Journal
BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 272, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpc.2021.106577
Keywords
Substrate-binding protein; Isotitration calorimetry; Homology modelling; D-methionine uptake; Molybdate; tungstate uptake
Funding
- Australian Research Council (ARC) [DP180101807]
- Monash University
- Departamento Admistrativo de Ciencia, Tecnologia e Innovacion COLCIENCIAS
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The human gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori relies on host-provided nutrients for growth, utilizing ABC transporters and their SBPs for the import of small molecules. This study identified ModA in H. pylori binds molybdate and tungstate, while MetQ binds D-methionine. The research also revealed the unknown pathway for L-methionine uptake.
The human gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori relies on the uptake of host-provided nutrients for its proliferation and pathogenicity. ABC transporters that mediate import of small molecules into the cytoplasm of H. pylori employ their cognate periplasmic substrate-binding proteins (SBPs) for ligand capture in the periplasm. The genome of the mouse-adapted strain SS1 of H. pylori encodes eight ABC transporter-associated SBPs, but little is known about their specificity or structure. In this study, we demonstrated that the SBP annotated as ModA binds molybdate (MoO42?, KD = 3.8 nM) and tungstate (WO42 , KD = 7.8 nM). In addition, we showed that MetQ binds D-methionine (KD = 9.5 ?M), but not L-methionine, which suggests the existence of as yet unknown pathway for L-methionine uptake. Homology modelling has led to identification of the ligand-binding residues.
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