Prokaryotic ubiquitin-like protein
Pup-like protein family | |||||||||||
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![]() Three Prokaryotic ubiquitin-like proteins (blue) bound to proteasomal ATPase Mpa (red | |||||||||||
Identifiers | |||||||||||
Symbol | Pup | ||||||||||
Pfam | PF05639 | ||||||||||
InterPro | IPR008515 | ||||||||||
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Prokaryotic ubiquitin-like protein (Pup) is a functional analog of
Similar to ubiquitin, Pup is attached to specific
The discovery of Pup indicates that like eukaryotes, bacteria may use a small-protein modifier to control protein stability.
The Pup gene encodes a 64–amino acid
Pup is an
In 2017, the presence of Pup homologs in bacterial species outside of the group of
Ubiquitin bacterial
Prokaryotic ubiquitin-like protein | |
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Identifiers | |
Symbol | UBact |
InterPro | IPR037543 |
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/UBact_family.png/220px-UBact_family.png)
Ubiquitin Bacterial (UBact) is a protein that is homologous to Prokaryotic ubiquitin-like protein (Pup). UBact was recently described by the group of Professor
The establishment of the term UBact is controversial, since to date there is no experimental evidence presented to justify the distinction of UBact from Pup.[5] The term UBact was denoted because several bacterial species from the phylum Nitrospirae (where UBact was initially identified; e.g., Leptospirillum ferriphilum) contain both the Pup-proteasome system[10] and a novel ORF-proteasome system that needed to be addressed[11] and therefore was denoted UBact.[5] The conjugation-proteasome components neighboring the UBact and Pup loci in these Nitrospirae bacteria show weak similarity and are probably not entirely redundant. Figure 2 illustrates the differences between the UBact and Pup loci in the representative Nitrospirae bacterium Leptospirillum ferrodiazotrophum. Further analyses of the UBact (and not Pup) locus in Leptospirillum ferrodiazotrophum revealed its existence and extreme conservation across several gram-negative bacterial phyla, as illustrated in figure 3.
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Alignment_of_UBact_and_Pup_from_the_bacterium_Leptospirillum_ferrodiazotrophum.png/220px-Alignment_of_UBact_and_Pup_from_the_bacterium_Leptospirillum_ferrodiazotrophum.png)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Alignment_of_UBact_from_several_bactrerial_phyla.png/220px-Alignment_of_UBact_from_several_bactrerial_phyla.png)
In spite of the large difference in sequence, UBact is homologous to Pup and shares several characteristics with it: (i) same genomic location within a cluster of genes homologous to Mpa -> Dop -> Pup/UBact -> PrcB -> PrcA -> PafA, (ii) C-terminal sequence that ends exclusively with glutamine or glutamate across bacterial species, (iii) short size (similar to that of ubiquitin) and, (iv) high sequence conservation across tremendous evolutionary distance (a characteristic also in common with ubiquitin). The differences between UBact and Pup are their taxonomic distribution and amino acid sequences. While Pup is predominantly found in the
It took almost ten years since the discovery of Pup in 2008,[1] to identify UBact. This is probably due to the difference between Pup and UBact amino acids sequences, and because very few bacteria from the five phyla where UBact is found have been sequenced.[5]
Bacteria from the phyla where UBact is found interact with humans,[12][13] and are found in the human gut microbiota.[14] In marine systems, the most frequently encountered nitrogen-oxidizing bacteria are related to the UBact encoding Nitrospina gracilis [15] From the knowledge accumulated about the Pup-proteasome system and its importance in bacterial durability and disease causing ability,[16][17] the homologous UBact-proteasome system is expected to have similar impact on the gram-negative bacteria where it is found. In addition to humans, animals such livestock and fish that eat from the ground or swim in water are expected to be constantly exposed to UBact containing bacteria in the soil and water respectively.
From evolutionary perspective, the finding of the UBact-proteasome system in gram-negative bacteria suggests that either the Pup/UBact-proteasome systems evolved in bacteria prior to the split into gram positive and negative clades over 3000 million years ago[18] or, that these systems were acquired by different bacterial lineages through horizontal gene transfer(s) from a third, yet unknown, organism. In support of the second possibility, two UBact loci were found in the genome of an uncultured anaerobic methanotrophic Archaeon (ANME-1;locus CBH38808.1 and locus CBH39258.1). More possibilities exist.
Update: UBact is also found in the gram-negative bacterial phylum Gemmatimonadota (e.g., A0A2E8WA32, A0A2E3J6F7, A0A2E7JSE3) in the candidate phylum "Latescibacteria" (previously known as WS3; e.g., A0A3D2RHP4, A0A3D5FTR6, A0A3D4H075, and A0A3B8MMW3), in the phylum "Abditibacteriota" (previously candidate phylum FBP; e.g., A0A2S8SU03), and in the phylum Candidatus Bipolaricaulota (e.g., H5SEU7 and H5SQ95).
See also
References
- ^ PMID 18832610.
- ^ PMID 20953180.
- ^ Universal protein resource accession number P9WHN4 for "Prokaryotic ubiquitin-like protein Pup" at UniProt.
- PMID 19580545.
- ^ PMID 28087277.
- PMID 28478282.
- PMID 3041007.
- PMID 19607839.
- PMID 19580545.
- ^ "Ubiquitin-like protein Pup [Leptospirillum ferriphilum] - Protein - NCBI".
- ^ "Ubiquitin-like protein UBact [Leptospirillum ferriphilum] - Protein - NCBI".
- PMID 28830999.
- PMID 24920769.
- PMID 23294932.
- PMID 23439773.
- PMID 27974513.
- PMID 26951665.
- PMID 27965376.
External links
- PupDB, a database of pupylated proteins and pupylation sites.