کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1952451 1057210 2010 8 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Purification and biochemical characterization of Mur ligases from Staphylococcus aureus
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری بیوشیمی، ژنتیک و زیست شناسی مولکولی زیست شیمی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Purification and biochemical characterization of Mur ligases from Staphylococcus aureus
چکیده انگلیسی

The Mur ligases (MurC, MurD, MurE and MurF) catalyze the stepwise synthesis of the UDP-N-acetylmuramoyl-pentapeptide precursor of peptidoglycan. The murC, murD, murE and murF genes from Staphylococcus aureus, a major pathogen, were cloned and the corresponding proteins were overproduced in Escherichia coli and purified as His6-tagged forms. Their biochemical properties were investigated and compared to those of the E. coli enzymes. Staphylococcal MurC accepted l-Ala, l-Ser and Gly as substrates, as the E. coli enzyme does, with a strong preference for l-Ala. S. aureus MurE was very specific for l-lysine and in particular did not accept meso-diaminopimelic acid as a substrate. This mirrors the E. coli MurE specificity, for which meso-diaminopimelic acid is the preferred substrate and l-lysine a very poor one. S. aureus MurF appeared less specific and accepted both forms (l-lysine and meso-diaminopimelic acid) of UDP-MurNAc-tripeptide, as the E. coli MurF does. The inverse and strict substrate specificities of the two MurE orthologues is thus responsible for the presence of exclusively meso-diaminopimelic acid and l-lysine at the third position of the peptide in the peptidoglycans of E. coli and S. aureus, respectively. The specific activities of the four Mur ligases were also determined in crude extracts of S. aureus and compared to cell requirements for peptidoglycan biosynthesis.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Biochimie - Volume 92, Issue 12, December 2010, Pages 1793–1800
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