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Hu D, Zhao Z, Nazir MF, Sun G, Peng Z, Jia Y, Geng X, Wang L, Pan Z, Li H, Chen B, Sun F, He S, Du X. Identification and characterization of candidate genes for primary root length in Asiatic cotton (Gossypium arboreum L.). TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2024; 137:52. [PMID: 38369650 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-023-04471-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2023] [Accepted: 09/25/2023] [Indexed: 02/20/2024]
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KEY MESSAGE One major gene controlling primary root length (PRL) in Gossypium arboreum is identified and this research provides a theoretical basis for root development for cotton. Primary root elongation is an essential process in plant root system structure. Here, we investigated the primary root length (PRL) of 215 diploid cotton (G. arboreum) accessions at 5, 8, 10, 15 days after sowing. A Genome-wide association study was performed for the PRL, resulting in 49 significant SNPs associated with 32 putative candidate genes. The SNP with the strongest signal (Chr07_8047530) could clearly distinguish the PRLs between accessions with two haplotypes. GamurG is the only gene that showed higher relative expression in the long PRL genotypes than the short PRL genotypes, which indicated it was the most likely candidate gene for regulating PRL. Moreover, the GamurG-silenced cotton seedlings showed a shorter PRL, while the GamurG-overexpressed Arabidopsis exhibited a significantly longer PRL. Our findings provide insight into the regulation mechanism of cotton root growth and will facilitate future breeding programs to optimize the root system structure in cotton.
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- Daowu Hu
- Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/National Key Laboratory of Cotton Bio-Breeding and Integrated Utilization, Anyang Henan, 455000, China
- Hainan Yazhou Bay Seed Laboratory, Sanya, Hainan, 572025, China
- National Nanfan Research Institute (Sanya), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Sanya, Hainan, 572024, China
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- School of Agriculture Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450000, China
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- Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/National Key Laboratory of Cotton Bio-Breeding and Integrated Utilization, Anyang Henan, 455000, China
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- Anyang Institute of Technology, Anyang, 455000, China
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- Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/National Key Laboratory of Cotton Bio-Breeding and Integrated Utilization, Anyang Henan, 455000, China
- Hainan Yazhou Bay Seed Laboratory, Sanya, Hainan, 572025, China
- National Nanfan Research Institute (Sanya), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Sanya, Hainan, 572024, China
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- Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/National Key Laboratory of Cotton Bio-Breeding and Integrated Utilization, Anyang Henan, 455000, China
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- Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/National Key Laboratory of Cotton Bio-Breeding and Integrated Utilization, Anyang Henan, 455000, China
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- Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/National Key Laboratory of Cotton Bio-Breeding and Integrated Utilization, Anyang Henan, 455000, China
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- Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/National Key Laboratory of Cotton Bio-Breeding and Integrated Utilization, Anyang Henan, 455000, China
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- Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/National Key Laboratory of Cotton Bio-Breeding and Integrated Utilization, Anyang Henan, 455000, China
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- Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/National Key Laboratory of Cotton Bio-Breeding and Integrated Utilization, Anyang Henan, 455000, China
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- Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/National Key Laboratory of Cotton Bio-Breeding and Integrated Utilization, Anyang Henan, 455000, China
- Hainan Yazhou Bay Seed Laboratory, Sanya, Hainan, 572025, China
- National Nanfan Research Institute (Sanya), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Sanya, Hainan, 572024, China
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- Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/National Key Laboratory of Cotton Bio-Breeding and Integrated Utilization, Anyang Henan, 455000, China.
- Hainan Yazhou Bay Seed Laboratory, Sanya, Hainan, 572025, China.
- National Nanfan Research Institute (Sanya), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Sanya, Hainan, 572024, China.
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- Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/National Key Laboratory of Cotton Bio-Breeding and Integrated Utilization, Anyang Henan, 455000, China.
- Hainan Yazhou Bay Seed Laboratory, Sanya, Hainan, 572025, China.
- National Nanfan Research Institute (Sanya), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Sanya, Hainan, 572024, China.
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Masuda S, Harada J, Yokono M, Yuzawa Y, Shimojima M, Murofushi K, Tanaka H, Masuda H, Murakawa M, Haraguchi T, Kondo M, Nishimura M, Yuasa H, Noguchi M, Oh-Oka H, Tanaka A, Tamiaki H, Ohta H. A monogalactosyldiacylglycerol synthase found in the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobaculum tepidum reveals important roles for galactolipids in photosynthesis. THE PLANT CELL 2011; 23:2644-58. [PMID: 21764989 PMCID: PMC3226221 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.111.085357] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Monogalactosyldiacylglycerol (MGDG), which is conserved in almost all photosynthetic organisms, is the most abundant natural polar lipid on Earth. In plants, MGDG is highly accumulated in the chloroplast membranes and is an important bulk constituent of thylakoid membranes. However, precise functions of MGDG in photosynthesis have not been well understood. Here, we report a novel MGDG synthase from the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobaculum tepidum. This enzyme, MgdA, catalyzes MGDG synthesis using UDP-Gal as a substrate. The gene encoding MgdA was essential for this bacterium; only heterozygous mgdA mutants could be isolated. An mgdA knockdown mutation affected in vivo assembly of bacteriochlorophyll c aggregates, suggesting the involvement of MGDG in the construction of the light-harvesting complex called chlorosome. These results indicate that MGDG biosynthesis has been independently established in each photosynthetic organism to perform photosynthesis under different environmental conditions. We complemented an Arabidopsis thaliana MGDG synthase mutant by heterologous expression of MgdA. The complemented plants showed almost normal levels of MGDG, although they also had abnormal morphological phenotypes, including reduced chlorophyll content, no apical dominance in shoot growth, atypical flower development, and infertility. These observations provide new insights regarding the importance of regulated MGDG synthesis in the physiology of higher plants.
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- Shinji Masuda
- Center for Biological Resources and Informatics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama 226-8501, Japan.
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Gautam A, Vyas R, Tewari R. Peptidoglycan biosynthesis machinery: a rich source of drug targets. Crit Rev Biotechnol 2010; 31:295-336. [PMID: 21091161 DOI: 10.3109/07388551.2010.525498] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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The range of antibiotic therapy for the control of bacterial infections is becoming increasingly limited because of the rapid rise in multidrug resistance in clinical bacterial isolates. A few diseases, such as tuberculosis, which were once thought to be under control, have re-emerged as serious health threats. These problems have resulted in intensified research to look for new inhibitors for bacterial pathogens. Of late, the peptidoglycan (PG) layer, the most important component of the bacterial cell wall has been the subject of drug targeting because, first, it is essential for the survivability of eubacteria and secondly, it is absent in humans. The last decade has seen tremendous inputs in deciphering the 3-D structures of the PG biosynthetic enzymes. Many inhibitors against these enzymes have been developed using virtual and high throughput screening techniques. This review discusses the mechanistic and structural properties of the PG biosynthetic enzymes and inhibitors developed in the last decade.
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- Ankur Gautam
- Department of Biotechnology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
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Bouhss A, Trunkfield AE, Bugg TDH, Mengin-Lecreulx D. The biosynthesis of peptidoglycan lipid-linked intermediates. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2007; 32:208-33. [PMID: 18081839 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2007.00089.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 337] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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The biosynthesis of bacterial cell wall peptidoglycan is a complex process involving many different steps taking place in the cytoplasm (synthesis of the nucleotide precursors) and on the inner and outer sides of the cytoplasmic membrane (assembly and polymerization of the disaccharide-peptide monomer unit, respectively). This review summarizes the current knowledge on the membrane steps leading to the formation of the lipid II intermediate, i.e. the substrate of the polymerization reactions. It makes the point on past and recent data that have significantly contributed to the understanding of the biosynthesis of undecaprenyl phosphate, the carrier lipid required for the anchoring of the peptidoglycan hydrophilic units in the membrane, and to the characterization of the MraY and MurG enzymes which catalyze the successive transfers of the N-acetylmuramoyl-peptide and N-acetylglucosamine moieties onto the carrier lipid, respectively. Enzyme inhibitors and antibacterial compounds interfering with these essential metabolic steps and interesting targets are presented.
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- Ahmed Bouhss
- Laboratoire des Enveloppes Bactériennes et Antibiotiques, Institut de Biochimie et Biophysique Moléculaire et Cellulaire, UMR 8619 CNRS, Univ Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
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Chantret I, Dancourt J, Barbat A, Moore SEH. Two proteins homologous to the N- and C-terminal domains of the bacterial glycosyltransferase Murg are required for the second step of dolichyl-linked oligosaccharide synthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. J Biol Chem 2004; 280:9236-42. [PMID: 15615718 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m413941200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Two highly conserved eukaryotic gene products of unknown function showing homology to glycosyltransferases involved in the second steps of bacterial peptidoglycan (Murg) and capsular polysaccharide (Cps14f/Cps14g) biosynthesis have been identified in silico. The amino acid sequence of the eukaryotic protein that is homologous to the lipid acceptor- and membrane-associating N-terminal domain of Murg and the Cps14f beta4-galactosyltransferase enhancer protein is predicted to possess a cleavable signal peptide and transmembrane helices. The other eukaryotic protein is predicted to possess neither transmembrane regions nor a signal peptide but is homologous to the UDP-sugar binding C-terminal domain of Murg and the Cps14g beta4-galactosyltransferase. Both the eukaryotic proteins are encoded by essential genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and down-regulation of either causes growth retardation, reduced N-glycosylation of carboxypeptidase Y, and accumulation of dolichyl-PP-GlcNAc. In vitro studies demonstrate that these proteins are required for transfer of [3H]GlcNAc from UDP-[3H]GlcNAc onto dolichyl-PP-GlcNAc. To conclude, two gene products showing homology to bacterial glycosyltransferases are required for the second step in dolichyl-PP-oligosaccharide biosynthesis.
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- Isabelle Chantret
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, U504, Bâtiment INSERM, 16 avenue Paul Vaillant-Couturier, 94807 Villejuif, France
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Bouhss A, Crouvoisier M, Blanot D, Mengin-Lecreulx D. Purification and characterization of the bacterial MraY translocase catalyzing the first membrane step of peptidoglycan biosynthesis. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:29974-80. [PMID: 15131133 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m314165200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The MraY translocase catalyzes the first membrane step of bacterial cell wall peptidoglycan synthesis (i.e. the transfer of the phospho-N-acetylmuramoyl-pentapeptide motif onto the undecaprenyl phosphate carrier lipid), a reversible reaction yielding undecaprenylpyrophosphoryl-N-acetylmuramoyl-pentapeptide (lipid intermediate I). This essential integral membrane protein, which is considered as a very promising target for the search of new antibacterial compounds, has thus far been clearly underexploited due to its intrinsic refractory nature to overexpression and purification. We here report conditions for the high level overproduction and for the first time the purification to homogeneity of milligram quantities of MraY protein. The kinetic parameters and effects of pH, salts, cations, and detergents on enzyme activity are described, taking the Bacillus subtilis MraY translocase as a model.
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- Ahmed Bouhss
- Enveloppes Bactériennes et Antibiotiques, Institut de Biochimie et de Biophysique Moléculaire et Cellulaire, UMR 8619 CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Bât. 430, 91405 Orsay, France.
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Chen L, Men H, Ha S, Ye XY, Brunner L, Hu Y, Walker S. Intrinsic lipid preferences and kinetic mechanism of Escherichia coli MurG. Biochemistry 2002; 41:6824-33. [PMID: 12022887 DOI: 10.1021/bi0256678] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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MurG, the last enzyme involved in the intracellular phase of peptidoglycan synthesis, is a membrane-associated glycosyltransferase that couples N-acetyl glucosamine to the C4 hydroxyl of a lipid-linked N-acetyl muramic acid derivative (lipid I) to form the beta-linked disaccharide (lipid II) that is the minimal subunit of peptidoglycan. Lipid I is anchored to the bacterial membrane by a 55 carbon undecaprenyl chain. Because this long lipid chain impedes kinetic analysis of MurG, we have been investigating alternative substrates containing shortened lipid chains. We now describe the intrinsic lipid preferences of MurG and show that the optimal substrate for MurG in the absence of membranes is not the natural substrate. Thus, while the undecaprenyl carrier lipid may be critical for certain steps in the biosynthetic pathway to peptidoglycan, it is not required-in fact, is not preferred-by MurG. Using synthetic substrate analogues and products containing different length lipid chains, as well as a synthetic dead-end acceptor analogue, we have also shown that MurG follows a compulsory ordered Bi Bi mechanism in which the donor sugar binds first. This information should facilitate obtaining crystals of MurG with substrates bound, an important goal because MurG belongs to a major superfamily of NDP-glycosyltransferases for which no structures containing intact substrates have yet been solved.
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- Lan Chen
- Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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MacGregor EA. Possible structure and active site residues of starch, glycogen, and sucrose synthases. JOURNAL OF PROTEIN CHEMISTRY 2002; 21:297-306. [PMID: 12168700 DOI: 10.1023/a:1019701621256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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A group of enzymes that include muscle glycogen phosphorylase and sugar transferases involved in, for example, the glucosylation of DNA and the synthesis of peptidoglycan are known to possess the same basic three-dimensional fold. Here the possibility is examined that other monosaccharide transferases, those that catalyze synthesis of starch, glycogen, and the disaccharide sucrose, resemble the phosphorylase-type enzymes in structure. In particular, a clear relationship is shown, for the first time, between mammalian glycogen synthases and the phosphorylase structural group of proteins. Domain architecture and secondary structure are discussed, and the possible role of several conserved amino acids at the active site is explored.
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- E Ann MacGregor
- Department of Chemistry, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
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Cudic P, Behenna DC, Yu MK, Kruger RG, Szewczuk LM, McCafferty DG. Synthesis of P(1)-Citronellyl-P(2)-alpha-D-pyranosyl pyrophosphates as potential substrates for the E. coli undecaprenyl-pyrophosphoryl-N-acetylglucoseaminyl transferase MurG. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 2001; 11:3107-10. [PMID: 11720853 DOI: 10.1016/s0960-894x(01)00653-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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P(1)-Citronellyl-P(2)-alpha-D-pyranosyl pyrophosphates containing alpha-D-N-acetylglucoseaminyl, alpha-D-glucosyl, and alpha-D-N-acetylmuramyl carbohydrates were synthesized and used in substrate specificity studies of the Escherichia coli MurG enzyme. Oxalyl chloride activation of citronellyl phosphate for coupling to alpha-D-pyranose-1-phosphates resulted in markedly improved yields over traditional Khorana-Moffatt and diphenyl chlorophosphate activation strategies.
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- P Cudic
- Johnson Research Foundation and the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6059, USA
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Azzolina BA, Yuan X, Anderson MS, El-Sherbeini M. The cell wall and cell division gene cluster in the Mra operon of Pseudomonas aeruginosa: cloning, production, and purification of active enzymes. Protein Expr Purif 2001; 21:393-400. [PMID: 11281713 DOI: 10.1006/prep.2001.1390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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We have cloned the Pseudomonas aeruginosa cell wall biosynthesis and cell division gene cluster that corresponds to the mra operon in the 2-min region of the Escherichia coli chromosome. The organization of the two chromosomal regions in P. aeruginosa and E. coli is remarkably similar with the following gene order: pbp3/pbpB, murE, murF, mraY, murD, ftsW, murG, murC, ddlB, ftsQ, ftsA, ftsZ, and envA/LpxC. All of the above P. aeruginosa genes are transcribed from the same strand of DNA with very small, if any, intragenic regions, indicating that these genes may constitute a single operon. All five amino acid ligases, MurC, MurD, MurE, MurF, and DdlB, in addition to MurG and MraY were cloned in expression vectors. The four recombinant P. aeruginosa Mur ligases, MurC, MurD, MurE, and MurF were overproduced in E. coli and purified as active enzymes.
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- B A Azzolina
- Department of Biochemistry, Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway, New Jersey 07065, USA
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Ha S, Chang E, Lo MC, Men H, Park P, Ge M, Walker S. The Kinetic Characterization of Escherichia coli MurG Using Synthetic Substrate Analogues. J Am Chem Soc 1999. [DOI: 10.1021/ja991556t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Sha Ha
- Contribution from the Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544
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- Contribution from the Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544
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- Contribution from the Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544
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- Contribution from the Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544
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- Contribution from the Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544
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- Contribution from the Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544
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- Contribution from the Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544
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Crouvoisier M, Mengin-Lecreulx D, van Heijenoort J. UDP-N-acetylglucosamine:N-acetylmuramoyl-(pentapeptide) pyrophosphoryl undecaprenol N-acetylglucosamine transferase from Escherichia coli: overproduction, solubilization, and purification. FEBS Lett 1999; 449:289-92. [PMID: 10338150 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(99)00412-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Plasmids for the high-level overproduction of wild-type, and C- and N-terminal His-tagged MurG N-acetylglucosaminyl transferase from Escherichia coli were constructed. In complementation tests the three forms were active in vivo. After IPTG induction, growth, spheroplast formation and lysis, overproduced MurG proteins were mainly present (90%) in the particulate fraction. Readily solubilized by CHAPS, they were purified without any detergent to over 80% purity for both His-tagged forms but only up to 20% for the wild-type form. The enzymatic activity of each purified MurG protein was determined and found to be inhibited to the same extent by ramoplanin.
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- M Crouvoisier
- Biochimie Structurale et Cellulaire, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
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Jorasch P, Wolter FP, Zähringer U, Heinz E. A UDP glucosyltransferase from Bacillus subtilis successively transfers up to four glucose residues to 1,2-diacylglycerol: expression of ypfP in Escherichia coli and structural analysis of its reaction products. Mol Microbiol 1998; 29:419-30. [PMID: 9720862 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00930.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 123] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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We have isolated the ypfP gene (accession number P54166) from genomic DNA of Bacillus subtilis Marburg strain 60015 (Freese and Fortnagel, 1967) using PCR. After cloning and expression in E. coli, SDS-PAGE showed strong expression of a protein that had the predicted size of 43.6 kDa. Chromatographic analysis of the lipids extracted from the transformed E. coli revealed several new glycolipids. These glycolipids were isolated and their structures determined by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and mass spectrometry. They were identified as 3-[O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl-(1-->6)-O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl]-1,2-diacylgl ycerol, 3-[O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl-(1-->6)-O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl-(1-->6)-O-bet a-D-glucopyranosyl]-1,2-diacylglycerol and 3-[O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl-(1-->6)-O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl-(1-->6)-O-bet a-D-glucopyranosyl-(1-->6)-O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl]-1,2-diacylglycerol. The enzymatic activity expected to catalyse the synthesis of these compounds was confirmed by in vitro assays with radioactive substrates. In these assays, one additional glycolipid was formed and tentatively identified as 3-[O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl]-1,2-diacylglycerol, which was not detected in the lipid extract of transformed cells. Experiments with some of the above-described glycolipids as 14C-labelled sugar acceptors and unlabelled UDP-glucose as glucose donor suggest that the ypfP gene codes for a new processive UDP-glucose: 1,2-diacylglycerol-3-beta-D-glucosyl transferase. This glucosyltransferase can use diacylglycerol, monoglucosyl-diacylglycerol, diglucosyl diacylglycerol or triglucosyl diacylglycerol as sugar acceptor, which, apart from the first member, are formed by repetitive addition of a glucopyranosyl residue in beta (1-->6) linkage to the product of the preceding reaction.
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- P Jorasch
- Institut für Allgemeine Botanik, Universität Hamburg, Germany
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Affiliation(s)
- Hongbin Men
- Department of Chemistry, Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey 08544
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- Department of Chemistry, Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey 08544
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- Department of Chemistry, Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey 08544
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- Department of Chemistry, Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey 08544
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Price KD, Roels S, Losick R. A Bacillus subtilis gene encoding a protein similar to nucleotide sugar transferases influences cell shape and viability. J Bacteriol 1997; 179:4959-61. [PMID: 9244290 PMCID: PMC179349 DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.15.4959-4961.1997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Bacillus subtilis gene ypfP, which is located at 196 degrees on the genetic map, shows similarity to both the monogalactosyldiacylglycerol synthase gene of Cucumis sativus, which encodes a galactosyltransferase, and the murG genes of B. subtilis, Escherichia coli, Haemophilus influenzae, and Synechocystis sp. strain PCC6803, which encode N-acetylglucosaminyltransferases involved in peptidoglycan biosynthesis. Cells containing a null mutation of ypfP are shorter and rounder than wild-type cells during growth in Luria-Bertani medium and glucose minimal medium. In addition, the mutant cells preferentially undergo lysis when grown on solid Luria-Bertani medium.
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- K D Price
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
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Shimojima M, Ohta H, Iwamatsu A, Masuda T, Shioi Y, Takamiya K. Cloning of the gene for monogalactosyldiacylglycerol synthase and its evolutionary origin. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1997; 94:333-7. [PMID: 8990209 PMCID: PMC19336 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.94.1.333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 133] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Monogalactosyldiacylglycerol (MGDG) synthase (UDPgalactose:1,2-diacylglycerol 3-beta-D-galactosyltransferase; EC 2.4.1.46) catalyzes formation of MGDG, a major structural lipid of chloroplast. We cloned a cDNA for the synthase from cucumber cDNA library. The full-length cDNA clone was 2142 bp, and it contains a 1575-bp open reading frame encoding 525 aa. The open reading frame consists of the regions for a mature protein (422 aa; Mr of 46,552) and transit peptide to chloroplast (103 aa). Although the molecular weight of mature protein region matched that purified from cucumber cotyledons, it was quite different from those purified from spinach (approximately 20 kDa) reported by other groups. The mature region of the protein was expressed in Escherichia coli as a fusion protein with glutathione S-transferase. The expression in E. coli showed that the protein catalyzed MGDG synthesis very efficiently. Therefore, we concluded that the cDNA encodes MGDG synthase in cucumber. In addition, the deduced amino acid sequence of the MGDG synthase cDNA showed homology with MurG of Bacillus subtilis and E. coli, which encode a glycosyltransferase catalyzing the last step of peptidoglycan synthesis in bacteria. This sequence homology implies that the machinery of chloroplast membrane biosynthesis is evolutionarily derived from that of cell wall biosynthesis in bacteria. This is consistent with the endosymbiotic hypothesis of chloroplast formation.
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- M Shimojima
- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Midori-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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Xu Q, Hoppe D, Chitnis VP, Odom WR, Guikema JA, Chitnis PR. Mutational analysis of photosystem I polypeptides in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Targeted inactivation of psaI reveals the function of psaI in the structural organization of psaL. J Biol Chem 1995; 270:16243-50. [PMID: 7608190 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.270.27.16243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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We cloned, characterized, and inactivated the psaI gene encoding a 4-kDa hydrophobic subunit of photosystem I from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. The psaI gene is located 90 base pairs downstream from psaL, and is transcribed on 0.94- and 0.32-kilobase transcripts. To identify the function of PsaI, we generated a cyanobacterial strain in which psaI has been interrupted by a gene for chloramphenicol resistance. The wild-type and the mutant cells showed comparable rates of photoautotrophic growth at 25 degrees C. However, the mutant cells grew slower and contained less chlorophyll than the wild-type cells, when grown at 40 degrees C. The PsaI-less membranes from cells grown at either temperature showed a small decrease in NADP+ photoreduction rate when compared to the wild-type membranes. Inactivation of psaI led to an 80% decrease in the PsaL level in the photosynthetic membranes and to a complete loss of PsaL in the purified photosystem I preparations, but had little effect on the accumulation of other photosystem I subunits. Upon solubilization with nonionic detergents, photosystem I trimers could be obtained from the wild-type, but not from the PsaI-less membranes. The PsaI-less photosystem I monomers did not contain detectable levels of PsaL. Therefore, a structural interaction between PsaL and PsaI may stabilize the association of PsaL with the photosystem I core. PsaL in the wild-type and PsaI-less membranes showed equal resistance to removal by chaotropic agents. However, PsaL in the PsaI-less strain exhibited an increased susceptibility to proteolysis. From these data, we conclude that PsaI has a crucial role in aiding normal structural organization of PsaL within the photosystem I complex and the absence of PsaI alters PsaL organization, leading to a small, but physiologically significant, defect in photosystem I function.
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- Q Xu
- Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan 66506-4901, USA
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Chapter 3 Biosynthesis of the bacterial peptidoglycan unit. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7306(08)60406-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Miyao A, Theeragool G, Takeuchi M, Kobayashi Y. Bacillus subtilis spoVE gene is transcribed by sigma E-associated RNA polymerase. J Bacteriol 1993; 175:4081-6. [PMID: 8320224 PMCID: PMC204837 DOI: 10.1128/jb.175.13.4081-4086.1993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Expression of the Bacillus subtilis sporulation gene spoVE was examined by runoff transcription assay with an RNA polymerase preparation obtained from vegetative and sporulating cells. Transcripts from tandem promoters (P1 and P2 promoters) located just upstream of the spoVE structure gene were detected. The transcription of spoVE initiated within an hour after the onset of sporulation and coincided with the presence of RNA polymerase associated with a 33-kDa protein. Amino acid sequence analysis of the 33-kDa protein revealed that it is a sigma factor, sigma E. Reconstitution analysis of sigma E purified from the sporulating cell extracts and vegetative core RNA polymerase showed that sigma E recognizes the P2 promoter. SpoVE protein could not be synthesized in the transcription-translation coupled system prepared from vegetative cells (M. Okamoto, S. Fukui, and Y. Kobayashi, Agric. Biol. Chem. 49:1077-1082, 1985). However, addition of sigma E-associated RNA polymerase to the coupled system restored SpoVE protein synthesis. These results indicate that spoVE expression in sporulating cells is controlled essentially by sigma E-associated RNA polymerase.
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- A Miyao
- Faculty of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchu, Japan
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Miyao A, Yoshimura A, Sato T, Yamamoto T, Theeragool G, Kobayashi Y. Sequence of the Bacillus subtilis homolog of the Escherichia coli cell-division gene murG. Gene 1992; 118:147-8. [PMID: 1387377 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(92)90264-p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The Bacillus subtilis homology of the Escherichia coli murG gene [encoding UDP-N-acetylglucosamine:N-acetylmuramyl-(pentapeptide) pyrophosphoryl-undecaprenol N-acetylglucosamine transferase] was cloned in E. coli K-12 and sequenced. The murG homolog encodes a protein of M(r) 39,936 [363 amino acid (aa) residues] of which 108 aa residues (29.8%) are identical with the E. coli murG product.
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- A Miyao
- Faculty of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchu, Japan
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Mengin-Lecreulx D, Texier L, Rousseau M, van Heijenoort J. The murG gene of Escherichia coli codes for the UDP-N-acetylglucosamine: N-acetylmuramyl-(pentapeptide) pyrophosphoryl-undecaprenol N-acetylglucosamine transferase involved in the membrane steps of peptidoglycan synthesis. J Bacteriol 1991; 173:4625-36. [PMID: 1649817 PMCID: PMC208138 DOI: 10.1128/jb.173.15.4625-4636.1991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 141] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Physiological properties of the murG gene product of Escherichia coli were investigated. The inactivation of the murG gene rapidly inhibits peptidoglycan synthesis in exponentially growing cells. As a result, various alterations of cell shape are observed, and cell lysis finally occurs when the peptidoglycan content is 40% lower than that of normally growing cells. Analysis of the pools of peptidoglycan precursors reveals the concomitant accumulation of UDP-N-acetylglucosamine (UDP-GlcNAc) and UDP-N-acetylmuramyl-pentapeptide (UDP-MurNAc-pentapeptide) and, to a lesser extent, that of undecaprenyl-pyrophosphoryl-MurNAc-pentapeptide (lipid intermediate I), indicating that inhibition of peptidoglycan synthesis occurs after formation of the cytoplasmic precursors. The relative depletion of the second lipid intermediate, undecaprenyl-pyrophosphoryl-MurNAc-(pentapeptide)GlcNAc, shows that inactivation of the murG gene product does not prevent the formation of lipid intermediate I but inhibits the next reaction in which GlcNAc is transferred to lipid intermediate I. In vitro assays for phospho-MurNAc-pentapeptide translocase and N-acetylglucosaminyl transferase activities finally confirm the identification of the murG gene product as the transferase that catalyzes the conversion of lipid intermediate I to lipid intermediate II in the peptidoglycan synthesis pathway. Plasmids allowing for a high overproduction of the transferase and the determination of its N-terminal amino acid sequence were constructed. In cell fractionation experiments, the transferase is essentially associated with membranes when it is recovered.
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- D Mengin-Lecreulx
- Laboratoire de Biochimie Moleculaire et Cellulaire, URA 1131, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
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Ikeda M, Wachi M, Jung HK, Ishino F, Matsuhashi M. The Escherichia coli mraY gene encoding UDP-N-acetylmuramoyl-pentapeptide: undecaprenyl-phosphate phospho-N-acetylmuramoyl-pentapeptide transferase. J Bacteriol 1991; 173:1021-6. [PMID: 1846850 PMCID: PMC207220 DOI: 10.1128/jb.173.3.1021-1026.1991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Amplification of the mraY gene, previously called open reading frame Y (ORF-Y, 1,080 bp), at 2 min in the chromosome map of Escherichia coli enhanced the activity of UDP-N-acetylmuramoyl-pentapeptide: undecaprenyl-phosphate phospho-N-acetylmuramoyl-pentapeptide transferase (EC 2.7.8.13). This enzyme catalyzes the formation of undecaprenyl-pyrophosphoryl-N-acetylmuramoyl-pentapeptide from UDP-N-acetylmuramoyl-pentapeptide and undecaprenyl-phosphate, the first step in the lipid cycle reactions in biosynthesis of bacterial cell wall peptidoglycans. The enhanced enzyme activity was sensitive to tunicamycin, and the amino tunicamycin-sensitive N-acetylglucosamine-1-phosphate transferase of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Very probably mraY is the structural gene for the above enzyme.
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- M Ikeda
- Institute of Applied Microbiology, University of Tokyo, Japan
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New nucleotide sequence data on the EMBL File Server. Nucleic Acids Res 1990; 18:4641-7. [PMID: 2388868 PMCID: PMC331337 DOI: 10.1093/nar/18.15.4641] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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