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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 277, Issue 44, 41318-41325, November 1, 2002

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pH-induced Collapse of the Extracellular Loops Closes Escherichia coli Maltoporin and Allows the Study of Asymmetric Sugar Binding^*

Christian Andersen^§, Bettina Schiffler, Alain Charbit^¶, and Roland Benz

From the  Universität Würzburg, Lehrstuhl für Biotechnologie, Biozentrum der Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland D-97074 Würzburg, Germany and ^¶ INSERM U-411, CHU Necker-Enfants Malades, F-75730 Paris Cedex 15, France

LamB (maltoporin) is essential for the uptake of maltose and malto-oligosaccharides across the outer membrane of Escherichia coli. Purified LamB was reconstituted in artificial lipid bilayer membranes forming channels in the permanently open configuration at neutral pH. Almost complete channel closure was observed when the pH on both sides of the membrane was lowered to pH 4. When LamB was added to only one side of the membrane, the cis-side, and the pH was lowered at either side of the membrane, the cis- or the trans-side, the response to pH was asymmetric, suggesting preferential orientation of maltoporin channels and pH- dependent closure of only one side of the channel. In experiments with LamB mutants in which major external loops L4, L6, and/or L9 were deleted, we identified the surface-exposed loops L4 and L6 as the cause of pH-mediated closure. The pH dependence of the LamB channel is consistent with the assumption that it inserts in a preferential orientation into the lipid bilayer. About 70-80% of the reconstituted channels are oriented with the extracellular entrance toward the side to which the protein was added (the cis-side) and with the periplasmic opening on the opposite side (the trans-side). The possibility of closing the channels, which are oriented in the reverse direction by low pH at the trans-side, allowed the deduction of channel asymmetry with respect to carbohydrate binding kinetics. Whereas maltose binding was found to be almost symmetric with respect to the channel orientation, the sucrose and trehalose binding to LamB was asymmetric. The results are discussed in respect to possible physiological function of the pH-dependent closure of maltoporin.

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