Signaling ammonium across membranes through an ammonium sensor histidine kinase.

Pflüger T, Hernández CF, Lewe P, Frank F, Mertens H, Svergun D, Baumstark MW, Lunin VY, Jetten MSM, Andrade SLA, Nat Commun 9(1):164 (2018) Europe PMC

SASDCM9 – Ammonium transporter Ks-Amt5

ammonium sensor/transducer
MWexperimental 279 kDa
MWexpected 227 kDa
VPorod 511 nm3
log I(s) 4.70×102 4.70×101 4.70×100 4.70×10-1
ammonium sensor/transducer small angle scattering data  s, nm-1
ln I(s)
ammonium sensor/transducer Guinier plot ln 4.70×102 Rg: 4.8 nm 0 (4.8 nm)-2 s2
(sRg)2I(s)/I(0)
ammonium sensor/transducer Kratky plot 1.104 0 3 sRg
p(r)
ammonium sensor/transducer pair distance distribution function Rg: 4.9 nm 0 Dmax: 17 nm

Data validation


Fits and models


log I(s)
 s, nm-1
ammonium sensor/transducer CORAL model

Synchrotron SAXS data from solutions of Ammonium transporter Ks-Amt5 in 20 mM Tris/HCl,100 mM NaCl, 5%(w/v) glycerol, 0.09%(w/v) CYMAL-5, pH 8 were collected on the EMBL P12 beam line at the PETRA III storage ring (DESY; Hamburg, Germany) using a Pilatus 2M detector at a sample-detector distance of 2.7 m and at a wavelength of λ = 0.124 nm (I(s) vs s, where s = 4πsinθ/λ, and 2θ is the scattering angle). In-line size-exclusion chromatography (SEC) SAS was employed. The SEC parameters were as follows: A sample at 10 mg/ml was injected onto a column at 10°C. 3600 successive 1 second frames were collected. The data were normalized to the intensity of the transmitted beam and radially averaged; the scattering of the solvent-blank was subtracted.

MW estimate from excluded volume (DAMMIN)

ammonium sensor/transducer (Ks-Amt5)
Mol. type   Protein
Organism   Candidatus Kuenenia stuttgartiensis
Olig. state   Trimer
Mon. MW   75.5 kDa
 
UniProt   Q1Q357
Sequence   FASTA