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Hwan Youn , Marcus Carranza
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J. Microbiol. 2023;61(3):277-287. Published online March 9, 2023
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The active and inactive structures of the Escherichia coli cAMP receptor protein (CRP), a model bacterial transcr!ption
factor, are compared to generate a paradigm in the cAMP-induced activation of CRP. The resulting paradigm is shown to be
consistent with numerous biochemical studies of CRP and CRP*, a group of CRP mutants displaying cAMP-free activity.
The cAMP affinity of CRP is dictated by two factors: (i) the effectiveness of the cAMP pocket and (ii) the protein equilibrium
of apo-CRP. How these two factors interplay in determining the cAMP affinity and cAMP specificity of CRP and CRP*
mutants are discussed. Both the current understanding and knowledge gaps of CRP-DNA interactions are also described.
This review ends with a list of several important CRP issues that need to be addressed in the future.
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Antimicrobial agents targeting peptidoglycan have shown
successful results in eliminating bacteria with high selective
toxicity. Bacteriophage encoded endolysin as an alternative
antibiotics is a peptidoglycan degrading enzyme with a low
rate of resistance. Here, the engineered endolysin was developed
to defeat multiple drug-resistant (MDR) Acinetobacter
baumannii. First, putative endolysin PA90 was predicted by
genome analysis of isolated Pseudomonas phage PBPA. The
His-tagged PA90 was purified from BL21(DE3) pLysS and
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known for having a high antibiotic resistance rate including
A. baumannii. Since the measured activity of PA90
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peptide (CPP) DS4.3 was introduced at the N-terminus
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one log in CFU/ml. Additionally, DS-PA90 has tolerance to
NaCl, where the ~50% of activity could be maintained in the
presence of 150 mM NaCl, and stable activity was also observed
with changes in pH or temperature. Even MDR A. baumannii
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Transposon insertion site sequencing (TIS) is a technique that
determines the insertion profile of a transposon mutant library
by massive parallel sequencing of transposon-genomic
DNA junctions. Because the transposon insertion profile reflects
the abundance of each mutant in the library, it provides
information to assess the fitness contribution of each genetic
locus of a bacterial genome in a specific growth condition or
strain background. Although introduced only about a dozen
years ago, TIS has become an important tool in bacterial genetics
that provides clues to study biological functions and
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high density transposon insertion mutant libraries
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Various treatments and agents had been reported to inactivate
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considered an effective and cheap method of sample
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stability compared with non-heat inactivated specimens. Further,
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56°C could inactivate viable viruses from clinical COVID-19
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Heat treatment of clinical specimens from COVID-19
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method
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Two aerobic, Gram-stain-positive, non-motile, non-sporulating
coccoid strains, designated ZLJ0423T and ZLJ0321,
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menaquinone was MK-8(H4). The cell-wall amino acids consisted
of alanine, lysine, glycine and aspartic acid, with lysine
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mannosides and two unidentified lipids formed the
polar lipid profile. The DNA G + C content of both isolates
was 73.9 mol%. The digital DNA–DNA hybridization value
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Olive flounder were vaccinated with polyinosinic:polycytidylic
acid [Poly (I:C)] to prevent viral hemorrhagic septicemia
(VHS). Vaccine efficacy was verified by detection of anti-
VHS virus (VHSV) antibodies using enzyme-linked immunosorbent
assay (ELISA). In the study, ELISA absorbance values
of the negative control group [Poly (I:C)-MEM10] were saturated
when an ELISA protocol, that includes pretreatment
of the fish sera with 5% skim milk, was used. However,
the saturated OD values in the negative control did not correlate
with a specific immune response against VHSV, because
the group showed low survival rate (only 10%) following
the VHSV challenge. Also, OD values of Poly (I:C)-
VHSV group were high, and the group showed high survival
rate (97.5%) against VHSV challenge test. It was suggested
that the high OD values were possibly due to the
presence of anti-fetal bovine serum (FBS) cross-reactivity.
To compensate this, we subtracted the absorbance of infectious
hematopoietic necrosis (IHNV)-Ag plates from
those of the VHSV-Ag plates. However, the average value
for the Poly (I:C)-VHSV group (0.167) was lower than expected
even though high survival rate. We used an advanced
ELISA system to pre-treat fish sera with 5% skim milk and
two novirhabdoviruses as capture antigens as well as 50%
FBS. The corrected absorbance values for pre-treated fish
sera from the negative control Poly (I:C)-MEM10 and experimental
Poly (I:C)-VHSV groups averaged 0.033 and
0.579, respectively. The specific VHSV antibody response
of the vaccinated group was assessed using fish sera pretreated
with skim milk and FBS and by calculating the corrected
absorbance values from ELISA with two novirhabdovirus
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σ38 in Escherichia coli is required for expression of a subset
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that for σ70-dependent house-keeping genes. hdeABp is a
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Brucella species are facultative intracellular pathogenic α-Proteobacteria that can cause brucellosis in humans and domestic animals. The clinical and veterinary importance of the bacteria has led to well established studies on the molecular mechanisms of Brucella infection of host organisms. However, to date, no genome-wide study has scanned for genes related to the host specificity of Brucella spp. The majority of bacterial genes related to specific environmental adaptations such as host specificity are well-known to have evolved under positive selection pressure. We thus detected signals of positive selection for individual orthologous genes among Brucella genomes and identified genes related to host specificity. We first determined orthologous sets from seven completely sequenced Brucella genomes using the Reciprocal Best Hits (RBH). A maximum likelihood analysis based on the branch-site test was accomplished to examine the presence of positive selection signals, which was subsequently confirmed by phylogenetic analysis. Consequently, 12 out of 2,033 orthologous genes were positively selected by specific Brucella lineages, each of which belongs to a particular animal host. Extensive literature reviews revealed that half of these computationally identified genes are indeed involved in Brucella host specificity. We expect that this genome-wide approach based on positive selection may be reliably used to screen for genes related to environmental adaptation of a particular species and that it will provide a set of appropriate candidate genes.
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Ecological niches in the rhizosphere and phyllosphere of grasses capable of sustaining endophytes have been extensively studied. In contrast, little information regarding the identity and functions of endophytic fungi in stems is available. In this study, we investigated the taxonomic affinities, diversity, and host specificities
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Noroviruses (NoV) are the key cause of acute epidemic gastroenteritis, and oysters harvested from NoVpolluted sea areas are considered as the significant vectors of viral transmission. To improve NoV detection from oyster using nested reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), we evaluated the sensitivity and specificity of previously published primer pairs and the efficiency of different RNA extraction procedures. Among the primer pairs used for RT-PCR, the sensitivity of GIF1/GIR1-GIF2/GIR1 and GIIF1/GIIR1-GIIF2/GIIR1 was higher than that of other primer pairs used in nested RT-PCR for the detection of NoV genogroup I (NoV GI) and NoV GII from both NoV-positive stool suspension and NoVseeded oyster concentrates, respectively; the resulting products showed neither unspecific bands in the positive samples nor false-positive bands in the negative controls. The extraction of NoV RNA from oyster samples using a QIAamp? Viral RNA Mini kit with a QIAshredderTM Homogenizer pretreatment afforded more efficient recovery (mean recovery for NoV GI and GII, 6.4%) and the procedure was less time consuming (<30 min) than most other RNA extraction procedures. The results of RNA extraction procedure and primer pairs evaluated by nested RT-PCR assay in this study can be useful for monitoring NoV contamination in oysters, which is an indicator of possible public health risks.
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Norovirus (NoV) is the leading cause of acute gastroenteritis worldwide. Currently, reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) is used commonly to detect NoVs in both clinical and environmental samples. However, RT-PCR requires expensive equipment and cannot be performed on site. In this study, a latex agglutination test (LAT) using antibody-labeled latex beads for detecting NoVs was developed. Two kinds of polyclonal antibodies, one generated from synthetic peptides and the other from E. coli-expressed NoV capsid proteins, were used to develop the LAT. Each of these polyclonal antibodies was immobilized on the surface of latex beads and tested for the ability to detect NoVs. Under optimized conditions, our LAT detected GII.4 NoV at concentrations as low as 3.3×105 RT-PCR units/ml in stool samples. The detection limit for the LAT was approximately 1.7×103 RT-PCR units. Forty-eight stool samples were tested for NoVs using this LAT. In comparison with an RT-PCR assay, the sensitivity and specificity of the LAT were 35% and 100%, respectively. With further optimization, this LAT used with appropriate antibodies could be applied for convenient detection of NoVs in clinical diagnosis and food monitoring.
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Glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH, EC 1.1.1.49) in Deinococcus radiophilus, an extraordinarily UV-resistant bacterium, was investigated to gain insight into its resistance as it was shown to be involved in a scavenging system of superoxide (O2-1) and peroxide (O2-2) generated by UV and oxidative stresses. D. radiophilus possesses two G6PDH isoforms: G6PDH-1 and G6PDH-2, both showing dual coenzyme specificity for NAD and NADP. Both enzymes were detected throughout the growth phase; however, the substantial increase in G6PDH-1 observed at stationary phase or as the results of external oxidative stress indicates that this enzyme is inducible under stressful environmental conditions. The G6PDH-1 and G6PDH-2 were purified 122- and 44-fold (using NADP as cofactor), respectively. The purified G6PDH-1 and G6PDH-2 had the specific activity of 2,890 and 1,033 U/mg protein (using NADP as cofactor) and 3,078 and 1,076 U/mg protein (using NAD as cofactor), respectively. The isoforms also evidenced distinct structures; G6PDH-1 was a tetramer of 35 kDa subunits, whereas G6PDH-2 was a dimer of 60 kDa subunits. The pIs of G6PDH-1 and G6PDH-2 were 6.4 and 5.7, respectively. Both G6PDH-1 and G6PDH-2 were inhibited by both ATP and oleic acid, but G6PDH-1 was found to be more susceptible to oleic acid than G6PDH-2. The profound inhibition of both enzymes by β-naphthoquinone-4-sulfonic acid suggests the involvement of lysine at their active sites. Cu2+ was a potent inhibitor to G6PDH-2, but a lesser degree to G6PDH-1. Both G6PDH-1 and G6PDH-2 showed an optimum activity at pH 8.0 and 30°C.
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