1. HqiA, a novel quorum-quenching enzyme which expands the AHL lactonase family
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Laure Fauchery, Marta Torres, Rafael Salto, Emilia Quesada, Inmaculada Llamas, Stéphane Uroz, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universidad de Granada (UGR), Institute of Biotechnology, Biomedical Research Center (CIBM), Interactions Arbres-Microorganismes (IAM), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université de Lorraine (UL), Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology II, Faculty of Pharmacy, Direccion General de Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnica CGL2011-25748, BIO2011-12879E, AGL2015-68806-R, INRA ANR-11-LABX-0002-01, Spanish Ministry of Science and Education FPU13-0466, University of Granada-CEI BioTic International Mobility Programme, and Université de Lorraine (UL)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)
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Deltaproteobacteria ,0301 basic medicine ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,Swarming motility ,Pectobacterium carotovorum ,espagne ,Mass Spectrometry ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,SENSING SYSTEMS ,DEGRADING BACTERIA ,ORFS ,Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid ,Soil Microbiology ,Genetics ,Multidisciplinary ,biology ,pectobacterium carotovorum ,Quorum Sensing ,food and beverages ,SINORHIZOBIUM-MELILOTI ,Fosmid ,ESCHERICHIA-COLI ,Multigene Family ,Medicine ,CHROMOBACTERIUM-VIOLACEUM ,Gene Transfer, Horizontal ,Sequence analysis ,Science ,030106 microbiology ,Homoserine ,Article ,Open Reading Frames ,03 medical and health sciences ,Bacterial Proteins ,métagénome ,N-ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONES ,effluent hypersalin ,YERSINIA-PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS ,clone ,alpha proteobacteria ,PSEUDOMONAS-AERUGINOSA ,CULTIVABLE BACTERIA ,Sequence Analysis, DNA ,biochemical phenomena, metabolism, and nutrition ,biology.organism_classification ,Quorum sensing ,enzyme ,Subcloning ,chemistry ,Spain ,Metagenomics ,ERWINIA-CAROTOVORA ,Carboxylic Ester Hydrolases - Abstract
The screening of a metagenomic library of 250,000 clones generated from a hypersaline soil (Spain) allowed us to identify a single positive clone which confers the ability to degrade N-acyl homoserine lactones (AHLs). The sequencing of the fosmid revealed a 42,318 bp environmental insert characterized by 46 ORFs. The subcloning of these ORFs demonstrated that a single gene (hqiA) allowed AHL degradation. Enzymatic analysis using purified HqiA and HPLC/MS revealed that this protein has lactonase activity on a broad range of AHLs. The introduction of hqiA in the plant pathogen Pectobacterium carotovorum efficiently interfered with both the synthesis of AHLs and quorum-sensing regulated functions, such as swarming motility and the production of maceration enzymes. Bioinformatic analyses highlighted that HqiA showed no sequence homology with the known prototypic AHL lactonases or acylases, thus expanding the AHL-degrading enzymes with a new family related to the cysteine hydrolase (CHase) group. The complete sequence analysis of the fosmid showed that 31 ORFs out of the 46 identified were related to Deltaproteobacteria, whilst many intercalated ORFs presented high homology with other taxa. In this sense, hqiA appeared to be assigned to the Hyphomonas genus (Alphaproteobacteria), suggesting that horizontal gene transfer had occurred.
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- 2017
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