Conformation and functional dynamics of a bacterial PASTA kinase

细菌 PASTA 激酶的构象和功能动力学

基本信息

批准号：
10526288
负责人：
CHRISTOPHER J KRISTICH
金额：
$ 33.88万
依托单位：
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2020-01-01 至 2024-11-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10526288
关键词：
Address Adopted Antibiotic Resistance Antibiotics Antimicrobial Resistance Bacteria Bile fluid Binding Biological Biological Adaptation Biological Assay Biology Cell Wall Cell division Cephalosporins Cytoplasm Cytoplasmic Tail Detergents Development Dimerization Disulfides Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy Enterococcus Enterococcus faecalis Family Foundations Goals Gram-Positive Bacteria Hospitals Impairment In Vitro Individual Infection Knowledge Length Mediating Membrane Molecular Molecular Conformation Mutagenesis Mutation NMR Spectroscopy Nature Nosocomial Infections Pathogenesis Pathway interactions Phosphorylation Phosphotransferases Positioning Attribute Prior Therapy Process Production Protein Family Public Health Regulation Reporter Research Resistance Risk Factors Role Scheme Signaling Protein Site Staphylococcus aureus Stimulus Structure Structure-Activity Relationship Therapeutic Toxin Transmembrane Domain Virulence Work X-Ray Crystallography acquired factor antimicrobial antimicrobial drug assault colonization resistance crosslink design extracellular genetic selection gut colonization gut microbiota in vivo innovation insight member mutant new therapeutic target novel novel strategies novel therapeutic intervention pathogen pathogenic bacteria response trait

项目摘要

Project Summary/Abstract Enterococci such as Enterococcus faecalis are among the trillions of intestinal microbes that normally coexist in a symbiotic relationship with their host. However, antibiotic-resistant enterococci are also among the three most common causes of hospital-acquired infections and therefore represent a serious public health problem. An important risk factor for the acquisition of hospital-acquired enterococcal infections is prior therapy with antibiotics, such as broad-spectrum cephalosporins, to which enterococci are intrinsically resistant. Thus, the inherent abilities of enterococci to colonize the gut and withstand assault by antimicrobial agents are especially critical for pathogenesis of enterococcal infections. Yet, the mechanisms of enterococcal gut colonization and antimicrobial resistance are not fully understood. One critical determinant of these intrinsic traits is a transmembrane Ser/Thr kinase known as IreK, which belongs to a family of bacterial kinases containing extracellular PASTA domains. Such “PASTA kinases” control critical processes including antibiotic resistance, toxin production, virulence, or cell division in nearly all Gram-positive bacteria; in some bacteria, a PASTA kinase is essential for viability. As such, PASTA kinases represent attractive targets for new therapeutics. However, a basic understanding of the structure and dynamics of PASTA kinases in solution, and the structure-function relationships that promote environmental sensing and coordination of biological responses in vivo, is lacking. Such information is critical to inform development of new therapeutic approaches. The research proposed here seeks to address this gap by elucidating fundamental structure-function relationships in solution for a representative PASTA kinase, the IreK kinase from E. faecalis, which we have shown is required for intrinsic resistance of E. faecalis to cell-wall-active antibiotics and to detergents present in bile. This collaborative research is designed to apply new approaches and perspectives to elucidate novel insights into the function of the IreK kinase using a complementary combination of in vivo functional assays and EPR spectroscopy approaches to determine the PASTA module conformation in solution and understand how kinase domain dynamics contribute to kinase activation. By successfully completing this work, we will obtain important new insights into a representative bacterial PASTA kinase to help define the structure-function relationships for an entire family of critical bacterial signaling proteins with the long-term goal of modulating the activity of these kinases therapeutically.

项目摘要/摘要肠球菌（例如肠球菌粪便）是通常在与主人的共生关系。但是，抗生素耐药的肠球菌也是最大的三个医院获得感染的常见原因，因此代表了严重的公共卫生问题。一个获得医院获得的肠球菌感染的重要危险因素是先前的治疗肠球菌本质上具有抗性的抗生素，例如广谱头孢菌素。那，尤其对于肠道感染的发病机理至关重要。然而，肠肠肠道定植的机制和抗菌耐药性尚未完全了解。这些内在特征的一个关键决定者是跨膜Ser/Thr激酶称为IREK，属于含有细菌激酶的家族细胞外意大利面结构域。这种“面食激酶”控制了包括抗生素耐药性在内的关键过程，几乎所有革兰氏阳性细菌中的毒素产生，病毒性或细胞分裂；在某些细菌中，面食激酶对于可行性至关重要。因此，面食激酶代表了新疗法的有吸引力的靶标。但是，对溶液中面食激酶的结构和动力学的基本理解以及结构功能缺乏促进体内生物反应的环境传感和协调的关系。此类信息对于为开发新的治疗方法而言至关重要。这里提出的研究试图通过阐明解决方案的基本结构 - 功能关系来解决这一差距代表面食激酶，来自E. faecalis的IREK激酶，我们已经表明的是固有的粪肠球菌对细胞壁活性抗生素的抗性，并确定胆汁中存在的抗性。这个合作研究旨在应用新的方法和观点，以阐明新的见解使用体内功能测定和EPR光谱的完整组合的IREK激酶确定溶液中的面食模块组成的方法，并了解激酶结构域如何动力学有助于激酶激活。通过成功完成这项工作，我们将获得重要的新深入了解代表性细菌面食激酶，以帮助定义一个结构功能关系关键细菌信号传导蛋白的整个家庭的长期目标是调节这些活性激酶热。