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A New Face of the Old Gene: Deletion of the PssA, Encoding Monotopic Inner Membrane Phosphoglycosyl Transferase in Rhizobium leguminosarum, Leads to Diverse Phenotypes That Could Be Attributable to Downstream Effects of the Lack of Exopolysaccharide

The biosynthesis of subunits of rhizobial exopolysaccharides is dependent on glycosyltransferases, which are usually encoded by large gene clusters. PssA is a member of a large family of phosphoglycosyl transferases catalyzing the transfer of a phosphosugar moiety to polyprenol phosphate; thus, it c...

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Autores principales: Marczak, Małgorzata, Żebracki, Kamil, Koper, Piotr, Horbowicz, Aleksandra, Wójcik, Magdalena, Mazur, Andrzej
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9860679/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36674551
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms24021035
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author Marczak, Małgorzata
Żebracki, Kamil
Koper, Piotr
Horbowicz, Aleksandra
Wójcik, Magdalena
Mazur, Andrzej
author_facet Marczak, Małgorzata
Żebracki, Kamil
Koper, Piotr
Horbowicz, Aleksandra
Wójcik, Magdalena
Mazur, Andrzej
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description The biosynthesis of subunits of rhizobial exopolysaccharides is dependent on glycosyltransferases, which are usually encoded by large gene clusters. PssA is a member of a large family of phosphoglycosyl transferases catalyzing the transfer of a phosphosugar moiety to polyprenol phosphate; thus, it can be considered as priming glycosyltransferase commencing synthesis of the EPS repeating units in Rhizobium leguminosarum. The comprehensive analysis of PssA protein features performed in this work confirmed its specificity for UDP-glucose and provided evidence that PssA is a monotopic inner membrane protein with a reentrant membrane helix rather than a transmembrane segment. The bacterial two-hybrid system screening revealed interactions of PssA with some GTs involved in the EPS octasaccharide synthesis. The distribution of differentially expressed genes in the transcriptome of the ΔpssA mutant into various functional categories indicated complexity of cell response to the deletion, which can mostly be attributed to the lack of exopolysaccharide and downstream effects caused by such deficiency. The block in the EPS biosynthesis at the pssA step, potentially leading to an increased pool of UDP-glucose, is likely to be filtered through to other pathways, and thus the absence of EPS may indirectly affect the expression of proteins involved in these pathways.
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spelling pubmed-98606792023-01-22 A New Face of the Old Gene: Deletion of the PssA, Encoding Monotopic Inner Membrane Phosphoglycosyl Transferase in Rhizobium leguminosarum, Leads to Diverse Phenotypes That Could Be Attributable to Downstream Effects of the Lack of Exopolysaccharide Marczak, Małgorzata Żebracki, Kamil Koper, Piotr Horbowicz, Aleksandra Wójcik, Magdalena Mazur, Andrzej Int J Mol Sci Article The biosynthesis of subunits of rhizobial exopolysaccharides is dependent on glycosyltransferases, which are usually encoded by large gene clusters. PssA is a member of a large family of phosphoglycosyl transferases catalyzing the transfer of a phosphosugar moiety to polyprenol phosphate; thus, it can be considered as priming glycosyltransferase commencing synthesis of the EPS repeating units in Rhizobium leguminosarum. The comprehensive analysis of PssA protein features performed in this work confirmed its specificity for UDP-glucose and provided evidence that PssA is a monotopic inner membrane protein with a reentrant membrane helix rather than a transmembrane segment. The bacterial two-hybrid system screening revealed interactions of PssA with some GTs involved in the EPS octasaccharide synthesis. The distribution of differentially expressed genes in the transcriptome of the ΔpssA mutant into various functional categories indicated complexity of cell response to the deletion, which can mostly be attributed to the lack of exopolysaccharide and downstream effects caused by such deficiency. The block in the EPS biosynthesis at the pssA step, potentially leading to an increased pool of UDP-glucose, is likely to be filtered through to other pathways, and thus the absence of EPS may indirectly affect the expression of proteins involved in these pathways. MDPI 2023-01-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9860679/ /pubmed/36674551 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms24021035 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Marczak, Małgorzata
Żebracki, Kamil
Koper, Piotr
Horbowicz, Aleksandra
Wójcik, Magdalena
Mazur, Andrzej
A New Face of the Old Gene: Deletion of the PssA, Encoding Monotopic Inner Membrane Phosphoglycosyl Transferase in Rhizobium leguminosarum, Leads to Diverse Phenotypes That Could Be Attributable to Downstream Effects of the Lack of Exopolysaccharide
title A New Face of the Old Gene: Deletion of the PssA, Encoding Monotopic Inner Membrane Phosphoglycosyl Transferase in Rhizobium leguminosarum, Leads to Diverse Phenotypes That Could Be Attributable to Downstream Effects of the Lack of Exopolysaccharide
title_full A New Face of the Old Gene: Deletion of the PssA, Encoding Monotopic Inner Membrane Phosphoglycosyl Transferase in Rhizobium leguminosarum, Leads to Diverse Phenotypes That Could Be Attributable to Downstream Effects of the Lack of Exopolysaccharide
title_fullStr A New Face of the Old Gene: Deletion of the PssA, Encoding Monotopic Inner Membrane Phosphoglycosyl Transferase in Rhizobium leguminosarum, Leads to Diverse Phenotypes That Could Be Attributable to Downstream Effects of the Lack of Exopolysaccharide
title_full_unstemmed A New Face of the Old Gene: Deletion of the PssA, Encoding Monotopic Inner Membrane Phosphoglycosyl Transferase in Rhizobium leguminosarum, Leads to Diverse Phenotypes That Could Be Attributable to Downstream Effects of the Lack of Exopolysaccharide
title_short A New Face of the Old Gene: Deletion of the PssA, Encoding Monotopic Inner Membrane Phosphoglycosyl Transferase in Rhizobium leguminosarum, Leads to Diverse Phenotypes That Could Be Attributable to Downstream Effects of the Lack of Exopolysaccharide
title_sort new face of the old gene: deletion of the pssa, encoding monotopic inner membrane phosphoglycosyl transferase in rhizobium leguminosarum, leads to diverse phenotypes that could be attributable to downstream effects of the lack of exopolysaccharide
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9860679/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36674551
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms24021035
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