title: Identification of disulfide reductases in Campylobacterales: a bioinformatics investigation.
abstract: Disulfide reductases of host-colonising bacteria are involved in the expression of virulence factors, resistance to drugs, and elimination of toxic compounds. Large-scale genome analyses of 281 prokaryotes identified CXXC and CXXC-derived motifs in each microorganism. The total number of these motifs showed correlations with genome size and oxygen tolerance of the prokaryotes. Specific bioinformatic analyses served to identify putative disulfide reductases in the Campylobacterales Campylobacter jejuni, Helicobacter pylori, Wolinella succinogenes and Arcobacter butzleri which colonise the gastrointestinal tract of higher animals. Three filters applied to the genomes of these species yielded 35, 25, 28 and 34 genes, respectively, encoding proteins with the characteristics of disulfide reductases. Ten proteins were common to the four species, including four belonging to the thioredoxin system. The presence of thioredoxin reductase activities was detected in the four bacterial species by observing dithiobis-2-nitrobenzoic acid reduction with beta-nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate as cofactor. Phylogenetic analyses of the thioredoxin reductases TrxB(1) and TrxB(2) of the four Campylobacterales were performed. Their TrxB(1) proteins were more closely related to those of Firmicutes than to the corresponding proteins of other Proteobacteria. The Campylobacterales TrxB(2) proteins were closer to glutathione reductases of other organisms than to their respective TrxB(1) proteins. The phylogenetic features of the Campylobacterales thioredoxin reductases suggested a special role for these enzymes in the physiology of these bacteria.
authors.affiliation: School of Medical Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.
authors.forename: Nadeem O
authors.initials: NO
authors.lastname: Kaakoush
authors.forename: Torsten
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sterzenbach
authors.forename: William G
authors.initials: WG
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.forename: Sebastian
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Suerbaum
authors.forename: George Louis
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Mendz
mesh_terms: D020640:Arcobacter / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D016123:Campylobacter jejuni / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D003067:Coenzymes / Q000494:pharmacology; D019295:Computational Biology; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D004228:Dithionitrobenzoic Acid / Q000378:metabolism; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D006094:Gram-Positive Bacteria / Q000235:genetics; D016480:Helicobacter pylori / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009247:NADH, NADPH Oxidoreductases / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D009249:NADP / Q000494:pharmacology; D010802:Phylogeny; D020560:Proteobacteria / Q000235:genetics; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013880:Thioredoxin-Disulfide Reductase / Q000378:metabolism; D016968:Wolinella / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D003067:Coenzymes; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D009249:NADP; D004228:Dithionitrobenzoic Acid; D009247:NADH, NADPH Oxidoreductases; C014703:disulfide reductase (NADH); D013880:Thioredoxin-Disulfide Reductase