Overproduction, purification and characterization of the bacterioferritin of Escherichia coli and a C-terminally extended variant - PubMed (original) (raw)
Overproduction, purification and characterization of the bacterioferritin of Escherichia coli and a C-terminally extended variant
S C Andrews et al. Eur J Biochem. 1993.
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The bacterioferritin (BFR) of Escherichia coli is an iron-sequestering haemoprotein composed of 24 identical polypeptide chains forming an approximately spherical protein shell with a central iron-storage cavity. BFR and BFR-lambda, a variant with a 14-residue C-terminal extension, have been amplified (120-fold and 50-fold, respectively), purified by a new procedure and characterized. The overproduced BFR exhibited properties similar to those of natural BFR, but the iron content (25-75 non-haem Fe atoms/molecule) was 13-39-fold lower. Two major assembly states of BFR were detected, a 24-subunit protein (tetracosamer) and a novel haem-containing subunit dimer. BFR-lambda subunits assembled into tetracosamers having the same external-surface properties as BFR, presumably because their C-terminal extensions project into and occupy about 60% of the central cavity. As a result, BFR-lambda failed totake up iron under conditions that allowed incorporation into BFR in vitro. The haem content of BFR-lambda (1-2 haems/tetracosamer) was lower than that of BFR (3.5-10.5 haems/tetracosamer) and this, together with a difference in the visible spectra of the two haemoproteins, suggested that the C-terminal extensions in BFR-lambda perturb the haem-binding pockets. A subunit dimer form of BFR-lambda was not detected. A combination of Mössbauer spectroscopy and electron diffraction showed that the BFR loaded with iron in vitro has a ferrihydrite-like iron core, whereas the in-vivo loaded protein has an amorphous core.
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