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ArticleThe Journal of biological chemistry2011

Structural basis for the interaction of lipopolysaccharide with outer membrane protein H (OprH) from Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Thomas C Edrington, Erica Kintz, Joanna B Goldberg, Lukas K Tamm

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Article in The Journal of biological chemistry, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers.

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4 authors.

Thomas C EdringtonCenter for Membrane Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, USA.
Erica Kintz
Joanna B Goldberg
Lukas K Tamm

Funding

INFECTIOUS DISEASES TRAINING PROGRAMT32AI007046 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA CHARLOTTESVILLE · PI Alison K Criss, William A Petri · 1985 to 2026
$15.3M
Structure, Assembly, and Function of Outer Membrane ProteinsR01GM051329 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA CHARLOTTESVILLE · PI TAMM, LUKAS K · 1997 to 2018
$6.4M
NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007046NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM051329NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM51329
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a major nosocomial pathogen that infects cystic fibrosis and immunocompromised patients. The impermeability of the P. aeruginosa outer membrane contributes substantially to the notorious antibiotic resistance of this human pathogen. This impermeability is partially imparted by the outer membrane protein H (OprH). Here we have solved the structure of OprH in a lipid environment by solution NMR. The structure reveals an eight-stranded β-barrel protein with four extracellular loops of unequal size. Fast time-scale dynamics measurements show that the extracellular loops are disordered and unstructured. It was previously suggested that the function of OprH is to provide increased stability to the outer membranes of P. aeruginosa by directly interacting with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) molecules. Using in vivo and in vitro biochemical assays, we show that OprH indeed interacts with LPS in P. aeruginosa outer membranes. Based upon NMR chemical shift perturbations observed upon the addition of LPS to OprH in lipid micelles, we conclude that the interaction is predominantly electrostatic and localized to charged regions near both rims of the barrel, but also through two conspicuous tyrosines in the middle of the bilayer. These results provide the first molecular structure of OprH and offer evidence for multiple interactions between OprH and LPS that likely contribute to the antibiotic resistance of P. aeruginosa.

Indexed as

Bacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsLipopolysaccharidesMicellesNuclear Magnetic Resonance, BiomolecularProtein Structure, SecondaryProtein Structure, TertiaryPseudomonas aeruginosaStructure-Activity RelationshipBacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsLipopolysaccharidesMicellesOprH protein, Pseudomonas aeruginosa

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PMID21865172
PMCPMC3234746

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