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BMC Bioinformatics ; 24(1): 208, 2023 May 19.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37208612

RESUMO

Biofilm production plays a clinically significant role in the pathogenicity of many bacteria, limiting our ability to apply antimicrobial agents and contributing in particular to the pathogenesis of chronic infections. Bacteriophage depolymerases, leveraged by these viruses to circumvent biofilm mediated resistance, represent a potentially powerful weapon in the fight against antibiotic resistant bacteria. Such enzymes are able to degrade the extracellular matrix that is integral to the formation of all biofilms and as such would allow complementary therapies or disinfection procedures to be successfully applied. In this manuscript, we describe the development and application of a machine learning based approach towards the identification of phage depolymerases. We demonstrate that on the basis of a relatively limited number of experimentally proven enzymes and using an amino acid derived feature vector that the development of a powerful model with an accuracy on the order of 90% is possible, showing the value of such approaches in protein functional annotation and the discovery of novel therapeutic agents.


Assuntos
Bacteriófagos , Antibacterianos , Bactérias
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Appl Microbiol Biotechnol ; 103(14): 5727-5737, 2019 Jul.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31123770

RESUMO

Transaminase enzymes (TAms) are becoming increasingly valuable in the chemist's toolbox as a biocatalytic route to chiral amines. Despite high profile successes, the lack of (R)-selective TAms and robustness under harsh industrial conditions continue to prove problematic. Herein, we report the isolation of the first haloarchaeal TAm (BC61-TAm) to be characterised for the purposes of pharmaceutical biocatalysis. BC61-TAm is an (R)-selective enzyme, cloned from an extremely halophilic archaeon, isolated from a Triassic period salt mine. Produced using a Haloferax volcanii-based expression model, the resulting protein displays a classic halophilic activity profile, as well as thermotolerance (optimum 50 °C) and organic solvent tolerance. Molecular modelling predicts the putative active site residues of haloarchaeal TAms, with molecular dynamics simulations providing insights on the basis of BC61-TAm's organic solvent tolerance. These results represent an exciting advance in the study of transaminases from extremophiles, providing a possible scaffold for future discovery of biocatalytic enzymes with robust properties.


Assuntos
Archaea/enzimologia , Proteínas Arqueais/metabolismo , Mineração , Cloreto de Sódio , Transaminases/metabolismo , Aminas/metabolismo , Archaea/genética , Proteínas Arqueais/genética , Biocatálise , Haloferax volcanii/enzimologia , Haloferax volcanii/genética , Simulação de Dinâmica Molecular , Solventes/metabolismo , Especificidade por Substrato , Termotolerância , Transaminases/genética
3.
J Mol Model ; 24(7): 144, 2018 Jun 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29858666

RESUMO

The T7 DNA polymerase is dependent on the host protein thioredoxin (trx) for its processivity and fidelity. Using all-atom molecular dynamics, we demonstrate the specific interactions between trx and the T7 polymerase, and show that trx docking to its binding domain on the polymerase results in a significant level of stability and exposes a series of basic residues within the domain that interact with the phosphodiester backbone of the DNA template. We also characterize the nature of interactions between the T7 DNA polymerase and its DNA template. We show that the trx-binding domain acts as an intrinsic clamp, constraining the DNA via a two-step hinge motion, and characterize the interactions necessary for this to occur. Together, these insights provide a significantly improved understanding of the interactions responsible for highly processive DNA replication by T7 polymerase.


Assuntos
Bacteriófago T7/enzimologia , DNA Polimerase Dirigida por DNA/química , Simulação de Dinâmica Molecular , Sítios de Ligação , Análise por Conglomerados , DNA/química , DNA/metabolismo , DNA Polimerase Dirigida por DNA/metabolismo , Hidrogênio/química , Concentração de Íons de Hidrogênio , Ligação Proteica , Conformação Proteica , Relação Estrutura-Atividade , Proteínas Virais/química
4.
Sci Rep ; 7(1): 13731, 2017 10 23.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29062062

RESUMO

The Red Queen hypothesis posits that antagonistic co-evolution between interacting species results in recurrent natural selection via constant cycles of adaptation and counter-adaptation. Interactions such as these are at their most profound in host-parasite systems, with bacteria and their viruses providing the most intense of battlefields. Studies of bacteriophage evolution thus provide unparalleled insight into the remarkable elasticity of living entities. Here, we report a novel phenomenon underpinning the evolutionary trajectory of a group of dsDNA bacteriophages known as the phiKMVviruses. Employing deep next generation sequencing (NGS) analysis of nucleotide polymorphisms we discovered that this group of viruses generates enhanced intraspecies heterogeneity in their genomes. Our results show the localisation of variants to genes implicated in adsorption processes, as well as variation of the frequency and distribution of SNPs within and between members of the phiKMVviruses. We link error-prone DNA polymerase activity to the generation of variants. Critically, we show trans-activity of this phenomenon (the ability of a phiKMVvirus to dramatically increase genetic variability of a co-infecting phage), highlighting the potential of phages exhibiting such capabilities to influence the evolutionary path of other viruses on a global scale.


Assuntos
Bacteriófagos/genética , DNA Viral/genética , Evolução Molecular , Bacteriófagos/enzimologia , DNA Polimerase Dirigida por DNA/química , DNA Polimerase Dirigida por DNA/metabolismo , Sequenciamento de Nucleotídeos em Larga Escala , Modelos Moleculares , Fenótipo , Conformação Proteica , Análise de Sequência de DNA
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PLoS One ; 12(9): e0184307, 2017.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28877269

RESUMO

We present the analysis of two novel Pseudomonas putida phages, pf16 and phiPMW. Pf16 represents a peripherally related T4-like phage, and is the first of its kind infecting a Pseudomonad, with evidence suggesting cyanophage origins. Extensive divergence has resulted in pf16 occupying a newly defined clade designated as the pf16-related phages, lying at the interface of the Schizo T-Evens and Exo T-Evens. Recombination with an ancestor of the P. putida phage AF is likely responsible for the tropism of this phage. phiPMW represents a completely novel Pseudomonas phage with a genome containing substantial genetic novelty through its many hypothetical proteins. Evidence suggests that this phage has been extensively shaped through gene transfer events and vertical evolution. Phylogenetics shows that this phage has an evolutionary history involving FelixO1-related viruses but is in itself highly distinct from this group.


Assuntos
Filogenia , Fagos de Pseudomonas/genética , Pseudomonas putida/virologia , Biofilmes , Proteínas do Capsídeo/genética , Análise por Conglomerados , Biologia Computacional , Biblioteca Gênica , Técnicas de Transferência de Genes , Genoma Bacteriano , Genoma Viral , Mutação , Regiões Promotoras Genéticas , Recombinação Genética , Análise de Sequência de DNA
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Protein Pept Lett ; 23(4): 386-95, 2016.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26845769

RESUMO

IQGAPs are eukaryotic proteins which integrate signals from various sources and pass these on the cytoskeleton. Understanding how they do this requires information on the interfaces between the proteins. Here, it is shown that the calponin homology domain of human IQGAP1 (CHD1) can be crosslinked with α-actin. The stoichiometry of the interaction was 1:1. A molecular model was built of the complex and associated bioinformatics analyses predicted that the interaction is likely to involve an electrostatic interaction between Lys-240 of α-actin and Glu-30 of CHD1. These residues are predicted to be accessible and are not involved in many intra-protein interactions; they are thus available for interaction with binding partners. They are both located in regions of the proteins which are predicted to be flexible and disordered; interactions between signalling molecules often involve flexible, disordered regions. The predicted binding region in CHD1 is well conserved in many eukaryotic IQGAP-like proteins. In some cases (e.g Dictyostelium discoideum and Saccharomyces cerevisiae) protein sequence conservation is weak, but molecular modelling reveals that a region of charged, polar residues in a flexible N-terminus is structurally well conserved. Therefore we conclude that the calponin homology domains of IQGAP1-like proteins interact initially through the electrostatic interaction identified here and that there may be subsequent conformational changes to form the final complex.


Assuntos
Actinas/química , Actinas/metabolismo , Proteínas Ativadoras de ras GTPase/química , Proteínas Ativadoras de ras GTPase/metabolismo , Sítios de Ligação , Reagentes de Ligações Cruzadas , Glutamina/metabolismo , Humanos , Lisina/metabolismo , Modelos Moleculares , Ligação Proteica , Domínios Proteicos
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FEMS Microbiol Lett ; 362(9)2015 May.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25825475

RESUMO

A complete nucleotide sequence of the new Pseudomonas aeruginosa Luz24likevirus phiCHU was obtained. This virus was shown to have a unique host range whereby it grew poorly on the standard laboratory strain PAO1, but infected 26 of 46 clinical isolates screened, and strains harbouring IncP2 plasmid pMG53. It was demonstrated that phiCHU has single-strand interruptions in its genome. Analysis of the phiCHU genome also suggested that recombination event(s) participated in the evolution of the leftmost portion of the genome, presumably encoding early genes.


Assuntos
Genoma Viral , Especificidade de Hospedeiro , Podoviridae/genética , Fagos de Pseudomonas/genética , Pseudomonas aeruginosa/virologia , Sequência de Bases , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Fases de Leitura Aberta , Plasmídeos , Análise de Sequência de DNA
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