Dantas Joana M, Silva E Sousa Marta, Salgueiro Carlos A, Bruix Marta
UCIBIO, REQUIMTE, Departamento de Química, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campus Caparica, 2829-516, Caparica, Portugal.
Departamento de Química Física Biológica, Instituto de Química-Física "Rocasolano", CSIC, Serrano 119, 28006, Madrid, Spain.
Biomol NMR Assign. 2015 Oct;9(2):365-8. doi: 10.1007/s12104-015-9611-5. Epub 2015 May 5.
Gene knockout studies on Geobacter sulfurreducens (Gs) cells showed that the outer membrane cytochrome OmcF is involved in respiratory pathways leading to the extracellular reduction of Fe(III) citrate and U(VI) oxide. In addition, microarray analysis of OmcF-deficient mutant versus the wild-type strain revealed that many of the genes with decreased transcript level were those whose expression is upregulated in cells grown with a graphite electrode as electron acceptor. This suggests that OmcF also regulates the electron transfer to electrode surfaces and the concomitant electrical current production by Gs in microbial fuel cells. Extracellular electron transfer processes (EET) constitute nowadays the foundations to develop biotechnological applications in biofuel production, bioremediation and bioenergy. Therefore, the structural characterization of OmcF is a fundamental step to understand the mechanisms underlying EET. Here, we report the complete assignment of the heme proton signals together with (1)H, (13)C and (15)N backbone and side chain assignments of the OmcF, excluding the hydrophobic residues of the N-terminal predicted lipid anchor.
对嗜硫还原地杆菌(Gs)细胞进行的基因敲除研究表明,外膜细胞色素OmcF参与了导致细胞外还原柠檬酸铁(III)和氧化铀(VI)的呼吸途径。此外,对OmcF缺陷型突变体与野生型菌株进行的微阵列分析显示,许多转录水平降低的基因是那些在以石墨电极作为电子受体生长的细胞中表达上调的基因。这表明OmcF还调节向电极表面的电子转移以及Gs在微生物燃料电池中伴随产生的电流。细胞外电子转移过程(EET)如今构成了在生物燃料生产、生物修复和生物能源领域开发生物技术应用的基础。因此,OmcF的结构表征是理解EET潜在机制的关键一步。在此,我们报告了血红素质子信号的完整归属以及OmcF的(1)H、(13)C和(15)N主链和侧链归属,不包括N端预测脂质锚定的疏水残基。
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