Department of Developmental Medicine, Research Institute, Osaka Women's and Children's Hospital, Izumi City, Osaka, Japan.
College of Medicine, University of the Philippines Manila, Manila, Philippines.
PLoS One. 2018 Oct 16;13(10):e0205328. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0205328. eCollection 2018.
Ureaplasma parvum serovar 3 strain, OMC-P162, was isolated from the human placenta of a preterm delivery at 26 weeks' gestation. In this study, we sequenced the complete genome of OMC-P162 and compared it with other serovar 3 strains isolated from patients with different clinical conditions. Ten unique genes in OMC-P162, five of which encoded for hypothetical proteins, were identified. Of these, genes UPV_229 and UPV_230 formed an operon whose open reading frames were predicted to code for a DNA methyltransferase and a hypothetical protein, respectively. DNA modification analysis of the OMC-P162 genome identified N4-methylcytosine (m4C) and N6-methyladenine (m6A), but not 5-methylocytosine (m5C). UPV230 recombinant protein displayed endonuclease activity and recognized the CATG sequence, resulting in a blunt cut between A and T. This restriction enzyme activity was identical to that of the cultivated OMC-P162 strain, suggesting that this restriction enzyme was naturally expressed in OMC-P162. We designated this enzyme as UpaP162. Treatment of pT7Blue plasmid with recombinant protein UPV229 completely blocked UpaP162 restriction enzyme activity. These results suggest that the UPV_229 and UPV_230 genes act as a type II restriction-modification system in Ureaplasma OMC-P162.
微小脲原体 3 血清型菌株 OMC-P162 从 26 周早产的人类胎盘中分离得到。在这项研究中,我们对 OMC-P162 的全基因组进行了测序,并与其他来自不同临床条件患者的 3 血清型菌株进行了比较。在 OMC-P162 中发现了 10 个独特的基因,其中 5 个编码假设蛋白。其中,基因 UPV_229 和 UPV_230 形成一个操纵子,其开放阅读框分别预测编码 DNA 甲基转移酶和假设蛋白。对 OMC-P162 基因组的 DNA 修饰分析鉴定出 N4-甲基胞嘧啶(m4C)和 N6-甲基腺嘌呤(m6A),但没有 5-甲基胞嘧啶(m5C)。UPV230 重组蛋白显示内切酶活性,并识别 CATG 序列,导致 A 和 T 之间的钝切割。这种限制性内切酶活性与培养的 OMC-P162 菌株相同,表明该限制性内切酶在 OMC-P162 中自然表达。我们将这种酶命名为 UpaP162。用重组蛋白 UPV229 处理 pT7Blue 质粒完全阻断了 UpaP162 限制酶的活性。这些结果表明,UPV_229 和 UPV_230 基因在微小脲原体 OMC-P162 中充当 II 型限制修饰系统。