Heme and a five-amino-acid hemophore region form the bipartite stimulus triggering the has signaling cascade.

Journal of Bacteriology
Hélène CwermanFrancis Biville

Abstract

Bacterial cells sense the extracellular environment and adapt to that environment by activating gene regulation circuits, often by means of signaling molecules. The Serratia marcescens hemophore is a signaling molecule that acts as an extracellular heme-scavenging protein. The heme-loaded hemophore interacts with its cognate receptor (HasR), triggering transmembrane signaling and turning on transcription of hemophore-dependent heme uptake genes. We investigated the features of the holo-hemophore, the only HasR ligand known to act as an inducer. We used a hemophore mutant that does not deliver its heme and a HasR mutant that does not bind heme, and we showed that heme transfer from the hemophore to the receptor is necessary for induction. Using a hemophore mutant that does not bind heme and that blocks heme transport, we demonstrated that two molecules that do not interact (heme and the mutant hemophore) may nonetheless induce this system. These findings suggest that hemophore-mediated induction and heme transport involve different mechanisms. The hemophore region important for induction was precisely localized to amino acids 50 to 55, which lie in one of the two HasR-binding hemophore regions. This bipartite stimulus probably c...Continue Reading

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