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Iron, an essential nutrient with limited bioavailability, requires specialized cellular mechanisms for uptake. Although iron uptake into the cytoplasm in the form of heme has been well characterized in many bacteria, the subsequent trafficking is poorly understood. The cytoplasmic heme-binding proteins belong to a structurally related family thought to have evolved as "induced fit" ligand-binding macromolecules. One member, Pseudomonas aeruginosa cytoplasmic protein (PhuS), has previously been shown to be important for delivering heme to the iron regulated heme oxygenase (HemO). Spectroscopic investigations of the holo-PhuS complex revealed a dynamic heme environment with overlapping but distinct heme-binding sites with alternative coordinating heme ligands, His-209 or His-212. In the present work we establish a mechanism for how heme is transferred from PhuS to its partner, HemO. Using surface plasmon resonance and isothermal titration calorimetry, we have discovered that holo-PhuS, but not apo-PhuS, forms a 1:1 complex with HemO. Sedimentation velocity and limited proteolysis experiments suggest that heme binding to PhuS induces a conformational rearrangement that drives the protein interaction with HemO. Hydrodynamic analysis reveals that the holo-PhuS displays a more expanded hydrodynamic envelope compared with apo-PhuS, and we propose that this conformational change drives the interaction with HemO. We further demonstrate that replacement of His-212 by Ala disrupts the interaction of holo-PhuS with HemO; in contrast, the His-209-Ala variant can still complex with HemO, albeit more weakly. Together, the present studies reveal a mechanism that couples a heme-dependent conformational switch in PhuS to protein-protein interaction, the subsequent free energy of which drives heme release to HemO.

Induced fit on heme binding to the Pseudomonas aeruginosa cytoplasmic protein (PhuS) drives interaction with heme oxygenase (HemO)