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Gopal SM, Pawar AB, Wassenaar TA, Sengupta D. Lipid-dependent conformational landscape of the ErbB2 growth factor receptor dimers. Chem Phys Lipids 2020; 230:104911. [PMID: 32353357 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2020.104911] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2019] [Revised: 03/04/2020] [Accepted: 03/27/2020] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Altered lipid metabolism has been linked to cancer development and progression. Several roles have been attributed to the increased saturation and length of lipid acyl tails observed in tumors, but its effect on signaling receptors is still emerging. In this work, we have analyzed the lipid dependence of the ErbB2 growth factor receptor dimerization that plays an important role in the pathogenesis of breast cancer. We have performed coarse-grain ensemble molecular dynamics simulations to comprehensively sample the ErbB2 monomer-dimer association. Our results indicate a dynamic dimer state with a complex conformational landscape that is modulated with increasing lipid tail length. We resolve the native N-terminal "active" and C-terminal "inactive" conformations in all membrane compositions. However, the relative population of the N-terminal and C-terminal conformers is dependent on length of the saturated lipid tails. In short-tail membranes, additional non-specific dimers are observed which are reduced or absent in long-tailed bilayers. Our results indicate that the relative population as well as the structure of the dimer state is modulated by membrane composition. We have correlated these differences to local perturbations of the membrane around the receptor. Our work is an important step in characterizing ErbB dimers in healthy and diseased states and emphasize the importance of sampling lipid dynamics in understanding receptor association.
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Affiliation(s)
- Srinivasa M Gopal
- CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune 411 008, India; Lehrstuhl fur Theoretische Chemie, Ruhr University Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
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- CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune 411 008, India; AcSIR, Mathura Road, New Delhi, 110 025, India
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- Molecular Dynamics, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 7, 9747AG Groningen, the Netherlands
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- CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune 411 008, India; AcSIR, Mathura Road, New Delhi, 110 025, India.
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Prasanna X, Praveen PJ, Sengupta D. Sequence dependent lipid-mediated effects modulate the dimerization of ErbB2 and its associative mutants. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2013; 15:19031-41. [DOI: 10.1039/c3cp52447g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Beevers AJ, Nash A, Salazar-Cancino M, Scott DJ, Notman R, Dixon AM. Effects of the Oncogenic V664E Mutation on Membrane Insertion, Structure, and Sequence-Dependent Interactions of the Neu Transmembrane Domain in Micelles and Model Membranes: An Integrated Biophysical and Simulation Study. Biochemistry 2012; 51:2558-68. [DOI: 10.1021/bi201269w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, U.K
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Beevers AJ, Damianoglou A, Oates J, Rodger A, Dixon AM. Sequence-Dependent Oligomerization of the Neu Transmembrane Domain Suggests Inhibition of “Conformational Switching” by an Oncogenic Mutant. Biochemistry 2010; 49:2811-20. [DOI: 10.1021/bi902087v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Andrew J. Beevers
- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, U.K
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, U.K
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, U.K
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, U.K
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Kästner J, Loeffler HH, Roberts SK, Martin-Fernandez ML, Winn MD. Ectodomain orientation, conformational plasticity and oligomerization of ErbB1 receptors investigated by molecular dynamics. J Struct Biol 2009; 167:117-28. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2009.04.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2008] [Revised: 03/21/2009] [Accepted: 04/21/2009] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Hanshaw RG, Stahelin RV, Smith BD. Noncovalent keystone interactions controlling biomembrane structure. Chemistry 2008; 14:1690-7. [PMID: 18085538 DOI: 10.1002/chem.200701589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
Abstract
There is a biomedical need to develop molecular recognition systems that selectively target the interfaces of protein and lipid aggregates in biomembranes. This is an extremely challenging problem in supramolecular chemistry because the biological membrane is a complex dynamic assembly of multifarious molecular components with local inhomogeneity. Two simplifying concepts are presented as a framework for basing molecular design strategies. The first generalization is that association of two binding partners in a biomembrane will be dominated by one type of non-covalent interaction which is referred to as the keystone interaction. Structural mutations in membrane proteins that alter the strength of this keystone interaction will likely have a major effect on biological activity and often will be associated with disease. The second generalization is to view the structure of a cell membrane as three spatial regions, that is, the polar membrane surface, the midpolar interfacial region and the non-polar membrane interior. Each region has a distinct dielectric, and the dominating keystone interaction between binding partners will be different. At the highly polar membrane surface, the keystone interactions between charged binding partners are ion-ion and ion-dipole interactions; whereas, ion-dipole and ionic hydrogen bonding are very influential at the mid-polar interfacial region. In the non-polar membrane interior, van der Waals forces and neutral hydrogen bonding are the keystone interactions that often drive molecular association. Selected examples of lipid and transmembrane protein association systems are described to illustrate how the association thermodynamics and kinetics are dominated by these keystone noncovalent interactions.
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- Roger G Hanshaw
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Walther Cancer Center, University of Notre Dame, 251 Nieuwland Science Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
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Aller P, Garnier N, Genest M. Transmembrane Helix Packing of ErbB/Neu Receptor in Membrane Environment: A Molecular Dynamics Study. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2006; 24:209-28. [PMID: 17054379 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2006.10507114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Dimerization or oligomerization of the ErbB/Neu receptors are necessary but not sufficient for initiation of receptor signaling. The two intracellular domains must be properly oriented for the juxtaposition of the kinase domains allowing trans-phosphorylation. This suggests that the transmembrane (TM) domain acts as a guide for defining the proper orientation of the intracellular domains. Two structural models, with the two helices either in left-handed or in right-handed coiling have been proposed as the TM domain structure of the active receptor. Because experimental data do not distinguish clearly helix-helix packing, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are used to investigate the energetic factors that drive Neu TM-TM interactions of the wild and the oncogenic receptor (Val664/Glu mutation) in DMPC or in POPC environments. MD results indicate that helix-lipid interactions in the bilayer core are extremely similar in the two environments and raise the role of the juxtamembrane residues in helix insertion and helix-helix packing. The TM domain shows a greater propensity to adopt a left-handed structure in DMPC, with helices in optimal position for strong inter-helical Hbonds induced by the Glu mutation. In POPC, the right-handed structure is preferentially formed with the participation of water in inter-helical Hbonds. The two structural arrangements of the Neu(TM) helices both with GG4 residue motif in close contact at the interface are permissible in the membrane environment. According to the hypothesis of a monomer-dimer equilibrium of the proteins it is likely that the bilayer imposes structural constraints that favor dimerization-competent structure responsible of the proper topology necessary for receptor activation.
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- Pierre Aller
- Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, UPR 4301, CNRS, Affiliated to the University of Orléans and to INSERM, rue Charles Sadron, 45071 Orléans Cedex 02, France
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Khemtémourian L, Buchoux S, Aussenac F, Dufourc EJ. Dimerization of Neu/Erb2 transmembrane domain is controlled by membrane curvature. EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL: EBJ 2006; 36:107-12. [PMID: 17115152 DOI: 10.1007/s00249-006-0111-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2006] [Revised: 09/19/2006] [Accepted: 10/10/2006] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Secondary structures of the proto-oncogenic Neu/ErbB2 transmembrane segment and its mutant analogue have been determined in phospholipids. It is found that the mutated peptide possesses less helical character possibly due to the valine/glutamic acid point mutation. Embedding peptides in lipid systems whose topology can change from small (100-200 A) tumbling objects to bilayer discs of 450 A diameter leads to the finding that coiled-coil interactions are only observed in the presence of a bilayer membrane of low curvature, independent of mutation. This strongly suggests that any event that may change membrane topology can therefore perturb the dimerization/ologomerization and subsequent phosphorylation cascade leading to cell growth or cancer processes.
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- Lucie Khemtémourian
- UMR 5144 MOBIOS, CNRS-Université Bordeaux 1, IECB, 2 rue Robert Escarpit, 33607 Pessac, France
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Beevers AJ, Kukol A. Systematic molecular dynamics searching in a lipid bilayer: Application to the glycophorin A and oncogenic ErbB-2 transmembrane domains. J Mol Graph Model 2006; 25:226-33. [PMID: 16434222 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmgm.2005.12.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2005] [Revised: 12/15/2005] [Accepted: 12/19/2005] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of proteins in a lipid bilayer environment are usually undertaken with one or a few starting structures. Here we report a search protocol for systematically exploring the possible interactions in helical bundle transmembrane proteins, a frequently occurring structural motif. The search protocol correctly identifies the experimentally known structure of the dimeric human glycophorin A transmembrane domain as the lowest energy structure among five different models without any prior assumptions, whilst an identical in vacuo search fails to identify the correct structure. The lowest energy structure from the search in a lipid bilayer has a root mean square deviation of 1.1A to the experimental structure. We have applied the same search protocol to the unknown transmembrane structure of the oncogenic mutant ErbB-2 protein, a member of the family of epidermal growth factor receptors. Resulting structures show the role of glutamic acid hydrogen bonding and close helical packing. Water molecules may also play a key role in stabilisation of the transmembrane helix association.
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- Andrew J Beevers
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
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Beevers AJ, Kukol A. The transmembrane domain of the oncogenic mutant ErbB-2 receptor: a structure obtained from site-specific infrared dichroism and molecular dynamics. J Mol Biol 2006; 361:945-53. [PMID: 16889796 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2006.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2006] [Revised: 06/27/2006] [Accepted: 07/04/2006] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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ErbB-2 is a member of the family of epidermal growth factor receptors, which shows an oncogenic mutation in the rat gene neu, Val664Glu in the transmembrane domain that causes permanent dimerisation and subsequently leads to uncontrollable cell division and tumour formation. We have obtained the alpha-helical structure of the mutant transmembrane domain dimer experimentally with site-specific infrared dichroism (SSID) based on six transmembrane peptides with 13C18O carbonyl group-labelled residues. The derived orientational data indicate a local helix tilt ranging from 28(+/-6) degrees to 22(+/-4) degrees. Altogether using orientational constraints from SSID and experimental alpha-helical constraints while performing a systematic conformational search including molecular dynamics simulation in a lipid bilayer, we have obtained a unique experimentally defined atomic structure. The resulting structure consists of a right handed alpha-helical bundle with the residues Ile659, Val663, Leu667, Ile671, Val674 and Leu679 in the dimerisation interface. The right-handed bundle is in contrast to the left-handed structures obtained in previous modelling efforts. In order to facilitate tight helical packing, the spacious Glu664 residues do not interact directly but with water molecules that enter the bilayer.
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- Andrew J Beevers
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
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Samna Soumana O, Aller P, Garnier N, Genest M. Transmembrane Peptides from Tyrosine Kinase Receptor. Mutation-related Behavior in a Lipid Bilayer Investigated by Molecular Dynamics Simulations. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2005; 23:91-100. [PMID: 15918680 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2005.10507050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Polar mutations in transmembrane alpha helices may alter the structural details of the hydrophobic sequences and control intermolecular contacts. We have performed molecular dynamics simulations on the transmembrane domain of the proto-oncogenic and the oncogenic forms of the Neu receptor in a fluid DMPC bilayer to test whether the Glu mutation which replaces the Val residue at position 664 may alter the helical structure and its insertion in the membrane. The simulations show that the wild and the mutant forms of the transmembrane domain have a different behavior in the bilayer. The native transmembrane sequence is found to be more flexible than in the presence of the Glu mutation, characterized by a tendency to pi deformation to accommodate the helix length to the membrane thickness. The mutant form of this domain does not evidence helical deformation in the present simulation. Hydrophobic matching is achieved both by a larger helix tilt and a vertical shift of the helix towards the membrane interface, favoring the accessibility of the Glu side chain to the membrane environment. A rapid exchange of hydrogen bond interactions with the surrounding water molecules and the lipid headgroups is observed. The difference in the behavior between the two peptides in a membrane environment was also observed experimentally. Both simulation and experimental results agree with the hypothesis that water may act as an intermediate for the formation of cross links between the facing Glu side chains stabilizing the dimer.
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- Oumarou Samna Soumana
- Centre de Biophysique Moleculaire, UPR 4301, CNRS, rue Charles Sadron, 45071 Orleans Cedex 02, France
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