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Identification Of Novel MLH 1p Interacting Proteins By Biochemical And Genetic MethodsKumaran, M 01 1900 (has links) (PDF)
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Gram-Positive Bacteria in Sub-Tropical Marine Fish and their Mesophilic Spoilage PotentialIsmail Mohamed Ali Al-bulushi Unknown Date (has links)
Gram-positive bacteria are part of the normal flora of fish from different aquatic environments. They are mesophilic bacteria and demonstrate optimum growth at ambient temperature. In the sub-tropics, marine fish are caught from seas at temperatures of 16 to 34C, they are usually not iced and are handled at ambient temperature. It was hypothesized that under these conditions Gram-positive bacteria will be abundant in sub-tropical marine fish and will have roles in the spoilage of fish. A review of literature showed that there is a gap in understanding the Gram-positive bacterial populations in sub-tropical marine fish. This is partly due to the fact that the selective media used for isolating Gram-positive bacteria have limitations. Ecological and speciation studies have revealed that the ecology and speciation of many Gram-positive bacteria have not been clearly elucidated. The effect of ambient storage on the individual genera and species of Gram-positive bacteria in fish has been rarely studied. The spoilage potential of Gram-positive bacteria of marine fish origin has not been clearly determined. Therefore, the main aims of this study were to isolate Gram-positive bacteria from fresh and ambient-temperature-stored sub-tropical marine fish, speciate the isolates and study the spoilage potential of the isolates. The practical components of this study were conducted in four parts. The first part dealt with validation of tryptone soya agar with 0.25% phenylethyl alcohol (PEA-TSA) to enumerate Gram-positive bacteria. The second part enumerated Gram-positive bacteria from the muscles, gills and gut of Pseudocaranx dentex (Silver Trevally), Pagrus auratus (Snapper) and Mugil cephalus (Sea Mullet) stored at 25C for 15 hours using PEA-TSA. The third part dealt with the speciation of the isolates using appropriate methods such as polymerase chain reaction, 16S rRNA gene sequence, the VITEK JR system and conventional biochemical methods. In the fourth part, the isolates were assayed qualitatively for their ability to produce volatile sulphur compounds (VSC), reduce trimethylamine oxide and decarboxylate histidine, lysine and ornithine at mesophilic temperature, 32C. Initial studies indicated that PEA-TSA significantly (P< 0.05) reduced the total aerobic bacterial count of fish whereas control Gram-positive bacteria were not affected (P> 0.05). Gram-positive aerobic bacterial counts (GABC) significantly (P< 0.05) increased in the muscles and gills during ambient storage for 15 hours. Within each species, no significant (P> 0.05) differences were found in GABC between muscles and gills. Moreover, there were no significant differences (P> 0.05) in GABC between fish species during storage. In total, 390 bacteria were isolated from the fresh and stored fish; 339 isolates (87%) were found to be Gram-positive. Two hundred and sixty-six isolates (78%) of Gram-positive bacteria were identified to fall into 13 genera, namely Staphylococcus, Micrococcus, Bacillus, Virgibacillus, Brevibacillus, Corynebacterium, Streptococcus, Enterococcus, Aerococcus, Exiguobacterium, Carnobacterium, Vagococcus and Sporosarcina and 30 species. In fresh fish, Staphylococcus epidermidis and Micrococcus luteus were the most frequent isolates. The effect of storage at 25C for 15 hours resulted in a change of Gram-positive bacterial populations; while S. epidermidis, S. xylosus and Bacillus megaterium were no longer present, S. warneri, B. sphaericus, Brevibacillus borstelensis, Enterococcus faecium and Streptococcus uberis increased. Three species, E. faecium, Str. uberis and B. sphaericus, were the most prevalent at the end of storage. Micrococcus luteus and S. warneri were the most prevalent isolates from Pseudocaranx dentex, but E. faecium and Str. uberis were the most frequently isolated from Pagrus auratus and Mugil cephalus. With respect to different parts of the fish body, E. faecium, Str. uberis and B. sphaericus were the most frequent isolates from the muscles, E. faecium, Str. uberis from the gills and M. luteus from the gut. Among the 228 isolates examined, Br. borstelensis 73, Br. borstelensis 291, Str. uberis 339, Vagococcus fluvialis 31 and Vag. fluvialis 132 produced VSC from sodium thiosulphate, cysteine and methionine. However, strains varied in sulphur source utilization. Exiguobacterium acetylicum 5, Exiguobacterium spp. 191, Carnobacterium spp. 338, Br. borstelensis 73, Br. borstelensis 291, Str. uberis 30, Str. uberis 339, Vag. fluvialis 31 and Vag. fluvialis 132 reduced TMAO. No histidine decarboxylase activity was found in the Gram-positive bacterial species tested. Lysine and ornithine were decarboxylated mainly by different strains of S. warneri, S. epidermidis and M. luteus. During ambient storage of fish, the frequency of lysine-decarboxylating bacteria increased and became more diverse after 5 hours of storage. Among fish species examined, the frequencies of lysine- and ornithine-decarboxylating bacteria were higher and more diverse in Pseudocaranx dentex than in Pagrus auratus and Mugil cephalus. This study found that Gram-positive bacteria were abundant and diverse in sub-tropical marine fish; however, their frequencies were affected by fish habitat and fish body part. Ambient temperature storage determined which Gram-positive bacterial species were dominant. With the exception of one isolate of S. aureus, Gram-positive bacteria isolated from sub-tropical marine fish caught from unpolluted water were not potential pathogens. The study also showed that Gram-positive bacteria had greater ability to decarboxylate lysine and ornithine than to produce VSC or reduce TMAO, and the spoilage potential of a bacterial species was a strain-dependent behaviour. This is a significant study as it is the first study on this aspect sub-tropical marine fish. It validated a selective medium that can be used to enumerate most Gram-positive bacteria from a marine environment. Most of the Gram-positive bacterial species from sub-tropical marine fish identified in this study were documented for the first time. The effects of ambient storage and the spoilage potential of Gram-positive bacteria from sub-tropical marine were clearly elucidated.
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Internal dynamics of flavoproteins studied by femtosecond spectroscopy / Dynamique interne des flavoprotéines étudiée par spectroscopie femtosecondeNag, Lipsa 10 December 2018 (has links)
La nature utilise des réactions de transfert de charge (TdC) dans de nombreuses fonctions biologiquesfaisant intervenir des cofacteurs à activité redox, comme les flavines (FAD et FMN). Le TdC dans les protéines s’effectue souvent par la formation d'intermédiaires radicalaires. Les acides aminés tyrosine(TyrOH) et tryptophane sont impliqués comme intermédiaires majeurs. Les radicaux tryptophanyle ont été caractérisés auparavant dans leurs formes protoné et déprotoné. Cependant, les radicaux tyrosyles n'ont été caractérisés que dans la forme neutre et on pensait qu'ils étaient formés par extraction électronique et déprotonation. Les intermédiaires à courte durée de vie sont souvent difficiles à observer dans les réactions biochimiques, mais peuvent être peuplés s'ils sont formés photochimiquement par de courtes impulsions.Nous avons caractérisé des intermédiaires dans des réactions non-fonctionnelles de TdC dans des flavoprotéines en utilisant la spectroscopie femtoseconde de fluorescence et d'absorption. Des états excités et produits formés dans le type sauvage et des formes mutantes de la flavo-enzyme méthyltransférase TrmFO de Thermus thermophilus ont été étudiés. Dans le site actif de cette enzyme, une tyrosine (Tyr343) est empilée sur le cycle isoalloxazine de la FAD, et une cystéine (Cys51) peut former un adduit avec la FAD très fluorescente. Dans le mutant C51A, la fluorescence du FADox est fortement quenchée par transfert d'électrons de la Tyr343 dans ~1 ps. L'état produit résultant présente une caractéristique spectrale distincte avec une forte bande d'absorption à ~490 nm, encore jamais associée à aucune espèce radicalaire, qui a été attribuée pour la première fois au cation radical de la Tyr343 (TyrOH•+). L’état FAD•-TyrOH•+, est de très courte durée car il retombe par recombinaison de charge en ~3 ps.. Cette étude démontre que- malgré le très bas pKa de TyrOH•+ -le transfert d’électrons à partir de la tyrosine peut avoir lieu sans transfert concomitant de proton.De plus, des expériences de photosélection par polarisation ont permi d’estimer, l’orientation du moment dipolaire de la nouvelle transition entre FADox et TyrOH•+ dans le TrmFO C51A à 31°±5°. Ce résultat évalue l'orientation du moment dipolaire au sein du cycle phénolique. La découverte de directions distinctes pour la bande de transition de la flavine excitée et la transition à 490 nm confirme leur origine dans différentes entités moléculaires.Sur la base des résultats de TrmFO, nous avons réexaminé la photochimie de la flavoprotéine modèle glucose oxydase (GOX). Ddes résidus de tryptophane et de tyrosine sont situés proche du FAD et l'évolution du photoproduit à l'échelle picosecondes est plus complexe. Des phases de déclin de l'état excité avec des constantes de temps de 1 et ~4 ps ont été observées, ainsi que des phases pour l'évolution de l'état produit de ~4 ps, ~37 ps et une phase plus longue. Un modèle complet de la séparation et de recombinaison des charges dans GOX impliquant, des radicaux de tyrosine et de tryptophane, ainsi que des différents états redox du FAD a été décrit. Les résultats pour les phases de 4 ps et de 37 ps mettent en évidence l’implication du radical TyrOH•+, avec des caractéristiques semblables au C51A TrmFO. Ce résultat explique des caractéristiques énigmatiques connues et indique l'implication de TyrOH•+ dans divers systèmes protéiques.A ce jour, seul le radical tyrosyle déprotoné TyrO• a été identifié comme intermédiaire fonctionnel dans plusieurs systèmes. La visualisation d'un radical TyrOH•+ dans TrmFO C51A et GOX suggère sa formation intermédiaire en tant que précurseur de TyrO• dans des réactions biochimiques fonctionnelles.Enfin, dans TrmFO, la construction de variantes spécifiques par mutagénèse dirigée a été initiée pour étudier la flexibilité du site actif en utilisant la vitesse de TdC comme marqueur conformationnel. D'autres travaux sont nécessaires pour poursuivre cette voie. / Nature employs charge transfer reactions in many biological functions. Redox-active cofactors like flavins (FAD and FMN) are often implicated in such reactions. Charge transfer in proteins often proceeds via formation of radical intermediates. The amino acid radicals of tyrosine (TyrOH) and tryptophan are thought to play important roles as intermediates in intra- and interprotein charge transfer reactions. Tryptophanyl radicals (both protonated cation and deprotonated neutral forms), had been characterized before. However, tyrosyl radicals had only been characterized in the neutral form, and were thought to be formed by concerted electron extraction and deprotonation of tyrosine. Short-lived intermediates are often difficult to observe in biochemical reactions, but may be populated when they can be photochemically formed using short light pulses.In this work, we have characterized intermediates in non-functional charge transfer reactions in flavoproteins using femtosecond time-resolved fluorescence and absorption spectroscopy. Excited states and product states formed in the wild type and mutant forms of the methyltransferase flavoenzyme TrmFO from Thermus thermophilus were investigated. In the TrmFO active site, a tyrosine (Tyr343), is closely stacked on the FAD isoalloxazine ring and a cysteine (Cys51) can form a highly fluorescent adduct with the FAD. In the mutant C51A, FADox fluorescence is strongly quenched by electron transfer from the Tyr343 in ~1ps. The resulting product state displayed a distinct spectral feature- a strong absorption band at ~490 nm unlike any previously characterized radical species. It was assigned to the radical cation of tyrosine (TyrOH•+) which had never been observed before. The FAD•-TyrOH•+ intermediate, is very short-lived as it decays in ~3ps, through charge recombination. As a general conclusion, despite the very low pKa of TyrOH•+, electron transfer from tyrosine can occur without concomitant proton transfer.Using polarization photoselection experiments, we estimated the dipole moment direction for this new transition. The resultant angle between the excited FADox transition and the probed TyrOH•+ transition in C51A TrmFO was 31º±5º. This result sets the orientation of the dipole moment of the transition in the molecular frame of the phenol ring. The finding of distinct directions for the excited FAD transition band and the 490 nm transition confirms their origin in different molecular entities.Following the results from TrmFO, we reinvestigated the photochemistry in the model flavoprotein glucose oxidase (GOX). Here, both tryptophan and tyrosine residues are located in the vicinity of FAD and the photoproduct evolution on the picosecond timescale is more complex. Distinct phases of excited state decay with time constants of 1ps and ~4ps were observed, as well as phases of ~4ps, ~37 ps and a longer-lives phase for product state evolution. Consequently, a comprehensive model for the involvement of radicals of tyrosine and tryptophan and, the different FAD redox states, in the light-induced charge separation and recombination in GOX was made. Partial involvement of the TyrOH•+ radical cation, spectrally similar to C51A TrmFO, was required for the 4 ps and 37 ps phases to account for the ensemble of data. This result explains previous enigmatic features and indicates the involvement of TyrOH•+ in a variety of protein systems.So far, only the deprotonated tyrosyl radical TyrO• had been observed as a functional intermediate in several systems. The visualization of protonated TyrOH•+ radical in TrmFO C51A and GOX suggests the possibility of its intermediate formation as a precursor of TyrO• in functional biochemical reactions.Finally, in TrmFO the construction of specific variants with site-directed mutagenesis was initiated to study active-site flexibility using electron transfer rates as conformational markers. Further experimental and modeling work is required to pursue this goal.
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