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| Title | The mycobacterial ABC transporter IrtAB employs a membrane-facing crevice for siderophore-mediated iron uptake. |
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| Journal, issue, pages | Nat Commun, Vol. 16, Issue 1, Page 1133, Year 2025 |
| Publish date | Jan 29, 2025 |
Authors | Imre Gonda / Simona Sorrentino / Laura Galazzo / Nicolas P Lichti / Fabian M Arnold / Ahmad R Mehdipour / Enrica Bordignon / Markus A Seeger / ![]() |
| PubMed Abstract | The mycobacterial ABC transporter IrtAB features an ABC exporter fold, yet it imports iron-charged siderophores called mycobactins. Here, we present extensive cryo-EM analyses and DEER measurements, ...The mycobacterial ABC transporter IrtAB features an ABC exporter fold, yet it imports iron-charged siderophores called mycobactins. Here, we present extensive cryo-EM analyses and DEER measurements, revealing that IrtAB alternates between an inward-facing and an outward-occluded conformation, but does not sample an outward-facing conformation. When IrtAB is locked in its outward-occluded conformation in nanodiscs, mycobactin is bound in the middle of the lipid bilayer at a membrane-facing crevice opening at the heterodimeric interface. Mutations introduced at the crevice abrogate mycobactin import and in corresponding structures, the crevice is collapsed. A conserved triple histidine motif coordinating a zinc ion is present below the mycobactin binding site. Substitution of these histidine residues with alanine results in a decoupled transporter, which hydrolyzes ATP, but lost its capacity to import mycobactins. Our data suggest that IrtAB imports mycobactin via a credit-card mechanism in a transport cycle that is coupled to the presence of zinc. |
External links | Nat Commun / PubMed:39880813 / PubMed Central |
| Methods | EM (single particle) |
| Resolution | 2.5 - 3.6 Å |
| Structure data | EMDB-50820: Cryo-EM structure of IrtAB 2xEQ mutant in outward-occluded state in complex with mycobactin EMDB-50848, PDB-9fxc: EMDB-50977, PDB-9g2k: EMDB-50978, PDB-9g2l: EMDB-50979, PDB-9g2m: EMDB-50980, PDB-9g2p: EMDB-50982, PDB-9g2s: EMDB-50983, PDB-9g2t: EMDB-50985, PDB-9g2v: EMDB-50987, PDB-9g2x: EMDB-50988, PDB-9g2y: EMDB-50989: Cryo-EM structure of IrtAB in outward-occluded state under turnover conditions EMDB-50992, PDB-9g36: EMDB-50993, PDB-9g37: EMDB-51435, PDB-9gl3: |
| Chemicals | ![]() ChemComp-ATP: ![]() ChemComp-MG: ![]() ChemComp-ZN: ![]() PDB-1iry: ![]() ChemComp-AGS: ![]() ChemComp-AOV: ![]() ChemComp-ADP: ![]() ChemComp-HOH: |
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Keywords | MEMBRANE PROTEIN / ABC transporter / type IV ABC importer siderophore / mycobactin / heterodimeric ABC transporter |
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