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Rotsides P, Lee PJ, Webber N, Grasty KC, Beld J, Loll PJ. Diazirine Photoprobes for the Identification of Vancomycin-Binding Proteins. ACS Bio Med Chem Au 2024; 4:86-94. [PMID: 38645928 PMCID: PMC11027123 DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomedchemau.3c00067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2023] [Revised: 11/15/2023] [Accepted: 11/15/2023] [Indexed: 04/23/2024]
Abstract
Vancomycin's interactions with cellular targets drive its antimicrobial activity and also trigger expression of resistance against the antibiotic. Interaction partners for vancomycin have previously been identified using photoaffinity probes, which have proven to be useful tools for exploring vancomycin's interactome. This work seeks to develop diazirine-based vancomycin photoprobes that display enhanced specificity and bear fewer chemical modifications as compared to previous photoprobes. Using proteins fused to vancomycin's main cell-wall target, d-alanyl-d-alanine, we used mass spectrometry to show that these photoprobes specifically label known vancomycin-binding partners within minutes. In a complementary approach, we developed a Western-blot strategy targeting the vancomycin adduct of the photoprobes, eliminating the need for affinity tags and simplifying the analysis of photolabeling reactions. Together, the probes and identification strategy provide a novel and streamlined pipeline for identifying vancomycin-binding proteins.
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Affiliation(s)
- Photis Rotsides
- Department
of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Department of Microbiology &
Immunology, Drexel University College of
Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102, United States
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- Department
of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Department of Microbiology &
Immunology, Drexel University College of
Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102, United States
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- Department
of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Department of Microbiology &
Immunology, Drexel University College of
Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102, United States
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- Department
of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Department of Microbiology &
Immunology, Drexel University College of
Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102, United States
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- Department
of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Department of Microbiology &
Immunology, Drexel University College of
Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102, United States
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- Department
of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Department of Microbiology &
Immunology, Drexel University College of
Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102, United States
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Platt AJ, Padrick S, Ma AT, Beld J. A dissected non-ribosomal peptide synthetase maintains activity. Biochim Biophys Acta Proteins Proteom 2024; 1872:140972. [PMID: 37951518 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2023.140972] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2023] [Revised: 10/25/2023] [Accepted: 11/02/2023] [Indexed: 11/14/2023]
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Non-ribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs) generate chemically complex compounds and their modular architecture suggests that changing their domain organization can predictably alter their products. Ebony, a small three-domain NRPS, catalyzes the formation of β-alanine containing amides from biogenic amines. To examine the necessity of interdomain interactions, we modeled and docked domains of Ebony to reveal potential interfaces between them. Testing the same domain combinations in vitro showed that 8 % of activity was preserved after Ebony was dissected into a di-domain and a detached C-terminal domain, suggesting that sufficient interaction was maintained after dissection. Our work creates a model to identify domain interfaces necessary for catalysis, an important step toward utilizing Ebony as a combinatorial engineering platform for novel amides.
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- Amanda J Platt
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Infectious Disease, Center for Advanced Microbial Processing, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Drexel University College of Medicine, 245 N 15(th) Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Infectious Disease, Center for Advanced Microbial Processing, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Infectious Disease, Center for Advanced Microbial Processing, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
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Esquea E, Ciraku L, Young RG, Merzy J, Talarico AN, Rashad AA, Cocklin S, Simone NL, Beld J, Reginato MJ, Dick A. Discovery of novel brain permeable human ACSS2 inhibitors for blocking breast cancer brain metastatic growth. bioRxiv 2023:2023.12.22.573073. [PMID: 38187734 PMCID: PMC10769402 DOI: 10.1101/2023.12.22.573073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2024]
Abstract
Breast-cancer brain metastasis (BCBM) poses a significant clinical challenge, resulting in an end-stage diagnosis and hindered by limited therapeutic options. The blood-brain barrier (BBB) acts as an anatomical and physiological hurdle for therapeutic compounds, restricting the effective delivery of therapies to the brain. In order to grow and survive in a nutrient-poor environment, tumors in the brain must adapt to their metabolic needs, becoming highly dependent on acetate. These tumors rely on the conversion of acetate to acetyl-CoA by the enzyme Acetyl-CoA synthetase 2 (ACSS2), a key metabolic enzyme involved in regulating fatty acid synthesis and protein acetylation in tumor cells. ACSS2 has emerged as a crucial enzyme required for the growth of tumors in the brain. Here, we utilized a computational pipeline, combining pharmacophore-based shape screen methodology with ADME property predictions to identify novel brain-permeable ACSS2 inhibitors. From a small molecule library, this approach identified 30 potential ACSS2 binders, from which two candidates, AD-5584 and AD-8007, were validated for their binding affinity, predicted metabolic stability, and, notably, their ability to traverse the BBB. We show that treatment of BCBM cells, MDA-MB-231BR, with AD-5584 and AD-8007 leads to a significant reduction in lipid storage, reduction in colony formation, and increase in cell death in vitro . Utilizing an ex vivo orthotopic brain-slice tumor model, we show that treatment with AD-8007 and AD-5584 significantly reduces tumor size and synergizes with radiation in blocking BCBM tumor growth ex vivo. Importantly, we show that following intraperitoneal injections with AD-5584 and AD-8007, we can detect these compounds in the brain, confirming their BBB permeability. Thus, we have identified and validated novel ACSS2 inhibitor candidates for further drug development and optimization as agents for treating patients with breast cancer brain metastasis.
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Todorinova M, Beld J, Jaremko KL. A broad inhibitor of acyl-acyl carrier protein synthetases. Biochem Biophys Rep 2023; 35:101549. [PMID: 37771604 PMCID: PMC10522932 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrep.2023.101549] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2023] [Revised: 09/15/2023] [Accepted: 09/18/2023] [Indexed: 09/30/2023] Open
Abstract
The acyl-acyl carrier protein synthetase enzyme enables some bacteria to scavenge free fatty acids from the environment for direct use in lipids. This fatty acid recycling pathway can help pathogens circumvent fatty acid synthase (FAS) inhibition with established antibiotics and those in clinical development. AasS enzymes are surprisingly hard to identify as they show high sequence similarity to other adenylate forming enzymes, and only a handful have been correctly annotated to date. Four recently discovered AasS enzymes from Gram negative bacteria, Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, and Alistipes finegoldii, form distinct clusters in protein sequence similarity networks and have varying substrate preferences. We previously synthesized C10-AMS, an inhibitor of AasS that mimics the acyl-AMP reaction intermediate. Here we tested its ability to be broadly applicable to enzymes in this class, and found it inhibits all four newly annotated AasS enzymes. C10-AMS therefore provides a tool to study the role of AasS in fatty acid recycling in pathogenic bacteria as well as offers a platform for antibiotic development.
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 19102, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, 11549, USA
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Maciunas LJ, Rotsides P, Brady S, Beld J, Loll PJ. The VanS sensor histidine kinase from type-B VRE recognizes vancomycin directly. bioRxiv 2023:2023.07.09.548278. [PMID: 37503228 PMCID: PMC10369886 DOI: 10.1101/2023.07.09.548278] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/29/2023]
Abstract
V ancomycin-resistant e nterococci (VRE) are among the most common causes of nosocomial infections, which can be challenging to treat. VRE have acquired a suite of resistance genes that function together to confer resistance to vancomycin. Expression of the resistance phenotype is controlled by the VanRS two-component system. This system senses the presence of the antibiotic, and responds by initiating transcription of resistance genes. VanS is a transmembrane sensor histidine kinase, and plays a fundamental role in antibiotic resistance by detecting vancomycin and then transducing this signal to VanR. Despite the critical role played by VanS, fundamental questions remain about its function, and in particular about how it senses vancomycin. Here, we focus on purified VanRS systems from the two most clinically prevalent forms of VRE, types A and B. We show that in a native-like membrane environment, the enzymatic activities of type-A VanS are insensitive to vancomycin, suggesting that the protein functions by an indirect mechanism that detects a downstream consequence of antibiotic activity. In contrast, the autokinase activity of type-B VanS is strongly stimulated by vancomycin. We additionally demonstrate that this effect is mediated by a direct physical interaction between the antibiotic and the type-B VanS protein, and localize the interacting region to the protein's periplasmic domain. This represents the first time that a direct sensing mechanism has been confirmed for any VanS protein. Significance Statement When v ancomycin-resistant e nterococci (VRE) sense the presence of vancomycin, they remodel their cell walls to block antibiotic binding. This resistance phenotype is controlled by the VanS protein, a sensor histidine kinase that senses the antibiotic and signals for transcription of resistance genes. However, the mechanism by which VanS detects the antibiotic has remained unclear. Here, we show that VanS proteins from the two most common types of VRE use very different sensing mechanisms. Vancomycin does not alter the signaling activity of VanS from type-A VRE, suggesting an indirect sensing mechanism; in contrast, VanS from type-B VRE is activated by direct binding of the antibiotic. Such mechanistic insights will likely prove useful in circumventing vancomycin resistance.
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Byun H, Brockett MR, Pu Q, Hrycko AJ, Beld J, Zhu J. An Intestinal Bacillus velezensis Isolate Displays Broad-Spectrum Antibacterial Activity and Prevents Infection of Both Gram-Positive and Gram-Negative Pathogens In Vivo. J Bacteriol 2023; 205:e0013323. [PMID: 37195186 PMCID: PMC10294632 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00133-23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2023] [Accepted: 04/24/2023] [Indexed: 05/18/2023] Open
Abstract
The increasing prevalence of drug-resistant bacteria has significantly diminished the effectiveness of antibiotics in clinical settings, leading to the emergence of untreatable bacterial infections. To address this public health challenge, the gut microbiome represents a promising source of novel antimicrobial therapeutics. In this study, we screened mouse intestinal isolates for growth inhibitory activity against the human enteric pathogen Vibrio cholerae and identified a strain of spore-forming Bacillus velezensis, named BVM7, that produced a potent antibiotic with activity against V. cholerae and a broad spectrum of enteric and opportunistic pathogens. Characterization of the antimicrobial compounds produced by BVM7 revealed that they were primarily secreted antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) produced during stationary-phase growth. Furthermore, our results showed that introducing either BVM7 vegetative cells or spores into mice precolonized with V. cholerae or Enterococcus faecalis significantly reduced the burden of infection. Interestingly, we also observed that BVM7 was sensitive to a group of Lactobacillus probiotic strains and that inoculation of Lactobacilli could eliminate BVM7 and potentially restore the native gut microbiome. These findings highlight the potential of bacteria from the gut microbiome as a source for novel antimicrobial compounds and a tool for managing bacterial infections by in situ bio-delivery of multiple AMPs. IMPORTANCE The rise of antibiotic-resistant pathogens poses a challenge to public health. The gut microbiome presents a promising source of new antimicrobials and treatments. By screening murine gut commensals, we found a spore-forming Bacillus velezensis strain, BVM7, that exhibited antimicrobial activity toward a wide array of enteric and opportunistic bacterial pathogens. In addition to showing that this killing effect occurred through the action of secreted antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), we demonstrate that BVM7 vegetative cells and spores can be used to treat infections of both Gram-positive and Gram-negative pathogens in vivo. By expanding our knowledge of the antimicrobial properties of bacteria in the gut microbiome, we hope to contribute insights for developing novel drugs and therapeutic interventions.
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- Hyuntae Byun
- Department of Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Microbiology & Immunology, College of Medicine, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Bekeova C, Han JI, Xu H, Kerr E, Blackburne B, Lynch SC, Mesaros C, Murgia M, Vadigepalli R, Beld J, Leonardi R, Snyder NW, Seifert EL. Acyl-CoA thioesterase-2 facilitates β-oxidation in glycolytic skeletal muscle in a lipid supply dependent manner. bioRxiv 2023:2023.06.27.546724. [PMID: 37425757 PMCID: PMC10327053 DOI: 10.1101/2023.06.27.546724] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/11/2023]
Abstract
Acyl-Coenzyme A (acyl-CoA) thioesters are compartmentalized intermediates that participate in in multiple metabolic reactions within the mitochondrial matrix. The limited availability of free CoA (CoASH) in the matrix raises the question of how the local acyl-CoA concentration is regulated to prevent trapping of CoASH from overload of any specific substrate. Acyl-CoA thioesterase-2 (ACOT2) hydrolyzes long-chain acyl-CoAs to their constituent fatty acids and CoASH, and is the only mitochondrial matrix ACOT refractory to inhibition by CoASH. Thus, we reasoned that ACOT2 may constitutively regulate matrix acyl-CoA levels. Acot2 deletion in murine skeletal muscle (SM) resulted in acyl-CoA build-up when lipid supply and energy demands were modest. When energy demand and pyruvate availability were elevated, lack of ACOT2 activity promoted glucose oxidation. This preference for glucose over fatty acid oxidation was recapitulated in C2C12 myotubes with acute depletion of Acot2 , and overt inhibition of β-oxidation was demonstrated in isolated mitochondria from Acot2 -depleted glycolytic SM. In mice fed a high fat diet, ACOT2 enabled the accretion of acyl-CoAs and ceramide derivatives in glycolytic SM, and this was associated with worse glucose homeostasis compared to when ACOT2 was absent. These observations suggest that ACOT2 supports CoASH availability to facilitate β-oxidation in glycolytic SM when lipid supply is modest. However, when lipid supply is high, ACOT2 enables acyl-CoA and lipid accumulation, CoASH sequestration, and poor glucose homeostasis. Thus, ACOT2 regulates matrix acyl-CoA concentration in glycolytic muscle, and its impact depends on lipid supply.
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Rotsides P, Lee PJ, Webber N, Grasty KC, Beld J, Loll PJ. Novel Diazirine Photoprobes for the Identification of Vancomycin-Binding Proteins. bioRxiv 2023:2023.06.15.545140. [PMID: 37398175 PMCID: PMC10312697 DOI: 10.1101/2023.06.15.545140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/04/2023]
Abstract
Vancomycin's interactions with cellular targets drive its antimicrobial activity, and also trigger expression of resistance against the antibiotic. Interaction partners for vancomycin have previously been identified using photoaffinity probes, which have proven to be useful tools for exploring vancomycin's interactome. This work seeks to develop diazirine-based vancomycin photoprobes that display enhanced specificity and bear fewer chemical modifications, as compared to previous photoprobes. Using proteins fused to vancomycin's main cell-wall target, D-alanyl-D-alanine, we use mass spectrometry to show that these photoprobes specifically label known vancomycin-binding partners within minutes. In a complementary approach, we developed a Western-blot strategy targeting the vancomycin adduct of the photoprobes, eliminating the need for affinity tags and simplifying the analysis of photolabeling reactions. Together, the probes and identification strategy provide a novel and streamlined pipeline for identifying novel vancomycin-binding proteins.
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Sales D, Lin E, Stoffel V, Dickson S, Khan ZK, Beld J, Jain P. Apigenin improves cytotoxicity of antiretroviral drugs against HTLV-1 infected cells through the modulation of AhR signaling. NeuroImmune Pharm Ther 2023; 2:49-62. [PMID: 37027342 PMCID: PMC10070013 DOI: 10.1515/nipt-2022-0017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2022] [Revised: 01/30/2023] [Accepted: 02/01/2023] [Indexed: 02/19/2023]
Abstract
Objectives HTLV-1-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP) is a neuroinflammatory autoimmune disease characterized by high levels of infected immortalized T cells in circulation, which makes it difficult for antiretroviral (ART) drugs to work effectively. In previous studies, we established that Apigenin, a flavonoid, can exert immunomodulatory effects to reduce neuroinflammation. Flavonoids are natural ligands for the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR), which is a ligand activated endogenous receptor involved in the xenobiotic response. Consequently, we tested Apigenin's synergy in combination with ART against the survival of HTLV-1-infected cells. Methods First, we established a direct protein-protein interaction between Apigenin and AhR. We then demonstrated that Apigenin and its derivative VY-3-68 enter activated T cells, drive nuclear shuttling of AhR, and modulate its signaling both at RNA and protein level. Results In HTLV-1 producing cells with high AhR expression, Apigenin cooperates with ARTs such as Lopinavir (LPN) and Zidovudine (AZT), to impart cytotoxicity by exhibiting a major shift in IC50 that was reversed upon AhR knockdown. Mechanistically, Apigenin treatment led to an overall downregulation of NF-κB and several other pro-cancer genes involved in survival. Conclusions This study suggest the potential combinatorial use of Apigenin with current first-line antiretrovirals for the benefit of patients affected by HTLV-1 associated pathologies.
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Affiliation(s)
- Dominic Sales
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Das S, Trubnikov AV, Novoselov AM, Kurkin AV, Beld J, Altieri A, Kortagere S. Design and Characterization of Novel Small Molecule Activators of Excitatory Amino Acid Transporter 2. ACS Med Chem Lett 2022; 13:1628-1633. [PMID: 36262387 PMCID: PMC9575181 DOI: 10.1021/acsmedchemlett.2c00304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2022] [Accepted: 09/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
Abstract
Excitotoxicity in the brain is a causal factor in several neurological and neurodegenerative disorders. Excitatory amino acid transporter 2 (EAAT2), an astrocytic glutamate transporter involved in the clearance of >80% of synaptic glutamate, is considered a therapeutically relevant target for excitotoxicity. We have previously designed GT951, an activator of EAAT2 with nanomolar efficacy but limited in vivo bioavailability. In this study, a pharmacophore-based screening and optimization resulted in the design of GTS467 and GTS511. GTS467 and GTS511 have low nanomolar efficacy in the glutamate uptake assay. Pharmacokinetic profiles (PK) of GTS511 show a >6 h half-life and higher bioavailability in plasma and the brain under all three routes of administration in rats. Similarly, GTS467 has high oral bioavailability (80-85%) in the brain and plasma with a >1 h half-life under all three dosing routes. These encouraging efficacy and PK profiles suggest that GTS511 and GTS467 can be further developed to treat neurological disorders caused by excitotoxicity.
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- Sanjay Das
- Department
of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University
College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19129, United States
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- Department
of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University
College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19129, United States
- Center
for Advanced Microbial Processing and Center for Genomics Sciences,
Institute for Molecular Medicine and Infectious Disease, Drexel University College of Medicine, 245 N 15th St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102, United States
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- Edasa
Scientific Srls, Via
Stingi 37, San Salvo (CH) 66050, Italy
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- Department
of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University
College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19129, United States
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Lucarelli R, Gorrochotegui-Escalante N, Taddeo J, Buttaro B, Beld J, Tam V. Eicosanoid-Activated PPARα Inhibits NFκB-Dependent Bacterial Clearance During Post-Influenza Superinfection. Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2022; 12:881462. [PMID: 35860381 PMCID: PMC9289478 DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2022.881462] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2022] [Accepted: 05/31/2022] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
Abstract
Secondary bacterial infection (superinfection) post influenza is a serious clinical complication often leading to pneumonia and death. Eicosanoids are bioactive lipid mediators that play critical roles in the induction and resolution of inflammation. CYP450 lipid metabolites are anti-inflammatory lipid mediators that are produced at an excessive level during superinfection potentiating the vulnerability to secondary bacterial infection. Using Nanostring nCounter technology, we have defined the targeted transcriptional response where CYP450 metabolites dampen the Toll-like receptor signaling in macrophages. CYP450 metabolites are endogenous ligands for the nuclear receptor and transcription factor, PPARα. Activation of PPARα hinders NFκB p65 activities by altering its phosphorylation and nuclear translocation during TLR stimulation. Additionally, activation of PPARα inhibited anti-bacterial activities and enhanced macrophage polarization to an anti-inflammatory subtype (M2b). Lastly, Ppara–/– mice, which are partially protected in superinfection compared to C57BL/6 mice, have increased lipidomic responses and decreased M2-like macrophages during superinfection.
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- Ronald Lucarelli
- Center for Microbiology and Immunology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Center for Microbiology and Immunology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Center for Microbiology and Immunology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Center for Microbiology and Immunology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
- Sol Sherry Thrombosis Research Center, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Advanced Microbial Processing, Institute for Molecular Medicine and Infectious Disease, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Center for Microbiology and Immunology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
- *Correspondence: Vincent Tam,
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Rotsides P, Maciunas LJ, Lee P, Webber N, Beld J, Loll PJ. Elucidating the antibiotic sensing mechanism of VanB vancomycin‐resistant
Enterococci. FASEB J 2022. [DOI: 10.1096/fasebj.2022.36.s1.r5594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Photis Rotsides
- Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyDrexel University College of MedicinePhiladelphiaPA
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- Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyDrexel University College of MedicinePhiladelphiaPA
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- Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyDrexel University College of MedicinePhiladelphiaPA
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- Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyDrexel University College of MedicinePhiladelphiaPA
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- Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyDrexel University College of MedicinePhiladelphiaPA
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- Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyDrexel University College of MedicinePhiladelphiaPA
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Ma AT, Kantner DS, Beld J. Cobamide remodeling. Vitam Horm 2022; 119:43-63. [PMID: 35337629 DOI: 10.1016/bs.vh.2022.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
Abstract
Cobamides are a family of structurally-diverse cofactors which includes vitamin B12 and over a dozen natural analogs. Within the nucleotide loop structure, cobamide analogs have variable lower ligands that fall into three categories: benzimidazoles, purines, and phenols. The range of cobamide analogs that can be utilized by an organism is dependent on the specificity of its cobamide-dependent enzymes, and most bacteria are able to utilize multiple analogs but not all. Some bacteria have pathways for cobamide remodeling, a process in which imported cobamides are converted into compatible analogs. Here we discuss cobamide analog diversity and three pathways for cobamide remodeling, mediated by amidohydrolase CbiZ, phosphodiesterase CbiR, and some homologs of cobamide synthase CobS. Remodeling proteins exhibit varying degrees of specificity for cobamide substrates, reflecting different strategies to ensure that imported cobamides can be utilized.
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- Amy T Ma
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Advanced Microbial Processing, Institute for Molecular Medicine and Infectious Disease, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Advanced Microbial Processing, Institute for Molecular Medicine and Infectious Disease, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Advanced Microbial Processing, Institute for Molecular Medicine and Infectious Disease, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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Jones CV, Jarboe BG, Majer HM, Ma AT, Beld J. Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 secondary metabolism: aryl polyene biosynthesis and phosphopantetheinyl transferase crosstalk. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2021; 105:7785-7799. [PMID: 34546406 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-021-11546-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2021] [Revised: 08/21/2021] [Accepted: 08/24/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 (EcN) is a Gram-negative bacterium that is used to treat inflammatory bowel diseases. The probiotic character of EcN is not well-understood, but its ability to produce secondary metabolites plays an important role in its activity. The EcN genome encodes for an aryl polyene (APE) biosynthetic gene cluster (BGC), and APE products have a role in biofilm formation. We show here that this unusual polyketide assembly line synthase produces four APE molecules which are likely cis/trans isomers. Within the APE BGC, two acyl carrier proteins are involved in biosynthesis. Acyl carrier proteins require activation by post-translational modification with a phosphopantetheinyl transferase (PPTase). Through analysis of single, double, and triple mutants of three PPTases, the PPTase-BGC crosstalk relationship in EcN was characterized. Understanding PPTase-BGC crosstalk is important for the engineering of secondary metabolite production hosts and for targeting of PPTases with new antibiotics. KEY POINTS: • Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 biosynthesizes four aryl polyene isoforms. • Phosphopantetheinyl transferase crosstalk is important for biosynthesis.
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- Courtney V Jones
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Advanced Microbial Processing and Center for Genomics Sciences, Institute for Molecular Medicine and Infectious Disease, Drexel University College of Medicine, 245 N 15th St, Philadelphia, PA, 19102, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Advanced Microbial Processing and Center for Genomics Sciences, Institute for Molecular Medicine and Infectious Disease, Drexel University College of Medicine, 245 N 15th St, Philadelphia, PA, 19102, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Advanced Microbial Processing and Center for Genomics Sciences, Institute for Molecular Medicine and Infectious Disease, Drexel University College of Medicine, 245 N 15th St, Philadelphia, PA, 19102, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Advanced Microbial Processing and Center for Genomics Sciences, Institute for Molecular Medicine and Infectious Disease, Drexel University College of Medicine, 245 N 15th St, Philadelphia, PA, 19102, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Advanced Microbial Processing and Center for Genomics Sciences, Institute for Molecular Medicine and Infectious Disease, Drexel University College of Medicine, 245 N 15th St, Philadelphia, PA, 19102, USA.
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Hong K, Beld J, Davis TD, Burkart MD, Palenik B. Screening and characterization of polyhydroxyalkanoate granules, and phylogenetic analysis of polyhydroxyalkanoate synthase gene PhaC in cyanobacteria. J Phycol 2021; 57:754-765. [PMID: 33350471 DOI: 10.1111/jpy.13123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2019] [Revised: 09/06/2020] [Accepted: 10/13/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Using Nile Red and BODIPY 493/503 dye-staining and fluorescence microscopy, twenty cyanobacterial strains, including ten commercially available strains and ten environmental isolates from estuaries, freshwater ponds, and lagoons, were screened for the accumulation of ecologically important and potentially biotechnologically significant carbon storage granules such as polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA). Dye-staining granules were observed in six strains. Three Synechocystis, spp. strains WHSYN, LSNM, and CGF-1, and a Phormidium-like sp. CGFILA were isolated from environmental sources and found to produce granules of polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) according to PHA synthase gene (phaC) PCR screening and 1 H NMR analyses. The environmental isolate, Nodularia sp. Las Olas and commercially available Phormidium cf. iriguum CCALA 759 displayed granules but screened negative for PHA according to phaC PCR and 1 H NMR analyses. Partial polyhydroxyalkanoate synthase subunit C (phaC) and 16S rRNA gene sequences obtained from the PHA-accumulating strains and analyzed alongside publicly available phaC, phaE, 16S rRNA, and 23S rRNA data help in understanding the distribution and evolutionary history of PHA biosynthesis within the phylum Cyanobacteria. The data show that the presence of phaC is highly conserved within the genus Synechocystis, and present in at least one isolate of Phormidium. Maximum likelihood analyses and cophylogenetic modeling of PHA synthase gene sequences provide evidence of a recent horizontal gene transfer event between distant genera of cyanobacteria related to Pleurocapsa sp. PCC 7327 and Phormidium-like sp. CGFILA. These findings will help guide additional screening for PHA producers, and may explain why some Phormidium species produce PHAs, while others do not.
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- Karl Hong
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, 92093-0202, USA
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- Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, 92093-0202, USA
- Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 19102, USA
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- Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, 92093-0202, USA
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- Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, 92093-0202, USA
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- Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, 92093-0202, USA
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Majer HM, Ehrlich RL, Ahmed A, Earl JP, Ehrlich GD, Beld J. Whole genome sequencing of Streptomyces actuosus ISP-5337, Streptomyces sioyaensis B-5408, and Actinospica acidiphila B-2296 reveals secondary metabolomes with antibiotic potential. Biotechnol Rep (Amst) 2021; 29:e00596. [PMID: 33643857 PMCID: PMC7893419 DOI: 10.1016/j.btre.2021.e00596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2020] [Revised: 01/20/2021] [Accepted: 02/01/2021] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Whole genome sequencing of Actinomycetes reveals metabolic potential. High quality genomes are necessary for mining of biosynthetic gene clusters. Characterization of thiopeptides by high resolution mass spectrometry. Thiopeptides are potent antibacterials against Staphylococcus aureus.
Streptomycetes are bacteria of biotechnological importance since they are avid producers of secondary metabolites, including antibiotics. Progress in genome mining has recently shown that Streptomyces species encode for many biosynthetic gene clusters which are mostly unexplored. Here, we selected three Actinomycetes species for whole genome sequencing that are known to produce potent thiopeptide antibiotics. Streptomyces actuosus biosynthesizes nosiheptide, Streptomyces sioyaensis produces siomycin, and Actinospica acidiphila is a member of the Actinomycete subfamily. Bioinformatic analyses demonstrated diverse secondary metabolomes with multiple antibiotic-encoding gene clusters. Detailed mass spectrometry analysis of metabolite extracts verified the active expression of nosiheptide and siomycin from S. actuosus and S. sioyaensis while fractionation of the bacterial extracts and subsequent challenge against Staphylococcus aureus demonstrated potent antibiotic activity of fractions containing these compounds. Whole genome sequencing of these species facilitates future bioengineering efforts for thiopeptides and characterization of relevant secondary metabolites.
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- Haley M Majer
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, 245 N 15 St, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, 245 N 15 St, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, 245 N 15 St, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, 245 N 15 St, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, 245 N 15 St, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, 245 N 15 St, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
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DeRose BT, Kelley RS, Ravi R, Kokona B, Beld J, Spiliotis ET, Padrick SB. Production and analysis of a mammalian septin hetero-octamer complex. Cytoskeleton (Hoboken) 2020; 77:485-499. [PMID: 33185030 DOI: 10.1002/cm.21643] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2020] [Revised: 10/26/2020] [Accepted: 11/08/2020] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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The septins are filament-forming proteins found in diverse eukaryotes from fungi to vertebrates, with roles in cytokinesis, shaping of membranes and modifying cytoskeletal organization. These GTPases assemble into rod-shaped soluble hetero-hexamers and hetero-octamers in mammals, which polymerize into filaments and higher order structures. While the cell biology and pathobiology of septins are advancing rapidly, mechanistic study of the mammalian septins is limited by a lack of recombinant hetero-octamer materials. We describe here the production and characterization of a recombinant mammalian septin hetero-octamer of defined stoichiometry, the SEPT2/SEPT6/SEPT7/SEPT3 complex. Using a fluorescent protein fusion to the complex, we observed filaments assembled from this complex. In addition, we used this novel tool to resolve recent questions regarding the organization of the soluble septin complex. Biochemical characterization of a SEPT3 truncation that disrupts SEPT3-SEPT3 interactions is consistent with SEPT3 occupying a central position in the complex while the SEPT2 subunits are at the ends of the rod-shaped octameric complexes. Consistent with SEPT2 being on the complex ends, we find that our purified SEPT2/SEPT6/SEPT7/SEPT3 hetero-octamer copolymerizes into mixed filaments with separately purified SEPT2/SEPT6/SEPT7 hetero-hexamer. We expect this new recombinant production approach to lay essential groundwork for future studies into mammalian septin mechanism and function.
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- Barry T DeRose
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.,VCU Health System, Richmond, Virginia, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.,WuXi Advanced Therapies, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Biology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Currie MF, Persaud DM, Rana NK, Platt AJ, Beld J, Jaremko KL. Synthesis of an acyl-acyl carrier protein synthetase inhibitor to study fatty acid recycling. Sci Rep 2020; 10:17776. [PMID: 33082446 PMCID: PMC7575536 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-74731-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2020] [Accepted: 10/06/2020] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Fatty acids are essential to most organisms and are made endogenously by the fatty acid synthase (FAS). FAS is an attractive target for antibiotics and many inhibitors are in clinical development. However, some gram-negative bacteria harbor an enzyme known as the acyl-acyl carrier protein synthetase (AasS), which allows them to scavenge fatty acids from the environment and shuttle them into FAS and ultimately lipids. The ability of AasS to recycle fatty acids may help pathogenic gram-negative bacteria circumvent FAS inhibition. We therefore set out to design and synthesize an inhibitor of AasS and test its effectiveness on an AasS enzyme from Vibrio harveyi, the most well studied AasS to date, and from Vibrio cholerae, a pathogenic model. The inhibitor C10-AMS [5′-O-(N-decanylsulfamoyl)adenosine], which mimics the tightly bound acyl-AMP reaction intermediate, was able to effectively inhibit AasS catalytic activity in vitro. Additionally, C10-AMS stopped the ability of Vibrio cholerae to recycle fatty acids from media and survive when its endogenous FAS was inhibited with cerulenin. C10-AMS can be used to study fatty acid recycling in other bacteria as more AasS enzymes continue to be annotated and provides a platform for potential antibiotic development.
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- Madeline F Currie
- Department of Chemistry, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, 11549, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, 11549, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, 11549, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 19102, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 19102, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, 11549, USA.
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Ershad M, Beld J, Mostafa A, Dela Cruz M, Vearrier D, Greenberg MI. Nicotine Content from Cigarettes Submerged in Soda. J Med Toxicol 2020; 16:452-457. [PMID: 32180139 DOI: 10.1007/s13181-020-00766-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2019] [Revised: 02/18/2020] [Accepted: 02/21/2020] [Indexed: 10/24/2022] Open
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INTRODUCTION Cigarettes and other tobacco products may be extinguished by submersion in liquids in beverage cans or bottles. Cases of nicotine poisoning in children have been reported following ingestion of such liquids. The aim of this study is to analyze the variability of nicotine concentrations with respect to number of cigarettes immersed and the duration of immersion in a soda can METHODS: One unsmoked cigarette was immersed in a cola containing soda can. Three separate samples of the mixture were obtained at different intervals of time post immersion up to 1 week. At the same time, a set of four cola cans were immersed with an increasing number of unsmoked cigarettes and samples obtained. All the samples were then analyzed for nicotine concentrations using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. RESULTS The mean concentration of nicotine measured over the course of 6 hours from one full cigarette in 55 ml of a cola beverage was 0.48 mg/ml. Nicotine concentrations steadily increased in the first 6 hours following submersion, after which, the levels plateaued (r = 0.530, n = 18, p = 0.024). There was a strong positive correlation between nicotine concentrations and the number of cigarettes (r = 0.967, n = 12, p = 3e-7). CONCLUSIONS The mean concentration of nicotine measured over the course of 6 hours from one immersed cigarette can be potentially toxic especially to children. Nicotine concentrations are positively correlated with the number of cigarettes and time of immersion.
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- Muhammed Ershad
- Medical Toxicology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
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- Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Medical Toxicology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Medical Toxicology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Emergency Medicine, Medical Toxicology, University of Mississipi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississipi, USA
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- Emergency Medicine, Division of Medical Toxicology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Kim YS, Park SI, Kim JJ, Boyd JS, Beld J, Taton A, Lee KI, Kim IS, Golden JW, Yoon HS. Expression of Heterologous OsDHAR Gene Improves Glutathione (GSH)-Dependent Antioxidant System and Maintenance of Cellular Redox Status in Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942. Front Plant Sci 2020; 11:231. [PMID: 32194605 PMCID: PMC7063034 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.00231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2019] [Accepted: 02/14/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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An excess of reactive oxygen species (ROS) can cause severe oxidative damage to cellular components in photosynthetic cells. Antioxidant systems, such as the glutathione (GSH) pools, regulate redox status in cells to guard against such damage. Dehydroascorbate reductase (DHAR, EC 1.8.5.1) catalyzes the glutathione-dependent reduction of oxidized ascorbate (dehydroascorbate) and contains a redox active site and glutathione binding-site. The DHAR gene is important in biological and abiotic stress responses involving reduction of the oxidative damage caused by ROS. In this study, transgenic Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 (TA) was constructed by cloning the Oryza sativa L. japonica DHAR (OsDHAR) gene controlled by an isopropyl β-D-1-thiogalactopyranoside (IPTG)-inducible promoter (Ptrc) into the cyanobacterium to study the functional activities of OsDHAR under oxidative stress caused by hydrogen peroxide exposure. OsDHAR expression increased the growth of S. elongatus PCC 7942 under oxidative stress by reducing the levels of hydroperoxides and malondialdehyde (MDA) and mitigating the loss of chlorophyll. DHAR and glutathione S-transferase activity were higher than in the wild-type S. elongatus PCC 7942 (WT). Additionally, overexpression of OsDHAR in S. elongatus PCC 7942 greatly increased the glutathione (GSH)/glutathione disulfide (GSSG) ratio in the presence or absence of hydrogen peroxide. These results strongly suggest that DHAR attenuates deleterious oxidative effects via the glutathione (GSH)-dependent antioxidant system in cyanobacterial cells. The expression of heterologous OsDHAR in S. elongatus PCC 7942 protected cells from oxidative damage through a GSH-dependent antioxidant system via GSH-dependent reactions at the redox active site and GSH binding site residues during oxidative stress.
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- Young-Saeng Kim
- Research Institute for Dok-do and Ulleung-do, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea
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- School of Life Sciences, BK21 Plus KNU Creative BioResearch Group, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea
- Department of Biology, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea
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- School of Life Sciences, BK21 Plus KNU Creative BioResearch Group, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea
- Department of Biology, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea
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- Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
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- Biotechnology Industrialization Center, Dongshin University, Naju, South Korea
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- Advanced Bio Resource Research Center, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea
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- Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
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- School of Life Sciences, BK21 Plus KNU Creative BioResearch Group, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea
- Department of Biology, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea
- Advanced Bio Resource Research Center, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea
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Vickery CR, McCulloch IP, Sonnenschein EC, Beld J, Noel JP, Burkart MD. Dissecting modular synthases through inhibition: A complementary chemical and genetic approach. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 2020; 30:126820. [PMID: 31812466 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2019.126820] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2019] [Revised: 11/08/2019] [Accepted: 11/09/2019] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Modular synthases, such as fatty acid, polyketide, and non-ribosomal peptide synthases (NRPSs), are sophisticated machineries essential in both primary and secondary metabolism. Various techniques have been developed to understand their genetic background and enzymatic abilities. However, uncovering the actual biosynthetic pathways remains challenging. Herein, we demonstrate a pipeline to study an assembly line synthase by interrogating the enzymatic function of each individual enzymatic domain of BpsA, a NRPS that produces the blue 3,3'-bipyridyl pigment indigoidine. Specific inhibitors for each biosynthetic domain of BpsA were obtained or synthesized, and the enzymatic performance of BpsA upon addition of each inhibitor was monitored by pigment development in vitro and in living bacteria. The results were verified using genetic mutants to inactivate each domain. Finally, the results complemented the currently proposed biosynthetic pathway of BpsA.
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- Christopher R Vickery
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California-San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0358, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Jack H. Skirball Center for Chemical Biology and Proteomics, 10010 N. Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California-San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0358, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California-San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0358, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California-San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0358, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Jack H. Skirball Center for Chemical Biology and Proteomics, 10010 N. Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California-San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0358, USA.
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Cobamides are a group of compounds including vitamin B12 that can vary at the lower base position of the nucleotide loop. They are synthesized de novo by only a subset of prokaryotes, but some organisms encode partial biosynthesis pathways for converting one variant to another (remodeling) or completing biosynthesis from an intermediate (corrinoid salvaging). Here, we explore the cobamide specificity in Vibrio cholerae through examination of three natural variants representing major cobamide groups: commercially available cobalamin, and isolated pseudocobalamin and p-cresolylcobamide. We show that BtuB, the outer membrane corrinoid transporter, mediates the uptake of all three variants and the intermediate cobinamide. Our previous work suggested that V. cholerae could convert pseudocobalamin produced by cyanobacteria into cobalamin. In this work, cobamide specificity in V. cholerae is demonstrated by remodeling of pseudocobalamin and salvaging of cobinamide to produce cobalamin. Cobamide remodeling in V. cholerae is distinct from the canonical pathway requiring amidohydrolase CbiZ, and heterologous expression of V. cholerae CobS was sufficient for remodeling. Furthermore, function of V. cholerae cobamide-dependent methionine synthase MetH was robustly supported by cobalamin and p-cresolylcobamide, but not pseudocobalamin. Notably, the inability of V. cholerae to produce and utilize pseudocobalamin contrasts with enteric bacteria like Salmonella.
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- Amy T Ma
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 19102, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 19102, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 19102, USA
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Milligan JC, Lee DJ, Jackson DR, Schaub AJ, Beld J, Barajas JF, Hale JJ, Luo R, Burkart MD, Tsai SC. Molecular basis for interactions between an acyl carrier protein and a ketosynthase. Nat Chem Biol 2019; 15:669-671. [PMID: 31209348 DOI: 10.1038/s41589-019-0301-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2018] [Accepted: 05/01/2019] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Fatty acid synthases are dynamic ensembles of enzymes that can biosynthesize long hydrocarbon chains efficiently. Here we visualize the interaction between the Escherichia coli acyl carrier protein (AcpP) and β-ketoacyl-ACP-synthase I (FabB) using X-ray crystallography, NMR, and molecular dynamics simulations. We leveraged this structural information to alter lipid profiles in vivo and provide a molecular basis for how protein-protein interactions can regulate the fatty acid profile in E. coli.
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- Jacob C Milligan
- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA. .,Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA. .,Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA.
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Rivas MA, Courouble VC, Baker MC, Cookmeyer DL, Fiore KE, Frost AJ, Godbe KN, Jordan MR, Krasnow EN, Mollo A, Ridings ST, Sawada K, Shroff KD, Studnitzer B, Thiele GAR, Sisto AC, Nawal S, Huff AR, Fairman R, Johnson KA, Beld J, Kokona B, Charkoudian LK. The Effect of Divalent Cations on the Thermostability of Type II Polyketide Synthase Acyl Carrier Proteins. AIChE J 2018; 64:4308-4318. [PMID: 31527922 DOI: 10.1002/aic.16402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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The successful engineering of biosynthetic pathways hinges on understanding the factors that influence acyl carrier protein (ACP) stability and function. The stability and structure of ACPs can be influenced by the presence of divalent cations, but how this relates to primary sequence remains poorly understood. As part of a course-based undergraduate research experience, we investigated the thermostability of type II polyketide synthase (PKS) ACPs. We observed an approximate 40 °C range in the thermostability amongst the 14 ACPs studied, as well as an increase in stability (5 - 26 °C) of the ACPs in the presence of divalent cations. Distribution of charges in the helix II-loop-helix III region was found to impact the enthalpy of denaturation. Taken together, our results reveal clues as to how the sequence of type II PKS ACPs relates to their structural stability, information that can be used to study how ACP sequence relates to function.
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- Dept. of Chemistry Haverford College Haverford PA 19041
- Biochemistry 390 (“Biochemistry Superlab”) Haverford College Haverford PA
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- Dept. of Chemistry Haverford College Haverford PA 19041
- Biochemistry 390 (“Biochemistry Superlab”) Haverford College Haverford PA
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- Dept. of Chemistry Haverford College Haverford PA 19041
- Biochemistry 390 (“Biochemistry Superlab”) Haverford College Haverford PA
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- Dept. of Biology Haverford College Haverford PA 19041
- Biochemistry 390 (“Biochemistry Superlab”) Haverford College Haverford PA
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- Dept. of Physics Haverford College Haverford PA 19041
- Biochemistry 390 (“Biochemistry Superlab”) Haverford College Haverford PA
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- Dept. of Biology Haverford College Haverford PA 19041
- Biochemistry 390 (“Biochemistry Superlab”) Haverford College Haverford PA
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- Dept. of Chemistry Haverford College Haverford PA 19041
- Biochemistry 390 (“Biochemistry Superlab”) Haverford College Haverford PA
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- Dept. of Chemistry Haverford College Haverford PA 19041
- Biochemistry 390 (“Biochemistry Superlab”) Haverford College Haverford PA
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- Dept. of Chemistry Haverford College Haverford PA 19041
- Biochemistry 390 (“Biochemistry Superlab”) Haverford College Haverford PA
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- Dept. of Biology Haverford College Haverford PA 19041
- Biochemistry 390 (“Biochemistry Superlab”) Haverford College Haverford PA
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- Dept. of Chemistry Haverford College Haverford PA 19041
- Biochemistry 390 (“Biochemistry Superlab”) Haverford College Haverford PA
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- Dept. of Chemistry Haverford College Haverford PA 19041
- Biochemistry 390 (“Biochemistry Superlab”) Haverford College Haverford PA
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- Dept. of Chemistry Haverford College Haverford PA 19041
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- Dept. of Chemistry Haverford College Haverford PA 19041
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- Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology Drexel University College of Medicine Philadelphia PA 19102
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Rivas M, Courouble V, Sisto A, Beld J, Kokona B, Charkoudian LK. Thermal Stability of Type II Polyketide Acyl Carrier Proteins. FASEB J 2018. [DOI: 10.1096/fasebj.2018.32.1_supplement.792.14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Thiele GAR, Friedman CP, Tsai KJS, Beld J, Londergan CH, Charkoudian LK. Acyl Carrier Protein Cyanylation Delivers a Ketoacyl Synthase-Carrier Protein Cross-Link. Biochemistry 2017; 56:2533-2536. [PMID: 28448715 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.7b00219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Acyl carrier proteins (ACPs) are central hubs in polyketide and fatty acid biosynthetic pathways, but the fast motions of the ACP's phosphopantetheine (Ppant) arm make its conformational dynamics difficult to capture using traditional spectroscopic approaches. Here we report that converting the terminal thiol of Escherichia coli ACP's Ppant arm into a thiocyanate activates this site to form a selective cross-link with the active site cysteine of its partner ketoacyl synthase (FabF). The reaction releases a cyanide anion, which can be detected by infrared spectroscopy. This represents a practical and generalizable method for obtaining and visualizing ACP-protein complexes relevant to biocatalysis and will be valuable in future structural and engineering studies.
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- Grace A R Thiele
- Department of Chemistry, Haverford College , Haverford, Pennsylvania 19041-1392, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Haverford College , Haverford, Pennsylvania 19041-1392, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Haverford College , Haverford, Pennsylvania 19041-1392, United States
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine , 245 North 15th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Haverford College , Haverford, Pennsylvania 19041-1392, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Haverford College , Haverford, Pennsylvania 19041-1392, United States
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Finzel K, Beld J, Burkart MD, Charkoudian LK. Utilizing Mechanistic Cross-Linking Technology to Study Protein-Protein Interactions: An Experiment Designed for an Undergraduate Biochemistry Lab. J Chem Educ 2017; 94:375-379. [PMID: 29255327 PMCID: PMC5731787 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.6b00453] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Over the past decade, mechanistic crosslinking probes have been used to study protein-protein interactions in natural product biosynthetic pathways. This approach is highly interdisciplinary, combining elements of protein biochemistry, organic chemistry, and computational docking. The development of an experiment to engage undergraduate students in multidisciplinary research is described that leverages mechanistic crosslinking probes to study protein conformations and protein-protein interactions. This experiment provides students with a platform to learn chemoenzymatic synthesis, polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, biochemical assays, and computational docking all while exploring a contemporary biochemical topic.
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- Kara Finzel
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania, 19041, United States
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Uranga CC, Beld J, Mrse A, Córdova-Guerrero I, Burkart MD, Hernández-Martínez R. Data from mass spectrometry, NMR spectra, GC-MS of fatty acid esters produced by Lasiodiplodia theobromae. Data Brief 2016; 8:31-9. [PMID: 27274528 PMCID: PMC4885019 DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2016.05.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2016] [Revised: 03/21/2016] [Accepted: 05/02/2016] [Indexed: 10/25/2022] Open
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The data described herein is related to the article with the title "Fatty acid esters produced by Lasiodiplodia theobromae function as growth regulators in tobacco seedlings" C.C. Uranga, J. Beld, A. Mrse, I. Cordova-Guerrero, M.D. Burkart, R. Hernandez-Martinez (2016) [1]. Data includes nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and GC-MS data used for the identification and characterization of fatty acid esters produced by L. theobromae. GC-MS traces are also shown for incubations in defined substrate, consisting in Vogel׳s salts supplemented with either 5% grapeseed oil or 5% glucose, the two combined, or 5% fructose. Traces for incubations in the combination of 5% grapeseed oil and 5% glucose for different fungal species are also included. Images of mycelium morphology when grown in 5% glucose with or without 5% grapeseed oil are shown due to the stark difference in mycelial pigmentation in the presence of triglycerides. High concentration gradient data for the plant model Nicotiana tabacum germinated in ethyl stearate (SAEE) and ethyl linoleate (LAEE) is included to show the transition between growth inhibition and growth induction in N. tabacum by these compounds.
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- Carla C Uranga
- Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada (CICESE), Carretera Ensenada-Tijuana 3918, Zona Playitas, 22860 Ensenada, B.C., Mexico
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- University of California, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, San Diego, CA 92093-0358, USA
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- University of California, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, San Diego, CA 92093-0358, USA
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- Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC), Calzada Universidad 14418 Parque Industrial Internacional Tijuana, Tijuana, 22390 B.C., Mexico
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- University of California, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, San Diego, CA 92093-0358, USA
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- Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada (CICESE), Carretera Ensenada-Tijuana 3918, Zona Playitas, 22860 Ensenada, B.C., Mexico
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Uranga CC, Beld J, Mrse A, Córdova-Guerrero I, Burkart MD, Hernández-Martínez R. Fatty acid esters produced by Lasiodiplodia theobromae function as growth regulators in tobacco seedlings. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2016; 472:339-45. [PMID: 26926564 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2016.02.104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2016] [Accepted: 02/23/2016] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The Botryosphaeriaceae are a family of trunk disease fungi that cause dieback and death of various plant hosts. This work sought to characterize fatty acid derivatives in a highly virulent member of this family, Lasiodiplodia theobromae. Nuclear magnetic resonance and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry of an isolated compound revealed (Z, Z)-9,12-ethyl octadecadienoate, (trivial name ethyl linoleate), as one of the most abundant fatty acid esters produced by L. theobromae. A variety of naturally produced esters of fatty acids were identified in Botryosphaeriaceae. In comparison, the production of fatty acid esters in the soil-borne tomato pathogen Fusarium oxysporum, and the non-phytopathogenic fungus Trichoderma asperellum was found to be limited. Ethyl linoleate, ethyl hexadecanoate (trivial name ethyl palmitate), and ethyl octadecanoate, (trivial name ethyl stearate), significantly inhibited tobacco seed germination and altered seedling leaf growth patterns and morphology at the highest concentration (0.2 mg/mL) tested, while ethyl linoleate and ethyl stearate significantly enhanced growth at low concentrations, with both still inducing growth at 98 ng/mL. This work provides new insights into the role of naturally esterified fatty acids from L. theobromae as plant growth regulators with similar activity to the well-known plant growth regulator gibberellic acid.
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- Carla C Uranga
- Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada (CICESE), Carretera Ensenada-Tijuana 3918, Zona Playitas, 22860 Ensenada, B.C., Mexico.
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- University of California, San Diego, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093-0358, USA.
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- University of California, San Diego, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093-0358, USA.
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- Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC), Calzada Universidad 14418 Parque Industrial Internacional Tijuana, Tijuana, B.C. 22390, Mexico.
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- University of California, San Diego, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093-0358, USA.
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- Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada (CICESE), Carretera Ensenada-Tijuana 3918, Zona Playitas, 22860 Ensenada, B.C., Mexico.
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Tallorin L, Finzel K, Nguyen QG, Beld J, La Clair JJ, Burkart MD. Trapping of the Enoyl-Acyl Carrier Protein Reductase-Acyl Carrier Protein Interaction. J Am Chem Soc 2016; 138:3962-5. [PMID: 26938266 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b13456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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An ideal target for metabolic engineering, fatty acid biosynthesis remains poorly understood on a molecular level. These carrier protein-dependent pathways require fundamental protein-protein interactions to guide reactivity and processivity, and their control has become one of the major hurdles in successfully adapting these biological machines. Our laboratory has developed methods to prepare acyl carrier proteins (ACPs) loaded with substrate mimetics and cross-linkers to visualize and trap interactions with partner enzymes, and we continue to expand the tools for studying these pathways. We now describe application of the slow-onset, tight-binding inhibitor triclosan to explore the interactions between the type II fatty acid ACP from Escherichia coli, AcpP, and its corresponding enoyl-ACP reductase, FabI. We show that the AcpP-triclosan complex demonstrates nM binding, inhibits in vitro activity, and can be used to isolate FabI in complex proteomes.
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- Lorillee Tallorin
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego , 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0358, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego , 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0358, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego , 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0358, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego , 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0358, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego , 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0358, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego , 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0358, United States
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Beld J, Abbriano R, Finzel K, Hildebrand M, Burkart MD. Probing fatty acid metabolism in bacteria, cyanobacteria, green microalgae and diatoms with natural and unnatural fatty acids. Mol Biosyst 2016; 12:1299-312. [PMID: 26886879 DOI: 10.1039/c5mb00804b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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In both eukaryotes and prokaryotes, fatty acid synthases are responsible for the biosynthesis of fatty acids in an iterative process, extending the fatty acid by two carbon units every cycle. Thus, odd numbered fatty acids are rarely found in nature. We tested whether representatives of diverse microbial phyla have the ability to incorporate odd-chain fatty acids as substrates for their fatty acid synthases and their downstream enzymes. We fed various odd and short chain fatty acids to the bacterium Escherichia coli, cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803, green microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana. Major differences were observed, specifically in the ability among species to incorporate and elongate short chain fatty acids. We demonstrate that E. coli, C. reinhardtii, and T. pseudonana can produce longer fatty acid products from short chain precursors (C3 and C5), while Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 lacks this ability. However, Synechocystis can incorporate and elongate longer chain fatty acids due to acyl-acyl carrier protein synthetase (AasS) activity, and knockout of this protein eliminates the ability to incorporate these fatty acids. In addition, expression of a characterized AasS from Vibrio harveyii confers a similar capability to E. coli. The ability to desaturate exogenously added fatty acids was only observed in Synechocystis and C. reinhardtii. We further probed fatty acid metabolism of these organisms by feeding desaturase inhibitors to test the specificity of long-chain fatty acid desaturases. In particular, supplementation with thia fatty acids can alter fatty acid profiles based on the location of the sulfur in the chain. We show that coupling sensitive gas chromatography mass spectrometry to supplementation of unnatural fatty acids can reveal major differences between fatty acid metabolism in various organisms. Often unnatural fatty acids have antibacterial or even therapeutic properties. Feeding of short precursors now gives us easy access to these extended molecules.
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- Joris Beld
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0358, USA.
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Ferreira-Camargo LS, Tran M, Beld J, Burkart MD, Mayfield SP. Selenocystamine improves protein accumulation in chloroplasts of eukaryotic green algae. AMB Express 2015; 5:126. [PMID: 26137911 PMCID: PMC4489976 DOI: 10.1186/s13568-015-0126-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2015] [Accepted: 06/22/2015] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Eukaryotic green algae have become an increasingly popular platform for recombinant proteins production. In particular, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, has garnered increased attention for having the necessary biochemical machinery to produce vaccines, human antibodies and next generation cancer targeting immunotoxins. While it has been shown that chloroplasts contain chaperones, peptidyl prolylisomerases and protein disulfide isomerases that facilitate these complex proteins folding and assembly, little has been done to determine which processes serve as rate-limiting steps for protein accumulation. In other expression systems, as Escherichia coli, Chinese hamster ovary cells, and insect cells, recombinant protein accumulation can be hampered by cell's inability to fold the target polypeptide into the native state, resulting in aggregation and degradation. To determine if chloroplasts' ability to oxidize proteins that require disulfide bonds into a stable conformation is a rate-limiting step of protein accumulation, three recombinant strains, each expressing a different recombinant protein, were analyzed. These recombinant proteins included fluorescent GFP, a reporter containing no disulfide bonds; Gaussia princeps luciferase, a luminescent reporter containing disulfide bonds; and an immunotoxin, an antibody-fusion protein containing disulfide bonds. Each strain was analyzed for its ability to accumulate proteins when supplemented with selenocystamine, a small molecule capable of catalyzing the formation of disulfide bonds. Selenocystamine supplementation led to an increase in luciferase and immunotoxin but not GFP accumulation. These results demonstrated that selenocystamine can increase the accumulation of proteins containing disulfide bonds and suggests that a rate-limiting step in chloroplast protein accumulation is the disulfide bonds formation in recombinant proteins native structure.
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Cahill JF, Darlington TK, Fitzgerald C, Schoepp NG, Beld J, Burkart MD, Prather KA. Online Analysis of Single Cyanobacteria and Algae Cells under Nitrogen-Limited Conditions Using Aerosol Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry. Anal Chem 2015; 87:8039-46. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5b02326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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- John F. Cahill
- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
- Scripps
Institution of Oceanography, University of California, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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Fatty acids are primary metabolites synthesized by complex, elegant, and essential biosynthetic machinery. Fatty acid synthases resemble an iterative assembly line, with an acyl carrier protein conveying the growing fatty acid to necessary enzymatic domains for modification. Each catalytic domain is a unique enzyme spanning a wide range of folds and structures. Although they harbor the same enzymatic activities, two different types of fatty acid synthase architectures are observed in nature. During recent years, strained petroleum supplies have driven interest in engineering organisms to either produce more fatty acids or specific high value products. Such efforts require a fundamental understanding of the enzymatic activities and regulation of fatty acid synthases. Despite more than one hundred years of research, we continue to learn new lessons about fatty acid synthases' many intricate structural and regulatory elements. In this review, we summarize each enzymatic domain and discuss efforts to engineer fatty acid synthases, providing some clues to important challenges and opportunities in the field.
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- Joris Beld
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0358, USA.
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The acyl carrier protein (ACP) from fatty acid synthases sequesters elongating products within its hydrophobic core, but this dynamic mechanism remains poorly understood. We exploited solvatochromic pantetheine probes attached to ACP that fluoresce when sequestered. The addition of a catalytic partner lures the cargo out of the ACP and into the active site of the enzyme, thus enhancing fluorescence to reveal the elusive chain-flipping mechanism. This activity was confirmed by the use of a dual solvatochromic cross-linking probe and solution-phase NMR spectroscopy. The chain-flipping mechanism was visualized by single-molecule fluorescence techniques, thus demonstrating specificity between the Escherichia coli ACP and its ketoacyl synthase catalytic partner KASII.
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- Joris Beld
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0358, USA
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- Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0358, USA
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Beld J, Finzel K, Burkart MD. Versatility of acyl-acyl carrier protein synthetases. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2014; 21:1293-1299. [PMID: 25308274 DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2014.08.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2014] [Revised: 08/08/2014] [Accepted: 08/14/2014] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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The acyl carrier protein (ACP) requires posttranslational modification with a 4'-phosphopantetheine arm for activity, and this thiol-terminated modification carries cargo between enzymes in ACP-dependent metabolic pathways. We show that acyl-ACP synthetases (AasSs) from different organisms are able to load even, odd, and unnatural fatty acids onto E. coli ACP in vitro. Vibrio harveyi AasS not only shows promiscuity for the acid substrate, but also is active upon various alternate carrier proteins. AasS activity also extends to functional activation in living organisms. We show that exogenously supplied carboxylic acids are loaded onto ACP and extended by the E. coli fatty acid synthase, including unnatural fatty acid analogs. These analogs are further integrated into cellular lipids. In vitro characterization of four different adenylate-forming enzymes allowed us to disambiguate CoA-ligases and AasSs, and further in vivo studies show the potential for functional application in other organisms.
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- Joris Beld
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0358, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0358, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0358, USA.
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Beld J, Blatti JL, Behnke C, Mendez M, Burkart MD. Evolution of acyl-ACP-thioesterases and β-ketoacyl-ACP-synthases revealed by protein-protein interactions. J Appl Phycol 2014; 26:1619-1629. [PMID: 25110394 PMCID: PMC4125210 DOI: 10.1007/s10811-013-0203-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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The fatty acid synthase (FAS) is a conserved primary metabolic enzyme complex capable of tolerating cross-species engineering of domains for the development of modified and overproduced fatty acids. In eukaryotes, acyl-acyl carrier protein thioesterases (TEs) off-load mature cargo from the acyl carrier protein (ACP), and plants have developed TEs for short/medium-chain fatty acids. We showed that engineering plant TEs into the green microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii does not result in the predicted shift in fatty acid profile. Since fatty acid biosynthesis relies on substrate recognition and protein-protein interactions between the ACP and its partner enzymes, we hypothesized that plant TEs and algal ACP do not functionally interact. Phylogenetic analysis revealed major evolutionary differences between FAS enzymes, including TEs and ketoacyl synthases (KSs), in which the former is present only in some species, whereas the latter is present in all, and has a common ancestor. In line with these results, TEs appeared to be selective towards their ACP partners whereas KSs showed promiscuous behavior across bacterial, plant and algal species. Based on phylogenetic analyses, in silico docking, in vitro mechanistic crosslinking and in vivo algal engineering, we propose that phylogeny can predict effective interactions between ACPs and partner enzymes.
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Beld J, Sonnenschein EC, Vickery CR, Noel JP, Burkart MD. The phosphopantetheinyl transferases: catalysis of a post-translational modification crucial for life. Nat Prod Rep 2014; 31:61-108. [PMID: 24292120 PMCID: PMC3918677 DOI: 10.1039/c3np70054b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 215] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Covering: up to 2013. Although holo-acyl carrier protein synthase, AcpS, a phosphopantetheinyl transferase (PPTase), was characterized in the 1960s, it was not until the publication of the landmark paper by Lambalot et al. in 1996 that PPTases garnered wide-spread attention being classified as a distinct enzyme superfamily. In the past two decades an increasing number of papers have been published on PPTases ranging from identification, characterization, structure determination, mutagenesis, inhibition, and engineering in synthetic biology. In this review, we comprehensively discuss all current knowledge on this class of enzymes that post-translationally install a 4'-phosphopantetheine arm on various carrier proteins.
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- Joris Beld
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California-San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0358, USA.
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Blatti JL, Beld J, Behnke CA, Mendez M, Mayfield SP, Burkart MD. Manipulating fatty acid biosynthesis in microalgae for biofuel through protein-protein interactions. PLoS One 2012; 7:e42949. [PMID: 23028438 PMCID: PMC3441505 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042949] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2012] [Accepted: 07/16/2012] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Microalgae are a promising feedstock for renewable fuels, and algal metabolic engineering can lead to crop improvement, thus accelerating the development of commercially viable biodiesel production from algae biomass. We demonstrate that protein-protein interactions between the fatty acid acyl carrier protein (ACP) and thioesterase (TE) govern fatty acid hydrolysis within the algal chloroplast. Using green microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Cr) as a model, a structural simulation of docking CrACP to CrTE identifies a protein-protein recognition surface between the two domains. A virtual screen reveals plant TEs with similar in silico binding to CrACP. Employing an activity-based crosslinking probe designed to selectively trap transient protein-protein interactions between the TE and ACP, we demonstrate in vitro that CrTE must functionally interact with CrACP to release fatty acids, while TEs of vascular plants show no mechanistic crosslinking to CrACP. This is recapitulated in vivo, where overproduction of the endogenous CrTE increased levels of short-chain fatty acids and engineering plant TEs into the C. reinhardtii chloroplast did not alter the fatty acid profile. These findings highlight the critical role of protein-protein interactions in manipulating fatty acid biosynthesis for algae biofuel engineering as illuminated by activity-based probes.
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- Jillian L. Blatti
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Sapphire Energy Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America
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- Sapphire Energy Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America
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- Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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Metanis N, Foletti C, Beld J, Hilvert D. Selenoglutathione-Mediated Rescue of Kinetically Trapped Intermediates in Oxidative Protein Folding. Isr J Chem 2011. [DOI: 10.1002/ijch.201100105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Beld J, Woycechowsky KJ, Hilvert D. Diselenides as universal oxidative folding catalysts of diverse proteins. J Biotechnol 2010; 150:481-9. [PMID: 20933552 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2010.09.956] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2010] [Accepted: 09/27/2010] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Small-molecule diselenides show considerable potential as catalysts of oxidative protein folding. To explore their scope, diselenide-containing redox buffers were used to promote the folding of proteins that varied in properties such as size, overall tertiary structure, number of disulfide bonds, pI value, and difficulty of in vitro folding. Diselenides are able to catalyze the oxidative folding of all proteins tested, providing significant increases in both rate and yield relative to analogous disulfides. Compared to the disulfide-linked dimer of glutathione (the most commonly used oxidant for in vitro protein folding), selenoglutathione provided markedly improved efficiencies in the folding of biotechnologically important proteins such as hirudin, lysozyme, human epidermal growth factor and interferon α-2a. Selenoglutathione also enhances the renaturation of more challenging targets such as bovine serum albumin, whose native state contains 17 disulfide bonds, and the Fab fragment of an antibody. In the latter case, micromolar amounts of selenoglutathione are able to match the modest yield provided by a previously optimized redox buffer, which contains millimolar levels of glutathione. Taken together, the folding reactions of these diverse proteins exemplify the advantages and limitations of diselenide catalysts.
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- Joris Beld
- Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, ETH Zürich, Wolfgang Paulistrasse 10, CH-8006 Zürich, Switzerland
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Prokaryotic cells normally rely on periplasmic oxidoreductases to promote oxidative protein folding. Here we show that simple diselenides can also facilitate the conversion of dithiols to disulfides in vivo, functionally replacing one such oxidoreductase, DsbA, in the oxidative folding of diverse proteins. Structurally analogous disulfides provide no detectable effect when used at concentrations that gave optimal activity with diselenides, and even at 100- to 1000-fold higher levels they show only partial activity. The low concentrations of diselenides needed to fully negate typical DsbA knockout phenotypes suggest catalysis in vivo, a property that sets these additives apart from other small molecules used in chemical biology. Supplementing growth media with cell-permeable organocatalysts provides a potentially general and operationally simple means of fine-tuning the cellular redox environment.
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- Joris Beld
- Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg HCI F339, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg HCI F339, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg HCI F339, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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Coquière D, Bos J, Beld J, Roelfes G. Enantioselective artificial metalloenzymes based on a bovine pancreatic polypeptide scaffold. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2009; 48:5159-62. [PMID: 19557756 DOI: 10.1002/anie.200901134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Site creation: Enantioselective artificial metalloenzymes have been created by grafting a new active site onto bovine pancreatic polypeptide through the introduction of an amino acid capable of coordinating a copper(II) ion. This hybrid catalyst gave good enantioselectivities in the Diels-Alder and Michael addition reactions in water (see scheme) and displayed a very high substrate selectivity.
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- David Coquière
- Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
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Coquière D, Bos J, Beld J, Roelfes G. Enantioselective Artificial Metalloenzymes Based on a Bovine Pancreatic Polypeptide Scaffold. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2009. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.200901134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Steinmann D, Nauser T, Beld J, Tanner M, Günther D, Bounds PL, Koppenol WH. Kinetics of Tyrosyl Radical Reduction by Selenocysteine. Biochemistry 2008; 47:9602-7. [DOI: 10.1021/bi801029f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Daniel Steinmann
- Laboratories of Inorganic and Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratories of Inorganic and Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratories of Inorganic and Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratories of Inorganic and Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratories of Inorganic and Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratories of Inorganic and Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratories of Inorganic and Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Joris Beld
- Laboratorium für Organische Chemie, ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg HCI F339, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Laboratorium für Organische Chemie, ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg HCI F339, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Laboratorium für Organische Chemie, ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg HCI F339, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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Diselenide bonds are intrinsically more stable than disulfide bonds. To examine how this stability difference affects reactivity, we synthesized selenoglutathione (GSeSeG), an analogue of the oxidized form of the tripeptide glutathione that contains a diselenide bond in place of the natural disulfide. The reduction potential of this diselenide bond was determined to be -407 +/- 9 mV, a value which is 151 mV lower than that of the disulfide bond in glutathione (GSSG). Thus, the diselenide bond of GSeSeG is 7 kcal/mol more stable than the disulfide bond of GSSG. Nonetheless, we found that GSeSeG can be used to oxidize cysteine residues in unfolded proteins, a process that is driven by the gain in protein conformational stability upon folding. Indeed, the folding of both ribonuclease A (RNase A) and bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor (BPTI) proceeded efficiently using GSeSeG as an oxidant, in the former case with a 2-fold rate increase relative to GSSG and in the latter case accelerating conversion of a stable folding intermediate to the native state. In addition, GSeSeG can also oxidize the common biological cofactor NADPH and is a good substrate for the NADPH-dependent enzyme glutathione reductase (kcat = 69 +/- 2 s-1, Km = 54 +/- 7 microM), suggesting that diselenides can efficiently interact with the cellular redox machinery. Surprisingly, the greater thermodynamic stability of diselenide bonds relative to disulfide bonds is not matched by a corresponding decrease in reactivity.
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- Joris Beld
- Laboratorium für Organische Chemie, ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg HCI F337, CH-8093, Zürich, Switzerland
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Timmerman P, Beld J, Puijk WC, Meloen RH. Rapid and Quantitative Cyclization of Multiple Peptide Loops onto Synthetic Scaffolds for Structural Mimicry of Protein Surfaces. Chembiochem 2005; 6:821-4. [PMID: 15812852 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200400374] [Citation(s) in RCA: 227] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Peter Timmerman
- Pepscan Systems B.V. P.O. Box 2098, 8203 AB Lelystad, The Netherlands.
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Basabe-Desmonts L, Beld J, Zimmerman RS, Hernando J, Mela P, García Parajó MF, van Hulst NF, van den Berg A, Reinhoudt DN, Crego-Calama M. A simple approach to sensor discovery and fabrication on self-assembled monolayers on glass. J Am Chem Soc 2004; 126:7293-9. [PMID: 15186166 DOI: 10.1021/ja049901o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 152] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) on glass were used as a platform to sequentially deposit fluorophores and small molecules for ion sensing. The preorganization provided by the surface avoids the need for complex receptor design, allowing for a combinatorial approach to sensing systems based on small molecules. The resulting libraries are easily measured and show varied responses to a series of both cations and anions. This technology is transferable from the macro- to the microscale both via microcontact printing (microCP), where the fluorophore is printed onto a glass surface, and via direct attachment of the fluorophore to microchannel walls. The ease of miniaturization of this technology may make the generation of a wide variety of simple yet efficient microarrays possible.
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- Lourdes Basabe-Desmonts
- Department of Supramolecular Chemistry and Technology, Applied Optics Group, Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
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