title: From the periplasmic signaling domain to the extracellular face of an outer membrane signal transducer of Pseudomonas aeruginosa: crystal structure of the ferric pyoverdine outer membrane receptor.
abstract: The pyoverdine outer membrane receptor, FpvA, from Pseudomonas aeruginosa translocates ferric pyoverdine across the outer membrane through an energy consuming mechanism using the proton motive force and the TonB-ExbB-ExbD energy transducing complex from the inner membrane. We solved the crystal structure of the full-length FpvA bound to iron-pyoverdine at 2.7 A resolution. Signal transduction to an anti-sigma protein of the inner membrane and to TonB-ExbB-ExbD involves the periplasmic domain, which displays a beta-alpha-beta fold composed of two alpha-helices sandwiched by two beta-sheets. One iron-pyoverdine conformer is bound at the extracellular face of FpvA, revealing the conformer selectivity of the binding site. The loop that contains the TonB box, involved in interactions with TonB, and connects the signaling domain to the plug domain of FpvA is not defined in the electron density following the binding of ferric pyoverdine. The high flexibility of this loop is probably necessary for signal transduction through the outer membrane.
authors.affiliation: Institut Gilbert-Laustriat UMR 7175 CNRS/Université-Strasbourg I, Département Récepteurs et Protéines Membranaires, Ecole Supérieure de Biotechnologie de Strasbourg, Boulevard Sébastien Brandt, BP 10413, F-67412 Illkirch, France.
authors.forename: Christophe
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wirth
authors.forename: Wolfram
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Meyer-Klaucke
authors.forename: Franc
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Pattus
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cobessi
mesh_terms: D001425:Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000737:chemistry*; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D005708:Gallium; D007501:Iron; D009842:Oligopeptides / Q000737:chemistry*; D019897:Periplasm / Q000737:chemistry*; D017510:Protein Folding; D017433:Protein Structure, Secondary; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D011550:Pseudomonas aeruginosa / Q000737:chemistry*; D015398:Signal Transduction
chemical_list: D001425:Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins; C082326:FpvA protein, Pseudomonas aeruginosa; D009842:Oligopeptides; C042453:pyoverdin; D005708:Gallium; D007501:Iron