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Journal of Bacteriology, December 2005, p. 8511-8515, Vol. 187, No. 24
0021-9193/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JB.187.24.8511-8515.2005
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FpvA-Mediated Ferric Pyoverdine Uptake in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Identification of Aromatic Residues in FpvA Implicated in Ferric Pyoverdine Binding and Transport

Jiang-Sheng Shen,1 Valérie Geoffroy,2 Shadi Neshat,1 Zongchao Jia,3 Allison Meldrum,1 Jean-Marie Meyer,2 and Keith Poole1*

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada;,1 Laboratoire de Microbiologie et de Génétique, Université Louis-Pasteur, CNRS FRE 2326, Strasbourg, France,2 Department of Biochemistry, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada3

Received 27 July 2005/ Accepted 19 September 2005


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ABSTRACT
 
A number of aromatic residues were seen to cluster in the upper portion of the three-dimensional structure of the FpvA ferric pyoverdine receptor of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, reminiscent of the aromatic binding pocket for ferrichrome in the FhuA receptor of Escherichia coli. Alanine substitutions in three of these, W362, W391, and F795, markedly compromised ferric pyoverdine binding and transport, consistent with a role of FpvA in ferric pyoverdine recognition.


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Iron acquisition by Pseudomonas aeruginosa is often facilitated by high-affinity iron chelating molecules, termed siderophores, that, together with cell surface receptors specific for the iron-siderophore complexes, serve to provide the organism with iron under nutritionally dilute conditions (20). A major siderophore produced by P. aeruginosa and, indeed, all fluorescent pseudomonads is pyoverdine, a mixed catecholate-hydroxamate siderophore characterized by a conserved dihydroxyquinoline chromophore to which is attached a peptide chain of variable length and composition (3, 18). This variation likely explains the noted specificity vis-à-vis pyoverdine utilization by Pseudomonas spp., where, for example, a given strain will often use only its own pyoverdine but not that of other Pseudomonas strains (4, 13), and suggests that the peptide moiety is involved in receptor recognition and binding. Some P. aeruginosa strains can also use so-called heterologous pyoverdines (i.e., those produced by other pseudomonads) of different chemical structure, though these often exhibit some peptide feature or partial amino acid sequence in common with the endogenous siderophore (1, 19, 28), again highlighting the importance of the peptide for receptor recognition. Three major, structurally distinct pyoverdines have been described for P. aeruginosa, dubbed types I, II, and III (17). Outer membrane receptors for all three have been described (FpvA [or FpvAI], FpvAII, and FpvAIII), and their genes have been cloned (7, 21). A second receptor for type I pyoverdine, FpvB, has also recently been reported for P. aeruginosa (10). The FpvA receptor, like other ferric siderophore receptors (12), has been shown to bind both iron-free and iron-bound siderophores (25-27), although there appear to be differences in the ways that iron-free and iron-bound pyoverdines interact with FpvA (5, 9). Still, both compete with a common or at least overlapping site on FpvA (5), and iron-bound pyoverdine effectively displaces iron-free pyoverdine on the receptor during transport (24, 25). Recently, the FpvA crystal structure with bound pyoverdine was solved at 3.6 Å (6), revealing a cluster of aromatic residues reminiscent of the FhuA ferrichrome receptor of Escherichia coli, where such residues were implicated in ferrichrome binding (8). We report here a study that confirms the importance of three residues in this cluster (W362, W391, and F795) in ferric pyoverdine binding and transport by FpvA.

Bacterial strains and plasmids used in this study are listed in Table 1. A pyoverdine-deficient {Delta}pvdD derivative of K1120 (an aminoglycoside-susceptible, aphA derivative of wild-type P. aeruginosa PAO1 strain K767) was constructed using plasmid pSUP202::{Delta}pvd. Briefly, pSUP202::{Delta}pvd was mobilized from E. coli S17-1 (29) into K1120 via conjugal transfer as described previously (30), and K1120 transconjugants carrying the plasmid in the chromosome were selected on 50 µg/ml tetracycline and 0.5 µg/ml imipenem (the latter to counterselect E. coli S17-1). To select for spontaneous loss of pSUP202 sequences, as a first step in selecting for strains in which the wild-type pvdD gene has been replaced by the deletion, three tetracycline- and imipenem-resistant colonies were individually inoculated into 5 ml Luria broth (L broth; Difco) and cultured overnight. These cultures were diluted 1:999 into fresh L broth (5 ml) and again cultured overnight. This was repeated daily over 8 days, after which dilutions of the cultures (10–5 to 10–7) were plated onto L agar and colonies appearing after overnight incubation (800 were tested) were screened for loss of tetracycline resistance (on L agar supplemented with 100 µg/ml tetracycline). These tetracycline-sensitive, pSUP202-free isolates were then screened for an absence of fluorescence on iron-deficient succinate minimal agar plates, and one of these, K1203, was retained for further study. Iron-deficient succinate minimal medium has been described previously (16) and was supplemented with 0.05 % (wt/vol) Casamino Acids (CA). Cell envelopes were prepared as described previously (31) from P. aeruginosa strains cultured overnight in CA-supplemented iron-deficient succinate minimal medium and subjected to sodium dodecylsulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (10% [wt/vol] acrylamide) (31) and Western immunoblotting (32) with an FpvA-specific rabbit polyclonal antiserum (21). To assess 59Fe-pyoverdine binding and transport, P. aeruginosa cells were cultured for 24 h at 30°C in CA-supplemented iron-deficient succinate minimal medium, harvested by centrifugation (5 min at 13,000 rpm) in a microfuge, and washed with an equal volume of the same medium before being resuspended in one-half volume of this medium. One milliliter of washed cells was incubated on ice (binding assay) or with shaking at 37°C (transport assay) for 20 min with 50 µl 59Fe-pyoverdine (14.5 nmol 59FeCl3 [specific activity, 536 MBq/mg Fe; Amersham] diluted in 50 µl distilled H2O containing 1 mM pyoverdine, incubated for 5 min at room temperature, and made up to 1 ml in CA-supplemented iron-deficient minimal medium) and subsequently harvested by centrifugation, washed twice with an equal volume of CA-supplemented iron-deficient succinate minimal medium, and resuspended in 1 ml of the same medium. 59Fe bound to or transported by bacterial cells was measured with a scintillation counter.


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  		TABLE 1. Bacterial strains and plasmids

Both a three-dimensional model (not shown) of FpvA based on the crystal structure of ferrichrome-bound FhuA (8) and the recently published FpvA crystal structure (6) reveal a cluster of aromatic residues (i.e., W362, F366, F369, W391, Y790, F795, Y796, and Y801) in the upper portion of the ß-barrel region of FpvA, above the plane of the outer membrane (Fig. 1A). This is reminiscent of FhuA, where aromatic residues in the ß-barrel of this receptor contribute to a high-affinity ferrichrome-binding site and an external aromatic pocket implicated in extracting ferrichrome from the external medium (8). However, only one of these, Y796, was implicated in pyoverdine binding in the FpvA crystal structure (6). Still, given possible differences in pyoverdine and ferric pyoverdine binding to FpvA (5, 9), these aromatic residues may be involved in binding ferric pyoverdine and not pyoverdine. Consistent with this, the above-highlighted aromatic cluster in FpvA was identified based on similarities to a cluster in FhuA implicated in binding that receptor's ferrated ligand, ferrichrome. To assess the involvement of these aromatic residues in FpvA function, then, alanine (and, in one instance, tyrosine) substitutions were engineered at each site and the impact on FpvA production and ferric pyoverdine binding and transport by P. aeruginosa expressing the mutant FpvA proteins was assessed. To engineer these substitutions, site-directed mutagenesis of fpvA on plasmid mini-CTX1 derivative pCBS2 was carried out using PCR with mutagenic primers, generally as described previously (23) (primer sequences and PCR parameters are available on request). Plasmid mini-CTX1 derivatives carrying wild-type or mutated fpvA were mobilized from E. coli DH5{alpha} (2) into the {Delta}fpvA {Delta}pvdD P. aeruginosa strain K2333 by using a previously described triparental mating procedure (32), with transconjugants carrying these plasmids in the chromosome (at the phage D113 attB site) selected on 70 µg/ml tetracycline and 25 µg/ml chloramphenicol, the latter to counterselect E. coli. The mini-CTX1 backbone was then excised from the chromosome, leaving behind the wild-type or mutant fpvA genes (i.e., producing FpvA with W362A, F366Y, F369A, W391A, Y790A, F795A, Y796A, or Y801A substitutions), by using the pFLP2-encoded Flp recombinase as described previously (11).



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  		FIG. 1. Identification of aromatic residues in FpvA implicated in ferric pyoverdine binding and transport (A and B) and expression of FpvA proteins mutated in these residues (C). (A) Crystal structure of FpvA at 3.6 Å, taken from reference 6 (PDB code 1XKH), highlighting (in spacefill to assist visualization) the aromatic residues assessed for roles in ferric pyoverdine binding and transport. Top panel, side view; bottom panel, top view. (B) Crystal structure of FpvA, highlighting the aromatic residues confirmed to be involved in ferric pyoverdine binding and transport. The position of bound pyoverdine (Pvd) in the structure is also highlighted. Residues and pyoverdine are shown in spacefill to assist visualization. (C) Expression of FpvA proteins mutated at aromatic residues implicated in ferric pyoverdine binding and transport. Strains were cultured overnight in iron-deficient succinate minimal medium, and cell envelopes were prepared and immunoblotted using an FpvA-specific antiserum. Lane 1, K1203 (wild-type FpvA). Lanes 2 through 10, P. aeruginosa K2333 (K1203 {Delta}fpvA) expressing no FpvA (lane 2), wild-type FpvA (lane 3), FpvAW362A (lane 4), FpvAF366Y (lane 5), FpvAF369A (lane 6), FpvAW391A (lane 7), FpvAF795A (lane 8), FpvAY796A (lane 9), and FpvAY801A (lane 10).

None of the substitutions adversely impacted FpvA production (Fig. 1C), although substitutions at W362 in particular and W391 and F795 to a substantial degree compromised ferric pyoverdine binding and transport (Table 2) (the Y790A substitution was not obtained). In a previous mutagenesis study, a peptide (18-mer) insertion at residue Y394 in FpvA (Y350 in that study, where residue numbering was based on the mature protein) also compromised FpvA-mediated ferric pyoverdine binding and transport (15), confirming the significance of this region (i.e., near W391) of the receptor in ferric pyoverdine recognition. Similarly, a peptide (8-mer) insertion at the G361 residue (G318 in the mature protein) adjacent to W362 was recently shown to obviate pyoverdine-mediated iron uptake (14). Interestingly, while residues W362, W391, and F795 were somewhat near the FpvA-bound pyoverdine in the crystal structure (W362, 3.07 Å; W391, 6.65, Å; F795, 3.97 Å) (Fig. 1B), they were not deemed sufficiently close to be implicated in pyoverdine binding (6). Still, it is interesting to note that W362 and W391, identified here as important for ferric pyoverdine binding, were implicated (6) as two of three tryptophan residues of FpvA responsible for fluorescence energy transfer (FRET) with the pyoverdine chromophore in earlier studies of FpvA-pyoverdine binding (25, 27). Moreover, these tryptophans also appear (6) to contribute to FRET in in vitro-reconstituted FpvA complexed with metal (i.e. gallium)-substituted pyoverdine (iron-bound pyoverdine is not fluorescent and, so, cannot be used in FRET assays) (9). Clearly, then, and in contrast to predictions based on the pyoverdine-FpvA crystal structure, W362 and W391 are important for ferric pyoverdine binding (and transport), suggesting that while pyoverdine and ferric pyoverdine may well bind to similar regions of the FpvA receptor (5), the specific details of binding differ and some differences exist with respect to residues involved in pyoverdine versus ferric pyoverdine binding. In further agreement with this, Y796 but not F795 was deemed sufficiently close to pyoverdine in the pyoverdine-bound FpvA structure to be a candidate residue for siderophore binding (6) and yet alanine substitutions at F795 but not Y796 compromised ferric pyoverdine binding and transport (Table 2). Thus, the pyoverdine-bound FpvA structure may not be particularly instructive with regard to the structural details of ferric pyoverdine binding or the identity of residues important for this binding.


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  		TABLE 2. Pyoverdine-mediated iron binding and transport by P. aeruginosa expressing wild-type and mutant FpvA receptorsa

Given the expected involvement of aromatic residues of FpvA in binding of the pyoverdine chromophore, it would be reasonable to assume that W362, W391, and F795 function in recognition of the dihydroxyquinoline moiety of iron-bound pyoverdine. Consistent with this, W391 is highly conserved in receptors for other pyoverdines (tryptophan in FpvAIII and FpvB and tyrosine in FpvAII) which, while differing in their peptide tails, share a conserved chromophore structure (3). Similarly, the conservation of an aromatic residue at positions equivalent to F795 in most of these other ferric pyoverdine receptors (phenylalanine in FpvB and tyrosine in FpvAIII) is also consistent with F795 of FpvA contributing to the recognition of the chromophore moiety of the bound ferric pyoverdine. Intriguingly, however, W362 (or any aromatic residue) is absent in receptors for type II and type III pyoverdines but is conserved in a second type I pyoverdine receptor broadly distributed in P. aeruginosa, FpvB (10). As such, this residue may be important for type I specificity in FpvA and explain, in part, the ability of FpvB to accommodate type I pyoverdine.


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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
 
This work was supported by operating grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to K.P. and Z.J.


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* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada. Phone: (613) 533-6677. Fax: (613) 533-6796. E-mail: poolek{at}post.queensu.ca. Back


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