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Dissecting the conformational complexity and mechanism of a bacterial heme transporter

Wu, Di, Mehdipour, Ahmad R, Finke, Franziska, Goojani, Hojjat G, Groh, Roan R, Grund, Tamara M, Reichhart, Thomas MB, Zimmermann, Rita, Welsch, Sonja, Bald, Dirk, and others. (2023) Dissecting the conformational complexity and mechanism of a bacterial heme transporter. Nature Chemical Biology, 19 . Article Number 992-1003. ISSN 1552-4450. (doi:10.1038/s41589-023-01314-5) (KAR id:100784)

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Abstract

Iron-bound cyclic tetrapyrroles (hemes) are redox-active cofactors in bioenergetic enzymes. However, the mechanisms of heme transport and insertion into respiratory chain complexes remain unclear. Here, we used cellular, biochemical, structural and computational methods to characterize the structure and function of the heterodimeric bacterial ABC transporter CydDC. We provide multi-level evidence that CydDC is a heme transporter required for functional maturation of cytochrome bd, a pharmaceutically relevant drug target. Our systematic single-particle cryogenic-electron microscopy approach combined with atomistic molecular dynamics simulations provides detailed insight into the conformational landscape of CydDC during substrate binding and occlusion. Our simulations reveal that heme binds laterally from the membrane space to the transmembrane region of CydDC, enabled by a highly asymmetrical inward-facing CydDC conformation. During the binding process, heme propionates interact with positively charged residues on the surface and later in the substrate-binding pocket of the transporter, causing the heme orientation to rotate 180°.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1038/s41589-023-01314-5
Subjects: Q Science > QR Microbiology
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Natural Sciences > Biosciences
Funders: University of Kent (https://ror.org/00xkeyj56)
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (https://ror.org/018mejw64)
Depositing User: Mark Shepherd
Date Deposited: 06 Apr 2023 15:23 UTC
Last Modified: 31 Jul 2023 11:52 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/100784 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)
Welsch, Sonja: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6049-6664
Shepherd, Mark: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7472-2300
Hummer, Gerhard: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7768-746X
Safarian, Schara: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0232-1612
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