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Journal of Bacteriology, March 2004, p. 1758-1768, Vol. 186, No. 6
0021-9193/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.6.1758-1768.2004
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Interaction of the Crystalline Bacterial Cell Surface Layer Protein SbsB and the Secondary Cell Wall Polymer of Geobacillus stearothermophilus PV72 Assessed by Real-Time Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensor Technology

Center for Ultrastructure Research and Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Molecular Nanotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna, A-1180 Vienna,¹ BMT-Biomolecular Therapeutics GmbH, A-1235 Vienna, Austria²

Received 22 October 2003/ Accepted 5 December 2003

The interaction between S-layer protein SbsB and the secondary cell wall polymer (SCWP) of Geobacillus stearothermophilus PV72/p2 was investigated by real-time surface plasmon resonance biosensor technology. The SCWP is an acidic polysaccharide that contains N-acetylglucosamine, N-acetylmannosamine, and pyruvic acid. For interaction studies, recombinant SbsB (rSbsB) and two truncated forms consisting of either the S-layer-like homology (SLH) domain (3SLH) or the residual part of SbsB were used. Independent of the setup, the data showed that the SLH domain was exclusively responsible for SCWP binding. The interaction was found to be highly specific, since neither the peptidoglycan nor SCWPs from other organisms nor other polysaccharides were recognized. Data analysis from that setup in which 3SLH was immobilized on a sensor chip and SCWP represented the soluble analyte was done in accordance with a model that describes binding of a bivalent analyte to a fixed ligand in terms of an overall affinity for all binding sites. The measured data revealed the presence of at least two binding sites on a single SCWP molecule with a distance of about 14 nm and an overall K_d of 7.7 x 10^-7 M. Analysis of data from the inverted setup in which the SCWP was immobilized on a sensor chip was done in accordance with an extension of the heterogeneous-ligand model, which indicated the existence of three binding sites with low (K_d = 2.6 x 10^-5 M), medium (K_d = 6.1 x 10^-8 M), and high (K_d = 6.7 x 10^-11 M) affinities. Since in this setup 3SLH was the soluble analyte and the presence of small amounts of oligomers in even monomeric protein solutions cannot be excluded, the high-affinity binding site may result from avidity effects caused by binding of at least dimeric 3SLH. Solution competition assays performed with both setups confirmed the specificity of the protein-carbohydrate interaction investigated.

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