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In vitro activity comparison of Erm proteins from Firmicutes and Actinobacteria

Firmicutes와 Actinobacteria에 속하는 세균들의 Erm 단백질 in vitro 활성 비교

  • Jin, Hyung Jong (Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, College of Convergence Science, The University of Suwon)
  • 진형종 (수원대학교 융합과학대학 생명공학과)
  • Received : 2016.07.27
  • Accepted : 2016.09.06
  • Published : 2016.09.30
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Abstract

Erm proteins methylate the specific adenine residue ($A_{2058}$, E. coli numbering) on 23S rRNA to confer the $MLS_B$ (macrolidelincosamide-streptogramin B) antibiotic resistance on a variety of microorganisms ranging from antibiotic producers to pathogens. When phylogenetic tree is constructed, two main clusters come out forming each cluster of Actinobacteria and Firmicutes. Two representative Erm proteins from each cluster were selected and their in vitro methylation activities were compared. ErmS and ErmE from Actinobacteria cluster exhibited much higher activities than ErmB and ErmC' from Firmicutes: 9 fold difference when ErmC' and ErmE were compared and 13 fold between ErmS and ErmB. Most of the difference was observed and presumed to be caused by N-terminal and C-terminal extra region from ErmS and ErmE, respectively because NT59TE in which N-terminal end 59 amino acids was truncated from wild type ErmS exhibited only 22.5% of wild type ErmS activity. Meanwhile, even NT59TE showed three and 2.2 times more activity when it was compared to ErmB and C, respectively, suggesting core region from antibiotic producers contains extra structure enabling higher activity. This is suggested to be possible through the extra region of 197RWS199 (from both ErmS and ErmE), 261GVGGSLY267 (from ErmS), and 261GVGGNIQ267 (from ErmE) and 291SVV293 (from ErmS) and 291GAV293 (from ErmE) by multiple sequence alignment.

Erm 단백질은 미생물의 23S rRNA의 특정 nucleotide ($A_{2058}$)에 methylation 시킴으로써 $MLS_B$ (macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin B) 항생제에 대하여 내성을 나타내는 항생제 내성인자 단백질이다. 이 단백질들을 계통수분석을 하였을 때 두 개의 주된 집단 즉 항생제 생성균과 병원균으로 각각 구성된 Actinobacteria와 Firmicutes에서 유래된 단백질로 구분이 된다. 두 집단을 각각 대표하는 2개의 단백질을(항생제 생성균 유래 ErmS와 ErmE, 병원균 유래 ErmC'와 ErmB) 선택하여 그 활성을 비교하였다. 전체적으로 항생제 생성균에서 비롯된 Erm 단백질이 병원균에서 비롯된 단백질에 비해 높은 활성을 보였다: ErmC'와 ErmE 비교시 9배, ErmB와 ErmS 비교시 13배의 차이가 남. ErmS에서 59개의 아미노산이 제거된 NT59TE 단백질의 활성이 야생형 보다 22.5% 정도에 머물렀기 때문에 이러한 활성의 현격한 차이는 ErmS에서는 N-terminal에 붙어있는 가외의 아미노산에 의한 것으로 관찰되었고 ErmE에서는 C-terminal의 가외의 아미노산에 의한 것으로 추정되었다. 그러나 NT59TE가 ErmC'와 ErmB에 비하여 2.2, 3배의 높은 활성을 보이는 것으로 관찰되어 단백질의 핵심부위에서도 높은 활성을 도와주는 부위가 있음을 알 수 있다. 다중 아미노산 배열 정렬로부터 이 부위는 197RWS199 (ErmS와 ErmE 모두로부터 유래), 261GVGGSLY267 (ErmS로부터 유래) 그리고 261GVGGNIQ267 (ErmE로부터 유래)와 291SVV293 (ErmS로부터 유래) 그리고 291GAV293 (ErmE로부터 유래)으로 추정되었다.

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