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Intramolecular isopeptide but not internal thioester bonds confer proteolytic and significant thermal stability to the S. pyogenespilus adhesin Spy0125
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Walden, Miriam, Crow, Allister, Nelson, Miles D. and Banfield, Mark J. (2014) Intramolecular isopeptide but not internal thioester bonds confer proteolytic and significant thermal stability to the S. pyogenespilus adhesin Spy0125. Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, 82 (3). pp. 517-527. doi:10.1002/prot.24420 ISSN 0887-3585.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/prot.24420
Abstract
Streptococcus pyogenes and other Gram-positive bacterial pathogens present long macromolecular filaments known as pili on their surface that mediate adhesion and colonization. These pili are covalent polymers, assembled by sortases. Typically, they comprise a putative adhesin at their tip, a backbone subunit present in multiple copies and a basal subunit that is covalently anchored to the peptidoglycan layer of the cell surface. The crystal structures of pilin subunits revealed the presence of unusual covalent linkages in these proteins, including intramolecular isopeptide and internal thioester bonds. The intramolecular isopeptide bonds in backbone pilins are important for protein stability. Here, using both the wild-type protein and a set of mutants, we assessed the proteolytic and thermal stability of the S. pyogenes pilus tip adhesin Spy0125, in the presence and absence of its intramolecular isopeptide and internal thioester bonds. We also determined a crystal structure of the internal thioester bond variant Spy0125Cys426Ala. We find that mutations in the intramolecular isopeptide bonds compromise the stability of Spy0125. Using limited proteolysis and thermal denaturation assays, we could separate the contribution of each intramolecular isopeptide bond to Spy0125 stability. In contrast, mutation in the internal thioester bond had a lesser effect on protein stability and the crystal structure is essentially identical to wild type. This work suggests that the internal thioester in Spy0125, although having a minor contributory role, is not required for protein stability and must have a different primary function, most likely mediating a covalent interaction with host cell ligands. Proteins 2014; 82:517–527. © 2013 The Authors Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Life Sciences (2010- ) | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics | ||||||
| Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons Ltd. | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0887-3585 | ||||||
| Official Date: | March 2014 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 82 | ||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 517-527 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1002/prot.24420 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) |
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