TonB protein appears to transduce energy by shuttling between the cytoplasmic membrane and the outer membrane in Escherichia coli

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Letain, TE
Postle, K
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[1] WASHINGTON STATE UNIV, DEPT BIOCHEM BIOPHYS, PULLMAN, WA 99164 USA
[2] WASHINGTON STATE UNIV, DEPT MICROBIOL, PULLMAN, WA 99164 USA
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10.1046/j.1365-2958.1997.3331703.x
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Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
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The energy source for active transport of iron-siderophore complexes and vitamin B12 across the outer membrane in Gram-negative bacteria is the cytoplasmic membrane proton-motive force (pmf). Tone protein is required in this process to transduce cytoplasmic membrane energy to the outer membrane, In this study, Escherichia coli Tone was found to be distributed in sucrose density gradients approximately equally between the cytoplasmic membrane and the outer membrane fractions, while two proteins with which it is known to interact, ExbB and ExbD, as well as the NADH oxidase activity characteristic of the cytoplasmic membrane, were localized in the cytoplasmic membrane fraction. Neither the N-terminus of TonB nor the cytoplasmic membrane pmf, both of which are essential for Tone activity, were required for Tone to associate with the outer membrane, When the Tone C-terminus was absent, TonB was found associated with the cytoplasmic membrane, suggesting that the C-terminus was required for outer membrane association. When ExbB and ExbD, as well as their cross-talk-competent homologues TolQ and TolR, were absent, Tone was found associated with the outer membrane. TetA-TonB protein, which cannot interact with ExbB/D, was likewise found associated with the outer membrane. These results indicated that the role of ExbB/D in energy transduction is to bring Tone that has reached the outer membrane back to associate with the cytoplasmic membrane. Two possible explanations exist for the observations presented in this study. One possibility is that TonB transduces energy by shuttling between membranes, and, at some stages in the energy-transduction cycle, is associated with either the cytoplasmic membrane or the outer membrane, but not with both at the same time. This hypothesis, together with the alternative interpretation that TonB remains localized in the cytoplasmic membrane and changes its affinity for the outer and cytoplasmic membrane during energy transduction, are incorporated with previous observations into two new models, consistent with the novel aspects of this system, that describe a mechanism for TonB-dependent energy transduction.
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