Unknown

Dataset Information

0

Molecular Characterization of N-glycan Degradation and Transport in Streptococcus pneumoniae and Its Contribution to Virulence.


ABSTRACT: The carbohydrate-rich coating of human tissues and cells provide a first point of contact for colonizing and invading bacteria. Commensurate with N-glycosylation being an abundant form of protein glycosylation that has critical functional roles in the host, some host-adapted bacteria possess the machinery to process N-linked glycans. The human pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae depolymerizes complex N-glycans with enzymes that sequentially trim a complex N-glycan down to the Man3GlcNAc2 core prior to the release of the glycan from the protein by endo-?-N-acetylglucosaminidase (EndoD), which cleaves between the two GlcNAc residues. Here we examine the capacity of S. pneumoniae to process high-mannose N-glycans and transport the products. Through biochemical and structural analyses we demonstrate that S. pneumoniae also possesses an ?-(1,2)-mannosidase (SpGH92). This enzyme has the ability to trim the terminal ?-(1,2)-linked mannose residues of high-mannose N-glycans to generate Man5GlcNAc2. Through this activity SpGH92 is able to produce a substrate for EndoD, which is not active on high-mannose glycans with ?-(1,2)-linked mannose residues. Binding studies and X-ray crystallography show that NgtS, the solute binding protein of an ABC transporter (ABCNG), is able to bind Man5GlcNAc, a product of EndoD activity, with high affinity. Finally, we evaluated the contribution of EndoD and ABCNG to growth of S. pneumoniae on a model N-glycosylated glycoprotein, and the contribution of these enzymes and SpGH92 to virulence in a mouse model. We found that both EndoD and ABCNG contribute to growth of S. pneumoniae, but that only SpGH92 and EndoD contribute to virulence. Therefore, N-glycan processing, but not transport of the released glycan, is required for full virulence in S. pneumoniae. To conclude, we synthesize our findings into a model of N-glycan processing by S. pneumoniae in which both complex and high-mannose N-glycans are targeted, and in which the two arms of this degradation pathway converge at ABCNG.

SUBMITTER: Robb M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5215778 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

altmetric image

Publications

Molecular Characterization of N-glycan Degradation and Transport in Streptococcus pneumoniae and Its Contribution to Virulence.

Robb Melissa M   Hobbs Joanne K JK   Woodiga Shireen A SA   Shapiro-Ward Sarah S   Suits Michael D L MD   McGregor Nicholas N   Brumer Harry H   Yesilkaya Hasan H   King Samantha J SJ   Boraston Alisdair B AB  

PLoS pathogens 20170105 1


The carbohydrate-rich coating of human tissues and cells provide a first point of contact for colonizing and invading bacteria. Commensurate with N-glycosylation being an abundant form of protein glycosylation that has critical functional roles in the host, some host-adapted bacteria possess the machinery to process N-linked glycans. The human pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae depolymerizes complex N-glycans with enzymes that sequentially trim a complex N-glycan down to the Man3GlcNAc2 core prio  ...[more]

Similar Datasets

| S-EPMC166049 | biostudies-other
| S-EPMC2911477 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC96581 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC4806586 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC84503 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC3283741 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC8097992 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC6445336 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC107572 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC97827 | biostudies-literature