HadD, a novel fatty acid synthase type II protein, is essential for alpha- and epoxy-mycolic acid biosynthesis and mycobacterial fitness

Autor: Lefebvre, Cyril, Boulon, Richard, Ducoux, Manuelle, Gavalda, Sabine, Laval, Françoise, Jamet, Stevie, Eynard, Nathalie, Lemassu, Anne, Cam, Kaymeuang, Bousquet, Marie-Pierre, Bardou, Fabienne, Burlet-Schiltz, Odile, Daffé, Mamadou, Quémard, Annaïk
Přispěvatelé: Institut de pharmacologie et de biologie structurale (IPBS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Université de Montréal (UdeM)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Scientific Reports, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 1-15 (2018)
Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group, 2018, 8 (1), ⟨10.1038/s41598-018-24380-5⟩
ISSN: 2045-2322
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-24380-5
Popis: International audience; Mycolic acids (MAs) have a strategic location within the mycobacterial envelope, deeply influencing its architecture and permeability, and play a determinant role in the pathogenicity of mycobacteria. The fatty acid synthase type II (FAS-II) multienzyme system is involved in their biosynthesis. A combination of pull-downs and proteomics analyses led to the discovery of a mycobacterial protein, HadD, displaying highly specific interactions with the dehydratase HadAB of FAS-II. In vitro activity assays and homology modeling showed that HadD is, like HadAB, a hot dog folded (R)-specific hydratase/ dehydratase. A hadD knockout mutant of Mycobacterium smegmatis produced only the medium-size alpha'-MAs. Data strongly suggest that HadD is involved in building the third meromycolic segment during the late FAS-II elongation cycles, leading to the synthesis of the full-size alpha-and epoxy-MAs. The change in the envelope composition induced by hadD inactivation strongly altered the bacterial fitness and capacities to aggregate, assemble into colonies or biofilms and spread by sliding motility, and conferred a hypersensitivity to the firstline antimycobacterial drug rifampicin. This showed that the cell surface properties and the envelope integrity were greatly affected. With the alarmingly increasing case number of nontuberculous mycobacterial diseases, HadD appears as an attractive target for drug development.
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