Journal
GLYCOBIOLOGY
Volume 23, Issue 2, Pages 232-240Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/glycob/cws142
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Bifidobacterium bifidum; blood group antigen; alpha-galactosidase; glycosidase; probiotics
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- JSPS KAKENHI [24580179]
- JSPS Asian Core Program
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [24580179, 24580119] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Bifidobacterium bifidum is one of the most frequently found bifidobacteria in the intestines of newborn infants. We previously reported that B. bifidum possesses unique metabolic pathways for O-linked glycans on gastrointestinal mucin (Yoshida E, Sakurama H, Kiyohara M, Nakajima M, Kitaoka M, Ashida H, Hirose J, Katayama T, Yamamoto K, Kumagai H. 2012. Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis uses two different beta-galactosidases for selectively degrading type-1 and type-2 human milk oligosaccharides. Glycobiology. 22: 361-368). The nonreducing termini of O-linked glycans on mucin are frequently covered with histo-blood group antigens. Here, we identified a gene agabb from B. bifidum JCM 1254, which encodes glycoside hydrolase (GH) family 110 alpha-galactosidase. AgaBb is a 1289-amino acid polypeptide containing an N-terminal signal sequence, a GH110 domain, a carbohydrate-binding module (CBM) 51 domain, a bacterial Ig-like (Big) 2 domain and a C-terminal transmembrane region, in this order. The recombinant enzyme expressed in Escherichia coli hydrolyzed alpha 1,3-linked Gal in branched blood group B antigen [Gal alpha 1-3(Fuca1-2)Gal beta 1-R], but not in a linear xenotransplantation antigen (Gal alpha 1-3Gal beta 1-R). The enzyme also acted on group B human salivary mucin and erythrocytes. We also revealed that CBM51 specifically bound blood group B antigen using both isothermal titration calorimetry and a solid-phase binding assay, and it enhanced the affinity of the enzyme toward substrates with multivalent B antigens. We suggest that this enzyme plays an important role in degrading B antigens to acquire nutrients from mucin oligosaccharides in the gastrointestinal tracts.
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