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Journal of Bacteriology, March 2003, p. 1650-1658, Vol. 185, No. 5
0021-9193/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.5.1650-1658.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Functional Characterization of Penicillin-Binding Protein 1b from Streptococcus pneumoniae

Anne Marie Di Guilmi,1 Andréa Dessen,2 Otto Dideberg,2 and Thierry Vernet1*

Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Macromolécules,1 Laboratoire de Cristallographie Macromoléculaire, Institut de Biologie Structurale Jean-Pierre Ebel, CEA, CNRS, UJF, UMR5075, 38027 Grenoble cedex 1, France2

Received 3 October 2002/ Accepted 2 December 2002

The widespread use of antibiotics has encouraged the development of drug resistance in pathogenic bacteria. In order to overcome this problem, the modification of existing antibiotics and/or the identification of targets for the design of new antibiotics is currently being undertaken. Bifunctional penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) are membrane-associated molecules whose transpeptidase (TP) activity is irreversibly inhibited by ß-lactam antibiotics and whose glycosyltransferase (GT) activity represents a potential target in the antibacterial fight. In this work, we describe the expression and the biochemical characterization of the soluble extracellular region of Streptococcus pneumoniae PBP1b (PBP1b*). The acylation efficiency for benzylpenicillin and cefotaxime was characterized by stopped-flow fluorometry and a 40-kDa stable TP domain was generated after limited proteolysis. In order to analyze the GT activity of PBP1b*, we developed an electrophoretic assay which monitors the fluorescence signal from PBP1b*-bound dansylated lipid II. This binding was inhibited by the antibiotic moenomycin and was specific for the GT domain, since no signal was observed in the presence of the purified functional TP domain. Binding studies performed with truncated forms of PBP1b* demonstrated that the first conserved motif of the GT domain is not required for the recognition of lipid II, whereas the second motif is necessary for such interaction.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Institut de Biologie Structurale Jean-Pierre Ebel, CEA, CNRS, UJF, UMR5075, Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Macromolécules, 41 Rue Jules Horowitz, 38027 Grenoble cedex 1, France. Phone: (33) 04 38 78 96 81. Fax: (33) 04 38 78 54 94. E-mail: vernet{at}ibs.fr.

Journal of Bacteriology, March 2003, p. 1650-1658, Vol. 185, No. 5
0021-9193/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.5.1650-1658.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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