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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2009

Construction of a gene knockout system for application in Paenibacillus alvei CCM 2051T, exemplified by the S-layer glycan biosynthesis initiation enzyme WsfP.

Kristof Zarschler, Bettina Janesch, Sonja Zayni, Christina Schäffer, Paul Messner

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5 authors.

Kristof ZarschlerDepartment für NanoBiotechnologie, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien, A-1180 Vienna, Austria.
Bettina Janesch
Sonja Zayni
Christina Schäffer
Paul Messner

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Austrian Science Fund FWF P 19047Austrian Science Fund FWF P 20605Austrian Science Fund FWF P 20745
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The gram-positive bacterium Paenibacillus alvei CCM 2051T is covered by an oblique surface layer (S-layer) composed of glycoprotein subunits. The S-layer O-glycan is a polymer of [-->3)-beta-D-Galp-(1[alpha-D-Glcp-(1-->6)]-->4)-beta-D-ManpNAc-(1-->] repeating units that is linked by an adaptor of -[GroA-2-->OPO2-->4-beta-D-ManpNAc-(1-->4)]-->3)-alpha-L-Rhap-(1-->3)-alpha-L-Rhap-(1-->3)-alpha-L-Rhap-(1-->3)-beta-D-Galp-(1--> to specific tyrosine residues of the S-layer protein. For elucidation of the mechanism governing S-layer glycan biosynthesis, a gene knockout system using bacterial mobile group II intron-mediated gene disruption was developed. The system is further based on the sgsE S-layer gene promoter of Geobacillus stearothermophilus NRS 2004/3a and on the Geobacillus-Bacillus-Escherichia coli shuttle vector pNW33N. As a target gene, wsfP, encoding a putative UDP-Gal:phosphoryl-polyprenol Gal-1-phosphate transferase, representing the predicted initiation enzyme of S-layer glycan biosynthesis, was disrupted. S-layer protein glycosylation was completely abolished in the insertional P. alvei CCM 2051T wsfP mutant, according to sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis evidence and carbohydrate analysis. Glycosylation was fully restored by plasmid-based expression of wsfP in the glycan-deficient P. alvei mutant, confirming that WsfP initiates S-layer protein glycosylation. This is the first report on the successful genetic manipulation of bacterial S-layer protein glycosylation in vivo, including transformation of and heterologous gene expression and gene disruption in the model organism P. alvei CCM 2051T.

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Bacterial ProteinsCarbohydratesElectrophoresis, Polyacrylamide GelGene Knockout TechniquesGenetic Complementation TestGenetic VectorsGlycosyltransferasesGram-Positive BacteriaMembrane GlycoproteinsModels, BiologicalModels, MolecularPromoter Regions, GeneticBacterial ProteinsCarbohydratesGlycosyltransferasesMembrane GlycoproteinsS-layer proteins

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PMID19304819
PMCPMC2681630

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