UniProt functional annotation for P23847

UniProt code: P23847.

Organism: Escherichia coli (strain K12).
Taxonomy: Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Gammaproteobacteria; Enterobacterales; Enterobacteriaceae; Escherichia.
 
Function: Part of the ABC transporter DppABCDF involved in dipeptide transport (PubMed:1702779, PubMed:7536291, PubMed:10537211). Binds dipeptides and accepts a wide range of side chains, including small neutral, bulky hydrophobic, and positively and negatively charged groups (PubMed:10537211). Tripeptides are poor substrates (PubMed:10537211). DppA alone controls the specificity of the Dpp transporter (PubMed:10537211). In addition, plays a role in chemotaxis toward peptides via interaction with the chemotaxis protein Tap (PubMed:3520334, PubMed:8563629). {ECO:0000269|PubMed:10537211, ECO:0000269|PubMed:1702779, ECO:0000269|PubMed:3520334, ECO:0000269|PubMed:7536291, ECO:0000269|PubMed:8563629}.
 
Function: Binds heme. When a foreign outer membrane heme receptor is expressed in E.coli, DppABCDF can also transport heme and its precursor, 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA), from the periplasm into the cytoplasm. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:16905647, ECO:0000269|PubMed:8444807}.
 
Activity regulation: Heme binding is inhibited by dipeptide. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:16905647}.
Subunit: The complex is composed of two ATP-binding proteins (DppD and DppF), two transmembrane proteins (DppB and DppC) and a solute-binding protein (DppA). {ECO:0000269|PubMed:7536291}.
Subcellular location: Periplasm {ECO:0000269|PubMed:1702779}.
Induction: Expression is repressed by the presence of casamino acids. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:1702779}.
Domain: Consists of two distinct domains (I and II) connected by two strands that presumably function as a hinge (PubMed:8527431, PubMed:8563629). Undergoes conformational change upon substrate binding (PubMed:10537211). {ECO:0000269|PubMed:10537211, ECO:0000269|PubMed:8527431, ECO:0000269|PubMed:8563629}.
Disruption phenotype: Inactivation of the gene results in the inability of a proline auxotroph to utilize Pro-Gly as a proline source (PubMed:1702779). Inactivation of the gene has no effect on iron-heme utilization, but the double mppA dppA mutant is unable to use heme as iron source (PubMed:16905647). {ECO:0000269|PubMed:16905647, ECO:0000269|PubMed:1702779}.
Similarity: Belongs to the bacterial solute-binding protein 5 family. {ECO:0000305}.

Annotations taken from UniProtKB at the EBI.