SNP search in NAD+ resistent Streptococcus pneumoniae
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ABSTRACT: To gain deeper insights into antibacterial mechanisms of NAD+ and bacterial adaptation, we generated and sequenced NAD+ resistant clones of Spn. For this purpose, Spn was cultivated in liquid medium with increasing concentrations (50 µM to 5 mM) of NAD+. After six passages, bacteria were plated on blood agar supplemented with 500 µM NAD+ and three clones were picked
Project description:Posttranslational modifications of proteins (PTMs) greatly enhance their functional diversity, surpassing the number of gene-encoded variations. One intriguing PTM is ADP-ribosylation, which utilizes nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) as a substrate and is essential in cell signaling pathways regulating cellular responses. Here, we report the first cell-permeable NAD+ analogs that are modified with a dye or an affinity tag, respectively, and demonstrate their suitability as tools for investigating of the cellular ADP-ribosylation process. Utilizing desthiobiotin-tagged probes, we characterized ADP-ribosylome changes during oxidative stress in HeLa cells. We identified proteins previously described as ADP-ribosylation targets or closely associated with them. Therefore, we believe that our cell-permeable NAD+ probes offer reliable tools for comprehensive ADP-ribosylation investigations and understanding cellular responses to stress.
Project description:Investigation of transcriptome changes in four human cell lines (BJ, BJ-5ta, U2OS and HeLa) after treatment for 24 hours with nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+). Cells were untreated as the control condition. Nanopore sequencing of cDNA was performed after library preparation with the ONT SQK-PCB109 kit.
Project description:The goal of the microarray was to investigate the transcriptome changes induced by exogenous NAD+ in the wild-type Col-0 plants. Results showed that exogenous NAD+-induced dramatic transcriptional changes in Arabidopsis. Particularly, a large group of salicylic acid pathway genes including NPR1 and its traget genes were induced by NAD+, whereas the jasmonic acid/ethylene pathway defense marker gene PDF1.2 was inhibited by NAD+ treatment. In addition, a group of the pathogen-associated molecular pattern pathway genes were also induced by exogenous NAD+. These results indicate that exogenous NAD+ induces defense pathways against (hemi)biotrophic pathogens but suppresses defense against necrotrophs. Two to three replicates with leaves from 8-12 plants per sample were collected at 0, 4, and 24 hr after NAD+ treatment. Leaf tissues were collected as the control at 0 hr, and NAD+-treated leaf tissues were collected at 4 and 24 hr. After extraction, RNA concentration was determined on a NanoDrop Spectrophotometer (Thermofisher Scientific, Waltham, MA) and sample quality was assessed using the 2100 Bioanalyzer (Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, CA). Equal amount of RNA from the biological replicates were used for microarray analysis.
Project description:We developed a Copper-free, strain-promoted azide-alkyne cycloaddition reaction (SPAAC) to capture NAD-RNAs without RNA degradation. We examined the specificity of CuAAC and SPAAC reactions towards NAD+ vs. m7G, and found that both prefer NAD+ but also act on m7G. We show that m7G-capped RNA can be immuno-depleted, allowing for the specific identification of NAD-RNA via the SPAAC reaction and sequencing, which we name SPAAC-NAD-seq. Subjecting Arabidopsis RNA to both the original NAD captureSeq and SPAAC-NAD-seq, we found that more NAD+-capped RNA was identified by the latter, particularly those with low abundance. This led to the discovery of new gene ontology terms such as starch biosynthsis, intracellular protein transport and response to cadmium stress associated with genes that produce NAD-RNA. Furthermore, reads were uniformly distributed along gene bodies, which suggested that SPAAC-NAD-seq retained full-length sequence information. SPAAC-NAD-seq enables specific and efficient discovery of NAD-RNA in prokaryotes, and when combined with m7G-RNA depletion, in eukaryotes.
Project description:Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) is a vital small molecule with important redox capacity in oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) and a key co-factor in various enzymatic reactions. The recent identification of the mitochondrial NAD+ transporter SLC25A51 provides strong evidence for a direct regulation of the mitochondrial NAD+ pool. Though the effect of this transporter on glucose metabolism has been described, its contribution to other NAD+-dependent processes such as ADP-ribosylation remains elusive. Here, we report that knockdown of SLC25A51 decreased the NAD+ concentration in mitochondria but increased the NAD+ concentration in the cytoplasm and nucleus. The increase in nuclear and cytoplasmic NAD+ was not due to the upregulation of the salvage pathway, thus pointing towards an overall redistribution of NAD+ from the mitochondria towards the cyto/nuclear compartment. Furthermore, the NAD+ redistribution induced by knockdown or knockout of SLC25A51 resulted, as quantified by immunofluorescence or analyzed by mass-spectrometry, in a loss of mitochondrial ADP-ribosylation and an increase of PARP1-mediated nuclear ADP-ribosylation under basal conditions. Further, MMS/Olaparib induced PARP1 chromatin retention and the sensitivity of triple-negative MDA-MB-436 breast cancer cells to PARP inhibition were both reduced upon knockdown of SLC25A51. In addition, H2O2-induced PARP1-dependent nuclear ADP-ribosylation was prolonged while phosphorylation of H2AX was unexpectedly reduced. Together these results provide evidence that lack of SCL25A51 and subsequently altered NAD+ compartmentalization affects not only mitochondrial and nuclear ADP-ribosylation but also other chromatin associated events.
Project description:The 5’ end of a eukaryotic mRNA generally has a methyl guanosine cap (m7G cap) that not only protects the mRNA from degradation but also mediates almost all other aspects of gene expression. Some RNAs in E. coli, yeast, and mammals were recently found to contain an NAD+ cap at their 5’ ends. Here we report development of a new method – NAD tagSeq – for transcriptome-wide identification and quantification of NAD+-capped RNAs (NAD-RNAs). The method uses first an enzymatic reaction and then a click chemistry reaction to label NAD-RNAs with a synthetic RNA tag. The tagged RNA molecules can be enriched and directly sequenced using the Oxford Nanopore sequencing technology. NAD tagSeq not only allows more accurate identification and quantification of NAD-RNAs but can also reveal sequences of whole NAD-RNA transcripts. Using NAD tagSeq, we found that NAD-RNAs in Arabidopsis are mostly produced from a few thousand protein-coding genes, with over 60% of them from fewer than 200 genes. The top 2,000 genes that were found to produce the highest numbers of NAD-RNAs were enriched in the gene ontology terms of responses to oxidative stress and other stresses, photosynthesis, and protein synthesis. For some Arabidopsis genes, over 10% of their transcripts could be NAD-capped. The NAD-RNAs in Arabidopsis have similar overall sequence structures to their canonical m7G-capped mRNAs. The identification and quantification of NAD-RNAs and revealing their sequence features provide essential steps toward understanding functions of NAD-RNAs.
Project description:Cellular senescence is a stable cell growth arrest that is implicated in tissue aging and cancer. Senescent cells are characterized by an upregulation of proinflammatory and immunosuppressive cytokines and chemokines, which is termed as senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP). NAD+ metabolism plays a critical role in both tissue aging and cancer. However, the role of NAD+ metabolism in regulating the SASP is not well understood. Here we show that nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase (NAMPT), the rate-limiting enzyme of the NAD+ salvage pathway, governs the strengths of proinflammatory SASP during senescence. In contrast to downregulation of NAMPT during replicative senescence, NAMPT is upregulated during oncogene-induced senescence. NAMPT selectively regulates proinflammatory, but not immunosuppressive, SASP. NAMPT is regulated by HMGA1 through a distal enhancer element during senescence. HMGA1/NAMPT/NAD+ signaling axis promotes proinflammatory SASP through enhancing glycolysis and mitochondria respiration. Mechanistically, HMGA1/NAMPT promotes proinflammatory SASP through NAD+-mediated suppression of AMPK kinase, which suppresses p53-mediated inhibition of p38MAPK to enhance NFb activity. SASP regulation by NAD+ metabolism is independent of senescence-associated cell growth arrest. An increase in NAD+ levels is sufficient to convert SASP from low to high levels during replicative senescence. Together, we conclude that NAD+ metabolism governs the strengths of proinflammatory SASP. Given the tumor promoting effects of proinflammatory SASP, our results suggest that anti-ageing dietary NAD+ augmentation should be administered with precision.
Project description:The mechanisms by which viruses hijack their host’s genetic machinery are of enormous current interest. One mechanism is adenosine diphosphate (ADP) ribosylation, where ADP-ribosyltransferases (ARTs) transfer an ADP-ribose fragment from the ubiquitous co-factor nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) to acceptor proteins (Cohen and Chang, 2018). When bacteriophage T4 infects Escherichia coli, three different ARTs reprogram the host’s transcriptional and translational apparatus (Koch et al., 1995; Tiemann et al., 2004). Recently, NAD was identified as a 5’-modification of cellular RNA molecules in bacteria and higher organisms (Cahova et al., 2015; Chen et al., 2009; Jiao et al., 2017). Here, we report that a bacteriophage T4 ART ModB accepts not only NAD but also NAD-RNA as substrate, thereby covalently linking entire RNA chains to acceptor proteins in an “RNAylation” reaction. This enzyme specifically RNAylates its host protein targets, ribosomal proteins rS1 and rL2, at arginine residues and prefers NAD-RNA over NAD. RNAylation of specific ribosomal proteins decreases ribosome activity. We identify specific E. coli and T4 phage RNAs, which are RNAylated to rS1 in vivo.T4 phages expressing an inactive mutant of ModB show a decreased burst size and a decelerated lysis of E. coli during T4 infection. Our findings not only challenge the established views of the phage replication cycle but also reveal a distinct biological role of NAD-RNA, namely activation of the RNA for enzymatic transfer. Our work exemplifies the first direct connection between RNA modification and post-translational protein modification. As ARTs play important roles far beyond viral infections (Fehr et al., 2020), RNAylation may have far-reaching implications.