| Structural highlights
Function
[GCCF_LACPN] Has antibacterial activity against L.plantarum ATCC 8014. In purified form, the activity is bacteriostatic (IC(50)=2 nM) rather than bactericidal.[1]
Publication Abstract from PubMed
Bacteriocins are bacterial peptides with specific activity against competing species. They hold great potential as natural preservatives and for their probiotic effects. We show here nuclear magnetic resonance-based evidence that glycocin F, a 43-amino acid bacteriocin from Lactobacillus plantarum, contains two beta-linked N-acetylglucosamine moieties, attached via side chain linkages to a serine via oxygen, and to a cysteine via sulfur. The latter linkage is novel and has helped to establish a new type of post-translational modification, the S-linked sugar. The peptide conformation consists primarily of two alpha-helices held together by a pair of nested disulfide bonds. The serine-linked sugar is positioned on a short loop sequentially connecting the two helices, while the cysteine-linked sugar presents at the end of a long disordered C-terminal tail. The differing chemical and conformational stabilities of the two N-actetylglucosamine moieties provide clues about the possible mode of action of this bacteriostatic peptide.
Structural, dynamic, and chemical characterization of a novel s-glycosylated bacteriocin.,Venugopal H, Edwards PJ, Schwalbe M, Claridge JK, Libich DS, Stepper J, Loo T, Patchett ML, Norris GE, Pascal SM Biochemistry. 2011 Apr 12;50(14):2748-55. Epub 2011 Mar 21. PMID:21395300[2]
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References
- ↑ Stepper J, Shastri S, Loo TS, Preston JC, Novak P, Man P, Moore CH, Havlicek V, Patchett ML, Norris GE. Cysteine S-glycosylation, a new post-translational modification found in glycopeptide bacteriocins. FEBS Lett. 2011 Feb 18;585(4):645-50. doi: 10.1016/j.febslet.2011.01.023. Epub, 2011 Jan 18. PMID:21251913 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.febslet.2011.01.023
- ↑ Venugopal H, Edwards PJ, Schwalbe M, Claridge JK, Libich DS, Stepper J, Loo T, Patchett ML, Norris GE, Pascal SM. Structural, dynamic, and chemical characterization of a novel s-glycosylated bacteriocin. Biochemistry. 2011 Apr 12;50(14):2748-55. Epub 2011 Mar 21. PMID:21395300 doi:10.1021/bi200217u
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