Insights into the biochemical and functional characterization of sortase E transpeptidase of Corynebacterium glutamicum

2019 ◽  
Vol 476 (24) ◽  
pp. 3835-3847 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aliyath Susmitha ◽  
Kesavan Madhavan Nampoothiri ◽  
Harsha Bajaj
Keyword(s):  
Protein Engineering ◽  
Cell Attachment ◽  
Functional Characterization ◽  
Protein Structures ◽  
Structural Similarity ◽  
Surface Proteins ◽  
Sortase A ◽  
Peptide Cleavage ◽  
New Findings

Most Gram-positive bacteria contain a membrane-bound transpeptidase known as sortase which covalently incorporates the surface proteins on to the cell wall. The sortase-displayed protein structures are involved in cell attachment, nutrient uptake and aerial hyphae formation. Among the six classes of sortase (A–F), sortase A of S. aureus is the well-characterized housekeeping enzyme considered as an ideal drug target and a valuable biochemical reagent for protein engineering. Similar to SrtA, class E sortase in GC rich bacteria plays a housekeeping role which is not studied extensively. However, C. glutamicum ATCC 13032, an industrially important organism known for amino acid production, carries a single putative sortase (NCgl2838) gene but neither in vitro peptide cleavage activity nor biochemical characterizations have been investigated. Here, we identified that the gene is having a sortase activity and analyzed its structural similarity with Cd-SrtF. The purified enzyme showed a greater affinity toward LAXTG substrate with a calculated KM of 12 ± 1 µM, one of the highest affinities reported for this class of enzyme. Moreover, site-directed mutation studies were carried to ascertain the structure functional relationship of Cg-SrtE and all these are new findings which will enable us to perceive exciting protein engineering applications with this class of enzyme from a non-pathogenic microbe.

scholarly journals Breakdown of Filamentous Myofibrils by the UPS–Step by Step

Biomolecules ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 110
Author(s):  
Dina Aweida ◽  
Shenhav Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Protein Quality ◽  
Protein Structures ◽  
Ubiquitin Proteasome System ◽  
Surface Proteins ◽  
Catalytic Core ◽  
Complex Protein ◽  
Ubiquitin Proteasome ◽  
Aaa Atpases

Protein degradation maintains cellular integrity by regulating virtually all biological processes, whereas impaired proteolysis perturbs protein quality control, and often leads to human disease. Two major proteolytic systems are responsible for protein breakdown in all cells: autophagy, which facilitates the loss of organelles, protein aggregates, and cell surface proteins; and the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS), which promotes degradation of mainly soluble proteins. Recent findings indicate that more complex protein structures, such as filamentous assemblies, which are not accessible to the catalytic core of the proteasome in vitro, can be efficiently degraded by this proteolytic machinery in systemic catabolic states in vivo. Mechanisms that loosen the filamentous structure seem to be activated first, hence increasing the accessibility of protein constituents to the UPS. In this review, we will discuss the mechanisms underlying the disassembly and loss of the intricate insoluble filamentous myofibrils, which are responsible for muscle contraction, and whose degradation by the UPS causes weakness and disability in aging and disease. Several lines of evidence indicate that myofibril breakdown occurs in a strictly ordered and controlled manner, and the function of AAA-ATPases is crucial for their disassembly and loss.

scholarly journals Astilbin Inhibits the Activity of Sortase A from Streptococcus mutans

Molecules ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junxian Wang ◽  
Yan Shi ◽  
Shisong Jing ◽  
Haisi Dong ◽  
Dacheng Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dental Caries ◽  
Streptococcus Mutans ◽  
Biofilm Formation ◽  
Cell Attachment ◽  
Surface Proteins ◽  
Dynamics Simulation ◽  
Sortase A ◽  
Acid Fermentation ◽  
Host Cell Attachment ◽  
Potent Inhibitory Activity

Streptococcus mutans (S. mutans) is the primary etiological agent of dental caries. The S. mutans enzyme sortase A (SrtA) is responsible for anchoring bacterial cell wall surface proteins involved in host cell attachment and biofilm formation. Thus, SrtA is an attractive target for inhibiting dental caries caused by S. mutans-associated acid fermentation. In this study, we observed that astilbin, a flavanone compound extracted from Rhizoma Smilacis Glabrae, has potent inhibitory activity against the S. mutans SrtA, with an IC50 of 7.5 μg/mL. In addition, astilbin was proven to reduce the formation of biofilm while without affecting the growth of S. mutans. The results of a molecular dynamics simulation and a mutation analysis revealed that the Arg213, Leu111, and Leu116 of SrtA are important for the interaction between SrtA and astilbin. The results of this study demonstrate the potential of using astilbin as a nonbactericidal agent to modulate pathogenicity of S. mutans by inhibiting the activity of SrtA.

scholarly journals Secretion in yeast: preprotein binding to a membrane receptor and ATP-dependent translocation are sequential and separable events in vitro.

1989 ◽  
Vol 108 (6) ◽  
pp. 2101-2106 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Sanz ◽  
D I Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Protein Targeting ◽  
Functional Characterization ◽  
Secretory Protein ◽  
Scatchard Analysis ◽  
Protein Precursor ◽  
Peptide Cleavage ◽  
Membrane Components ◽  
Cytosolic Factors

We have used a cytosol-free assay in which efficient translocation and signal peptide cleavage is achieved when the affinity-purified precursor of OmpA (proOmpA) is diluted out of 8 M urea into a suspension of yeast rough microsomes. This aspect of protein targeting and transport occurs in two discernible steps: (a) in the absence of ATP and cytosolic factors, the precursor binds to the membranes but is not translocated; (b) addition of ATP results in the translocation of the bound precursor and its processing to the mature form. The binding to microsomes of radiolabeled proOmpA is saturable and inhibited by the addition of unlabeled proOmpA but not by mature OmpA or other proteins. The binding of radiolabeled prepro-alpha-factor is also effectively competed by other preproteins, but not by mature ones. Scatchard analysis showed the Kd of proOmpA to be 7.5 X 10(-9) M. Binding is most likely protein mediated as treatment of the microsomes with the protease papain was found to be inhibitory. These results represent the first functional characterization of secretory protein precursor binding to membranes. Alkylation of the microsomes with NEM, washing the membranes with urea or using membranes from the (translocation) mutant ptll at the nonpermissive temperature, did not affect binding, but did eliminate the subsequent ATP-dependent translocation. The ability to subdivide translocation into individual reactions provides a more precise means of determining the membrane components involved in this process.

scholarly journals Evidence of ectokinase-mediated phosphorylation of osteopontin and bone sialoprotein by osteoblasts during bone formation in vitro

1997 ◽  
Vol 323 (3) ◽  
pp. 637-643 ◽  
Author(s):  
XinLi ZHU ◽  
Chun LUO ◽  
Jack M. FERRIER ◽  
Jaro SODEK
Keyword(s):  
Cell Surface ◽  
Bone Cells ◽  
Cell Attachment ◽  
Biological Properties ◽  
Bone Cell ◽  
Bone Sialoprotein ◽  
Surface Proteins ◽  
Pulse Labelling ◽  
Mediate Cell

Osteopontin (OPN) and bone sialoprotein (BSP) are phosphorylated glycoproteins that, together with osteonectin/secreted protein, acidic, rich in cysteine (SPARC) and osteocalcin, comprise the major non-collagen proteins of bone. Although phosphorylation of OPN and BSP, which is known to influence the biological properties of these proteins, has been shown to occur intracellularly, recent studies have demonstrated ectokinase activity in bone cell populations [Mikuni-Takagaki, Kakai, Satoyoshi, Kawano, Suzuki, Kawase and Saito (1995) J. Bone Miner. Res. 10, 231–241]. To determine whether OPN and BSP are phosphorylated by ectokinase activity we have used [γ-32P]ATP and [γ-32P]GTP as cell-impenetrable phosphate donors to analyse for ectokinase activity in osteoblastic UMR106.06 cells and fetal rat calvarial cells (FRCCs). By pulse-labelling confluent cells with radiolabelled nucleotides, the phosphorylation of endogenous and exogenously added OPN and BSP was demonstrated together with the labelling of a number of cell surface proteins. These phosphorylation reactions were inhibited by a cell-impermeable ectokinase inhibitor, K252b, and cell surface phosphorylation was also inhibited by exogenously added OPN and BSP substrates, indicating competition for the ectokinase enzyme. However, phosphorylation of OPN and BSP, both of which can mediate cell attachment through Arg-Gly-Asp (RGD) motifs, was not inhibited by an RGD peptide, suggesting that binding of OPN and BSP to cell surface integrins is not required. In similar experiments, ectokinase-mediated phosphorylation of OPN and BSP was demonstrated during mineralized tissue formation by FRCCs in vitro. These studies demonstrate that OPN and BSP secreted by bone cells are phosphorylated by a casein kinase II-like ectokinase present on the surface of osteoblastic cells.

scholarly journals The VLA-2 (alpha 2 beta 1) I domain functions as a ligand-specific recognition sequence for endothelial cell attachment and spreading: molecular and functional characterization

Blood ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 84 (11) ◽  
pp. 3734-3741 ◽  
Author(s):  
WF Bahou ◽  
CL Potter ◽  
H Mirza
Keyword(s):  
Endothelial Cell ◽  
Type I Collagen ◽  
Cell Attachment ◽  
Functional Characterization ◽  
Comparative Sequence Analysis ◽  
Regulatory Function ◽  
Type I ◽  
Recognition Sequence ◽  
Endothelial Cell Attachment

The integrin VLA-2 (alpha 2 beta 1), generally considered to represent the specific collagen receptor on human endothelial cells, contains an alpha 2-subunit inserted I domain with structural similarity to the type A domains found within the recently described superfamily of receptor-ligand recognition proteins. This region of the cDNA has now been isolated and used for molecular and functional characterization of this heterodimeric receptor complex. Comparative sequence analysis with the porcine homologue revealed 93% amino acid sequence identity, suggestive of a developmentally conserved function. To complete structure/function studies, this region of the human cDNA was expressed as a chimeric protein in Escherichia coli, and a rabbit polyclonal antibody (anti-I domain) was used to study determinants of endothelial cell attachment and spreading in vitro. Quantifiable and visual disruption of endothelial cell attachment to gelatin, type I collagen, and laminin was evident using the specific anti-I domain antibody, with minimal inhibitory effects demonstrable using fibronectin or fibrinogen matrices. Therefore, these data would suggest that the alpha 2 beta 1 I domain confers ligand-binding specificity for both known alpha 2 beta 1 substrates (laminin and collagen), and that this region subserves a regulatory function in the molecular processes controlling endothelial cell attachment and spreading in vitro.

scholarly journals Isopeptide Ligation Catalyzed by Quintessential Sortase A

2011 ◽  
Vol 286 (27) ◽  
pp. 23996-24006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sayani Dasgupta ◽  
Sharmishtha Samantaray ◽  
Dinkar Sahal ◽  
Rajendra P. Roy
Keyword(s):  
Surface Proteins ◽  
Sortase A ◽  
Biological Chemistry ◽  
Model Peptide ◽  
Peptide Substrates ◽  
Recognition Motif ◽  
Staphyloccocus Aureus ◽  
Distance Relationship ◽  
Enzyme Intermediate

The housekeeping transpeptidase sortase A (SrtA) from Staphyloccocus aureus catalyzes the covalent anchoring of surface proteins to the cell wall by linking the threonyl carboxylate of the LPXTG recognition motif to the amino group of the pentaglycine cross-bridge of the peptidoglycan. SrtA-catalyzed ligation of an LPXTG containing polypeptide with an aminoglycine-terminated moiety occurs efficiently in vitro and has inspired the use of this enzyme as a synthetic tool in biological chemistry. Here we demonstrate the propensity of SrtA to catalyze “isopeptide” ligation. Using model peptide sequences, we show that SrtA can transfer LPXTG peptide substrates to the ϵ-amine of specific Lys residues and form cyclized and/or a gamut of branched oligomers. Our results provide insights about principles governing isopeptide ligation reactions catalyzed by SrtA and suggest that although cyclization is guided by distance relationship between Lys (ϵ-amine) and Thr (α-carboxyl) residues, facile branched oligomerization requires the presence of a stable and long-lived acyl-enzyme intermediate.

scholarly journals Functional characterization of 3D-protein structures informed by human genetic diversity

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Hicks ◽  
Istvan Bartha ◽  
Julia di Iulio ◽  
Ruben Abagyan ◽  
J. Craig Venter ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Functional Characterization ◽  
Protein Structures ◽  
3 Dimensional ◽  
Allosteric Sites ◽  
Missense Variation ◽  
Binding Pockets ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Target Binding

Sequence variation data of the human proteome can be used to analyze 3-dimensional (3D) protein structures to derive functional insights. We used genetic variant data from nearly 150,000 individuals to analyze 3D positional conservation in 4,390 protein structures using 481,708 missense and 264,257 synonymous variants. Sixty percent of protein structures harbor at least one intolerant 3D site as defined by significant depletion of observed over expected missense variation. We established an Angstrom-scale distribution of annotated pathogenic missense variants and showed that they accumulate in proximity to the most intolerant 3D sites. Structural intolerance data correlated with experimental functional read-outsin vitro. The 3D structural intolerance analysis revealed characteristic features of ligand binding pockets, orthosteric and allosteric sites. The identification of novel functional 3D sites based on human genetic data helps to validate, rank or predict drug target binding sitesin vivo.

scholarly journals Erianin against Staphylococcus aureus Infection via Inhibiting Sortase A

Toxins ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ping Ouyang ◽  
Xuewen He ◽  
Zhong-Wei Yuan ◽  
Zhong-Qiong Yin ◽  
Hualin Fu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Staphylococcus Aureus ◽  
Bacterial Infections ◽  
Hydrophobic Interactions ◽  
Multidrug Resistant ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Surface Proteins ◽  
Dynamics Simulation ◽  
Sortase A

With continuous emergence and widespread of multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections, common antibiotics have become ineffective in treating these infections in the clinical setting. Anti-virulence strategies could be novel, effective therapeutic strategies against drug-resistant bacterial infections. Sortase A (srtA), a transpeptidase in gram-positive bacteria, can anchor surface proteins that play a vital role in pathogenesis of these bacteria. SrtA is known as a potential antivirulent drug target to treat bacterial infections. In this study, we found that erianin, a natural bibenzyl compound, could inhibit the activity of srtA in vitro (half maximal inhibitory concentration—IC50 = 20.91 ± 2.31 μg/mL, 65.7 ± 7.2 μM) at subminimum inhibitory concentrations (minimum inhibitory concentrations—MIC = 512 μg/mL against S. aureus). The molecular mechanism underlying the inhibition of srtA by erianin was identified using molecular dynamics simulation: erianin binds to srtA residues Ile182, Val193, Trp194, Arg197, and Ile199, forming a stable bond via hydrophobic interactions. In addition, the activities of S. aureus binding to fibronectin and biofilm formation were inhibited by erianin, when co-culture with S. aureus. In vivo, erianin could improve the survival in mice that infected with S. aureus by tail vein injection. Experimental results showed that erianin is a potential novel therapeutic compound against S. aureus infections via affecting srtA.

scholarly journals Potential Use of Atlantic Cod Trypsin in Biomedicine

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ágústa Gudmundsdóttir ◽  
Hilmar Hilmarsson ◽  
Bjarki Stefansson
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Cod ◽  
Cell Attachment ◽  
Influenza Viruses ◽  
Surface Proteins ◽  
Upper Respiratory Tract ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Native Proteins ◽  
Syncytial Virus ◽  
Tract Infections

Surface proteins of viruses and bacteria used for cell attachment and invasion are candidates for degradation by proteases. Trypsin from Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) was previously demonstrated to have efficacy against influenza virusesin vitroand on skin. In this paper, cod trypsin is shown to be 3–12 times more effective in degrading large native proteins than its mesophilic analogue, bovine trypsin. This is in agreement with previous findings where cod trypsin was found to be the most active among twelve different proteases in cleaving various cytokines and pathological proteins. Furthermore, our results show that cod trypsin has high efficacy against herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) and the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)in vitro. The results on the antipathogenic properties of cod trypsin are important because rhinovirus, RSV, and influenza are the most predominant pathogenic viruses in upper respiratory tract infections. Results from a clinical study presented in this paper show that a specific formulation containing cod trypsin was preferred for wound healing over other methods used in the study. Apparently, the high digestive ability of the cold-adapted cod trypsin towards large native proteins plays a role in its efficacy against pathogens and its positive effects on wounds.

scholarly journals Bacillus anthracis Sortase A (SrtA) Anchors LPXTG Motif-Containing Surface Proteins to the Cell Wall Envelope

2005 ◽  
Vol 187 (13) ◽  
pp. 4646-4655 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew H. Gaspar ◽  
Luciano A. Marraffini ◽  
Elizabeth M. Glass ◽  
Kristin L. DeBord ◽  
Hung Ton-That ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cell Wall ◽  
Bacillus Anthracis ◽  
Surface Proteins ◽  
Sortase A ◽  
Collagen Binding ◽  
Adhesive Matrix ◽  
Lpxtg Motif ◽  
Sorting Signals ◽  
Different Types

ABSTRACT Cell wall-anchored surface proteins of gram-positive pathogens play important roles during the establishment of many infectious diseases, but the contributions of surface proteins to the pathogenesis of anthrax have not yet been revealed. Cell wall anchoring in Staphylococcus aureus occurs by a transpeptidation mechanism requiring surface proteins with C-terminal sorting signals as well as sortase enzymes. The genome sequence of Bacillus anthracis encodes three sortase genes and eleven surface proteins with different types of cell wall sorting signals. Purified B. anthracis sortase A cleaved peptides encompassing LPXTG motif-type sorting signals between the threonine (T) and the glycine (G) residues in vitro. Sortase A activity could be inhibited by thiol-reactive reagents, similar to staphylococcal sortases. B. anthracis parent strain Sterne 34F2, but not variants lacking the srtA gene, anchored the collagen-binding MSCRAMM (microbial surface components recognizing adhesive matrix molecules) BasC (BA5258/BAS4884) to the bacterial cell wall. These results suggest that B. anthracis SrtA anchors surface proteins bearing LPXTG motif sorting signals to the cell wall envelope of vegetative bacilli.

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