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Banerjee A, Kang CY, An M, Koff BB, Sunder S, Kumar A, Tenuta LMA, Stockbridge RB. Fluoride export is required for the competitive fitness of pathogenic microorganisms in dental biofilm models. mBio 2024:e0018424. [PMID: 38624207 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.00184-24] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2024] [Accepted: 03/20/2024] [Indexed: 04/17/2024] Open
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Microorganisms resist fluoride toxicity using fluoride export proteins from one of several different molecular families. Cariogenic species Streptococcus mutans and Candida albicans extrude intracellular fluoride using a CLCF F-/H+ antiporter and FEX fluoride channel, respectively, whereas oral commensal eubacteria, such as Streptococcus gordonii, export fluoride using a Fluc fluoride channel. In this work, we examine how genetic knockout of fluoride export impacts pathogen fitness in single-species and three-species dental biofilm models. For biofilms generated using S. mutans with the genetic knockout of the CLCF transporter, exposure to low fluoride concentrations decreased S. mutans counts, synergistically reduced the populations of C. albicans, increased the relative proportion of oral commensal S. gordonii, and reduced properties associated with biofilm pathogenicity, including acid production and hydroxyapatite dissolution. Biofilms prepared with C. albicans with genetic knockout of the FEX channel also exhibited reduced fitness in the presence of fluoride but to a lesser degree. Imaging studies indicate that S. mutans is highly sensitive to fluoride, with the knockout strain undergoing complete lysis when exposed to low fluoride for a moderate amount of time. Biochemical purification of the S. mutans CLCF transporter and functional reconstitution establishes that the functional protein is a dimer encoded by a single gene. Together, these findings suggest that fluoride export by oral pathogens can be targeted by specific inhibitors to restore biofilm symbiosis in dental biofilms and that S. mutans is especially susceptible to fluoride toxicity. IMPORTANCE Dental caries is a globally prevalent condition that occurs when pathogenic species, including Streptococcus mutans and Candida albicans, outcompete beneficial species, such as Streptococcus gordonii, in the dental biofilm. Fluoride is routinely used in oral hygiene to prevent dental caries. Fluoride also has antimicrobial properties, although most microbes possess fluoride exporters to resist its toxicity. This work shows that sensitization of cariogenic species S. mutans and C. albicans to fluoride by genetic knockout of fluoride exporters alters the microbial composition and pathogenic properties of dental biofilms. These results suggest that the development of drugs that inhibit fluoride exporters could potentiate the anticaries effect of fluoride in over-the-counter products like toothpaste and mouth rinses. This is a novel strategy to treat dental caries.
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- Aditya Banerjee
- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Program in Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- School of Dentistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- Program in Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Lucero RM, Demirer K, Yeh TJ, Stockbridge RB. Transport of metformin metabolites by guanidinium exporters of the small multidrug resistance family. J Gen Physiol 2024; 156:e202313464. [PMID: 38294434 PMCID: PMC10829512 DOI: 10.1085/jgp.202313464] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2023] [Revised: 12/01/2023] [Accepted: 01/04/2024] [Indexed: 02/01/2024] Open
Abstract
Proteins from the small multidrug resistance (SMR) family are frequently associated with horizontally transferred multidrug resistance gene arrays found in bacteria from wastewater and the human-adjacent biosphere. Recent studies suggest that a subset of SMR transporters might participate in the metabolism of the common pharmaceutical metformin by bacterial consortia. Here, we show that both genomic and plasmid-associated transporters of the SMRGdx functional subtype export byproducts of microbial metformin metabolism, with particularly high export efficiency for guanylurea. We use solid-supported membrane electrophysiology to evaluate the transport kinetics for guanylurea and native substrate guanidinium by four representative SMRGdx homologs. Using an internal reference to normalize independent electrophysiology experiments, we show that transport rates are comparable for genomic and plasmid-associated SMRGdx homologs, and using a proteoliposome-based transport assay, we show that 2 proton:1 substrate transport stoichiometry is maintained. Additional characterization of guanidinium and guanylurea export properties focuses on the structurally characterized homolog, Gdx-Clo, for which we examined the pH dependence and thermodynamics of substrate binding and solved an x-ray crystal structure with guanylurea bound. Together, these experiments contribute in two main ways. By providing the first detailed kinetic examination of the structurally characterized SMRGdx homolog Gdx-Clo, they provide a functional framework that will inform future mechanistic studies of this model transport protein. Second, this study casts light on a potential role for SMRGdx transporters in microbial handling of metformin and its microbial metabolic byproducts, providing insight into how native transport physiologies are co-opted to contend with new selective pressures.
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- Rachael M. Lucero
- Program in Chemical Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Program in Chemical Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Program in Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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Arines FM, Wielenga A, Henn D, Burata OE, Garcia FN, Stockbridge RB, Li M. Lysosomal membrane transporter purification and reconstitution for functional studies. Mol Biol Cell 2024; 35:ar28. [PMID: 38117592 PMCID: PMC10916862 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e23-06-0259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2023] [Revised: 11/20/2023] [Accepted: 12/13/2023] [Indexed: 12/22/2023] Open
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Lysosomes achieve their function through numerous transporters that import or export nutrients across their membrane. However, technical challenges in membrane protein overexpression, purification, and reconstitution hinder our understanding of lysosome transporter function. Here, we developed a platform to overexpress and purify the putative lysine transporter Ypq1 using a constitutive overexpression system in protease- and ubiquitination-deficient yeast vacuoles. Using this method, we purified and reconstituted Ypq1 into proteoliposomes and showed lysine transport function, supporting its role as a basic amino acid transporter on the vacuole membrane. We also found that the absence of lysine destabilizes purified Ypq1 and causes it to aggregate, consistent with its propensity to be downregulated in vivo upon lysine starvation. Our approach may be useful for the biochemical characterization of many transporters and membrane proteins to understand organellar transport and regulation.
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- Felichi Mae Arines
- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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Fluoride (F-) export proteins, including F- channels and F- transporters, are widespread in biology. They contribute to cellular resistance against fluoride ion, which has relevance as an ancient xenobiotic, and in more modern contexts like organofluorine biosynthesis and degradation or dental medicine. This chapter summarizes quantitative methods to measure fluoride transport across membranes using fluoride-specific lanthanum-fluoride electrodes. Electrode-based measurements can be used to measure unitary fluoride transport rates by membrane proteins that have been purified and reconstituted into lipid vesicles, or to monitor fluoride efflux into living microbial cells. Thus, fluoride electrode-based measurements yield quantitative mechanistic insight into one of the major determinants of fluoride resistance in microorganisms, fungi, yeasts, and plants.
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- Chia-Yu Kang
- Program in Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Program in Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States; Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States.
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The interactions between communities of microorganisms inhabiting the dental biofilm is a major determinant of oral health. These biofilms are periodically exposed to high concentrations of fluoride, which is present in almost all oral healthcare products. The microbes resist fluoride through the action of membrane export proteins. This chapter describes the culture, growth and harvest conditions of model three-species dental biofilm comprised of cariogenic pathogens Streptococcus mutans and Candida albicans and the commensal bacterium Streptococcus gordonii. In order to examine the role of fluoride export by S. mutans in model biofilms, procedures for generating a strain of S. mutans with a genetic knockout of the fluoride exporter are described. We present a case study examining the effects of this mutant strain on the biofilm mass, acid production and mineral dissolution under exposure to low levels of fluoride. These general approaches can be applied to study the effects of any gene of interest in physiologically realistic multispecies oral biofilms.
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- Aditya Banerjee
- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- School of Dentistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States.
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Banerjee A, Kang CY, An M, Koff BB, Sunder S, Kumar A, Tenuta LMA, Stockbridge RB. Fluoride export is required for competitive fitness of pathogenic microorganisms in dental biofilm models. bioRxiv 2024:2024.01.18.576223. [PMID: 38293214 PMCID: PMC10827179 DOI: 10.1101/2024.01.18.576223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2024]
Abstract
Microorganisms resist fluoride toxicity using fluoride export proteins from one of several different molecular families. Cariogenic species Streptococcus mutans and Candida albicans extrude intracellular fluoride using a CLCF F-/H+ antiporter and FEX fluoride channel, respectively, whereas commensal eubacteria, such as Streptococcus gordonii, export fluoride using a Fluc fluoride channel. In this work, we examine how genetic knockout of fluoride export impacts pathogen fitness in single-species and three-species dental biofilm models. For biofilms generated using S. mutans with genetic knockout of the CLCF transporter, exposure to low fluoride concentrations decreased S. mutans counts, synergistically reduced the populations of C. albicans, increased the relative proportion of commensal S. gordonii, and reduced properties associated with biofilm pathogenicity, including acid production and hydroxyapatite dissolution. Biofilms prepared with C. albicans with genetic knockout of the FEX channel also exhibited reduced fitness in the presence of fluoride, but to a lesser degree. Imaging studies indicate that S. mutans is highly sensitive to fluoride, with the knockout strain undergoing complete lysis when exposed to low fluoride for a moderate amount of time, and biochemical purification the S. mutans CLCF transporter and functional reconstitution establishes that the functional protein is a dimer encoded by a single gene. Together, these findings suggest that fluoride export by oral pathogens can be targeted by specific inhibitors to restore biofilm symbiosis in dental biofilms, and that S. mutans is especially susceptible to fluoride toxicity.
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- Aditya Banerjee
- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Program in Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- School of Dentistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
- Program in Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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Ernst M, Orabi EA, Stockbridge RB, Faraldo-Gómez JD, Robertson JL. Dimerization mechanism of an inverted-topology ion channel in membranes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2023; 120:e2308454120. [PMID: 37956279 PMCID: PMC10666096 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2308454120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2023] [Accepted: 09/28/2023] [Indexed: 11/15/2023] Open
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Many ion channels are multisubunit complexes where oligomerization is an obligatory requirement for function as the binding axis forms the charged permeation pathway. However, the mechanisms of in-membrane assembly of thermodynamically stable channels are largely unknown. Here, we demonstrate a key advance by reporting the dimerization equilibrium reaction of an inverted-topology, homodimeric fluoride channel Fluc in lipid bilayers. While the wild-type channel is a long-lived dimer, we leverage a known mutation, N43S, that weakens Na+ binding in a buried site at the interface, thereby unlocking the complex for reversible association in lipid bilayers. Single-channel recordings show that Na+ binding is required for fluoride conduction while single-molecule microscopy experiments demonstrate that N43S Fluc exists in a dynamic monomer-dimer equilibrium in the membrane, even following removal of Na+. Quantifying the thermodynamic stability while titrating Na+ indicates that dimerization occurs first, providing a membrane-embedded binding site where Na+ binding weakly stabilizes the complex. To understand how these subunits form stable assemblies while presenting charged surfaces to the membrane, we carried out molecular dynamics simulations, which show the formation of a thinned membrane defect around the exposed dimerization interface. In simulations where subunits are permitted to encounter each other while preventing protein contacts, we observe spontaneous and selective association at the native interface, where stability is achieved by mitigation of the membrane defect. These results suggest a model wherein membrane-associated forces drive channel assembly in the native orientation while subsequent factors, such as Na+ binding, result in channel activation.
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- Melanie Ernst
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO63110
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- Theoretical Molecular Biophysics Section, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD20894
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI48109
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- Theoretical Molecular Biophysics Section, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD20894
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO63110
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Lucero RM, Demirer K, Yeh TJ, Stockbridge RB. Transport of metformin metabolites by guanidinium exporters of the Small Multidrug Resistance family. bioRxiv 2023:2023.08.10.552832. [PMID: 37645731 PMCID: PMC10461911 DOI: 10.1101/2023.08.10.552832] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/31/2023]
Abstract
Proteins from the Small Multidrug Resistance (SMR) family are frequently associated with horizontally transferred multidrug resistance gene arrays found in bacteria from wastewater and the human-adjacent biosphere. Recent studies suggest that a subset of SMR transporters might participate in metabolism of the common pharmaceutical metformin by bacterial consortia. Here, we show that both genomic and plasmid-associated transporters of the SMRGdx functional subtype export byproducts of microbial metformin metabolism, with particularly high export efficiency for guanylurea. We use solid supported membrane electrophysiology to evaluate the transport kinetics for guanylurea and native substrate guanidinium by four representative SMRGdx homologues. Using an internal reference to normalize independent electrophysiology experiments, we show that transport rates are comparable for genomic and plasmid-associated SMRGdx homologues, and using a proteoliposome-based transport assay, we show that 2 proton:1 substrate transport stoichiometry is maintained. Additional characterization of guanidinium and guanylurea export properties focuses on the structurally characterized homologue, Gdx-Clo, for which we examined the pH dependence and thermodynamics of substrate binding and solved an x-ray crystal structure with guanylurea bound. Together, these experiments contribute in two main ways. By providing the first detailed kinetic examination of the structurally characterized SMRGdx homologue Gdx-Clo, they provide a functional framework that will inform future mechanistic studies of this model transport protein. Second, this study casts light on a potential role for SMRGdx transporters in microbial handling of metformin and its microbial metabolic byproducts, providing insight into how native transport physiologies are co-opted to contend with new selective pressures.
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
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- Program in Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Program in Chemical Biology
- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
- Program in Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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Arines FM, Wielenga A, Burata OE, Garcia FN, Stockbridge RB, Li M. Lysosome transporter purification and reconstitution identifies Ypq1 pH-gated lysine transport and regulation. bioRxiv 2023:2023.03.31.535002. [PMID: 37034749 PMCID: PMC10081341 DOI: 10.1101/2023.03.31.535002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/11/2023]
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Lysosomes achieve their function through numerous transporters that import or export nutrients across their membrane. However, technical challenges in membrane protein overexpression, purification, and reconstitution hinder our understanding of lysosome transporter function. Here, we developed a platform to overexpress and purify the putative lysine transporter Ypq1 using a constitutive overexpression system in protease- and ubiquitination-deficient yeast vacuoles. Using this method, we purified and reconstituted Ypq1 into proteoliposomes and showed lysine transport function, supporting its role as a basic amino acid transporter on the vacuole membrane. We also found that the absence of lysine destabilizes purified Ypq1 and causes it to aggregate, consistent with its propensity to be downregulated in vivo upon lysine starvation. Our approach may be useful for the biochemical characterization of many transporters and membrane proteins to understand organellar transport and regulation.
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- Felichi Mae Arines
- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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Ernst M, Orabi EA, Stockbridge RB, Faraldo-Gómez JD, Robertson JL. Dimerization mechanism of an inverted-topology ion channel in membranes. bioRxiv 2023:2023.01.27.525942. [PMID: 36789410 PMCID: PMC9928038 DOI: 10.1101/2023.01.27.525942] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Many ion channels are multi-subunit complexes with a polar permeation pathway at the oligomeric interface, but their mechanisms of assembly into functional, thermodynamically stable units within the membrane are largely unknown. Here we characterize the assembly of the inverted-topology, homodimeric fluoride channel Fluc, leveraging a known mutation, N43S, that weakens Na + binding to the dimer interface, thereby unlocking the complex. While single-channel recordings show Na + is required for activation, single-molecule photobleaching and bulk Förster Resonance Energy Transfer experiments in lipid bilayers demonstrate that N43S Fluc monomers and dimers exist in dynamic equilibrium, even without Na + . Molecular dynamics simulations indicate this equilibrium is dominated by a differential in the lipid-solvation energetics of monomer and dimer, which stems from hydrophobic exposure of the polar ion pathway in the monomer. These results suggest a model wherein membrane-associated forces induce channel assembly while subsequent factors, in this case Na + binding, result in channel activation. Teaser Membrane morphology energetics foster inverted-topology Fluc channels to form dimers, which then become active upon Na + binding.
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Martinez-Vaz BM, Dodge AG, Lucero RM, Stockbridge RB, Robinson AA, Tassoulas LJ, Wackett LP. Wastewater bacteria remediating the pharmaceutical metformin: Genomes, plasmids and products. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2022; 10:1086261. [PMID: 36588930 PMCID: PMC9800807 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2022.1086261] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2022] [Accepted: 11/24/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Metformin is used globally to treat type II diabetes, has demonstrated anti-ageing and COVID mitigation effects and is a major anthropogenic pollutant to be bioremediated by wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). Metformin is not adsorbed well by activated carbon and toxic N-chloro derivatives can form in chlorinated water. Most earlier studies on metformin biodegradation have used wastewater consortia and details of the genomes, relevant genes, metabolic products, and potential for horizontal gene transfer are lacking. Here, two metformin-biodegrading bacteria from a WWTP were isolated and their biodegradation characterized. Aminobacter sp. MET metabolized metformin stoichiometrically to guanylurea, an intermediate known to accumulate in some environments including WWTPs. Pseudomonas mendocina MET completely metabolized metformin and utilized all the nitrogen atoms for growth. Pseudomonas mendocina MET also metabolized metformin breakdown products sometimes observed in WWTPs: 1-N-methylbiguanide, biguanide, guanylurea, and guanidine. The genome of each bacterium was obtained. Genes involved in the transport of guanylurea in Aminobacter sp. MET were expressed heterologously and shown to serve as an antiporter to expel the toxic guanidinium compound. A novel guanylurea hydrolase enzyme was identified in Pseudomonas mendocina MET, purified, and characterized. The Aminobacter and Pseudomonas each contained one plasmid of 160 kb and 90 kb, respectively. In total, these studies are significant for the bioremediation of a major pollutant in WWTPs today.
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- Betsy M. Martinez-Vaz
- Department of Biology and Biochemistry Program, Hamline University, St. Paul, MN, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics and BioTechnology Institute, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, United States
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- Program in Chemical Biology and Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Program in Chemical Biology and Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Department of Biology and Biochemistry Program, Hamline University, St. Paul, MN, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics and BioTechnology Institute, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics and BioTechnology Institute, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, United States
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Lucero RM, Stockbridge RB. Elucidating the Physiological Role of Guanidinium (Gdm
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Kermani AA, Burata OE, Koff BB, Koide A, Koide S, Stockbridge RB. Crystal structures of bacterial small multidrug resistance transporter EmrE in complex with structurally diverse substrates. eLife 2022; 11:76766. [PMID: 35254261 PMCID: PMC9000954 DOI: 10.7554/elife.76766] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2022] [Accepted: 03/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Proteins from the bacterial small multidrug resistance (SMR) family are proton-coupled exporters of diverse antiseptics and antimicrobials, including polyaromatic cations and quaternary ammonium compounds. The transport mechanism of the Escherichia coli transporter, EmrE, has been studied extensively, but a lack of high-resolution structural information has impeded a structural description of its molecular mechanism. Here, we apply a novel approach, multipurpose crystallization chaperones, to solve several structures of EmrE, including a 2.9 Å structure at low pH without substrate. We report five additional structures in complex with structurally diverse transported substrates, including quaternary phosphonium, quaternary ammonium, and planar polyaromatic compounds. These structures show that binding site tryptophan and glutamate residues adopt different rotamers to conform to disparate structures without requiring major rearrangements of the backbone structure. Structural and functional comparison to Gdx-Clo, an SMR protein that transports a much narrower spectrum of substrates, suggests that in EmrE, a relatively sparse hydrogen bond network among binding site residues permits increased sidechain flexibility.
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- Ali A Kermani
- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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- Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, United States
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- Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, United States
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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McIlwain BC, Erwin AL, Davis AR, Ben Koff B, Chang L, Bylund T, Chuang GY, Kwong PD, Ohi MD, Lai YT, Stockbridge RB. N-terminal Transmembrane-Helix Epitope Tag for X-ray Crystallography and Electron Microscopy of Small Membrane Proteins. J Mol Biol 2021; 433:166909. [PMID: 33676924 PMCID: PMC8292168 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2021.166909] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2021] [Revised: 02/19/2021] [Accepted: 02/23/2021] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Structural studies of membrane proteins, especially small membrane proteins, are associated with well-known experimental challenges. Complexation with monoclonal antibody fragments is a common strategy to augment such proteins; however, generating antibody fragments that specifically bind a target protein is not trivial. Here we identify a helical epitope, from the membrane-proximal external region (MPER) of the gp41-transmembrane subunit of the HIV envelope protein, that is recognized by several well-characterized antibodies and that can be fused as a contiguous extension of the N-terminal transmembrane helix of a broad range of membrane proteins. To analyze whether this MPER-epitope tag might aid structural studies of small membrane proteins, we determined an X-ray crystal structure of a membrane protein target that does not crystallize without the aid of crystallization chaperones, the Fluc fluoride channel, fused to the MPER epitope and in complex with antibody. We also demonstrate the utility of this approach for single particle electron microscopy with Fluc and two additional small membrane proteins that represent different membrane protein folds, AdiC and GlpF. These studies show that the MPER epitope provides a structurally defined, rigid docking site for antibody fragments that is transferable among diverse membrane proteins and can be engineered without prior structural information. Antibodies that bind to the MPER epitope serve as effective crystallization chaperones and electron microscopy fiducial markers, enabling structural studies of challenging small membrane proteins.
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- Benjamin C McIlwain
- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States
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- Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States; Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48019, United States
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States
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- Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States
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- Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States
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- Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States
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- Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States
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- Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States; Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48019, United States.
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- Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States; Moderna Therapeutics, 200 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States.
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States; Program in Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States.
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McIlwain BC, Gundepudi R, Koff BB, Stockbridge RB. The fluoride permeation pathway and anion recognition in Fluc family fluoride channels. eLife 2021; 10:69482. [PMID: 34250906 PMCID: PMC8315801 DOI: 10.7554/elife.69482] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2021] [Accepted: 07/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Fluc family fluoride channels protect microbes against ambient environmental fluoride by undermining the cytoplasmic accumulation of this toxic halide. These proteins are structurally idiosyncratic, and thus the permeation pathway and mechanism have no analogy in other known ion channels. Although fluoride-binding sites were identified in previous structural studies, it was not evident how these ions access aqueous solution, and the molecular determinants of anion recognition and selectivity have not been elucidated. Using x-ray crystallography, planar bilayer electrophysiology, and liposome-based assays, we identified additional binding sites along the permeation pathway. We used this information to develop an oriented system for planar lipid bilayer electrophysiology and observed anion block at one of these sites, revealing insights into the mechanism of anion recognition. We propose a permeation mechanism involving alternating occupancy of anion-binding sites that are fully assembled only as the substrate approaches.
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- Benjamin C McIlwain
- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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- Program in Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States.,Program in Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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- Randy B Stockbridge
- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and Program in Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Departments of Biochemsitry and Biophysics, and Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; California Institute for Quantiative Biomedical Research, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Kavli Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience University of California, San Francisco, CA 93858-2330, USA; Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bio-imaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
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Stautz J, Hellmich Y, Fuss MF, Silberberg JM, Devlin JR, Stockbridge RB, Hänelt I. Molecular Mechanisms for Bacterial Potassium Homeostasis. J Mol Biol 2021; 433:166968. [PMID: 33798529 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2021.166968] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2021] [Revised: 03/11/2021] [Accepted: 03/22/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Potassium ion homeostasis is essential for bacterial survival, playing roles in osmoregulation, pH homeostasis, regulation of protein synthesis, enzyme activation, membrane potential adjustment and electrical signaling. To accomplish such diverse physiological tasks, it is not surprising that a single bacterium typically encodes several potassium uptake and release systems. To understand the role each individual protein fulfills and how these proteins work in concert, it is important to identify the molecular details of their function. One needs to understand whether the systems transport ions actively or passively, and what mechanisms or ligands lead to the activation or inactivation of individual systems. Combining mechanistic information with knowledge about the physiology under different stress situations, such as osmostress, pH stress or nutrient limitation, one can identify the task of each system and deduce how they are coordinated with each other. By reviewing the general principles of bacterial membrane physiology and describing the molecular architecture and function of several bacterial K+-transporting systems, we aim to provide a framework for microbiologists studying bacterial potassium homeostasis and the many K+-translocating systems that are still poorly understood.
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- Janina Stautz
- Institute of Biochemistry, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States.
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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McIlwain B, Erwin A, Ohi MD, Stockbridge RB. A FAB-Tag for Small Membrane Protein Structure Determination. Biophys J 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2020.11.1428] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Microorganisms contend with numerous and unusual chemical threats and have evolved a catalog of resistance mechanisms in response. One particularly ancient, pernicious threat is posed by fluoride ion (F-), a common xenobiotic in natural environments that causes broad-spectrum harm to metabolic pathways. This review focuses on advances in the last ten years toward understanding the microbial response to cytoplasmic accumulation of F-, with a special emphasis on the structure and mechanisms of the proteins that microbes use to export fluoride: the CLCF family of F-/H+ antiporters and the Fluc/FEX family of F- channels.
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- Benjamin C McIlwain
- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA;
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA;
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA; .,Program in Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
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Macdonald CB, Kermani AA, Stockbridge RB. Overlapping Substrate Specificities in the Small Multidrug Resistance (SMR) Family of Transporters. Biophys J 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2019.11.843] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Stockbridge highlights new work revealing an allosteric inactivation mechanism for the bestrophin channel.
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- Randy B Stockbridge
- Program in Biophysics and Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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Stull F, Hipp H, Stockbridge RB, Bardwell JCA. In vivo chloride concentrations surge to proteotoxic levels during acid stress. Nat Chem Biol 2018; 14:1051-1058. [PMID: 30323217 PMCID: PMC6193267 DOI: 10.1038/s41589-018-0143-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2018] [Accepted: 08/29/2018] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
Abstract
To successfully colonize the intestine, bacteria must survive passage through the stomach. The permeability of the outer membrane renders the periplasm of Gram-negative bacteria vulnerable to stomach acid, which inactivates proteins. Here we report that the semipermeable nature of the outer membrane allows the development of a strong Donnan equilibrium across this barrier at low pH. As a result, when bacteria are exposed to conditions that mimic gastric juice, periplasmic chloride concentrations rise to levels that exceed 0.6 M. At these chloride concentrations, proteins readily aggregate in vitro. The acid sensitivity of strains lacking acid-protective chaperones is enhanced by chloride, suggesting that these chaperones protect periplasmic proteins both from acidification and from the accompanying accumulation of chloride. These results illustrate how organisms have evolved chaperones to respond to the substantial chemical threat imposed by otherwise innocuous chloride concentrations that are amplified to proteotoxic levels by low-pH-induced Donnan equilibrium effects.
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- Frederick Stull
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Department of Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
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Last NB, Stockbridge RB, Wilson AE, Shane T, Kolmakova-Partensky L, Koide A, Koide S, Miller C. A CLC-type F -/H + antiporter in ion-swapped conformations. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2018; 25:601-606. [PMID: 29941917 PMCID: PMC6044475 DOI: 10.1038/s41594-018-0082-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2018] [Accepted: 05/31/2018] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Fluoride/proton antiporters of the CLCF family combat F- toxicity in bacteria by exporting this halide from the cytoplasm. These transporters belong to the widespread CLC superfamily but display transport properties different from those of the well-studied Cl-/H+ antiporters. Here, we report a structural and functional investigation of these F--transport proteins. Crystal structures of a CLCF homolog from Enterococcus casseliflavus are captured in two conformations with simultaneous accessibility of F- and H+ ions via separate pathways on opposite sides of the membrane. Manipulation of a key glutamate residue critical for H+ and F- transport reverses the anion selectivity of transport; replacement of the glutamate with glutamine or alanine completely inhibits F- and H+ transport while allowing for rapid uncoupled flux of Cl-. The structural and functional results lead to a 'windmill' model of CLC antiport wherein F- and H+ simultaneously move through separate ion-specific pathways that switch sidedness during the transport cycle.
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- Nicholas B Last
- Department of Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA
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- Perlmutter Cancer Center, New York University Langone Health, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Perlmutter Cancer Center, New York University Langone Health, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA.
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Macdonald CB, Stockbridge RB. A topologically diverse family of fluoride channels. Curr Opin Struct Biol 2017; 45:142-149. [PMID: 28514705 DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2017.04.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2016] [Revised: 04/07/2017] [Accepted: 04/07/2017] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Dual-topology proteins are likely evolutionary antecedents to a common motif in membrane protein structures, the inverted repeat. A family of fluoride channels, the Flucs, which protect microorganisms, fungi, and plants against cytoplasmic fluoride accumulation, has representatives of all topologies along this evolutionary trajectory, including dual-topology homodimers, antiparallel heterodimers, and, in eukaryotes, fused two-domain proteins with an inverted repeat motif. Recent high-resolution crystal structures of dual-topology homodimers, coupled with extensive functional information about both the homodimers and two-domain Flucs, provide a case study of the co-evolution of fold and function.
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- Christian B Macdonald
- Program in Biophysics, University of Michigan, 930 N. University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Program in Biophysics, University of Michigan, 930 N. University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, 930 N. University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
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Turman DL, Stockbridge RB. Mechanism of single- and double-sided inhibition of dual topology fluoride channels by synthetic monobodies. J Gen Physiol 2017; 149:511-522. [PMID: 28258203 PMCID: PMC5379923 DOI: 10.1085/jgp.201611747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2016] [Accepted: 02/03/2017] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Fibronectin domain monobodies bind to both sides of Fluc Fl− channels in a negatively cooperative way, but crystal structures show two monobodies binding simultaneously. Turman and Stockbridge resolve this contradiction by showing that monobodies block channel pores by means of a negatively charged loop. The Fluc family of proteins comprises small, electrodiffusive fluoride channels, which prevent accumulation of toxic F− ions in microorganisms. Recent crystal structures have confirmed their unusual architecture, in which a pair of antiparallel subunits convenes to form a dimer with a twofold symmetry axis parallel to the plane of the membrane. These structures have also revealed the interactions between Fluc channels and several different fibronectin domain monobodies that inhibit Fluc-mediated F− currents; in all structures, each channel binds to two monobodies symmetrically, one on either side of the membrane. However, these structures do not reveal the mechanism of monobody inhibition. Moreover, the results appear to diverge from a recent electrophysiological study indicating that monobody binding is negatively cooperative; that is, a bound monobody on one side of a Fluc channel decreases the affinity of an oppositely bound monobody by ∼10-fold. In this study, we reconcile these observations by probing the mechanism of monobody binding and its negative cooperativity using electrophysiological experiments in planar lipid bilayers. Our results indicate that monobody inhibition occurs via a pore-blocking mechanism and that negative cooperativity arises from electrostatic repulsion between the oppositely bound monobodies. A single glutamate residue, on a loop of the monobody that extends into the channel interior, is responsible for negatively cooperative binding. This glutamate side chain also confers voltage dependence and sensitivity to the concentration of trans-F− ion to monobody binding. Neutralization by mutation to glutamine abolishes these electrostatic effects. Monobodies that are amenable to cocrystallization with Fluc channels lack an analogous negatively charged side chain and bind independently to opposite sides of the channel. Thus, this work reveals the source of voltage dependence and negative cooperativity of monobody binding to Fluc channels along with the pore-blocking mechanism.
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- Daniel L Turman
- Department of Biochemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454
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- Program in Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 .,Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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Nelson JW, Atilho RM, Sherlock ME, Stockbridge RB, Breaker RR. Metabolism of Free Guanidine in Bacteria Is Regulated by a Widespread Riboswitch Class. Mol Cell 2016; 65:220-230. [PMID: 27989440 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2016.11.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2016] [Revised: 10/27/2016] [Accepted: 11/09/2016] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
Abstract
The guanidyl moiety is a component of fundamental metabolites, including the amino acid arginine, the energy carrier creatine, and the nucleobase guanine. Curiously, reports regarding the importance of free guanidine in biology are sparse, and no biological receptors that specifically recognize this compound have been previously identified. We report that many members of the ykkC motif RNA, the longest unresolved riboswitch candidate, naturally sense and respond to guanidine. This RNA is found throughout much of the bacterial domain of life, where it commonly controls the expression of proteins annotated as urea carboxylases and multidrug efflux pumps. Our analyses reveal that these proteins likely function as guanidine carboxylases and guanidine transporters, respectively. Furthermore, we demonstrate that bacteria are capable of endogenously producing guanidine. These and related findings demonstrate that free guanidine is a biologically relevant compound, and several gene families that can alleviate guanidine toxicity exist.
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- James W Nelson
- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Department of Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
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Stockbridge RB, Kolmakova-Partensky L, Shane T, Koide A, Koide S, Miller C, Newstead S. Crystal structures of a double-barrelled fluoride ion channel. Nature 2015; 525:548-51. [PMID: 26344196 PMCID: PMC4876929 DOI: 10.1038/nature14981] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2015] [Accepted: 07/20/2015] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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To contend with hazards posed by environmental fluoride, microorganisms export this anion through F(-)-specific ion channels of the Fluc family. Since the recent discovery of Fluc channels, numerous idiosyncratic features of these proteins have been unearthed, including strong selectivity for F(-) over Cl(-) and dual-topology dimeric assembly. To understand the chemical basis for F(-) permeation and how the antiparallel subunits convene to form a F(-)-selective pore, here we solve the crystal structures of two bacterial Fluc homologues in complex with three different monobody inhibitors, with and without F(-) present, to a maximum resolution of 2.1 Å. The structures reveal a surprising 'double-barrelled' channel architecture in which two F(-) ion pathways span the membrane, and the dual-topology arrangement includes a centrally coordinated cation, most likely Na(+). F(-) selectivity is proposed to arise from the very narrow pores and an unusual anion coordination that exploits the quadrupolar edges of conserved phenylalanine rings.
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- Randy B Stockbridge
- Department of Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454, USA
- Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QU, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QU, UK
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Many bacterial species protect themselves against environmental F(-) toxicity by exporting this anion from the cytoplasm via CLC(F) F(-)/H(+) antiporters, a subclass of CLC superfamily anion transporters. Strong F(-) over Cl(-) selectivity is biologically essential for these membrane proteins because Cl(-) is orders of magnitude more abundant in the biosphere than F(-). Sequence comparisons reveal differences between CLC(F)s and canonical Cl(-)-transporting CLCs within regions that, in the canonical CLCs, coordinate Cl(-) ion and govern anion transport. A phylogenetic split within the CLC(F) clade, manifested in sequence divergence in the vicinity of this ion-binding center, raises the possibility that these two CLC(F) subclades might exhibit differences in anion selectivity. Several CLC(F) homologues from each subclade were examined for F(-)/Cl(-) selectivity of anion transport and equilibrium binding. Differences in both of these anion-selectivity metrics correlate with sequence divergence among CLC(F)s. Chimeric constructs identify two residues in this region that largely account for the subclade differences in selectivity. In addition, these experiments serendipitously uncovered an unusually steep, Cl(-)-specific voltage dependence of transport that greatly enhances F(-) selectivity at low voltage.
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- Ashley E Brammer
- Department of Biochemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02453Department of Biochemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02453
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- Department of Biochemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02453Department of Biochemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02453
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- Department of Biochemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02453Department of Biochemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02453
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Fluoride ion (F(-)) is a ubiquitous environmental threat to microorganisms, which have evolved a family of highly selective "Fluc" F(-) channels that export this inhibitory anion from their cytoplasm. It is unclear, however, how a thermodynamically passive mechanism like an ion channel can protect against high concentrations of external F(-). We monitored external F(-) concentrations in Escherichia coli suspensions and showed that, in bacteria lacking Fluc, F(-) accumulates when the external medium is acidified, as a predicted function of the transmembrane pH gradient. This weak acid accumulation effect, which results from the high pKa (3.4) and membrane permeability of HF, is abolished by Fluc channels. We also found that, although bacterial growth is inhibited by high concentrations of F(-), bacteria can withstand cytoplasmic F(-) at levels a hundred times higher than those that inhibit proliferation, resuming growth when the F(-) challenge is removed.
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- Chunhui Ji
- Department of Biochemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02453 Department of Biochemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02453
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- Department of Biochemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02453 Department of Biochemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02453
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- Department of Biochemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02453 Department of Biochemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02453
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Stockbridge RB, Koide A, Miller C, Koide S. Proof of dual-topology architecture of Fluc F- channels with monobody blockers. Nat Commun 2014; 5:5120. [PMID: 25290819 PMCID: PMC4265568 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2014] [Accepted: 09/01/2014] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Fluc-type F- channels — used by microorganisms for resisting fluoride toxicity — are unusual in their quaternary architecture: They are thought to associate as dimers with the two subunits in antiparallel transmembrane orientation. Here we subject this unusual structural feature to a direct test. Single purified Fluc channels recorded in planar lipid bilayers are constitutively open, with rare, short-lived closings. Using combinatorial libraries, we generated synthetic binding proteins, “monobodies,” that specifically bind to Fluc homologues with nanomolar affinity. Reversible binding of monobodies to two different Fluc channel homologues is seen in single-channel recordings as long-lived nonconducting events that follow bimolecular kinetics. By applying monobodies sequentially to the two sides of the bilayer in a double-sided perfusion maneuver, we show that Fluc channels present monobody-binding epitopes to both sides of the membrane. The result establishes that Fluc subunits are arranged in dimeric antiparallel orientation.
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- Randy B Stockbridge
- Department of Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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Brammer AE, Stockbridge RB, Miller C. Selectivity in CLC-F Fluoride Transporters: a Search for the Key Players. Biophys J 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2013.11.843] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022] Open
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Stockbridge RB, Robertson JL, Kolmakova-Partensky L, Miller C. A family of fluoride-specific ion channels with dual-topology architecture. eLife 2013; 2:e01084. [PMID: 23991286 PMCID: PMC3755343 DOI: 10.7554/elife.01084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2013] [Accepted: 07/23/2013] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Fluoride ion, ubiquitous in soil, water, and marine environments, is a chronic threat to microorganisms. Many prokaryotes, archea, unicellular eukaryotes, and plants use a recently discovered family of F− exporter proteins to lower cytoplasmic F− levels to counteract the anion’s toxicity. We show here that these ‘Fluc’ proteins, purified and reconstituted in liposomes and planar phospholipid bilayers, form constitutively open anion channels with extreme selectivity for F− over Cl−. The active channel is a dimer of identical or homologous subunits arranged in antiparallel transmembrane orientation. This dual-topology assembly has not previously been seen in ion channels but is known in multidrug transporters of the SMR family, and is suggestive of an evolutionary antecedent of the inverted repeats found within the subunits of many membrane transport proteins. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01084.001 Fluorine is the thirteenth-most abundant element in the Earth’s crust, and fluoride ions are found in both soil and water, where they accumulate through the weathering of rocks or from industrial pollution. However, high levels of fluoride ions can inhibit two processes essential to life: the production of energy by glycolysis and the synthesis of DNA and RNA bases. In polluted areas, organisms such as bacteria, algae and plants must remove fluoride ions from their cells in order to survive. Since ions cannot freely cross lipid membranes, organisms use proteins called channels or carriers to move ions into and out of their cells. Channel proteins form a pore, or channel, in the cell membrane, through which ions can quickly move from areas of high concentration to areas of low concentration. In contrast, carrier proteins can transport ions in both directions—that is, to and from areas of high concentration—but they are slower than channel proteins. A family of proteins that export fluoride from microbe and plant cells, thus allowing them to grow in the presence of this toxic ion, was discovered recently, but it was not clear if these proteins function as channels or as carrier proteins. Now, Stockbridge et al. find that these proteins, called Fluc proteins, are fluoride channels with an unusual architecture. Fluc proteins are found in many species of bacteria, and Stockbridge et al. show that a number of these, when purified and inserted into a lipid membrane, are channel proteins. Additionally, they do not transport related ions such as chloride, which means that they are unusually selective for ion channels. Two Fluc polypeptides associate to form a channel in the cell membrane, and Stockbridge et al. show that these two subunits are arranged in an antiparallel formation. Although this architecture is unprecedented among ion channels, it has been observed in carrier proteins in a range of organisms, and may indicate that Fluc proteins offer an evolutionary model for many carrier proteins. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01084.002
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- Randy B Stockbridge
- Department of Biochemistry , Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brandeis University , Waltham , United States
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Stockbridge RB, Kolmakova-Partensky L, Miller C. A Microbial Fluoride Channel. Biophys J 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2012.11.3469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Baker JL, Sudarsan N, Weinberg Z, Roth A, Stockbridge RB, Breaker RR. Widespread genetic switches and toxicity resistance proteins for fluoride. Science 2011; 335:233-235. [PMID: 22194412 DOI: 10.1126/science.1215063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 301] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Most riboswitches are metabolite-binding RNA structures located in bacterial messenger RNAs where they control gene expression. We have discovered a riboswitch class in many bacterial and archaeal species whose members are selectively triggered by fluoride but reject other small anions, including chloride. These fluoride riboswitches activate expression of genes that encode putative fluoride transporters, enzymes that are known to be inhibited by fluoride, and additional proteins of unknown function. Our findings indicate that most organisms are naturally exposed to toxic levels of fluoride and that many species use fluoride-sensing RNAs to control the expression of proteins that alleviate the deleterious effects of this anion.
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- Jenny L Baker
- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, Box 208103, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University, Box 208103, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.,Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, Box 208103, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University, Box 208103, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.,Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, Box 208103, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University, Box 208103, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.,Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, Box 208103, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University, Box 208103, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.,Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, Box 208103, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.,Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, Box 208103, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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Stockbridge RB, Wolfenden R. Enhancement of the rate of pyrophosphate hydrolysis by nonenzymatic catalysts and by inorganic pyrophosphatase. J Biol Chem 2011; 286:18538-46. [PMID: 21460215 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m110.214510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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To estimate the proficiency of inorganic pyrophosphatase as a catalyst, (31)P NMR was used to determine rate constants and thermodynamics of activation for the spontaneous hydrolysis of inorganic pyrophosphate (PP(i)) in the presence and absence of Mg(2+) at elevated temperatures. These values were compared with rate constants and activation parameters determined for the reaction catalyzed by Escherichia coli inorganic pyrophosphatase using isothermal titration calorimetry. At 25 °C and pH 8.5, the hydrolysis of MgPP(i)(2-) proceeds with a rate constant of 2.8 × 10(-10) s(-1), whereas E. coli pyrophosphatase was found to have a turnover number of 570 s(-1) under the same conditions. The resulting rate enhancement (2 × 10(12)-fold) is achieved entirely by reducing the enthalpy of activation (ΔΔH(‡) = -16.6 kcal/mol). The presence of Mg(2+) ions or the transfer of the substrate from bulk water to dimethyl sulfoxide was found to increase the rate of pyrophosphate hydrolysis by as much as ∼ 10(6)-fold. Transfer to dimethyl sulfoxide accelerated PP(i) hydrolysis by reducing the enthalpy of activation. Mg(2+) increased the rate of PP(i) hydrolysis by both increasing the entropy of activation and reducing the enthalpy of activation.
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- Randy B Stockbridge
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
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Stockbridge RB, Lewis CA, Yuan Y, Wolfenden R. Impact of temperature on the time required for the establishment of primordial biochemistry, and for the evolution of enzymes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010; 107:22102-5. [PMID: 21123742 PMCID: PMC3009776 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1013647107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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All reactions are accelerated by an increase in temperature, but the magnitude of that effect on very slow reactions does not seem to have been fully appreciated. The hydrolysis of polysaccharides, for example, is accelerated 190,000-fold when the temperature is raised from 25 to 100 °C, while the rate of hydrolysis of phosphate monoester dianions increases 10,300,000-fold. Moreover, the slowest reactions tend to be the most heat-sensitive. These tendencies collapse, by as many as five orders of magnitude, the time that would have been required for early chemical evolution in a warm environment. We propose, further, that if the catalytic effect of a "proto-enzyme"--like that of modern enzymes--were mainly enthalpic, then the resulting rate enhancement would have increased automatically as the environment became cooler. Several powerful nonenzymatic catalysts of very slow biological reactions, notably pyridoxal phosphate and the ceric ion, are shown to meet that criterion. Taken together, these findings greatly reduce the time that would have been required for early chemical evolution, countering the view that not enough time has passed for life to have evolved to its present level of complexity.
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- Randy B. Stockbridge
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
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The hydrolysis of phosphate diesters is one of the most difficult reactions known. Here we show that in acetone or cyclohexane, at 25 degrees C, phosphodiesters undergo hydrolysis 5 x 10(5) and 2 x 10(9)-fold more rapidly than in water, respectively, and that this rate enhancement is achieved by lowering the enthalpy of activation.
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- Randy B. Stockbridge
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA; Fax: +1 919-966-2852; Tel: +1 919-966-1203
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA; Fax: +1 919-966-2852; Tel: +1 919-966-1203
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Stockbridge RB, Schroeder GK, Wolfenden R. The rate of spontaneous cleavage of the glycosidic bond of adenosine. Bioorg Chem 2010; 38:224-8. [PMID: 20580404 DOI: 10.1016/j.bioorg.2010.05.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2010] [Revised: 05/19/2010] [Accepted: 05/20/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Previous estimates of the rate of spontaneous cleavage of the glycosidic bond of adenosine were determined by extrapolating the rates of the acid- and base-catalyzed reactions to neutral pH. Here we show that cleavage also proceeds through a pH-independent mechanism. Rate constants were determined as a function of temperature at pH 7 and a linear Arrhenius plot was constructed. Uncatalyzed cleavage occurs with a rate constant of 3.7x10(-12)s(-1) at 25 degrees C, and the rate enhancement generated by the corresponding glycoside hydrolase is approximately 5x10(12)-fold.
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- Randy B Stockbridge
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27599, United States
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The hydrolysis of simple phosphate monoesters is among the most difficult reactions that are subject to catalysis by enzymes, and it has been suggested that extraction of the substrates from solvent water may contribute to the catalytic effects of phosphohydrolases. Here, we show that the tetrabutylammonium salt of neopentyl phosphate enters wet cyclohexane at concentrations sufficient to allow determination of its rate of hydrolysis. The second-order rate constant for hydrolysis of the phosphomonoester dianion is enhanced approximately 2 x 10(12)-fold by transfer from water to cyclohexane. That rate enhancement arises from an increase in the entropy of activation.
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- Randy B. Stockbridge
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
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Stockbridge RB, Wolfenden R. The intrinsic reactivity of ATP and the catalytic proficiencies of kinases acting on glucose, N-acetylgalactosamine, and homoserine: a thermodynamic analysis. J Biol Chem 2009; 284:22747-57. [PMID: 19531469 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m109.017806] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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To evaluate the rate enhancements produced by representative kinases and their thermodynamic basis, rate constants were determined as a function of changing temperature for 1) the spontaneous methanolysis of ATP and 2) reactions catalyzed by kinases to which different mechanisms of action have been ascribed. For each of these enzymes, the minor effects of changing viscosity indicate that k(cat)/K(m) is governed by the central chemical events in the enzyme-substrate complex rather than by enzyme-substrate encounter. Individual Arrhenius plots, obtained at intervals between pH 4.8 and 11.0, yielded Delta H(#) and T Delta S(#) for the nonenzymatic methanolysis of ATP(2-), ATP(3-), and ATP(4-) in the absence of Mg(2+). The addition of Mg(2+) led to partly compensating changes in Delta H(#) and T Delta S(#), accelerating the nonenzymatic methanolysis of ATP 11-fold at pH 7 and 25 degrees C. The rate enhancements produced by yeast hexokinase, homoserine kinase, and N-acetylgalactosamine kinase (obtained by comparison of their k(cat)/K(m) values in the presence of saturating phosphoryl acceptor with the second order rate constant for methanolysis of MgATP) ranged between 10(12)- and 10(14)-fold. Their nominal affinities for the altered substrates in the transition state were 2.1 x 10(-16) m for N-acetylgalactosamine kinase, 7.4 x 10(-17) m for homoserine kinase, and 6.4 x 10(-18) m for hexokinase. Compared with nonenzymatic phosphoryl transfer, all three kinases were found to produce major reductions in the entropy of activation, in accord with the likelihood that substrate juxtaposition and desolvation play prominent roles in their catalytic action.
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- Randy B Stockbridge
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
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