TY - JOUR
T1 - Human calprotectin is an iron-sequestering host-defense protein
AU - Nakashige, Toshiki G.
AU - Zhang, Bo
AU - Krebs, Carsten
AU - Nolan, Elizabeth M.
N1 - Funding Information:
Research on Fe(II)-CP in the Nolan Laboratory was supported by the Office of the Director of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH grant 1DP2OD007045, E.M.N.), the MIT Center for Environmental Health Sciences (NIH P30-ES002109, E.M.N.), the Sloan Foundation and the Kinship Foundation (Searle Scholar Award, E.M.N.). T.G.N. is a recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Any opinion, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF. We thank R. Laufhutte for performing the ICP-MS and ICP-OES analyses, A.J. Wommack for synthesizing ZP1 and J. Stubbe and members of her laboratory for guidance on the 55Fe experiments and for providing the facilities to work with radioactivity. We acknowledge the Network on Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus (NARSA) for providing the S. aureus USA300 JE2 parent strain of the Nebraska Transposon Mutant Library (NTML) that is supported by NIH NIAID grant HHSN272200700055C.
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PY - 2015/10/19
Y1 - 2015/10/19
N2 - Human calprotectin (CP) is a metal-chelating antimicrobial protein of the innate immune response. The current working model states that CP sequesters manganese and zinc from pathogens. We report the discovery that CP chelates iron and deprives bacteria of this essential nutrient. Elemental analysis of CP-treated growth medium establishes that CP reduces the concentrations of manganese, iron and zinc. Microbial growth studies reveal that iron depletion by CP contributes to the growth inhibition of bacterial pathogens. Biochemical investigations demonstrate that CP coordinates Fe(II) at an unusual hexahistidine motif, and the Mössbauer spectrum of 57 Fe(II)-bound CP is consistent with coordination of high-spin Fe(II) at this site (δ = 1.20 mm/s, ΔEQ = 1.78 mm/s). In the presence of Ca(II), CP turns on its iron-sequestering function and exhibits subpicomolar affinity for Fe(II). Our findings expand the biological coordination chemistry of iron and support a previously unappreciated role for CP in mammalian iron homeostasis.
AB - Human calprotectin (CP) is a metal-chelating antimicrobial protein of the innate immune response. The current working model states that CP sequesters manganese and zinc from pathogens. We report the discovery that CP chelates iron and deprives bacteria of this essential nutrient. Elemental analysis of CP-treated growth medium establishes that CP reduces the concentrations of manganese, iron and zinc. Microbial growth studies reveal that iron depletion by CP contributes to the growth inhibition of bacterial pathogens. Biochemical investigations demonstrate that CP coordinates Fe(II) at an unusual hexahistidine motif, and the Mössbauer spectrum of 57 Fe(II)-bound CP is consistent with coordination of high-spin Fe(II) at this site (δ = 1.20 mm/s, ΔEQ = 1.78 mm/s). In the presence of Ca(II), CP turns on its iron-sequestering function and exhibits subpicomolar affinity for Fe(II). Our findings expand the biological coordination chemistry of iron and support a previously unappreciated role for CP in mammalian iron homeostasis.
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U2 - 10.1038/nchembio.1891
DO - 10.1038/nchembio.1891
M3 - Article
C2 - 26302479
AN - SCOPUS:84941874897
SN - 1552-4450
VL - 11
SP - 765
EP - 771
JO - Nature Chemical Biology
JF - Nature Chemical Biology
IS - 10
ER -