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Journal of Bacteriology, February 2008, p. 872-878, Vol. 190, No. 3
0021-9193/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JB.01505-07
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Identification of a Spermidine Excretion Protein Complex (MdtJI) in Escherichia coli{triangledown}

Kyohei Higashi,1 Hiroyuki Ishigure,1 Risa Demizu,1 Takeshi Uemura,1 Kunihiko Nishino,2 Akihito Yamaguchi,2 Keiko Kashiwagi,3 and Kazuei Igarashi1*

Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba 260-8675,1 Department of Cell Membrane Biology, Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, Ibaraki, Osaka 560-0047,2 Faculty of Pharmacy, Chiba Institute of Science, 15-8 Shiomi-cho, Choshi, Chiba 288-0025, Japan3

Received 19 September 2007/ Accepted 2 November 2007

A spermidine excretion protein in Escherichia coli was looked for among 33 putative drug exporters thus far identified. Cell toxicity and inhibition of growth due to overaccumulation of spermidine were examined in an E. coli strain deficient in spermidine acetyltransferase, an enzyme that metabolizes spermidine. Toxicity and inhibition of cell growth by spermidine were recovered in cells transformed with pUCmdtJI or pMWmdtJI, encoding MdtJ and MdtI, which belong to the small multidrug resistance family of drug exporters. Both mdtJ and mdtI are necessary for recovery from the toxicity of overaccumulated spermidine. It was also found that the level of mdtJI mRNA was increased by spermidine. The spermidine content in cells cultured in the presence of 2 mM spermidine was decreased, and excretion of spermidine from cells was enhanced by MdtJI, indicating that the MdtJI complex can catalyze excretion of spermidine from cells. It was found that Tyr4, Trp5, Glu15, Tyr45, Tyr61, and Glu82 in MdtJ and Glu5, Glu19, Asp60, Trp68, and Trp81 in MdtI are involved in the excretion activity of MdtJI.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba 260-8675, Japan. Phone: 81-43-226-2871. Fax: 81-43-226-2873. E-mail: iga16077{at}p.chiba-u.ac.jp

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 26 November 2007.

Journal of Bacteriology, February 2008, p. 872-878, Vol. 190, No. 3
0021-9193/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JB.01505-07
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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