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Glycogen and glycogen branching enzymes in prokaryotic

7 Chapter 1 Preface are the most abundant group of renewable biomolecules. They are constituents of many biologically essential molecules such as starch, glycogen, and . Starch is mainly synthesized by photosynthetic , such as and green algae and serves as an energy and reserve. Glycogen is another intracellular storage polysaccharide found in prokaryotic microorganisms ( and ), and in eukaryotic cells such as yeast, and muscle and liver cells.

In humans, glycogen is made and stored primarily in the cells of the liver and skeletal muscle (1,2). Glycogen can make up from 1-2% in skeletal muscle to 5–6% of the liver’s fresh weight (1,3). Deficiencies in the synthesis and degra- dation of glycogen in humans can cause different diseases, such as von Gierke's disease (type I), van Creveld-von Gierke's disease, Andersen’s disease (type IV), and adult polyglucosan body disease (4-7).

Glycogen as storage compound is also accumulated in yeast and during growth or at the end of the growth phase if one or more nutrients are de- pleted, while there is still a carbon source available (8,9). The major advantage of glycogen as reserve storage compound is that it has virtually no contribution to the cell’s internal osmotic pressure as it is a high molecular weight compound. In addition, because of its dense branches and special physical properties, glycogen dissolves easily at low temperature and has a relatively low viscosity and high stability at high concentrations (10).

Glycogen is a branched polymer of α-D-anhydroglucose consisting of linear α-1,4-linked anhydroglucose residues with side chains attached via α-1,6-glyco- sidic linkages. The overall structure consists of maximally 12 tiers of anhydro- glucose chains with about 50% of the anhydroglucose residues in the outer chain. The average degree of polymerisation varies widely from 104 Da to 107 Da (11). In bacteria, glycogen includes various glycoside transferases, gly- coside hydrolases and regulatory proteins (8,12-15). In addition to ADP-glucose phosphatase and glycogen synthase, also glycogen branching enzyme (GBE) is crucial as it creates the α-1,6-bonds. Although absolutely required in glycogen synthesis, there are aspects of GBEs that are not well understood, such as the

8 Introduction relations between GBEs and α-1,6-branched glucans in the cell wall of Mycobac- terium bovis (16) or why some microorganisms have two or more GBE genes. Here, I provide more detailed information from the last few years related to gly- cogen, mainly focusing on glycogen metabolism in microorganisms and compare GBEs of family 13 (GH13) and glycoside hydrolase family 57 (GH57).

Glycogen accumulation in microorganisms Glycogen is a major intracellular reserve polymer of many microorganisms, be- ing reported in over 70 different , including Archaea, Bacteria and Eu- karyotes (Table 1). The accumulation of glycogen is usually induced by nutrient limitation in the presence of an extra carbon source (17-19). In general, bacterial and archaeal species accumulate glycogen in the stationary growth phase, when the growth is limited due to the lack of a nutrient such as , sulfur, or phos- phate. Nitrogen deficiency leads to the largest accumulation of glycogen (9,20). However, some species, such as Rhodopseudomonas capsulatus, Streptococcus mitis, Sulfolobus solfataricus, and sulphuraria synthesize most of the glycogen during the exponential growth phase (11,21-24). In yeast, glycogen is accumulated upon the limitation of nitrogen, phosphorus or sulfur during the sta- tionary phase (19).

The amount of glycogen accumulated differs widely, ranging from 0 to 70% of the cell dry weight (Table 1). Most of the Archaea for which glycogen production has been described produce 1 to 13% of the cell’s dry weight (25). Among gly- cogen-producing Bacteria, the yield is in the range of 0.3 to 40% of the cell dry weight (26-28), and exceptions of even 70% (29). It seems that the typical amount of glycogen produced varies from 10 to 30% of the cell dry weight (30-32). In yeast, depending on the environmental conditions and life cycle glycogen makes up some 1.5 to 22% of cell dry weight (19). One of the highest amounts of glyco- gen have been found in the red microalga Galdieria maxima reaching more than 60% cell dry weight (33). Not only amounts of glycogen produced varies, also the structure of the glycogen varies considerably as well as the role glycogen plays.

9 Chapter 1 Table 1 Glycogen accumulation in Microbes.

Glycogen Glycogen Name content(%) Reference Name content(%) Reference Archaea Desulfurococcus mucosus (22) Methanolobus tindarius 2.9 (25) Desulfurococcus mobilis (22) Methanosarcina barkeri (34) halobium (22) Methanosarcina thermophila (35) Halococcus morrhuae (22) Methanothrix soehngenii (36) Methanococcoides methylutens (37) Sulfobobus acidocaldarius (22) jannaschii 5.7 (25) Sulfolobus solfataricus (22) Methanococcus 13.3 (25) Thermococcus hydrothermalis (38) thermolithotrophicus Methanococcus vannielii 0.9 (25) Thermofilum pendens (22) Methanococcus voltae 1.1 (25) Thermoproteus tenax (22) Bacteria Acetivibrio cellulolyticus 37 (27) Rhodopseudomonas capsulata (23) Aeromonas hydrophila 65 (39) Rhodopseudomonas palustris (40) Agrobacterium rhizogenes 0.3 (26) Rhodospirillum rubrum (41) Agrobacterium tumefaciens (42) Salmonella montevideo 48 (43) Aerobacter aerogenes 9.3 (44) Salmonella enterica (45) Arthrobacter crystallopoietes 40 (28) Salmonella typhimurium (46) Arthrobacter viscosus 40-70 (29) Sarcina lutea 8.1 (47) Bacillus cereus 24 (31) Selenomonas ruminantium 26 (48) Bacillus megaterium (49) Shigella dysenteriae (43) Bacillus stearothermophilus (50) Streptococcus agalactive (51) (52) Streptococcus mitis (53) Bacteroides fragilis (54) Streptococcus mutans (55) Chlorobium limicola (56) Streptococcus pyogenes (51) Chromatium vinosum 17.5 (57) Streptococcus salivarius (58) Clostridium botulinum (59) Streptococcus sanguis (60) Clostridium pasteurianum (61) Streptomyces antibioticus 12 (62) Corynebacterium glutamicum 4-9 (63) Streptomyces brasiliensis 25 (30) Desulfobulbus propionicus (64) Streptomyces coelicolor (65) Desulfovibrio vulgaris (64) Streptomyces fluorescens (66) Enterobacter aerogenes (67) Streptomyces griseus (66) Streptomyces (68) (66) viridochromogenes Synechococcus elongatus Fibrobacter succinogenes (69) 50 (70) 6301 Mycobacterium phlei 10-16 (32) Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 (71) Mycobacterium smegmatis 3-11 (32) Synechococcus elongatus (72) Mycobacterium tuberculosis 5-14 (32) thermophilus 3 (73) Nocardia asteroides 20 (74) Vibrio cholerae (75) Anabaena spp. 25 (76) 20 (21) Cyanidium caldarium 44 (77) Saccharomyces cerevisiae 38 (78) Galdieria maxima 60 (33) Note: the percentage of glycogen is presented in dry cell weight. Data that are reported in wet cell weight or volume of culture are not presented in this table.

10 Introduction Biological functions in microbes Glycogen serves different functions in living cells. The first and main one is as energy or carbon source for maintaining the cellular integrity during tough living conditions. Comparison of glycogen containing cells of E. coli (79) or E. aerogenes (80) with glycogen-less cells under starvation conditions revealed that glycogen containing cells survive for a longer period of time. It was also found that E. coli and E. aerogenes containing glycogen did not degrade their RNA and protein to NH3 as glycogen-less cells did, suggesting that glycogen can preserve intracellular constituents resulting in a longer survival during the stationary growth phase. Similarly, glycogen containing cells of S. mutans (81), V. cholerae (75), and S. elongatus (72) were more persistent under different stress conditions than glycogen-less strains.

In addition to serving as an energy and carbon source to starving cells, glycogen also supplies carbon and energy during spore maturation. Glycogen has been detected in several Streptomyces strains known to produce spores (30,65,66,82); it was observed that glycogen deposition occurred in two phases: phase I depo- sition occurred in the centre of the mycelium while phase II deposition occurred in the developing spore chain. Glycogen was virtually absent in young vegetative mycelium, aerial hyphal stalks, and mature spores. Thus, glycogen was consid- ered as a nutrient source for the growth of aerial hyphal stalks in phase I and in phase II glycogen was consumed during spore maturation. Similarly, glycogen accumulation was also found in B. cereus and B. subtilis in early sporulation and consumed during spore maturation (31,52). Thus, it is believed that glycogen functions as carbon source and energy source in sporulating microorganisms.

Glycogen can also serve as a precursor of stress-protectant molecules, such as maltose, trehalose, and floridoside. Trehalose is a non-reducing α-1,1-glucose di- saccharide widely occurring in microorganisms serving a variety of purposes such as a carbon and energy source for the growth of bacteria (83,84) and spores (85-89); as a protectant of proteins and membranes during stress (90-93); as a transcriptional regulator in Bacillus (94); a regulatory molecule in the control of glucose metabolism (95); or as a structural constituent in the cell wall of Myco- bacterium (96). In some glycogen accumulating species, trehalose is produced

11 Chapter 1 together with glycogen as the main intracellular carbohydrate (62,97,98). Recent- ly, glycogen was found to provide the building blocks of trehalose synthesis in many bacteria, among which Sulfolobus (99,100), Rhizobium (101), Mycobacteri- um (102), Corynebacterium (103), and Arthrobacter (104).

Glycogen plays a potential role in the synthesis of cell wall constituents. The cell wall of M. tuberculosis contains up to 80% of branched polysaccharides structur- ally somewhat similar to glycogen. Moreover, it has been proposed that glycogen metabolism is linked to the cell wall synthesis in this bacterium (16,105).

Glycogen structure Glycogen is a branched polymer of α-D-anhydroglucose, consisting of a linear backbone of α-1,4-linked anhydroglucose residues with side chains attached via α-1,6-O-glycosidic linkages (Fig. 1). A structural formulae has been proposed and the constituent linear chains were categorized according to their relation- ship to the rest of the molecule (106,107): the A-chain is linked only through its reducing terminus to carbon 6 of the anhydroglucose unit of another chain; the B-chain is linked at its reducing end to another B or C chain while at the same time it carries one or more A and/or B chains as branches; the C-chain is the chain with the only free reducing end in the molecule (Fig. 1A).

The well accepted Whelan model of glycogen structure (Fig. 1B) is based on analyses of rabbit muscle glycogen (108-111). In this model, glycogen has a se- ries of tiers. The middle tiers are constituted by the B chains with each B chain bearing another two B chains linked by α-1,6-O-bonds. The ratio of A and B chains is rather similar among various glycogens, in the range of 1.1:1 to 1.2:1 (112), implying that 52-55% of the chains are A-chains. In addition, it indicates that 80-90% of the B chains bear two branches and 10-20% of the B-chains bear three branches. The outermost tier consists of A chains and contains ~50% of the anhydroglucose residues present in the entire molecule. Based on this model, the glycogen has a maximum of 12 tiers and a molecular weight of about 104 kDa (110). However, the molecular weight of glycogen isolated from bacteria varies considerably. For example, the glycogen of M. phlei is about 1×105 – 2×10 5 kDa

12 Introduction (32); that of S. natans a molecular weight of 7×104 kDa (11), and the glycogen of E. coli is 8.2×104 kDa (113).

The variation in the molecular weights of glycogens indicates that the Whelan model is not perfect in describing the structure of glycogen. Besides A, B and C chains, the structure of glycogen can also be represented by other parameters, including the degree of branching (DB), the chain length distribution, the aver- age chain length (ACL), the average internal chain length (AICL), the molecular weight (MW), and the particle radius. Glycogens from different sources display a distinct side chain distribution, pointing at a variation in the arrangement of short and long chains (114). Besides anhydroglucose, glycogen can also contain trace constituents, such as glucosamine or phosphate (12,114-116). Mammalian glycogen always contains glycogenin, a self-glycosylating protein at which the synthesis of mammalian glycogens starts (117). Prokaryotic glycogens, in con- trast, have no glycogenin.

A CH2OH CH2OH CH2OH O O O A-chain OH OH 4 OH 1 a-1,6-linkage O O OH O 6 CH2OH OH CH2OH OH CH2OH OH CH2 CH2OH O O O O O B-chain OH OH OH 4 OH 1 4 OH 1 a-1,6-linkage O O O O OH O 6 a-1,4-linkage CH2OH OH CH2OH OH CH2OH OH CH2OH OH CH2OH OH CH2 CH2OH O O O O O O O C-chain OH OH OH OH OH 4 OH 1 4 OH 1 Reducing end O O O O O O OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH

Figure 1. The structure of a branched oligosaccha- ride (A) and a glycogen model (B). The α-1,6-linkages are in red and the α-1,4-linkages in black. The glu- cose moiety of branch points are in blue, and the non- reducing ends in purple.

13 Chapter 1 Enzymatic synthesis of glycogen in bacteria In prokaryotes, glycogen is synthesized via the GlgC-GlgA pathway. Extracel- lular glucose is taken up by the cells and converted into glucose-6-phosphate by a phosphotransferase. Glucose-6-phosphate is then converted into glu- cose-1-phosphate by phosphoglucomutase (PGM). The activated glucose nucle- otide diphosphate, ADP/UDP-glucose is generated from α-glucose-1-phosphate by the action of glucose-1-phosphate adenylyltransferase (GlgC: EC 2.7.7.53) or glucose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase (GalU: EC 2.7.7.9) in the presence of ATP and Mg2+ (118,119). The glucosyl units of ADP/UDP-glucose is finally transferred by glycogen synthase (GlgA: EC 2.4.1.11) to a pre-existing primer under the release of ADP/UDP. In contrast to yeast and mammalian cells, no glycogenin has been found in bacterial glycogen nor has a gene encoding glyco- genin been identified in any of the sequenced prokaryotic . In bacteria, GlgA does not only elongate α-1,4 chains, but can also form the primer required for the elongation process by catalysing its own glycosylation (120). In addition to α-1,4-linkages, glycogen also contains about 10% α-1,6-linkages, which are introduced by glycogen branching enzyme (GlgB, EC 2.4.1.18).

Besides the classical GlgC-GlgA pathway (15), glycogen can also be synthesized by the GlgE pathway (Fig. 2), which was recently identified in Mycobacteri- um (121), using trehalose and maltose as building blocks. In this GlgE pathway, trehalose is synthesized from glucose-6-phosphate and ADP/UDP-glucose by otsA and otsB (122). Trehalose synthase carries out the isomerization reaction between trehalose and maltose. Maltose is subsequently converted to linear glu- cans by maltokinase (Pep2) and maltosyl transferase (Pep2-GlgE).

Glycogen catabolism involves enzymes such as glycogen phosphorylase (GlgP) removing glucose units from the non-reducing ends of the glycogen molecules and glycogen debranching enzyme (GlgX), cleaving the α-1,6-bonds (123,124). Recently, maltodextrin phosphorylase (MalP) was found to release maltodextrins from glycogen molecules in E. coli (125). An E. coli mutant deficient in glgX, glgP and malP, still released some maltodextrins from glycogen, suggesting that (an)other enzyme(s) can release maltodextrins from glycogen as well (125).

14 Introduction

Figure 2. Proposed glycogen metabolism pathway in bacteria.

Prokaryotic glycogen branching enzymes

Catalytic mechanism GBE is a key enzyme in the synthesis of glycogen introducing the α-1,6-linkages or branches. These side chains are not created by coupling single glucose moie- ties as glycosynthase does, but in contrast, GBEs transfer entire chain segments. Importantly, GBEs do not act on short chains but require a linear chain of at least 12 anhydroglucose residues before they are catalytically active (126). GBEs cata- lyze the formation of α-1,6-O-glycosidic bonds by cleaving an α-1,4-glycosidic linkage in the donor substrate and transferring the non-reducing end terminal fragment of the chain to the C6 hydroxyl position of an internal glucose residue that acts as the acceptor substrate (127). GBEs are classified as glycoside hydro- lases (GHs) sharing the retaining reaction mechanism as outlined by Koshland (128). Retaining-type enzymes use a two-step, double displacement mechanism involving a covalent glycosyl-enzyme intermediate as such retaining the ano- meric conformation (Fig. 3) (128,129).

The branching reaction starts with binding of the carbohydrate in the active site, followed by a nucleophilic attack of one of the two catalytic amino acids, typi- cally a glutamate or aspartate residue, on the anomeric center of the O-glycosidic linkage to be broken. At the same time the other catalytic amino acid residue, also typically a glutamate or aspartate, donates a proton to the O-glycosidic link-

15 Chapter 1 age to be cleaved. This combined nucleophilic attack and proton donation leads to the formation of a glycosyl-enzyme intermediate via an oxocarbenium ion- like transition state. In the second stage, the catalytic amino acid that acted as an acid catalyst now acts as a base catalyst deprotonating the incoming acceptor that attacks the glycosyl-enzyme intermediate leading to the formation of a covalent bond between the glycosyl moiety and the acceptor, again via an oxocarbenium ion-like intermediate. The incoming acceptor molecule can either be water, re- sulting in a hydrolysis of the donor molecule or another carbohydrate, resulting in the formation of a new O-glycosidic linkage. In the latter case, it is a transg- lycosylation reaction (128,129).

Acid/base C C HO O O δ+ O H O O O O - R δ R +H 2 O - -OR O O O O C C C - O O H Transition state O O H O O C C C O HO δ+ O O H Intermediate O O O O - δ H H

- O O O O C C

Transition state Figure 3. Hydrolytic and transfer reaction scheme of GBE (retaining mechanism).

Besides branching activity, GBEs also have α-1,4-hydrolase activity and some data suggests that they may possess some α-1,4-transferase activity as well (126,130). Most GBEs of GH13 do not have hydrolase activity, such as GH13 GBEs from A. globiformis (131), A. gottschalkii (132), B. fibrisolvens (133), D. geothermalis, D. radiodurans (134) and V. vulnificus (135). In contrast, some GBEs of GH13 from R. obamensis (RoGBE), R. marinus (RmGBE13) and P. mo- bilis (PmGBE13) showed some hydrolytic activity. Differently, all characterized GH57 GBEs showed a clear hydrolytic activity. TkGBE57 from T. kodakarensis

16 Introduction has 7% hydrolytic activity (chapter 4), TtGBE57 from T. thermophilus showed 15% hydrolase activity (chapter 3), PmGBE57 from P. mobilis even has 27% hydrolase activity (chapter 3). AmyC from T. maritima, initially identified as an α-amylase (136), has 29% hydrolase activity (chapter 2). Besides α-1,6-branching and α-1,4-hydrolytic activity, the GH13 GBE of R. marinus was shown to have some α-1,4-transferase activity (126,130). It is not known whether other GBEs have such a α-1,4-transferase.

Structural features The E. coli GBE was the first primary structure of a GBE determined (137), based on the amino acid sequence homology of the E. coli GBE with that of amylolytic enzymes (138). Amylolytic enzymes include α-amylase (EC 3.2.1.1), cyclomaltodextrin glucanotransferase (EC 2.4.1.19), isoamylase (EC 3.2.1.68) and pullulanase (EC 3.2.1.41), all belonging to the family 13 of glycoside hydro- lase (GH13). All these enzymes have four conserved sequence regions (CSRs) (139,140). Currently over 20 reaction specificities are found in GH13. Because of the ever-increasing number of sequences, the GH13 family was subdivided into 42 subfamilies (141). GBEs were divided into two subfamilies, the GH13_8 (Eukaryote) and the GH13_9 (Bacteria and Achaea).

Besides GH13, GBEs are also found in GH57, which was established in 1996 (142) based on the α-amylase sequences of Dictyoglomys thermophilum (143) and (144), being obviously different from the GH13 α-amylases (145). GH57 has several defined amylolytic enzyme specificities, such as α-am- ylase, amylopullulanase (EC 3.2.1.41), dual-specificity amylopullulanase/cyclo- maltodextrinase (EC 3.2.1.41/54), GBE, 4-α-glucanotransferase, α-galactosidase (EC 3.2.1.22), as well as a non-specified amylase (EC 3.2.1.-) and maltogenic amylase (EC 3.2.1.133) (145).

The crystal structure prediction demonstrated that the conserved catalytic do- main of GH13 GBEs contains a (β/α)8-barrel. The (β/α)8-barrel is characterized by the presence of 8 β-strands in the core of the enzyme, and 8 α-helices sur- rounding the β-strands (Fig. 4A). However, distinctly with GH13 enzymes, the

GH57 enzymes share a (β/α)7-barrel catalytic (Fig. 4B). In family GH13

17 Chapter 1 CBM48 is one conserved domain in front of the catalytic domain (134,146,147). Domain C always follows the catalytic domain located at C-terminus, which is an α-helix rich region. Differently, no N-terminal domains were found in GH57 enzymes. However, α-helices forming domain B are inserted into the catalytic domain (domain A) (148,149).

Figure 4. Topology models of family GH13 and family GH57 GBEs. A: (β/α)8-barrel of family GH13 GBE; B: (β/α)7-barrel of family GH57 GBE. Cylinders represent α-helices and arrows represent β-strands. The different domains of GH13 and GH57 are indicated. Domain B of GH57 is inserted between β-strand 2 and α-helix 5 of domain A (catalytic domain) while there is no domain B in GH13 GBEs.

The conserved sequence regions (CSRs I to IV) were firstly predicted for GH13 amylolytic enzymes by Baba et al. (150), and later three additional CSRs were predicted by Janecek (151). The four conserved sequence regions are located at β-strands 3, 4, 5, and 7, and contain the catalytic residues and conserved binding residues (D335, H340, R403, D405, E458, H525 and D526, E. coli numbering). Three catalytic residues are located at CSRII, III, and IV respectively, forming the catalytic triad, composed of the nucleophile (D405), the proton donor (E458), and the transition state stabilizer (D526) (Fig. 5A) (152,153).

18 Introduction The family GH57 members are characterised by five CSRs (I to V) (154), which are completely distinct from GH13 enzymes (Fig. 5B) and are located in β-strands 1, 3, 4, 10, and domain C, respectively. The two catalytic residues are present in CSR III and CSR IV.

Figure 5. Sequence alignment of homology regions of family GH13 (A) and family GH57 (B). EcGBE: GBE from E. coli; MtGBE: GBE from M. tuberculosis; AaeGBE: GBE from A. aeolicus; BcGBE: GBE from B. cereus; DrGBE: GBE from D. radiodurans; RmGBE: GBE from R. marinus; PhGBE: GBE from P. horikoshii; TkGBE: GBE from T. kodakarensis; TtGBE57: GBE from T. thermophilus; AmyC: GBE from T. maritima; PmGBE57: GBE from P. mobilis; NU: nucleophile; A/B: acid/base catalyst; TS: transition state stabilizer. The aligned sequences were prepared with EsPript (155).

The GH13 GBE of E. coli was the first crystal structure to be solved (PDB 1M7X); this enzyme lacked the N-terminal 112 amino acids and showed a com- mon (β/α)8-barrel catalytic domain (147). Recently, the crystal structures of GBEs from Cyanothece sp. (PDB 5GQU) and M. tuberculosis (PDB 3K1D) have been solved as well (146,156). The GBEs of GH13 show a multiple domain struc- ture: a N-terminal domain, a CBM48 domain, domain A, and domain C (Fig. 6). Generally, the N-terminus containing CBM48 is involved in substrate binding (157,158). An extra N-terminal domain (Domain N1) is present in many GBEs. The exact role of this extra domain is not clear. A truncation mutant without domain N1 displayed lower activity (146,159), and formed products with small differences in branching pattern of the product (134,159-161). Domain C is a β-strand rich module with one substrate binding site (157). Domain C knockout mutants showed the same substrate activity and branching pattern compared to

19 Chapter 1 wild type enzyme, which indicates that domain C does not influence substrate specificity and branching pattern (134).

To date, five crystal structures of GH57 have been solved: TkGBE57 of T. kod- akarensis KOD1 (PDB: 2N8T) (148)(141), TtGBE57 of T. thermophilus HB8 (PDB: 1UFA) (149), PhGBE of P. horikoshii OT3 (PDB: 5WU7) (162), TlGT of T. litoralis (PDB: 1K1W) (163) and AmyC of T. maritima MSB8 (PDB: 2B5D) (136). The GBEs of GH57 display multiple domains, including the catalytic do- main (domain A, (β/α)7-barrel), domain B inserted into domain A, and domain C (Fig. 6). No N-terminal domain was found in GH57 GBEs.

Figure 6. Overall structures of GH13 and GH57 GBEs. A. GH13 GBEs; EcGBE (PDB:1M7X, E. coli) missing N-terminal 116 residues; CsGBE (PDB: 5GQU, C. sp. ATCC 51142); MtGBE (PDB: 3K1D, M. tuberculosis); Domain A colored in green; Domain N colored in marine; CBM48 colored in cyan; Domain C colored in orange. B. GH57 GBEs; TkGBE57 (PDB: 3N8T, T. kadakarensis); TtGBE57 (PDB: 1UFA, T. thermophilus); PhGBE (PDB: 5WU7, P. horikoshii); Domain A colored in green; Domain B colored in yellow; Domain C colored in orange; Catalytic residues colored in red.

The GH13 GBEs have three conserved catalytic residues (Glu458, Asp405 and Asp526, EcGBE numbering) (Fig. 7A). Asp405 is the nucleophile forming the co- valent glycosyl-enzyme intermediate (147). Glu458 is the proton acceptor/donor (146,147). The third catalytic residue (Asp526) acts as transition state stabilizer. 20 Introduction In GH57 GBEs, the two catalytic residues Glu183 and Asp354 (TkGBE57 num- bering) play the same roles as Asp405 and Glu458 in GH13 enzymes (148,149) (Fig. 7B).

Figure 7. The locations of the GBE catalytic residues in the active site. The catalytic residues are colored in red. A. GH13 GBE (numbering EcGBE); B. GH57 GBE (numbering TkGBE).

Substrate specificity To understand the substrate specificity of GBEs it is essential to analyse the structure of the branched polysaccharides synthesised. However, characteriza- tion of the in-vivo substrate specificity of GBEs is very challenging, as the ac- tion of GBEs is coupled to the chain elongation reaction catalysed by glycogen synthase. In-vitro short chain gluco-oligosaccharides, amylose, amylopectin, or even starch are generally used as substrates. To date, a limited number of GH13 and GH57 GBEs have been characterized. Almost all GBEs characterized so far are more active towards amylose than amylopectin, with the exception of the GBE of D. radiodurans which is more active on amylopectin than on amylose (134). The GBE from D. geothermalis shows much higher activity with amylose than amylopectin (134). The GBE of R. obamensis was six times more active on amylose than on amylopectin and had low activity on glycogen (126), which is because amylopectin and glycogen as GBE products already are branched slowly in further branching, existing branch points might structural inhibit the synthesis of new branching points. The GBE from V. vulnificus was ten times more active on amylose than on amylopectin (135). Three isoforms of Cyanothece sp. ATCC 51142 (GBE1, GBE2 and GBE3) showed higher activity on amylose than on

21 Chapter 1 amylopectin (164). Several GH57 GBEs (TtGBE57, TkGBE57, PmGBE57 and AmyC) show a higher activity towards amylose than on amylopectin (this thesis).

The degree of branching, which can be determined by 1H-NMR or debranch- ing the branched products with isoamylase/pullulanase followed by reducing end quantification (165), is an important property of the branched polymers produced by GBEs. Generally, amylose is the substrate of the first choice, because it has virtually no α-1,6-linkages. The degree of branching of GH13 GBE products shows a large range from 6% to 13% (Table 1). Differently, GH57 GBE products have a similar degree of branching of around 9%.

The position of the branching point can be presented by the average internal chain length (AICL). The AICL of different GBEs products were compared, and showed that it was between DP2 and DP4, indicating that GBEs preferentially synthesize a new α-1,6-bonds at the second or third glucose residue (166). This was also found when the product of the E. coli and S. elongatus GH13 GBE were treated with phosphorylase or β-amylase followed by HPLC analysis. The new branching points were preferentially formed at the second or third glucose resi- due from the reducing end of the acceptor chain (167,168).

Chain length distribution of products The products of GBEs differ not only in the degree of branching but also in the distribution of the lengths of the side chains (Table 2). The products of the GH13 GBE of P. mobilis and R. obamensis have very short chains, making up more than 50% of the side chains (this thesis). The branched glucans obtained with the V. vulnificus GH13 GBE had about 20% chains with a DP≤ 5. Similarly, the GH57 GBEs of T. thermophilus, T. kodakarensis, T. maritima (AmyC) also had between 30 and 50% short side chains. It is worth to notice that the nature of the substrate seems to influence the chain length distribution. With amylose as substrate, the branched glucans had a relatively large amount of short chains, while fewer short chains were found in branched products derived from native starches. Most GBEs of both families transferred chains between DP6 and DP13, making up between 40% and 80%. The product of the GBE from D. geothermalis having over 80% of DP6-12 chains (134). Generally, the fraction of larger side chains of

22 Introduction (162) (134) (135) (134) (134) (134) (135) (169) (156) (167) (170,171) This thesis This thesis This thesis This thesis This thesis This thesis Reference ------6.2 6.2 13.1 10.9 Pea starch ------5.2 5.3 12.8 10.1 Waxy Waxy potato ------4.9 5.0 12.5 10.5 Waxy Waxy rice ------5.8 5.3 5.7 12.8 10.5 Tapioca Tapioca starch ------5.3 5.6 5.8 12.6 10.1 Potato starch ------5.0 5.3 8.0 11.3 12.7 10.2 Waxy Waxy corn ------5.4 5.3 7.7 9.6 7.3 13.0 10.4 Rice starch ------5.2 5.4 5.0 12.9 10.3 10.3 Corn starch - - - 9.4 9.3 8.5 8.5 9.1 9.4 9.2 8.6 6.2 11.8 12.2 12.3 12.3 13.5 Amylose Sources Thermococcus kadakarensis Petratoga mobilis Thermotoga maritima horikoshii Pyrococcus Petratoga mobilis Rhodothermus marinus geothermalis vulnificus Vibrio aeolicus Escherichia coli Bacillus subtilus Thermomonospora curvata Cyanothece sp. Synechococcus elongatus Geobacillus thermoglucosidans GBEs from different sources and the degree of branching of their products derived from various substrates. various from derived products of their of branching degree the and sources different GBEs from Name TkGBE57 TtGBE57 PmGBE57 AmyC PhGBE PmGBE13 RmGBE13 DgGBE VvGBE DrGBE AaeGBE EcGBE BsGBE TcGBE CsGBE1 ScoGBE GtGBE Table 2 Table

23 Chapter 1 DP13-18 is between 15-30%, however, the isoform 2 and isoform 3 GBEs of C. sp. showed long chains preference, especially GBE3 transferred 27% long chains (164), as well as ScoGBE from S. elongatus transferred 20% long chains (167). Differently, GH57 GBEs have a strong preference to transfer chains shorter than DP19 (chapter 3, this thesis). (162) (126) (134) (134) (107) (107) (171) (172) Reference This thesis This thesis This thesis This thesis This thesis This thesis This thesis This thesis This thesis This thesis 6 6 4 5 7 6 6 6 6 6 7 5 6 6 9 6 11 8-13 chain length Preferred - 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.2 2.5 0.1 0.2 0.6 0.6 1.9 5.0 5.0 1.17 43.3 DP≥19 - 7.6 6.1 6.4 1.3 1.6 7.7 8.8 11.3 24.1 22.4 18.6 22.7 22.7 25.1 30.7 12.1 14.4 DP13-18 - 58.6 49.3 40.5 68.2 72.9 71.6 73.1 70.0 47.1 46.4 60.2 77.7 82.4 71.0 63.2 44.3 78.1 DP6-12 Chain length distribution (%) - 0 5.2 4.7 9.8 4.1 7.3 8.2 2.0 1.1 2.5 33.8 44.6 50.9 51.4 52.0 27.4 14.1 DP≤5 Substrate Amylose Amylose Amylose Amylose Amylose Corn starch Corn starch Rice starch Rice starch Amylose Amylose Amylose Amylose Amylose Amylose Amylose Amylose ae-amylopectin Source thermophilus T. kodakarensis T. mobilis P. maritima T. horikorshii P. thermophilus T. kodakarensis T. thermophilus T. kodakarensis T. mobilis P. R. obamensis vulnificus V. D. geothermalis D. radiodurans A. aeolicus E. coli G. thermoglucosidans Cyanothece sp. Chain length distribution of enzyme treated starches. GBE TtGBE57 TkGBE57 PmGBE57 AmyC PhGBE TtGBE57 TkGBE57 TtGBE57 TkGBE57 PmGBE13 RoGBE VvGBE DgGBE DrGBE AaeGBE EcGBE GtGBE CsGBE1 continue next page Table 3 Table

24 Introduction (139) (139) (126) (134) (170) (170) (170) (170) Reference This thesis This thesis 7 6 5 6 7 6 8-13 8-13 8-13 8-13 chain length Preferred N N N N 5.1 0.7 2.6 16.7 35.3 19.8 DP≥19 N N N N 5.1 9.6 22.2 27.2 16.6 24.3 DP13-18 60.2 36.5 54.7 63.0 67.6 54.7 28.5 30.0 40.0 24.8 DP6-12 Chain length distribution (%) 0 0 0 0 0.9 1.0 1.2 23.6 31.3 20.2 DP≤5 Substrate ae-amylopectin ae-amylopectin Corn starch Rice starch Rice starch Rice starch Corn starch corn Waxy starch Tapioca Potato starch Source Cyanothece sp. Cyanothece sp. vulnificus V. mobilis P. R. marinus S. elongatus G. thermoglucosidans G. thermoglucosidans G. thermoglucosidans G. thermoglucosidans GBE CsGBE2 CsGBE3 VvGBE PmGBE13 RmGBE13 ScoGBE GtGBE GtGBE GtGBE GtGBE Continue The GH57 GBEs are shown in green, and GH13 displayed black. -: not tested. N: detectable.

25 Chapter 1 Phylogeny and distribution As glycogen is accumulated by many microorganisms, GBEs are widespread in nature. GH13 GBEs are found in both Eukaryotes and Bacteria, whereas GH57 GBEs are present in Bacteria and Archaea only. Most microorganisms have ei- ther a GH13 or a GH57 GBE. To get more insight into the distribution of GH13 and GH57 GBEs, 8,000 GH13 GBE and 2,000 GH57 GBE sequences were ex- tracted and selected, and finally 400 bacteria containing both families GBEs were extracted from the NCBI database and a phylogenetic tree was constructed (Fig. 8). The GBEs of GH13 or GH57 are found in more than 20 prokaryotic phyla. The distribution of GBEs is variable within and between . Based on the amino acid sequences of GBEs, the phylogenetic tree shows that the pri- mary structure of GBEs does not reflect the . In some cases, GBEs in the same taxa are located in the different clades. This observation holds for both family GBEs, which suggests that the of GBE involves ancient gene and lateral gene transfer.

Some bacterial species mainly of the phyla , , Cyano- bacteria and have two GBEs, one or more genes encoding a GH13 GBE as well as a GH57 GBE (Fig. 9). Interestingly, no Archaea containing both families of GBEs were found. The bacteria containing both family GBEs are less than 10% of the total number of bacteria collected in this study. In the Act- inobacteria phylum, most Actinobacteria species have both families GBEs. Typ- ically, in the Mycobacterium, all the members have both families GBEs. The GH13 GBE from M. tuberculosis has been characterized (105), whereas the GH57 GBE has not been characterized yet. In the phylum Firmicutes, species containing both families GBEs are only found in the classes Clostridia and Bacil- li; none of these GBEs have been characterized so far. Another big phylum with a GH13 and GH57 GBE in one species is that of the ; none of these GBEs have been characterized.

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Figure 8. Phylogenetic tree of GH13 (A) and GH57 (B) GBEs. The sequences were aligned by Clustal omega and the tree was constructed by using FigTree.

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Figure 9. The taxonomic tree of the bacteria containing both GH13 and GH57 GBEs. The subtrees of Pseudonocardia, Amycolatopsis, Gordonia, Rhodococcus, Nocardia and Mycobacterium were collapsed, because too much species were involved.

29 Chapter 1 Application of GBEs in starch modification Starch is the energy storage carbohydrate accumulated by many plants, including corn, rice, wheat and potato, and is the major dietary constitute of the human diet. It is composed of two types of polymers: amylose and amylopectin. Am- ylose is a virtually linear glucose polysaccharide linked by α-1,4-O-glycosidic bonds and amylopectin is a branched α-1,4-linked polysaccharide with recurring α-1,6-branching points (173). Besides consumed directly as food, starch is also used as ingredient in food and industrial applications, typically after chemically (174), physically (175,176) and/or enzymatically (177) modification. Well known application areas are food texturizing, adhesives, paper coatings and textile man- ufacturing (178-180). The enzymatic modification method has its own advantag- es, such as increased safety, substrate selectivity, and product specificity (181).

Based on the degradation pattern in an in-vitro assay, starch can be classified into three types: rapidly digestible starch (RDS), slowly digestible starch (SDS), and resistant starch (RS) (182). Generally, RDS is defined as the starch that is digested within 20 min. SDS is hydrolyzed slowly between 20 min. and 120 min. RS is not digested and will move through the small intestine to be fermented in the colon. SDS draws the attention, because it is considered to have a low glyce- mic index (GI) with extended glucose release (183,184), which can attenuate the postprandial blood glucose levels (185,186). The low GI or low glycemic response food can be used to reduce the risk of common chronic diet-related diseases (151,187-189). GBEs could be potentially used to convert starch or amylopectin into SDS and RS with an increased percentage of α-1,6-linkages (126,190). GBE modified starch is more difficult to hydrolyze to glucose because α-1,6-linkages are digested slower to glucose by mucosal α-glucosidases than α-1,4-linkages (191-193). Several GBEs, including those of S. mutans, R. obamensis and B. sub- tilus have been used to produce highly branched starches with reduced digestion properties (126,190,194).

30 Introduction Scope of this thesis In this PhD thesis the similarities and differences between a number of GH13 and GH57 GBEs are described. The focus is on substrate preferences, reaction specificity, and product properties. Several GH13 and GH57 GBEs are character- ized in detail and the products derived from amylose or starches were analyzed to determine the reaction specificity. Finally, the application of these GBEs in the production of slowly digestible starch was investigated using a range of different starches.

In Chapter 1 the current knowledge of glycogen metabolism in prokaryotes and that of the GBEs of families GH13 and GH57 is reviewed. The accumulation, bi- ological function, the structures of glycogen in prokaryotes and the distribution, primary structure, 3D structure, catalytic mechanism, reaction and products of GBEs are reviewed and discussed.

In Chapter 2 the characterization of AmyC as glycogen branching enzyme of GH57 from Thermotoga maritima with high hydrolytic activity is described. In order to proof that AmyC is a GBE, and not an amylase, amylose V was used as substrate, and the product was analyzed by NMR, the debranching assay and re- ducing end measurement. All results showed that AmyC creates new α-1,6-bonds and hydrolyzes α-1,4-bonds to release free oligosaccharides. The relatively high hydrolytic activity was explained from the 3D structure.

In Chapter 3 two novel GBEs of the P. mobilis SJ95 bacterium, one GH13 and one GH57 are described. The distribution of glycogen metabolism enzymes in Thermotogacea bacteria was investigated and it was found that only Petrotoga- cea bacteria have both family GBEs. The activity of PmGBE13 of family GH13 and PmGBE57 of family GH57 was quantified using amylose V as substrate. The biochemical properties of PmGBE13 and PmGBE57 were characterized in detail. PmGBE13 has high catalytic activity, converting amylose and starch into highly branched products with a degree of branching of 13%. PmGBE57 has, in contrast, a low activity, forming less branched products with 8.5% α-1,6-bonds.

Chapter 4 compared the differences of GH13 and GH57 GBEs from enzyme activity, substrate preference and product structures. The effect of the amylose

31 Chapter 1 content of the substrates on GBEs products were investigated by using amylose and amylopectin mixtures as substrates, and found that amylose has more effect on GH57 GBEs than GH13 GBEs. The different activities of both family GBEs were compared by using amylose V as substrate, and GH57 GBEs displayed rela- tively higher hydrolytic activity than GH13 GBEs, but the GH13 GBEs are more active in branching activity than GH57 GBEs.

In Chapter 5 the digestibility of GH13 and GH57 products derived from differ- ent natural starches by hydrolysis of pancreatic α-amylase and amyloglucosidase is given. The digestibility was correlated to the degree of branching and the inter- nal chain length. Increasing the degree of branching increased the SDS and RS content in highly branched α-glucans with the degree of branching below 10%. The amount of SDS and RS is constant with the degree of branching above 10% due to the short internal chain length limiting the binding of the α-amylase.

In Chapter 6 the results reported in this thesis are summarized and discussed. In addition, new topics for future research are proposed.

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