INVESTIGADORES
GONZALEZ FLECHA Francisco Luis
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Expression and characterization of potential Cu(I) transport ATPase from the psychrophilic bacterium Bizionia argentinensis
Autor/es:
NOELIA I. BURGARDT; F. LUIS GONZÁLEZ FLECHA
Lugar:
Chascomus
Reunión:
Congreso; IV Latin American Meeting on Biological Inorganic Chemistry; 2014
Institución organizadora:
Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry
Resumen:
The
relationships between membrane protein folding, function and stability are the
main topics of research in our group1. To explore this subject we
selected the PIB-ATPase family as a model. These integral membrane
proteins actively transport copper through the cell membrane2. Recently,
it was obtained the first crystal structure of a copper transporting PIB-ATPase
(CopA) from Legionella pneumophila3
We have previously demonstrated that the thermophilic copper transporting PIB-ATPase
from Archaeglobus fulgidus undergoes
irreversible thermal denaturation due to a partial unfolding of the aminoacidic
chain mainly at the level of the cytoplasmatic domains4.
Furthermore, we found that guanidinium hydrochloride induce a reversible
unfolding of CopA, allowing the complete thermodynamic characterization of the
folding process5. To further explore this issue we decided to
perform a comparative study of the structure-folding-function relationships in
a set of copper transporting PIB-ATPases from mesophilic and
psychrophilic organisms. As the psychrophilic partner we select a potential
cooper transport ATPase from the recently discovered psychrophilic bacteria Bizionia argentinensis (JUB59-T),
isolated from the Argentine Antarctic6,7. Here we present the
cloning, expression and preliminary characterization of this psychrophilic CopA
(BaCopA).