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Polyviou, Despo, Machelett, Moritz M, Hitchcock, Andrew, Baylay, Alison J, MacMillan, Fraser 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2410-4790, Moore, C Mark, Bibby, Thomas S and Tews, Ivo
(2018)
Structural and functional characterisation of IdiA/FutA (Tery_3377), an iron binding protein from the ocean diazotroph Trichodesmium erythraeum.
Journal of Biological Chemistry, 293 (47).
pp. 18099-18109.
ISSN 0021-9258
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Abstract
Atmospheric nitrogen fixation by photosynthetic cyanobacteria (diazotrophs) strongly influences oceanic primary production and in turn affects global biogeochemical cycles. Species of the genus Trichodesmium are major contributors to marine diazotrophy, accounting for a significant proportion of the fixed nitrogen in tropical and subtropical oceans. However, Trichodesmium spp. are metabolically constrained by the availability of iron, an essential element for both the photosynthetic apparatus and the nitrogenase enzyme. Survival strategies in low-iron environments are typically poorly characterized at the molecular level, as these bacteria are recalcitrant to genetic manipulation. Here, we studied a homolog of the iron deficiency-induced A (IdiA)/ferric uptake transporter A (FutA) protein, Tery_3377, which has been used as an in situ iron-stress biomarker. IdiA/FutA has an ambiguous function in cyanobacteria, with its homologs hypothesized to be involved in distinct processes depending on their cellular localization. Using signal sequence fusions to GFP and heterologous expression in the model cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 we show that Tery_3377 is targeted to the periplasm by the twin-arginine translocase and can complement the deletion of the native Synechocystis ferric-iron ABC transporter periplasmic binding protein (FutA2). EPR spectroscopy revealed that purified recombinant Tery_3377 has specificity for iron in the Fe3+ state, and an X-ray crystallography determined structure uncovered a functional iron substrate-binding domain, with Fe3+ penta-coordinated by protein and buffer ligands. Our results support assignment of Tery_3377 as a functional FutA subunit of an Fe3+ ABC-transporter, but do not rule out that it also has dual IdiA function.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | sdg 14 - life below water ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/life_below_water |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Chemistry |
| UEA Research Groups: | 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 > Chemistry of Light and Energy |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Oct 2018 09:30 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Oct 2022 04:10 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/68431 |
| DOI: | 10.1074/jbc.RA118.001929 |
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