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A Diatom Ferritin Optimized for Iron Oxidation but Not Iron Storage.


ABSTRACT: Ferritin from the marine pennate diatom Pseudo-nitzschia multiseries (PmFTN) plays a key role in sustaining growth in iron-limited ocean environments. The di-iron catalytic ferroxidase center of PmFTN (sites A and B) has a nearby third iron site (site C) in an arrangement typically observed in prokaryotic ferritins. Here we demonstrate that Glu-44, a site C ligand, and Glu-130, a residue that bridges iron bound at sites B and C, limit the rate of post-oxidation reorganization of iron coordination and the rate at which Fe(3+) exits the ferroxidase center for storage within the mineral core. The latter, in particular, severely limits the overall rate of iron mineralization. Thus, the diatom ferritin is optimized for initial Fe(2+) oxidation but not for mineralization, pointing to a role for this protein in buffering iron availability and facilitating iron-sparing rather than only long-term iron storage.

SUBMITTER: Pfaffen S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4653698 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A Diatom Ferritin Optimized for Iron Oxidation but Not Iron Storage.

Pfaffen Stephanie S   Bradley Justin M JM   Abdulqadir Raz R   Firme Marlo R MR   Moore Geoffrey R GR   Le Brun Nick E NE   Murphy Michael E P MEP  

The Journal of biological chemistry 20150922 47


Ferritin from the marine pennate diatom Pseudo-nitzschia multiseries (PmFTN) plays a key role in sustaining growth in iron-limited ocean environments. The di-iron catalytic ferroxidase center of PmFTN (sites A and B) has a nearby third iron site (site C) in an arrangement typically observed in prokaryotic ferritins. Here we demonstrate that Glu-44, a site C ligand, and Glu-130, a residue that bridges iron bound at sites B and C, limit the rate of post-oxidation reorganization of iron coordinatio  ...[more]

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