Evidence for a proton/sugar symport in the yeast Rhodotorula gracilis (glutinis).
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SUBMITTER: Hofer M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1185656 | biostudies-other | 1978 Apr
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Project description:1. In the yeast Rhodotorula gracilis several amino sugars were actively transported. Glucosamine, which is largely protonated at physiological pH (pK 7.75) was used as a model substrate. At pH 6.75 its half-saturation constant was 1 mM and the maximal velocity was 50 nmol/min per mg dry wt. 2. Amino sugars were taken up via the monosaccharide carrier. The transport of glucosamine was strongly restricted by monosaccharides. D-Xylose inhibited competitively the uptake of glucosamine. The inhibition constant was 1 mM. Cells preloaded with D-xylose showed exchange transport on subsequent addition of glucosamine. 3. Transport of glucosamine was energized by the membrane potential. Uncoupling agents such as carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenyl-hydrazone and the lipophilic cation TPP+ (tetraphenylphosphonium ion) at concentrations that depolarized the membrane potential inhibited the uptake of glucosamine. Conversely the transport of glucosamine partly dissipated the membrane potential, which was monitored by radioactively labelled lipophilic cations. 4. The translocated charges were electrically compensated by the extrusion of protons and K+ (1 glucosamine molecule/0.85 H+ + 0.15 K+). 5. An increase of the pH in the range 4.75-8.75 lead to a decrease of the half-saturation constant from 5 mM to 1 mM and to an optimum of the maximal velocity at pH 6.75. We suggest that this fair constancy is due to the carrier not distinguishing between the protonated form of glucosamine (pH less than 7.75) and the deprotonated form (pH greater than 7.75). The increase of V(T) (maximal transport velocity) between pH 4.75 and 6.75 is due to the increase of the membrane potential: the decrease between pH 6.75 and 8.75 is due to the deprotonization of the carrier.
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Project description:The toxin produced by Bacillus anthracis, the causative agent of anthrax, is composed of three proteins: a translocase heptameric channel, (PA(63))(7), formed from protective antigen (PA), which allows the other two proteins, lethal and edema factors (LF and EF), to translocate across a host cell's endosomal membrane, disrupting cellular homeostasis. It has been shown that (PA(63))(7) incorporated into planar phospholipid bilayer membranes forms a channel capable of transporting LF and EF. Protein translocation through the channel is driven by a proton electrochemical potential gradient on a time scale of seconds. A paradoxical aspect of this is that although LF(N) (the N-terminal 263 residues of LF), on which most of our experiments were performed, has a net negative charge, it is driven through the channel by a cis-positive voltage. We have explained this by claiming that the (PA(63))(7) channel strongly disfavors the entry of negatively charged residues on proteins to be translocated, and hence the aspartates and glutamates on LF(N) enter protonated (i.e., neutralized). Therefore, the translocated species is positively charged. Upon exiting the channel, the protons that were picked up from the cis solution are released into the trans solution, thereby making this a proton-protein symporter. Here, we provide further evidence of such a mechanism by showing that if only one SO(3)(-), which is essentially not titratable, is introduced at most positions in LF(N), through the reaction of an introduced cysteine residue at those positions with 2-sulfonato-ethyl-methanethiosulfonate, voltage-driven LF(N) translocation is drastically inhibited. We also find that a site that disfavors the entry of negatively charged residues into the (PA(63))(7) channel resides at or near its Phi-clamp, the ring of seven phenylalanines near the channel's entrance.
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