Ferrara, LGM;
Wallat, GD;
Moynié, L;
Dhanasekar, NN;
Aliouane, S;
Acosta-Gutiérrez, S;
Pagès,, J-M;
... Naismith, JH; + view all
(2016)
MOMP from Campylobacter jejuni Is a Trimer of 18-Stranded β-Barrel Monomers with a Ca²⁺ Ion Bound at the Constriction Zone.
Journal of Molecular Biology
, 428
(22)
pp. 4528-4543.
10.1016/j.jmb.2016.09.021.
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Abstract
The Gram-negative organism Campylobacter jejuni is the major cause of food poisoning. Unlike Escherichia coli, which has two major porins, OmpC and OmpF, C. jejuni has one, termed major outer membrane protein (MOMP) through which nutrients and antibiotics transit. We report the 2.1-Å crystal structure of C. jejuni MOMP expressed in E. coli and a lower resolution but otherwise identical structure purified directly from C. jejuni. The 2.1-Å resolution structure of recombinant MOMP showed that although the protein has timeric arrangement similar to OmpC, it is an 18-stranded, not 16-stranded, β-barrel. The structure has identified a Ca²⁺ bound at the constriction zone, which is functionally significant as suggested by molecular dynamics and single-channel experiments. The water-filled channel of MOMP has a narrow constriction zone, and single-molecule studies show a monomeric conductivity of 0.7 ± 0.2 nS and a trimeric conductance of 2.2 ± 0.2 nS. The ion neutralizes negative charges at the constriction zone, reducing the transverse electric field and reversing ion selectivity. Modeling of the transit of ciprofloxacin, an antibiotic of choice for treating Campylobacter infection, through the pore of MOMP reveals a trajectory that is dependent upon the presence metal ion.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | MOMP from Campylobacter jejuni Is a Trimer of 18-Stranded β-Barrel Monomers with a Ca²⁺ Ion Bound at the Constriction Zone |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jmb.2016.09.021 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2016.09.021 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Campylobacter, outer membrane proteins, antibiotic resistance, β-barrel, porins |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Chemistry |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10060371 |
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