Experimental and bioinformatic characterization of a recombinant polygalacturonase-inhibitor protein from pearl millet and its interaction with fungal polygalacturonases

Prabhu, S. A. and Singh, R. and Kolkenbrock, S. and Sujeeth, N. and El Gueddari, N. E. and Moerschbacher, B. M. and Kini, R. K. and Wagenknecht, M. (2014) Experimental and bioinformatic characterization of a recombinant polygalacturonase-inhibitor protein from pearl millet and its interaction with fungal polygalacturonases. Journal of Experimental Botany, 65 (17). pp. 5033-5047. ISSN 0022-0957

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Abstract

Polygalacturonases (PGs) are hydrolytic enzymes employed by several phytopathogens to weaken the plant cell wall by degrading homopolygalacturonan, a major constituent of pectin. Plants fight back by employing polygalacturonase-inhibitor proteins (PGIPs). The present study compared the inhibition potential of pearl millet PGIP (Pennisetum glaucum; PglPGIP1) with the known inhibition of Phaseolus vulgaris PGIP (PvPGIP2) against two PGs, the PG-II isoform from Aspergillus niger (AnPGII) and the PG-III isoform from Fusarium moniliforme (FmPGIII). The key rationale was to elucidate the relationship between the extent of sequence similarity of the PGIPs and the corresponding PG inhibition potential. First, a pearl millet pgip gene (Pglpgip1) was isolated and phylogenetically placed among monocot PGIPs alongside foxtail millet (Setaria italica). Upstream sequence analysis of Pglpgip1 identified important cis-elements responsive to light, plant stress hormones, and anoxic stress. PglPGIP1, heterologously produced in Escherichia coli, partially inhibited AnPGII non-competitively with a pH optimum between 4.0 and 4.5, and showed no inhibition against FmPGIII. Docking analysis showed that the concave surface of PglPGIP1 interacted strongly with the N-terminal region of AnPGII away from the active site, whereas it weakly interacted with the C-terminus of FmPGIII. Interestingly, PglPGIP1 and PvPGIP2 employed similar motif regions with few identical amino acids for interaction with AnPGII at non-substrate-binding sites; however, they engaged different regions of AnPGII. Computational mutagenesis predicted D126 (PglPGIP1)-K39 (AnPGII) to be the most significant binding contact in the PglPGIP1-AnPGII complex. Such protein-protein interaction studies are crucial in the future generation of designer host proteins for improved resistance against everevolving pathogen virulence factors.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	metabolism, Aspergillus niger, Fusarium, genetics, Plant Proteins, Pennisetum, plant, nucleotide sequence, amino acid sequence, Amino Acid Sequence, sequence alignment, Sequence Alignment, Phaseolus vulgaris, vegetable protein, Pennisetum glaucum, Molecular Sequence Data, PGIP protein, polygalacturonase, Polygalacturonase, molecular genetics, Base Sequence, recombinant protein, Recombinant Proteins, fungal protein, Fungal Proteins
Subjects:	B Life Science > Biotechnology
Divisions:	Department of > Biotechnology
Depositing User:	Arshiya Kousar Library Assistant
Date Deposited:	04 Jul 2019 05:22
Last Modified:	04 Jul 2019 05:22
URI:	http://eprints.uni-mysore.ac.in/id/eprint/4508

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