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Mol Biol Rep ; 47(11): 8949-8961, 2020 Nov.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33136247

RESUMO

Aspartic proteases (APs) are one of the four main protease super families. In plants, they are involved in many biological processes, such as biotic and abiotic stress resistance, protein processing and degradation, senescence, and programmed cell death. By performing a database (TGACv1) search and domain prediction, we identified 263 wheat AP (TaAP) proteins and observed 38 TaAP genes exhibiting alternative splicing. Moreover, by constructing a phylogenetic tree, we found that the TaAP proteins can be divided into three families and have a certain close evolutionary relationship to Arabidopsis thaliana and rice AP proteins. Transcriptome analysis showed that 29 genes in the TaAP family were up-regulated after being induced by powdery mildew. The expression of TaAP224 showed the most significant difference in transcriptome and qRT-PCR analyses. Subsequently, the promoters of these 29 genes were analysed, and we found that they contained multiple disease resistance and hormone elements, such as WRKY71OS, a common disease resistance element that is also involved in the GA signalling pathway and inhibits starch hydrolysis. The comprehensive annotation and expression profiling performed in this study increased our understanding of the TaAP family genes in wheat growth and development, and the results can be used as a basis for further study of candidate TaAP genes involved in powdery mildew resistance mechanisms.


Assuntos
Ácido Aspártico Proteases/genética , Resistência à Doença/genética , Genoma de Planta/genética , Doenças das Plantas/genética , Proteínas de Plantas/genética , Triticum/genética , Ascomicetos/fisiologia , Ácido Aspártico Proteases/classificação , Ácido Aspártico Proteases/metabolismo , Perfilação da Expressão Gênica/métodos , Regulação Enzimológica da Expressão Gênica , Regulação da Expressão Gênica de Plantas , Interações Hospedeiro-Patógeno , Isoenzimas/classificação , Isoenzimas/genética , Isoenzimas/metabolismo , Família Multigênica/genética , Filogenia , Doenças das Plantas/microbiologia , Proteínas de Plantas/classificação , Proteínas de Plantas/metabolismo , Triticum/enzimologia , Triticum/microbiologia
2.
J Proteome Res ; 17(11): 3749-3760, 2018 11 02.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30226384

RESUMO

Host cell proteins are inevitable contaminants of biopharmaceuticals. Here, we performed detailed analyses of the host cell proteome of moss ( Physcomitrella patens) bioreactor supernatants using mass spectrometry and subsequent bioinformatics analysis. Distinguishing between the apparent secretome and intracellular contaminants, a complex extracellular proteolytic network including subtilisin-like proteases, metallo-proteases, and aspartic proteases was identified. Knockout of a subtilisin-like protease affected the overall extracellular proteolytic activity. Besides proteases, also secreted protease-inhibiting proteins such as serpins were identified. Further, we confirmed predicted cleavage sites of 40 endogenous signal peptides employing an N-terminomics approach. The present data provide novel aspects to optimize both product stability of recombinant biopharmaceuticals as well as their maturation along the secretory pathway. Data are available via ProteomeXchange with identifier PXD009517.


Assuntos
Ácido Aspártico Proteases/isolamento & purificação , Bryopsida/enzimologia , Metaloproteases/isolamento & purificação , Proteínas de Plantas/isolamento & purificação , Inibidores de Proteases/isolamento & purificação , Serpinas/isolamento & purificação , Subtilisinas/isolamento & purificação , Ácido Aspártico Proteases/classificação , Ácido Aspártico Proteases/genética , Ácido Aspártico Proteases/metabolismo , Reatores Biológicos , Bryopsida/química , Bryopsida/genética , Biologia Computacional , Técnicas de Inativação de Genes , Espectrometria de Massas/métodos , Metaloproteases/classificação , Metaloproteases/genética , Metaloproteases/metabolismo , Proteínas de Plantas/classificação , Proteínas de Plantas/genética , Proteínas de Plantas/metabolismo , Inibidores de Proteases/classificação , Inibidores de Proteases/metabolismo , Análise Serial de Proteínas , Proteólise , Serpinas/classificação , Serpinas/genética , Serpinas/metabolismo , Subtilisinas/classificação , Subtilisinas/genética , Subtilisinas/metabolismo
3.
Infect Genet Evol ; 51: 33-40, 2017 07.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28286139

RESUMO

Fasciola gigantica is regarded as the major liver fluke causing fasciolosis in livestock in tropical countries. Despite the significant economic and public health impacts of F. gigantica there are few studies on the pathogenesis of this parasite and our understanding is further limited by the lack of genome and transcriptome information. In this study, de novo Illumina RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) was performed to obtain a comprehensive transcriptome profile of the juvenile (42days post infection) and adult stages of F. gigantica. A total of 49,720 unigenes were produced from juvenile and adult stages of F. gigantica, with an average length of 1286 nucleotides (nt) and N50 of 2076nt. A total of 27,862 (56.03%) unigenes were annotated by BLAST similarity searches against the NCBI non-redundant protein database. Because F. gigantica needs to feed and/or digest host tissues, some proteases (including cysteine proteases and aspartic proteases), which play a role in the degradation of host tissues (protein), have been paid more attention in the present study. A total of 6511 distinct genes were found differentially expressed between juveniles and adults, of which 3993 genes were up-regulated and 2518 genes were down-regulated in adults versus juveniles, respectively. Moreover, stage-specific differentially expressed genes were identified in juvenile (17,009) and adult (6517) F. gigantica. The significantly divergent pathways of differentially expressed genes included cAMP signaling pathway (226; 4.12%), proteoglycans in cancer (256; 4.67%) and focal adhesion (199; 3.63%). The transcription pattern also revealed two egg-laying-associated pathways: cGMP-PKG signaling pathway and TGF-ß signaling pathway. This study provides the first comparative transcriptomic data concerning juvenile and adult stages of F. gigantica that will be of great value for future research efforts into understanding parasite pathogenesis and developing vaccines against this important parasite.


Assuntos
Fasciola/genética , Fasciolíase/veterinária , Regulação da Expressão Gênica no Desenvolvimento , Genes de Helmintos , Proteínas de Helminto/genética , Redes e Vias Metabólicas/genética , Transcriptoma , Animais , Ácido Aspártico Proteases/classificação , Ácido Aspártico Proteases/genética , Búfalos , Cisteína Proteases/classificação , Cisteína Proteases/genética , Bases de Dados Genéticas , Fasciola/isolamento & purificação , Fasciola/metabolismo , Fasciolíase/parasitologia , Perfilação da Expressão Gênica , Ontologia Genética , Proteínas de Helminto/classificação , Sequenciamento de Nucleotídeos em Larga Escala , Anotação de Sequência Molecular , Transdução de Sinais
4.
Rev Iberoam Micol ; 33(2): 76-82, 2016.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27137097

RESUMO

The aspartic proteases, also called aspartyl and aspartate proteases or acid proteases (E.C.3.4.23), belong to the endopeptidase family and are characterized by the conserved sequence Asp-Gly-Thr at the active site. These enzymes are found in a wide variety of microorganisms in which they perform important functions related to nutrition and pathogenesis. In addition, their high activity and stability at acid pH make them attractive for industrial application in the food industry; specifically, they are used as milk-coagulating agents in cheese production or serve to improve the taste of some foods. This review presents an analysis of the characteristics and properties of secreted microbial aspartic proteases and their potential for commercial application.


Assuntos
Ácido Aspártico Proteases , Proteínas Fúngicas , Fungos/enzimologia , Motivos de Aminoácidos , Ácido Aspártico Proteases/química , Ácido Aspártico Proteases/classificação , Ácido Aspártico Proteases/metabolismo , Ácido Aspártico Proteases/farmacologia , Domínio Catalítico , Precursores Enzimáticos/metabolismo , Microbiologia de Alimentos , Proteínas Fúngicas/química , Proteínas Fúngicas/metabolismo , Proteínas Fúngicas/farmacologia , Regulação Enzimológica da Expressão Gênica , Regulação Fúngica da Expressão Gênica , Concentração de Íons de Hidrogênio , Microbiologia Industrial , Inibidores de Proteases/farmacologia , Especificidade por Substrato
5.
J Biochem ; 159(4): 449-60, 2016 Apr.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26711235

RESUMO

Six aspartic proteinase precursors, a pro-cathepsin E (ProCatE) and five pepsinogens (Pgs), were purified from the stomach of adult newts (Cynops pyrrhogaster). On sodium dodecylsulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, the molecular weights of the Pgs and active enzymes were 37-38 kDa and 31-34 kDa, respectively. The purified ProCatE was a dimer whose subunits were connected by a disulphide bond. cDNA cloning by polymerase chain reaction and subsequent phylogenetic analysis revealed that three of the purified Pgs were classified as PgA and the remaining two were classified as PgBC belonging to C-type Pg. Our results suggest that PgBC is one of the major constituents of acid protease in the urodele stomach. We hypothesize that PgBC is an amphibian-specific Pg that diverged during its evolutional lineage. PgBC was purified and characterized for the first time. The purified urodele pepsin A was completely inhibited by equal molar units of pepstatin A. Conversely, the urodele pepsin BC had low sensitivity to pepstatin A. In acidic condition, the activation rates of newt pepsin A and BC were similar to those of mammalian pepsin A and C1, respectively. Our results suggest that the enzymological characters that distinguish A- and C-type pepsins appear to be conserved in mammals and amphibians.


Assuntos
Ácido Aspártico Proteases/genética , Mucosa Gástrica/metabolismo , Salamandridae/metabolismo , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Animais , Ácido Aspártico Proteases/classificação , Ácido Aspártico Proteases/isolamento & purificação , Catepsina E/classificação , Catepsina E/genética , Catepsina E/isolamento & purificação , Clonagem Molecular , DNA Complementar/genética , Eletroforese em Gel de Poliacrilamida , Ensaios Enzimáticos , Precursores Enzimáticos/classificação , Precursores Enzimáticos/genética , Precursores Enzimáticos/isolamento & purificação , Concentração de Íons de Hidrogênio , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Peso Molecular , Pepsina A/classificação , Pepsina A/genética , Pepsina A/isolamento & purificação , Pepsinogênios/classificação , Pepsinogênios/genética , Pepsinogênios/isolamento & purificação , Pepstatinas/farmacologia , Filogenia , Inibidores de Proteases/farmacologia
6.
Curr Med Chem ; 20(25): 3116-33, 2013.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23298141

RESUMO

Aspartic peptidases are proteolytic enzymes present in many organisms like vertebrates, plants, fungi, protozoa and in some retroviruses such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). These enzymes are involved in important metabolic processes in microorganisms/virus and play major roles in infectious diseases. Although few studies have been performed in order to identify and characterize aspartic peptidase in trypanosomatids, which include the etiologic agents of leishmaniasis, Chagas' disease and sleeping sickness, some beneficial properties of aspartic peptidase inhibitors have been described on fundamental biological events of these pathogenic agents. In this context, aspartic peptidase inhibitors (PIs) used in the current chemotherapy against HIV (e.g., amprenavir, indinavir, lopinavir, nelfinavir, ritonavir and saquinavir) were able to inhibit the aspartic peptidase activity produced by different species of Leishmania. Moreover, the treatment of Leishmania promastigotes with HIV PIs induced several perturbations on the parasite homeostasis, including loss of the motility and arrest of proliferation/growth. The HIV PIs also induced an increase in the level of reactive oxygen species and the appearance of irreversible morphological alterations, triggering parasite death pathways such as programed cell death (apoptosis) and uncontrolled autophagy. The blockage of physiological parasite events as well as the induction of death pathways culminated in its incapacity to adhere, survive and escape of phagocytic cells. Collectively, these results support the data showing that parasites treated with HIV PIs have a significant reduction in the ability to cause in vivo infection. Similarly, the treatment of Trypanosoma cruzi cells with pepstatin A showed a significant inhibition on both aspartic peptidase activity and growth as well as promoted several and irreversible morphological changes. These studies indicate that aspartic peptidases can be promising targets in trypanosomatid cells and aspartic proteolytic inhibitors can be benefic chemotherapeutic agents against these human pathogenic microorganisms.


Assuntos
Ácido Aspártico Proteases/antagonistas & inibidores , Proteínas de Protozoários/antagonistas & inibidores , Trypanosoma/enzimologia , Ácido Aspártico Proteases/classificação , Ácido Aspártico Proteases/metabolismo , Inibidores da Protease de HIV/farmacologia , Inibidores da Protease de HIV/uso terapêutico , Humanos , Nelfinavir/farmacologia , Proteínas de Protozoários/metabolismo , Saquinavir/farmacologia , Tripanossomicidas/farmacologia , Tripanossomicidas/uso terapêutico , Trypanosoma/efeitos dos fármacos , Trypanosoma/patogenicidade , Tripanossomíase/tratamento farmacológico , Tripanossomíase/parasitologia
7.
J Plant Physiol ; 167(18): 1606-12, 2010 Dec 15.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20705361

RESUMO

A cDNA encoding a putative aspartic acid protease precursor (PvAP1) was cloned from the leaves of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris). Sequence analysis showed that PvAP1 presents all the characteristic features of phytepsins, the typical plant APs. PvAP1 gene expression was tightly regulated by water stress, being significantly up-regulated under mild water stress (Ψ(w)=-1.0 MPa) for the drought-susceptible cultivar (Carioca) and moderate water stress (Ψ(w)=-1.5 MPa) for the more drought-tolerant cultivar (IPA). Protein gel blotting analysis under water stress revealed the presence of two main bands of calculated MW of 46 and 38 kDa, suggesting proteolytic processing of the enzyme precursor form under drought in both cultivars. Taken together, our results suggest that water stress regulates PvAP1 activity both at the transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels, and that the response occurs earlier and is stronger in the drought-susceptible cultivar.


Assuntos
Ácido Aspártico Proteases/metabolismo , Secas , Phaseolus/enzimologia , Ácido Aspártico Proteases/classificação , Ácido Aspártico Proteases/genética , Regulação da Expressão Gênica de Plantas/genética , Regulação da Expressão Gênica de Plantas/fisiologia , Immunoblotting , Phaseolus/metabolismo , Filogenia , Proteínas de Plantas/classificação , Proteínas de Plantas/genética , Proteínas de Plantas/metabolismo
8.
Fungal Genet Biol ; 47(1): 53-65, 2010 Jan.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19853057

RESUMO

The ascomycete plant pathogen Botrytis cinerea secretes aspartic proteinase (AP) activity. Functional analysis was carried out on five aspartic proteinase genes (Bcap1-5) reported previously. Single and double mutants lacking these five genes showed neither a reduced secreted proteolytic activity, nor a reduction in virulence and they showed no alteration in sensitivity to antifungal proteins purified from grape juice. Scrutiny of the B. cinerea genome revealed the presence of nine additional Bcap genes, denoted Bcap6-14. The product of the Bcap8 gene was found to constitute up to 23% of the total protein secreted by B. cinerea. Bcap8-deficient mutants secreted approximately 70% less AP activity but were just as virulent as the wild-type strain. Phylogenetic analysis showed that Bcap8 has orthologs in many basidiomycetes but only few ascomycetes including the biocontrol fungus Trichoderma harzanium. Potential functions of the 14 APs in B. cinerea are discussed based on their sequence characteristics, phylogeny and predicted localization.


Assuntos
Ácido Aspártico Proteases/metabolismo , Botrytis/enzimologia , Proteínas Fúngicas/metabolismo , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Antifúngicos/farmacologia , Ácido Aspártico Proteases/classificação , Ácido Aspártico Proteases/genética , Botrytis/efeitos dos fármacos , Botrytis/genética , Botrytis/patogenicidade , Clonagem Molecular , Citosol/enzimologia , Proteínas Fúngicas/classificação , Proteínas Fúngicas/genética , Deleção de Genes , Genes Fúngicos/genética , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Família Multigênica/genética , Filogenia , Doenças das Plantas/microbiologia , Proteínas de Plantas/farmacologia , Alinhamento de Sequência
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