Characterisation of the enzyme transport path between shipworms and their bacterial symbionts.
Characterisation of the enzyme transport path between shipworms and their bacterial symbionts.
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10.1186/s12915-021-01162-6
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2021-11-01
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影响因子:
5.4
通讯作者:
McQueen-Mason SJ
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Pesante G;Sabbadin F;Elias L;Steele-King C;Shipway JR;Dowle AA;Li Y;Busse-Wicher M;Dupree P;Besser K;Cragg SM;Bruce NC;McQueen-Mason SJ
Shipworms are marine xylophagus bivalve molluscs, which can live on a diet solely of wood due to their ability to produce plant cell wall-degrading enzymes. Bacterial carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes), synthesised by endosymbionts living in specialised shipworm cells called bacteriocytes and located in the animal’s gills, play an important role in wood digestion in shipworms. However, the main site of lignocellulose digestion within these wood-boring molluscs, which contains both endogenous lignocellulolytic enzymes and prokaryotic enzymes, is the caecum, and the mechanism by which bacterial enzymes reach the distant caecum lumen has remained so far mysterious. Here, we provide a characterisation of the path through which bacterial CAZymes produced in the gills of the shipworm Lyrodus pedicellatus reach the distant caecum to contribute to the digestion of wood. Through a combination of transcriptomics, proteomics, X-ray microtomography, electron microscopy studies and in vitro biochemical characterisation, we show that wood-digesting enzymes produced by symbiotic bacteria are localised not only in the gills, but also in the lumen of the food groove, a stream of mucus secreted by gill cells that carries food particles trapped by filter feeding to the mouth. Bacterial CAZymes are also present in the crystalline style and in the caecum of their shipworm host, suggesting a unique pathway by which enzymes involved in a symbiotic interaction are transported to their site of action. Finally, we characterise in vitro four new bacterial glycosyl hydrolases and a lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase identified in our transcriptomic and proteomic analyses as some of the major bacterial enzymes involved in this unusual biological system. Based on our data, we propose that bacteria and their enzymes are transported from the gills along the food groove to the shipworm’s mouth and digestive tract, where they aid in wood digestion. The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12915-021-01162-6.
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影响因子:
3.7
作者:
Brito TL;Campos AB;Bastiaan von Meijenfeldt FA;Daniel JP;Ribeiro GB;Silva GGZ;Wilke DV;de Moraes DT;Dutilh BE;Meirelles PM;Trindade-Silva AE
通讯作者:
Trindade-Silva AE
影响因子:
7.8
作者:
Cragg SM;Beckham GT;Bruce NC;Bugg TD;Distel DL;Dupree P;Etxabe AG;Goodell BS;Jellison J;McGeehan JE;McQueen-Mason SJ;Schnorr K;Walton PH;Watts JE;Zimmer M
通讯作者:
Zimmer M
影响因子:
4.4
作者:
Distel, DL;Beaudoin, DJ;Morrill, W
通讯作者:
Morrill, W
影响因子:
7.2
作者:
Bromley, Jennifer R.;Busse-Wicher, Marta;Dupree, Paul
通讯作者:
Dupree, Paul
影响因子:
0.5
作者:
Alyakrinskaya, IO
通讯作者:
Alyakrinskaya, IO