Author:
Koh Eunhee,Kim Uijin,Cho Hyun-Soo
Abstract
AbstractPathogenic bacteria encode virulent glycosyltransferases that conjugate various glycans onto host crucial proteins, which allows adhesion to mammalian cells and modulates host cellular processes for pathogenesis. Escherichia coli NleB1, Citrobacter rodentium NleB, and Salmonella enterica SseK1/3 type III effectors fatally glycosyltransfer N-acetyl glucosamine (GlcNAc) from UDP-GlcNAc to arginine residues of death domain-containing proteins that regulate host inflammation, intra-bacterial proteins, and themselves, whose post-translational modification disrupts host immune functions and prolongs bacterial viability inside host cells. However, unlike the similar NleB1/SseK1/SseK3, E. coli NleB2 and S. enterica SseK2 show deficient GlcNAcylation and neither intra-bacterial glycosylation nor auto-glycosylation. Here, as the major factor in SseK2/NleB2 deficiency, we focused on the catalytic Asp-x-Asp (DxD) motif conserved throughout all O-/N-glycosyltransferases to coordinate Mn2+. All DxD motifs in apo-glycosyltransferases form Type-I-turns for binding Mn2+, similar to the ligand-bound DxD motif, whereas TcnA/SseK2/NleB2 DxD motifs form Asx-turns, which are unable to bind Mn2+. Interestingly, methionine of the NleB2 DMD motif forms triple Met–aromatic interactions, as found in age-associated diseases and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) ligand-receptor complexes. The NleB1 A222M mutation induces triple Met–aromatic interactions to steeply attenuate glycosylation activity to 3% of that in the wild type. Thus, the characteristic conformation of the DxD motif is essential for binding Mn2+, donors, and glycosylate targets. This explains why SseK2/NleB2 effectors with the DxD motif caged in the Asp-/Asn-turn (Asx-turn) and triple Met–aromatic interactions have lower glycosyltransferase activity than that of other fatal NleB1/SseK1/SseK3 toxins.
Funder
the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Cited by
2 articles.
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