10.1042\/bcj20170633<\/a><\/p>\nAuthors:<\/h4>\n
Richard A. Owen, Paul K. Fyfe, Adam Lodge, Jacob Biboy, Waldemar Vollmer, William N. Hunter, Frank Sargent<\/p>\n
Abstract:<\/h4>\n
The Gram-negative bacterium Serratia marcescens<\/i> secretes many proteins that are involved in extracellular chitin degradation. This so-called chitinolytic machinery includes three types of chitinase enzymes and a lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase. An operon has been identified in S. marcescens<\/i>, chiWXYZ<\/i>, that is thought to be involved in the secretion of the chitinolytic machinery. Genetic evidence points to the ChiX protein being a key player in the secretion mechanism, since deletion of the chiX<\/i> gene in S. marcescens<\/i> led to a mutant strain blocked for secretion of all members of the chitinolytic machinery. In this work, a detailed structural and biochemical characterisation of ChiX is presented. The high-resolution crystal structure of ChiX reveals the protein to be a member of the LAS family of peptidases. ChiX is shown to be a zinc-containing metalloenzyme, and in vitro<\/i> assays demonstrate that ChiX is an l-Ala d-Glu endopeptidase that cleaves the cross-links in bacterial peptidoglycan. This catalytic activity is shown to be intimately linked with the secretion of the chitinolytic machinery, since substitution of the ChiX Asp-120 residue results in a variant protein that is both unable to digest peptidoglycan and cannot rescue the phenoytype of a chiX<\/i> mutant strain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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