Characterization of the GDP-D-mannose biosynthesis pathway in coxiella burnetii: The initial steps for GDP-β-D-virenose biosynthesis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Narasaki, Craig T ^a   Mertens, Katja ^a   Samuel, James E ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; CARBOHYDRATE DERIVATIVE; FRUCTOSE 6 PHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE 6 DEOXY DEXTRO LYXO HEX 4 ULOPYRANOSE; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE BETA DEXTRO VIRENOSE; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE MANNOSE; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE MANNOSE 4,6 DEHYDRATASE; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE MANNOSE PYROPHOSPHORYLASE; HYDROLYASE; MANNOSE 6 PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHOGLUCOMUTASE; PHOSPHOMANNOMUTASE; PHOSPHORYLASE; POLYSACCHARIDE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRENOSE; DEOXYSUGAR; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE SUGAR; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MANNOSE 1 PHOSPHATE GUANYLYLTRANSFERASE; MANNOSE 1-PHOSPHATE GUANYLYLTRANSFERASE; MANNOSE PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; MUTASE; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXIELLA BURNETII; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME KINETICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ISOMERIZATION; MANA GENE; MANC GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; BIOCATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COXIELLA BURNETII; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOCATALYSIS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; COXIELLA BURNETII; DEOXY SUGARS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE MANNOSE; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE SUGARS; HUMANS; KINETICS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MANNOSE-6-PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (PHOSPHOMUTASES);

EID: 80055106531     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025514     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Raetz CR, Whitfield C, (2002) Lipopolysaccharide endotoxins. Annu Rev Biochem 71: 635-700.
2. Madariaga MG, Rezai K, Trenholme GM, Weinstein RA, (2003) Q fever: a biological weapon in your backyard. Lancet Infect Dis 3: 709-721.
3. Zhang G, Samuel JE, (2004) Vaccines against Coxiella infection. Expert Rev Vaccines 3: 577-584.
4. Stoker MG, Fiset P, (1956) Phase variation of the Nine Mile and other strains of Rickettsia burnetii. Can J Microbiol 2: 310-321.
5. Hackstadt T, (1988) Steric hindrance of antibody binding to surface proteins of Coxiella burnetii by phase I lipopolysaccharide. Infect Immun 56: 802-807.
6. Lukacova M, Kazar J, Gajdosova E, (1994) Coxiella burnetii phase I and II proteins studied by SDS-page. Acta Virol 38: 263-267.
7. Moos A, Hackstadt T, (1987) Comparative virulence of intra- and interstrain lipopolysaccharide variants of Coxiella burnetii in the guinea pig model. Infect Immun 55: 1144-1150.
8. Zhang G, Russell-Lodrigue KE, Andoh M, Zhang Y, Hendrix LR, et al. (2007) Mechanisms of vaccine-induced protective immunity against Coxiella burnetii infection in BALB/c mice. J Immunol 179: 8372-8380.
9. Toman R, Hussein A, Palkovic P, Ftacek P, (2003) Structural properties of lipopolysaccharides from Coxiella burnetii strains Henzerling and S. Ann N Y Acad Sci 990: 563-567.
10. Schramek S, Mayer H, (1982) Different sugar compositions of lipopolysaccharides isolated from phase I and pure phase II cells of Coxiella burnetii. Infect Immun 38: 53-57.
11. Amano K, Williams JC, Missler SR, Reinhold VN, (1987) Structure and biological relationships of Coxiella burnetii lipopolysaccharides. J Biol Chem 262: 4740-4747.
12. Toman R, Kazar J, (1991) Evidence for the structural heterogeneity of the polysaccharide component of Coxiella burnetii strain Nine Mile lipopolysaccharide. Acta Virol 35: 531-537.
13. Toman R, Skultety L, (1996) Structural study on a lipopolysaccharide from Coxiella burnetii strain Nine Mile in avirulent phase II. Carbohydr Res 283: 175-185.
14. Skultety L, Toman R, Pätoprsty V, (1998) A comparative study of lipopolysaccharides from two Coxiella burnetii strains considered to be associated with acute and chronic Q fever. Carbohydrate Polymers 35: 189-194.
15. Ftacek P, Skultety L, Toman R, (2000) Phase variation of Coxiella burnetii strain Priscilla: influence of this phenomenon on biochemical features of its lipopolysaccharide. J Endotoxin Res 6: 369-376.
16. Toman R, Skultety L, Kazar J, (1993) On the determination of "Kdo-like substance" in the lipopolysaccharide from Coxiella burnetii strain nine mile in phase II. Acta Virol 37: 196-198.
17. Toman R, Garidel P, Andra J, Slaba K, Hussein A, et al. (2004) Physicochemical characterization of the endotoxins from Coxiella burnetii strain Priscilla in relation to their bioactivities. BMC Biochem 5: 1.
18. Schramek S, Radziejewska-Lebrecht J, Mayer H, (1985) 3-C-branched aldoses in lipopolysaccharide of phase I Coxiella burnetii and their role as immunodominant factors. Eur J Biochem 148: 455-461.
19. Toman R, Skultety L, Ftacek P, Hricovini M, (1998) NMR study of virenose and dihydrohydroxystreptose isolated from Coxiella burnetii phase I lipopolysaccharide. Carbohydr Res 306: 291-296.
20. Vadovic P, Slaba K, Fodorova M, Skultety L, Toman R, (2005) Structural and functional characterization of the glycan antigens involved in immunobiology of Q fever. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1063: 149-153.
21. Hoover TA, Culp DW, Vodkin MH, Williams JC, Thompson HA, (2002) Chromosomal DNA deletions explain phenotypic characteristics of two antigenic variants, phase II and RSA 514 (crazy), of the Coxiella burnetii nine mile strain. Infect Immun 70: 6726-6733.
22. Denison AM, Massung RF, Thompson HA, (2007) Analysis of the O-antigen biosynthesis regions of phase II Isolates of Coxiella burnetii. FEMS Microbiol Lett 267: 102-107.
23. Sousa SA, Moreira LM, Leitao JH, (2008) Functional analysis of the Burkholderia cenocepacia J2315 BceAJ protein with phosphomannose isomerase and GDP-D-mannose pyrophosphorylase activities. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 80: 1015-1022.
24. Jensen SO, Reeves PR, (1998) Domain organisation in phosphomannose isomerases (types I and II). Biochim Biophys Acta 1382: 5-7.
25. Omsland A, Cockrell DC, Fischer ER, Heinzen RA, (2008) Sustained axenic metabolic activity by the obligate intracellular bacterium Coxiella burnetii. J Bacteriol 190: 3203-3212.
26. Seshadri R, Paulsen IT, Eisen JA, Read TD, Nelson KE, et al. (2003) Complete genome sequence of the Q-fever pathogen Coxiella burnetii. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100: 5455-5460.
27. Clarke BR, Cuthbertson L, Whitfield C, (2004) Nonreducing terminal modifications determine the chain length of polymannose O antigens of Escherichia coli and couple chain termination to polymer export via an ATP-binding cassette transporter. J Biol Chem 279: 35709-35718.
28. Jayaratne P, Bronner D, MacLachlan PR, Dodgson C, Kido N, et al. (1994) Cloning and analysis of duplicated rfbM and rfbK genes involved in the formation of GDP-mannose in Escherichia coli O9:K30 and participation of rfb genes in the synthesis of the group I K30 capsular polysaccharide. J Bacteriol 176: 3126-3139.
29. Whitfield C, (2006) Biosynthesis and assembly of capsular polysaccharides in Escherichia coli. Annu Rev Biochem 75: 39-68.
30. King JD, Kocincova D, Westman EL, Lam JS, (2009) Review: Lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Innate Immun 15: 261-312.
31. Darwin KH, Nathan CF, (2005) Role for nucleotide excision repair in virulence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Infect Immun 73: 4581-4587.
32. Albermann C, Piepersberg W, (2001) Expression and identification of the RfbE protein from Vibrio cholerae O1 and its use for the enzymatic synthesis of GDP-D-perosamine. Glycobiology 11: 655-661.
33. Sa-Correia I, Darzins A, Wang SK, Berry A, Chakrabarty AM, (1987) Alginate biosynthetic enzymes in mucoid and nonmucoid Pseudomonas aeruginosa: overproduction of phosphomannose isomerase, phosphomannomutase, and GDP-mannose pyrophosphorylase by overexpression of the phosphomannose isomerase (pmi) gene. J Bacteriol 169: 3224-3231.
34. Albermann C, Distler J, Piepersberg W, (2000) Preparative synthesis of GDP-beta-L-fucose by recombinant enzymes from enterobacterial sources. Glycobiology 10: 875-881.
35. Samuel G, Reeves P, (2003) Biosynthesis of O-antigens: genes and pathways involved in nucleotide sugar precursor synthesis and O-antigen assembly. Carbohydr Res 338: 2503-2519.
36. Lau ST, Tanner ME, (2008) Mechanism and active site residues of GDP-fucose synthase. J Am Chem Soc 130: 17593-17602.
37. Sambrook J, Russell D, (2001) Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual Cold Spring Habor, NY Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.
38. Choi KH, Kumar A, Schweizer HP, (2006) A 10-min method for preparation of highly electrocompetent Pseudomonas aeruginosa cells: application for DNA fragment transfer between chromosomes and plasmid transformation. J Microbiol Methods 64: 391-397.
39. Dower WJ, Miller JF, Ragsdale CW, (1988) High efficiency transformation of E. coli by high voltage electroporation. Nucleic Acids Res 16: 6127-6145.
40. Hitchcock PJ, Brown TM, (1983) Morphological heterogeneity among Salmonella lipopolysaccharide chemotypes in silver-stained polyacrylamide gels. J Bacteriol 154: 269-277.
41. Laemmli UK, (1970) Cleavage of structural proteins during the assembly of the head of bacteriophage T4. Nature 227: 680-685.
42. Towbin H, Staehelin T, Gordon J, (1979) Electrophoretic transfer of proteins from polyacrylamide gels to nitrocellulose sheets: procedure and some applications. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 76: 4350-4354.
43. Tsai CM, Frasch CE, (1982) A sensitive silver stain for detecting lipopolysaccharides in polyacrylamide gels. Anal Biochem 119: 115-119.
44. West SE, Schweizer HP, Dall C, Sample AK, Runyen-Janecky LJ, (1994) Construction of improved Escherichia-Pseudomonas shuttle vectors derived from pUC18/19 and sequence of the region required for their replication in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Gene 148: 81-86.
45. Adhya S, Schwartz M, (1971) Phosphoglucomutase mutants of Escherichia coli K-12. J Bacteriol 108: 621-626.
46. Gracy RW, Noltmann EA, (1968) Studies on phosphomannose isomerase. I. Isolation, homogeneity measurements, and determination of some physical properties. J Biol Chem 243: 3161-3168.
47. Munch-Peterson A, (1962) GDP-mannose pyrophosphorylase. Methods Enzymology 5: 171-174.
48. Samuel JE, Frazier ME, Mallavia LP, (1985) Correlation of plasmid type and disease caused by Coxiella burnetii. Infect Immun 49: 775-779.