Structural basis for multimeric heme complexation through a specific protein-heme interaction: the case of the third neat domain of IsdH from Staphylococcus aureus |
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Authors: | Watanabe Masato Tanaka Yoshikazu Suenaga Ayuko Kuroda Makoto Yao Min Watanabe Nobuhisa Arisaka Fumio Ohta Toshiko Tanaka Isao Tsumoto Kouhei |
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Institution: | Department of Medical Genome Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo 277-8562, Japan. |
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Abstract: | To elucidate the heme acquisition system in pathogenic bacteria, we investigated the heme-binding properties of the third NEAT domain of IsdH (IsdH-NEAT3), a receptor for heme located on the surfaces of pathogenic bacterial cells, by using x-ray crystallography, isothermal titration calorimetry, examination of absorbance spectra, mutation analysis, size-exclusion chromatography, and analytical ultracentrifugation. We found the following: 1) IsdH-NEAT3 can bind with multiple heme molecules by two modes; 2) heme was bound at the surface of IsdH-NEAT3; 3) candidate residues proposed from the crystal structure were not essential for binding with heme; and 4) IsdH-NEAT3 was associated into a multimeric heme complex by the addition of excess heme. From these observations, we propose a heme-binding mechanism for IsdH-NEAT3 that involves multimerization and discuss the biological importance of this mechanism. |
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