PMID:22081393
| Citation |
Pinske, C and Sawers, RG (2012) A-type carrier protein ErpA is essential for formation of an active formate-nitrate respiratory pathway in Escherichia coli K-12. J. Bacteriol. 194:346-53 |
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| Abstract |
A-type carrier (ATC) proteins of the Isc (iron-sulfur cluster) and Suf (sulfur mobilization) iron-sulfur ([Fe-S]) cluster biogenesis pathways are proposed to traffic preformed [Fe-S] clusters to apoprotein targets. In this study, we analyzed the roles of the ATC proteins ErpA, IscA, and SufA in the maturation of the nitrate-inducible, multisubunit anaerobic respiratory enzymes formate dehydrogenase N (Fdh-N) and nitrate reductase (Nar). Mutants lacking SufA had enhanced activities of both enzymes. While both Fdh-N and Nar activities were strongly reduced in an iscA mutant, both enzymes were inactive in an erpA mutant and in a mutant unable to synthesize the [Fe-S] cluster scaffold protein IscU. It could be shown for both Fdh-N and Nar that loss of enzyme activity correlated with absence of the [Fe-S] cluster-containing small subunit. Moreover, a slowly migrating form of the catalytic subunit FdnG of Fdh-N was observed, consistent with impeded twin arginine translocation (TAT)-dependent transport. The highly related Fdh-O enzyme was also inactive in the erpA mutant. Although the Nar enzyme has its catalytic subunit NarG localized in the cytoplasm, it also exhibited aberrant migration in an erpA iscA mutant, suggesting that these modular enzymes lack catalytic integrity due to impaired cofactor biosynthesis. Cross-complementation experiments demonstrated that multicopy IscA could partially compensate for lack of ErpA with respect to Fdh-N activity but not Nar activity. These findings suggest that ErpA and IscA have overlapping roles in assembly of these anaerobic respiratory enzymes but demonstrate that ErpA is essential for the production of active enzymes. |
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PubMed PMC3256641 Online version:10.1128/JB.06024-11 |
| Keywords |
Anaerobiosis; Carrier Proteins/genetics; Carrier Proteins/metabolism; Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; Escherichia coli K12/metabolism; Escherichia coli Proteins/genetics; Escherichia coli Proteins/metabolism; Formate Dehydrogenases/genetics; Formate Dehydrogenases/metabolism; Formates/metabolism; Gene Deletion; Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial/physiology; Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic/physiology; Iron-Sulfur Proteins/genetics; Iron-Sulfur Proteins/metabolism; Nitrate Reductase/genetics; Nitrate Reductase/metabolism; Nitrates/metabolism; Oxygen Consumption/physiology |
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