Fluoresceination of FepA during colicin B killing: effects of temperature, toxin and TonB.
Fluoresceination of FepA during colicin B killing: effects of temperature, toxin and TonB.
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FepA 在大肠杆菌素 B 杀灭过程中的荧光作用:温度、毒素和 TonB 的影响。
DOI:
10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06715.x
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发表时间:
2009
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
Klebba,PhillipE
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作者:
Smallwood,ChuckR;Marco,AmparoGala;Xiao,Qiaobin;Trinh,Vy;Newton,SaleteMC;Klebba,PhillipE
We studied the reactivity of 35 genetically engineered Cys sulphydryl groups at different locations inEscherichia coliFepA. Modification of surface loop residues by fluorescein maleimide (FM) was strongly temperature‐dependentin vivo, whereas reactivity at other sites was much less affected. Control reactions with bovine serum albumin showed that the temperature dependence of loop residue reactivity was unusually high, indicating that conformational changes in multiple loops (L2, L3, L4, L5, L7, L8, L10) transform the receptor to a more accessible form at 37°C. At 0°C colicin B binding impaired or blocked labelling at 8 of 10 surface loop sites, presumably by steric hindrance. Overall, colicin B adsorption decreased the reactivity of more than half of the 35 sites, in both the N‐ and C‐ domains of FepA. However, colicin B penetration into the cell at 37°C did not augment the chemical modification of any residues in FepA. The FM modification patterns were similarly unaffected by thetonBlocus. FepA was expressed at lower levels in atonBhost strain, but when we accounted for this decrease its FM labelling was comparable whether TonB was present or absent. Thus we did not detect TonB‐dependent structural changes in FepA, either alone or when it interacted with colicin B at 37°C. The only changes in chemical modification were reductions from steric hindrance when the bacteriocin bound to the receptor protein. The absence of increases in the reactivity of N‐domain residues argues against the idea that the colicin B polypeptide traverses the FepA channel.