Evaluation of the Roles of the Cytosolic N-terminus and His-rich Loop of ZNT Proteins Using ZNT2 and ZNT3 Chimeric Mutants

Overview

Journal Sci Rep

Specialty Science

Date 2018 Sep 22

PMID 30237557

Citations 10

Authors

Kazuhisa Fukue

Naoya Itsumura

Natsuko Tsuji

Katsutoshi Nishino

Masaya Nagao

Hiroshi Narita

Taiho Kambe

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Abstract

The physiological roles of Zn transporter (ZNT) proteins are being increasingly recognized, and three dimensional structures of ZNT bacterial homologs have facilitated our understanding of their biochemical characteristics at the molecular level. However, the biological role of the unique structural features of vertebrate ZNTs, which are absent in their bacterial homologues, is not completely understood. These ZNT sequences include a cytosolic His-rich loop between transmembrane helices IV and V and the cytosolic N-terminus. This study investigated the contribution of these features to zinc transport by ZNT proteins. The importance of the His residues in the cytosolic His-rich loop was investigated using ZNT2 Ala substitution and deletion mutants. The presence of His residues was not essential for zinc transport, even though they possibly participate in modulation of zinc transport activity. Furthermore, we determined the role of the N-terminus by characterizing ZNT2 and ZNT3 domain-swapped and deletion mutants. Unexpectedly, the N-terminus was also not essential for zinc transport by ZNT2 and the domain-swapped ZNT2 mutant, in which the cytosolic His-rich loop was substituted with that of ZNT3. These results provide molecular insights into understanding the roles of the cytosolic parts of ZNT2, ZNT3, and probably other members of their subgroup.

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