Characterization of permissive and non-permissive peptide insertion sites in chloramphenicol acetyltransferase.

Microbial Pathogenesis
Andrew GoodaleFinbarr Hayes

Abstract

The growing prevalence of antibiotic resistance in numerous pathogenic bacteria is a major public health concern and urgently requires the development of new therapeutic approaches. Multidrug resistant species that remain sensitive to chloramphenicol (CAM) treatment have engendered renewed interest in using this drug as a modern day antimicrobial agent. High-level resistance to CAM commonly is mediated by chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) which catalyzes the acetylation of CAM and renders the drug inactive. Of the three main types (CATI, CATII and CATIII), CATI is of broad clinical significance. Despite this importance, understanding of the catalytic mechanism of CATI largely is extrapolated from studies of CATIII. Here, pentapeptide scanning mutagenesis was used to generate a library of random insertions in CATI to gain a better understanding of structure-function relationships in the enzyme. Pentapeptide insertions in secondary structure elements which contain residues that form part of the CATI active site abolished CAM resistance in Escherichia coli. Insertions in secondary structures that have key roles in protein folding and CAM binding led to a reduction in resistance. In contrast, insertions in loop regions betwee...Continue Reading

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