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Stow PR, Reitz ZL, Johnstone TC, Butler A. Genomics-driven discovery of chiral triscatechol siderophores with enantiomeric Fe(iii) coordination. Chem Sci 2021; 12:12485-12493. [PMID: 34603680 PMCID: PMC8480324 DOI: 10.1039/d1sc03541j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2021] [Accepted: 08/18/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
Abstract
Ferric complexes of triscatechol siderophores may assume one of two enantiomeric configurations at the iron site. Chirality is known to be important in the iron uptake process, however an understanding of the molecular features directing stereospecific coordination remains ambiguous. Synthesis of the full suite of (DHBL/DLysL/DSer)3 macrolactone diastereomers, which includes the siderophore cyclic trichrysobactin (CTC), enables the effects that the chirality of Lys and Ser residues exert on the configuration of the Fe(iii) complex to be defined. Computationally optimized geometries indicate that the Λ/Δ configurational preferences are set by steric interactions between the Lys sidechains and the peptide backbone. The ability of each (DHBL/DLysL/DSer)3 diastereomer to form a stable Fe(iii) complex prompted a genomic search for biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) encoding the synthesis of these diastereomers in microbes. The genome of the plant pathogen Dickeya chrysanthemi EC16 was sequenced and the genes responsible for the biosynthesis of CTC were identified. A related but distinct BGC was identified in the genome of the opportunistic pathogen Yersinia frederiksenii ATCC 33641; isolation of the siderophore from Y. frederiksenii ATCC 33641, named frederiksenibactin (FSB), revealed the triscatechol oligoester, linear-(DHBLLysLSer)3. Circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy establishes that Fe(iii)-CTC and Fe(iii)-FSB are formed in opposite enantiomeric configuration, consistent with the results of the ferric complexes of the cyclic (DHBL/DLysL/DSer)3 diastereomers.
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- Parker R Stow
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Santa Barbara CA 93106-9510 USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Santa Barbara CA 93106-9510 USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Santa Cruz CA 95064 USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Santa Barbara CA 93106-9510 USA
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Gerleve C, Studer A. Transition-Metal-Free Oxidative Cross-Coupling of Tetraarylborates to Biaryls Using Organic Oxidants. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020; 59:15468-15473. [PMID: 32159264 PMCID: PMC7496537 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202002595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Readily prepared tetraarylborates undergo selective (cross)-coupling through oxidation with Bobbitt's salt to give symmetric and unsymmetric biaryls. The organic oxoammonium salt can be used either as a stoichiometric oxidant or as a catalyst in combination with in situ generated NO2 and molecular oxygen as the terminal oxidant. For selected cases, oxidative coupling is also possible with NO2 /O2 without any additional nitroxide-based cocatalyst. Transition-metal-free catalytic oxidative ligand cross-coupling of tetraarylborates is unprecedented and the introduced method provides access to various biaryl and heterobiaryl systems.
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- Carolin Gerleve
- Organisch-Chemisches InstitutWestfälische Wilhelms-UniversitätCorrensstraße 4048149MünsterGermany
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- Organisch-Chemisches InstitutWestfälische Wilhelms-UniversitätCorrensstraße 4048149MünsterGermany
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D'Amato A, Ghosh P, Costabile C, Della Sala G, Izzo I, Maayan G, De Riccardis F. Peptoid-based siderophore mimics as dinuclear Fe 3+ chelators. Dalton Trans 2020; 49:6020-6029. [PMID: 32319496 DOI: 10.1039/d0dt00689k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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A practical synthesis of preorganized tripodal enterobactin/corynebactin-type ligands (consisting of a C3-symmetric macrocyclic peptoid core, three catecholamide coordinating units, and C2, C4, and C6 spacers) is reported. The formation of complexes with Fe3+ was investigated by spectrophotometric (UV-Vis) and spectrometric (ESI, negative ionization mode) methods and corroborated by theoretical (DFT) calculations. Preliminary studies revealed the intricate interplay between the conformational chirality of cyclic trimeric peptoids and metal coordination geometry of mononuclear species similar to that of natural catechol-based siderophores. Experimental results demonstrated the unexpected formation of unique dinuclear Fe3+ complexes.
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- Assunta D'Amato
- Department of Chemistry and Biology "A. Zambelli", University of Salerno, Via Giovanni Paolo II, 132, Fisciano, SA 84084, Italy.
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Bacterial ABC transporters of iron containing compounds. Res Microbiol 2019; 170:345-357. [DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2019.10.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2019] [Revised: 10/15/2019] [Accepted: 10/15/2019] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Parsing the functional specificity of Siderocalin/Lipocalin 2/NGAL for siderophores and related small-molecule ligands. JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY-X 2019; 2:100008. [PMID: 32647813 PMCID: PMC7337064 DOI: 10.1016/j.yjsbx.2019.100008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2019] [Revised: 05/03/2019] [Accepted: 05/06/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Ligand recognition by antibacterial Siderocalin controls the competition for iron during infection. We determined nine crystal structures of Siderocalin mutants with ligands. We determined three candidate ligands did not bind. We determined the crystal structure of SBP YfiY. Multiplexed specificity of Siderocalin was determined.
Siderocalin/Lipocalin 2/Neutrophil Gelatinase Associated Lipocalin/24p3 is an innate immune system protein with bacteriostatic activity, acting by tightly binding and sequestering diverse catecholate and mixed-type ferric siderophores from enteric bacteria and mycobacteria. Bacterial virulence achieved through siderophore modifications, or utilization of alternate siderophores, can be explained by evasion of Siderocalin binding. Siderocalin has also been implicated in a wide variety of disease processes, though often in seemingly contradictory ways, and has been proposed to bind to a broader array of ligands beyond siderophores. Using structural, directed mutational, and binding studies, we have sought to rigorously test, and fully elucidate, the Siderocalin recognition mechanism. Several proposed ligands fail to meet rigorous binding criteria, including the bacterial siderophore pyochelin, the iron-chelating catecholamine hormone norepinephrine, and the bacterial second messenger cyclic diguanylate monophosphate. While possessing a remarkably rigid structure, in principle simplifying analyses of ligand recognition, understanding Scn recognition is complicated by the observed conformational and stoichiometric plasticity, and instability, of its bona fide siderophore ligands. Since the role of Siderocalin at the early host/pathogen interface is to compete for bacterial ferric siderophores, we also analyzed how bacterial siderophore binding proteins and enzymes alternately recognize siderophores that efficiently bind to, or evade, Siderocalin sequestration – including determining the crystal structure of Bacillus cereus YfiY bound to schizokinen. These studies combine to refine the potential physiological functions of Siderocalin by defining its multiplexed recognition mechanism.
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Key Words
- ABC, ATP‐binding cassette
- AEB, aerobactin
- AU, crystallographic asymmetric unit
- Antimicrobial responses
- BOCT, brain-type organic cation receptor
- Bacterial substrate binding proteins
- CAM, catechol
- CMB, carboxymycobactin
- DHBA, dihydroxybenzoic acid
- ENT, enterobactin or enterochelin
- FQ, fluorescence quenching
- Ferric enterobactin/enterochelin
- HOPO, hydroxypyridinone
- NE, norepinephrine
- NGAL, Neutrophil Gelatinase Associated Lipocalin
- PBP, bacterial periplasmic binding protein
- PCH, pyochelin
- PDB, Research Collaboratory for Structural Biology Protein Databank
- PVD, pyoverdine
- SBP, bacterial membrane-associated, substrate-binding protein
- SCH, schizokinen
- Scn, Siderocalin
- X-ray crystallography
- c-di-GMP, cyclic diguanylate monophosphate
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Wang D, Weng J, Wang W. An unconventional ligand‐binding mechanism of substrate‐binding proteins: MD simulation and Markov state model analysis of BtuF. J Comput Chem 2019; 40:1440-1448. [DOI: 10.1002/jcc.25798] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2018] [Revised: 12/22/2018] [Accepted: 01/28/2019] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Dongdong Wang
- Department of Chemistry, Institutes of Biomedical Sciences and Multiscale Research Institute of Complex System Fudan University Shanghai 200438 People's Republic of China
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- Department of Chemistry, Institutes of Biomedical Sciences and Multiscale Research Institute of Complex System Fudan University Shanghai 200438 People's Republic of China
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- Department of Chemistry, Institutes of Biomedical Sciences and Multiscale Research Institute of Complex System Fudan University Shanghai 200438 People's Republic of China
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Zamora CY, Madec AGE, Neumann W, Nolan EM, Imperiali B. Design, solid-phase synthesis and evaluation of enterobactin analogs for iron delivery into the human pathogen Campylobacter jejuni. Bioorg Med Chem 2018; 26:5314-5321. [PMID: 29685683 PMCID: PMC6191362 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2018.04.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2018] [Revised: 04/10/2018] [Accepted: 04/13/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The human enteropathogen Campylobacter jejuni, like many bacteria, employs siderophores such as enterobactin for cellular uptake of ferric iron. This transport process has been shown to be essential for virulence and presents an attractive opportunity for further study of the permissiveness of this pathway to small-molecule intervention and as inspiration for the development of synthetic carriers that may effectively transport cargo into Gram-negative bacteria. In this work, we have developed a facile and robust microscale assay to measure growth recovery of C. jejuni NCTC 11168 in liquid culture as a result of ferric iron uptake. In parallel, we have established the solid-phase synthesis of catecholamide compounds modeled on enterobactin fragments. Applying these methodological developments, we show that small synthetic iron chelators of minimal dimensions provide ferric iron to C. jejuni with equal or greater efficiency than enterobactin.
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- Cristina Y Zamora
- Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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Raines DJ, Clarke JE, Blagova EV, Dodson EJ, Wilson KS, Duhme-Klair AK. Redox-switchable siderophore anchor enables reversible artificial metalloenzyme assembly. Nat Catal 2018. [DOI: 10.1038/s41929-018-0124-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Liao Q, Pabis A, Strodel B, Kamerlin SCL. Extending the Nonbonded Cationic Dummy Model to Account for Ion-Induced Dipole Interactions. J Phys Chem Lett 2017; 8:5408-5414. [PMID: 29022713 PMCID: PMC5672556 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b02358] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2017] [Accepted: 10/12/2017] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
Abstract
Modeling metalloproteins often requires classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations in order to capture their relevant motions, which in turn necessitates reliable descriptions of the metal centers involved. One of the most successful approaches to date is provided by the "cationic dummy model", where the positive charge of the metal ion is transferred toward dummy particles that are bonded to the central metal ion in a predefined coordination geometry. While this approach allows for ligand exchange, and captures the correct electrostatics as demonstrated for different divalent metal ions, current dummy models neglect ion-induced dipole interactions. In the present work, we resolve this weakness by taking advantage of the recently introduced 12-6-4 type Lennard-Jones potential to include ion-induced dipole interactions. We revise our previous dummy model for Mg2+ and demonstrate that the resulting model can simultaneously reproduce the experimental solvation free energy and metal-ligand distances without the need for artificial restraints or bonds. As ion-induced dipole interactions become particularly important for highly charged metal ions, we develop dummy models for the biologically relevant ions Al3+, Fe3+, and Cr3+. Finally, the effectiveness of our new models is demonstrated in MD simulations of several diverse (and highly challenging to simulate) metalloproteins.
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- Qinghua Liao
- Science
for Life Laboratory, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, BMC
Box 596, Uppsala 75124, Sweden
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- Science
for Life Laboratory, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, BMC
Box 596, Uppsala 75124, Sweden
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- Institute
of Complex Systems: Structural Biochemistry (ICS-6), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52425 Jülich, Germany
- Institute
of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, 40204 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Science
for Life Laboratory, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, BMC
Box 596, Uppsala 75124, Sweden
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Radka CD, Chen D, DeLucas LJ, Aller SG. The crystal structure of the Yersinia pestis iron chaperone YiuA reveals a basic triad binding motif for the chelated metal. Acta Crystallogr D Struct Biol 2017; 73:921-939. [PMID: 29095164 PMCID: PMC5683015 DOI: 10.1107/s2059798317015236] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2017] [Accepted: 10/18/2017] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
Abstract
Biological chelating molecules called siderophores are used to sequester iron and maintain its ferric state. Bacterial substrate-binding proteins (SBPs) bind iron-siderophore complexes and deliver these complexes to ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters for import into the cytoplasm, where the iron can be transferred from the siderophore to catalytic enzymes. In Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague, the Yersinia iron-uptake (Yiu) ABC transporter has been shown to improve iron acquisition under iron-chelated conditions. The Yiu transporter has been proposed to be an iron-siderophore transporter; however, the precise siderophore substrate is unknown. Therefore, the precise role of the Yiu transporter in Y. pestis survival remains uncharacterized. To better understand the function of the Yiu transporter, the crystal structure of YiuA (YPO1310/y2875), an SBP which functions to present the iron-siderophore substrate to the transporter for import into the cytoplasm, was determined. The 2.20 and 1.77 Å resolution X-ray crystal structures reveal a basic triad binding motif at the YiuA canonical substrate-binding site, indicative of a metal-chelate binding site. Structural alignment and computational docking studies support the function of YiuA in binding chelated metal. Additionally, YiuA contains two mobile helices, helix 5 and helix 10, that undergo 2-3 Å shifts across crystal forms and demonstrate structural breathing of the c-clamp architecture. The flexibility in both c-clamp lobes suggest that YiuA substrate transfer resembles the Venus flytrap mechanism that has been proposed for other SBPs.
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- Christopher D. Radka
- Graduate Biomedical Sciences Microbiology Theme, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
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- Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
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- Office of the Provost, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
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Wilde EJ, Hughes A, Blagova EV, Moroz OV, Thomas RP, Turkenburg JP, Raines DJ, Duhme-Klair AK, Wilson KS. Interactions of the periplasmic binding protein CeuE with Fe(III) n-LICAM 4- siderophore analogues of varied linker length. Sci Rep 2017; 7:45941. [PMID: 28383577 PMCID: PMC5382913 DOI: 10.1038/srep45941] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2017] [Accepted: 03/07/2017] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
Abstract
Bacteria use siderophores to mediate the transport of essential Fe(III) into the cell. In Campylobacter jejuni the periplasmic binding protein CeuE, an integral part of the Fe(III) transport system, has adapted to bind tetradentate siderophores using a His and a Tyr side chain to complete the Fe(III) coordination. A series of tetradentate siderophore mimics was synthesized in which the length of the linker between the two iron-binding catecholamide units was increased from four carbon atoms (4-LICAM4−) to five, six and eight (5-, 6-, 8-LICAM4−, respectively). Co-crystal structures with CeuE showed that the inter-planar angles between the iron-binding catecholamide units in the 5-, 6- and 8-LICAM4− structures are very similar (111°, 110° and 110°) and allow for an optimum fit into the binding pocket of CeuE, the inter-planar angle in the structure of 4-LICAM4− is significantly smaller (97°) due to restrictions imposed by the shorter linker. Accordingly, the protein-binding affinity was found to be slightly higher for 5- compared to 4-LICAM4− but decreases for 6- and 8-LICAM4−. The optimum linker length of five matches that present in natural siderophores such as enterobactin and azotochelin. Site-directed mutagenesis was used to investigate the relative importance of the Fe(III)-coordinating residues H227 and Y288.
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- Ellis J Wilde
- Structural Biology Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK.,Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK
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- Structural Biology Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK
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- Structural Biology Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK
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- Structural Biology Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK
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- Structural Biology Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK
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- Structural Biology Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK
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Li B, Li N, Yue Y, Liu X, Huang Y, Gu L, Xu S. An unusual crystal structure of ferric-enterobactin bound FepB suggests novel functions of FepB in microbial iron uptake. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2016; 478:1049-53. [PMID: 27539322 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2016.08.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2016] [Accepted: 08/05/2016] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
Iron acquisition by siderophores is critical for the survival of most bacteria. Enterobactin is a kind of catechol siderophore that exhibits the highest affinity to iron atoms secreted by E. coli and several other species of Enterobacteriaceae. The periplasmic binding protein (PBP) FepB can transport ferric-enterobactin (Fe-Ent) from the outer membrane to the membrane-associated ATP-binding cassette transport system in E. coli. To elucidate this process, we solved the crystal structure of FepB in complex with Fe-Ent at a resolution of 1.8 Å. Consistent with previously reported NMR results, our crystal structure shows that, similar to the other type III PBPs, the FepB structure was folded with separated globular N- and C-termini linked by a long α-helix. Additionally, the structure showed that the Fe-Ent bound to the cleft between the N- and C-terminal domains. Exceptionally, FepB differs from the other known siderophore binding PBPs in that it forms a trimer by capturing four Fe-Ents that can each contribute to FepB trimerization. Dynamic light-scattering experiments are consistent with the structural observations and indicate that FepB forms a trimer in a Fe-Ent-dependent manner.
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- Bingqing Li
- Key Laboratory of Rare and Uncommon Diseases, Department of Microbiology, Institute of Basic Medicine, Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan 250062, China; State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
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- Key Laboratory of Rare and Uncommon Diseases, Department of Microbiology, Institute of Basic Medicine, Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan 250062, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China.
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Bacteria in an intense competition for iron: Key component of the Campylobacter jejuni iron uptake system scavenges enterobactin hydrolysis product. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2016; 113:5850-5. [PMID: 27162326 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1520829113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
Abstract
To acquire essential Fe(III), bacteria produce and secrete siderophores with high affinity and selectivity for Fe(III) to mediate its uptake into the cell. Here, we show that the periplasmic binding protein CeuE of Campylobacter jejuni, which was previously thought to bind the Fe(III) complex of the hexadentate siderophore enterobactin (Kd ∼ 0.4 ± 0.1 µM), preferentially binds the Fe(III) complex of the tetradentate enterobactin hydrolysis product bis(2,3-dihydroxybenzoyl-l-Ser) (H5-bisDHBS) (Kd = 10.1 ± 3.8 nM). The protein selects Λ-configured [Fe(bisDHBS)](2-) from a pool of diastereomeric Fe(III)-bisDHBS species that includes complexes with metal-to-ligand ratios of 1:1 and 2:3. Cocrystal structures show that, in addition to electrostatic interactions and hydrogen bonding, [Fe(bisDHBS)](2-) binds through coordination of His227 and Tyr288 to the iron center. Similar binding is observed for the Fe(III) complex of the bidentate hydrolysis product 2,3-dihydroxybenzoyl-l-Ser, [Fe(monoDHBS)2](3-) The mutation of His227 and Tyr288 to noncoordinating residues (H227L/Y288F) resulted in a substantial loss of affinity for [Fe(bisDHBS)](2-) (Kd ∼ 0.5 ± 0.2 µM). These results suggest a previously unidentified role for CeuE within the Fe(III) uptake system of C. jejuni, provide a molecular-level understanding of the underlying binding pocket adaptations, and rationalize reports on the use of enterobactin hydrolysis products by C. jejuni, Vibrio cholerae, and other bacteria with homologous periplasmic binding proteins.
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Nakajima H, Kondo M, Nakane T, Abe S, Nakao T, Watanabe Y, Ueno T. Construction of an enterobactin analogue with symmetrically arranged monomer subunits of ferritin. Chem Commun (Camb) 2015; 51:16609-12. [DOI: 10.1039/c5cc06904a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The symmetric arrangement of ferritin subunits served as a versatile foundation to produce a symmetric coordination space with designed ligands.
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- Hiroshi Nakajima
- Division of Molecular Materials Science
- Graduate School of Science
- Osaka City University
- Osaka
- Japan
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- Department of Chemistry
- Graduate School of Science
- Nagoya University
- Nagoya
- Japan
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- Department of Biomolecular Engineering
- Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology
- Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Midori-ku
- Japan
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- Department of Biomolecular Engineering
- Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology
- Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Midori-ku
- Japan
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- Department of Chemistry
- Graduate School of Science
- Nagoya University
- Nagoya
- Japan
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- Department of Biomolecular Engineering
- Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology
- Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Midori-ku
- Japan
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Chu BCH, Otten R, Krewulak KD, Mulder FAA, Vogel HJ. The solution structure, binding properties, and dynamics of the bacterial siderophore-binding protein FepB. J Biol Chem 2014; 289:29219-34. [PMID: 25173704 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m114.564021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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The periplasmic binding protein (PBP) FepB plays a key role in transporting the catecholate siderophore ferric enterobactin from the outer to the inner membrane in Gram-negative bacteria. The solution structures of the 34-kDa apo- and holo-FepB from Escherichia coli, solved by NMR, represent the first solution structures determined for the type III class of PBPs. Unlike type I and II PBPs, which undergo large "Venus flytrap" conformational changes upon ligand binding, both forms of FepB maintain similar overall folds; however, binding of the ligand is accompanied by significant loop movements. Reverse methyl cross-saturation experiments corroborated chemical shift perturbation results and uniquely defined the binding pocket for gallium enterobactin (GaEnt). NMR relaxation experiments indicated that a flexible loop (residues 225-250) adopted a more rigid and extended conformation upon ligand binding, which positioned residues for optimal interactions with the ligand and the cytoplasmic membrane ABC transporter (FepCD), respectively. In conclusion, this work highlights the pivotal role that structural dynamics plays in ligand binding and transporter interactions in type III PBPs.
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- Byron C H Chu
- From the Biochemistry Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada
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- the Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands, and
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- From the Biochemistry Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada
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- the Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands, and the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO) and Department of Chemistry, University of Aarhus, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- From the Biochemistry Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada,
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Shaik MM, Cendron L, Salamina M, Ruzzene M, Zanotti G. Helicobacter pylori periplasmic receptor CeuE (HP1561) modulates its nickel affinity via organic metallophores. Mol Microbiol 2014; 91:724-35. [PMID: 24330328 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12487] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/08/2013] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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In Gram-negative bacteria, nickel uptake is guaranteed by multiple and complex systems that operate at the membrane and periplasmic level. Helicobacter pylori employs other yet uncharacterized systems to import the nickel required for the maturation of key enzymes, such as urease and hydrogenase. H. pylori CeuE protein (HP1561), previously annotated as the periplasmic component of an ATP-binding cassette (ABC)-type transporter apparatus responsible of haem/siderophores or other Fe(III)-complexes uptake, has been recently proposed to be on the contrary involved in nickel/cobalt acquisition. In this work, the crystal structure of H. pylori CeuE has been determined at 1.65 Å resolution using the single anomalous dispersion (SAD) method. It comprises two structurally similar globular domains, each consisting of a central five-stranded β-sheet surrounded by α-helices, an arrangement commonly classified as a Rossmann-like fold. Structurally, H. pylori CeuE belongs to the class III periplasmic substrate-binding protein. Both crystallographic data and fluorescence binding assays allow to exclude a role of the protein in the transport of Vitamin B12, enterobactin, haem and isolated Ni(2+) ions. On the contrary, the crystal structure and plasmon resonance studies about CeuE/Ni-(l-His)2 complex indicate that in H. pylori nickel transport is supported by CeuE protein and requires the presence of a natural nickelophore, analogously to what has been recently demonstrated for NikA from Escherichia coli.
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- Md Munan Shaik
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padua, Viale G. Colombo 3, 35131, Padua, Italy
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Raines DJ, Moroz OV, Wilson KS, Duhme-Klair AK. Interactions of a Periplasmic Binding Protein with a Tetradentate Siderophore Mimic. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2013. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201300751] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Raines DJ, Moroz OV, Wilson KS, Duhme-Klair AK. Interactions of a periplasmic binding protein with a tetradentate siderophore mimic. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2013; 52:4595-8. [PMID: 23512642 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201300751] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2013] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Iron-bound structure: The ferric complex of a tetradentate siderophore mimic was synthesized and co-crystallized with the periplasmic binding protein CeuE of Campylobacter jejuni. In addition to electrostatic and hydrogen-bonding interactions between the binding pocket and the substrate, the structure showed direct coordination of two amino acid side chains to the Fe(III) center (orange, see figure).
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- Daniel J Raines
- Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK
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Fate of ferrisiderophores after import across bacterial outer membranes: different iron release strategies are observed in the cytoplasm or periplasm depending on the siderophore pathways. Amino Acids 2013; 44:1267-77. [PMID: 23443998 DOI: 10.1007/s00726-013-1468-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2012] [Accepted: 02/09/2013] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Siderophore production and utilization is one of the major strategies deployed by bacteria to get access to iron, a key nutrient for bacterial growth. The biological function of siderophores is to solubilize iron in the bacterial environment and to shuttle it back to the cytoplasm of the microorganisms. This uptake process for Gram-negative species involves TonB-dependent transporters for translocation across the outer membranes. In Escherichia coli and many other Gram-negative bacteria, ABC transporters associated with periplasmic binding proteins import ferrisiderophores across cytoplasmic membranes. Recent data reveal that in some siderophore pathways, this step can also be carried out by proton-motive force-dependent permeases, for example the ferrichrome and ferripyochelin pathways in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Iron is then released from the siderophores in the bacterial cytoplasm by different enzymatic mechanisms depending on the nature of the siderophore. Another strategy has been reported for the pyoverdine pathway in P. aeruginosa: iron is released from the siderophore in the periplasm and only siderophore-free iron is transported into the cytoplasm by an ABC transporter having two atypical periplasmic binding proteins. This review presents recent findings concerning both ferrisiderophore and siderophore-free iron transport across bacterial cytoplasmic membranes and considers current knowledge about the mechanisms involved in iron release from siderophores.
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Miethke M, Kraushaar T, Marahiel MA. Uptake of xenosiderophores in Bacillus subtilis occurs with high affinity and enhances the folding stabilities of substrate binding proteins. FEBS Lett 2012; 587:206-13. [PMID: 23220087 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2012.11.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2012] [Revised: 11/20/2012] [Accepted: 11/21/2012] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Siderophores play an essential role in a multitude of microbial iron acquisition pathways. Many bacteria use xenosiderophores as iron sources that are produced by different microbial species in their habitat. We investigated the capacity of xenosiderophore uptake in the soil bacterium Bacillus subtilis and found that it employs several substrate binding proteins with high specificities and affinities for different ferric siderophore species. Protein-ligand interaction studies revealed dissociation constants in the low nanomolar range, while the protein folding stabilities were remarkably increased by their high-affinity ligands. Complementary growth studies confirmed the specificity of xenosiderophore uptake in B. subtilis and showed that its fitness is strongly enhanced by the extensive utilization of non-endogenous siderophores.
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- Marcus Miethke
- Department of Chemistry/Biochemistry, Philipps University Marburg, Hans Meerwein Strasse 4, and Loewe-Center for Synthetic Microbiology, D-35032 Marburg, Germany.
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Sheldon JR, Heinrichs DE. The iron-regulated staphylococcal lipoproteins. Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2012; 2:41. [PMID: 22919632 PMCID: PMC3417571 DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2012.00041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2012] [Accepted: 03/13/2012] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Lipoproteins fulfill diverse roles in antibiotic resistance, adhesion, protein secretion, signaling and sensing, and many also serve as the substrate binding protein (SBP) partner to ABC transporters for the acquisition of a diverse array of nutrients including peptides, sugars, and scarcely abundant metals. In the staphylococci, the iron-regulated SBPs are significantly upregulated during iron starvation and function to sequester and deliver iron into the bacterial cell, enabling staphylococci to circumvent iron restriction imposed by the host environment. Accordingly, this subset of lipoproteins has been implicated in staphylococcal pathogenesis and virulence. Lipoproteins also activate the host innate immune response, triggered through Toll-like receptor-2 (TLR2) and, notably, the iron-regulated subset of lipoproteins are particularly immunogenic. In this review, we discuss the iron-regulated staphylococcal lipoproteins with regard to their biogenesis, substrate specificity, and impact on the host innate immune response.
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- Jessica R Sheldon
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Western University, London ON, Canada
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Liu X, Du Q, Wang Z, Liu S, Li N, Chen Y, Zhu C, Zhu D, Wei T, Huang Y, Xu S, Gu L. Crystal structure of periplasmic catecholate-siderophore binding protein VctP from Vibrio cholerae at 1.7 Å resolution. FEBS Lett 2012; 586:1240-4. [PMID: 22575663 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2012.03.043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2011] [Revised: 03/16/2012] [Accepted: 03/19/2012] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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VctP, one of the two essential siderophore-binding PBPs from the pathogen Vibrio cholerae, plays an important role in the transport of enterobactin and vibriobactin, which have quite different configurations of iron coordination, from the periplasm to the inner membrane. The current study reports the crystal structure of VctP from V. cholerae N16961 at 1.7Å resolution. A structural comparison of VctP with its homologues and the results of molecular docking indicate that enterobactin and vibriobactin share the same binding pocket. Significantly, a basic triad consisting of Arg137, Arg226 and Arg270 is used to balance the three negative charges of ferric-enterobactin, while a basic dyad consisting of Arg137 and Arg270 is used to balance the two negative charges of ferric-vibriobactin.
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- Xiuhua Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
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Li N, Zhang C, Li B, Liu X, Huang Y, Xu S, Gu L. Unique iron coordination in iron-chelating molecule vibriobactin helps Vibrio cholerae evade mammalian siderocalin-mediated immune response. J Biol Chem 2012; 287:8912-9. [PMID: 22291019 PMCID: PMC3308770 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m111.316034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2011] [Revised: 01/24/2012] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Iron is essential for the survival of almost all bacteria. Vibrio cholerae acquires iron through the secretion of a catecholate siderophore called vibriobactin. At present, how vibriobactin chelates ferric ion remains controversial. In addition, the mechanisms underlying the recognition of ferric vibriobactin by the siderophore transport system and its delivery into the cytoplasm specifically have not been clarified. In this study, we report the high-resolution structures of the ferric vibriobactin periplasmic binding protein ViuP and its complex with ferric vibriobactin. The holo-ViuP structure reveals that ferric vibriobactin does not adopt the same iron coordination as that of other catecholate siderophores such as enterobactin. The three catechol moieties donate five, rather than six, oxygen atoms as iron ligands. The sixth iron ligand is provided by a nitrogen atom from the second oxazoline ring. This kind of iron coordination results in the protrusion of the second catechol moiety and renders the electrostatic surface potential of ferric vibriobactin less negatively polarized compared with ferric enterobactin. To accommodate ferric vibriobactin, ViuP has a deeper subpocket to hold the protrusion of the second catechol group. This structural characteristic has not been observed in other catecholate siderophore-binding proteins. Biochemical data show that siderocalin, which is part of the mammalian innate immune system, cannot efficiently sequester ferric vibriobactin in vitro, although it can capture many catecholate siderophores with high efficiency. Our findings suggest that the unique iron coordination found in ferric vibriobactin may be utilized by some pathogenic bacteria to evade the siderocalin-mediated innate immune response of mammals.
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- Ning Li
- From the State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Jinan 250100 and
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- From the State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Jinan 250100 and
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- From the State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Jinan 250100 and
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- From the State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Jinan 250100 and
- the College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, China
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- From the State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Jinan 250100 and
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- From the State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Jinan 250100 and
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- From the State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Jinan 250100 and
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Miethke M, Hou J, Marahiel MA. The siderophore-interacting protein YqjH acts as a ferric reductase in different iron assimilation pathways of Escherichia coli. Biochemistry 2011; 50:10951-64. [PMID: 22098718 DOI: 10.1021/bi201517h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Siderophore-interacting proteins (SIPs), such as YqjH from Escherichia coli, are widespread among bacteria and commonly associated with iron-dependent induction and siderophore utilization. In this study, we show by detailed biochemical and genetic analyses the reaction mechanism by which the YqjH protein is able to catalyze the release of iron from a variety of iron chelators, including ferric triscatecholates and ferric dicitrate, displaying the highest efficiency for the hydrolyzed ferric enterobactin complex ferric (2,3-dihydroxybenzoylserine)(3). Site-directed mutagenesis revealed that residues K55 and R130 of YqjH are crucial for both substrate binding and reductase activity. The NADPH-dependent iron reduction was found to proceed via single-electron transfer in a double-displacement-type reaction through formation of a transient flavosemiquinone. The capacity to reduce substrates with extremely negative redox potentials, though at low catalytic rates, was studied by displacing the native FAD cofactor with 5-deaza-5-carba-FAD, which is restricted to a two-electron transfer. In the presence of the reconstituted noncatalytic protein, the ferric enterobactin midpoint potential increased remarkably and partially overlapped with the effective E(1) redox range. Concurrently, the observed molar ratios of generated Fe(II) versus NADPH were found to be ~1.5-fold higher for hydrolyzed ferric triscatecholates and ferric dicitrate than for ferric enterobactin. Further, combination of a chromosomal yqjH deletion with entC single- and entC fes double-deletion backgrounds showed the impact of yqjH on growth during supplementation with ferric siderophore substrates. Thus, YqjH enhances siderophore utilization in different iron acquisition pathways, including assimilation of low-potential ferric substrates that are not reduced by common cellular cofactors.
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- Marcus Miethke
- Department of Chemistry/Biochemistry, Philipps University Marburg, Hans Meerwein Strasse, D-35032 Marburg, Germany.
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Wyckoff EE, Payne SM. The Vibrio cholerae VctPDGC system transports catechol siderophores and a siderophore-free iron ligand. Mol Microbiol 2011; 81:1446-58. [PMID: 21790806 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07775.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Vibrio cholerae, the causative agent of cholera, has an absolute requirement for iron. It transports the catechol siderophores vibriobactin, which it synthesizes and secretes, and enterobactin. These siderophores are transported across the inner membrane by one of two periplasmic binding protein-dependent ABC transporters, VctPDGC or ViuPDGC. We show here that one of these inner membrane transport systems, VctPDGC, also promotes iron acquisition in the absence of siderophores. Plasmids carrying the vctPDGC genes stimulated growth in both rich and minimal media of a Shigella flexneri mutant that produces no siderophores. vctPDGC also stimulated the growth of an Escherichia coli enterobactin biosynthetic mutant in low iron medium, and this effect did not require feoB, tonB or aroB. A tyrosine to phenylalanine substitution in the periplasmic binding protein VctP did not alter enterobactin transport, but eliminated growth stimulation in the absence of a siderophore. These data suggest that the VctPDGC system has the capacity to transport both catechol siderophores and a siderophore-free iron ligand. We also show that VctPDGC is the previously unidentified siderophore-independent iron transporter in V. cholerae, and this appears to complete the list of iron transport systems in V. cholerae.
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- Elizabeth E Wyckoff
- Section of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
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Peuckert F, Ramos-Vega A, Miethke M, Schwörer C, Albrecht A, Oberthür M, Marahiel M. The Siderophore Binding Protein FeuA Shows Limited Promiscuity toward Exogenous Triscatecholates. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011; 18:907-19. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2011.05.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2010] [Revised: 04/14/2011] [Accepted: 05/04/2011] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Chu BCH, Vogel HJ. A structural and functional analysis of type III periplasmic and substrate binding proteins: their role in bacterial siderophore and heme transport. Biol Chem 2011; 392:39-52. [PMID: 21194366 DOI: 10.1515/bc.2011.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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In Escherichia coli the Fhu, Fep and Fec transport systems are involved in the uptake of chelated ferric iron-siderophore complexes, whereas in pathogenic strains heme can also be used as an iron source. An essential step in these pathways is the movement of the ferric-siderophore complex or heme from the outer membrane transporter across the periplasm to the cognate cytoplasmic membrane ATP-dependent transporter. This is accomplished in each case by a dedicated periplasmic binding protein (PBP). Ferric-siderophore binding PBPs belong to the PBP protein superfamily and adopt a bilobal type III structural fold in which the two independently folded amino and carboxy terminal domains are linked together by a single long α-helix of approximately 20 amino acids. Recent structural studies reveal how the PBPs of the Fhu, Fep, Fec and Chu systems are able to bind their corresponding ligands. These complex structures will be discussed and placed in the context of our current understanding of the entire type III family of Gram-negative periplasmic binding proteins and related Gram-positive substrate binding proteins.
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- Byron C H Chu
- Biochemistry Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Eitinger T, Rodionov DA, Grote M, Schneider E. Canonical and ECF-type ATP-binding cassette importers in prokaryotes: diversity in modular organization and cellular functions. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2011; 35:3-67. [PMID: 20497229 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2010.00230.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 143] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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- Thomas Eitinger
- Institut für Biologie/Mikrobiologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Miethke M, Pierik AJ, Peuckert F, Seubert A, Marahiel MA. Identification and characterization of a novel-type ferric siderophore reductase from a gram-positive extremophile. J Biol Chem 2010; 286:2245-60. [PMID: 21051545 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m110.192468] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Iron limitation is one major constraint of microbial life, and a plethora of microbes use siderophores for high affinity iron acquisition. Because specific enzymes for reductive iron release in gram-positives are not known, we searched Firmicute genomes and found a novel association pattern of putative ferric siderophore reductases and uptake genes. The reductase from the schizokinen-producing alkaliphile Bacillus halodurans was found to cluster with a ferric citrate-hydroxamate uptake system and to catalyze iron release efficiently from Fe[III]-dicitrate, Fe[III]-schizokinen, Fe[III]-aerobactin, and ferrichrome. The gene was hence named fchR for ferric citrate and hydroxamate reductase. The tightly bound [2Fe-2S] cofactor of FchR was identified by UV-visible, EPR, CD spectroscopy, and mass spectrometry. Iron release kinetics were determined with several substrates by using ferredoxin as electron donor. Catalytic efficiencies were strongly enhanced in the presence of an iron-sulfur scaffold protein scavenging the released ferrous iron. Competitive inhibition of FchR was observed with Ga(III)-charged siderophores with K(i) values in the micromolar range. The principal catalytic mechanism was found to couple increasing K(m) and K(D) values of substrate binding with increasing k(cat) values, resulting in high catalytic efficiencies over a wide redox range. Physiologically, a chromosomal fchR deletion led to strongly impaired growth during iron limitation even in the presence of ferric siderophores. Inductively coupled plasma-MS analysis of ΔfchR revealed intracellular iron accumulation, indicating that the ferric substrates were not efficiently metabolized. We further show that FchR can be efficiently inhibited by redox-inert siderophore mimics in vivo, suggesting that substrate-specific ferric siderophore reductases may present future targets for microbial pathogen control.
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- Marcus Miethke
- Fachbereich Chemie/Biochemie, Philipps Universität Marburg, Hans-Meerwein-Strasse, D-35032 Marburg, Germany.
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Grigg JC, Cooper JD, Cheung J, Heinrichs DE, Murphy MEP. The Staphylococcus aureus siderophore receptor HtsA undergoes localized conformational changes to enclose staphyloferrin A in an arginine-rich binding pocket. J Biol Chem 2010; 285:11162-71. [PMID: 20147287 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m109.097865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Staphylococcus aureus uses several efficient iron acquisition strategies to overcome iron limitation. Recently, the genetic locus encoding biosynthetic enzymes for the iron chelating molecule, staphyloferrin A (SA), was determined. S. aureus synthesizes and secretes SA into its environment to scavenge iron. The membrane-anchored ATP binding cassette-binding protein, HtsA, receives the ferric-chelate for import into the cell. Recently, we determined the apoHtsA crystal structure, the first siderophore receptor from gram-positive bacteria to be structurally characterized. Herein we present the x-ray crystal structure of the HtsA-ferric-SA complex. HtsA adopts a class III binding protein fold composed of separate N- and C-terminal domains bridged by a single alpha-helix. Recombinant HtsA can efficiently sequester ferric-SA from S. aureus culture supernatants where it is bound within the pocket formed between distinct N- and C-terminal domains. A basic patch composed mainly of six Arg residues contact the negatively charged siderophore, securing it within the pocket. The x-ray crystal structures from two different ligand-bound crystal forms were determined. The structures represent the first structural characterization of an endogenous alpha-hydroxycarboxylate-type siderophore-receptor complex. One structure is in an open form similar to apoHtsA, whereas the other is in a more closed conformation. The conformational change is highlighted by isolated movement of three loops within the C-terminal domain, a domain movement unique to known class III binding protein structures.
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- Jason C Grigg
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Life Sciences Institute, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z3, Canada
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Peuckert F, Miethke M, Albrecht AG, Essen LO, Marahiel MA. Structural basis and stereochemistry of triscatecholate siderophore binding by FeuA. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2009; 48:7924-7. [PMID: 19746494 DOI: 10.1002/anie.200902495] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Florian Peuckert
- Fachbereich Chemie, Biochemie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Hans-Meerwein-Strasse, 35032 Marburg, Germany
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Characterization of a Bacillus subtilis transporter for petrobactin, an anthrax stealth siderophore. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2009; 106:21854-9. [PMID: 19955416 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0904793106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Iron deprivation activates the expression of components of the siderophore-mediated iron acquisition systems in Bacillus subtilis, including not only the synthesis and uptake of its siderophore bacillibactin but also expression of multiple ABC transporters for iron scavenging using xenosiderophores. The yclNOPQ operon is shown to encode the complete transporter for petrobactin (PB), a photoreactive 3,4-catecholate siderophore produced by many members of the B. cereus group, including B. anthracis. Isogenic disruption mutants in the yclNOPQ transporter, including permease YclN, ATPase YclP, and a substrate-binding protein YclQ, are unable to use either PB or the photoproduct of FePB (FePB(nu)) for iron delivery and growth, in contrast to the wild-type B. subtilis. Complementation of the mutations with the copies of the respective genes restores this capability. The YclQ receptor binds selectively iron-free and ferric PB, the PB precursor, 3,4-dihydroxybenzoic acid (3,4-DHB), and FePB(nu) with high affinity; the ferric complexes are seen in ESI-MS, implying strong electrostatic interaction between the protein-binding pocket and siderophore. The first structure of a gram-positive siderophore receptor is presented. The 1.75-A crystal structure of YclQ reveals a bilobal periplasmic binding protein (PBP) fold consisting of two alpha/beta/alpha sandwich domains connected by a long alpha-helix with the binding pocket containing conserved positively charged and aromatic residues and large enough to accommodate FePB. Orthologs of the B. subtilis PB-transporter YclNOPQ in PB-producing Bacilli are likely contributors to the pathogenicity of these species and provide a potential target for antibacterial strategies.
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Peuckert F, Miethke M, Albrecht A, Essen LO, Marahiel M. Strukturbasis und Stereochemie der Triscatecholat-Siderophor- Bindung durch FeuA. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2009. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.200902495] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Duhme‐Klair A. From Siderophores and Self‐Assembly to Luminescent Sensors: The Binding of Molybdenum by Catecholamides. Eur J Inorg Chem 2009. [DOI: 10.1002/ejic.200900416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Shi R, Proteau A, Wagner J, Cui Q, Purisima EO, Matte A, Cygler M. Trapping open and closed forms of FitE-A group III periplasmic binding protein. Proteins 2009; 75:598-609. [DOI: 10.1002/prot.22272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Zawadzka AM, Abergel RJ, Nichiporuk R, Andersen UN, Raymond KN. Siderophore-mediated iron acquisition systems in Bacillus cereus: Identification of receptors for anthrax virulence-associated petrobactin . Biochemistry 2009; 48:3645-57. [PMID: 19254027 DOI: 10.1021/bi8018674] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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During growth under iron limitation, Bacillus cereus and Bacillus anthracis, two human pathogens from the Bacillus cereus group of Gram-positive bacteria, secrete two siderophores, bacillibactin (BB) and petrobactin (PB), for iron acquisition via membrane-associated substrate-binding proteins (SBPs) and other ABC transporter components. Since PB is associated with virulence traits in B. anthracis, the PB-mediated iron uptake system presents a potential target for antimicrobial therapies; its characterization in B. cereus is described here. Separate transporters for BB, PB, and several xenosiderophores are suggested by (55)Fe-siderophore uptake studies. The PB precursor, 3,4-dihydroxybenzoic acid (3,4-DHB), and the photoproduct of FePB (FePB(nu)) also mediate iron delivery into iron-deprived cells. Putative SBPs were recombinantly expressed, and their ligand specificity and binding affinity were assessed using fluorescence spectroscopy. The noncovalent complexes of the SBPs with their respective siderophores were characterized using ESI-MS. The differences between solution phase behavior and gas phase measurements are indicative of noncovalent interactions between the siderophores and the binding sites of their respective SBPs. These studies combined with bioinformatics sequence comparison identify SBPs from five putative transporters specific for BB and enterobactin (FeuA), 3,4-DHB and PB (FatB), PB (FpuA), schizokinen (YfiY), and desferrioxamine and ferrichrome (YxeB). The two PB receptors show different substrate ranges: FatB has the highest affinity for ferric 3,4-DHB, iron-free PB, FePB, and FePB(nu), whereas FpuA is specific to only apo- and ferric PB. The biochemical characterization of these SBPs provides the first identification of the transporter candidates that most likely play a role in the B. cereus group pathogenicity.
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- Anna M Zawadzka
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, 94720-1460, USA
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Beasley FC, Vinés ED, Grigg JC, Zheng Q, Liu S, Lajoie GA, Murphy MEP, Heinrichs DE. Characterization of staphyloferrin A biosynthetic and transport mutants in Staphylococcus aureus. Mol Microbiol 2009; 72:947-63. [PMID: 19400778 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06698.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Iron is critical for virtually all forms of life. The production of high-affinity iron chelators, siderophores, and the subsequent uptake of iron-siderophore complexes are a common strategy employed by microorganisms to acquire iron. Staphylococcus aureus produces siderophores but genetic information underlying their synthesis and transport is limited. Previous work implicated the sbn operon in siderophore synthesis and the sirABC operon in uptake. Here we characterize a second siderophore biosynthetic locus in S. aureus; the locus consists of four genes (in strain Newman these open reading frames are designated NWMN_2079-2082) which, together, are responsible for the synthesis and export of staphyloferrin A, a polycarboxylate siderophore. While deletion of the NWMN_2079-2082 locus did not affect iron-restricted growth of S. aureus, strains bearing combined sbn and NWMN_2079-2082 locus deletions produced no detectable siderophore and demonstrated severely attenuated iron-restricted growth. Adjacent to NWMN_2079-2082 resides the htsABC operon, encoding an ABC transporter previously implicated in haem acquisition. We provide evidence here that HtsABC, along with the FhuC ATPase, is required for the uptake of staphyloferrin A. The crystal structure of apo-HtsA was determined and identified a large positively charged region in the substrate-binding pocket, in agreement with a role in binding of anionic staphyloferrin A.
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- Federico C Beasley
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada N6A 5C1
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Siderocalins: siderophore-binding proteins of the innate immune system. Biometals 2009; 22:557-64. [DOI: 10.1007/s10534-009-9207-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2008] [Accepted: 01/12/2009] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Davies CL, Dux EL, Duhme-Klair AK. Supramolecular interactions between functional metal complexes and proteins. Dalton Trans 2009:10141-54. [DOI: 10.1039/b915776j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Yokoi N, Ueno T, Unno M, Matsui T, Ikeda-Saito M, Watanabe Y. Ligand design for the improvement of stability of metal complex·protein hybrids. Chem Commun (Camb) 2008:229-31. [DOI: 10.1039/b713468a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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High-affinity iron acquisition is mediated by siderophore-dependent pathways in the majority of pathogenic and nonpathogenic bacteria and fungi. Considerable progress has been made in characterizing and understanding mechanisms of siderophore synthesis, secretion, iron scavenging, and siderophore-delivered iron uptake and its release. The regulation of siderophore pathways reveals multilayer networks at the transcriptional and posttranscriptional levels. Due to the key role of many siderophores during virulence, coevolution led to sophisticated strategies of siderophore neutralization by mammals and (re)utilization by bacterial pathogens. Surprisingly, hosts also developed essential siderophore-based iron delivery and cell conversion pathways, which are of interest for diagnostic and therapeutic studies. In the last decades, natural and synthetic compounds have gained attention as potential therapeutics for iron-dependent treatment of infections and further diseases. Promising results for pathogen inhibition were obtained with various siderophore-antibiotic conjugates acting as "Trojan horse" toxins and siderophore pathway inhibitors. In this article, general aspects of siderophore-mediated iron acquisition, recent findings regarding iron-related pathogen-host interactions, and current strategies for iron-dependent pathogen control will be reviewed. Further concepts including the inhibition of novel siderophore pathway targets are discussed.
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- Marcus Miethke
- Philipps Universität Marburg, FB Chemie Biochemie, Hans Meerwein Strasse, D-35032 Marburg, Germany
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Garcia-Herrero A, Peacock RS, Howard SP, Vogel HJ. The solution structure of the periplasmic domain of the TonB system ExbD protein reveals an unexpected structural homology with siderophore-binding proteins. Mol Microbiol 2007; 66:872-89. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05957.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Grigg JC, Vermeiren CL, Heinrichs DE, Murphy MEP. Heme Coordination by Staphylococcus aureus IsdE. J Biol Chem 2007; 282:28815-28822. [PMID: 17666394 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m704602200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Staphylococcus aureus is a Gram-positive bacterial pathogen and a leading cause of hospital acquired infections. Because the free iron concentration in the human body is too low to support growth, S. aureus must acquire iron from host sources. Heme iron is the most prevalent iron reservoir in the human body and a predominant source of iron for S. aureus. The iron-regulated surface determinant (Isd) system removes heme from host heme proteins and transfers it to IsdE, the cognate substrate-binding lipoprotein of an ATP-binding cassette transporter, for import and subsequent degradation. Herein, we report the crystal structure of the soluble portion of the IsdE lipoprotein in complex with heme. The structure reveals a bi-lobed topology formed by an N- and C-terminal domain bridged by a single alpha-helix. The structure places IsdE as a member of the helical backbone metal receptor superfamily. A six-coordinate heme molecule is bound in the groove established at the domain interface, and the heme iron is coordinated in a novel fashion for heme transporters by Met(78) and His(229). Both heme propionate groups are secured by H-bonds to IsdE main chain and side chain groups. Of these residues, His(229) is essential for IsdE-mediated heme uptake by S. aureus when growth on heme as a sole iron source is measured. Multiple sequence alignments of homologues from several other Gram-positive bacteria, including the human pathogens pyogenes, Bacillus anthracis, and Listeria monocytogenes, suggest that these other systems function equivalently to S. aureus IsdE with respect to heme binding and transport.
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- Jason C Grigg
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Life Sciences Institute, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z3
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5C1
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5C1
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Life Sciences Institute, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z3.
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Krewulak KD, Vogel HJ. Structural biology of bacterial iron uptake. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2007; 1778:1781-804. [PMID: 17916327 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2007.07.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 328] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2007] [Revised: 07/20/2007] [Accepted: 07/24/2007] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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To fulfill their nutritional requirement for iron, bacteria utilize various iron sources which include the host proteins transferrin and lactoferrin, heme, and low molecular weight iron chelators termed siderophores. The iron sources are transported into the Gram-negative bacterial cell via specific uptake pathways which include an outer membrane receptor, a periplasmic binding protein (PBP), and an inner membrane ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter. Over the past two decades, structures for the proteins involved in bacterial iron uptake have not only been solved, but their functions have begun to be understood at the molecular level. However, the elucidation of the three dimensional structures of all components of the iron uptake pathways is currently limited. Despite the low sequence homology between different bacterial species, the available three-dimensional structures of homologous proteins are strikingly similar. Examination of the current three-dimensional structures of the outer membrane receptors, PBPs, and ABC transporters provides an overview of the structural biology of iron uptake in bacteria.
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- Karla D Krewulak
- Structural Biology Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4
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Ueno T, Yokoi N, Abe S, Watanabe Y. Crystal structure based design of functional metal/protein hybrids. J Inorg Biochem 2007; 101:1667-75. [PMID: 17675160 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2007.06.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2007] [Revised: 06/11/2007] [Accepted: 06/18/2007] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Preparation of metal/protein hybrids is growing into important topics in the field of bioinorganic chemistry. X-ray crystal structure analyses of them provide direct information on unique interactions of metal cations or metal cofactors to understand and design enzymatic functions. In this mini review, the authors focus on the recent studies on the metal/protein hybrids concerning crystal structure analyses since 2002 and our related works. The precise structural determination promise us to deeply understand coordination chemistry in protein scaffold and shows intriguing suggestions on rational design and application use for biocatalysts, metal drugs and so on.
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- Takafumi Ueno
- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
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