Heterologous production and characterization of bacterial nickel/cobalt permeases.

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  • Peter Hebbeln
  • Thomas Eitinger
چکیده

Nickel/cobalt permeases (NiCoTs, TC 2.A.52) are a rapidly growing family of structurally related membrane transporters whose members are found in Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria, in thermoacidophilic archaea, and in fungi. Previous studies have predicted two subclasses represented by HoxN of Ralstonia eutropha, a selective nickel transporter, and by NhlF of Rhodococcus rhodochrous, a nickel and cobalt transporter that displays a preference for the Co ion. In the present study, NiCoT genes of five Gram-negative bacteria and one Gram-positive bacterium were cloned and heterologously expressed in Escherichia coli. Based on substrate preference in metal-accumulation assays with the recombinant strains, two of the novel NiCoTs were assigned to the NhlF class. The remaining four NiCoTs belong to a yet unrecognized, third class. They transport both the nickel and the cobalt ion but have a significantly higher capacity for nickel. The observed substrate preferences correlate in many cases with the genomic localization of NiCoT genes adjacent to regions encoding nickel- or cobalt-dependent enzymes or enzymes involved in cobalamin biosynthesis. Alignment of 23 full-length NiCoT sequences and comparison with the available experimental data predict that substrate specificity of NiCoTs is an adaptation to specific transition metal requirements in various organisms from different taxa.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • FEMS microbiology letters

دوره 230 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2004