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ArticleJournal of visualized experiments : JoVE2018

Essential Metal Uptake in Gram-negative Bacteria: X-ray Fluorescence, Radioisotopes, and Cell Fractionation.

Christopher D Radka, Lauren L Radford, Adriana V F Massicano, Lawrence J DeLucas, Suzanne E Lapi, Stephen G Aller

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Article in Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Site 2 of the Yersinia pestis substrate-binding protein YfeA is a dynamic surface metal-binding site.Acta crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology communications · 2021
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  2. Structures of the substrate-binding protein YfeA in apo and zinc-reconstituted holo forms.Acta crystallographica. Section D, Structural biology · 2019
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6 authors.

Christopher D RadkaGraduate Biomedical Sciences Microbiology Theme, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Lauren L RadfordDepartment of Radiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Adriana V F MassicanoDepartment of Radiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Lawrence J DeLucasOffice of the Provost, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Suzanne E LapiDepartment of Radiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Stephen G AllerDepartment of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Alabama at Birmingham; sgaller@uab.edu.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We demonstrate a scalable method for the separation of the bacterial periplasm from the cytoplasm. This method is used to purify periplasmic protein for the purpose of biophysical characterization, and measure substrate transfer between periplasmic and cytoplasmic compartments. By carefully limiting the time that the periplasm is separated from the cytoplasm, the experimenter can extract the protein of interest and assay each compartment individually for substrate without carry-over contamination between compartments. The extracted protein from fractionation can then be further analyzed for three-dimensional structure determination or substrate-binding profiles. Alternatively, this method can be performed after incubation with a radiotracer to determine total percent uptake, as well as distribution of the tracer (and hence metal transport) across different bacterial compartments. Experimentation with a radiotracer can help differentiate between a physiological substrate and artefactual substrate, such as those caused by mismetallation. X-ray fluorescence can be used to discover the presence or absence of metal incorporation in a sample, as well as measure changes that may occur in metal incorporation as a product of growth conditions, purification conditions, and/or crystallization conditions. X-ray fluorescence also provides a relative measure of abundance for each metal, which can be used to determine the best metal energy absorption peak to use for anomalous X-ray scattering data collection. Radiometal uptake can be used as a method to validate the physiological nature of a substrate detected by X-ray fluorescence, as well as support the discovery of novel substrates.

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Cell FractionationGram-Negative BacteriaMetalsRadioisotopesSpectrometry, X-Ray EmissionMetalsRadioisotopes

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PMCPMC5912328

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