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Background  Due to its extraordinary chemical properties, the cysteine amino acid residue is often involved in protein folding, electron driving, sensing stress, and binding metals such as iron or zinc.  Lactococcus lactis , a Gram-positive bacterium, houses around one hundred cysteine-rich proteins (with the CX 2 C motif) in the cytoplasm, but only a few in the membrane.    Results  In order to understand the role played by this motif we focused our work on two membrane proteins of unknown function: Llmg_0524 and Llmg_0526. Each of these proteins has two CX 2 C motifs separated by ten amino-acid residues (CX 2 CX 10 CX 2 C). Together with a short intervening gene ( llmg_0525 ), the genes of these two proteins form an operon, which is induced only during the early log growth phase. In both proteins, we found that the CX 2 CX 10 CX 2 C motif chelated a zinc ion via its cysteine residues, but the sphere of coordination was remarkably different in each case. In the case of Llmg_0524, two of the four cysteines were ligands of a zinc ion whereas in Llmg_0526, all four residues were involved in binding zinc. In both proteins, the cysteine-zinc complex was very stable at 37 °C or in the presence of oxidative agents, suggesting a probable role in protein stability. We found that the complete deletion of  llmg_0524  increased the sensitivity of the mutant to cumene hydroperoxide whereas the deletion of the cysteine motif in Llmg_0524 resulted in a growth defect. The latter mutant was much more resistant to lysozyme than other strains.    Conclusions  Our data suggest that the CX 2 CX 10 CX 2 C motif is used to chelate a zinc ion but we cannot predict the number of cysteine residue involved as ligand of metal. Although no other motif is present in sequence to identify roles played by these proteins, our results indicate that Llmg_0524 contributes to the cell wall integrity.    Electronic supplementary material  The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12866-015-0587-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

Characterization of two Lactococcus lactis zinc membrane proteins, Llmg_0524 and Llmg_0526, and role of Llmg_0524 in cell wall integrity