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The Condensing Activities of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Type II Fatty Acid Synthase Are Differentially Regulated by Phosphorylation Virginie Molle, Alistair Brown, Gurdyal Besra, Alain Cozzone, Laurent Kremer To cite this version: Virginie Molle, Alistair Brown, Gurdyal Besra, Alain Cozzone, Laurent Kremer. The Condensing Activities of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Type II Fatty Acid Synthase Are Differentially Regu- lated by Phosphorylation. Journal of Biological Chemistry, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2006, 281 (40), pp.30094-30103. 10.1074/jbc.M601691200. hal-02282907 HAL Id: hal-02282907 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02282907 Submitted on 27 May 2021 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution| 4.0 International License THE JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY VOL. 281, NO. 40, pp. 30094–30103, October 6, 2006 © 2006 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc. Printed in the U.S.A. The Condensing Activities of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Type II Fatty Acid Synthase Are Differentially Regulated by Phosphorylation* Received for publication, February 22, 2006, and in revised form, July 5, 2006 Published, JBC Papers in Press, July 27, 2006, DOI 10.1074/jbc.M601691200 Virginie Molle‡, Alistair K. Brown§, Gurdyal S. Besra§1, Alain J. Cozzone‡, and Laurent Kremer¶2 From the ‡Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Prote´ines (IBCP UMR 5086), CNRS, Universite´Lyon1, IFR128 BioSciences, Lyon-Gerland, 7 Passage du Vercors, 69367 Lyon Cedex 07, France, the §School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom, and the ¶Laboratoire de Dynamique Mole´culaire des Interactions Membranaires, CNRS UMR 5539, Universite´de Montpellier II, case 107, Place Euge`ne Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 05, France Phosphorylation of proteins by Ser/Thr protein kinases terial waxy coat: they represent key virulence factors required (STPKs) has recently become of major physiological importance for intracellular survival (3, 4) and contribute to the physiopa- because of its possible involvement in virulence of bacterial thology of tuberculosis. They consist of very long chains of ␣  pathogens. Although Mycobacterium tuberculosis has eleven -branched -hydroxy fatty acids (C60-C90), whose biosynthe- STPKs, the nature and function of the substrates of these sis is controlled by two elongation systems, the eukaryotic-type enzymes remain largely unknown. In this work, we have identi- fatty acid synthase (FAS-I)3 and the prokaryotic-like FAS-II (5, fied for the first time STPK substrates in M. tuberculosis form- 6). FAS-I consists of a single multifunctional polypeptide, cata- ing part of the type II fatty acid synthase (FAS-II) system lyzing de novo synthesis of medium length acyl-CoA chains involved in mycolic acid biosynthesis: the malonyl-CoA::AcpM (C16-C26), whereas FAS-II comprises several distinct enzymes. transacylase mtFabD, and the -ketoacyl AcpM synthases KasA It catalyzes similar types of reactions to FAS-I, but functions on and KasB. All three enzymes were phosphorylated in vitro by acyl carrier protein (AcpM)-bound chains and is incapable of de different kinases, suggesting a complex network of interactions novo synthesis. The initial substrates of FAS-II are -ketoacyl- between STPKs and these substrates. In addition, both KasA AcpM resulting from the condensation by mtFabH of the acyl- and KasB were efficiently phosphorylated in M. bovis BCG CoA products of FAS-I with malonyl-AcpM (7, 8). Following each at different sites and could be dephosphorylated by the reduction by MabA, elimination of water by a yet unidentified M. tuberculosis Ser/Thr phosphatase PstP. Enzymatic studies dehydratase, and reduction by the enoyl-AcpM reductase revealed that, whereas phosphorylation decreases the activity InhA, the -ketoacyl-AcpM synthases KasA and KasB catalyze of KasA in the elongation process of long chain fatty acids further condensations with malonyl-AcpM in the FAS-II cycle synthesis, this modification enhances that of KasB. Such a (9, 10). Although changes in the mycolic acid profile seem to be differential effect of phosphorylation may represent an regulated by various environmental stimuli, such as those unusual mechanism of FAS-II system regulation, allowing encountered within the infected macrophage, very little is pathogenic mycobacteria to produce full-length mycolates, known at a molecular basis about how pathogenic mycobacte- which are required for adaptation and intracellular survival ria modulate mycolate composition in response to these in macrophages. changes. Whether regulation of FAS-II enzymes occurs at the transcriptional and/or the translational level is not known. Elu- cidation of mechanisms modulating mycolic acid biosynthesis Mycobacterium tuberculosis has a unique cell wall structure would shed some light on the capacity of M. tuberculosis to that accounts for the ability of the bacterium to grow in several adapt and survive within the infected host. contrasting environments and which is responsible for its low Reversible protein phosphorylation is a key mechanism by membrane permeability, contributing to its resistance to com- which environmental signals are transmitted to cause mon chemotherapeutic agents (1). The cell wall has been impli- changes in protein expression or activity in both eukaryotes cated as a direct modulator of interactions between mycobac- and prokaryotes. Genes encoding functional serine/threo- teria and the environment (2). This envelope, characterized by nine protein kinases (STPKs) are ubiquitous in prokaryotic its high lipid content, comprises an inner membrane barrier genomes, but little is known regarding their physiological composed of mycolic acids anchored to arabinogalactan, linked substrates and their participation in bacterial signal trans- to peptidoglycan. Mycolic acids are a hallmark of the mycobac- duction pathways (11). Understanding prokaryotic kinase biology has been seriously hampered by the failure to iden- * The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment tify relevant kinase substrates. Signaling through Ser/Thr of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked “advertise- ment” in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact. 1 A Lister-Jenner Research Fellow supported by a grant from the Medical 3 The abbreviations used are: FAS-I, eukaryotic-type fatty acid synthase; Research Council (MRC). AcpM, mycobacterial acyl carrier protein; FAS-II, prokaryotic type II fatty 2 Supported by a grant from the CNRS (ATIP Microbiologie Fondamentale). To acid synthase; FHA, forkhead-associated domain; STPK, Ser/Thr protein whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel.: 33-4-67-14-33-81; Fax: kinase; NTA, nitrilotriacetic acid; PVDF, polyvinylidene difluoride; IPTG, 33-4-67-14-42-86; E-mail: [email protected]. isopropyl-1-thio--D-galactopyranoside; GST, glutathione S-transferase. 30094 JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY VOLUME 281•NUMBER 40•OCTOBER 6, 2006 This is an Open Access article under the CC BY license. Phosphorylation of M. tuberculosis Condensing Enzymes TABLE 1 Primers used in this study Kinase Primera 5 to 3 sequenceb,c Primers pair PknA-(1–338) 132 (ϩ) TATGGATCCATGAGCCCCCGAGTTGGCGTGACGC 132/184 184 (Ϫ) TATAAGCTTCAACGCTGACCGGACGAAAACGTGCG PknB-(1–331) 133 (ϩ) TATGGATCCATGACCACCCCTTCCCACCTGTCCG 133/86 86 (Ϫ) TATAAGCTTCAACGGCCCACCGAACCGATGCTGCG PknD-(1–378) 206 (ϩ) TATGGATCCGTGAGCGATGCCGTTCCGCAG 206/207 207 (Ϫ) TATAAGCTTTTACCGTTTGTTGCCGGCCGGCGG PknE-(1–337) 220 (ϩ) TATGGATCCATGGATGGCACCGCGGAATCG 220/222 222 (Ϫ) TATAAGCTTTTACCAGGGCTGGCGGGCTGA PknF-(1–300) 212 (ϩ) TATGGATCCATGCCGCTCGCGGAAGGTTCGACGTTCGCCGGC 212/141 TTCACCATCGTCCGGCAGTTGGGGTCC 141 (Ϫ) TATAAGCTTTTACGGTTGCGACACCCGCGT PknG-(1–360) 200 (ϩ) TATGGATCCATGGCCAAAGCGTCAGAGACC PCR1 ϭ 200/201 201 (Ϫ) GTAGCCGACCGGGTCCCCGTGCCT PCR2 ϭ PCR1/273 273 (Ϫ) TATAAGCTTTTACAGCACCGGGTCGTCTTC PknH-(1–399) 187 (ϩ) TATGGATCCATGAGCGACGCACAGGAC 187/88 88 (Ϫ) TATAAGCTTGAGTTGGTTTTGCGCGGGGTCTG PknI-(1–351) 198 (ϩ) TATGGATCCATGGCGTTGGCCAGCGGCGTG PCR1 ϭ 198/199 199 (Ϫ) GGCCAACAGAATCCGTTGGTC PCR2 ϭ PCR1/211 211 (Ϫ) TATAAGCTTTTAGCGTGGCCGGCGCCTGGTGGG PknJ-(1–340) 208 (ϩ) GCGATGGCCAAGGACCCCATGCGT PCR1 ϭ 209/210 210 (Ϫ) TATAAGCTTTTAGTAGCGGCGCGGTCGTCTCGG PCR2 ϭ PCR1/209 209 (ϩ) TATGGATCCGTGGCCCACGAGTTGAGT PknK-(1–300) 274 (ϩ) TATGGATCCATGACCGACGTTGATCCGCAC 274/275 275 (Ϫ) TATAAGCTTTTAGACGGGCAGGGGCATCTCGTC PknL-(1–369) 196 (ϩ) TATGGATCCGTGGTCGAAGCTGGCACG 196/197 197 (Ϫ) TATAAGCTTTTATCGACGGGCGTGCTGTCG a Forward and reverse primers are represented by plus (ϩ) or minus (Ϫ), respectively. b Restriction sites are italicized. c The bases mutated from those present in the wild type are underlined. phosphorylation has emerged as a critical regulatory mech- EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURES anism in various bacteria, including pathogenic mycobacte- Bacterial Strains and Growth Conditions—Strains used for ria. The genome of M. tuberculosis contains eleven coding