Abstract:
:Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) is a Gram-positive bacterial pathogen that has emerged as a major public health threat. Here we report that the cell wall of S. aureus can be covalently re-engineered to contain non-native small molecules. This process makes use of endogenous levels of the bacterial enzyme sortase A (SrtA), which ordinarily functions to incorporate proteins into the bacterial cell wall. Thus, incubation of wild-type bacteria with rationally designed SrtA substrates results in covalent incorporation of functional molecular handles (fluorescein, biotin, and azide) into cell wall peptidoglycan. These conclusions are supported by data obtained through a variety of experimental techniques (epifluorescence and electron microscopy, biochemical extraction, and mass spectrometry), and cell-wall-incorporated azide was exploited as a chemical handle to perform an azide-alkyne cycloaddition reaction on the bacterial cell surface. This report represents the first example of cell wall engineering of S. aureus or any other pathogenic Gram-positive bacteria and has the potential for widespread utility.
journal_name
ACS Chem Bioljournal_title
ACS chemical biologyauthors
Nelson JW,Chamessian AG,McEnaney PJ,Murelli RP,Kazmierczak BI,Spiegel DAdoi
10.1021/cb100195dsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2010-12-17 00:00:00pages
1147-55issue
12eissn
1554-8929issn
1554-8937journal_volume
5pub_type
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