인문학
사회과학
자연과학
공학
의약학
농수해양학
예술체육학
복합학
지원사업
학술연구/단체지원/교육 등 연구자 활동을 지속하도록 DBpia가 지원하고 있어요.
커뮤니티
연구자들이 자신의 연구와 전문성을 널리 알리고, 새로운 협력의 기회를 만들 수 있는 네트워킹 공간이에요.
초록·키워드
Pyocins are high molecular weight bacteriocins produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa that can be retargeted to new bacterial species by exchanging the pyocin tail fibers with bacteriophage receptor binding proteins (RBPs). Here, we develop retargeted pyocins called campycins as new antibacterials to precisely and effectively kill the major foodborne pathogen Campylobacter jejuni. We used two diverse RBPs (H-fibers) encoded by CJIE1 prophages found in the genomes of C. jejuni strains CAMSA2147 and RM1221 to construct campycin 1 and campycin 2, respectively. Campycins 1 and 2 could target all C. jejuni strains tested due to complementary antibacterial spectra. In addition, both campycins led to more than 3 log reductions in C. jejuni counts under microaerobic conditions at 42 °C, whereas the killing efficiency was less efficient under anaerobic conditions at 5 °C. Furthermore, we discovered that both H-fibers used to construct the campycins bind to the essential major outer membrane protein (MOMP) present in all C. jejuni in a strain-specific manner. Protein sequence alignment and structural modeling suggest that the highly variable extracellular loops of MOMP form the binding sites of the diverse H-fibers. Further in silico analyses of 5000 MOMP sequences indicated that the protein falls into three major clades predicted to be targeted by either campycin 1 or campycin 2. Thus, campycins are promising antibacterials against C. jejuni and are expected to broadly target numerous strains of this human pathogen in nature and agriculture. KEY POINTS: • Campycins are engineered R-type pyocins containing H-fibers from C. jejuni prophages • Campycins reduce C. jejuni counts by >3 logs at conditions promoting growth • Campycins bind to the essential outer membrane protein MOMP in a strain-dependent way.
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