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Asiani, Karishma (2017) Biochemical and biophysical studies on SilE from the sil silver resistance locus. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

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Abstract

Metal ions such as silver (Ag+), mercury (Hg2+), zinc (Zn2+) and copper (Cu+/Cu2+) have a long history of antimicrobial usage and some, such as Cu+/Cu2+, Ag+ and Zn2+ compounds are still used as antimicrobials. Prior to the introduction of antibiotics, Ag+ was arguably the most important antimicrobial and with the rapid emergence of antibiotic resistance, interest in Ag+ and its compounds as alternative antimicrobials have recently been revived. However, resistance to Ag+-based compounds has been emerging, with initial reports of carriage of silver resistance on a Salmonella enetrica serovar Typhimurium multi-resistance plasmid pMG101 isolated from burns patients in 1975. The proposed model for the mechanism of Ag+ resistance encoded by the sil genes from pMG101 involves export of Ag+ ions via an ATPase (SilP), an RND family effluxer (SilCFBA) and a periplasmic chaperone of Ag+ (SilE).

SilE is a periplasmic protein predicted to be intrinsically disordered until it binds Ag+ ions. This hypothesis was tested using structural and biophysical studies which showed that SilE is an intrinsically disordered and unstructured protein in its free apo-form, but folds to a compact, defined structure upon optimal binding of six Ag+ ions in its holo-form. Sequence analyses and site-directed mutagenesis established the importance of histidine and methionine containing motifs for Ag+-binding, and identified a nucleation core that initiates Ag+-mediated folding of SilE. The data show that SilE is a molecular metal sponge absorbing up to a maximum of eight Ag+ ions.

Item Type:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only) (PhD)
Supervisors:	Scott, David Soultanas, Panos Hobman, Jon
Subjects:	Q Science > QD Chemistry > QD241 Organic chemistry R Medicine > RM Therapeutics. Pharmacology
Faculties/Schools:	UK Campuses > Faculty of Science > School of Biosciences UK Campuses > Faculty of Science > School of Chemistry
Item ID:	39567
Depositing User:	Asiani, Karishma
Date Deposited:	25 Aug 2017 13:24
Last Modified:	07 May 2020 12:47
URI:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/39567

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