Journal
PROTEIN EXPRESSION AND PURIFICATION
Volume 75, Issue 1, Pages 89-94Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2010.07.005
Keywords
Methyltransferase; 16S RNA; Ribosome; Antibiotic resistance; Bacteria
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- National Institutes of Health [AI088025]
- Department of Biochemistry Emory University School of Medicine
- Wellcome Trust [079242]
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES [R01AI088025] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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High-level resistance to a broad spectrum of aminoglycoside antibiotics can arise through either N7-methyl guanosine 1405 (m(7)G1405) or N1 methyl adenosine 1408 (m(1)A1408) modifications at the drug binding site in the bacterial 30S ribosomal subunit decoding center Two distinct families of 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) methyltransferases that incorporate these modifications were first identified in aminoglycoside-producing bacteria but were more recently identified in both human and animal pathogens These resistance determinants thus pose a new threat to the usefulness of aminoglycosides as antibiotics demanding urgent characterization of their structures and activities Here we describe approaches to cloning heterologous expression in Escherichia coli and purification of two A1408 rRNA methyltransferases KamB from the aminoglycoside-producer Streptoalloteichus tenebrarius and NpmA identified in a clinical isolate of pathogenic E coli ARS3 Antibiotic minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) assays and in vitro analysis of KamB and NpmA using circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAM) binding by isothermal titration calorimetry and 30S subunit methylation assays showed both enzymes were soluble folded and active Finally crystals of each enzyme complexed with SAM were obtained including selenomethionine-derived KamB that will facilitate high-resolution X-ray crystallographic analyses of these important bacterial antibiotic-resistance determinants (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc All rights reserved
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