Kinetics and Substrate Specificity of Membrane-Reconstituted Peptide Transporter DtpT of Lactococcus lactis

AUTOR(ES)

Fang, Gang

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

The peptide transport protein DtpT of Lactococcus lactis was purified and reconstituted into detergent-destabilized liposomes. The kinetics and substrate specificity of the transporter in the proteoliposomal system were determined, using Pro-[14C]Ala as a reporter peptide in the presence of various peptides or peptide mimetics. The DtpT protein appears to be specific for di- and tripeptides, with the highest affinities for peptides with at least one hydrophobic residue. The effect of the hydrophobicity, size, or charge of the amino acid was different for the amino- and carboxyl-terminal positions of dipeptides. Free amino acids, ω-amino fatty acid compounds, or peptides with more than three amino acid residues do not interact with DtpT. For high-affinity interaction with DtpT, the peptides need to have free amino and carboxyl termini, amino acids in the l configuration, and trans-peptide bonds. Comparison of the specificity of DtpT with that of the eukaryotic homologues PepT1 and PepT2 shows that the bacterial transporter is more restrictive in its substrate recognition.

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