title: The cadmium transport sites of CadA, the Cd2+-ATPase from Listeria monocytogenes.
abstract: CadA, the Cd(2+)-ATPase from Listeria monocytogenes, belongs to the Zn(2+)/Cd(2+)/Pb(2+)-ATPase bacterial subfamily of P(1B)-ATPases that ensure detoxification of the bacteria. Whereas it is the major determinant of Listeria resistance to Cd(2+), CadA expressed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae severely decreases yeast tolerance to Cd(2+) (Wu, C. C., Bal, N., Pérard, J., Lowe, J., Boscheron, C., Mintz, E., and Catty, P. (2004) Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 324, 1034-1040). This phenotype, which reflects in vivo Cd(2+)-transport activity, was used to select from 33 point mutations, shared out among the eight transmembrane (TM) segments of CadA, those that affect the activity of the protein. Six mutations affecting CadA were found: M149A in TM3; E164A in TM4; C354A, P355A, and C356A in TM6; and D692A in TM8. Functional studies of the six mutants produced in Sf9 cells revealed that Cys(354) and Cys(356) in TM6 as well as Asp(692) in TM8 and Met(149) in TM3 could participate at the Cd(2+)-binding site(s). In the canonical Cys-Pro-Cys motif of P(1B)-ATPases, the two cysteines act at distinct steps in the transport mechanism, Cys(354) being directly involved in Cd(2+) binding, while Cys(356) seems to be required for Cd(2+) occlusion. This confirms an earlier observation that the two equivalent Cys of Ccc2, the yeast Cu(+)-ATPase, also act at different steps. In TM4, Glu(164), which is conserved among P(1B)-ATPases, may be required for Cd(2+) release. Finally, analysis of the role of Cd(2+) in the phosphorylation from ATP and from P(i) of the mutants suggests that two Cd(2+) ions are involved in the reaction cycle of CadA.
authors.affiliation: Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Département Reponse et Dynamique Cellulaire, Laboratoire de Biophysique Moléculaire et Cellulaire, UMR 5090 CEA-CNRS-Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble F-38054, France.
authors.forename: Chen-Chou
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Aurélie
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gardarin
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Martel
authors.forename: Elisabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mintz
authors.forename: Florent
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Guillain
authors.forename: Patrice
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Catty
mesh_terms: D000251:Adenosine Triphosphatases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D019943:Amino Acid Substitution / Q000235:genetics; D001665:Binding Sites; D001693:Biological Transport, Active / Q000235:genetics; D002104:Cadmium / Q000378:metabolism*; D008089:Listeria monocytogenes / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010766:Phosphorylation; D011485:Protein Binding / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D002104:Cadmium; D000251:Adenosine Triphosphatases; C059771:cadmium translocating ATPase