Bacterial toxin–antitoxin complexes are emerging as key players modulating bacterial physiology as activation of toxins induces stasis or programmed cell death by interference with vital cellular processes. Zeta toxins, which are prevalent in many bacterial genomes, were shown to interfere with cell wall formation by perturbing peptidoglycan synthesis in Gram-positive bacteria. Here, we characterize the epsilon/zeta toxin–antitoxin (TA) homologue from the Gram-negative pathogen Neisseria gonorrhoeae termed ng_ɛ1 / ng_ζ1. Contrary to previously studied streptococcal epsilon/zeta TA systems, ng_ɛ1 has an epsilon-unrelated fold and ng_ζ1 displays broader substrate specificity and phosphorylates multiple UDP-activated sugars that are precursors of peptidoglycan and lipopolysaccharide synthesis. Moreover, the phosphorylation site is different from the streptococcal zeta toxins, resulting in a different interference with cell wall synthesis. This difference most likely reflects adaptation to the individual cell wall composition of Gram-negative and Gram-positive organisms but also the distinct involvement of cell wall components in virulence.
As novel liquid chromatography–mass
spectrometry (LC-MS)
technologies for proteomics offer a substantial increase in LC-MS
runs per day, robust and reproducible sample preparation emerges as
a new bottleneck for throughput. We introduce a novel strategy for
positive-pressure 96-well filter-aided sample preparation (PF96) on
a commercial positive-pressure solid-phase extraction device. PF96
allows for a five-fold increase in throughput in conjunction with
extraordinary reproducibility with Pearson product-moment correlations
on the protein level of
r
= 0.9993, as demonstrated
for mouse heart tissue lysate in 40 technical replicates. The targeted
quantification of 16 peptides in the presence of stable-isotope-labeled
reference peptides confirms that PF96 variance is barely assessable
against technical variation from nanoLC-MS instrumentation. We further
demonstrate that protein loads of 36–60 μg result in
optimal peptide recovery, but lower amounts ≥3 μg can
also be processed reproducibly. In summary, the reproducibility, simplicity,
and economy of time provide PF96 a promising future in biomedical
and clinical research.
We identified ADAMTS16 as a target protein for Cmannosylation and showed that this modification is needed for proper secretion of ADAMTS16. Targeting a distinct Cmannosyltransferase by CRISPR-Cas9 in medaka fish embryos caused defects in eye development. We conclude that these developmental defects are caused by reduced secretion of ADAMTS16 when Cmannosylation is missing.
Highlights• TSR1 of ADAMTS16 can be C-mannosylated.• Deletion of DPY19L1 or DPY19L3 in hiPSCs caused reduced secretion of ADAMTS16.• Targeting of dpy19l3 in medaka occasionally led to coloboma.
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