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Mater Adv ; 4(14): 2963-2970, 2023 Jul 17.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37465645

ABSTRACT

Bacterial microcompartments (BMCs) are proteinaceous organelle-like structures formed within bacteria, often encapsulating enzymes and cellular processes, in particular, allowing toxic intermediates to be shielded from the general cellular environment. Outside of their biological role they are of interest, through surface modification, as potential drug carriers and polyvalent antigen display scaffolds. Here we use a post-translational modification approach, using copper free click chemistry, to attach a SpyTag to a target protein molecule for attachment to a specific SpyCatcher modified BMC shell protein. We demonstrate that a post-translationally SpyTagged material can react with a SpyCatcher modified BMC and show its presence on the surface of BMCs, enabling future investigation of these structures as polyvalent antigen display scaffolds for vaccine development. This post-translational 'click' methodology overcomes the necessity to genetically encode the SpyTag, avoids any potential reduction in expression yield and expands the scope of SpyTag/SpyCatcher vaccine scaffolds to form peptide epitope vaccines and small molecule delivery agents.

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Angew Chem Int Ed Engl ; 58(31): 10756-10760, 2019 07 29.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31115943

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The B12 cofactors instill a natural curiosity regarding the primordial selection and evolution of their corrin ligand. Surprisingly, this important natural macrocycle has evaded molecular scrutiny, and its specific role in predisposing the incarcerated cobalt ion for organometallic catalysis has remained obscure. Herein, we report the biosynthesis of the cobalt-free B12 corrin moiety, hydrogenobyric acid (Hby), a compound crafted through pathway redesign. Detailed insights from single-crystal X-ray and solution structures of Hby have revealed a distorted helical cavity, redefining the pattern for binding cobalt ions. Consequently, the corrin ligand coordinates cobalt ions in desymmetrized "entatic" states, thereby promoting the activation of B12 -cofactors for their challenging chemical transitions. The availability of Hby also provides a route to the synthesis of transition metal analogues of B12 .


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Corrinoids/biosynthesis , Uroporphyrins/metabolism , Vitamin B 12/metabolism , Biocatalysis , Cobalt/chemistry , Cobalt/metabolism , Corrinoids/chemistry , Ligands , Molecular Structure , Uroporphyrins/chemistry , Vitamin B 12/chemistry
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Cell Chem Biol ; 25(8): 941-951.e6, 2018 08 16.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29779954

ABSTRACT

Vitamin B12 is made by only certain prokaryotes yet is required by a number of eukaryotes such as mammals, fish, birds, worms, and Protista, including algae. There is still much to learn about how this nutrient is trafficked across the domains of life. Herein, we describe ways to make a number of different corrin analogs with fluorescent groups attached to the main tetrapyrrole-derived ring. A further range of analogs were also constructed by attaching similar fluorescent groups to the ribose ring of cobalamin, thereby generating a range of complete and incomplete corrinoids to follow uptake in bacteria, worms, and plants. By using these fluorescent derivatives we were able to demonstrate that Mycobacterium tuberculosis is able to acquire both cobyric acid and cobalamin analogs, that Caenorhabditis elegans takes up only the complete corrinoid, and that seedlings of higher plants such as Lepidium sativum are also able to transport B12.


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Bacteria/metabolism , Caenorhabditis elegans/metabolism , Fluorescent Dyes/metabolism , Lepidium sativum/metabolism , Vitamin B 12/metabolism , Animals , Bacterial Infections/microbiology , Biological Transport , Corrinoids/analysis , Corrinoids/metabolism , Fluorescent Dyes/analysis , Humans , Microscopy, Fluorescence , Models, Molecular , Mycobacterium tuberculosis/metabolism , Vitamin B 12/analogs & derivatives , Vitamin B 12/analysis
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