A trans-outer membrane porin-cytochrome protein complex for extracellular electron transfer by Geobacter sulfurreducens PCA

Liu, Yimo, Wang, Zheming, Liu, Juan, Levar, Caleb, Edwards, Marcus, Babauta, Jerome, Kennedy, David W., Shi, Zhi, Bayenal, Haluk, Bond, Daniel R., Clarke, Thomas A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6234-1914, Butt, Julea N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9624-5226, Richardson, David J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6847-1832, Rosso, Kevin M., Zachara, John M., Fredrickson, James K. and Shi, Liang (2014) A trans-outer membrane porin-cytochrome protein complex for extracellular electron transfer by Geobacter sulfurreducens PCA. Environmental Microbiology Reports, 6 (6). pp. 776-785. ISSN 1758-2229

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Abstract

The multi-heme, outer membrane c-type cytochrome (c-Cyt) OmcB of Geobacter sulfurreducens was previously proposed to mediate electron transfer across the outer membrane. However, the underlying mechanism has remained uncharacterized. In G. sulfurreducens, the omcB gene is part of two tandem four-gene clusters, each is predicted to encode a transcriptional factor (OrfR/OrfS), a porinlike outer membrane protein (OmbB/OmbC), a periplasmic c-type cytochrome (OmaB/OmaC) and an outer membrane c-Cyt (OmcB/OmcC) respectively. Here, we showed that OmbB/OmbC, OmaB/OmaC and OmcB/OmcC of G. sulfurreducens PCA formed the porin-cytochrome (Pcc) protein complexes, which were involved in transferring electrons across the outer membrane. The isolated Pcc protein complexes reconstituted in proteoliposomes transferred electrons from reduced methyl viologen across the lipid bilayer of liposomes to Fe(III)-citrate and ferrihydrite. The pcc clusters were found in all eight sequenced Geobacter and 11 other bacterial genomes from six different phyla, demonstrating a widespread distribution of Pcc protein complexes in phylogenetically diverse bacteria. Deletion of ombB-omaB-omcB-orfSombC-omaC-omcC gene clusters had no impact on the growth of G. sulfurreducens PCA with fumarate but diminished the ability of G. sulfurreducens PCA to reduce Fe(III)-citrate and ferrihydrite. Complementation with the ombB-omaB-omcB gene cluster restored the ability of G. sulfurreducens PCA to reduce Fe(III)-citrate and ferrihydrite.

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Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Biological Sciences Faculty of Science > School of Chemistry Faculty of Science > School of Natural Sciences
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Molecular Microbiology Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Biophysical Chemistry (former - to 2017) Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Organisms and the Environment Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Chemistry of Light and Energy Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Chemistry of Life Processes Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Centre for Molecular and Structural Biochemistry Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Energy Materials Laboratory
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	04 Nov 2014 12:16
Last Modified:	17 May 2023 04:31
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/50645
DOI:	10.1111/1758-2229.12204

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