Examinando por Autor "Machinandiarena, Federico"

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    Revisiting the coupling of fatty acid to phospholipid synthesis in bacteria with FapR regulation
    (Wiley, 2020-07-16) Machinandiarena, Federico; Nakamatsu, Leandro; Schujman, Gustavo Enrique; De Mendoza, Diego; Albanesi, Daniela; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4380-9152
    A key aspect in membrane biogenesis is the coordination of fatty acid to phospholipid synthesis rates. In most bacteria, PlsX is the first enzyme of the phosphatidic acid synthesis pathway, the common precursor of all phospholipids. Previously, we proposed that PlsX is a key regulatory point that synchronizes the fatty acid synthase II with phospholipid synthesis in Bacillus subtilis. However, understanding the basis of such coordination mechanism remained a challenge in Gram-positive bacteria. Here, we show that the inhibition of fatty acid and phospholipid synthesis caused by PlsX depletion leads to the accumulation of long-chain acyl-ACPs, the end products of the fatty acid synthase II. Hydrolysis of the acyl-ACP pool by heterologous expression of a cytosolic thioesterase relieves the inhibition of fatty acid synthesis, indicating that acyl-ACPs are feedback inhibitors of this metabolic route. Unexpectedly, inactivation of PlsX triggers a large increase of malonyl-CoA leading to induction of the fap regulon. This finding discards the hypothesis, proposed for B. subtilis and extended to other Gram-positive bacteria, that acyl-ACPs are feedback inhibitors of the acetyl-CoA carboxylase. Finally, we propose that the continuous production of malonyl-CoA during phospholipid synthesis inhibition provides an additional mechanism for fine-tuning the coupling between phospholipid and fatty acid production in bacteria with FapR regulation.
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    The phosphatidic acid pathway enzyme PlsX plays both catalytic and channeling roles in bacterial phospholipid synthesis
    (American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2020-01-09) Sastre, Diego Emiliano; Pulschen, André A.; Basso , Luis G.M.; Benites Pariente, Jhonathan S.; Marques Netto, Caterina G.C.; Machinandiarena, Federico; Albanesi, Daniela; Navarro, Marcos V.A.S.; De Mendoza, Diego; Gueiros-Filho, Frederico J.
    PlsX is the first enzyme in the pathway that produces phosphatidic acid in Gram-positive bacteria. It makes acylphosphate from acyl-acyl carrier protein (acyl-ACP) and is also involved in coordinating phospholipid and fatty acid biosyntheses. PlsX is a peripheral membrane enzyme in Bacillus subtilis, but how it associates with the membrane remains largely unknown. In the present study, using fluorescence microscopy, liposome sedimentation, differential scanning calorimetry, and acyltransferase assays, we determined that PlsX binds directly to lipid bilayers and identified its membrane anchoring moiety, consisting of a hydrophobic loop located at the tip of two amphipathic dimerization helices. To establish the role of the membrane association of PlsX in acylphosphate synthesis and in the flux through the phosphatidic acid pathway, we then created mutations and gene fusions that prevent PlsX's interaction with the membrane. Interestingly, phospholipid synthesis was severely hampered in cells in which PlsX was detached from the membrane, and results from metabolic labeling indicated that these cells accumulated free fatty acids. Because the same mutations did not affect PlsX transacylase activity, we conclude that membrane association is required for the proper delivery of PlsX's product to PlsY, the next enzyme in the phosphatidic acid pathway. We conclude that PlsX plays a dual role in phospholipid synthesis, acting both as a catalyst and as a chaperone protein that mediates substrate channeling into the pathway.