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ToolsGu, Wenyu, Farhan Ul Haque, Muhammad, Baral, Bipin S., Turpin, Erick A., Bandow, Nathan L., Kremmer, Elisabeth, Flatley, Andrew, Zischka, Hans, DiSpirIto, Alan A. and Semrau, Jeremy D. (2016) A TonB-dependent transporter is responsible for methanobactin uptake by Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 82 (6). pp. 1917-1923. ISSN 0099-2240
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Methanobactin, a small modified polypeptide synthesized by methanotrophs for copper uptake, has been found to be chromosomally encoded. The gene encoding the polypeptide precursor of methanobactin, mbnA, is part of a gene cluster that also includes several genes encoding proteins of unknown function (but speculated to be involved in methanobactin formation) as well as mbnT, which encodes a TonB-dependent transporter hypothesized to be responsible for methanobactin uptake. To determine if mbnT is truly responsible for methanobactin uptake, a knockout was constructed in Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b using marker exchange mutagenesis. The resulting M. trichosporium mbnT::Gmr mutant was found to be able to produce methanobactin but was unable to internalize it. Further, if this mutant was grown in the presence of copper and exogenous methanobactin, copper uptake was significantly reduced. Expression of mmoX and pmoA, encoding polypeptides of the soluble methane monooxygenase (sMMO) and particulate methane monooxygenase (pMMO), respectively, also changed significantly when methanobactin was added, which indicates that the mutant was unable to collect copper under these conditions. Copper uptake and gene expression, however, were not affected in wild-type M. trichosporium OB3b, indicating that the TonB-dependent transporter encoded by mbnT is responsible for methanobactin uptake and that methanobactin is a key mechanism used by methanotrophs for copper uptake. When the mbnT::Gmr mutant was grown under a range of copper concentrations in the absence of methanobactin, however, the phenotype of the mutant was indistinguishable from that of wild-type M. trichosporium OB3b, indicating that this methanotroph has multiple mechanisms for copper uptake.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences |
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| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Aug 2017 05:05 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Jul 2023 09:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/64449 |
| DOI: | 10.1128/AEM.03884-15 |
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