둘째 아들 돼지가 연구한 논문이 지난 해 9월 17일에 이어 2013년 7월 23일 날짜로 미국 국립과학원 회보지(PNAS)온라인판에 게재됐다고 한다
인터넷을 뒤져보니 온통 비브리오 패혈증 이야기 일색이다.
생물학연구정보센터(BRIC)가 운영하는 한국을 빛내는 사람들 란에도 소개가 되어 있었다.
Structural insights into the regulation of sialic acid catabolism by the Vibrio vulnificus transcriptional repressor NanR
Jungwon Hwanga,b,1, Byoung Sik Kimc,1, Song Yee
Janga, Jong Gyu Limc, Dong-Ju Youd, Hyun Suk
Jungd, Tae-Kwang Oha, Jie-Oh Leeb, Sang Ho
Choic,2, and Myung Hee
Kima,e,2
aInfection and Immunity Research Center,
Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon 305-806,
Korea;
bDepartment of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of
Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Korea;
cNational
Research Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Toxicology, Department of
Agricultural Biotechnology, Center for Food Safety and Toxicology, Seoul
National University, Seoul 151-921, Korea;
dDivision of Electron
Microscopic Research, Korea Basic Science Institute, Daejeon 305-333, Korea; and
eBiosystems and Bioengineering Program, University of Science and
Technology, Daejeon 305-350, Korea
Edited by Robert Huber, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry,
Planegg-Martinsried, Germany, and approved June 6, 2013 (received for review
February 16, 2013)
Abstract
Pathogenic and commensal bacteria that
experience limited nutrient availability in their host have evolved
sophisticated systems to catabolize the mucin sugar N-acetylneuraminic
acid, thereby facilitating their survival and colonization. The correct function
of the associated catabolic machinery is particularly crucial for the
pathogenesis of enteropathogenic bacteria during infection, although the
molecular mechanisms involved with the regulation of the catabolic machinery are
unknown. This study reports the complex structure of NanR, a repressor of the
N-acetylneuraminate (nan) genes responsible for
N-acetylneuraminic acid catabolism, and its regulatory ligand,
N-acetylmannosamine 6-phosphate (ManNAc-6P), in the human pathogenic
bacterium Vibrio vulnificus. Structural studies combined with electron
microscopic, biochemical, and in vivo analysis demonstrated that NanR forms a
dimer in which the two monomers create an arched tunnel-like DNA-binding space,
which contains positively charged residues that interact with the nan promoter.
The interaction between the NanR dimer and DNA is alleviated by the
ManNAc-6P-mediated relocation of residues in the ligand-binding domain of NanR,
which subsequently relieves the repressive effect of NanR and induces the
transcription of the nan genes. Survival studies in which mice were challenged
with a ManNAc-6P-binding-defective mutant strain of V. vulnificus
demonstrated that this relocation of NanR residues is critical for V.
vulnificus pathogenesis. In summary, this study presents a model of the
mechanism that regulates sialic acid catabolism via NanR in V.
vulnificus.
nan gene repressor, mucin sugar utilization
1J.H. and
B.S.K. contributed equally to this work.
2To whom correspondence
may be addressed.
Author contributions: J.H., B.S.K., S.H.C., and M.H.K.
designed research; J.H., B.S.K., S.Y.J., J.G.L., D.-J.Y., H.S.J., and M.H.K.
performed research; T.-K.O. and J.-O.L.
contributed new reagents/analytic tools; J.H., B.S.K., S.Y.J., J.G.L., D.-J.Y., H.S.J., S.H.C., and M.H.K. analyzed data; and J.H., B.S.K., S.H.C., and M.H.K. wrote the paper.
아무튼 돼지, 축하해.
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