Identification of NAD+ Synthetase from Streptococcus sobrinus as a B-Cell-Stimulatory Protein†

AUTOR(ES)

Veiga-Malta, Isabel

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

Streptococcus sobrinus, one agent of dental caries, secretes a protein that induces lymphocyte polyclonal activation of the host as a mechanism of immune evasion. We have isolated from culture supernatants of this bacterium a protein with murine B-cell-stimulatory properties and subsequently cloned the relevant gene. It contains an open reading frame of 825 bp encoding a polypeptide with 275 amino acid residues and a molecular mass of 30 kDa. The protein displays high sequence homology with NAD+ synthetases from several organisms, including a conserved fingerprint sequence (SGGXD) characteristic of ATP pyrophosphatases. The polypeptide was expressed in Escherichia coli as a hexahistidine-tagged protein and purified in an enzymatically active form. The recombinant NAD+ synthetase stimulates murine B cells after in vitro treatment of spleen cell cultures, as demonstrated by its ability to induce up-regulation of the expression of CD69, an early marker of lymphocyte activation. Stimulation with the recombinant NAD+ synthetase was also observed with other B-cell markers, such as CD19+, B220+, and CD21+. Cell proliferation follows the activation induced by the recombinant NAD+ synthetase.

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