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http://cibnor.repositorioinstitucional.mx/jspui/handle/1001/1687| A novel thymidylate synthase from the Vibrionales, Alteromonadales, Aeromonadales, and Pasteurellales (VAAP) clade with altered nucleotide and folate binding sites | |
| ALONSO ALEXIS LOPEZ ZAVALA Eduardo Guevara Hernández LUZ HAYDE VAZQUEZ LUJAN José Arturo Sánchez Paz KARINA DALILA GARCIA OROZCO Carmen Arminda Contreras Vergara GAMALIEL LOPEZ LEAL ALDO ALEJANDRO ARVIZU FLORES ADRIAN OCHOA LEYVA ROGERIO RAFAEL SOTELO MUNDO | |
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| DOI: 10.7717/peerj.5023 URL: https://peerj.com/articles/5023/ ISSN: 21678359 | |
| Aquaculture, Fisheries and Fish Science, Biochemistry, Marine Biology, Microbiology, Drugs and Devices | |
| "Thymidylate synthase (TS, E.C. 2.1.1.45) is a crucial enzyme for de novo deoxythymidine monophosphate (dTMP) biosynthesis. The gene for this enzyme is thyA, which encodes the folate-dependent TS that converts deoxyuridine monophosphate group (dUMP) into (dTMP) using the cofactor 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate (mTHF) as a carbon donor. We identified the thyA gene in the genome of the Vibrio parahaemolyticus strain FIM-S1708C that is innocuous to humans but pathogenic to crustaceans. Surprisingly, we found changes in the residues that bind the substrate dUMP and mTHF, previously postulated as invariant among all TSs known (Finer-Moore, Santi & Stroud, 2003). Interestingly, those amino acid changes were also found in a clade of microorganisms that contains Vibrionales, Alteromonadales, Aeromonadales, and Pasteurellales (VAAP) from the Gammaproteobacteria class. In this work, we studied the biochemical properties of recombinant TS from V. parahemolyticus FIM-S1708C(VpTS) to address the natural changes in the TS amino acid sequence of the VAAP clade. Interestingly, the Km for dUMP was 27.3 _ 4.3 mM, about one-fold larger compared to other TSs. The Km for mTHF was 96.3 _ 18 mM, about three- to five-fold larger compared to other species, suggesting also loss of affinity. Thus, the catalytic efficiency was between one or two orders of magnitude smaller for both substrates. We used trimethoprim, a common antibiotic that targets both TS and DHFR for inhibition studies. The IC50 values obtained were high compared to other results in the literature. Nonetheless, this molecule could be a lead for the design antibiotics towards pathogens from the VAAP clade. Overall, the experimental results also suggest that in the VAAP clade the nucleotide salvage pathway is important and should be investigated, since the de novo dTMP synthesis appears to be compromised by a less efficient thymidylate synthase." | |
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| 2018 | |
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| BACTERIOLOGÍA | |
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