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Daugelavičius R, Daujotaitė G, Bamford DH. Lysis Physiology of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infected with ssRNA Phage PRR1. Viruses 2024; 16:645. [PMID: 38675985 PMCID: PMC11054506 DOI: 10.3390/v16040645] [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: 03/07/2024] [Revised: 04/16/2024] [Accepted: 04/17/2024] [Indexed: 04/28/2024] Open
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The phage PRR1 belongs to the Leviviridae family, a group of ssRNA bacteriophages that infect Gram-negative bacteria. The variety of host cells is determined by the specificity of PRR1 to a pilus encoded by a broad host range of IncP-type plasmids that confer multiple types of antibiotic resistance to the host. Using P. aeruginosa strain PAO1 as a host, we analyzed the PRR1 infection cycle, focusing on cell lysis. PRR1 infection renders P. aeruginosa cells sensitive to lysozyme approximately 20 min before the start of a drop in suspension turbidity. At the same time, infected cells start to accumulate lipophilic anions. The on-line monitoring of the entire infection cycle showed that single-gene-mediated lysis strongly depends on the host cells' physiological state. The blockage of respiration or a reduction in the intracellular ATP concentration during the infection resulted in the inhibition of lysis. The same effect was observed when the synthesis of PRR1 lysis protein was induced in an E. coli expression system. In addition, lysis was strongly dependent on the level of aeration. Dissolved oxygen concentrations sufficient to support cell growth did not ensure efficient lysis, and a coupling between cell lysis initiation and aeration level was observed. However, the duration of the drop in suspension turbidity did not depend on the level of aeration.
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- Department of Biochemistry, Vytautas Magnus University, LT-44248 Kaunas, Lithuania;
- Molecular and Integrative Biosciences Research Programme, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Molecular and Integrative Biosciences Research Programme, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland
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Mezhyrova J, Martin J, Börnsen C, Dötsch V, Frangakis AS, Morgner N, Bernhard F. In vitro characterization of the phage lysis protein MS2-L. MICROBIOME RESEARCH REPORTS 2023; 2:28. [PMID: 38045926 PMCID: PMC10688784 DOI: 10.20517/mrr.2023.28] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2023] [Revised: 06/29/2023] [Accepted: 07/10/2023] [Indexed: 12/05/2023]
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Background: The peptide MS2-L represents toxins of the ssRNA Leviviridae phage family and consists of a predicted N-terminal soluble domain followed by a transmembrane domain. MS2-L mediates bacterial cell lysis through the formation of large lesions in the cell envelope, but further details of this mechanism as a prerequisite for applied bioengineering studies are lacking. The chaperone DnaJ is proposed to modulate MS2-L activity, whereas other cellular targets of MS2-L are unknown. Methods: Here, we provide a combined in vitro and in vivo overexpression approach to reveal molecular insights into MS2-L action and its interaction with DnaJ. Full-length MS2-L and truncated derivatives were synthesized cell-free and co-translationally inserted into nanodiscs or solubilized in detergent micelles. By native liquid bead ion desorption mass spectrometry, we demonstrate that MS2-L assembles into high oligomeric states after membrane insertion. Results: Oligomerization is directed by the transmembrane domain and is impaired in detergent environments. Studies with truncated MS2-L derivatives provide evidence that the soluble domain acts as a modulator of oligomer formation. DnaJ strongly interacts with MS2-L in membranes as well as in detergent environments. However, this interaction affects neither the MS2-L membrane insertion efficiency nor its oligomerization in nanodisc membranes. In accordance with the in vitro data, the assembly of MS2-L derivatives into large membrane located clusters was monitored by overexpression of corresponding fusions with fluorescent monitors in E. coli cells. Analysis by cryo-electron microscopy indicates that lesion formation is initiated in the outer membrane, followed by disruption of the peptidoglycan layer and disintegration of the inner membrane. Conclusion: MS2-L forms oligomeric complexes similar to the related phage toxin ΦX174-E. The oligomeric interface of both peptides is located within their transmembrane domains. We propose a potential function of the higher-order assembly of small phage toxins in membrane disintegration and cell lysis.
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- Julija Mezhyrova
- Institute of Biophysical Chemistry and Center for Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main 60438, Germany
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- Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main 60438, Germany
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- Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences & Institute of Biophysics, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main 60438, Germany
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- Institute of Biophysical Chemistry and Center for Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main 60438, Germany
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- Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences & Institute of Biophysics, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main 60438, Germany
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- Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main 60438, Germany
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- Institute of Biophysical Chemistry and Center for Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main 60438, Germany
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Zhou J, Cai Y, Liu Y, An H, Deng K, Ashraf MA, Zou L, Wang J. Breaking down the cell wall: Still an attractive antibacterial strategy. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:952633. [PMID: 36212892 PMCID: PMC9544107 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.952633] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2022] [Accepted: 08/18/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Since the advent of penicillin, humans have known about and explored the phenomenon of bacterial inhibition via antibiotics. However, with changes in the global environment and the abuse of antibiotics, resistance mechanisms have been selected in bacteria, presenting huge threats and challenges to the global medical and health system. Thus, the study and development of new antimicrobials is of unprecedented urgency and difficulty. Bacteria surround themselves with a cell wall to maintain cell rigidity and protect against environmental insults. Humans have taken advantage of antibiotics to target the bacterial cell wall, yielding some of the most widely used antibiotics to date. The cell wall is essential for bacterial growth and virulence but is absent from humans, remaining a high-priority target for antibiotic screening throughout the antibiotic era. Here, we review the extensively studied targets, i.e., MurA, MurB, MurC, MurD, MurE, MurF, Alr, Ddl, MurI, MurG, lipid A, and BamA in the cell wall, starting from the very beginning to the latest developments to elucidate antimicrobial screening. Furthermore, recent advances, including MraY and MsbA in peptidoglycan and lipopolysaccharide, and tagO, LtaS, LspA, Lgt, Lnt, Tol-Pal, MntC, and OspA in teichoic acid and lipoprotein, have also been profoundly discussed. The review further highlights that the application of new methods such as macromolecular labeling, compound libraries construction, and structure-based drug design will inspire researchers to screen ideal antibiotics.
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- Jingxuan Zhou
- The People’s Hospital of China Three Gorges University, Yichang, Hubei, China
- Hubei Key Laboratory of Tumor Microenvironment and Immunotherapy, College of Basic Medical Sciences, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, Hubei, China
- The Institute of Infection and Inflammation, College of Basic Medical Sciences, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, Hubei, China
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- Hubei Key Laboratory of Tumor Microenvironment and Immunotherapy, College of Basic Medical Sciences, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, Hubei, China
- The Institute of Infection and Inflammation, College of Basic Medical Sciences, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, Hubei, China
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- Hubei Key Laboratory of Tumor Microenvironment and Immunotherapy, College of Basic Medical Sciences, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, Hubei, China
- The Institute of Infection and Inflammation, College of Basic Medical Sciences, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, Hubei, China
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- Hubei Key Laboratory of Tumor Microenvironment and Immunotherapy, College of Basic Medical Sciences, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, Hubei, China
- The Institute of Infection and Inflammation, College of Basic Medical Sciences, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, Hubei, China
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- Hubei Key Laboratory of Tumor Microenvironment and Immunotherapy, College of Basic Medical Sciences, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, Hubei, China
- The Institute of Infection and Inflammation, College of Basic Medical Sciences, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, Hubei, China
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- Department of Microbiology, Government College University Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- Hubei Key Laboratory of Tumor Microenvironment and Immunotherapy, College of Basic Medical Sciences, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, Hubei, China
- The Institute of Infection and Inflammation, College of Basic Medical Sciences, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, Hubei, China
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- The People’s Hospital of China Three Gorges University, Yichang, Hubei, China
- *Correspondence: Jun Wang,
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Kerr RV, Fairbairn JA, Merritt AT, Bugg TDH. Peptidomimetic analogues of an Arg-Trp-x-x-Trp motif responsible for interaction of translocase MraY with bacteriophage ϕX174 lysis protein E. Bioorg Med Chem 2021; 52:116502. [PMID: 34808406 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2021.116502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2021] [Revised: 10/29/2021] [Accepted: 10/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Translocase MraY is the target for bacteriophage ϕX174 lysis protein E, which interacts via a protein-protein interaction mediated by Phe-288 and Glu-287 of E. coli MraY, and an Arg-Trp-x-x-Trp motif on protein E, also found in several cationic antimicrobial peptides. Analogues of Arg-Trp-octyl ester, found previously to show antimicrobial activity, were tested for antimicrobial activity, with Lys-Trp-oct (MIC50P. fluorescens 5 µg/mL) and Arg-Trp-decyl ester (MIC50P. fluorescens 3 µg/mL) showing enhanced antimicrobial activity. Synthesis and testing of α-helix peptidomimetic analogues for this motif revealed improved antibacterial activity (MIC50E. coli 4-7 µg/mL) for analogues containing two aromatic substituents, mimicking the Arg-Trp-x-x-Trp motif, and MraY inhibition (IC50 140 µM) by one such peptidomimetic. Investigation of mechanism of action using the Alamar Blue membrane permeabilisation assay revealed bacteriostatic and bacteriocidal mechanisms in different members of this set of compounds, raising the possibility of more than one biological target. The observed antimicrobial activity and MraY inhibition shown by peptidomimetic compounds confirms that this site could be targeted by drug-like molecules.
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- Rachel V Kerr
- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
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- LifeArc, SBC Open Innovation Campus, Stevenage, Herts SG1 2FX, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK.
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Chen H, Ji H, Kong X, Lei P, Yang Q, Wu W, Jin L, Sun D. Bacterial Ghosts-Based Vaccine and Drug Delivery Systems. Pharmaceutics 2021; 13:1892. [PMID: 34834306 PMCID: PMC8622331 DOI: 10.3390/pharmaceutics13111892] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2021] [Revised: 10/26/2021] [Accepted: 11/02/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Bacterial ghosts (BGs) are empty bacterial envelopes of Gram-negative bacteria produced by controlled expressions of cloned gene E, forming a lysis tunnel structure within the envelope of the living bacteria. Globally, BGs have been used as vaccine delivery systems and vaccine adjuvants. There is an increasing interest in the development of novel delivery systems that are based on BGs for biomedical applications. Due to intact reservation of bacterial cell membranes, BGs have an inherent immunogenicity, which enables targeted drug delivery and controlled release. As carrier vehicles, BGs protect drugs from interference by external factors. In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in BG-based delivery systems against tumors, inflammation, and infection, among others. Herein, we reviewed the preparation methods for BGs, interactions between BGs and the host, and further highlighted research progress in BG development.
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- Haojie Chen
- Institute of Life Sciences & Engineering Laboratory of Zhejiang Province for Pharmaceutical Development of Growth Factors, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou 325035, China; (H.C.); (H.J.); (X.K.); (P.L.); (W.W.)
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- Institute of Life Sciences & Engineering Laboratory of Zhejiang Province for Pharmaceutical Development of Growth Factors, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou 325035, China; (H.C.); (H.J.); (X.K.); (P.L.); (W.W.)
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- Institute of Life Sciences & Engineering Laboratory of Zhejiang Province for Pharmaceutical Development of Growth Factors, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou 325035, China; (H.C.); (H.J.); (X.K.); (P.L.); (W.W.)
- State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau, Macao 999078, China
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- Institute of Life Sciences & Engineering Laboratory of Zhejiang Province for Pharmaceutical Development of Growth Factors, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou 325035, China; (H.C.); (H.J.); (X.K.); (P.L.); (W.W.)
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- Wenzhou Institute, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wenzhou 325000, China;
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- Institute of Life Sciences & Engineering Laboratory of Zhejiang Province for Pharmaceutical Development of Growth Factors, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou 325035, China; (H.C.); (H.J.); (X.K.); (P.L.); (W.W.)
- Key Laboratory for Biorheological Science and Technology of Ministry of Education & State and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Vascular Implants, Bioengineering College of Chongqing University, Chongqing 400030, China
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- Institute of Life Sciences & Engineering Laboratory of Zhejiang Province for Pharmaceutical Development of Growth Factors, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou 325035, China; (H.C.); (H.J.); (X.K.); (P.L.); (W.W.)
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- Institute of Life Sciences & Engineering Laboratory of Zhejiang Province for Pharmaceutical Development of Growth Factors, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou 325035, China; (H.C.); (H.J.); (X.K.); (P.L.); (W.W.)
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Mezhyrova J, Martin J, Peetz O, Dötsch V, Morgner N, Ma Y, Bernhard F. Membrane insertion mechanism and molecular assembly of the bacteriophage lysis toxin ΦX174‐E. FEBS J 2020; 288:3300-3316. [DOI: 10.1111/febs.15642] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2020] [Revised: 10/23/2020] [Accepted: 11/02/2020] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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- Julija Mezhyrova
- Institute of Biophysical Chemistry and Center for Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance Goethe University Frankfurt am Main Germany
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- Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Goethe University Frankfurt am Main Germany
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- Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Goethe University Frankfurt am Main Germany
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- Institute of Biophysical Chemistry and Center for Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance Goethe University Frankfurt am Main Germany
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- Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Goethe University Frankfurt am Main Germany
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- School of Biology and Biological Engineering South China University of Technology Guangzhou China
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Fermentation and Enzyme Engineering South China University of Technology Guangzhou China
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- Institute of Biophysical Chemistry and Center for Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance Goethe University Frankfurt am Main Germany
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Yung MC, Bourguet FA, Carpenter TS, Coleman MA. Re-directing bacterial microcompartment systems to enhance recombinant expression of lysis protein E from bacteriophage ϕX174 in Escherichia coli. Microb Cell Fact 2017; 16:71. [PMID: 28446197 PMCID: PMC5405515 DOI: 10.1186/s12934-017-0685-x] [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] [Received: 03/09/2017] [Accepted: 04/21/2017] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Background Recombinant expression of toxic proteins remains a challenging problem. One potential method to shield toxicity and thus improve expression of these proteins is to encapsulate them within protein compartments to sequester them away from their targets. Many bacteria naturally produce so-called bacterial microcompartments (BMCs) in which enzymes comprising a biosynthetic pathway are encapsulated in a proteinaeous shell, which is in part thought to shield the cells from the toxicity of reaction intermediates. As a proof-of-concept, we attempted to encapsulate toxic, lysis protein E (E) from bacteriophage ϕX174 inside recombinant BMCs to enhance its expression and achieve higher yields during downstream purification. Results E was fused with various N-terminal BMC targeting tags (PduP-, PduD-, and EutC-tags, 18–20 amino acids) and co-expressed with appropriate BMC shell proteins that associate with the tags and are required to form BMCs. Only BMC targeted E fusions, but not non-tagged E, could be successfully cloned, suggesting that the BMC tags reduce the toxicity of E. A PduP-tagged E system appeared to achieve the highest expression of E. Co-expression of Pdu BMC shell proteins with PduP-E increased its expression by 20–50%. Affinity purification of PduP-E via Ni–NTA in the presence of Empigen BB detergent yielded 270 µg of PduP-E per L of induced culture. Removal of the PduP-tag via proteolysis resulted in a final yield of 200 µg of E per L of induced culture, a nearly order of magnitude (~sevenfold) improvement compared to prior reports. Conclusions These results demonstrate improved expression of ϕX174 lysis protein E via re-directed BMC systems and ultimately higher E purification yields. Similar strategies can be used to enhance expression of other toxic proteins in recombinant Escherichia coli systems. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12934-017-0685-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Mimi C Yung
- Biosciences and Biotechnology Division, Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, L-452, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA.
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- Biosciences and Biotechnology Division, Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, L-452, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA
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- Biosciences and Biotechnology Division, Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, L-452, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA
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- Biosciences and Biotechnology Division, Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, L-452, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA
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The Membrane Steps of Bacterial Cell Wall Synthesis as Antibiotic Targets. Antibiotics (Basel) 2016; 5:antibiotics5030028. [PMID: 27571111 PMCID: PMC5039524 DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics5030028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2016] [Revised: 08/15/2016] [Accepted: 08/19/2016] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Peptidoglycan is the major component of the cell envelope of virtually all bacteria. It has structural roles and acts as a selective sieve for molecules from the outer environment. Peptidoglycan synthesis is therefore one of the most important biogenesis pathways in bacteria and has been studied extensively over the last twenty years. The pathway starts in the cytoplasm, continues in the cytoplasmic membrane and finishes in the periplasmic space, where the precursor is polymerized into the peptidoglycan layer. A number of proteins involved in this pathway, such as the Mur enzymes and the penicillin binding proteins (PBPs), have been studied and regarded as good targets for antibiotics. The present review focuses on the membrane steps of peptidoglycan synthesis that involve two enzymes, MraY and MurG, the inhibitors of these enzymes and the inhibition mechanisms. We also discuss the challenges of targeting these two cytoplasmic membrane (associated) proteins in bacterial cells and the perspectives on how to overcome the issues.
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Drulis-Kawa Z, Majkowska-Skrobek G, Maciejewska B. Bacteriophages and phage-derived proteins--application approaches. Curr Med Chem 2016; 22:1757-73. [PMID: 25666799 PMCID: PMC4468916 DOI: 10.2174/0929867322666150209152851] [Citation(s) in RCA: 123] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2014] [Revised: 11/29/2014] [Accepted: 02/02/2015] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Currently, the bacterial resistance, especially to most commonly used antibiotics has proved to be a severe therapeutic problem. Nosocomial and community-acquired infections are usually caused by multidrug resistant strains. Therefore, we are forced to develop an alternative or supportive treatment for successful cure of life-threatening infections. The idea of using natural bacterial pathogens such as bacteriophages is already well known. Many papers have been published proving the high antibacterial efficacy of lytic phages tested in animal models as well as in the clinic. Researchers have also investigated the application of non-lytic phages and temperate phages, with promising results. Moreover, the development of molecular biology and novel generation methods of sequencing has opened up new possibilities in the design of engineered phages and recombinant phage-derived proteins. Encouraging performances were noted especially for phage enzymes involved in the first step of viral infection responsible for bacterial envelope degradation, named depolymerases. There are at least five major groups of such enzymes – peptidoglycan hydrolases, endosialidases, endorhamnosidases, alginate lyases and hyaluronate lyases – that have application potential. There is also much interest in proteins encoded by lysis cassette genes (holins, endolysins, spanins) responsible for progeny release during the phage lytic cycle. In this review, we discuss several issues of phage and phage-derived protein application approaches in therapy, diagnostics and biotechnology in general.
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- Zuzanna Drulis-Kawa
- Institute of Genetics and Microbiology, University of Wroclaw, Przybyszewskiego 63/77, 51-148 Wroclaw, Poland.
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Liu Y, Rodrigues JPGLM, Bonvin AMJJ, Zaal EA, Berkers CR, Heger M, Gawarecka K, Swiezewska E, Breukink E, Egmond MR. New Insight into the Catalytic Mechanism of Bacterial MraY from Enzyme Kinetics and Docking Studies. J Biol Chem 2016; 291:15057-68. [PMID: 27226570 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m116.717884] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2016] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Phospho-MurNAc-pentapeptide translocase (MraY) catalyzes the synthesis of Lipid I, a bacterial peptidoglycan precursor. As such, MraY is essential for bacterial survival and therefore is an ideal target for developing novel antibiotics. However, the understanding of its catalytic mechanism, despite the recently determined crystal structure, remains limited. In the present study, the kinetic properties of Bacillus subtilis MraY (BsMraY) were investigated by fluorescence enhancement using dansylated UDP-MurNAc-pentapeptide and heptaprenyl phosphate (C35-P, short-chain homolog of undecaprenyl phosphate, the endogenous substrate of MraY) as second substrate. Varying the concentrations of both of these substrates and fitting the kinetics data to two-substrate models showed that the concomitant binding of both UDP-MurNAc-pentapeptide-DNS and C35-P to the enzyme is required before the release of the two products, Lipid I and UMP. We built a model of BsMraY and performed docking studies with the substrate C35-P to further deepen our understanding of how MraY accommodates this lipid substrate. Based on these modeling studies, a novel catalytic role was put forward for a fully conserved histidine residue in MraY (His-289 in BsMraY), which has been experimentally confirmed to be essential for MraY activity. Using the current model of BsMraY, we propose that a small conformational change is necessary to relocate the His-289 residue, such that the translocase reaction can proceed via a nucleophilic attack of the phosphate moiety of C35-P on bound UDP-MurNAc-pentapeptide.
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- Yao Liu
- From Institute of Biomembranes, Department of Membrane Biochemistry and Biophysics, Utrecht University, 3584 CH, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, Utrecht University, 3584 CH, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, Utrecht University, 3584 CH, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- the Department of Experimental Surgery, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and
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- the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland
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- the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland
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- From Institute of Biomembranes, Department of Membrane Biochemistry and Biophysics, Utrecht University, 3584 CH, Utrecht, the Netherlands,
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- From Institute of Biomembranes, Department of Membrane Biochemistry and Biophysics, Utrecht University, 3584 CH, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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Laddomada F, Miyachiro MM, Dessen A. Structural Insights into Protein-Protein Interactions Involved in Bacterial Cell Wall Biogenesis. Antibiotics (Basel) 2016; 5:antibiotics5020014. [PMID: 27136593 PMCID: PMC4929429 DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics5020014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2015] [Revised: 03/15/2016] [Accepted: 04/09/2016] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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The bacterial cell wall is essential for survival, and proteins that participate in its biosynthesis have been the targets of antibiotic development efforts for decades. The biosynthesis of its main component, the peptidoglycan, involves the coordinated action of proteins that are involved in multi-member complexes which are essential for cell division (the “divisome”) and/or cell wall elongation (the “elongasome”), in the case of rod-shaped cells. Our knowledge regarding these interactions has greatly benefitted from the visualization of different aspects of the bacterial cell wall and its cytoskeleton by cryoelectron microscopy and tomography, as well as genetic and biochemical screens that have complemented information from high resolution crystal structures of protein complexes involved in divisome or elongasome formation. This review summarizes structural and functional aspects of protein complexes involved in the cytoplasmic and membrane-related steps of peptidoglycan biosynthesis, with a particular focus on protein-protein interactions whereby disruption could lead to the development of novel antibacterial strategies.
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- Federica Laddomada
- Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS), University Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble F-38044, France.
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), IBS, Grenoble F-38044, France.
- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (CEA), IBS, Grenoble F-38044, France.
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- Brazilian National Laboratory for Biosciences (LNBio), CNPEM, Campinas, São Paulo 13083-100, Brazil.
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- Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS), University Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble F-38044, France.
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), IBS, Grenoble F-38044, France.
- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (CEA), IBS, Grenoble F-38044, France.
- Brazilian National Laboratory for Biosciences (LNBio), CNPEM, Campinas, São Paulo 13083-100, Brazil.
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Baker CW, Miller CR, Thaweethai T, Yuan J, Baker MH, Joyce P, Weinreich DM. Genetically Determined Variation in Lysis Time Variance in the Bacteriophage φX174. G3 (BETHESDA, MD.) 2016; 6:939-55. [PMID: 26921293 PMCID: PMC4825663 DOI: 10.1534/g3.115.024075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2015] [Accepted: 02/02/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Researchers in evolutionary genetics recently have recognized an exciting opportunity in decomposing beneficial mutations into their proximal, mechanistic determinants. The application of methods and concepts from molecular biology and life history theory to studies of lytic bacteriophages (phages) has allowed them to understand how natural selection sees mutations influencing life history. This work motivated the research presented here, in which we explored whether, under consistent experimental conditions, small differences in the genome of bacteriophage φX174 could lead to altered life history phenotypes among a panel of eight genetically distinct clones. We assessed the clones' phenotypes by applying a novel statistical framework to the results of a serially sampled parallel infection assay, in which we simultaneously inoculated each of a large number of replicate host volumes with ∼1 phage particle. We sequentially plated the volumes over the course of infection and counted the plaques that formed after incubation. These counts served as a proxy for the number of phage particles in a single volume as a function of time. From repeated assays, we inferred significant, genetically determined heterogeneity in lysis time and burst size, including lysis time variance. These findings are interesting in light of the genetic and phenotypic constraints on the single-protein lysis mechanism of φX174. We speculate briefly on the mechanisms underlying our results, and we discuss the potential importance of lysis time variance in viral evolution.
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- Christopher W Baker
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912
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- Department of Mathematics, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho 83844 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho 83844 Center for Modeling Complex Interactions, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho 83844
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912
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- Department of Mathematics, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho 83844
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912 Center for Computational Molecular Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912
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Bugg TDH, Rodolis MT, Mihalyi A, Jamshidi S. Inhibition of phospho-MurNAc-pentapeptide translocase (MraY) by nucleoside natural product antibiotics, bacteriophage ϕX174 lysis protein E, and cationic antibacterial peptides. Bioorg Med Chem 2016; 24:6340-6347. [PMID: 27021004 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2016.03.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2016] [Revised: 03/04/2016] [Accepted: 03/08/2016] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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This review covers recent developments in the inhibition of translocase MraY and related phospho-GlcNAc transferases WecA and TagO, and insight into the inhibition and catalytic mechanism of this class of integral membrane proteins from the structure of Aquifex aeolicus MraY. Recent studies have also identified a protein-protein interaction site in Escherichia coli MraY, that is targeted by bacteriophage ϕX174 lysis protein E, and also by cationic antimicrobial peptides containing Arg-Trp close to their N- or C-termini.
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- Timothy D H Bugg
- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
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Teo ACK, Roper DI. Core Steps of Membrane-Bound Peptidoglycan Biosynthesis: Recent Advances, Insight and Opportunities. Antibiotics (Basel) 2015; 4:495-520. [PMID: 27025638 PMCID: PMC4790310 DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics4040495] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2015] [Revised: 10/03/2015] [Accepted: 10/26/2015] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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We are entering an era where the efficacy of current antibiotics is declining, due to the development and widespread dispersion of antibiotic resistance mechanisms. These factors highlight the need for novel antimicrobial discovery. A large number of antimicrobial natural products elicit their effect by directly targeting discrete areas of peptidoglycan metabolism. Many such natural products bind directly to the essential cell wall precursor Lipid II and its metabolites, i.e., preventing the utlisation of vital substrates by direct binding rather than inhibiting the metabolising enzymes themselves. Concurrently, there has been an increase in the knowledge surrounding the proteins essential to the metabolism of Lipid II at and across the cytoplasmic membrane. In this review, we draw these elements together and look to future antimicrobial opportunities in this area.
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- Alvin C K Teo
- School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK.
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK.
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Rodolis MT, Mihalyi A, Ducho C, Eitel K, Gust B, Goss RJM, Bugg TDH. Mechanism of action of the uridyl peptide antibiotics: an unexpected link to a protein-protein interaction site in translocase MraY. Chem Commun (Camb) 2015; 50:13023-5. [PMID: 25222373 DOI: 10.1039/c4cc06516f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The pacidamycin and muraymycin uridyl peptide antibiotics show some structural resemblance to an Arg-Trp-x-x-Trp sequence motif for protein-protein interaction between bacteriophage ϕX174 protein E and E. coli translocase MraY. Members of the UPA class, and a synthetic uridine-peptide analogue, were found to show reduced levels of inhibition to F288L or E287A mutant MraY enzymes, implying that the UPAs interact at this extracellular site as part of the enzyme inhibition mechanism.
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- Maria T Rodolis
- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK.
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Zhu W, Zhang Y, Liu X. Efficient production of safety-enhanced Escherichia coli ghosts by tandem expression of PhiX 174 mutant gene E and staphylococcal nuclease A gene. Microbiol Res 2015; 176:7-13. [PMID: 26070687 DOI: 10.1016/j.micres.2015.03.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2015] [Revised: 03/16/2015] [Accepted: 03/16/2015] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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The application of bacterial ghosts as vaccines is limited because of their low lysis efficiency and production and the presence of pathogenic islands and/or antibiotic resistance genes within ghost preparations. To overcome these problems, a new lysis plasmid with fusion gene of mutant gene E and staphylococcal nuclease A gene (mE-L-SNA) were constructed and characterized. The new plasmid pBV-mELS could efficiently induce the genetic inactivation of Escherichia coli cultures, accompanied by the intracellular degradation of the genetic material of host cells, devoid of the presence of pathogenic islands and antibiotic resistance genes within ghost preparations. Furthermore, the lysis efficiency of the plasmid pBV-mELS was not affected by bacterial concentration and could reach 99.99995% for E. coli at late-log phase. However, when the 74-bp non-encoding region of the gene mE-L-SNA were deleted or the first T nucleotide of the gene mE-L-SNA were substituted, these resulting genes lost the function of bacteriolysis, which suggested the 74-bp region of the gene mE-L-SNA, especially the first T nucleotide, played a crucial role in enhancement of bacteriolysis. The lysis system with the gene mE-L-SNA had predominance for large-scale production of safety-enhanced bacterial ghosts. The strategy may provide a promising avenue for efficient production of safe bacterial ghost vaccines.
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- Wenxing Zhu
- Shandong Provincial Key Lab of Microbial Engineering, School of Bioengineering, Qilu University of Technology, Jinan 250353, PR China
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- Shandong Key Lab of Animal Disease Control and Breeding, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan 250100, PR China
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- Shandong Provincial Key Lab of Microbial Engineering, School of Bioengineering, Qilu University of Technology, Jinan 250353, PR China.
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Fu X, Himes BA, Ke D, Rice WJ, Ning J, Zhang P. Controlled bacterial lysis for electron tomography of native cell membranes. Structure 2014; 22:1875-1882. [PMID: 25456413 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2014.09.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2014] [Revised: 09/22/2014] [Accepted: 09/27/2014] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Cryo-electron tomography (cryoET) has become a powerful tool for direct visualization of 3D structures of native biological specimens at molecular resolution, but its application is limited to thin specimens (<300 nm). Recently, vitreous sectioning and cryoFIB milling technologies were developed to physically reduce the specimen thickness; however, cryoET analysis of membrane protein complexes within native cell membranes remains a great challenge. Here, we use phage ΦX174 lysis gene E to rapidly produce native, intact, bacterial cell membranes for high resolution cryoET. We characterized E gene-induced cell lysis using FIB/SEM and cryoEM and showed that the bacteria cytoplasm was largely depleted through spot lesion, producing ghosts with the cell membranes intact. We further demonstrated the utility of E-gene-induced lysis for cryoET using the bacterial chemotaxis receptor signaling complex array. The described method should have a broad application for structural and functional studies of native, intact cell membranes and membrane protein complexes.
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- Xiaofeng Fu
- Department of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
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- Department of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
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- Department of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
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- New York Structural Biology Center, 89 Convent Avenue, New York, NY 10027, USA
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- Department of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
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- Department of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA; Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Swanson School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA.
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Rodolis MT, Mihalyi A, O'Reilly A, Slikas J, Roper DI, Hancock REW, Bugg TDH. Identification of a Novel Inhibition Site in Translocase MraY Based upon the Site of Interaction with Lysis Protein E from Bacteriophage ϕX174. Chembiochem 2014; 15:1300-8. [DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201402064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2014] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Bacterial cell division proteins as antibiotic targets. Bioorg Chem 2014; 55:27-38. [PMID: 24755375 DOI: 10.1016/j.bioorg.2014.03.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2014] [Revised: 03/20/2014] [Accepted: 03/24/2014] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Proteins involved in bacterial cell division often do not have a counterpart in eukaryotic cells and they are essential for the survival of the bacteria. The genetic accessibility of many bacterial species in combination with the Green Fluorescence Protein revolution to study localization of proteins and the availability of crystal structures has increased our knowledge on bacterial cell division considerably in this century. Consequently, bacterial cell division proteins are more and more recognized as potential new antibiotic targets. An international effort to find small molecules that inhibit the cell division initiating protein FtsZ has yielded many compounds of which some are promising as leads for preclinical use. The essential transglycosylase activity of peptidoglycan synthases has recently become accessible to inhibitor screening. Enzymatic assays for and structural information on essential integral membrane proteins such as MraY and FtsW involved in lipid II (the peptidoglycan building block precursor) biosynthesis have put these proteins on the list of potential new targets. This review summarises and discusses the results and approaches to the development of lead compounds that inhibit bacterial cell division.
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The dynamics of peptidoglycan structure and function: conference report on the 3rd Great Wall Symposium. Res Microbiol 2013; 165:60-7. [PMID: 24239960 DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2013.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Chung BC, Zhao J, Gillespie RA, Kwon DY, Guan Z, Hong J, Zhou P, Lee SY. Crystal structure of MraY, an essential membrane enzyme for bacterial cell wall synthesis. Science 2013; 341:1012-1016. [PMID: 23990562 DOI: 10.1126/science.1236501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 150] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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MraY (phospho-MurNAc-pentapeptide translocase) is an integral membrane enzyme that catalyzes an essential step of bacterial cell wall biosynthesis: the transfer of the peptidoglycan precursor phospho-MurNAc-pentapeptide to the lipid carrier undecaprenyl phosphate. MraY has long been considered a promising target for the development of antibiotics, but the lack of a structure has hindered mechanistic understanding of this critical enzyme and the enzyme superfamily in general. The superfamily includes enzymes involved in bacterial lipopolysaccharide/teichoic acid formation and eukaryotic N-linked glycosylation, modifications that are central in many biological processes. We present the crystal structure of MraY from Aquifex aeolicus (MraYAA) at 3.3 Å resolution, which allows us to visualize the overall architecture, locate Mg(2+) within the active site, and provide a structural basis of catalysis for this class of enzyme.
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- Ben C Chung
- Department of Biochemistry, Duke University Medical Center, 2 Genome Ct, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Duke University Medical Center, 2 Genome Ct, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Duke University Medical Center, 2 Genome Ct, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Duke University Medical Center, 2 Genome Ct, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.,Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Duke University Medical Center, 2 Genome Ct, Durham, NC 27710, USA.,Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Duke University Medical Center, 2 Genome Ct, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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Yu S, Zhao H, Wang H, Wang X, Shao G, Xu L, Si W, Chen L, Zhang W, Liu S. Production and characterization of mouse monoclonal antibodies against lysis protein E of phiX174. J Virol Methods 2013; 189:355-61. [PMID: 23523890 DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2013.03.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2012] [Revised: 03/06/2013] [Accepted: 03/11/2013] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Bacterial ghosts offer a new avenue for the study of inactivated vaccines. However, for many years the mechanism of genetic inactivation was controversial. To obtain mouse monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) against protein E will allow the observation of its location and dynamic expression to expand understanding of the lysis mechanism. In this study, a His-tagged ΔE fusion protein expressed in bacteria was used as the immunogen, and mAbs targeting protein E were produced by the hybridoma technique and selected by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay using GST-E and GST-ΔE as coating proteins. Purified mAbs from mouse ascites were screened against a phage-displayed random dodecapeptide library (Ph.D.-12). After three rounds of biopanning, 30 phage clones were randomly selected and sequenced, and their amino acids were deduced. One epitope showed a good match with protein E at 57-63aa (KPLN--R) and the synthetic decapeptide Epep (VRLKPLNCSR) strongly inhibited combination of E-A5 with E fusion proteins. Immunofluorescence microscopy indicated specific immunoreactivity of E-A5 with Escherichia coli-expressed native protein E. The novel mAbs may be of great potential value in analysis of the function and lysis pathway of protein E and other relative phages and in evaluation of E as potential marker of bacterial ghosts.
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- Shenye Yu
- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Harbin 150001, China.
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Brown CJ, Stancik AD, Roychoudhury P, Krone SM. Adaptive regulatory substitutions affect multiple stages in the life cycle of the bacteriophage φX174. BMC Evol Biol 2013; 13:66. [PMID: 23506096 PMCID: PMC3608072 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-66] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2012] [Accepted: 03/07/2013] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Previously, we showed that adaptive substitutions in one of the three promoters of the bacteriophage φX174 improved fitness at high-temperature by decreasing transcript levels three- to four-fold. To understand how such an extreme change in gene expression might lead to an almost two-fold increase in fitness at the adaptive temperature, we focused on stages in the life cycle of the phage that occur before and after the initiation of transcription. For both the ancestral strain and two single-substitution strains with down-regulated transcription, we measured seven phenotypic components of fitness (attachment, ejection, eclipse, virion assembly, latent period, lysis rate and burst size) during a single cycle of infection at each of two temperatures. The lower temperature, 37°C, is the optimal temperature at which phages are cultivated in the lab; the higher temperature, 42°C, exerts strong selection and is the condition under which these substitutions arose in evolution experiments. We augmented this study by developing an individual-based stochastic model of this same life cycle to explore potential explanations for our empirical results. RESULTS Of the seven fitness parameters, three showed significant differences between strains that carried an adaptive substitution and the ancestor, indicating the presence of pleiotropy in regulatory evolution. 1) Eclipse was longer in the adaptive strains at both the optimal and high-temperature environments. 2) Lysis rate was greater in the adaptive strains at the high temperature. 3) Burst size for the mutants was double that of the ancestor at the high temperature, but half that at the lower temperature. Simulation results suggest that eclipse length and latent period variance can explain differences in burst sizes and fitness between the mutant and ancestral strains. CONCLUSIONS Down-regulating transcription affects several steps in the phage life cycle, and all of these occur after the initiation of transcription. We attribute the apparent tradeoff between delayed progeny production and faster progeny release to improved host resource utilization at high temperature.
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- Celeste J Brown
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, 83844, USA
- Institute for Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Studies, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, 83844, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, 83844, USA
- Institute for Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Studies, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, 83844, USA
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- Institute for Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Studies, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, 83844, USA
- Department of Mathematics, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, 83844, USA
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- Institute for Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Studies, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, 83844, USA
- Department of Mathematics, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, 83844, USA
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Tanaka S, Clemons WM. Minimal requirements for inhibition of MraY by lysis protein E from bacteriophage ΦX174. Mol Microbiol 2012; 85:975-85. [PMID: 22742425 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2012.08153.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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The DNA phage ΦX174 encodes the integral membrane protein E whose expression leads to host cell lysis by inhibition of the peptidoglycan synthesis enzyme MraY. Here we use mutagenesis to characterize the molecular details of the E lysis mechanism. We find that a minimal 18-residue region with the modified wild-type sequences of the conserved transmembrane helix of E is sufficient to lyse host cells and that specific residues within and at the boundaries of this helix are important for activity. This suggests that positioning of the helix in the membrane is critical for interactions with MraY. We further characterize the interaction site of the transmembrane helix with MraY demonstrating E forms a stable complex with MraY. Triggering cell lysis by peptidoglycan synthesis inhibition is a traditional route for antimicrobial strategies. Understanding the mechanism of bacterial cell lysis by E will provide insights into new antimicrobial strategies using re-engineered E peptides.
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- Shiho Tanaka
- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, M/C 114-96, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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Robichon C, Luo J, Causey TB, Benner JS, Samuelson JC. Engineering Escherichia coli BL21(DE3) derivative strains to minimize E. coli protein contamination after purification by immobilized metal affinity chromatography. Appl Environ Microbiol 2011; 77:4634-46. [PMID: 21602383 PMCID: PMC3127686 DOI: 10.1128/aem.00119-11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2011] [Accepted: 05/04/2011] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Recombinant His-tagged proteins expressed in Escherichia coli and purified by immobilized metal affinity chromatography (IMAC) are commonly coeluted with native E. coli proteins, especially if the recombinant protein is expressed at a low level. The E. coli contaminants display high affinity to divalent nickel or cobalt ions, mainly due to the presence of clustered histidine residues or biologically relevant metal binding sites. To improve the final purity of expressed His-tagged protein, we engineered E. coli BL21(DE3) expression strains in which the most recurring contaminants are either expressed with an alternative tag or mutated to decrease their affinity to divalent cations. The current study presents the design, engineering, and characterization of two E. coli BL21(DE3) derivatives, NiCo21(DE3) and NiCo22(DE3), which express the endogenous proteins SlyD, Can, ArnA, and (optionally) AceE fused at their C terminus to a chitin binding domain (CBD) and the protein GlmS, with six surface histidines replaced by alanines. We show that each E. coli CBD-tagged protein remains active and can be efficiently eliminated from an IMAC elution fraction using a chitin column flowthrough step, while the modification of GlmS results in loss of affinity for nickel-containing resin. The "NiCo" strains uniquely complement existing methods for improving the purity of recombinant His-tagged protein.
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- Carine Robichon
- New England BioLabs, Inc., Gene Expression Division, 240 County Road, Ipswich, Massachusetts 01938
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- New England BioLabs, Inc., Gene Expression Division, 240 County Road, Ipswich, Massachusetts 01938
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- New England BioLabs, Inc., Gene Expression Division, 240 County Road, Ipswich, Massachusetts 01938
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- New England BioLabs, Inc., Gene Expression Division, 240 County Road, Ipswich, Massachusetts 01938
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- New England BioLabs, Inc., Gene Expression Division, 240 County Road, Ipswich, Massachusetts 01938
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Zoldák G, Schmid FX. Cooperation of the prolyl isomerase and chaperone activities of the protein folding catalyst SlyD. J Mol Biol 2010; 406:176-94. [PMID: 21147124 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2010.12.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2010] [Revised: 10/29/2010] [Accepted: 12/03/2010] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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The SlyD (sensitive to lysis D) protein of Escherichia coli is a folding enzyme with a chaperone domain and a prolyl isomerase domain of the FK506 binding protein type. Here we investigated how the two domains and their interplay are optimized for function in protein folding. Unfolded protein molecules initially form a highly dynamic complex with the chaperone domain of SlyD, and they are then transferred to the prolyl isomerase domain. The turnover number of the prolyl isomerase site is very high and guarantees that, after transfer, prolyl peptide bonds in substrate proteins are isomerized very rapidly. The Michaelis constant of catalyzed folding reflects the substrate affinity of the chaperone domain, and the turnover number is presumably determined by the rate of productive substrate transfer from the chaperone to the prolyl isomerase site and by the intrinsic propensity of the refolding protein chain to leave the active site with the native prolyl isomer. The efficiency of substrate transfer is high because dissociation from the chaperone site is very fast and because the two sites are close to each other. Protein molecules that left the prolyl isomerase site with an incorrect prolyl isomer can rapidly be re-bound by the chaperone domain because the association rate is very high as well.
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- Gabriel Zoldák
- Laboratorium für Biochemie und Bayreuther Zentrum für Molekulare Biowissenschaften, Universität Bayreuth,D-95440 Bayreuth, Germany
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Winn M, Goss RJM, Kimura KI, Bugg TDH. Antimicrobial nucleoside antibiotics targeting cell wall assembly: recent advances in structure-function studies and nucleoside biosynthesis. Nat Prod Rep 2009; 27:279-304. [PMID: 20111805 DOI: 10.1039/b816215h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 219] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The quest for new antibiotics, especially those with activity against Gram-negative bacteria, is urgent; however, very few new antibiotics have been marketed in the last 40 years, with this limited number falling into only four new structural classes. Several nucleoside natural product antibiotics target bacterial translocase MraY, involved in the lipid-linked cycle of peptidoglycan biosynthesis, and fungal chitin synthase. Biosynthetic studies on the nikkomycin, caprazamycin and pacidamycin/mureidomycin families are also reviewed.
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- Michael Winn
- School of Chemistry, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
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Zheng Y, Struck DK, Young R. Purification and functional characterization of phiX174 lysis protein E. Biochemistry 2009; 48:4999-5006. [PMID: 19379010 DOI: 10.1021/bi900469g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Two classes of bacteriophages, the single-stranded DNA Microviridae and the single-stranded RNA Alloleviviridae, accomplish lysis by expressing "protein antibiotics", or polypeptides that inhibit cell wall biosynthesis. Previously, we have provided genetic and physiological evidence that E, a 91-amino acid membrane protein encoded by the prototype microvirus, varphiX174, is a specific inhibitor of the translocase MraY, an essential membrane-embedded enzyme that catalyzes the formation of the murein precursor, Lipid I, from UDP-N-acetylmuramic acid-pentapeptide and the lipid carrier, undecaprenol phosphate. Here we report the first purification of E, which has been refractory to overexpression because of its lethality to Escherichia coli. Moreover, using a fluorescently labeled analogue of the sugar-nucleotide substrate, we demonstrate that E acts as a noncompetitive inhibitor of detergent-solubilized MraY, with respect to both soluble and lipid substrates. In addition, we show that the E sensitivity of five MraY mutant proteins, produced from alleles selected for resistance to E, can be correlated to the apparent affinities determined by in vivo multicopy suppression experiments. These results are inconsistent with previous reports that E inhibited membrane-embedded MraY but not the detergent-solubilized enzyme, which led to a model in which E functions by binding MraY and blocking the formation of an essential heteromultimeric complex involving MraY and other murein biosynthesis enzymes. We discuss a new model in which E binds to MraY at a site composed of the two transmembrane domains within which the E resistance mutations map and the fact that the result of this binding is a conformational change that inactivates the enzyme.
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- Yi Zheng
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, 2128 TAMU, College Station, Texas 77843-2128, USA
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Ortiz R, Prados J, Melguizo C, Rama AR, Segura A, Rodríguez-Serrano F, Boulaiz H, Hita F, Martinez-Amat A, Madeddu R, Ramos JL, Aranega A. The cytotoxic activity of the phage E protein suppress the growth of murine B16 melanomas in vitro and in vivo. J Mol Med (Berl) 2009; 87:899-911. [PMID: 19579018 DOI: 10.1007/s00109-009-0493-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2009] [Revised: 05/08/2009] [Accepted: 05/29/2009] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Novel treatment modalities, including gene therapy, are needed for patients with advanced melanoma. The E gene from the phage varphiX174 encodes a 91-aa protein which lyses Escherichia coli by formation of a transmembrane tunnel structure. To evaluate whether this E gene has a cytotoxic impact on melanoma cells in vitro and in vivo, and could therefore be used as a new therapeutic strategy for this tumor type, we selected the B16-F10 murine melanoma cell line as a model. We used a nonviral gene delivery approach (pcDNA3.1/E plasmid) to study the inhibition of melanoma cells' proliferation in vitro and direct intratumoral injection of pcDNA3.1/E complexed with jetPEI to deliver E cDNA to rapidly growing murine melanomas, and found that the E gene has both a strong antiproliferative effect in B16-F10 cells in vitro and induces an efficient decrease in melanoma tumor volume in vivo (90% in 15 days). Interestingly, the GFP-E fusion protein expressed in melanoma cells was located in the mitochondria. In vitro and in vivo analysis demonstrated significant functional and morphological mitochondrial alterations accompanied by a significant increase of cytochrome c and active caspase-3 and -9 in transfected cells, which suggests that tumoral cell death is mediated by the mitochondrial apoptotic pathway. These results show that E gene expression in melanoma cells has an extraordinary antitumor effect, which means it may be a new candidate for an effective strategy for melanoma treatment.
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- Raúl Ortiz
- Instituto de Biopatología y Medicina Regenerativa (IBIMER), Depto. de Anatomía y Embriología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain
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Protein E, the lysis protein of bacteriophage phiX174, is a specific inhibitor of MraY, the phospho-MurNAc-pentapeptide translocase that catalyzes the synthesis of lipid I in the conserved pathway for peptidoglycan biosynthesis. The original evidence for this inhibition was the isolation of two spontaneous E-resistance mraY mutants. Here we report further genetic studies aimed at dissecting the interaction between E and MraY, using a genetic strategy that is facile, rapid, and does not depend on the availability of purified E, purified MraY, or its substrates. This system relies on the ability of mraY or its enzymatically inactive D267N allele to protect cells from lysis after induction of a chimeric lambda :: E prophage. Using this approach, the MraY protein from Bacillus subtilis, which shares 43% sequence identity with the Escherichia coli enzyme, was found to interact weakly, if at all, with E. A potential E binding site defined by transmembrane domains 5 and 9 has been identified by isolating more mraY mutants resistant to E inhibition. Genetic analysis indicates that these E-resistant alleles fall into three classes on the basis of the affinity of the encoded proteins for MraY.
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Parisien A, Allain B, Zhang J, Mandeville R, Lan CQ. Novel alternatives to antibiotics: bacteriophages, bacterial cell wall hydrolases, and antimicrobial peptides. J Appl Microbiol 2008; 104:1-13. [PMID: 18171378 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2672.2007.03498.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Extensive research has been conducted on the development of three groups of naturally occurring antimicrobials as novel alternatives to antibiotics: bacteriophages (phages), bacterial cell wall hydrolases (BCWH), and antimicrobial peptides (AMP). Phage therapies are highly efficient, highly specific, and relatively cost-effective. However, precautions have to be taken in the selection of phage candidates for therapeutic applications as some phages may encode toxins and others may, when integrated into host bacterial genome and converted to prophages in a lysogenic cycle, lead to bacterial immunity and altered virulence. BCWH are divided into three groups: lysozymes, autolysins, and virolysins. Among them, virolysins are the most promising candidates as they are highly specific and have the capability to rapidly lyse antibiotic-resistant bacteria on a generally species-specific basis. Finally, AMP are a family of natural proteins produced by eukaryotic and prokaryotic organisms or encoded by phages. AMP are of vast diversity in term of size, structure, mode of action, and specificity and have a high potential for clinical therapeutic applications.
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- A Parisien
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
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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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Leach MR, Zhang JW, Zamble DB. The Role of Complex Formation between the Escherichia coli Hydrogenase Accessory Factors HypB and SlyD. J Biol Chem 2007; 282:16177-86. [PMID: 17426034 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m610834200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The Escherichia coli protein SlyD is a member of the FK-506-binding protein family of peptidylprolyl isomerases. In addition to its peptidylprolyl isomerase domain, SlyD is composed of a molecular chaperone domain and a C-terminal tail rich in potential metal-binding residues. SlyD interacts with the [NiFe]-hydrogenase accessory protein HypB and contributes to nickel insertion during biosynthesis of the hydrogenase metallocenter. This study examines the HypB-SlyD complex and its significance in hydrogenase activation. Protein variants were prepared to delineate the interface between HypB and SlyD. Complex formation requires the HypB linker region located between the high affinity N-terminal Ni(II) site and the GTPase domain of the protein. In the case of SlyD, the deletion of a short loop in the chaperone domain abrogates the interaction with HypB. Mutations in either protein that disrupt complex formation in vitro also result in deficient hydrogenase production in vivo, indicating that the contact between HypB and SlyD is important for hydrogenase maturation. Surprisingly, SlyD stimulates release of nickel from the high affinity Ni(II)-binding site of HypB, an activity that is also disrupted by mutations that affect complex formation. Furthermore, a SlyD truncation lacking the C-terminal metal-binding tail still interacts with HypB but is deficient in stimulating metal release and is not functional in vivo. These results suggest that SlyD could activate metal release from HypB during metallation of the [NiFe] hydrogenase.
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- Michael R Leach
- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada
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Knappe TA, Eckert B, Schaarschmidt P, Scholz C, Schmid FX. Insertion of a Chaperone Domain Converts FKBP12 into a Powerful Catalyst of Protein Folding. J Mol Biol 2007; 368:1458-68. [PMID: 17397867 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2007.02.097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2007] [Accepted: 02/28/2007] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The catalytic activity of human FKBP12 as a prolyl isomerase is high towards short peptides, but very low in proline-limited protein folding reactions. In contrast, the SlyD proteins, which are members of the FKBP family, are highly active as folding enzymes. They contain an extra "insert-in-flap" or IF domain near the prolyl isomerase active site. The excision of this domain did not affect the prolyl isomerase activity of SlyD from Escherichia coli towards short peptide substrates but abolished its catalytic activity in proline-limited protein folding reactions. The reciprocal insertion of the IF domain of SlyD into human FKBP12 increased its folding activity 200-fold and generated a folding catalyst that is more active than SlyD itself. The IF domain binds to refolding protein chains and thus functions as a chaperone module. A prolyl isomerase catalytic site and a separate chaperone site with an adapted affinity for refolding protein chains are the key elements for a productive coupling between the catalysis of prolyl isomerization and conformational folding in the enzymatic mechanisms of SlyD and other prolyl isomerases, such as trigger factor and FkpA.
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- Thomas A Knappe
- Laboratorium für Biochemie, Universität Bayreuth, D-95440 Bayreuth, Germany
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