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J Biol Chem ; 299(12): 105386, 2023 Dec.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37898401

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Aggregation behavior provides bacteria protection from harsh environments and threats to survival. Two uncharacterized proteases, LapX and Lap, are important for Vibrio cholerae liquid-based aggregation. Here, we determined that LapX is a serine protease with a preference for cleavage after glutamate and glutamine residues in the P1 position, which processes a physiologically based peptide substrate with a catalytic efficiency of 180 ± 80 M-1s-1. The activity with a LapX substrate identified by a multiplex substrate profiling by mass spectrometry screen was 590 ± 20 M-1s-1. Lap shares high sequence identity with an aminopeptidase (termed VpAP) from Vibrio proteolyticus and contains an inhibitory bacterial prepeptidase C-terminal domain that, when eliminated, increases catalytic efficiency on leucine p-nitroanilide nearly four-fold from 5.4 ± 4.1 × 104 M-1s-1 to 20.3 ± 4.3 × 104 M-1s-1. We demonstrate that LapX processes Lap to its mature form and thus amplifies Lap activity. The increase is approximately eighteen-fold for full-length Lap (95.7 ± 5.6 × 104 M-1s-1) and six-fold for Lap lacking the prepeptidase C-terminal domain (11.3 ± 1.9 × 105 M-1s-1). In addition, substrate profiling reveals preferences for these two proteases that could inform in vivo function. Furthermore, purified LapX and Lap restore the timing of the V. cholerae aggregation program to a mutant lacking the lapX and lap genes. Both proteases must be present to restore WT timing, and thus they appear to act sequentially: LapX acts on Lap, and Lap acts on the substrate involved in aggregation.


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Proteínas de Bactérias , Leucil Aminopeptidase , Serina Proteases , Vibrio cholerae , Proteínas de Bactérias/química , Proteínas de Bactérias/genética , Proteínas de Bactérias/fisiologia , Leucil Aminopeptidase/química , Leucil Aminopeptidase/genética , Leucil Aminopeptidase/fisiologia , Peptídeos , Serina Proteases/química , Serina Proteases/genética , Serina Proteases/fisiologia , Especificidade por Substrato , Vibrio cholerae/enzimologia , Vibrio cholerae/genética , Vibrio cholerae/fisiologia , Catálise
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Nat Commun ; 14(1): 5151, 2023 08 24.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37620344

RESUMO

Peptidoglycan (PG) is an essential structural component of the bacterial cell wall that is synthetized during cell division and elongation. PG forms an extracellular polymer crucial for cellular viability, the synthesis of which is the target of many antibiotics. PG assembly requires a glycosyltransferase (GT) to generate a glycan polymer using a Lipid II substrate, which is then crosslinked to the existing PG via a transpeptidase (TP) reaction. A Shape, Elongation, Division and Sporulation (SEDS) GT enzyme and a Class B Penicillin Binding Protein (PBP) form the core of the multi-protein complex required for PG assembly. Here we used single particle cryo-electron microscopy to determine the structure of a cell elongation-specific E. coli RodA-PBP2 complex. We combine this information with biochemical, genetic, spectroscopic, and computational analyses to identify the Lipid II binding sites and propose a mechanism for Lipid II polymerization. Our data suggest a hypothesis for the movement of the glycan strand from the Lipid II polymerization site of RodA towards the TP site of PBP2, functionally linking these two central enzymatic activities required for cell wall peptidoglycan biosynthesis.


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Escherichia coli , Peptidil Transferases , Microscopia Crioeletrônica , Escherichia coli/genética , Peptidoglicano , Biologia Molecular , Antibacterianos , Glicosiltransferases
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