Maltose and Maltodextrin Transport in the Thermoacidophilic Gram-Positive Bacterium <i>Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius</i> Is Mediated by a High-Affinity Transport System That Includes a Maltose Binding Protein Tolerant to Low pH is a research paper published in Journal of Bacteriology (2000). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 2.3. It has been cited 54 times, with 41 citing works in its 1-hop citation network.
ABSTRACT We have studied the uptake of maltose in the thermoacidophilic gram-positive bacterium Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius , which grows best at 57°C and pH 3.5. Under these conditions, accumulation of [ 14 C]maltose was observed in cells grown with maltose but not in those grown with glucose. At lower temperatures or higher pH values, the transport rates substantially decreased. Uptake of radiolabeled maltose was inhibited by maltotetraose, acarbose, and cyclodextrins but not by lactose, sucrose, or trehalose. The kinetic parameters ( K m of 0.91 ± 0.06 μM and V max ranging from 0.6 to 3.7 nmol/min/mg of protein) are consistent with a binding protein-dependent ATP binding cassette (ABC) transporter. A corresponding binding protein (MalE) that interacts with maltose with high affinity ( K d of 1.5 μM) was purified from the culture supernatant of maltose-grown cells. Immunoelectron microscopy revealed distribution of the protein throughout the cell wall. The malE gene was cloned and sequenced. Five additional open reading frames, encoding components of a maltose transport system (MalF and MalG), a putative transcriptional regulator (MalR), a cyclodextrinase (CdaA), and an α-glucosidase (GlcA), were identified downstream of malE . The malE gene lacking the DNA sequence that encodes the signal sequence was expressed in Escherichia coli . The purified wild-type and recombinant proteins bind maltose with high affinity over a wide pH range (2.5 to 7) and up to 80°C. Recombinant MalE cross-reacted with an antiserum raised against the wild-type protein, thereby indicating that the latter is the product of the malE gene. The MalE protein might be well suited as a model to study tolerance of proteins to low pH.
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