Cell Wall Attachment of a Widely Distributed Peptidoglycan Binding Domain Is Hindered by Cell Wall Constituents
| Autor: | Steen, A, Buist, G, Leenhouts, KJ, El Khattabi, M, Grijpstra, F, Zomer, AL, Venema, G, Kuipers, OP, Kok, J, Leenhouts, Kees J. |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology, Enzymology, Molecular Genetics |
| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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Peptidoglycan Bacillus subtilis Biology Gram-Positive Bacteria Biochemistry BACILLUS-SUBTILIS CLONING Cell wall chemistry.chemical_compound Cell Wall MODULAR DESIGN Enterococcus faecalis Binding site LACTOCOCCUS-LACTIS Molecular Biology Repetitive Sequences Nucleic Acid GENE-EXPRESSION Binding Sites HYDROLASE LACTIS SUBSP LACTIS Autolysin Lactococcus lactis Streptococcus Cell Biology biology.organism_classification STREPTOCOCCUS-CREMORIS Protein Structure Tertiary Lactobacillus chemistry ESCHERICHIA-COLI Muramidase Lipoteichoic acid Peptidoglycan binding Protein Binding |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 278(26), 23874-23881. AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC |
| ISSN: | 0021-9258 |
| DOI: | 10.1074/jbc.m211055200 |
| Popis: | The C-terminal region (cA) of the major autolysin AcmA of Lactococcus lactis contains three highly similar repeated regions of 45 amino acid residues (LysM domains), which are separated by nonhomologous sequences. The cA domain could be deleted without destroying the cell wall-hydrolyzing activity of the enzyme in vitro. This AcmA derivative was capable neither of binding to lactococcal cells nor of lysing these cells while separation of the producer cells was incomplete. The cA domain and a chimeric protein consisting of cA fused to the C terminus of MSA2, a malaria parasite surface antigen, bound to lactococcal cells specifically via cA. The fusion protein also bound to many other Gram-positive bacteria. By chemical treatment of purified cell walls of L. lactis and Bacillus subtilis, peptidoglycan was identified as the cell wall component interacting with cA. Immunofluorescence studies showed that binding is on specific locations on the surface of L. lactis, Enterococcus faecalis, Streptococcus thermophilus, B. subtilis, Lactobacillus sake, and Lactobacillus casei cells. Based on these studies, we propose that LysM-type repeats bind to peptidoglycan and that binding is hindered by other cell wall constituents, resulting in localized binding of AcmA. Lipoteichoic acid is a candidate hindering component. For L. lactis SK110, it is shown that lipoteichoic acids are not uniformly distributed over the cell surface and are mainly present at sites where no MSA2cA binding is observed. |
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