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ArticleActa crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology communications2021

Site 2 of the Yersinia pestis substrate-binding protein YfeA is a dynamic surface metal-binding site.

Christopher D Radka, Stephen G Aller

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  1. Genomic characterization of antimicrobial resistance in 61 aquatic bacterial isolates.Journal of veterinary diagnostic investigation : official publication of the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians, Inc · 2024
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Christopher D RadkaDepartment of Infectious Diseases, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6037-7710
Stephen G AllerDepartment of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0379-5534

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Abstract

The substrate-binding protein YfeA (also known as YPO2439 or y1897) is a polyspecific metal-binding protein that is crucial for nutrient acquisition and virulence in Yersinia pestis, the causative microbe of plague. YfeA folds into a monomeric c-clamp like other substrate-binding proteins and has two metal-binding sites (sites 1 and 2). Site 2 is a bidentate surface site capable of binding Zn and Mn atoms and is a unique feature of YfeA. Occasionally, the site 2 residues of two YfeA molecules will cooperate with the histidine tag of a third YfeA molecule in coordinating the same metal and lead to metal-dependent crystallographic packing. Here, three crystal structures of YfeA are presented at 1.85, 2.05 and 2.25 Å resolution. A comparison of the structures reveals that the metal can be displaced at five different locations ranging from ∼4 to ∼16 Å away from the canonical site 2. These observations reveal different configurations of site 2 that enable cooperative metal binding and demonstrate how site 2 is dynamic and freely available for inter-protein metal coordination.

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Bacterial ProteinsBinding SitesChloridesCrystallography, X-RayManganese CompoundsProtein ConformationYersinia pestisBacterial ProteinsChloridesmanganese chlorideManganese Compoundscrystallographyinter-protein metal coordinationmanganeseplaguesubstrate-binding proteinstransition-metal homeostasisYersinia pestisYfeA site 2zinc

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