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Hydrophobin

October 20, 2023

Hydrophobins are a group of small (~100 amino acids) cysteine-rich proteins that were discovered in filamentous fungi that are lichenized or not. Later similar proteins were also found in Bacteria.[1] Hydrophobins are known for their ability to form a hydrophobic (water-repellent) coating on the surface of an object.[2] They were first discovered and separated in Schizophyllum commune in 1991.[3] Based on differences in hydropathy patterns and biophysical properties, they can be divided into two categories: class I and class II. Hydrophobins can self-assemble into a monolayer on hydrophilic:hydrophobic interfaces such as a water:air interface. Class I monolayer contains the same core structure as amyloid fibrils, and is positive to Congo red and thioflavin T. The monolayer formed by class I hydrophobins has a highly ordered structure, and can only be dissociated by concentrated trifluoroacetate or formic acid. Monolayer assembly involves large structural rearrangements with respect to the monomer.[4]

Fungal hydrophobin
Structure of hydrophobin HFBII from Trichoderma reesei
Identifiers
SymbolHydrophobin_2
PfamPF06766
InterProIPR010636
PROSITEPDOC00739
SCOP21r2m / SCOPe / SUPFAM
OPM superfamily96
OPM protein1r2m
Available protein structures:
Pfam  structures / ECOD  
PDBRCSB PDB; PDBe; PDBj
PDBsumstructure summary
Hydrophobin
Identifiers
SymbolHydrophobin
PfamPF01185
InterProIPR001338
Available protein structures:
Pfam  structures / ECOD  
PDBRCSB PDB; PDBe; PDBj
PDBsumstructure summary

Fungi make complex aerial structures and spores even in aqueous environments.

Hydrophobins have been identified in lichens[5] as well as non-lichenized ascomycetes and basidiomycetes; whether they exist in other groups is not known.[6] Hydrophobins are generally found on the outer surface of conidia and of the hyphal wall, and may be involved in mediating contact and communication between the fungus and its environment.[7] Some family members contain multiple copies of the domain.

Hydrophobins have been found to be structurally and functionally similar to cerato-platanins, another group of small cysteine-rich proteins,[8] which also contain a high percentage of hydrophobic amino acids,[6] and are also associated with hyphal growth.[9][10]

This family of proteins includes the rodlet proteins of Neurospora crassa (gene eas) and Emericella nidulans (gene rodA), these proteins are the main component of the hydrophobic sheath covering the surface of many fungal spores.[11][12]

Genomic sequencing of two fungi from dry or salty environments (Wallemia sebi and W. ichthyophaga) revealed that these species contain predicted hydrophobins with unusually high proportion of acidic amino acids and therefore with potentially novel characteristics.[13] High proportion of acidic amino acids is thought to be an adaptation of proteins to high concentrations of salt.[14]

Structure Edit

Hydrophobins are characterised by the presence of 8 conserved cysteine residues that form 4 disulphide bonds.[15] They are able to reverse the wettability of surfaces by spontaneous self-assembly of the monomeric proteins into amphipathic monolayers at hydrophobic:hydrophilic surfaces. Despite this common feature, hydrophobins are subdivided into two classes based on differences on their monomeric structure, such as the spacing between the cysteine residues, and based on the different physicochemical properties of the amphipathic monolayers they form.[15][16] Extensive structural analyses of individual hydrophobins from the two classes have elucidated that the morphological and physical differences between the class I and class II polymer forms are the results of significant structural differences at the monomer-assembly level.

Class I Edit

Class I hydrophobins are characterised by having a quite diverse amino acid sequence between different types (with exception of the conserved cysteine residues), and compared to class II, they have long, varied inter-cysteine spacing.[17] They form rodlets which have been identified as functional amyloids due to their amyloid-like characteristics as seen in X-ray diffraction studies and confirmed by their capacity to bind to amyloid-specific dyes such as Congo red and Thioflavin T.[18] The formation of rodlets involves conformational changes[19] that lead to formation of an extremely robust β-sheet structure[20] that can only be depolymerised by treatment with strong acids.[21] The rodlets can spontaneously form ordered monolayers by lateral assembly, displaying a regular fibrillary morphology on hydrophobic:hydrophilic interfaces.[22] The most well characterised class I hydrophobin is EAS, which coats the spores of the fungus Neurospora crassa, followed by characterisation of DewA from Aspergillus nidulans.[23]

Class II Edit

Class II hydrophobins have overall a more conserved amino acid sequence between the different types and, contrary to class I, they have short, regular inter-cysteine spacing.[17] Opposite to class I, the class II hydrophobins monolayer formed at hydrophobic:hydrophilic interfaces is not fibrillar and it is not associated with formation of amyloid-structures, nor with large conformational changes.[22] Nonetheless, high resolution atomic-force microscopy studies revealed the formation of a notable hexagonal repeating pattern over surfaces coated with the class II hydrophobin HBFI, meaning that these proteins are also able to form an ordered network in surface films.[24]

The crystal structures or HFBI and HFBII from Trichoderma reesei were the first class II hydrophobins to be determined.

Rodlet self-assembly of class I hydrophobins Edit

There is special interest in understanding the mechanism underlying class I monomers self-assembly that leads to formation of tough, ordered amphipathic rodlet monolayers, due to their intrinsic properties and due to substantial information available from several characterisation studies of the class I hydrophobins EAS and DewA. These mechanisms have been greatly studied by targeted mutagenesis in an effort to identify the key amino acid sequence regions driving rodlet self-assembly. A model for the monomeric form of EAS was proposed by Kwan et al. (2006) from structural data obtained from NMR spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction experiments that indicated the presence of four-stranded, antiparallel β-barrel core structure in EAS that allows monomer linking through backbone H-bonding.[18] There are secondary elements around this β-barrel core like the Cys3-Cys4 and Cys7-Cys8 loops. This model is consistent with the amyloid-like structure that class I rodlets form, in which the β-strands are oriented perpendicular to the cross-β scaffold axis of the fibre.[25]

Site-directed mutagenesis of EAS has given insights into the specific structural changes responsible for self-assembly of monomers into rodlets and subsequent formation of amphipathic monolayer in hydrophobic:hydrophilic interfaces. Kwan et al. (2008) reported that the long hydrophobic Cys3-Cys4 loop is not required for rodlet assembly because its deletion does not affect the folding and physical properties of the monomeric protein, neither the morphology of the polymeric rodlet form.[26] Instead, a region of the short Cys7-Cys8 loop, containing mainly uncharged polar residues, has been found to be critical for rodlet assembly.[15]

Characterization of EAS secondary elements involved in rodlet assembly have given insights into the mechanism behind class I hydrophobins self-assembly, but important structural differences with DewA, another class I hydrophobin, suggest that the mechanisms driving rodlet assembly vary among different types of hydrophobins. Like EAS, DewA also has a β-barrel core structure, but it differs significantly from it because of its considerable content of helical secondary elements.[27] A unique feature of DewA is its capacity to exist as two types of conformers in solution, both able to form rodlet assemblies but at different rates.[23] Despite these differences in structural and self-assembly mechanisms, both EAS and DewA form robust fibrillar monolayers, meaning that there must exist several pathways, protein sequences and tertiary conformations able to self-assemble into amphipathic monolayers. Further characterisation of both EAS and DewA and their rodlet self-assembly mechanisms will open up opportunities for rational design of hydrophobins with novel biotechnological applications.

Potentiality for use Edit

Since the very first studies that gave insights into the properties of hydrophobins, these small proteins have been regarded as great candidates for technological use.[16] The detailed understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying hydrophobin self-assembly into amphipathic monolayer in hydrophobic:hydrophilic interfaces is of great academic interest but mainly of commercial interest. This is because a deep understanding of the elements driving these mechanisms would allow engineering of hydrophobins (or other biomolecules) for nano and biotechnological applications. An example is that the hydrophobin-coating of carbon nanotubes was found to increase their solubility and reduce their toxicity, a finding that increases the prospects of carbon nanotubes to be used as vehicles for drug delivery.[28] Other areas of potential use of hydrophobins include:

  • Fabrication and coating of nanodevices and medical implants to increase biocompatibility.
  • Emulsifiers in food industry and personal care products.
  • Hydrophobins' high stability can be very useful in the coating of surfaces of prolonged use or under harsh conditions.
  • The easy dissociation of a class II hydrophobin monolayer might be desirable and this can easily be achieved by the use of detergents and alcohols.
  • The use of hydrophobins in protein purification,[29][30][31] drug delivery[32][33][34] and cell attachment[35][36][37] has been reported.

For more about the potential biotechnological applications of hydrophobins see Hektor & Scholtmeijer (2005)[38] and Cox & Hooley (2009).[39]

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Further reading Edit

  • Scholtmeijer K (2000). Expression and engineering of hydrophobin genes (Ph.D. thesis). University of Groningen.
  • Hakanpää J, Paananen A, Askolin S, Nakari-Setälä T, Parkkinen T, Penttilä M, Linder MB, Rouvinen J (January 2004). "Atomic resolution structure of the HFBII hydrophobin, a self-assembling amphiphile". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 279 (1): 534–9. doi:10.1074/jbc.M309650200. PMID 14555650.
  • Wösten HA, de Vocht ML (September 2000). "Hydrophobins, the fungal coat unravelled". Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Reviews on Biomembranes. 1469 (2): 79–86. doi:10.1016/S0304-4157(00)00002-2. PMID 10998570.
  • Aimanianda V, Bayry J, Bozza S, Kniemeyer O, Perruccio K, Elluru SR, Clavaud C, Paris S, Brakhage AA, Kaveri SV, Romani L, Latgé JP (August 2009). "Surface hydrophobin prevents immune recognition of airborne fungal spores". Nature. 460 (7259): 1117–21. Bibcode:2009Natur.460.1117A. doi:10.1038/nature08264. PMID 19713928. S2CID 4333767.


This article incorporates text from the public domain Pfam and InterPro: IPR001338

October 20, 2023
hydrophobin, group, small, amino, acids, cysteine, rich, proteins, that, were, discovered, filamentous, fungi, that, lichenized, later, similar, proteins, were, also, found, bacteria, known, their, ability, form, hydrophobic, water, repellent, coating, surface. Hydrophobins are a group of small 100 amino acids cysteine rich proteins that were discovered in filamentous fungi that are lichenized or not Later similar proteins were also found in Bacteria 1 Hydrophobins are known for their ability to form a hydrophobic water repellent coating on the surface of an object 2 They were first discovered and separated in Schizophyllum commune in 1991 3 Based on differences in hydropathy patterns and biophysical properties they can be divided into two categories class I and class II Hydrophobins can self assemble into a monolayer on hydrophilic hydrophobic interfaces such as a water air interface Class I monolayer contains the same core structure as amyloid fibrils and is positive to Congo red and thioflavin T The monolayer formed by class I hydrophobins has a highly ordered structure and can only be dissociated by concentrated trifluoroacetate or formic acid Monolayer assembly involves large structural rearrangements with respect to the monomer 4 Fungal hydrophobinStructure of hydrophobin HFBII from Trichoderma reeseiIdentifiersSymbolHydrophobin 2PfamPF06766InterProIPR010636PROSITEPDOC00739SCOP21r2m SCOPe SUPFAMOPM superfamily96OPM protein1r2mAvailable protein structures Pfam structures ECOD PDBRCSB PDB PDBe PDBjPDBsumstructure summaryHydrophobinIdentifiersSymbolHydrophobinPfamPF01185InterProIPR001338Available protein structures Pfam structures ECOD PDBRCSB PDB PDBe PDBjPDBsumstructure summaryFungi make complex aerial structures and spores even in aqueous environments Hydrophobins have been identified in lichens 5 as well as non lichenized ascomycetes and basidiomycetes whether they exist in other groups is not known 6 Hydrophobins are generally found on the outer surface of conidia and of the hyphal wall and may be involved in mediating contact and communication between the fungus and its environment 7 Some family members contain multiple copies of the domain Hydrophobins have been found to be structurally and functionally similar to cerato platanins another group of small cysteine rich proteins 8 which also contain a high percentage of hydrophobic amino acids 6 and are also associated with hyphal growth 9 10 This family of proteins includes the rodlet proteins of Neurospora crassa gene eas and Emericella nidulans gene rodA these proteins are the main component of the hydrophobic sheath covering the surface of many fungal spores 11 12 Genomic sequencing of two fungi from dry or salty environments Wallemia sebi and W ichthyophaga revealed that these species contain predicted hydrophobins with unusually high proportion of acidic amino acids and therefore with potentially novel characteristics 13 High proportion of acidic amino acids is thought to be an adaptation of proteins to high concentrations of salt 14 Contents 1 Structure 1 1 Class I 1 2 Class II 2 Rodlet self assembly of class I hydrophobins 3 Potentiality for use 4 References 5 Further readingStructure EditHydrophobins are characterised by the presence of 8 conserved cysteine residues that form 4 disulphide bonds 15 They are able to reverse the wettability of surfaces by spontaneous self assembly of the monomeric proteins into amphipathic monolayers at hydrophobic hydrophilic surfaces Despite this common feature hydrophobins are subdivided into two classes based on differences on their monomeric structure such as the spacing between the cysteine residues and based on the different physicochemical properties of the amphipathic monolayers they form 15 16 Extensive structural analyses of individual hydrophobins from the two classes have elucidated that the morphological and physical differences between the class I and class II polymer forms are the results of significant structural differences at the monomer assembly level Class I Edit Class I hydrophobins are characterised by having a quite diverse amino acid sequence between different types with exception of the conserved cysteine residues and compared to class II they have long varied inter cysteine spacing 17 They form rodlets which have been identified as functional amyloids due to their amyloid like characteristics as seen in X ray diffraction studies and confirmed by their capacity to bind to amyloid specific dyes such as Congo red and Thioflavin T 18 The formation of rodlets involves conformational changes 19 that lead to formation of an extremely robust b sheet structure 20 that can only be depolymerised by treatment with strong acids 21 The rodlets can spontaneously form ordered monolayers by lateral assembly displaying a regular fibrillary morphology on hydrophobic hydrophilic interfaces 22 The most well characterised class I hydrophobin is EAS which coats the spores of the fungus Neurospora crassa followed by characterisation of DewA from Aspergillus nidulans 23 Class II Edit Class II hydrophobins have overall a more conserved amino acid sequence between the different types and contrary to class I they have short regular inter cysteine spacing 17 Opposite to class I the class II hydrophobins monolayer formed at hydrophobic hydrophilic interfaces is not fibrillar and it is not associated with formation of amyloid structures nor with large conformational changes 22 Nonetheless high resolution atomic force microscopy studies revealed the formation of a notable hexagonal repeating pattern over surfaces coated with the class II hydrophobin HBFI meaning that these proteins are also able to form an ordered network in surface films 24 The crystal structures or HFBI and HFBII from Trichoderma reesei were the first class II hydrophobins to be determined Rodlet self assembly of class I hydrophobins EditThere is special interest in understanding the mechanism underlying class I monomers self assembly that leads to formation of tough ordered amphipathic rodlet monolayers due to their intrinsic properties and due to substantial information available from several characterisation studies of the class I hydrophobins EAS and DewA These mechanisms have been greatly studied by targeted mutagenesis in an effort to identify the key amino acid sequence regions driving rodlet self assembly A model for the monomeric form of EAS was proposed by Kwan et al 2006 from structural data obtained from NMR spectroscopy and X ray diffraction experiments that indicated the presence of four stranded antiparallel b barrel core structure in EAS that allows monomer linking through backbone H bonding 18 There are secondary elements around this b barrel core like the Cys3 Cys4 and Cys7 Cys8 loops This model is consistent with the amyloid like structure that class I rodlets form in which the b strands are oriented perpendicular to the cross b scaffold axis of the fibre 25 Site directed mutagenesis of EAS has given insights into the specific structural changes responsible for self assembly of monomers into rodlets and subsequent formation of amphipathic monolayer in hydrophobic hydrophilic interfaces Kwan et al 2008 reported that the long hydrophobic Cys3 Cys4 loop is not required for rodlet assembly because its deletion does not affect the folding and physical properties of the monomeric protein neither the morphology of the polymeric rodlet form 26 Instead a region of the short Cys7 Cys8 loop containing mainly uncharged polar residues has been found to be critical for rodlet assembly 15 Characterization of EAS secondary elements involved in rodlet assembly have given insights into the mechanism behind class I hydrophobins self assembly but important structural differences with DewA another class I hydrophobin suggest that the mechanisms driving rodlet assembly vary among different types of hydrophobins Like EAS DewA also has a b barrel core structure but it differs significantly from it because of its considerable content of helical secondary elements 27 A unique feature of DewA is its capacity to exist as two types of conformers in solution both able to form rodlet assemblies but at different rates 23 Despite these differences in structural and self assembly mechanisms both EAS and DewA form robust fibrillar monolayers meaning that there must exist several pathways protein sequences and tertiary conformations able to self assemble into amphipathic monolayers Further characterisation of both EAS and DewA and their rodlet self assembly mechanisms will open up opportunities for rational design of hydrophobins with novel biotechnological applications Potentiality for use EditSince the very first studies that gave insights into the properties of hydrophobins these small proteins have been regarded as great candidates for technological use 16 The detailed understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying hydrophobin self assembly into amphipathic monolayer in hydrophobic hydrophilic interfaces is of great academic interest but mainly of commercial interest This is because a deep understanding of the elements driving these mechanisms would allow engineering of hydrophobins or other biomolecules for nano and biotechnological applications An example is that the hydrophobin coating of carbon nanotubes was found to increase their solubility and reduce their toxicity a finding that increases the prospects of carbon nanotubes to be used as vehicles for drug delivery 28 Other areas of potential use of hydrophobins include Fabrication and coating of nanodevices and medical implants to increase biocompatibility Emulsifiers in food industry and personal care products Hydrophobins high stability can be very useful in the coating of surfaces of prolonged use or under harsh conditions The easy dissociation of a class II hydrophobin monolayer might be desirable and this can easily be achieved by the use of detergents and alcohols The use of hydrophobins in protein purification 29 30 31 drug delivery 32 33 34 and cell attachment 35 36 37 has been reported For more about the potential biotechnological applications of hydrophobins see Hektor amp Scholtmeijer 2005 38 and Cox amp Hooley 2009 39 References 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hydrophobin DewA to generate surfaces that enhance adhesion of human but not bacterial cells Acta Biomaterialia 8 3 1037 47 doi 10 1016 j actbio 2011 11 022 PMID 22154865 Hektor HJ Scholtmeijer K August 2005 Hydrophobins proteins with potential Current Opinion in Biotechnology 16 4 434 9 doi 10 1016 j copbio 2005 05 004 PMID 15950452 Cox PW Hooley P February 2009 Hydrophobins new prospects for biotechnology Fungal Biology Reviews 23 1 2 40 7 doi 10 1016 j fbr 2009 09 001 hdl 2436 117149 Further reading EditScholtmeijer K 2000 Expression and engineering of hydrophobin genes Ph D thesis University of Groningen Hakanpaa J Paananen A Askolin S Nakari Setala T Parkkinen T Penttila M Linder MB Rouvinen J January 2004 Atomic resolution structure of the HFBII hydrophobin a self assembling amphiphile The Journal of Biological Chemistry 279 1 534 9 doi 10 1074 jbc M309650200 PMID 14555650 Wosten HA de Vocht ML September 2000 Hydrophobins the fungal coat unravelled Biochimica et Biophysica Acta BBA Reviews on Biomembranes 1469 2 79 86 doi 10 1016 S0304 4157 00 00002 2 PMID 10998570 Aimanianda V Bayry J Bozza S Kniemeyer O Perruccio K Elluru SR Clavaud C Paris S Brakhage AA Kaveri SV Romani L Latge JP August 2009 Surface hydrophobin prevents immune recognition of airborne fungal spores Nature 460 7259 1117 21 Bibcode 2009Natur 460 1117A doi 10 1038 nature08264 PMID 19713928 S2CID 4333767 This article incorporates text from the public domain Pfam and InterPro IPR001338 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Hydrophobin amp oldid 1178470002, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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