Abstract

d-2-Hydroxyglutarate (d-2-HG) is a metabolite involved in many physiological metabolic processes. When d-2-HG is aberrantly accumulated due to mutations in isocitrate dehydrogenase or d-2-HG dehydrogenase, it functions in a pro-oncogenic manner and is thus considered a therapeutic target and biomarker in many cancers. In this study, DhdR from Achromobacter denitrificans NBRC 15125 is identified as an allosteric transcriptional factor that negatively regulates d-2-HG dehydrogenase expression and responds to the presence of d-2-HG. Based on the allosteric effect of DhdR, a d-2-HG biosensor is developed by combining DhdR with amplified luminescent proximity homogeneous assay (AlphaScreen) technology. The biosensor is able to detect d-2-HG in serum, urine, and cell culture medium with high specificity and sensitivity. Additionally, this biosensor is used to identify the role of d-2-HG metabolism in lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, demonstrating its broad usages.

Highlights

  • D-2-Hydroxyglutarate (D-2-HG) is a metabolite involved in many physiological metabolic processes

  • To identify allosteric transcription factors (aTFs) that respond to D-2-HG and regulate the expression of D-2HG dehydrogenase (D2HGDH), two open reading frames (ORFs) of upstream and two ORFs of downstream of d2hgdh in bacteria containing d2hgdh were subjected to the gene occurrence profile analysis

  • Genes encoding GntR family transcriptional regulators, electron transfer flavoprotein (ETF), 3-phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase (SerA), carbohydrate diacid regulator (CdaR), lactate permease (LldP), and glycolate oxidase iron-sulfur subunit (GlcF) appear to be the most frequently observed in the neighborhood of d2hgdh (Supplementary Table 1)

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Introduction

D-2-Hydroxyglutarate (D-2-HG) is a metabolite involved in many physiological metabolic processes. DhdR from Achromobacter denitrificans NBRC 15125 is identified as an allosteric transcriptional factor that negatively regulates D-2-HG dehydrogenase expression and responds to the presence of D-2HG. D-2-HG is present at rather low levels (< 0.9 μM in the plasma of healthy humans) under physiological conditions[1,10] This suggests that organisms may have evolved specific mechanisms to respond to D-2-HG accumulation by increasing D-2-HG catabolism through enhanced D2HGDH expression[11–14]. We identify a D-2-HG catabolism regulator DhdR in Achromobacter denitrificans NBRC 15125 This aTF can repress expression of the D2HGDH-encoding gene d2hgdh, and is derepressed by D-2-HG. We combine DhdR with amplified luminescent proximity homogeneous assay (AlphaScreen) technology, a bead-based immunoassay, to develop a D-2-HG biosensor with high specificity and sensitivity. We use the biosensor to identify UDP-2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-glucuronic acid (UDP-GlcNAcA) 3-dehydrogenase (WbpB) of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 as a D-2-HG anabolic enzyme that participates in the intracellular generation of D-2-HG from 2-KG

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