Patent Application: US-67522603-A

Abstract:
there is provided a method for modulation of polysaccharide adhesin synthesis involving products of the ycdsrqp gene operon in bacteria , depicted in seq . id . no . 1 and 2 . also provided is the use of an inhibitor of a product of the ycdsrqp operon in improving the response of a mammalian patient suffering from a bacterial infection .

Description:
plasmid clones ( pucpga372 ) of this operon complement ycdq and ycds mutations and stimulate biofilm formation in a variety of e . coli strains . fig1 shows the effect of ycd genes on biofilm formation . bar graph a shows the effects in mg1655 . isogenic strains represented by bars 1 to 7 are mg1655 . ycdq mutant , ycds mutant , ycdq mutants containing puc19 or pucpga372 ( cloned ycdsrqp ) and ycds mutant containing puc19 or pucpga372 , respectively . bar graph b shows the effects of ycd genes in trmg1655 ( csra :: kanrr ). strain identities for bar 1 to 7 are trmg1655 , ycdq mutant , ycds mutant , ycdq mutants containing puc19 or pucpga372 , and ycds mutant containing puc19 or pucpga372 , respectively . a purification protocol was designed , which yielded a highly enriched polymeric glcn fraction from a strain containing the ycdsrqp plasmid clone . fig2 shows the fractionation of polysaccharide adhesion by gel filtration fplc . cell extract from strain trmg1655 cpse ycdq containing pucpg372 ( graph a ) or puc19 ( graph b ) was fractionated using a sephacryl s - 200 ( 16 / 60 ) column . fractions of 2 ml were collected and analyzed for total carbohydrate ( triangle ) and , after hydrolysis , for glucosamine ( square ). the straight line on each of graph a and b indicates the void volume of the column and was determined using 2 - mda blue dextran . the polysaccharide was used for routing polyclonal antibody production and for affinity - column purification of the antibodies . the antisera are used to develop a simple quantitative assay for the polymer , including elisa . there is a correlation between ycd gene expression , β - 1 , 6glcnac synthesis , and biofilm formation in e . coli . the ycd genes were cloned and were found to differ from the sequence reported by blattner as follows . in the ycdr gene , nucleotide 723 was changed from a to g , and the codon was changed from gtt ( leu ) to gct ( ser ). two other mutations in ycds gene , in which nucleotide 582 and 389 were changed from t to c , and the codons were changed from taa ( asn ) to tag ( asp ), and aac ( gln ) to agc ( arg ) respectively . with reference to seq id no : 6 , the numbering for the full dna sequence of ycds starts at the a of the atg initiation codon . individual mutations are numbered from the start codons of each gene . in seq id no : 6 , underlining indicates codons affected by point mutations and the insertion sites for the various transposon mutants are shown by downward facing arrows . involvement of ycdsrqp operon in the biosynthesis of unbranched β - 1 , 6 - glcnac ( polysaccharid intercellular adhesin ) the ycdsrqp operon , which encodes proteins needed for the production and function of a biofilm polysaccharide adhesin , was cloned and sequenced , and mutants were prepared . plasmid construction . the ycd operon was amplified by polymerase chain reaction from chromosomal dna of mg1655 using the oligonucleotide primers tacagttmgtgtgttatcggtgcagagcc ( seq id no : 4 ) and ctcmcgcctggctgattaaaccmctattc ( seq id no : 5 ). the pcr product , a 6 . 9 kb fragment , was purified by qiaquick gel extraction kit ( qiagen ) and cloned into vector pcr - xl - topo ( invitrogen ) using d h5α as the host for transformation . approximately 120 clones were screened for increased biofilm production . one clone pcrpga37 , increasing biofilm ˜ 6 - fold when expressed in dh5α was subsequently treated with hindiii and xbal , and the insert dna was subcloned into pucl9 to yield plasmid pucpga372 . pcrpga37 was sequenced . transposon mutagenesis . transposon mutants were generated by infecting trmg1655δfimb - hδmotb with λnk1324 at a multiplicity of infection of 0 . 2 , essentially as described in romeo et al ., j . bacteriol . 175 : 4744 ( 1993 ) and kleckner , meth . enzymol . 204 : 139 ( 1991 ). the insertion mutants were selected on kornberg agar containing 30 ug / ml chloramphenicol . chloramphenicol - resistant colonies were picked and grown at 26 ° c . in 96 - well , polystyrene microtiter plate containing cfa with 30 ug / ul chloramphenicol . after 24 hr , the cells were subculture into corresponding wells in 96 - well microtiter plates containing cfa with 30 ug / ul chloramphenicol and incubated at 26 ° c . for 24 hr . turbidity in the wells was determined to avoid isolation of mutants with growth defects , and biofilm by the mutants was measured . mutants with altered ability to form biofilms were saved . these candidate mutants were streaked to isolate single colonies on kornberg agar and retested for their ability to form biofilm . candidate insertion mutations were transferred by p1vir transduction into the original parent strain or related strains and retested for the biofilm development . stock cultures were saved at − 80 ° c . purification of the polysaccharide adhesin . e . coli strains containing pucpga372 or pucl9 were grown for 24 hours at 37 ° c . with shaking at 250 rpm in cfa medium containing 100 μg / ml ampicillin . bacterial cells were harvested and resuspended in 50 mm tris . hcl ( ph 8 . 0 ). cell extracts were prepared by lysozyme - edta treatment in the presence of dnase , rnase and α - amylase ( sigma ) and were phenol extracted ( wolf - watz , h ., j . bacteriol ., 115 : 1191 - 1197 , 1973 ; westphal , o . and jann , k ., j ., methods carbohyd . chem ., 1964 ). the aqueous phase was extracted with chloroform , concentrated in an amicon cell with a ym10 membrane and fractionated by fplc on sephacryl 5 - 200 . the column was equilibrated with 0 . 1 m pbs ( ph 7 . 4 ) and eluted with the same buffer . the glcnac - containing polysaccharide was detected by the mbth assay following hydrolysis for 2 hours at 110 ° c . in 0 . 5m hcl ( smith , r . l . and gilkerson , e ., anal . biochem ., 98 : 478 - 480 , 1979 ). total carbohydrate was measured by phenol - sulfuric acid assay ( dubois , m ., et al ., anal . chem . 28 : 350 - 356 , 1959 ). quantitative biofilm assay . bacterial overnight cultures were inoculated 1 : 100 dilution into 96 - well microtiter plate containing 200 □ l / well fresh medium plus appropriate antibiotics . the plates were incubated at 26 ° c . for 24 hours . biofilm was measured by discarding the medium , rinsing the wells with water ( three times ), and staining bound cells with crystal violet ( bbl ). the dye was solubilized with 33 % acetic acid , and absorbance at 630 nm was determined using a microtiter plate reader . background staining was corrected . all comparative analyses were conducted by incubating strains within the same microtiter plate to minimize variability . each experiment was performed at least in triplicate . precursor - product relationship of glycogen to pia by 13 c nmr direct evidence for the precursor - product relationship of glycogen to pia is established using 13 c glucose pulse labelling at the transition to a stationary phase . during this time , replication and growth decline , while glycogen synthesis remains active . thus , 13 c incorporation into glycogen is efficient . nmr spectra of growing cultures are monitored in real time for glycogen and pia . the availability of a strain disrupted in ycdq is a powerful asset for these studies , and allows the precursor - product relationship to be firmly established . ycdq blocks pia synthesis , but not glycogen synthesis . glucose differentially labeled in carbons 1 , 2 or 6 is used to follow the conversion to glycogen and pia . the commercial availability of these substrates allows monitoring of bacterial metabolism . to assess the potential role of ycdq and the other ycd genes in synthesis of β - 1 , 6 - glcnac , membranes are prepared from wild type and nonpolar mutants , incubated with udp - n - acetyl - d -[ u - 14c ] glucosamine . the resulting oligosaccharides are separated by thin - layer chromatography and detected by autoradiography ( gerke , c et al , j . biol . chem . 273 : 18586 - 18593 , 1998 ). ycdq is a n - acetylglucosamine transferase which adds n - acetylglucosamine to the growing polymer . thus , ycdq is very important for cell - free synthesis of pia , although other ycd genes can affect the reaction rate and / or extent of the polymerization reaction . the roles of ycd genes in pia transport and pia - dependent adhesion there is a mechanism by which pia traverses the outer membrane of e . coli . in some instances , ycds is involved in pia export . to show this , pia is synthesized in isolated membranes from an ycds nonpolar mutant . this pia is detectable in cell lysates , but is not found on the cell surface using antibody binding to whole cells . ycds is involved in the formation of cell to cell biofilm links . in some instances ycds also plays a role as an anchor protein that helps to attach pia to the cell surface . in such instances , significant amounts of pia are observed in extracellular fractions , but little cell bound materials is present . ycdr plays a role in polysaccharide deacetylation . this is evaluated by nmr studies . the role of ycdr in transit is proven by immunolocation studies . ycdq is involved in adhesin synthesis . this is shown by the reduction of biofilm formation following disruption of the ycdq gene . thus , the invention provides , in one embodiment , a mutation of the ycdr gene , sufficient to alter ycdr activity : the mutation is a non - conservative mutation , disrupting expression of the normal gene product . in some instances the mutation changes the encoded amino acid from an aliphatic amino acid to a hydrophilic amino acid . in some instances the mutation enables the encoded amino acid to engage in hydrogen bonding , which the wild type encoded amino acid was unable to engage in . in some instances the mutation is a frame shift mutation resulting in a loss of the downstream encoded gene product . in some instances the mutation introduces a stop codon into the gene prior to the normal stop position , resulting in a truncated gene product . in an embodiment of the invention there are provided non conservative mutants , of the ycds gene . in some instances , the mutation in ycds gene is a non - conservative mutation resulting in coding for an uncharged amino acid ( at physiological ph ) where a charged amino acid appears in the wild type . in some instances , the mutation results in the replacement of a negatively charged amino acid with an uncharged amino acid ( at physiological ph ). in some instances , the mutation results in the replacement of an amino acid generally uninvolved in hydrogen bonding , with one capable of forming a hydrogen bond at physiological ph . in some instances the mutation is a frame shift mutation resulting in a loss of the downstream encoded gene product . in some instances the mutation introduces a stop codon into the gene prior to the normal stop position , resulting in a truncated gene product . in some instances , the mutation in the ycds gene results in the replacement of an uncharged amino acid ( at physiological ph ) with a charged amino acid . in some instances , this mutation results in the replacement of an uncharged amino acid with a positively charged ( at physiological ph ) amino acid . in some instances , the mutation results in the replacement of an amino acid having a side chain capable of acting as a hydrogen bond acceptor with an amino acid incapable of acting as a hydrogen bond acceptor ( at physiological ph ). mutation of the ycdp gene substantially prevents biofilm formation . thus , ycdp is needed for biofilm formation . inhibition of biofilm formation through interference with the activity of proteins encoded by the ycd operon ycdq is involved in the polymerization of udp - n - acetylglucosamine to form β - 1 , 6 - n - acetylglucosamine polymer known as pia ( polysaccharide intercellular adhesin ) from udp - n - acetylglucosamine , which is required for biofilm formation . crude membrane - bound n - acetylglucosaminyltransferase is prepared from overproducing strain of e . coli according to the method , described by gerke , et al . ( j . biol . chem ., 273 : 18586 - 18593 , 1998 ). the overnight culture of e . coli is harvested by centrifugation , and the cell pellets , are resuspended in buffer a ( 50 mm tris hcl ph 7 . 5 , 10 mm mgcl 2 and 4 mm dithiothreitol ; 2 μl / mg of cell wet weight ). grinding in a mortar disrupts dnase 1 ( 20 μg / ml ) is added before breaking the cells . unbroken cells are sedimented ( 2000 × g , 10 min and the supernatant is saved . the procedure is repeated one to three times and all the supernatants are pooled . membranes are sedimented from the crude extract by ultracentrifugation ( 200 , 000 × g , 20 min ) and resuspended in buffer a at a protein concentration of 5 mg / ml ( 5 - fold concentration of the membrane proteins over the crude extract ). for further purification , the crude membranes are extracted with 2 % ( w / v ) triton x - 100 ( in buffer a ) for 2 h with gentle shaking , sedimented again , washed once with buffer a , and resuspended in the same volume of buffer a as the crude membranes . protein concentration is determined by the method bradford ( anal . biochem ., 72 : 248 - 254 , 1976 ). in vitro reactions to analyze n - acetylglucosaminyltransferase activity are performed by incubating crude extracts with 0 . 4 mm udp n - acetylglucosamine . in vitro synthesis of peptidoglycan is repressed by adding 50 μg / ml d - cycloserine ( lugtenberg , et al ., j . bacteriol ., 109 : 326 - 335 , 1972 ). for radiolabeling , 10 μm udp - n - acetyl - d -( u - 14 c ) glucosamine is added . analytical mixture is carried out in a total volume of 50 μl . reaction mixture is incubated for 12 h at 20 ° c . the reaction is stopped by the addition of 200 μl of water and boiling for 3 min . after centrifugation , the supernatant is loaded on a sephadex a - 25 anion - exchange column ( gel volume , 300 - 500 μl ) equilibrated with water . the column is washed with 2 ml of water . the unbound fraction ( flowthrough and wash ) is lyophilized . radioactive products purified by sephadex a - 25 are subjected to gel filtration on a bio - gel p - 2 column ( 90 × 1 . 5 cm ) equilibrated with 0 . 1 m pyridine acetate ( ph 6 ) at a flow rate of 0 . 3 ml / min . fractions of 2 ml are collected and radioactivity is measured by liquid scintillation counting ( geremia , et al ., proc . natl . acad . sci ., usa ., 91 : 2669 - 2673 , 1994 ). for all ycd proteins of interest , combinatorial libraries are screened to identify inhibitors . in addition , known inhibitors of key enzymes are tested using appropriate concentrations as reported in the literature . these inhibitors include natural or synthetic compounds and some analogues . these compounds are obtained from routine suppliers of reagent grade chemicals . the compounds showing maximum inhibition will be selected for determining their antibiofilm activity . alternatively or additionally , libraries of compounds are tested for antibiofilm activity . antibiofilm activity can include inhibiting ycdq activity acid inhibiting biofilm formation by an e . coli culture . known deacetylase inhibitors and variants of such inhibitors are used to study their inhibitory effects on ycdr . short oligosaccharides of beta - 1 , 6 - glcac and synthetic / semisynthetic compounds capable of binding ycds under physiological conditions are used to study their inhibitory effects on ycds . known glycosyltransferase inhibitors , such as tunicamycin , bacitracin , isofagomine and azafagomine are used to study their inhibitory effects on n - acetylglucosaminyltransferase ( ycdq ). in addition , variants of such inhibitors are examined . ( for example , having acyl substitutions of a different size or having one or more altered or additional side groups .) n - acetylglucosaminyltransferase in a crude extract is incubated with different concentrations of inhibitors in the presence of 0 . 4 mm udp - n - acetylglucosamine . in vitro synthesis of peptidoglycan is repressed by adding 50 μg / ml d - cycloserine ( lugtenberg , et al , j . bacteriol ., 109 : 326 - 335 , 1972 ). for radiolabeling , 10 μm udp - n - acetyl - d -( u - 14 c ) glucosamine will be added . the reaction is carried out in a total volume of 50 μl . the reaction mixture is incubated for 12 h at 20 ° c . the reaction is stopped by the addition of 200 μl of water and boiling for 3 min . after centrifugation , the supernatant is loaded on a sephadex a - 25 anion - exchange column ( gel volume , 300 - 500 μl ) equilibrated with water . the column is washed with 2 ml of water . the unbound fraction ( flowthrough and wash ) is lyophilized . radioactive products purified by sephadex a - 25 a subjected to gel filtration on a bio - gel p - 2 column ( 90 × 1 . 5 cm ) equilibrated with 0 . 1 m pyridine acetate ( ph 6 ) at a flow rate of 0 . 3 ml / min . fractions of 2 ml are collected and radioactivity is measured by liquid scintillation counting ( geremia , et al ., proc . natl . acad . sd ., usa ., 91 : 2669 - 2673 , 1994 ). the antibiofilm activity of selected enzyme inhibitors is evaluated using a microtiter plate format biofilm assay as described below . e . coli are used for biofilm inhibition assay . ( the biofilm assay can be automated using robotics , if desired .) further , the compounds showing significant antibiofilm activity are tested for their ability to block biofilm formation on commonly used medical devices . cultures of e . coli for biofilm assay are grown in luria - bertani ( lb ) at 37 ° c . biofilm assays are carried out in colony - forming antigen ( cfa ) medium . overnight cultures are inoculated 1 : 100 into fresh medium . in the microtiter plate assay , inoculated cultures are grown in a 96 - well polystyrene microtiter plate for 24 h at 26 ° c . growth of planktonic cells are determined by absorbance at 600 nm or total protein assay using a elisa plate reader . biofilm is measured by discarding the medium , rinsing the wells with water ( three times ), and staining bound cells with crystal violet ( bbl ). the dye is solubilized with 33 % acetic acid , and absorbance at 630 nm is determined using a microtiter plate reader . for each experiment , background staining is corrected by subtracting the crystal violet bound to uninoculated controls . all comparative analyses are conducted by incubating 25 strains within the same microtiter plate to minimize the variability . at least two compounds from each enzyme inhibition study are selected for evaluation of their antibiofilm activity . the biofilm inhibition assay is performed for each compound . in the microtiter plate assay , inoculated cultures are grown in a 96 - well polystyrene plate in the presence and absence ( control ) of selected enzyme inhibitors at different concentrations at 26 ° c . the plates are incubated for 24 h at 37 ° c . biofilm is measured by discarding the medium , rinsing the wells with water ( three times ), and staining bound cells with crystal violet . the dye is solubilized with 33 % acetic acid , and absorbance at 630 nm is corrected by subtracting the crystal violet bound to uninoculated controls . each assay is performed 3 - 5 times . the concentrations of each enzyme inhibitor used for the assay is plotted against 0 d obtained for biofilm growth in order to indicate the percentage of inhibition in comparison with the control . the compounds that inhibit biofilm formation on a microtiter plate are tested for their inhibitory effects on biofilm formation of e . coli in medical devices like urinary catheters . the above methods are also applied , with suitable modifications employed in identifying , inhibitors of other products of the ycd operon , including ycdr and ycds . in one approach , ycdr activity is determined by assaying the production of acetate from polysaccharide by hplc . in one approach , radiolabeled pia and its precursors are provided and the release of radiolabeled acetate is measured . such release is proportional to ycdr activity . ( i ) the proteins encoded by the genes of the ycd operon are purified by routine means , and their crystal structure is determined . ( ii ) the structure of the region surrounding the amino acids in the ycdr which binds the polysaccharide is examined to identify the characteristics of molecules likely to interact specifically with that region . ( iii ) compounds having the general characteristics identified are screened for an ability to bind to the identified region in ycdr when immobilized in solution at physiological ph , tonicity and temperature . ( iv ) compounds showing an ability to bind to ycdr are identified . these compounds are , individually , added to e . coli cultures , and their effect on biofilm formation is determined . compounds capable of reducing biofilm formation in e . coli cultures are inhibitors of the ycdr protein . ( ii ) large libraries of compounds are screened for an ability to bind to ycdr when immobilized . ( iii ) binding compounds are examined with respect to their ability to decrease biofilm formation in e . coli culture . either one of method a or b is applied with suitable modification to identify inhibitors of ycdq and ycds . modification will involve immobilizing the gene product of interest and , for method a , step ( ii ), examining the structure of the region surrounding the amino acid by the codon containing a nucleotide mutation of which reduces biofilm formation an e . coli containing environment . in some instances , inhibitors of products of the ycd operon may be encapsulated or otherwise treated to facilitate entry into e . coli cells , for example by liposome encapsulation including specific factors encouraging uptake by e . coli cells . mutations in cloned ycd operon carried by pucpga372 . one mutation is in the ycdr gene , in which nucleotide 723 was changed from t to c , and the codon was changed from ttg ( leu ) to tcg ( ser ). the other two mutations are in ycds gene 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