Initial Biochemical and Functional Evaluation of Murine Calprotectin Reveals Ca(II)-Dependence and Its Ability to Chelate Multiple Nutrient Transition Metal Ions
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Hadley, Rose Currier
Gu, Yu
Nolan, Elizabeth Marie
Date Issued
May 2018
Journal
Biochemistry
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American Chemical Society (ACS)
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Hadley, Rose C. , Yu Gu, and Elizabeth M. Nolan. “Initial Biochemical and Functional Evaluation of Murine Calprotectin Reveals Ca(II)-Dependence and Its Ability to Chelate Multiple Nutrient Transition Metal Ions.” Biochemistry 57 (2018): 2846-2856 © 2018 The Author(s)
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Abstract
Calprotectin (CP) is an abundant host-defense protein that contributes to the metal-withholding innate immune response by sequestering nutrient metal ions from microbial pathogens in the extracellular space. Over the past decade, murine models of infectious disease have advanced understanding of the physiological functions of CP and its ability to compete with microbes for essential metal nutrients. Despite this extensive work, murine CP (mCP) has not been biochemically evaluated, and structural and biophysical understanding of CP is currently limited to the human orthologue. We present the reconstitution, purification, and characterization of mCP as well as the cysteine-null variant mCP-Ser. Apo mCP is a mS100A8/mS100A9 heterodimer, and Ca(II) binding causes two heterodimers to self-associate and form a heterotetramer. Initial metal-depletion studies demonstrate that mCP depletes multiple first-row transition metal ions, including Mn, Fe, Ni, Cu, and Zn, from complex microbial growth medium, indicating that mCP binds multiple nutrient metals with high affinity. Moreover, antibacterial activity assays show that mCP inhibits the growth of a variety of bacterial species. The metal-depletion and antibacterial activity studies also provide evidence that Ca(II) ions enhance these functional properties of mCP. This contribution provides the groundwork for understanding the similarities and differences between the human and murine orthologues of CP and for further elucidation of its biological coordination chemistry.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemistry
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https://doi.org/10.1021/ACS.BIOCHEM.8B00309
