Identification of Enterococcus faecalis enzymes with azoreductases and/or nitroreductase activity

Autor: Sylvain Orenga, Valérie Chalansonnet, Claire Mercier, Christophe Gilbert
Přispěvatelé: BIOMERIEUX, Pathogenèse des légionelles- Legionella pathogenesis (LegioPath), Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie - UMR (CIRI), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie (CIRI), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
Předmět:
0301 basic medicine
lcsh:QR1-502
Reductase
medicine.disease_cause
NADPH Oxidoreductases
lcsh:Microbiology
Substrate Specificity
Nitroreductase
Enterococcus faecalis
NADH
NADPH Oxidoreductases

Azoreductases
Nitrofuran
Phylogeny
chemistry.chemical_classification
Genome
biology
Bacterial
Biochemistry
[SDV.MP.VIR]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Virology
[SDV.IMM]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Immunology
Oxidoreductases
Oxidation-Reduction
Research Article
DNA
Bacterial

Microbiology (medical)
medicine.drug_class
Genetic Vectors
030106 microbiology
Microbiology
Cofactor
03 medical and health sciences
Escherichia coli
medicine
Amino Acid Sequence
Enzyme Assays
DNA
Nitroreductases
NAD
biology.organism_classification
[SDV.MP.BAC]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Bacteriology
030104 developmental biology
Enzyme
chemistry
NADH
biology.protein
NAD+ kinase
Azo Compounds
Sequence Alignment
Genome
Bacterial

NADP
Zdroj: BMC Microbiology, Vol 17, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2017)
BMC Microbiology
BMC Microbiology, BioMed Central, 2017, 17 (1), pp.126. ⟨10.1186/s12866-017-1033-3⟩
BMC Microbiology, 2017, 17 (1), pp.126. ⟨10.1186/s12866-017-1033-3⟩
ISSN: 1471-2180
Popis: International audience; BACKGROUND: Nitroreductases, NAD(P)H dependent flavoenzymes, are found in most of bacterial species. Even if Enterococcus faecalis strains seems to present such activity because of their sensitivity to nitrofurans, no enzyme has been described. Nitroreductases were separated of others reductases due to their capacity to reduce nitro compounds. They are further classified based on their preference in cofactor: NADH and/or NADPH. However, recently, azoreductases have been studied for their strong activity on nitro compounds, especially nitro pro-drugs. This result suggests a crossing in azo and nitro reductase activities. For the moment, no nitroreductase was demonstrated to possess azoreductase activity. But due to sequence divergence and activity specificity linked to substrates, activity prediction is not evident and biochemical characterisation remains necessary. Identifying enzymes active on these two classes of compounds: azo and nitro is of interest to consider a common physiological role. RESULTS: Four putative nitroreductases, EF0404, EF0648, EF0655 and EF1181 from Enterococcus faecalis V583 were overexpressed as his-tagged recombinant proteins in Escherichia coli and purified following a native or a denaturing/renaturing protocol. EF0648, EF0655 and EF1181 showed nitroreductase activity and their cofactor preferences were in agreement with their protein sequence phylogeny. EF0404 showed both nitroreductase and azoreductase activity. Interestingly, the biochemical characteristics (substrate and cofactor specificity) of EF0404 resembled the properties of the known azoreductase AzoA. But its sequence matched within nitroreductase group, the same as EF0648. CONCLUSIONS: We here demonstrate nitroreductase activity of the putative reductases identified in the Enterococcus faecalis V583 genome. We identified the first nitroreductase able to reduce directly an azo compound, while its protein sequence is close to others nitroreductases. Consequently, it highlights the difficulty in classifying these enzymes solely on the basis of protein sequence alignment and hereby the necessity to experimentally demonstrate the activity. The results provide additional data to consider a broader functionality of these reductases.
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