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.
Biochim Biophys Acta Bioenerg. 2017 Sep;1858(9):733-741. doi: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2017.03.007. Epub 2017 Apr 1.
Gene knock-out studies on Geobacter sulfurreducens cells showed that the outer membrane-associated monoheme cytochrome OmcF is involved in respiratory pathways leading to the extracellular reduction of Fe(III) and U(VI). In addition, microarray analysis of an OmcF-deficient mutant revealed that many of the genes with decreased transcript level were those whose expression is up-regulated in cells grown with a graphite electrode as electron acceptor, suggesting that OmcF also regulates the electron transfer to electrode surfaces and the concomitant electricity production by G. sulfurreducens in microbial fuel cells. N,C-labeled OmcF was produced and NMR spectroscopy was used to determine the solution structure of the protein in the fully reduced state and the pH-dependent conformational changes. In addition, N relaxation NMR experiments were used to characterize the overall and internal backbone dynamics of OmcF. The structure obtained is well-defined, with an average pairwise root mean square deviation of 0.37Å for the backbone atoms and 0.98Å for all heavy atoms. For the first time a solution structure and the protein motions were determined for an outer membrane cytochrome from G. sulfurreducens, which constitutes an important step to understand the extracellular electron transfer mechanism in Geobacter cells.
对脱硫弧菌细胞的基因敲除研究表明,与外膜相关的单血红素细胞色素 OmcF 参与了导致 Fe(III)和 U(VI)的细胞外还原的呼吸途径。此外,对 OmcF 缺陷突变体的微阵列分析表明,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 还调节了电子向电极表面的转移以及由此产生的微生物燃料电池中脱硫弧菌的发电。生产了 N,C 标记的 OmcF,并使用 NMR 光谱法确定了该蛋白在完全还原状态下的溶液结构和 pH 依赖性构象变化。此外,还使用 N 弛豫 NMR 实验来表征 OmcF 的整体和内部骨架动力学。获得的结构定义明确,其骨架原子的平均两两均方根偏差为 0.37Å,所有重原子的均方根偏差为 0.98Å。首次确定了脱硫弧菌外膜细胞色素的溶液结构和蛋白质运动,这是理解 Geobacter 细胞中细胞外电子转移机制的重要步骤。
Biochim Biophys Acta Bioenerg. 2017-4-1
Biomol NMR Assign. 2015-10
Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 2008-9