Structural insights into 3Fe–4S ferredoxins diversity in M. tuberculosis highlighted by a first redox complex with P450

Andrei Gilep, Tatsiana Varaksa, Sergey Bukhdruker, Anton Kavaleuski, Yury Ryzhykau, Sviatlana Smolskaya, Tatsiana Sushko, Kouhei Tsumoto, Irina Grabovec, Ivan Kapranov, Ivan Okhrimenko, Egor Marin, Mikhail Shevtsov, Alexey Mishin, Kirill Kovalev, Alexander Kuklin, Valentin Gordeliy, Leonid Kaluzhskiy, Oksana Gnedenko, Evgeniy YablokovAlexis Ivanov, Valentin Borshchevskiy, Natallia Strushkevich

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Abstract

Ferredoxins are small iron–sulfur proteins and key players in essential metabolic pathways. Among all types, 3Fe–4S ferredoxins are less studied mostly due to anaerobic requirements. Their complexes with cytochrome P450 redox partners have not been structurally characterized. In the present work, we solved the structures of both 3Fe–4S ferredoxins from M. tuberculosis—Fdx alone and the fusion FdxE–CYP143. Our SPR analysis demonstrated a high-affinity binding of FdxE to CYP143. According to SAXS data, the same complex is present in solution. The structure reveals extended multipoint interactions and the shape/charge complementarity of redox partners. Furthermore, FdxE binding induced conformational changes in CYP143 as evident from the solved CYP143 structure alone. The comparison of FdxE–CYP143 and modeled Fdx–CYP51 complexes further revealed the specificity of ferredoxins. Our results illuminate the diversity of electron transfer complexes for the production of different secondary metabolites.

Original languageEnglish
Article number1100032
JournalFrontiers in Molecular Biosciences
Volume9
DOIs
StatePublished - 9 Jan 2023
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • 3Fe–4S ferredoxins
  • crystal structure
  • cytochrome P450
  • protein–protein interactions
  • redox complex

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Biochemistry
  • Molecular Biology
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)

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