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ArticlePloS one2020

From conservation to structure, studies of magnetosome associated cation diffusion facilitators (CDF) proteins in Proteobacteria.

Noa Keren-Khadmy, Natalie Zeytuni, Nitzan Kutnowski, Guy Perriere, Caroline Monteil, Raz Zarivach

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Noa Keren-KhadmyDepartment of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.ORCID 0000-0001-9886-9713
Natalie ZeytuniDepartment of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
Nitzan KutnowskiDepartment of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
Guy PerriereLaboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, UMR CNRS 5558, Université de Lyon, Villeurbanne Cedex, France.
Caroline MonteilLaboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, UMR CNRS 5558, Université de Lyon, Villeurbanne Cedex, France.
Raz ZarivachDepartment of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.ORCID 0000-0001-6543-0296

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Abstract

Magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) are prokaryotes that sense the geomagnetic field lines to geolocate and navigate in aquatic sediments. They are polyphyletically distributed in several bacterial divisions but are mainly represented in the Proteobacteria. In this phylum, magnetotactic Deltaproteobacteria represent the most ancestral class of MTB. Like all MTB, they synthesize membrane-enclosed magnetic nanoparticles, called magnetosomes, for magnetic sensing. Magnetosome biogenesis is a complex process involving a specific set of genes that are conserved across MTB. Two of the most conserved genes are mamB and mamM, that encode for the magnetosome-associated proteins and are homologous to the cation diffusion facilitator (CDF) protein family. In magnetotactic Alphaproteobacteria MTB species, MamB and MamM proteins have been well characterized and play a central role in iron-transport required for biomineralization. However, their structural conservation and their role in more ancestral groups of MTB like the Deltaproteobacteria have not been established. Here we studied magnetite cluster MamB and MamM cytosolic C-terminal domain (CTD) structures from a phylogenetically distant magnetotactic Deltaproteobacteria species represented by BW-1 strain, which has the unique ability to biomineralize magnetite and greigite. We characterized them in solution, analyzed their crystal structures and compared them to those characterized in Alphaproteobacteria MTB species. We showed that despite the high phylogenetic distance, MamBBW-1 and MamMBW-1 CTDs share high structural similarity with known CDF-CTDs and will probably share a common function with the Alphaproteobacteria MamB and MamM.

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AlphaproteobacteriaAmino Acid SequenceBacterial ProteinsBiomineralizationCarrier ProteinsCationsConserved SequenceDeltaproteobacteriaIon TransportMagnetosomesModels, MolecularPhylogenyProtein ConformationProteobacteriaSequence AlignmentBacterial ProteinsCarrier ProteinsCations

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PMID32310978
PMCPMC7170241

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