Borsetti, Francesca;
Francia, Francesco;
Turner, Raymond J.;
Zannoni, Davide
The Thiol:Disulfide Oxidoreductase DsbB Mediates the Oxidizing Effects of the Toxic Metalloid Tellurite (TeO32−) on the Plasma Membrane Redox System of the Facultative PhototrophRhodobacter capsulatus
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Title:
The Thiol:Disulfide Oxidoreductase DsbB Mediates the Oxidizing Effects of the Toxic Metalloid Tellurite (TeO32−) on the Plasma Membrane Redox System of the Facultative PhototrophRhodobacter capsulatus
Contributor:
Borsetti, Francesca;
Francia, Francesco;
Turner, Raymond J.;
Zannoni, Davide
Published:
American Society for Microbiology, 2007
Published in:
Journal of Bacteriology, 189 (2007) 3, Seite 851-859
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1128/jb.01080-06
ISSN:
0021-9193;
1098-5530
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ABSTRACTThe highly toxic oxyanion tellurite (TeO32−) is a well known pro-oxidant in mammalian and bacterial cells. This work examines the effects of tellurite on the redox state of the electron transport chain of the facultative phototrophRhodobacter capsulatus, in relation to the role of the thiol:disulfide oxidoreductase DsbB. Under steady-state respiration, the addition of tellurite (2.5 mM) to membrane fragments generated an extrareduction of the cytochrome pool (c- andb-type hemes); further, in plasma membranes exposed to tellurite (0.25 to 2.5 mM) and subjected to a series of flashes of light, the rate of the QH2:cytochromec(Cytc) oxidoreductase activity was enhanced. The effect of tellurite was blocked by the antibiotics antimycin A and/or myxothiazol, specific inhibitors of the QH2:Cytcoxidoreductase, and, most interestingly, the membrane-associated thiol:disulfide oxidoreductase DsbB was required to mediate the redox unbalance produced by the oxyanion. Indeed, this phenomenon was absent fromR. capsulatusMD22, a DsbB-deficient mutant, whereas the tellurite effect was present in membranes from MD22/pDsbBWT, in which the mutant gene was complemented to regain the wild-type DsbB phenotype. These findings were taken as evidence that the membrane-bound thiol:disulfide oxidoreductase DsbB acts as an “electron conduit” between the hydrophilic metalloid and the lipid-embedded Q pool, so that in habitats contaminated with subinhibitory amounts of TeIV, the metalloid is likely to function as a disposal for the excess reducing power at the Q-pool level of facultative phototrophic bacteria.