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JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY
Volume 186, Issue 23, Pages 8036-8043Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.23.8036-8043.2004
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Genomic sequencing of the beta-proteobacterium Wautersia (previously Ralstonia) metallidurans CH34 revealed the presence of three genes encoding proteins of the cation diffusion facilitator (CDF) family. One, CzcD, was previously found to be part of the high-level metal resistance system Czc that mediates the efflux of Co(II), Zn(II), and Cd(II) ions catalyzed by the CzcCBA cation-proton antiporter. The second CDF protein, FieF, is probably mainly a ferrous iron detoxifying protein but also mediated some resistance against other divalent metal cations such as Zn(II), Co(II), Cd(II), and Ni(II) in W. metallidurans or Escherichia coli. The third CDF protein, DmeF, showed the same substrate spectrum as FieF, but with different preferences. DmeF plays the central role in cobalt homeostasis in W. metallidurans, and a disruption of dmeF rendered the high-level metal cation resistance systems Czc and Cur ineffective against Co(H). This is evidence for the periplasmic detoxification of substrates by RND transporters of the heavy metal efflux family subgroup.
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