63 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 7278 IRD 198 Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U1095, Aix-Marseille Université Dakar, Senegal
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- Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes, UM63 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 7278 IRD 198 Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U1095, Aix-Marseille Université Dakar, Senegal
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- Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes, UM63 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 7278 IRD 198 Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U1095, Aix-Marseille Université Marseille, France
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- Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes, UM63 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 7278 IRD 198 Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U1095, Aix-Marseille Université Marseille, France
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- Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes, UM63 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 7278 IRD 198 Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U1095, Aix-Marseille Université Marseille, France
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- Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes, UM63 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 7278 IRD 198 Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U1095, Aix-Marseille Université Marseille, France
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- Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes, UM63 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 7278 IRD 198 Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U1095, Aix-Marseille Université Marseille, France
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- Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes, UM63 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 7278 IRD 198 Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U1095, Aix-Marseille Université Marseille, France
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- Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes, UM63 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 7278 IRD 198 Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U1095, Aix-Marseille UniversitéMarseille, France; Fondation IHU Méditerranée Infection, Pôle des Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Clinique et Biologique, Fédération de Bactériologie-Hygiène-Virologie, Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire Timone, Méditerranée Infection, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de MarseilleMarseille, France
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- Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes, UM63 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 7278 IRD 198 Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U1095, Aix-Marseille Université Marseille, France
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- Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes, UM63 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 7278 IRD 198 Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U1095, Aix-Marseille UniversitéMarseille, France; Fondation IHU Méditerranée Infection, Pôle des Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Clinique et Biologique, Fédération de Bactériologie-Hygiène-Virologie, Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire Timone, Méditerranée Infection, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de MarseilleMarseille, France
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- Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes, UM63 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 7278 IRD 198 Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U1095, Aix-Marseille Université Marseille, France
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Fotso Fotso A, Mediannikov O, Nappez C, Azza S, Raoult D, Drancourt M. Monoclonal Antibodies for the Diagnosis of Borrelia crocidurae. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2015; 94:61-67. [PMID: 26598566 DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.15-0436] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2015] [Accepted: 10/02/2015] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Relapsing fever borreliae, produced by ectoparasite-borne Borrelia species, cause mild to deadly bacteremia and miscarriage. In the perspective of developing inexpensive assays for the rapid detection of relapsing fever borreliae, we produced 12 monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) against Borrelia crocidurae and characterized the two exhibiting the highest titers. P3A10 MAb reacts with the 35.6-kDa flagellin B (flaB) of B. crocidurae while P6D9 MAb recognizes a 35.1-kDa variable-like protein (Vlp) in B. crocidurae and a 35.2-kDa Vlp in Borrelia duttonii. Indirect immunofluorescence assay incorporating relapsing fever and Lyme group borreliae and 11 blood-borne organisms responsible for fever in West Africa confirmed the reactivity of these two MAbs. Combining these two MAbs in indirect immunofluorescence assays detected relapsing fever borreliae including B. crocidurae in ticks and the blood of febrile Senegalese patients. Both antibodies could be incorporated into inexpensive and stable formats suited for the rapid point-of-care diagnosis of relapsing fever. These first-ever MAbs directed against African relapsing fever borreliae are available for the scientific community to promote research in this neglected field.
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Saadi H, Pagnier I, Colson P, Cherif JK, Beji M, Boughalmi M, Azza S, Armstrong N, Robert C, Fournous G, La Scola B, Raoult D. First isolation of Mimivirus in a patient with pneumonia. Clin Infect Dis 2013; 57:e127-34. [PMID: 23709652 DOI: 10.1093/cid/cit354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Mimiviridae Mimivirus, including the largest known viruses, multiply in amoebae. Mimiviruses have been linked to pneumonia, but they have never been isolated from patients. To further understand the pathogenic role of these viruses, we aimed to isolate them from a patient presenting with pneumonia. METHODS We cultured, on Acanthamoeba polyphaga amoebae, pulmonary samples from 196 Tunisian patients with community-acquired pneumonia during the period 2009-2010. An improved technique was used for Mimivirus isolation, which used agar plates where the growth of giant viruses is revealed by the formation of lysis plaques. Mimivirus serology was tested by microimmunofluorescence and by bidimensional immunoproteomic analysis using Mimivirus strains, to identify specific immunoreactive proteins. The new Mimivirus strain genome sequencing was performed on Roche 454 GS FLX Titanium, then AB SOLiD instruments. RESULTS We successfully isolated a Mimivirus (LBA111), the largest virus ever isolated in a human sample, from a 72-year-old woman presenting with pneumonia. Electron microscopy revealed a Mimivirus-like virion with a size of 554 ± 10 nm. The LBA111 genome is 1.23 megabases, and it is closely related to that of Megavirus chilensis. Furthermore, the serum from the patient reacted specifically to the virus compared to controls. CONCLUSIONS This is the first Mimivirus isolated from a human specimen. The findings presented above together with previous works establish that mimiviruses can be associated with pneumonia. The common occurrence of these viruses in water and soil makes them probable global agents that are worthy of investigation.
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- Hanene Saadi
- Aix Marseille Université, Unité de Recherche sur le Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes, UM63, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 7278, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement 198, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale 1095, Marseille, France
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Diene SM, Merhej V, Henry M, El Filali A, Roux V, Robert C, Azza S, Gavory F, Barbe V, La Scola B, Raoult D, Rolain JM. The rhizome of the multidrug-resistant Enterobacter aerogenes genome reveals how new "killer bugs" are created because of a sympatric lifestyle. Mol Biol Evol 2012; 30:369-83. [PMID: 23071100 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mss236] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Here, we sequenced the 5,419,609 bp circular genome of an Enterobacter aerogenes clinical isolate that killed a patient and was resistant to almost all current antibiotics (except gentamicin) commonly used to treat Enterobacterial infections, including colistin. Genomic and phylogenetic analyses explain the discrepancies of this bacterium and show that its core genome originates from another genus, Klebsiella. Atypical characteristics of this bacterium (i.e., motility, presence of ornithine decarboxylase, and lack of urease activity) are attributed to genomic mosaicism, by acquisition of additional genes, such as the complete 60,582 bp flagellar assembly operon acquired "en bloc" from the genus Serratia. The genealogic tree of the 162,202 bp multidrug-resistant conjugative plasmid shows that it is a chimera of transposons and integrative conjugative elements from various bacterial origins, resembling a rhizome. Moreover, we demonstrate biologically that a G53S mutation in the pmrA gene results in colistin resistance. E. aerogenes has a large RNA population comprising 8 rRNA operons and 87 cognate tRNAs that have the ability to translate transferred genes that use different codons, as exemplified by the significantly different codon usage between genes from the core genome and the "mobilome." On the basis of our findings, the evolution of this bacterium to become a "killer bug" with new genomic repertoires was from three criteria that are "opportunity, power, and usage" to indicate a sympatric lifestyle: "opportunity" to meet other bacteria and exchange foreign sequences since this bacteria was similar to sympatric bacteria; "power" to integrate these foreign sequences such as the acquisition of several mobile genetic elements (plasmids, integrative conjugative element, prophages, transposons, flagellar assembly system, etc.) found in his genome; and "usage" to have the ability to translate these sequences including those from rare codons to serve as a translator of foreign languages.
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- Seydina M Diene
- Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergents (URMITE), UMR7278 CNRS-IRD-INSERM, IHU Méditerranée Infection, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France
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Kempf M, Rolain JM, Azza S, Diene S, Joly-Guillou ML, Dubourg G, Colson P, Papazian L, Richet H, Fournier PE, Ribeiro A, Raoult D. Investigation of Acinetobacter baumannii resistance to carbapenems in Marseille hospitals, south of France: a transition from an epidemic to an endemic situation. APMIS 2012; 121:64-71. [PMID: 23030740 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0463.2012.02935.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/29/2012] [Accepted: 05/18/2012] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infections are a worldwide endemic nosocomial threat. Between December 2010 and April 2011, an increase of carbapenem-resistant A. baumannii infections occurred in several Marseille University Hospitals. The aim of this study was to investigate the increase of carbapenem-resistant A. baumannii infections and to characterize the mechanisms of carbapenem resistance. The increase was detected by a homemade computer surveillance program, known as EPIMIC, that monitors antibiotic resistance profiles on a weekly basis. During this period, positive samples of carbapenem-resistant A. baumannii were retrieved from patients hospitalized in different units. Genotyping of the isolates was performed using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and multi-locus sequence typing (MLST), and carbapenemase gene analyses were performed to detect the presence of carbapenemases and to determine the relationships of the isolates. Carbapenem-resistant A. baumannii were isolated in a total of 11 patients who were hospitalized in different hospitals units. We identified the presence of the bla(OXA23-like) carbapenemase-encoding gene in all of the isolates and found four major PFGE groups and different MLST groups. These results demonstrate a current evolution in the A. baumannii epidemiology in Marseille with a switch from an epidemic situation to an endemic situation and with several circulating clones.
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- Marie Kempf
- Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie, URMITE CNRS-IRD, UMR, Aix-Marseille Univ, France
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Kempf M, Rolain JM, Diatta G, Azza S, Samb B, Mediannikov O, Gassama Sow A, Diene SM, Fenollar F, Raoult D. Carbapenem resistance and Acinetobacter baumannii in Senegal: the paradigm of a common phenomenon in natural reservoirs. PLoS One 2012; 7:e39495. [PMID: 22745768 PMCID: PMC3380006 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039495] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2012] [Accepted: 05/22/2012] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Incidence of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii is rising in several parts of the world. In Africa, data concerning this species and its resistance to carbapenems are limited. The objective of the present study was to identify the presence of A. baumannii carbapenem-resistant encoding genes in natural reservoirs in Senegal, where antibiotic pressure is believed to be low. From October 2010 to January 2011, 354 human head lice, 717 human fecal samples and 118 animal fecal samples were screened for the presence of A. baumannii by real time PCR targeting bla(OXA51-like) gene. For all samples positive for A. baumannii, the carbapenemase-hydrolysing oxacillinases bla(OXA23-like) and bla(OXA24-like) were searched for and sequenced, and the isolates harbouring an oxacillinase were genotyped using PCR amplification and sequencing of recA gene. The presence of A. baumannii was detected in 4.0% of the head lice, in 5.4% of the human stool samples and in 5.1% of the animal stool samples tested. No bla(OXA24) gene was detected but six fecal samples and three lice were positive for bla(OXA23-like) gene. The bla(OXA23-like) gene isolated in lice was likely a new oxacillinase sequence. Finally, the A. baumannii detected in stools were all of recA genotype 3 and those detected in lice, of recA genotype 4. This study shows for the first time a reservoir of bla(OXA23-like)-positive gene in human head lice and stool samples in Senegal.
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- Marie Kempf
- Unité de recherche sur les maladies infectieuses et tropicales émergentes (URMITE), UMR CNRS-6236, Aix Marseille Université, Marseille, France
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- Unité de recherche sur les maladies infectieuses et tropicales émergentes (URMITE), UMR CNRS-6236, Aix Marseille Université, Marseille, France
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- Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, URMITE, Dakar, Sénégal
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- Unité de recherche sur les maladies infectieuses et tropicales émergentes (URMITE), UMR CNRS-6236, Aix Marseille Université, Marseille, France
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- Unité de Bactériologie Expérimentale Institut Pasteur, Dakar, Sénégal
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- Unité de recherche sur les maladies infectieuses et tropicales émergentes (URMITE), UMR CNRS-6236, Aix Marseille Université, Marseille, France
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- Unité de Bactériologie Expérimentale Institut Pasteur, Dakar, Sénégal
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- Unité de recherche sur les maladies infectieuses et tropicales émergentes (URMITE), UMR CNRS-6236, Aix Marseille Université, Marseille, France
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- Unité de recherche sur les maladies infectieuses et tropicales émergentes (URMITE), UMR CNRS-6236, Aix Marseille Université, Marseille, France
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- Unité de recherche sur les maladies infectieuses et tropicales émergentes (URMITE), UMR CNRS-6236, Aix Marseille Université, Marseille, France
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Saisongkorh W, Kowalczewska M, Azza S, Decloquement P, Rolain JM, Raoult D. Identification of candidate proteins for the diagnosis of Bartonella henselae infections using an immunoproteomic approach. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2010; 310:158-67. [PMID: 20695898 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2010.02058.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Bartonella henselae is an emerging gram-negative facultative intracellular pathogen transmitted via Ctenocephalides felis (cat fleas) or cat scratches. Bartonellosis is present mainly in the form of cat scratch disease (CSD), bacillary angiomatosis and infective endocarditis (IE). The methods used to diagnose B. henselae rely on culturing, immunofluorescent assays and molecular techniques. The objective of the present study was to identify candidate proteins for the serodiagnosis of bartonellosis with the differential discrimination of both clinical scenarios: CSD and IE. For this, an immunoproteomic approach combined with 2-DE, immunoblotting and matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight MS has been developed. Immunoproteomic profiles of sera collected from patients with CSD and IE were compared with those of blood donors. We identified several candidate proteins as phage-encoding Pap31 protein and an outer membrane protein of BH11510 that, in our view, might be useful for the serodiagnosis of bartonellosis.
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- Watcharee Saisongkorh
- URMITE CNRS-IRD UMR6236, IFR 48, Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie, Marseille, France
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- J. L. Moreau
- Chaire de Microbiologie Industrielle et de Génétique des Micro-organismes, Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique de Montpellier, Place Viala, 34060, Montpellier, Cedex, France
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- Chaire de Microbiologie Industrielle et de Génétique des Micro-organismes, Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique de Montpellier, Place Viala, 34060, Montpellier, Cedex, France
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- Chaire de Microbiologie Industrielle et de Génétique des Micro-organismes, Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique de Montpellier, Place Viala, 34060, Montpellier, Cedex, France
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- Chaire de Microbiologie Industrielle et de Génétique des Micro-organismes, Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique de Montpellier, Place Viala, 34060, Montpellier, Cedex, France
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- Chaire de Microbiologie Industrielle et de Génétique des Micro-organismes, Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique de Montpellier, Place Viala, 34060, Montpellier, Cedex, France
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Azza S, Cambillau C, Raoult D, Suzan-Monti M. Revised Mimivirus major capsid protein sequence reveals intron-containing gene structure and extra domain. BMC Mol Biol 2009; 10:39. [PMID: 19432951 PMCID: PMC2688009 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2199-10-39] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2008] [Accepted: 05/11/2009] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Acanthamoebae polyphaga Mimivirus (APM) is the largest known dsDNA virus. The viral particle has a nearly icosahedral structure with an internal capsid shell surrounded with a dense layer of fibrils. A Capsid protein sequence, D13L, was deduced from the APM L425 coding gene and was shown to be the most abundant protein found within the viral particle. However this protein remained poorly characterised until now. A revised protein sequence deposited in a database suggested an additional N-terminal stretch of 142 amino acids missing from the original deduced sequence. This result led us to investigate the L425 gene structure and the biochemical properties of the complete APM major Capsid protein. RESULTS This study describes the full length 3430 bp Capsid coding gene and characterises the 593 amino acids long corresponding Capsid protein 1. The recombinant full length protein allowed the production of a specific monoclonal antibody able to detect the Capsid protein 1 within the viral particle. This protein appeared to be post-translationnally modified by glycosylation and phosphorylation. We proposed a secondary structure prediction of APM Capsid protein 1 compared to the Capsid protein structure of Paramecium Bursaria Chlorella Virus 1, another member of the Nucleo-Cytoplasmic Large DNA virus family. CONCLUSION The characterisation of the full length L425 Capsid coding gene of Acanthamoebae polyphaga Mimivirus provides new insights into the structure of the main Capsid protein. The production of a full length recombinant protein will be useful for further structural studies.
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- Saïd Azza
- Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes (URMITE), CNRS-IRD UMR 6236, IFR 48, Faculté de Médecine, 27 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13385 Marseille cedex 05, France.
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Kowalczewska M, Fenollar F, Villard C, Azza S, Roux M, Raoult D. An immunoproteomic approach for identification of clinical biomarkers of Whipple's disease. Proteomics Clin Appl 2008; 2:504-16. [PMID: 21136854 DOI: 10.1002/prca.200780078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2007] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Whipple's disease (WD) is a chronic multisystemic infection, caused by the bacterium Tropheryma whipplei. The main clinical presentations are classic WD (CWD) with histologic lesions in the gastrointestinal tract, endocarditis, and isolated neurologic infection. The current strategy for diagnosis remains invasive.The present study aimed to select the protein candidates for serological diagnosis of WD. The first step was to identify candidate proteins by an immunoproteomic approach combining 2-DE using a total extract of a T. whipplei, immunoblotting, and MS. The second step was to validate the discovered biomarkers using a recombinant protein-based ELISA. Serum samples from 18 patients with WD and from 54 control individuals were tested. A sugar ABC transporter, TWT328 (sensitivity (Se) 61%, specificity (Sp) 87%, positive predictive value (PPV) 61%, negative predictive value (NPV) 87%, and positive likelihood ratio (PLR) 4.69) was the best marker for development of serodiagnosis for CWD. We also obtained a reproducible immunoreactive protein pattern for patients with isolated neurological infection due to T. whipplei (Se 100%, Sp 93%, PPV 55.5%, NPV 100%, and PLR 13.51) as an encouraging step towards noninvasive diagnosis of this particular manifestation. Nine recombinant candidates have been successfully screened with serum samples. Results from these ELISA assays skewed with those obtained with immunoblots.
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Ogawa M, Renesto P, Azza S, Moinier D, Fourquet P, Gorvel JP, Raoult D. Proteome analysis ofRickettsia felis highlights the expression profile of intracellular bacteria. Proteomics 2007; 7:1232-48. [PMID: 17385819 DOI: 10.1002/pmic.200600721] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The proteome of Rickettsia felis, an obligate intracellular bacterium responsible for spotted fever, was analyzed using two complementary proteomic approaches: 2-DE coupled with MALDI-TOF, and SDS-PAGE with nanoLC-MS/MS. This strategy allowed identification of 165 proteins and helped to answer some questions raised by the genome sequence of this bacterium. We successfully identified potential virulence factors including two putative adhesins, four proteins of the type IV secretion system, four Sca autotransporters, four components of ABC transporters, some R. felis-specific proteins, and one antitoxin of the toxin-antitoxin system. Notably, the antitoxin was the first to be identified in intracellular bacteria. Only one protein containing rickettsia palindromic repeats was found, whereas none of the split genes, transposases, or tetratricopeptide/ankyrin repeats were detectably expressed. Comparison of the protein expression profiles of R. felis and 23 other bacterial species according to functional categories showed that intracellular bacteria express more proteins related to translation, especially ribosomal proteins. However, the remaining bacteria express more proteins related to energy production and carbohydrate/amino acid metabolism. In conclusion, this study reveals R. felis virulence factor expression and highlights the unique protein expression profile of intracellular bacteria.
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- Motohiko Ogawa
- Unité des Rickettsies, CNRS-UMR 6020, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France
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Faye O, Azza S, Adil B, Doudou D, Berthé MA, Ndiaye M, Afoutou JM, Touré CT, Anthonioz P. [Diagnostic interest of Barr chromatin test in sex determination: about one case of male pseudohermaphrodism]. Dakar Med 2007; 52:204-208. [PMID: 19097403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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INTRODUCTION The Barr chromatin test is a medical cytogenetic test, very quick to make, consisting in determination of the percentage of Barr corpuscles that correspond to the condensation of the second X chromosome in female epithelial cells of mammal, which range between 20 and 50% the percentage of Barr corpuscles in male epithelial cells range between 2 and less than 5%). In the less developed countries where caryotype isn't realized, this test can give invaluable informations about individual sex. The aim of this study was to show the Barr chromatin test interest in the sexual ambiguity diagnosis orientation in some cases of these sexual ambiguities. PATIENT AND METHODS To carry this study, we have done a Guard coloration on nude nucleus of epithelial cells taken on the cheeck internal side of our patient, a 19 years old woman that a gynaecologist had sent to us for sexual ambiguity. We have examinated the nude nucleus. RESULTS None of the nude nucleus had showed a Barr corpuscle (0% of Barr corpuscles, corresponding to male chromatin sex). CONCLUSION This rate has gived us a Morris syndrome diagnosis orientation; the diagnosis was confirmed later by the surgery and by the removal histological study. When caryotype or molecular biology are not available, the Barr chromatin test can represent a substitute biological test that can contribute to some sexual ambiguity diagnosis.
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- O Faye
- Laboratoire d'Histologie-Embryologie-Cytogénétique, Faculté de Médecine-UCAD, Dakar, Senegal.
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Renesto P, Abergel C, Decloquement P, Moinier D, Azza S, Ogata H, Fourquet P, Gorvel JP, Claverie JM. Mimivirus giant particles incorporate a large fraction of anonymous and unique gene products. J Virol 2006; 80:11678-85. [PMID: 16971431 PMCID: PMC1642625 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00940-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus is the largest known virus in both particle size and genome complexity. Its 1.2-Mb genome encodes 911 proteins, among which only 298 have predicted functions. The composition of purified isolated virions was analyzed by using a combined electrophoresis/mass spectrometry approach allowing the identification of 114 proteins. Besides the expected major structural components, the viral particle packages 12 proteins unambiguously associated with transcriptional machinery, 3 proteins associated with DNA repair, and 2 topoisomerases. Other main functional categories represented in the virion include oxidative pathways and protein modification. More than half of the identified virion-associated proteins correspond to anonymous genes of unknown function, including 45 "ORFans." As demonstrated by both Western blotting and immunogold staining, some of these "ORFans," which lack any convincing similarity in the sequence databases, are endowed with antigenic properties. Thus, anonymous and unique genes constituting the majority of the mimivirus gene complement encode bona fide proteins that are likely to participate in well-integrated processes.
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- Patricia Renesto
- Unité des Rickettsies, CNRS UMR 6020, IFR-48, Faculté de Médecine, 27 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13385 Marseille, France.
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Renesto P, Azza S, Dolla A, Fourquet P, Vestris G, Gorvel JP, Raoult D. Rickettsia conorii and R. prowazekii proteome analysis by 2DE-MS: a step toward functional analysis of rickettsial genomes. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2006; 1063:90-3. [PMID: 16481497 DOI: 10.1196/annals.1355.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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In this work, we present a comparative two-dimensional (2D) PAGE analysis of Rickettsia conorii and Rickettsia prowazekii. This analysis reveals protein spots that were either unique to or common to both strains, some of them being identified by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry.
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Renesto P, Samson L, Ogata H, Azza S, Fourquet P, Gorvel JP, Heinzen RA, Raoult D. Identification of two putative rickettsial adhesins by proteomic analysis. Res Microbiol 2006; 157:605-12. [PMID: 16574381 DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2006.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2005] [Revised: 02/07/2006] [Accepted: 02/07/2006] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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The rickettsial membrane proteins that promote their uptake by eukaryotic host cells are unknown. To identify rickettsial ligand(s) that bind host cell surface proteins, biotinylated epithelial cells were used to probe a nitrocellulose membrane containing rickettsial extracts separated by SDS-PAGE. This overlay assay revealed that two close rickettsial ligands of approximately 32-30 kDa were recognized by host cells. Both proteins were identified using high resolution 2D-PAGE coupled with mass spectrometry analysis. One protein was identified as the C-terminal extremity of rOmpB called the beta-peptide. The second interacting protein was identified as a protein of unknown function encoded by RC1281 and RP828 in Rickettsia conorii and in Rickettsia prowazekii, respectively, that shares strong similarities with other bacterial adhesins. Both proteins are highly conserved within the Rickettsia genus and might play a critical role in their pathogenicity. These data may have important implications for the development of future vaccines against rickettsial infections.
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- Patricia Renesto
- Unité des Rickettsies, CNRS UMR 6020, IFR-48, Faculté de Médecine, 27 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13385 Marseille, France.
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Renesto P, Azza S, Dolla A, Fourquet P, Vestris G, Gorvel JP, Raoult D. Proteome analysis of Rickettsia conorii by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis coupled with mass spectrometry. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2005; 245:231-8. [PMID: 15837377 DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2005.03.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2005] [Revised: 03/04/2005] [Accepted: 03/04/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022] Open
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The availability of genome sequence offers the opportunity to further expand our knowledge about proteins expressed by Rickettsia conorii, strictly intracellular bacterium responsible for Mediterranean spotted fever. Using two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis combined with MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry, we established the first reference map of R. conorii proteome. This approach also allowed identification of GroEL as the major antigen recognized by rabbit serum and sera of infected patients. Altogether, this work opens the way to characterize the proteome of R. conorii, to compare protein profiles of different isolates or of bacteria maintained under different experimental conditions and to identify immunogenic proteins as potential vaccine targets.
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- Patricia Renesto
- Unité des Rickettsies, CNRS UMR 6020, IFR-48, Faculté de Médecine, 27 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13385 Marseille, France.
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Coudevylle N, Thureau A, Azza S, Boshi-Muller S, Branlant G, Cung MT. (1)H, (13)C and (15)N resonance assignment of the reduced form of methionine sulfoxide reductase A from Escherichia coli. J Biomol NMR 2004; 30:363-364. [PMID: 15756465 DOI: 10.1007/s10858-005-1059-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2004] [Accepted: 06/28/2004] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Thureau A, Olry A, Coudevylle N, Azza S, Boschi-Muller S, Branlant G, Cung MT. 1H, 13C and 15N resonance assignment of the methionine sulfoxide reductase B from Neisseria meningitidis. J Biomol NMR 2004; 30:223-224. [PMID: 15557807 DOI: 10.1023/b:jnmr.0000048851.95591.80] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Boschi-Muller S, Azza S, Branlant G. E. coli methionine sulfoxide reductase with a truncated N terminus or C terminus, or both, retains the ability to reduce methionine sulfoxide. Protein Sci 2001; 10:2272-9. [PMID: 11604533 PMCID: PMC2374066 DOI: 10.1110/ps.10701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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The monomeric peptide methionine sulfoxide reductase (MsrA) catalyzes the irreversible thioredoxin-dependent reduction of methionine sulfoxide. The crystal structure of MsrAs from Escherichia coli and Bos taurus can be described as a central core of about 140 amino acids that contains the active site. The core is wrapped by two long N- and C-terminal extended chains. The catalytic mechanism of the E. coli enzyme has been recently postulated to take place through formation of a sulfenic acid intermediate, followed by reduction of the intermediate via intrathiol-disulfide exchanges and thioredoxin oxidation. In the present work, truncated MsrAs at the N- or C-terminal end or at both were produced as folded entities. All forms are able to reduce methionine sulfoxide in the presence of dithiothreitol. However, only the N-terminal truncated form, which possesses the two cysteines located at the C-terminus, reduces the sulfenic acid intermediate in a thioredoxin-dependent manner. The wild type displays a ping-pong mechanism with either thioredoxin or dithiothreitol as reductant. Kinetic saturation is only observed with thioredoxin with a low K(M) value of 10 microM. Thus, thioredoxin is likely the reductant in vivo. Truncations do not significantly modify the kinetic properties, except for the double truncated form, which displays a 17-fold decrease in k(cat)/K(MetSO). Alternative mechanisms for sulfenic acid reduction are also presented based on analysis of available MsrA sequences.
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- S Boschi-Muller
- UMR CNRS-UHP 7567, Maturation des ARN et Enzymologie Moléculaire, Faculté des Sciences, Bld des Aiguillettes, 54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France
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Rogniaux H, Sanglier S, Strupat K, Azza S, Roitel O, Ball V, Tritsch D, Branlant G, Van Dorsselaer A. Mass spectrometry as a novel approach to probe cooperativity in multimeric enzymatic systems. Anal Biochem 2001; 291:48-61. [PMID: 11262155 DOI: 10.1006/abio.2000.4975] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Investigating cooperativity in multimeric enzymes is of utmost interest to improve our understanding of the mechanism of enzymatic regulation. In the present article, we propose a novel approach based on mass spectrometry to probe cooperativity in the binding of a ligand to a multisubunit enzyme. This approach presents the selective advantage of giving a direct insight into all the subsequent ligation states that are formed in solution as the ligand is added to the enzyme. A quantitative interpretation of the electrospray ionization (ESI) mass spectra gives the relative abundance of all the distinct enzymatic species, which allows one to directly deduce the cooperativity of the system. The overall method is described for the addition of the oxidized cofactor nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD(+)) to a dimeric mutant of Bacillus stearothermophilus glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GPDH). It is then applied to four tetrameric enzymes: sturgeon muscle GPDH, wild type and S48G mutant of GPDH from B. stearothermophilus, and alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) from Bakers yeast. The results illustrate the possibilities offered by this new technique. First, mass spectrometry allows a control of the enzymes before the addition of NAD(+). Second, the cooperative behavior can be drawn from one single ESI mass spectrum, which makes the method highly attractive in terms of the amount of biological material required. Above all, the major benefit lies in the direct visualization of all the enzymatic species that are in equilibrium in solution. The direct measurement of cooperativity readily resolve the inconvenience of the classical approaches employed in this field, which all need to model the experimental data in order to get the cooperative behavior of the system.
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- H Rogniaux
- Laboratoire de Spectrométrie de Masse Bio-Organique, CNRS UMR 7509, Université Louis Pasteur, 25 rue Becquerel, 67087 Strasbourg, France
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Boschi-Muller S, Azza S, Sanglier-Cianferani S, Talfournier F, Van Dorsselear A, Branlant G. A sulfenic acid enzyme intermediate is involved in the catalytic mechanism of peptide methionine sulfoxide reductase from Escherichia coli. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:35908-13. [PMID: 10964927 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m006137200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 151] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Methionine oxidation into methionine sulfoxide is known to be involved in many pathologies and to exert regulatory effects on proteins. This oxidation can be reversed by a ubiquitous monomeric enzyme, the peptide methionine sulfoxide reductase (MsrA), whose activity in vivo requires the thioredoxin-regenerating system. The proposed chemical mechanism of Escherichia coli MsrA involves three Cys residues (positions 51, 198, and 206). A fourth Cys (position 86) is not important for catalysis. In the absence of a reducing system, 2 mol of methionine are formed per mole of enzyme for wild type and Cys-86 --> Ser mutant MsrA, whereas only 1 mol is formed for mutants in which either Cys-198 or Cys-206 is mutated. Reduction of methionine sulfoxide is shown to proceed through the formation of a sulfenic acid intermediate. This intermediate has been characterized by chemical probes and mass spectrometry analyses. Together, the results support a three-step chemical mechanism in vivo: 1) Cys-51 attacks the sulfur atom of the sulfoxide substrate leading, via a rearrangement, to the formation of a sulfenic acid intermediate on Cys-51 and release of 1 mol of methionine/mol of enzyme; 2) the sulfenic acid is then reduced via a double displacement mechanism involving formation of a disulfide bond between Cys-51 and Cys-198, followed by formation of a disulfide bond between Cys-198 and Cys-206, which liberates Cys-51, and 3) the disulfide bond between Cys-198 and Cys-206 is reduced by thioredoxin-dependent recycling system process.
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- S Boschi-Muller
- UMR CNRS-UHP 7567, Maturation des ARN et Enzymologie Moléculaire, Faculté des Sciences, Bld des Aiguillettes, BP 239, 54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France
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Tête-Favier F, Cobessi D, Boschi-Muller S, Azza S, Branlant G, Aubry A. Crystal structure of the Escherichia coli peptide methionine sulphoxide reductase at 1.9 A resolution. Structure 2000; 8:1167-78. [PMID: 11080639 DOI: 10.1016/s0969-2126(00)00526-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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BACKGROUND Peptide methionine sulphoxide reductases catalyze the reduction of oxidized methionine residues in proteins. They are implicated in the defense of organisms against oxidative stress and in the regulation of processes involving peptide methionine oxidation/reduction. These enzymes are found in numerous organisms, from bacteria to mammals and plants. Their primary structure shows no significant similarity to any other known protein. RESULTS The X-ray structure of the peptide methionine sulphoxide reductase from Escherichia coli was determined at 3 A resolution by the multiple wavelength anomalous dispersion method for the selenomethionine-substituted enzyme, and it was refined to 1.9 A resolution for the native enzyme. The 23 kDa protein is folded into an alpha/beta roll and contains a large proportion of coils. Among the three cysteine residues involved in the catalytic mechanism, Cys-51 is positioned at the N terminus of an alpha helix, in a solvent-exposed area composed of highly conserved amino acids. The two others, Cys-198 and Cys-206, are located in the C-terminal coil. CONCLUSIONS Sequence alignments show that the overall fold of the peptide methionine sulphoxide reductase from E. coli is likely to be conserved in many species. The characteristics observed in the Cys-51 environment are in agreement with the expected accessibility of the active site of an enzyme that reduces methionine sulphoxides in various proteins. Cys-51 could be activated by the influence of an alpha helix dipole. The involvement of the two other cysteine residues in the catalytic mechanism requires a movement of the C-terminal coil. Several conserved amino acids and water molecules are discussed as potential participants in the reaction.
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- F Tête-Favier
- Laboratoire de Cristallographie et de Modélisation des Matériaux Minéraux et Biologiques Groupe Biocristallographie University Henri Poincaré BP239 54506, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy Cédex, France
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Tête-Favier F, Cobessi D, Leonard GA, Azza S, Talfournier F, Boschi-Muller S, Branlant G, Aubry A. Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction studies of the peptide methionine sulfoxide reductase from Escherichia coli. Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr 2000; 56:1194-7. [PMID: 10957644 DOI: 10.1107/s0907444900009483] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2000] [Accepted: 06/30/2000] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Peptide methionine sulfoxide reductase mediates the reduction of protein sulfoxide methionyl residues back to methionines and could thus be implicated in the antioxidant defence of organisms. Hexagonal crystals of the Escherichia coli enzyme (MsrA) were obtained by the hanging-drop vapour-diffusion technique. They belong to space group P6(5)22, with unit-cell parameters a = b = 102.5, c = 292.3 A, gamma = 120 degrees. A native data set was collected at 1.9 A resolution. Crystals of selenomethionine-substituted MsrA were also grown under the same crystallization conditions. A three-wavelength MAD experiment has led to the elucidation of the positions of the Se atoms and should result in a full structure determination.
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- F Tête-Favier
- Laboratoire de Cristallographie et de Modélisation des Matériaux Minéraux et Biologiques, Groupe Biocristallographie, ESA 7036, BP 239, F-54506 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy CEDEX, France
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Kauffmann B, Cobessi D, Boschi-Muller S, Azza S, Branlant G, Aubry A. Crystal structure of the NAD-dependent erythrose-4-phosphate dehydrogenase from Escherichia coli. Acta Crystallogr A 2000. [DOI: 10.1107/s0108767300025587] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Tête-Favier F, Cobessi D, Boschi-Muller S, Azza S, Branlant G, Aubry A. Cellular detoxification: crystal structure of a repair enzyme fromEscherichia coliat 1.9 Å resolution. Acta Crystallogr A 2000. [DOI: 10.1107/s0108767300025605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Fillinger S, Boschi-Muller S, Azza S, Dervyn E, Branlant G, Aymerich S. Two glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenases with opposite physiological roles in a nonphotosynthetic bacterium. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:14031-7. [PMID: 10799476 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.275.19.14031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 141] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Bacillus subtilis possesses two similar putative phosphorylating glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) encoding genes, gap (renamed gapA) and gapB. A gapA mutant was unable to grow on glycolytic carbon sources, although it developed as well as the wild-type strain on gluconeogenic carbon sources. A gapB mutant showed the opposite phenotype. Purified GapB showed a 50-fold higher GAPDHase activity with NADP(+) than with NAD(+), with K(m) values of 0.86 and 5.7 mm, respectively. lacZ reporter gene fusions revealed that the gapB gene is transcribed during gluconeogenesis and repressed during glycolysis. Conversely, gapA transcription is 5-fold higher under glycolytic conditions than during gluconeogenesis. GAPDH activity assays in crude extracts of wild-type and mutant strains confirmed this differential expression pattern at the enzymatic level. Genetic analyses demonstrated that gapA transcription is repressed by the yvbQ (renamed cggR) gene product and indirectly stimulated by CcpA. Thus, the same enzymatic step is catalyzed in B. subtilis by two enzymes specialized, through the regulation of their synthesis and their enzymatic characteristics, either in catabolism (GapA) or in anabolism (GapB). Such a dual enzymatic system for this step of the central carbon metabolism is described for the first time in a nonphotosynthetic eubacterium, but genomic analyses suggest that it could be a widespread feature.
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- S Fillinger
- Génétique Moléculaire et Cellulaire, INRA-CNRS (URA1925), 78850 Thiverval-Grignon, France
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Cobessi D, Tête-Favier F, Marchal S, Azza S, Branlant G, Aubry A. Apo and holo crystal structures of an NADP-dependent aldehyde dehydrogenase from Streptococcus mutans. J Mol Biol 1999; 290:161-73. [PMID: 10388564 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.2853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The aldehyde dehydrogenases (ALDHs) are a superfamily of multimeric enzymes which catalyse the oxidation of a broad range of aldehydes into their corresponding carboxylic acids with the reduction of their cofactor, NAD or NADP, into NADH or NADPH. At present, the only known structures concern NAD-dependent ALDHs. Three structures are available in the Protein Data Bank: two are tetrameric and the other is a dimer. We solved by molecular replacement the first structure of an NADP-dependent ALDH isolated from Streptococcus mutans, in its apo form and holo form in complex with NADP, at 1.8 and 2.6 A resolution, respectively. Although the protein sequence shares only approximately 30 % identity with the other solved tetrameric ALDHs, the structures are very similar. However, a large local conformational change in the region surrounding the 2' phosphate group of the adenosine moiety is observed when the enzyme binds NADP, in contrast to the NAD-dependent ALDHs. Structure and sequence analyses reveal several properties. A small number of residues seem to determine the oligomeric state. Likewise, the nature (charge and volume) of the residue at position 180 (Thr in ALDH from S. mutans) determines the cofactor specificity in comparison with the structures of NAD-dependent ALDHs. The presence of a hydrogen bond network around the cofactor not only allows it to bind to the enzyme but also directs the side-chains in a correct orientation for the catalytic reaction to take place. Moreover, a specific part of this network appears to be important in substrate binding. Since the enzyme oxidises the same substrate, glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate (G3P), as NAD-dependent phosphorylating glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenases (GAPDH), the active site of GAPDH was compared with that of the S. mutans ALDH. It was found that Arg103, Arg283 and Asp440 might be key residues for substrate binding.
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- D Cobessi
- Groupe Biocristallographie, ESA 7036 Faculté des Sciences, BP 239, Laboratoire de Cristallographie et Modélisation des Matériaux Minéraux et Biologiques, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, 54506, France
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Boschi-Muller S, Azza S, Pollastro D, Corbier C, Branlant G. Comparative enzymatic properties of GapB-encoded erythrose-4-phosphate dehydrogenase of Escherichia coli and phosphorylating glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:15106-12. [PMID: 9182530 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.24.15106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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GapB-encoded protein of Escherichia coli and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) share more than 40% amino acid identity. Most of the amino acids involved in the binding of cofactor and substrates to GAPDH are conserved in GapB-encoded protein. This enzyme shows an efficient non-phosphorylating erythrose-4-phosphate dehydrogenase activity (Zhao, G., Pease, A. J., Bharani, N., and Winkler, M. E. (1995) J. Bacteriol. 177, 2804-2812) but a low phosphorylating glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase activity, whereas GAPDH shows a high efficient phosphorylating glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase activity and a low phosphorylating erythrose-4-phosphate dehydrogenase activity. To identify the structural factors responsible for these differences, comparative kinetic and binding studies have been carried out on both GapB-encoded protein of Escherichia coli and GAPDH of Bacillus stearothermophilus. The KD constant of GapB-encoded protein for NAD is 800-fold higher than that of GAPDH. The chemical mechanism of erythrose 4-phosphate oxidation by GapB-encoded protein is shown to proceed through a two-step mechanism involving covalent intermediates with Cys-149, with rates associated to the acylation and deacylation processes of 280 s-1 and 20 s-1, respectively. No isotopic solvent effect is observed suggesting that the rate-limiting step is not hydrolysis. The rate of oxidation of glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate is 0.12 s-1 and is hydride transfer limiting, at least 2000-fold less efficient compared with that of erythrose 4-phosphate. Thus, it can be concluded that it is only the structure of the substrates that prevails in forming a ternary complex enzyme-NAD-thiohemiacetal productive (or not) for hydride transfer in the acylation step. This conclusion is reinforced by the fact that the rate of oxidation for erythrose 4-phosphate by GAPDH is 0.1 s-1 and is limited by the acylation step, whereas glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate acylation is efficient and is not rate-determining (>/=800 s-1). Substituting Asn for His-176 on GapB-encoded protein, a residue postulated to facilitate hydride transfer as a base catalyst, decreases 40-fold the kcat of glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate oxidation. This suggests that the non-efficient positioning of the C-1 atom of glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate relative to the pyridinium of the cofactor within the ternary complex is responsible for the low catalytic efficiency. No phosphorylating activity on erythrose 4-phosphate with GapB-encoded protein is observed although the Pi site is operative as proven by the oxidative phosphorylation of glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate. Thus the binding of inorganic phosphate to the Pi site likely is not productive for attacking efficiently the thioacyl intermediate formed with erythrose 4-phosphate, whereas a water molecule is an efficient nucleophile for the hydrolysis of the thioacyl intermediate. Compared with glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase activity, this corresponds to an activation of the deacylation step by >/=4.5 kcal.mol-1. Altogether these results suggest subtle structural differences between the active sites of GAPDH and GapB-encoded protein that could be revealed and/or modulated by the structure of the substrate bound. This also indicates that a protein engineering approach could be used to convert a phosphorylating aldehyde dehydrogenase into an efficient non-phosphorylating one and vice versa.
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- S Boschi-Muller
- Laboratoire d'Enzymologie et de Génie Génétique, Université de Nancy I, URA CNRS 457, B.P. 239, 54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy Cédex, France
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Azza S, Bigey F, Arnaud A, Galzy P. Cloning of the wide spectrum amidase gene from Brevibacterium sp. R312 by genetic complementation. Overexpression in Brevibacterium sp. and Escherichia coli. FEMS Microbiol Lett 1994; 122:129-36. [PMID: 7958763 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1994.tb07155.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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The amiE gene of Brevibacterium sp. R312 encoding wide spectrum amidase was isolated by complementation of a Brevibacterium sp. mutant using a plasmid gene bank of chromosomal DNA. The amiE structural gene and its promoter were localized on a 1.8-kb fragment by subsequent subcloning and complementation studies. Another promoter localized in the pSR 1 fragment of the cloning vector was shown to be able to control amiE gene expression. In Brevibacterium sp., the investigation of amidase activities related to one copy of the gene suggested that the regulation of the amiE gene expression was under negative control. High expression levels have been obtained in Brevibacterium sp. and, after substitution of the amiE promoter by the tac promoter, in Escherichia coli.
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- S Azza
- Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique de Montpellier, France
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Moreau JL, Azza S, Bigey F, Arnaud A, Galzy P. Application of high-performance liquid chromatography to the study of the biological transformation of adiponitrile. J Chromatogr B Biomed Appl 1994; 656:197-202. [PMID: 7952029 DOI: 10.1016/0378-4347(94)00091-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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A procedure for the assay of nitrile hydratase and amidase activity by high-performance liquid chromatography is described. The method can be used to assay the intermediate compounds resulting from the hydrolysis of adiponitrile into adipic acid, and to determine the kinetics of the hydrolysis of these compounds using whole cells and enzyme extracts. The precision of the method makes it suitable for the determination of the enzyme parameters: Km and Vm (nitrile hydratase and amidase). Using cyanovaleramide as substrate, Km and Vm were respectively 370 mM and 2060 U/mg for nitrile hydratase and 6.6 mM and 33 U/mg for amidase.
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- J L Moreau
- Chaire de Microbiologie Industrielle et de Génétique des Microorganismes, Ecole Nationale Supériure Agronomique de Montpellier, France
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Moreau JL, Azza S, Arnaud A, Galzy P. Purification and characterization of nitrile hydratase of a mutant strain ofBrevibacterium sp. J Basic Microbiol 1993. [DOI: 10.1002/jobm.3620330508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The adipamidase of a mutant strain Brevibacterium sp. R312 involved in the degradation of adiponitrile to adipic acid was purified. Its N-terminal amino acid sequence was shown to be identical to Brevibacterium sp. R312 enantio selective amidase and Rhodococcus sp. N-774 amidase.
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- S Azza
- Chaire de Microbiologie Industrielle et de Génétique des Microorganismes, Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique de Montpellier, France
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