title: Substrate specificity and membrane topology of Escherichia coli PgpB, an undecaprenyl pyrophosphate phosphatase.
abstract: The synthesis of the lipid carrier undecaprenyl phosphate (C(55)-P) requires the dephosphorylation of its precursor, undecaprenyl pyrophosphate (C(55)-PP). The latter lipid is synthesized de novo in the cytosol and is also regenerated after its release from the C(55)-PP-linked glycans in the periplasm. In Escherichia coli the dephosphorylation of C(55)-PP was shown to involve four integral membrane proteins, BacA, and three members of the type 2 phosphatidic acid phosphatase family, PgpB, YbjG, and YeiU. Here, the PgpB protein was purified to homogeneity, and its phosphatase activity was examined. This enzyme was shown to catalyze the dephosphorylation of C(55)-PP with a relatively low efficiency compared with diacylglycerol pyrophosphate and farnesyl pyrophosphate (C(15)-PP) lipid substrates. However, the in vitro C(55)-PP phosphatase activity of PgpB was specifically enhanced by different phospholipids. We hypothesize that the phospholipids are important determinants to ensure proper conformation of the atypical long axis C(55) carrier lipid in membranes. Furthermore, a topological analysis demonstrated that PgpB contains six transmembrane segments, a large periplasmic loop, and the type 2 phosphatidic acid phosphatase signature residues at a periplasmic location.
authors.affiliation: Université Paris-Sud, UMR 8619, Institut de Biochimie et Biophysique Moléculaire et Cellulaire and CNRS, Laboratoire des Enveloppes Bactériennes et Antibiotiques, UMR 8619, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France. thiery.touze@u-psud.fr
authors.forename: Thierry
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Touzé
authors.forename: Didier
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Blanot
authors.forename: Dominique
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mengin-Lecreulx
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D003600:Cytosol / Q000378:metabolism; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000378:metabolism*; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000502:physiology; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000737:chemistry; D008954:Models, Biological; D008956:Models, Chemical; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009841:Oligonucleotides / Q000737:chemistry; D010743:Phospholipids / Q000737:chemistry; D010744:Phosphoric Monoester Hydrolases / Q000737:chemistry; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D011755:Pyrophosphatases / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000502:physiology; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013379:Substrate Specificity
chemical_list: D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D009841:Oligonucleotides; D010743:Phospholipids; C488524:BacA protein, E coli; D010744:Phosphoric Monoester Hydrolases; D011755:Pyrophosphatases; C503879:undecaprenyl pyrophosphate phosphatase