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Muñoz-Villagrán C, Acevedo-Arbunic J, Härtig E, Issotta F, Mascayano C, Jahn D, Jahn M, Levicán G. The Thioredoxin Fold Protein (TFP2) from Extreme Acidophilic Leptospirillum sp. CF-1 Is a Chaperedoxin-like Protein That Prevents the Aggregation of Proteins under Oxidative Stress. Int J Mol Sci 2024; 25:6905. [PMID: 39000017 PMCID: PMC11241051 DOI: 10.3390/ijms25136905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2024] [Revised: 06/13/2024] [Accepted: 06/19/2024] [Indexed: 07/14/2024] Open
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Extreme acidophilic bacteria like Leptospirillum sp. require an efficient enzyme system to counteract strong oxygen stress conditions in their natural habitat. The genome of Leptospirillum sp. CF-1 encodes the thioredoxin-fold protein TFP2, which exhibits a high structural similarity to the thioredoxin domain of E. coli CnoX. CnoX from Escherichia coli is a chaperedoxin that protects protein substrates from oxidative stress conditions using its holdase function and a subsequent transfer to foldase chaperones for refolding. Recombinantly produced and purified Leptospirillum sp. TFP2 possesses both thioredoxin and chaperone holdase activities in vitro. It can be reduced by thioredoxin reductase (TrxR). The tfp2 gene co-locates with genes for the chaperone foldase GroES/EL on the chromosome. The "tfp2 cluster" (ctpA-groES-groEL-hyp-tfp2-recN) was found between 1.9 and 8.8-fold transcriptionally up-regulated in response to 1 mM hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). Leptospirillum sp. tfp2 heterologously expressed in E. coli wild type and cnoX mutant strains lead to an increased tolerance of these E. coli strains to H2O2 and significantly reduced intracellular protein aggregates. Finally, a proteomic analysis of protein aggregates produced in E. coli upon exposition to oxidative stress with 4 mM H2O2, showed that Leptospirillum sp. tfp2 expression caused a significant decrease in the aggregation of 124 proteins belonging to fifteen different metabolic categories. These included several known substrates of DnaK and GroEL/ES. These findings demonstrate that Leptospirillum sp. TFP2 is a chaperedoxin-like protein, acting as a key player in the control of cellular proteostasis under highly oxidative conditions that prevail in extreme acidic environments.
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- Claudia Muñoz-Villagrán
- Laboratorio de Microbiología Básica y Aplicada, Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Química y Biología, Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH), Santiago 9170022, Chile
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- Laboratorio de Microbiología Básica y Aplicada, Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Química y Biología, Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH), Santiago 9170022, Chile
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- Institute of Microbiology, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Spielmannstr 7, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany; (E.H.)
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- Departamento Genética Molecular y Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica, Santiago 8331150, Chile
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- Laboratorio de Simulación Computacional y Diseño Racional de Fármacos, Departamento de Ciencias del Ambiente, Facultad de Química y Biología, Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH), Santiago 9170022, Chile
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- Institute of Microbiology, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Spielmannstr 7, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany; (E.H.)
- Braunschweig Integrated Centre of Systems Biology BRICS, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Rebenring 56, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Institute of Microbiology, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Spielmannstr 7, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany; (E.H.)
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- Laboratorio de Microbiología Básica y Aplicada, Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Química y Biología, Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH), Santiago 9170022, Chile
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Meireles DDA, Yokomizo CH, Silva FP, Venâncio TM, Degenhardt MFDS, Oliveira CLPD, Netto LES. Functional diversity of YbbN/CnoX proteins: Insights from a comparative analysis of three thioredoxin-like oxidoreductases from Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Xylella fastidiosa and Escherichia coli. Redox Biol 2024; 72:103128. [PMID: 38554523 PMCID: PMC10998233 DOI: 10.1016/j.redox.2024.103128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2023] [Revised: 02/26/2024] [Accepted: 03/17/2024] [Indexed: 04/01/2024] Open
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YbbN/CnoX are proteins that display a Thioredoxin (Trx) domain linked to a tetratricopeptide domain. YbbN from Escherichia coli (EcYbbN) displays a co-chaperone (holdase) activity that is induced by HOCl. Here, we compared EcYbbN with YbbN proteins from Xylella fastidiosa (XfYbbN) and from Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PaYbbN). EcYbbN presents a redox active Cys residue at Trx domain (Cys63), 24 residues away from SQHC motif (SQHC[N24]C) that can form mixed disulfides with target proteins. In contrast, XfYbbN and PaYbbN present two Cys residues in the CXXC (CAPC) motif, while only PaYbbN shows the Cys residue equivalent to Cys63 of EcYbbN. Our phylogenetic analysis revealed that most of the YbbN proteins are in the bacteria domain of life and that their members can be divided into four groups according to the conserved Cys residues. EcYbbN (SQHC[N24]C), XfYbbN (CAPC[N24]V) and PaYbbN (CAPC[N24]C) are representatives of three sub-families. In contrast to EcYbbN, both XfYbbN and PaYbbN: (1) reduced an artificial disulfide (DTNB) and (2) supported the peroxidase activity of Peroxiredoxin Q from X. fastidiosa, suggesting that these proteins might function similarly to the canonical Trx enzymes. Indeed, XfYbbN was reduced by XfTrx reductase with a high catalytic efficiency (kcat/Km = 1.27 x 107 M-1 s-1), similar to the canonical XfTrx (XfTsnC). Furthermore, EcYbbN and XfYbbN, but not PaYbbN displayed HOCl-induced holdase activity. Remarkably, EcYbbN gained disulfide reductase activity while lost the HOCl-activated chaperone function, when the SQHC was replaced by CQHC. In contrast, the XfYbbN CAPA mutant lost the disulfide reductase activity, while kept its HOCl-induced chaperone function. In all cases, the induction of the holdase activity was accompanied by YbbN oligomerization. Finally, we showed that deletion of ybbN gene did not render in P. aeruginosa more sensitive stressful treatments. Therefore, YbbN/CnoX proteins display distinct properties, depending on the presence of the three conserved Cys residues.
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- Diogo de Abreu Meireles
- Laboratório de Fisiologia e Bioquímica de Microrganismos, (LFBM), Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro, Campos do Goytacazes, RJ, Brazil.
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- Departamento de Genética e Biologia Evolutiva, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Química e Função de Peptídeos e Proteínas (LQFPP), Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro, Campos do Goytacazes, RJ, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Química e Função de Peptídeos e Proteínas (LQFPP), Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro, Campos do Goytacazes, RJ, Brazil
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- Departamento de Genética e Biologia Evolutiva, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil.
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Dupuy E, Van der Verren SE, Lin J, Wilson MA, Dachsbeck AV, Viela F, Latour E, Gennaris A, Vertommen D, Dufrêne YF, Iorga BI, Goemans CV, Remaut H, Collet JF. A molecular device for the redox quality control of GroEL/ES substrates. Cell 2023; 186:1039-1049.e17. [PMID: 36764293 PMCID: PMC10044410 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2023.01.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2022] [Revised: 10/27/2022] [Accepted: 01/10/2023] [Indexed: 02/11/2023]
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Hsp60 chaperonins and their Hsp10 cofactors assist protein folding in all living cells, constituting the paradigmatic example of molecular chaperones. Despite extensive investigations of their structure and mechanism, crucial questions regarding how these chaperonins promote folding remain unsolved. Here, we report that the bacterial Hsp60 chaperonin GroEL forms a stable, functionally relevant complex with the chaperedoxin CnoX, a protein combining a chaperone and a redox function. Binding of GroES (Hsp10 cofactor) to GroEL induces CnoX release. Cryoelectron microscopy provided crucial structural information on the GroEL-CnoX complex, showing that CnoX binds GroEL outside the substrate-binding site via a highly conserved C-terminal α-helix. Furthermore, we identified complexes in which CnoX, bound to GroEL, forms mixed disulfides with GroEL substrates, indicating that CnoX likely functions as a redox quality-control plugin for GroEL. Proteins sharing structural features with CnoX exist in eukaryotes, suggesting that Hsp60 molecular plugins have been conserved through evolution.
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- Emile Dupuy
- WELBIO, Avenue Hippocrate 75, 1200 Brussels, Belgium; de Duve Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Avenue Hippocrate 75, 1200 Brussels, Belgium
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- Structural Biology Brussels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1050 Brussels, Belgium; Structural and Molecular Microbiology, Structural Biology Research Center, VIB, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Biochemistry and the Redox Biology Center, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and the Redox Biology Center, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
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- WELBIO, Avenue Hippocrate 75, 1200 Brussels, Belgium; de Duve Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Avenue Hippocrate 75, 1200 Brussels, Belgium
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- Louvain Institute of Biomolecular Science and Technology, Université Catholique de Louvain, Croix du Sud 4-5, 1348 Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium
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- WELBIO, Avenue Hippocrate 75, 1200 Brussels, Belgium; de Duve Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Avenue Hippocrate 75, 1200 Brussels, Belgium
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- WELBIO, Avenue Hippocrate 75, 1200 Brussels, Belgium; de Duve Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Avenue Hippocrate 75, 1200 Brussels, Belgium
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- de Duve Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Avenue Hippocrate 75, 1200 Brussels, Belgium
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- Louvain Institute of Biomolecular Science and Technology, Université Catholique de Louvain, Croix du Sud 4-5, 1348 Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium
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- WELBIO, Avenue Hippocrate 75, 1200 Brussels, Belgium; de Duve Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Avenue Hippocrate 75, 1200 Brussels, Belgium; Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS UPR 2301, Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- WELBIO, Avenue Hippocrate 75, 1200 Brussels, Belgium; de Duve Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Avenue Hippocrate 75, 1200 Brussels, Belgium; European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstrasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany.
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- Structural Biology Brussels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1050 Brussels, Belgium; Structural and Molecular Microbiology, Structural Biology Research Center, VIB, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.
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- WELBIO, Avenue Hippocrate 75, 1200 Brussels, Belgium; de Duve Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Avenue Hippocrate 75, 1200 Brussels, Belgium.
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Li J, Huang T, Xia M, Lu J, Xu X, Liu H, Zhang W. Exogenous melatonin mediates radish ( Raphanus sativus) and Alternaria brassicae interaction in a dose-dependent manner. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 14:1126669. [PMID: 36923135 PMCID: PMC10009256 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1126669] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2022] [Accepted: 02/14/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Radish (Raphanus sativus L.) is an economically important vegetable worldwide, but its sustainable production and breeding are highly threatened by blight disease caused by Alternaria brassicae. Melatonin is an important growth regulator that can influence physiological activities in both plants and microbes and stimulate biotic stress resistance in plants. In this study, 0-1500 μM melatonin was exogenously applied to healthy radish seedlings, in vitro incubated A. brassicae, and diseased radish seedlings to determine the effects of melatonin on host, pathogen, and host-pathogen interaction. At sufficient concentrations (0-500 μM), melatonin enhanced growth and immunity of healthy radish seedlings by improving the function of organelles and promoting the biosynthesis of antioxidant enzymes, chitin, organic acid, and defense proteins. Interestingly, melatonin also improved colony growth, development, and virulence of A. brassicae. A strong dosage-dependent effect of melatonin was observed: 50-500 μM promoted host and pathogen vitality and resistance (500 μM was optimal) and 1500 μM inhibited these processes. Significantly less blight was observed on diseased seedlings treated with 500 μM melatonin, indicating that melatonin more strongly enhanced the growth and immunity of radish than it promoted the development and virulence of A. brassicae at this treatment concentration. These effects of MT were mediated by transcriptional changes of key genes as identified by RNA-seq, Dual RNA-seq, and qRT-PCR. The results from this work provide a theoretical basis for the application of melatonin to protect vegetable crops against pathogens.
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- Jingwei Li
- Institute of Vegetable Industry Technology Research, Guizhou University, Guiyang, China
- College of Agriculture, Guizhou University, Guiyang, China
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- Institute of Vegetable Industry Technology Research, Guizhou University, Guiyang, China
- College of Agriculture, Guizhou University, Guiyang, China
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- Institute of Vegetable Industry Technology Research, Guizhou University, Guiyang, China
- College of Agriculture, Guizhou University, Guiyang, China
- School of Computing, Chongqing College of Humanities, Science and Technology, Hechuan, China
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- Institute of Vegetable Industry Technology Research, Guizhou University, Guiyang, China
- College of Agriculture, Guizhou University, Guiyang, China
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- Institute of Vegetable Industry Technology Research, Guizhou University, Guiyang, China
- College of Agriculture, Guizhou University, Guiyang, China
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- Institute of Vegetable Industry Technology Research, Guizhou University, Guiyang, China
- College of Agriculture, Guizhou University, Guiyang, China
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- Institute of Vegetable Industry Technology Research, Guizhou University, Guiyang, China
- College of Agriculture, Guizhou University, Guiyang, China
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Piao X, Ma Y, Liu S, Hou N, Chen Q. A Novel Thioredoxin-Like Protein of Babesia microti Involved in Parasite Pathogenicity. Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2022; 12:826818. [PMID: 35252036 PMCID: PMC8892138 DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2022.826818] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2021] [Accepted: 01/26/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Babesiosis poses a serious threat to immunocompromised individuals and the major etiological species of Babesia for human babesiosis is Babesia microti. Merozoites are a critical stage in the life cycle of Babesia microti. Several merozoite proteins have been demonstrated to play important roles in this process; however, most of the merozoite proteins of B. microti remain unknown. In the present study, we identified a novel merozoite protein of B. microti with similar structure to the thioredoxin (Trx)-like domain of the Trx family, which was named as B. microti Trx-like protein (BmTLP). Western blot assays demonstrated that this protein was expressed by B. microti during the erythrocytic infection process, and its expression peaked on day 7 post-infection in vivo. Immunofluorescence assay further showed that this protein is mainly expressed in B. microti merozoites. BmTLP hold both heparin- and erythrocyte-binding properties, which are critical functions of invasion-related proteins. Immunization with recombinant BmTLP imparted significant protection against B. microti infection in mice. Taken together, these results suggest that the novel merozoite protein, BmTLP, is an important pathogenic molecule of B. microti and may be a possible target for the design of babesiosis control strategy.
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- Xianyu Piao
- National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China (NHC) Key Laboratory of Systems Biology of Pathogens, Institute of Pathogen Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China (NHC) Key Laboratory of Systems Biology of Pathogens, Institute of Pathogen Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China (NHC) Key Laboratory of Systems Biology of Pathogens, Institute of Pathogen Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China (NHC) Key Laboratory of Systems Biology of Pathogens, Institute of Pathogen Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
- *Correspondence: Nan Hou, ; Qijun Chen,
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- National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China (NHC) Key Laboratory of Systems Biology of Pathogens, Institute of Pathogen Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
- Key Laboratory of Livestock Infectious Diseases in Northeast China, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, China
- The Research Unit for Pathogenic Mechanisms of Zoonotic Parasites, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Shenyang, China
- *Correspondence: Nan Hou, ; Qijun Chen,
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Kohli S, Gulati P, Narang A, Maini J, Shamsudheen KV, Pandey R, Scaria V, Sivasubbu S, Brahmachari V. Genome and transcriptome analysis of the mealybug Maconellicoccus hirsutus: Correlation with its unique phenotypes. Genomics 2021; 113:2483-2494. [PMID: 34022346 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2021.05.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2020] [Revised: 04/02/2021] [Accepted: 05/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Mealybugs are aggressive pests with world-wide distribution and are suitable for the study of different phenomena like genomic imprinting and epigenetics. Genomic approaches facilitate these studies in absence of robust genetics in this system. We sequenced, de novo assembled, annotated Maconellicoccus hirsutus genome. We carried out comparative genomics it with four mealybug and eight other insect species, to identify expanded, specific and contracted gene classes that relate to pesticide and desiccation resistance. We identified horizontally transferred genes adding to the mutualism between the mealybug and its endosymbionts. Male and female transcriptome analysis indicates differential expression of metabolic pathway genes correlating with their physiology and the genes for sexual dimorphism. The significantly lower expression of endosymbiont genes in males relates to the depletion of endosymbionts in males during development.
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- Surbhi Kohli
- Dr.B.R.Ambedkar Center for Biomedical Research, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
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- Dr.B.R.Ambedkar Center for Biomedical Research, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
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- Dr.B.R.Ambedkar Center for Biomedical Research, University of Delhi, Delhi, India.
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- Dr.B.R.Ambedkar Center for Biomedical Research, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
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- CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi, India
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- CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi, India
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- CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi, India
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- Dr.B.R.Ambedkar Center for Biomedical Research, University of Delhi, Delhi, India.
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Dupuy E, Collet JF. Fort CnoX: Protecting Bacterial Proteins From Misfolding and Oxidative Damage. Front Mol Biosci 2021; 8:681932. [PMID: 34017858 PMCID: PMC8129009 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2021.681932] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2021] [Accepted: 04/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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How proteins fold and are protected from stress-induced aggregation is a long-standing mystery and a crucial question in biology. Here, we present the current knowledge on the chaperedoxin CnoX, a novel type of protein folding factor that combines holdase chaperone activity with a redox protective function. Focusing on Escherichia coli CnoX, we explain the essential role played by this protein under HOCl (bleach) stress, discussing how it protects its substrates from both aggregation and irreversible oxidation, which could otherwise interfere with refolding. Finally, we highlight the unique ability of CnoX, apparently conserved during evolution, to cooperate with the GroEL/ES folding machinery.
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- Emile Dupuy
- WELBIO, Brussels, Belgium.,de Duve Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
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- WELBIO, Brussels, Belgium.,de Duve Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
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Neutrophils kill invading microbes and therefore represent the first line of defense of the innate immune response. Activated neutrophils assemble NADPH oxidase to convert substantial amounts of molecular oxygen into superoxide, which, after dismutation into peroxide, serves as the substrate for the generation of the potent antimicrobial hypochlorous acid (HOCl) in the phagosomal space. In this minireview, we explore the most recent insights into physiological consequences of HOCl stress. Not surprisingly, Gram-negative bacteria have evolved diverse posttranslational defense mechanisms to protect their proteins, the main targets of HOCl, from HOCl-mediated damage. We discuss the idea that oxidation of conserved cysteine residues and partial unfolding of its structure convert the heat shock protein Hsp33 into a highly active chaperone holdase that binds unfolded proteins and prevents their aggregation. We examine two novel members of the Escherichia coli chaperone holdase family, RidA and CnoX, whose thiol-independent activation mechanism differs from that of Hsp33 and requires N-chlorination of positively charged amino acids during HOCl exposure. Furthermore, we summarize the latest findings with respect to another bacterial defense strategy employed in response to HOCl stress, which involves the accumulation of the universally conserved biopolymer inorganic polyphosphate. We then discuss sophisticated adaptive strategies that bacteria have developed to enhance their survival during HOCl stress. Understanding bacterial defense and survival strategies against one of the most powerful neutrophilic oxidants may provide novel insights into treatment options that potentially compromise the ability of pathogens to resist HOCl stress and therefore may increase the efficacy of the innate immune response.
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González D, Álamos P, Rivero M, Orellana O, Norambuena J, Chávez R, Levicán G. Deciphering the Role of Multiple Thioredoxin Fold Proteins of Leptospirillum sp. in Oxidative Stress Tolerance. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:E1880. [PMID: 32164170 PMCID: PMC7084401 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21051880] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2020] [Revised: 03/04/2020] [Accepted: 03/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Thioredoxin fold proteins (TFPs) form a family of diverse proteins involved in thiol/disulfide exchange in cells from all domains of life. Leptospirillum spp. are bioleaching bacteria naturally exposed to extreme conditions like acidic pH and high concentrations of metals that can contribute to the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and consequently the induction of thiol oxidative damage. Bioinformatic studies have predicted 13 genes that encode for TFP proteins in Leptospirillum spp. We analyzed the participation of individual tfp genes from Leptospirillum sp. CF-1 in the response to oxidative conditions. Genomic context analysis predicted the involvement of these genes in the general thiol-reducing system, cofactor biosynthesis, carbon fixation, cytochrome c biogenesis, signal transduction, and pilus and fimbria assembly. All tfp genes identified were transcriptionally active, although they responded differentially to ferric sulfate and diamide stress. Some of these genes confer oxidative protection to a thioredoxin-deficient Escherichia coli strain by restoring the wild-type phenotype under oxidative stress conditions. These findings contribute to our understanding of the diversity and complexity of thiol/disulfide systems, and of adaptations that emerge in acidophilic microorganisms that allow them to thrive in highly oxidative environments. These findings also give new insights into the physiology of these microorganisms during industrial bioleaching operations.
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- Daniela González
- Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Química y Biología, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Avenida Libertador Bernardo O’Higgins 3363, Estación Central Santiago 917022, Chile; (D.G.); (P.Á.); (M.R.); (J.N.); (R.C.)
- Programa de Biología Celular y Molecular, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago 8380453, Chile;
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- Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Química y Biología, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Avenida Libertador Bernardo O’Higgins 3363, Estación Central Santiago 917022, Chile; (D.G.); (P.Á.); (M.R.); (J.N.); (R.C.)
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- Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Química y Biología, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Avenida Libertador Bernardo O’Higgins 3363, Estación Central Santiago 917022, Chile; (D.G.); (P.Á.); (M.R.); (J.N.); (R.C.)
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- Programa de Biología Celular y Molecular, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago 8380453, Chile;
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- Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Química y Biología, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Avenida Libertador Bernardo O’Higgins 3363, Estación Central Santiago 917022, Chile; (D.G.); (P.Á.); (M.R.); (J.N.); (R.C.)
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- Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Química y Biología, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Avenida Libertador Bernardo O’Higgins 3363, Estación Central Santiago 917022, Chile; (D.G.); (P.Á.); (M.R.); (J.N.); (R.C.)
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- Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Química y Biología, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Avenida Libertador Bernardo O’Higgins 3363, Estación Central Santiago 917022, Chile; (D.G.); (P.Á.); (M.R.); (J.N.); (R.C.)
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The Chaperone and Redox Properties of CnoX Chaperedoxins Are Tailored to the Proteostatic Needs of Bacterial Species. mBio 2018; 9:mBio.01541-18. [PMID: 30482828 PMCID: PMC6282202 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.01541-18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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How proteins are protected from stress-induced aggregation is a crucial question in biology and a long-standing mystery. While a long series of landmark studies have provided important contributions to our current understanding of the proteostasis network, key fundamental questions remain unsolved. In this study, we show that the intrinsic features of the chaperedoxin CnoX, a folding factor that combines chaperone and redox protective function, have been tailored during evolution to fit to the specific needs of their host. Whereas Escherichia coli CnoX needs to be activated by bleach, a powerful oxidant produced by our immune system, its counterpart in Caulobacter crescentus, a bacterium living in bleach-free environments, is a constitutive chaperone. In addition, the redox properties of E. coli and C. crescentus CnoX also differ to best contribute to their respective cellular redox homeostasis. This work demonstrates how proteins from the same family have evolved to meet the needs of their hosts. Hypochlorous acid (bleach), an oxidizing compound produced by neutrophils, turns the Escherichia coli chaperedoxin CnoX into a powerful holdase protecting its substrates from bleach-induced aggregation. CnoX is well conserved in bacteria, even in non-infectious species unlikely to encounter this oxidant, muddying the role of CnoX in these organisms. Here, we found that CnoX in the non-pathogenic aquatic bacterium Caulobacter crescentus functions as a holdase that efficiently protects 50 proteins from heat-induced aggregation. Remarkably, the chaperone activity of Caulobacter CnoX is constitutive. Like E. coli CnoX, Caulobacter CnoX transfers its substrates to DnaK/J/GrpE and GroEL/ES for refolding, indicating conservation of cooperation with GroEL/ES. Interestingly, Caulobacter CnoX exhibits thioredoxin oxidoreductase activity, by which it controls the redox state of 90 proteins. This function, which E. coli CnoX lacks, is likely welcome in a bacterium poorly equipped with antioxidant defenses. Thus, the redox and chaperone properties of CnoX chaperedoxins were fine-tuned during evolution to adapt these proteins to the specific needs of each species.
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Goemans CV, Vertommen D, Agrebi R, Collet JF. CnoX Is a Chaperedoxin: A Holdase that Protects Its Substrates from Irreversible Oxidation. Mol Cell 2018; 70:614-627.e7. [PMID: 29754824 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2018.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2017] [Revised: 02/22/2018] [Accepted: 04/03/2018] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Bleach (HOCl) is a powerful oxidant that kills bacteria in part by causing protein aggregation. It inactivates ATP-dependent chaperones, rendering cellular proteins mostly dependent on holdases. Here we identified Escherichia coli CnoX (YbbN) as a folding factor that, when activated by bleach via chlorination, functions as an efficient holdase, protecting the substrates of the major folding systems GroEL/ES and DnaK/J/GrpE. Remarkably, CnoX uniquely combines this function with the ability to prevent the irreversible oxidation of its substrates. This dual activity makes CnoX the founding member of a family of proteins, the "chaperedoxins." Because CnoX displays a thioredoxin fold and a tetratricopeptide (TPR) domain, two structural motifs conserved in all organisms, this investigation sets the stage for the discovery of additional chaperedoxins in bacteria and eukaryotes that could cooperate with proteins from both the Hsp60 and Hsp70 families.
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- Camille V Goemans
- WELBIO, Avenue Hippocrate 75, 1200 Brussels, Belgium; de Duve Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Avenue Hippocrate 75, 1200 Brussels, Belgium
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- de Duve Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Avenue Hippocrate 75, 1200 Brussels, Belgium
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- WELBIO, Avenue Hippocrate 75, 1200 Brussels, Belgium; de Duve Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Avenue Hippocrate 75, 1200 Brussels, Belgium
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- WELBIO, Avenue Hippocrate 75, 1200 Brussels, Belgium; de Duve Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Avenue Hippocrate 75, 1200 Brussels, Belgium.
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RcsB contributes to the distinct stress fitness among Escherichia coli O157:H7 curli variants of the 1993 hamburger-associated outbreak strains. Appl Environ Microbiol 2012; 78:7706-19. [PMID: 22923406 DOI: 10.1128/aem.02157-12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Curli are adhesive fimbriae of Enterobactericaeae and are involved in surface attachment, cell aggregation, and biofilm formation. We reported previously that curli-producing (C(+)) variants of E. coli O157:H7 (EcO157) were much more acid sensitive than their corresponding curli-deficient (C(-)) variants; however, this difference was not linked to the curli fimbriae per se. Here, we investigated the underlying molecular basis of this phenotypic divergence. We identified large deletions in the rcsB gene of C(+) variants isolated from the 1993 U.S. hamburger-associated outbreak strains. rcsB encodes the response regulator of the RcsCDB two-component signal transduction system, which regulates curli biogenesis negatively but acid resistance positively. Further comparison of stress fitness revealed that C(+) variants were also significantly more sensitive to heat shock but were resistant to osmotic stress and oxidative damage, similar to C(-) variants. Transcriptomics analysis uncovered a large number of differentially expressed genes between the curli variants, characterized by enhanced expression in C(+) variants of genes related to biofilm formation, virulence, catabolic activity, and nutrient uptake but marked decreases in transcription of genes related to various types of stress resistance. Supplying C(+) variants with a functional rcsB restored resistance to heat shock and acid challenge in cells but blocked curli production, confirming that inactivation of RcsB in C(+) variants was the basis of fitness segregation within the EcO157 population. This study provides an example of how genome instability of EcO157 promotes intrapopulation diversification, generating subpopulations carrying an array of distinct phenotypes that may confer the pathogen with survival advantages in diverse environments.
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Smock RG, Blackburn ME, Gierasch LM. Conserved, disordered C terminus of DnaK enhances cellular survival upon stress and DnaK in vitro chaperone activity. J Biol Chem 2011; 286:31821-9. [PMID: 21768118 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m111.265835] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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The 70-kDa heat shock proteins (Hsp70s) function as molecular chaperones through the allosteric coupling of their nucleotide- and substrate-binding domains, the structures of which are highly conserved. In contrast, the roles of the poorly structured, variable length C-terminal regions present on Hsp70s remain unclear. In many eukaryotic Hsp70s, the extreme C-terminal EEVD tetrapeptide sequence associates with co-chaperones via binding to tetratricopeptide repeat domains. It is not known whether this is the only function for this region in eukaryotic Hsp70s and what roles this region performs in Hsp70s that do not form complexes with tetratricopeptide repeat domains. We compared C-terminal sequences of 730 Hsp70 family members and identified a novel conservation pattern in a diverse subset of 165 bacterial and organellar Hsp70s. Mutation of conserved C-terminal sequence in DnaK, the predominant Hsp70 in Escherichia coli, results in significant impairment of its protein refolding activity in vitro without affecting interdomain allostery, interaction with co-chaperones DnaJ and GrpE, or the binding of a peptide substrate, defying classical explanations for the chaperoning mechanism of Hsp70. Moreover, mutation of specific conserved sites within the DnaK C terminus reduces the capacity of the cell to withstand stresses on protein folding caused by elevated temperature or the absence of other chaperones. These features of the C-terminal region support a model in which it acts as a disordered tether linked to a conserved, weak substrate-binding motif and that this enhances chaperone function by transiently interacting with folding clients.
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- Robert G Smock
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
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