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Les relations entre bactéries intestinales, aliments et hôte jouent un rôle crucial dans lemaintien de la santé humaine. La caractérisation fonctionnelle d’Uhgb_MP, une enzyme dela famille 130 des glycoside hydrolases découverte par métagénomique fonctionnelle, arévélé une nouvelle fonction de dégradation par phosphorolyse des polysaccharides de laparoi végétale et des glycanes de l'hôte tapissant l'épithélium intestinal. Les déterminantsmoléculaires de la spécificité d’Uhgb_MP vis-à-vis des mannosides ont été identifiés grâce àla résolution de sa structure cristallographique, sous forme apo et en complexe avec sesligands. Un nouveau procédé de synthèse par phosphorolyse inverse d'oligosaccharidesmannosylés à haute valeur ajoutée, a aussi été développé. Enfin, la caractérisationfonctionnelle de la protéine BACOVA_03624 issue de Bacteroides ovatus ATCC 8483, unebactérie intestinale hautement prévalente, a révélé que la famille GH130 comprend à la foisdes glycoside-hydrolases et des glycoside-phosphorylases capables de dégrader lesmannosides et les galactosides, et de les synthétiser par phosphorolyse inverse et/outransglycosylation. L’ensemble de ces résultats, ainsi que l’identification d’inhibiteurs desenzymes de la famille GH130, ouvrent de nouvelles perspectives pour l'étude et le contrôledes interactions microbiote-hôte / The interplay between gut bacteria, food and host play a key role in human health. Thefunctional characterization of Uhgb_MP, an enzyme belonging to the family 130 of glycosidehydrolases, discovered by functional metagenomics, revealed novel functions of plant cellwall polysaccharide and host glycan degradation by phosphorolysis. The moleculardeterminants of Uhgb_MP specificity towards mannosides were identified by solving itscrystal structure, in apo form and in complex with its ligands. A new process of high addedvalue mannosylated oligosaccharide synthesis by reverse-phosphorolysis was alsodeveloped. Finally, the functional characterization of the BACOVA_03624 protein fromBacteroides ovatus ATCC 8483, a highly prevalent gut bacterium, revealed that GH130 familyboth contains glycoside phosphorylases and glycoside hydrolases, which are able to degrademannosides and galactosides, and to synthesize them by reverse-phosphorolysis and/ortransglycosylation. All these results, together with the identification of GH130 enzymeinhibitors, open new perspectives for studying, and potentially also for controlling,interactions between host and gut microbes

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abstract: Glycans are monosaccharide-based heteropolymers that are found covalently attached to many different proteins and lipids and are ubiquitously displayed on the exterior surfaces of cells. Serum glycan composition and structure are well known to be altered in many different types of cancer. In fact, glycans represent a promising but only marginally accessed source of cancer markers. The approach used in this dissertation, which is referred to as “glycan node analysis”, is a molecularly bottom-up approach to plasma/serum (P/S) glycomics based on glycan linkage analysis that captures features such as α2-6 sialylation, β1-6 branching, and core fucosylation as single analytical signals. The diagnostic utility of this approach as applied to lung cancer patients across all stages as well as prostate, serous ovarian, and pancreatic cancer patients compared to certifiably healthy individuals, nominally healthy individuals and/or risk-matched controls is reported. Markers for terminal fucosylation, α2-6 sialylation, β1-4 branching, β1-6 branching and outer-arm fucosylation were most able to differentiate cases from controls. These markers behaved in a stage-dependent manner in lung cancer as well as other types of cancer. Using a Cox proportional hazards regression model, the ability of these markers to predict progression and survival in lung cancer patients was assessed. In addition, the potential mechanistic role of aberrant P/S glycans in cancer progression is discussed. Plasma samples from former bladder cancer patients with currently no evidence of disease (NED), non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC), and muscle invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) along with certifiably healthy controls were analyzed. Markers for α2-6 sialylation, β1-4 branching, β1-6 branching, and outer-arm fucosylation were able to separate current and former (NED) cases from controls; but NED, NMIBC, and MIBC were not distinguished from one another. Markers for α2-6 sialylation and β1-6 branching were able to predict recurrence from the NED state using a Cox proportional hazards regression model adjusted for age, gender, and time from cancer. These two glycan features were found to be correlated to the concentration of C-reactive protein, a known prognostic marker for bladder cancer, further strengthening the link between inflammation and abnormal plasma protein glycosylation. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Chemistry 2018

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京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(人間健康科学) / 甲第18196号 / 人健博第13号 / 新制||人健||1(附属図書館) / 31054 / 京都大学大学院医学研究科人間健康科学系専攻 / (主査)教授 齋藤 邦明, 教授 足立 壯一, 教授 長田 重一 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Human Health Sciences / Kyoto University / DFAM

no / N-Linked glycans were ionized from several matrices with a Shimadzu-Biotech AXIMA-QIT matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization quadrupole ion trap time-of-flight mass spectrometer. [M+Na]+ ions were produced from all matrices and were accompanied by varying amounts of in-source fragmentation products. The least fragmentation was produced by 2,5-dihydroxybenzoic acid and the most by -cyano-4-hydroxycinnamic acid and 6-aza-2-thiothymine. Sialic acid loss was extensive but could be prevented by formation of methyl esters. Fragmentation produced typical low-energy-type spectra dominated by ions formed by glycosidic cleavages. MSn spectra (n = 3 and 4) were used to probe the pathways leading to the major diagnostic ions. Thus, for example, an ion that was formed by loss of the core GlcNAc residues and the 3-antenna was confirmed as being formed by a B/Y rather than a C/Z mechanism. The proposed structures of several cross-ring cleavage ions were confirmed and it was shown that MS3 spectra could be obtained from as little as 10 fmol of glycan

All cells and extracellular matrices of prokaryotes and eukaryotes are made up of glycans, the carbohydrate macromolecules that play a predominant role in cell-to-cell interaction, protection, stabilization, and barrier functions. Glycans are also central to human microbiome-host interactions where bacterial glycans are recognized by innate immune signaling pathways, and host mucins are a major nutrient source for various gut bacteria. Many microorganisms encode glycoside hydrolases (GHs) to utilize the available host cell surface glycans as a nutrient source and to modulate host protein function. The GHs are divided into families having conserved linkage specificity within each family and individual family members can be specific for dramatically divergent macromolecular substrates. In general, within a given GH family very few members have been biochemically characterized and the substrate specificity is poorly understood. GH genes are abundant in the human gut microbiome and culture-enriched metagenomics identified more than 10,000 distinct bacterial GH genes in an individual. The focus of this thesis is endo-β-N-acetylglucosaminidases (ENGases) encoded by GH18 and GH85 families. Bioinformatic analysis shows that the predicted proteins within each of these GH families fell into separate clusters in the Sequence Similarity Networks of each family. The hypothesis of this project is that human microbiome-encoded ENGases from the same GH family differ in their substrate specificities and within the SSN network of the same GH family, enzymes with similar substrate specificity may fall in the same cluster. In this work, I established conditions for overexpression of GH18 and GH85 proteins and investigated the activity of these enzymes on various substrates. / Thesis / Master of Science (MSc) / All the cell surfaces of animals, plants, and microbes are coated with sugars, also known as glycans. These sugars on the cell surface act as a barrier and protect them from the external environment. Glycans on the cells of both microbes and humans are essential for basic interactions between them. Many bacteria produce enzymes such as glycoside hydrolases to obtain nutrients from dietary sugars and alter the sugars on host proteins. There are various families of these enzymes, and they act on specific sugars and cleavage sites. The substrate specificities and characterization of these enzymes from most bacteria found in the human microbiome have not been studied in detail. My work focuses on developing standard enzyme assays for determining specific substrate specificities. This tool can be used to reshape glycans and understand their role in cell processes.

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