title: The Enterococcus hirae R40 penicillin-binding protein 5 and the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus penicillin-binding protein 2' are similar.
abstract: The penicillin-resistant Enterococcus hirae R40 has a typical profile of membrane-bound penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) except that the 71 kDa PBP5 of low penicillin affinity represents about 50% of all the PBPs present. Water-soluble tryptic-digest peptides were selectively produced from PBP5, their N-terminal regions were sequenced and synthetic oligonucleotides were used as primers to generate a 476 bp DNA fragment by polymerase chain reaction. On the basis of these data, the PBP5-encoding gene was cloned in Escherichia coli by using pBR322 as vector. The gene, included in a 7.1 kb insert, had the information for a 678-amino acid-residue protein. PBP5 shows similarity, in the primary structure, with the high-molecular-mass PBPs of class B. In particular, amino acid alignment of the enterococcal PBP5 and the methicillin-resistant staphylococcal PBP2' generates scores that are 30, for the N-terminal domains, and 53, for the C-terminal domains, standard deviations above that expected for a run of 20 randomized pairs of proteins having the same amino acid compositions as the two proteins under consideration.
authors.affiliation: Centre d'Ingénierie des Protéines, Université de Liège, Belgium.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: el Kharroubi
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Jacques
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Piras
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Van Beeumen
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Coyette
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Ghuysen
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D001483:Base Sequence; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D016983:Enterococcus / Q000235:genetics*; D006602:Hexosyltransferases / Q000235:genetics*; D008712:Methicillin / Q000494:pharmacology; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009097:Multienzyme Complexes / Q000235:genetics*; D002267:Muramoylpentapeptide Carboxypeptidase / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D046915:Penicillin-Binding Proteins; D010406:Penicillins / Q000378:metabolism*; D010458:Peptidyl Transferases / Q000235:genetics*; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000187:drug effects; D014357:Trypsin
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D002352:Carrier Proteins; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D009097:Multienzyme Complexes; D046915:Penicillin-Binding Proteins; D010406:Penicillins; D010458:Peptidyl Transferases; D006602:Hexosyltransferases; D002267:Muramoylpentapeptide Carboxypeptidase; D014357:Trypsin; D008712:Methicillin