Project description:Within the Burkholderia genus O-linked protein glycosylation is now known to be highly conserved at the pathway and glycosylation substrate levels. While inhibition of glycosylation has been shown to be detrimental to virulence in B. cenocepacia, little is known about the role of glycosylation in Burkholderia glycoproteins. Within this study we have sought to improve our understanding of the breadth and dynamics of the B. cenocepacia O-glycoproteome to identify glycoproteins which require glycosylation for functionality. Assessing the glycoproteome across multiple common culturing media (LB, TSB, and artificial sputum medium to simulate cystic fibrosis sputum-like conditions) we demonstrate at least 141 glycoproteins are subjected to glycosylation within B. cenocepacia K56-2. Leveraging this insight, we quantitively assessed the glycoproteome of B. cenocepacia using Data-Independent Acquisition (DIA) across culturing media and growth phases revealing most B. cenocepacia glycoproteins are express under all conditions. Examination of how the absence of glycosylation impacts the glycoproteome reveals only a subset of the glycoproteome (BCAL1086, BCAL2974, BCAL0525, BCAM0505 and BCAL0127) appear impacted by the loss of glycosylation. Assessing the proteomic and phenotypic impacts of the loss of these glycoproteins compared to glycosylation null strains revealing the loss of BCAL0525, and to a lesser extend BCAL0127, mirror the proteomic effects observed in the absence of glycosylation. Finally, we demonstrate the loss of glycosylation within BCAL0525 at Serine-358 results in both loss of motility and proteomic impacts on flagellar apparatus consistent with the loss of apparatus stability. Combined this work demonstrates that O-linked glycosylation of BCAL0525 is functionally important within B. cenocepacia.
Project description:Within the Burkholderia genus O-linked protein glycosylation is now known to be highly conserved at the pathway and glycosylation substrate levels. While inhibition of glycosylation has been shown to be detrimental to virulence in B. cenocepacia, little is known about the role of glycosylation in Burkholderia glycoproteins. Within this study we have sought to improve our understanding of the breadth and dynamics of the B. cenocepacia O-glycoproteome to identify glycoproteins which require glycosylation for functionality. Assessing the glycoproteome across multiple common culturing media (LB, TSB, and artificial sputum medium to simulate cystic fibrosis sputum-like conditions) we demonstrate at least 141 glycoproteins are subjected to glycosylation within B. cenocepacia K56-2. Leveraging this insight, we quantitively assessed the glycoproteome of B. cenocepacia using Data-Independent Acquisition (DIA) across culturing media and growth phases revealing most B. cenocepacia glycoproteins are express under all conditions. Examination of how the absence of glycosylation impacts the glycoproteome reveals only a subset of the glycoproteome (BCAL1086, BCAL2974, BCAL0525, BCAM0505 and BCAL0127) appear impacted by the loss of glycosylation. Assessing the proteomic and phenotypic impacts of the loss of these glycoproteins compared to glycosylation null strains revealing the loss of BCAL0525, and to a lesser extend BCAL0127, mirror the proteomic effects observed in the absence of glycosylation. Finally, we demonstrate the loss of glycosylation within BCAL0525 at Serine-358 results in both loss of motility and proteomic impacts on flagellar apparatus consistent with the loss of apparatus stability. Combined this work demonstrates that O-linked glycosylation of BCAL0525 is functionally important within B. cenocepacia.
Project description:Within the Burkholderia genus O-linked protein glycosylation is now known to be highly conserved at the pathway and glycosylation substrate levels. While inhibition of glycosylation has been shown to be detrimental to virulence in B. cenocepacia, little is known about the role of glycosylation in Burkholderia glycoproteins. Within this study we have sought to improve our understanding of the breadth and dynamics of the B. cenocepacia O-glycoproteome to identify glycoproteins which require glycosylation for functionality. Assessing the glycoproteome across multiple common culturing media (LB, TSB, and artificial sputum medium to simulate cystic fibrosis sputum-like conditions) we demonstrate at least 141 glycoproteins are subjected to glycosylation within B. cenocepacia K56-2. Leveraging this insight, we quantitively assessed the glycoproteome of B. cenocepacia using Data-Independent Acquisition (DIA) across culturing media and growth phases revealing most B. cenocepacia glycoproteins are express under all conditions. Examination of how the absence of glycosylation impacts the glycoproteome reveals only a subset of the glycoproteome (BCAL1086, BCAL2974, BCAL0525, BCAM0505 and BCAL0127) appear impacted by the loss of glycosylation. Assessing the proteomic and phenotypic impacts of the loss of these glycoproteins compared to glycosylation null strains revealing the loss of BCAL0525, and to a lesser extend BCAL0127, mirror the proteomic effects observed in the absence of glycosylation. Finally, we demonstrate the loss of glycosylation within BCAL0525 at Serine-358 results in both loss of motility and proteomic impacts on flagellar apparatus consistent with the loss of apparatus stability. Combined this work demonstrates that O-linked glycosylation of BCAL0525 is functionally important within B. cenocepacia.
Project description:Bacterial protein glycosylation can be mediated by oligosaccharyltransferases (OTases) that transfer a preassembled lipid-linked oligosaccharide or polysaccharide en bloc to acceptor proteins. O-linking OTases transfer O-antigen or capsular polysaccharides to the side chains of serine or threonine residues. Three major families of bacterial O-linking OTases have been described so far: PglL, PglS, and TfpO. TfpO enzymes are limited to transferring only short glycans whereas there are no clear upper limits for the other two families. Herein, we describe the discovery of a novel family of bacterial O-linking OTases from Moraxellacea bacteria that are similar in size and sequence to TfpO enzymes but can transfer long-chain bacterial glycans to acceptor proteins. Bioinformatic analyses show that these enzymes cluster in different clades than known bacterial OTases. Using a representative enzyme from Moraxella osloensis termed TfpMMo, we determine that the enzyme glycosylates the C-terminal amino acid side chain of a pilin protein and find that pilin fragments as short as three amino acids are substrates for the OTase. The ability of TfpMMo to transfer long-chain polysaccharide shows that this ability is not limited to the PglS and PglL families. TfpMMo is also shown to have broad substrate specificity and can transfer diverse glycans including those with glucose, galactose, or 2-N-acetyl sugars at the reducing end. The glycan substrate promiscuity of TfpMMo could allow this enzyme to be used to produce bacterial glycoconjugate vaccines. The discovery of a new class of O-linking OTase furthers our understanding of the mechanisms that underly glycan specificity by these and other O-linking OTases and enables more comparative studies of this important enzyme family.
Project description:Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) is one of the few cytokines successfully targeted by therapies against inflammatory diseases. However, blocking this well studied and pleiotropic ligand can cause dramatic side-effects. We reasoned that a systems-level proteomic analysis of TNF signaling could dissect its diverse functions and offer a base for developing more targeted therapies. Combining phosphoproteomics time course experiments with spatial and kinase inhibitor analysis clusters phosphorylations into functional modules. The majority of regulated phosphorylations could be assigned to an upstream kinase by inhibiting master kinases and spatial proteomics revealed phosphorylation-dependent translocations of hundreds of proteins upon TNF stimulation. Phosphoproteome analysis of TNF-induced apoptosis and necroptosis revealed a key role for transcriptional cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) activity to promote cytokine production and prevent excessive cell death downstream of the TNF signaling receptor. Our comprehensive interrogation of TNF induced pathways and sites can be explored at http://tnfviewer.biochem.mpg.de/.
Project description:Acute myeloid leukemia is a clinically and genetically heterogenous disease characterized by bone marrow infiltration with immature leukemic blasts that cause bone marrow failure. Patient age, comorbidities and genomic disease characteristics have a profound impact on patient outcome. Here, we present an integrated Multi-Omics analysis of protein and gene expression as well as cytogenetics and mutations to capture the rewiring of intracellular protein networks that is most likely caused by genomic aberrations. Because protein networks are downstream of genomic aberrations, we hypothesized that our Multi-Omics approach may add to the current AML classification by identifying proteomic AML subtypes with specific clinical and molecular features that could identify therapeutic vulnerabilities and aid in the identification of predictive biomarkers
Project description:The proteasome is the main proteolytic system for targeted protein degradation in the cell. Its function is fine-tuned according to cellular needs. Inhibition of the respiratory chain impairs proteasome activity, regulation of proteasome function by mitochondrial metabolism, however, is unknown. Here, we demonstrate that mitochondrial dysfunction reduces the assembly and activity of the 26S proteasome. Defects in respiratory chain caused metabolic reprogramming of the Krebs cycle and deficiency in the amino acid aspartate resulting in reduced 26S proteasome function. Aspartate supplementation fully restored assembly and activity of 26S proteasome complexes. This metabolic reprogramming involved sensing of aspartate via the mTORC1 pathway and the mTORC1-dependent transcriptional activation of defined proteasome assembly factors. Metabolic regulation of 26S function was confirmed in patient-derived skin fibroblasts with respiratory dysfunction containing a single mitochondrial mutation. Importantly, treatment of primary human lung fibroblasts with the respiratory chain inhibitor and anti-diabetic drug metformin similarly reduced assembly and activity of 26S proteasome complexes, which was fully reversible and rescued by supplementation of aspartate or pyruvate. Our study uncovers a fundamental novel mechanism of how mitochondrial metabolism adaptively adjusts protein degradation by the proteasome. It thus unravels unexpected consequences of defective mitochondrial metabolism in disease or drug-targeted mitochondrial reprogramming for proteasomal protein degradation in the cell. As metabolic inhibition of proteasome function can be alleviated by treatment with aspartate or pyruvate, our results also have therapeutic implications.
Project description:In this paper we investigate one of the lesser studied TRIM family proteins, TRIM16, to determine if it might impact the ability of different viruses to replicate productively in host cells. TRIM16 is unique compared to other TRIM proteins in that it mediates E3 ligase activity despite lacking the catalytic RING domain present in other TRIM proteins. TRIM16 has been shown to play a role in innate immunity by increasing the secretion proinflammatory cytokine Il-1 in macrophages through interactions with components of the inflammasome complex (procaspase-1 and NALP-1). TRIM16 also mediates ubiquitination and aggregation of misfolded proteins which are subsequently degraded through the autophagic pathway in cells under proteotoxic and oxidative stress11. It does so through interactions with the p62-KEAP-NRF2 complex and stabilization of the NRF2 protein through multiple mechanisms11. Interestingly the NRF2 protein has been implicated in antiviral immunity, as previous studies have shown that infection of NRF2 (-/-) mice with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) resulted in significantly higher viral titres in the lungs compared to NRF2 (+/+) mice. In addition to these clues in the literature, a recent study from our group examining transcriptional signatures in type II airway epithelial cells (AEC II) isolated from mock versus IAV-infected mice indicated that TRIM16 was upregulated in AECII following IAV infection in vivo.
Project description:Pharmacologic targeting of epigenetic protein complexes has shown significant in vitro responses in acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Early clinical trials in KMT2A-rearranged leukemia indicate rather transient responses and development of resistance. In an effort to define functional dependencies of KMT2A-fusions in AML, we identify the catalytic immunoproteasome subunit PSMB8 as a KMT2A-complex-specific vulnerability. Genetic and pharmacologic inactivation of PSMB8 results in impaired proliferation of murine and human leukemic cells while normal hematopoietic cells remain unaffected. Disruption of immunoproteasome function results in cellular enrichment of transcription factor BASP1, and consecutive repression of KMT2A-target genes. Pharmacologic targeting of PSMB8 improves efficacy of Menin-inhibitors, eradicates leukemia in primary human xenografts and shows preserved activity against Menin-inhibitor resistance mutations. This identifies and validates a cell-intrinsic mechanism whereby selective disruption of proteostasis results in altered transcription factor abundance and repression of oncogene-specific transcriptional networks. Therapeutic targeting of PSMB8-dependent transcription in combination with Menin-inhibition could thus eradicate KMT2A-complex driven AML.