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PROBIOTICS AND ANTIMICROBIAL PROTEINS
Volume 2, Issue 4, Pages 218-225Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s12602-010-9056-1
Keywords
Circular bacteriocin; Carnocyclin A; Fosmid library; Immunity gene; DUF95 family
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
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Carnocyclin A is a circular bacteriocin of 60 amino acids produced by Carnobacterium maltaromaticum UAL307. A region of 12 kb that contained the structural gene for carnocyclin A, cclA, was sequenced using a fosmid library, and 10 genes were identified that could be responsible for carnocyclin A production and immunity. Five of those genes, cclBITCD, were found upstream of cclA: one encodes a protein containing a conserved ATP-binding domain and four encode proteins with putative membrane-spanning domains. CclC shows homology with a family of membrane proteins that contain the domain of unknown function 95 (DUF95). Downstream of cclA four additional genes, cclEFGH, were identified that show similarity to the last four genes, as-48EFGH, of the enterocin AS-48 bacteriocin gene cluster. CclFGH shows sequence homology with As-48FGH. Transformation of C. maltaromaticum UAL26 with cclBITCDA resulted in production of carnocyclin A, indicating that these genes form the minimal requirement for the secretion of fully matured bacteriocin. cclI encodes for a small hydrophobic protein with a high pI, which are characteristic features of known immunity proteins for other circular bacteriocins. Indeed, cloning of cclI behind a constitutive promoter in UAL26 resulted in immunity although the level of resistance was lower than that of UAL26 containing cclBITCDA, indicating that CclI alone is not enough to confer full immunity to carnocyclin A.
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