Electron crystallography reveals that substrate release from the PTS IIC glucose transporter is coupled to a subtle conformational change.

Kalbermatter, David; Chiu, Po-Lin; Jeckelmann, Jean-Marc; Ucurum Fotiadis, Zöhre; Walz, Thomas; Fotiadis, Dimitrios José (2017). Electron crystallography reveals that substrate release from the PTS IIC glucose transporter is coupled to a subtle conformational change. Journal of structural biology, 199(1), pp. 39-45. Elsevier 10.1016/j.jsb.2017.05.005

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The phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent sugar phosphotransferase system (PTS) is a structurally and functionally complex system that mediates sugar uptake in bacteria. Besides several soluble subunits, the glucose-specific PTS includes the integral membrane protein IICB that couples the transmembrane transport of glucose to its phosphorylation. Here, we used electron crystallography of sugar-embedded tubular crystals of the glucose-specific IIC transport domain from Escherichia coli (ecIICglc) to visualize the structure of the transporter in the presence and absence of its substrate. Using an in vivo transport assay and binding competition experiments, we first established that, while it transports d-glucose, ecIICglc does not bind l-glucose. We then determined the projection structure of ecIICglc from tubular crystals embedded in d- and l-glucose and found a subtle conformational change. From comparison of the ecIICglc projection maps with crystal structures of other IIC transporters, we can deduce that the transporter adopts an inward-facing conformation, and that the maps in the presence and absence of the substrate reflect the transporter before and after release of the transported glucose into the cytoplasm. The transition associated with substrate release appears to require a subtle structural rearrangement in the region that includes hairpin 1.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Pre-clinic Human Medicine > Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine

UniBE Contributor:

Kalbermatter, David, Jeckelmann, Jean-Marc, Ucurum Fotiadis, Zöhre, Fotiadis, Dimitrios José

Subjects:

500 Science > 570 Life sciences; biology
600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health

ISSN:

1047-8477

Publisher:

Elsevier

Language:

English

Submitter:

Barbara Franziska Järmann-Bangerter

Date Deposited:

22 Mar 2018 09:19

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 15:10

Publisher DOI:

10.1016/j.jsb.2017.05.005

PubMed ID:

28522226

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Electron crystallography Glucose transporter Membrane protein Projection structure Scintillation proximity assay Two-dimensional crystal

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.111355

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/111355

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