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BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 50, Issue 12, Pages 2194-2204Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bi200005k
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- Interuniversity Attraction Poles (IAP) (Belgium) [P6/19]
- National Fund for Scientific Research [FRFC 2.4527.10, 2.4533.10]
- SCK.CEN/ULB
- Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Universite Joseph Fourier
- EC [RII3-026145]
- Partnership for Structural Biology (PSB, Grenoble, France)
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Detoxification of heavy metal ions in Proteobacteria is tightly controlled by various systems regulating their sequestration and transport. In Cupriavidus metallidurans CH34, a model organism for heavy metal resistance studies, the sil determinant is potentially involved in the efflux of silver and copper ions. Proteins SilA, SilB, and SilC form a resistance nodulation cell division (RND)-based transport system in which SilB is the periplasmic adaptor protein belonging to the membrane fusion protein (MFP) family. In addition to the four domains typical of known MFPs, SilB has a fifth additional C-terminal domain, called SilB(440-521), which is characterized here. Structure and backbone dynamics of SilB(440-521) have been investigated using nuclear magnetic resonance, and the residues of the metal site were identified from N-15- and C-13-edited HSQC spectra. The solution structure and additional metal binding experiments demonstrated that this C-terminal domain folds independently of the rest of the protein and has a conformation and a Ag+ and Cu+ binding specificity similar to those determined for CusF from Escherichia coli. The small protein CusF plays a role in metal trafficking in the periplasm. The similarity with CusF suggests a potential metallochaperone role for SilB(440-521) that is discussed in the context of simultaneous expression of different determinants involved in copper resistance in C. metallidurans CH34.
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