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de Grip WJ, Ganapathy S. Rhodopsins: An Excitingly Versatile Protein Species for Research, Development and Creative Engineering. Front Chem 2022; 10:879609. [PMID: 35815212 PMCID: PMC9257189 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2022.879609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2022] [Accepted: 05/16/2022] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
Abstract
The first member and eponym of the rhodopsin family was identified in the 1930s as the visual pigment of the rod photoreceptor cell in the animal retina. It was found to be a membrane protein, owing its photosensitivity to the presence of a covalently bound chromophoric group. This group, derived from vitamin A, was appropriately dubbed retinal. In the 1970s a microbial counterpart of this species was discovered in an archaeon, being a membrane protein also harbouring retinal as a chromophore, and named bacteriorhodopsin. Since their discovery a photogenic panorama unfolded, where up to date new members and subspecies with a variety of light-driven functionality have been added to this family. The animal branch, meanwhile categorized as type-2 rhodopsins, turned out to form a large subclass in the superfamily of G protein-coupled receptors and are essential to multiple elements of light-dependent animal sensory physiology. The microbial branch, the type-1 rhodopsins, largely function as light-driven ion pumps or channels, but also contain sensory-active and enzyme-sustaining subspecies. In this review we will follow the development of this exciting membrane protein panorama in a representative number of highlights and will present a prospect of their extraordinary future potential.
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- Willem J. de Grip
- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Department of Biophysical Organic Chemistry, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
- Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Department of Imaging Physics, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
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Zhong YR, Yu TY, Chu LK. Roles of functional lipids in bacteriorhodopsin photocycle in various delipidated purple membranes. Biophys J 2022; 121:1789-1798. [PMID: 35440419 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2022.04.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2021] [Revised: 04/07/2022] [Accepted: 04/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Purple membrane (PM) is composed of several native lipids and the transmembrane protein bacteriorhodopsin (bR) in trimeric configuration. The delipidated PM (dPM) samples can be prepared by treating PM with CHAPS (3-[(3-cholamidopropyl)dimethylammonio]-1-propanesulfonate) to partially remove native lipids while maintaining bR in the trimeric configuration. By correlating the photocycle kinetics of bR and the exact lipid compositions of the various dPM samples, one can reveal the roles of native PM lipids. However, it is challenging to compare the lipid compositions of the various dPM samples quantitatively. Here, we utilized the absorbances of extracted retinal at 382 nm to normalize the concentrations of the remaining lipids in each dPM sample, which were then quantified by mass spectrometry, allowing us to compare the lipid compositions of different samples in a quantitative manner. The corresponding photocycle kinetics of bR were probed by transient difference absorption spectroscopy. We found that the removal rate of the polar lipids follows the order of BPG ≈ GlyC < S-TGD-1 ≈ PG < PGP-Me ≈ PGS. Since BPG and GlyC have more nonpolar phytanyl groups than other lipids at the hydrophobic tail, causing a higher affinity with the hydrophobic surface of bR, the corresponding removal rates are slowest. In addition, as the reaction period of PM and CHAPS increases, the residual amounts of PGS and PGP-Me significantly decrease, in concomitance with the decelerated rates of the recovery of ground state and the decay of intermediate M, and the reduced transient population of intermediate O. PGS and PGP-Me are the lipids with the highest correlation to the photocycle activity among the six polar lipids of PM. From a practical viewpoint, combining optical spectroscopy and mass spectrometry appears a promising approach to simultaneously track the functions and the concomitant active components in a given biological system.
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- Yi-Rui Zhong
- Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University, 101, Sec. 2, Kuang-Fu Rd., Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Rd., Taipei 10617, Taiwan; International Graduate Program of Molecular Science and Technology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
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- Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University, 101, Sec. 2, Kuang-Fu Rd., Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan.
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Thiruppathi M, Tsai CY, Wang TW, Tsao Y, Wu TH, Ho JAA. Simple and Cost-effective Enzymatic Detection of Cholesterol Using Flow Injection Analysis. ANAL SCI 2020; 36:1119-1124. [PMID: 32908068 DOI: 10.2116/analsci.20p080] [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] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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A flow-injection analytical (FIA) system was developed for the determination of cholesterol concentrations based on enzymatic reactions that occurred in a cholesterol oxidase (CHOx)-immobilized, fused-silica capillary followed by electrochemical detection. The production of hydrogen peroxide from cholesterol in an enzymatic reaction catalyzed by CHOx was subsequently oxidized electrochemically at an electrode. Our FlA system demonstrated its cost-effectiveness and utility at an applied potential of 0.6 V (vs. Ag/AgCl), a flow rate of 100 μL/min and, under optimal conditions, the resulting signal demonstrated a linear dynamic range from 50 μM to 1.0 mM with a limit of detection (LOD) of 12.4 μM, limit of quantification (LOQ) of 44.9 μM, and the coefficient of variation of 5.17%. In addition, validation of our proposed system using a reference HDL-cholesterol kit used for clinical diagnosis suggested our FIA system was comparable to commercial kits for the determination of the cholesterol incorporation amount in various aqueous liposomal suspensions. These good analytical features achieved by FIA could make the implementation of this methodology possible for on-line monitoring of cholesterol in various types of samples.
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- Murugan Thiruppathi
- BioAnalytical Chemistry and Nanobiomedicine Laboratory, Department of Biochemical Science and Technology, National Taiwan University
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- BioAnalytical Chemistry and Nanobiomedicine Laboratory, Department of Biochemical Science and Technology, National Taiwan University
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- Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University
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- BioAnalytical Chemistry and Nanobiomedicine Laboratory, Department of Biochemical Science and Technology, National Taiwan University
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- BioAnalytical Chemistry and Nanobiomedicine Laboratory, Department of Biochemical Science and Technology, National Taiwan University
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- BioAnalytical Chemistry and Nanobiomedicine Laboratory, Department of Biochemical Science and Technology, National Taiwan University.,Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University.,Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University.,Center for Biotechnology, National Taiwan University
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Yun JH, Park JH, Jin Z, Ohki M, Wang Y, Lupala CS, Liu H, Park SY, Lee W. Structure-Based Functional Modification Study of a Cyanobacterial Chloride Pump for Transporting Multiple Anions. J Mol Biol 2020; 432:5273-5286. [PMID: 32721401 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2020.07.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2020] [Revised: 07/21/2020] [Accepted: 07/22/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Understanding the structure and functional mechanisms of cyanobacterial halorhodopsin has become increasingly important, given the report that Synechocystis halorhodopsin (SyHR), a homolog of the cyanobacterial halorhodopsin from Mastigocladopsis repens (MrHR), can take up divalent ions, such as SO42-, as well as chloride ions. Here, the crystal structure of MrHR, containing a unique "TSD" chloride ion conduction motif, was determined as a homotrimer at a resolution of 1.9 Å. The detailed structure of MrHR revealed a unique trimeric topology of the light-driven chloride pump, with peculiar coordination of two water molecules and hydrogen-mediated bonds near the TSD motif, as well as a short B-C loop. Structural and functional analyses of MrHR revealed key residues responsible for the anion selectivity of cyanobacterial halorhodopsin and the involvement of two chloride ion-binding sites in the ion conduction pathway. Alanine mutant of Asn63, Pro118, and Glu182 locating in the anion inlet induce multifunctional uptake of chloride, nitrate, and sulfate ions. Moreover, the structure of N63A/P118A provides information on how SyHR promotes divalent ion transport. Our findings significantly advance the structural understanding of microbial rhodopsins with different motifs. They also provide insight into the general structural framework underlying the molecular mechanisms of the cyanobacterial chloride pump containing SyHR, the only molecule known to transport both sulfate and chloride ions.
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- Ji-Hye Yun
- Department of Biochemistry, College of Life Science & Biotechnology, Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biochemistry, College of Life Science & Biotechnology, Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biochemistry, College of Life Science & Biotechnology, Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea
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- Drug Design Laboratory, Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Tsurumi, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan
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- Complex Systems Division, Beijing Computational Science Research Center, 10 E. Xibeiwang Rd., Haidian District, Beijing 100193, China
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- Complex Systems Division, Beijing Computational Science Research Center, 10 E. Xibeiwang Rd., Haidian District, Beijing 100193, China
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- Complex Systems Division, Beijing Computational Science Research Center, 10 E. Xibeiwang Rd., Haidian District, Beijing 100193, China; Department of Physics, Beijing Normal University, Haidian, Beijing, 100875, China
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- Drug Design Laboratory, Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Tsurumi, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan.
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- Department of Biochemistry, College of Life Science & Biotechnology, Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea.
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Besaw JE, Ou WL, Morizumi T, Eger BT, Sanchez Vasquez JD, Chu JHY, Harris A, Brown LS, Miller RJD, Ernst OP. The crystal structures of a chloride-pumping microbial rhodopsin and its proton-pumping mutant illuminate proton transfer determinants. J Biol Chem 2020; 295:14793-14804. [PMID: 32703899 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra120.014118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2020] [Revised: 07/14/2020] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Microbial rhodopsins are versatile and ubiquitous retinal-binding proteins that function as light-driven ion pumps, light-gated ion channels, and photosensors, with potential utility as optogenetic tools for altering membrane potential in target cells. Insights from crystal structures have been central for understanding proton, sodium, and chloride transport mechanisms of microbial rhodopsins. Two of three known groups of anion pumps, the archaeal halorhodopsins (HRs) and bacterial chloride-pumping rhodopsins, have been structurally characterized. Here we report the structure of a representative of a recently discovered third group consisting of cyanobacterial chloride and sulfate ion-pumping rhodopsins, the Mastigocladopsis repens rhodopsin (MastR). Chloride-pumping MastR contains in its ion transport pathway a unique Thr-Ser-Asp (TSD) motif, which is involved in the binding of a chloride ion. The structure reveals that the chloride-binding mode is more similar to HRs than chloride-pumping rhodopsins, but the overall structure most closely resembles bacteriorhodopsin (BR), an archaeal proton pump. The MastR structure shows a trimer arrangement reminiscent of BR-like proton pumps and shows features at the extracellular side more similar to BR than the other chloride pumps. We further solved the structure of the MastR-T74D mutant, which contains a single amino acid replacement in the TSD motif. We provide insights into why this point mutation can convert the MastR chloride pump into a proton pump but cannot in HRs. Our study points at the importance of precise coordination and exact location of the water molecule in the active center of proton pumps, which serves as a bridge for the key proton transfer.
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- Jessica E Besaw
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Immunology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Biophysics Interdepartmental Group, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Biophysics Interdepartmental Group, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Yamamoto A, Tsukamoto T, Suzuki K, Hashimoto E, Kobashigawa Y, Shibasaki K, Uchida T, Inagaki F, Demura M, Ishimori K. Spectroscopic Characterization of Halorhodopsin Reconstituted into Nanodisks Using Native Lipids. Biophys J 2020; 118:2853-2865. [PMID: 32396848 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2020.04.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2020] [Revised: 04/06/2020] [Accepted: 04/22/2020] [Indexed: 10/24/2022] Open
Abstract
We successfully reconstituted single Natronomonas pharaonis halorhodopsin (NpHR) trimers into a nanodisk (ND) using the native archaeal lipid (NL) and an artificial lipid having a zwitterionic headgroup, 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (POPC). Incorporation of single trimeric NpHR into NDs was confirmed by sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, size-exclusion chromatography, and visible circular dichroism spectroscopy. The Cl- binding affinity of NpHR in NDs using NL (NL-ND NpHR) or POPC (POPC-ND NpHR) was examined by absorption spectroscopy, showing that the Cl--releasing affinities (Kd,N↔O) of these ND-reconstituted NpHRs are more than 10 times higher than that obtained from native NpHR membrane fragments (MFs) harvested from a NpHR-overexpressing archaeal strain (MF NpHR). The photoreaction kinetics of these ND-reconstituted NpHRs revealed that the Cl- uptake was faster than that of MF NpHR. These differences in the Cl--releasing and uptake properties of ND-reconstituted NpHRs and MF NpHR may arise from suppression of protein conformational changes associated with Cl- release from the trimeric NpHR caused by ND reconstitution, conformational perturbation in the trimeric state, and loss of the trimer-trimer interactions. On the other hand, POPC-ND NpHR demonstrated accelerated Cl- uptake compared to NL-ND NpHR, suggesting that the negative charge on the archaeal membrane surface regulates the photocycle of NpHR. Although NL-ND NpHR and MF NpHR are embedded in the same lipid, the lower Cl--binding affinity at the initial state (Kd,initial) and faster recovering from the NpHR' state to the original state of the photoreaction cycle were observed for NL-ND NpHR, probably because of insufficient interactions with a chromophore in the native membrane, bacterioruberin in reconstituted NDs. Our results indicate that specific interactions of NpHR with surrounding lipids and bacterioruberin, structural flexibility of the membrane, and interactions between trimeric NpHRs may be necessary for efficient Cl- pumping.
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- Ayumi Yamamoto
- Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan; Global Station for Soft Matter, Global Institution for Collaborative Research and Education, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan; Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan; Global Station for Soft Matter, Global Institution for Collaborative Research and Education, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
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- Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan; Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
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Baba T, Takagi T, Sumaru K, Kanamori T. Effect of the fluorination degree of partially fluorinated octyl-phosphocholine surfactants on their interfacial properties and interactions with purple membrane as a membrane protein model. Chem Phys Lipids 2020; 227:104870. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2020.104870] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2019] [Revised: 12/02/2019] [Accepted: 01/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Iizuka A, Kajimoto K, Fujisawa T, Tsukamoto T, Aizawa T, Kamo N, Jung KH, Unno M, Demura M, Kikukawa T. Functional importance of the oligomer formation of the cyanobacterial H + pump Gloeobacter rhodopsin. Sci Rep 2019; 9:10711. [PMID: 31341208 PMCID: PMC6656774 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-47178-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2019] [Accepted: 07/11/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
Abstract
Many microbial rhodopsins self-oligomerize, but the functional consequences of oligomerization have not been well clarified. We examined the effects of oligomerization of a H+ pump, Gloeobacter rhodopsin (GR), by using nanodisc containing trimeric and monomeric GR. The monomerization did not appear to affect the unphotolyzed GR. However, we found a significant impact on the photoreaction: The monomeric GR showed faint M intermediate formation and negligible H+ transfer reactions. These changes reflected the elevated pKa of the Asp121 residue, whose deprotonation is a prerequisite for the functional photoreaction. Here, we focused on His87, which is a neighboring residue of Asp121 and conserved among eubacterial H+ pumps but replaced by Met in an archaeal H+ pump. We found that the H87M mutation removes the “monomerization effects”: Even in the monomeric state, H87M contained the deprotonated Asp121 and showed both M formation and distinct H+ transfer reactions. Thus, for wild-type GR, monomerization probably strengthens the Asp121-His87 interaction and thereby elevates the pKa of Asp121 residue. This strong interaction might occur due to the loosened protein structure and/or the disruption of the interprotomer interaction of His87. Thus, the trimeric assembly of GR enables light-induced H+ transfer reactions through adjusting the positions of key residues.
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- Azusa Iizuka
- Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0810, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Saga University, Saga, 840-8502, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Saga University, Saga, 840-8502, Japan
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- Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0810, Japan.,Global Station for Soft Matter, Global Institution for Collaborative Research and Education, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 001-0021, Japan
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- Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0810, Japan.,Global Station for Soft Matter, Global Institution for Collaborative Research and Education, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 001-0021, Japan
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- Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0810, Japan
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- Department of Life Science and Institute of Biological Interfaces, Sogang University, Seoul, 04107, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Saga University, Saga, 840-8502, Japan
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- Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0810, Japan.,Global Station for Soft Matter, Global Institution for Collaborative Research and Education, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 001-0021, Japan
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- Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0810, Japan. .,Global Station for Soft Matter, Global Institution for Collaborative Research and Education, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 001-0021, Japan.
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Idso MN, Baxter NR, Narayanan S, Chang E, Fisher J, Chmelka BF, Han S. Proteorhodopsin Function Is Primarily Mediated by Oligomerization in Different Micellar Surfactant Solutions. J Phys Chem B 2019; 123:4180-4192. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b00922] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Kao YM, Cheng CH, Syue ML, Huang HY, Chen IC, Yu TY, Chu LK. Photochemistry of Bacteriorhodopsin with Various Oligomeric Statuses in Controlled Membrane Mimicking Environments: A Spectroscopic Study from Femtoseconds to Milliseconds. J Phys Chem B 2019; 123:2032-2039. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b01224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Yu-Min Kao
- Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University, 101, Sec. 2, Kuang-Fu Road, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan
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- Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University, 101, Sec. 2, Kuang-Fu Road, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan
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- Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University, 101, Sec. 2, Kuang-Fu Road, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan
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- Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University, 101, Sec. 2, Kuang-Fu Road, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan
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- Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University, 101, Sec. 2, Kuang-Fu Road, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
- International Graduate Program of Molecular Science and Technology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University, 101, Sec. 2, Kuang-Fu Road, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan
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Huang H, Ge B, Sun C, Zhang S, Huang F. Membrane curvature affects the stability and folding kinetics of bacteriorhodopsin. Process Biochem 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.procbio.2018.10.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Balo AR, Lee J, Ernst OP. Stationary Phase EPR Spectroscopy for Monitoring Membrane Protein Refolding by Conformational Response. Anal Chem 2018; 91:1071-1079. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.8b04542] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Shionoya T, Mizuno M, Tsukamoto T, Ikeda K, Seki H, Kojima K, Shibata M, Kawamura I, Sudo Y, Mizutani Y. High Thermal Stability of Oligomeric Assemblies of Thermophilic Rhodopsin in a Lipid Environment. J Phys Chem B 2018; 122:6945-6953. [PMID: 29893559 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b04894] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Thermophilic rhodopsin (TR) is a light-driven proton pump from the extreme thermophile Thermus thermophilus JL-18. Previous studies on TR solubilized with detergent showed that the protein exhibits high thermal stability and forms a trimer at room temperature but irreversibly dissociates into monomers when incubated at physiological temperature (75 °C). In the present study, we used resonance Raman (RR) spectroscopy, solid-state NMR spectroscopy, and high-speed atomic force microscopy to analyze the oligomeric structure of TR in a lipid environment. The obtained spectra and microscopic images demonstrate that TR adopts a pentameric form in a lipid environment and that this assembly is stable at the physiological temperature, in contrast to the behavior of the protein in the solubilized state. These results indicate that the thermal stability of the oligomeric assembly of TR is higher in a lipid environment than in detergent micelles. The observed RR spectra also showed that the retinal chromophore is strongly hydrogen bonded to an internal water molecule via a protonated Schiff base, which is characteristic of proton-pumping rhodopsins. The obtained data strongly suggest that TR functions in the pentameric form at physiological temperature in the extreme thermophile T. thermophilus JL-18. We utilized the high thermal stability of the monomeric form of solubilized TR and here report the first RR spectra of the monomeric form of a microbial rhodopsin. The observed RR spectra revealed that the monomerization of TR alters the chromophore structure: there are changes in the bond alternation of the polyene chain and in the hydrogen-bond strength of the protonated Schiff base. The present study revealed the high thermal stability of oligomeric assemblies of TR in the lipid environment and suggested the importance of using TR embedded in lipid membrane for elucidation of its functional mechanism.
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- Tomomi Shionoya
- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science , Osaka University , 1-1 Machikaneyama , Toyonaka , Osaka 560-0043 , Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science , Osaka University , 1-1 Machikaneyama , Toyonaka , Osaka 560-0043 , Japan
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- Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences , Okayama University , 1-1-1 Tsushima-naka , Kita-ku, Okayama 700-8530 , Japan
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- Graduate School of Engineering , Yokohama National University , Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama 240-8501 , Japan
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- Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences , Okayama University , 1-1-1 Tsushima-naka , Kita-ku, Okayama 700-8530 , Japan
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- Graduate School of Engineering , Yokohama National University , Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama 240-8501 , Japan
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- Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences , Okayama University , 1-1-1 Tsushima-naka , Kita-ku, Okayama 700-8530 , Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science , Osaka University , 1-1 Machikaneyama , Toyonaka , Osaka 560-0043 , Japan
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Ji L, Ma B, Meng Q, Li L, Liu K, Chen D. Detergent-resistant oligomeric Leptosphaeria rhodopsin is a promising bio-nanomaterial and an alternative to bacteriorhodopsin. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2017; 493:352-357. [PMID: 28887035 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2017.09.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2017] [Accepted: 09/05/2017] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Bacteriorhodopsin has attracted remarkable attention as a photoactive bio-nanomaterial in the last decades. However, its instability in the presence of detergents has restricted the extent to which bacteriorhodopsin may be applied. In this study, we investigated the oligomerization of a eukaryotic light-driven H+-pump, Leptosphaeria rhodopsin, using circular dichroism spectroscopy and other biophysical and biochemical methods. Our findings revealed that Leptosphaeria rhodopsin assembled into oligomers in the cell membrane and also in 0.05% DDM detergent micelles. Moreover, unlike bacteriorhodopsin in purple membrane, Leptosphaeria rhodopsin retained its oligomeric structure in 1% Triton X-100 and demonstrated strong resistance to other common detergents. A maximal photocurrent density of ∼85 nA/cm2 was consistently generated, which was substantially larger than that of solubilized bacteriorhodopsin (∼10 nA/cm2). Therefore, oligomeric Leptosphaeria rhodopsin may be a promising bio-nanomaterial, and an alternative to bacteriorhodopsin, especially with the use of detergents.
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- Liangliang Ji
- College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
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Recent advances in biophysical studies of rhodopsins - Oligomerization, folding, and structure. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS 2017; 1865:1512-1521. [PMID: 28844743 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2017.08.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2017] [Revised: 08/06/2017] [Accepted: 08/11/2017] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Retinal-binding proteins, mainly known as rhodopsins, function as photosensors and ion transporters in a wide range of organisms. From halobacterial light-driven proton pump, bacteriorhodopsin, to bovine photoreceptor, visual rhodopsin, they have served as prototypical α-helical membrane proteins in a large number of biophysical studies and aided in the development of many cutting-edge techniques of structural biology and biospectroscopy. In the last decade, microbial and animal rhodopsin families have expanded significantly, bringing into play a number of new interesting structures and functions. In this review, we will discuss recent advances in biophysical approaches to retinal-binding proteins, primarily microbial rhodopsins, including those in optical spectroscopy, X-ray crystallography, nuclear magnetic resonance, and electron paramagnetic resonance, as applied to such fundamental biological aspects as protein oligomerization, folding, and structure.
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Smitienko OA, Nekrasova OV, Kudriavtsev AV, Yakovleva MA, Shelaev IV, Gostev FE, Dolgikh DA, Kolchugina IB, Nadtochenko VA, Kirpichnikov MP, Feldman TB, Ostrovsky MA. Femtosecond and picosecond dynamics of recombinant bacteriorhodopsin primary reactions compared to the native protein in trimeric and monomeric forms. BIOCHEMISTRY (MOSCOW) 2017; 82:490-500. [DOI: 10.1134/s0006297917040113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Kato HE, Inoue K, Kandori H, Nureki O. The light-driven sodium ion pump: A new player in rhodopsin research. Bioessays 2016; 38:1274-1282. [PMID: 27859420 DOI: 10.1002/bies.201600065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Rhodopsins are one of the most studied photoreceptor protein families, and ion-translocating rhodopsins, both pumps and channels, have recently attracted broad attention because of the development of optogenetics. Recently, a new functional class of ion-pumping rhodopsins, an outward Na+ pump, was discovered, and following structural and functional studies enable us to compare three functionally different ion-pumping rhodopsins: outward proton pump, inward Cl- pump, and outward Na+ pump. Here, we review the current knowledge on structure-function relationships in these three light-driven pumps, mainly focusing on Na+ pumps. A structural and functional comparison reveals both unique and conserved features of these ion pumps, and enhances our understanding about how the structurally similar microbial rhodopsins acquired such diverse functions. We also discuss some unresolved questions and future perspectives in research of ion-pumping rhodopsins, including optogenetics application and engineering of novel rhodopsins.
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- Hideaki E Kato
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Frontier Materials, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan.,OptoBioTechnology Research Center, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan.,PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan
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- Department of Frontier Materials, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan.,OptoBioTechnology Research Center, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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Tuning the Photocycle Kinetics of Bacteriorhodopsin in Lipid Nanodiscs. Biophys J 2016; 109:1899-906. [PMID: 26536266 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2015.09.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2015] [Revised: 08/19/2015] [Accepted: 09/11/2015] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Monodisperse lipid nanodiscs are particularly suitable for characterizing membrane protein in near-native environment. To study the lipid-composition dependence of photocycle kinetics of bacteriorhodopsin (bR), transient absorption spectroscopy was utilized to monitor the evolution of the photocycle intermediates of bR reconstituted in nanodiscs composed of different ratios of the zwitterionic lipid (DMPC, dimyristoyl phosphatidylcholine; DOPC, dioleoyl phosphatidylcholine) to the negatively charged lipid (DOPG, dioleoyl phosphatidylglycerol; DMPG, dimyristoyl phosphatidylglycerol). The characterization of ion-exchange chromatography showed that the negative surface charge of nanodiscs increased as the content of DOPG or DMPG was increased. The steady-state absorption contours of the light-adapted monomeric bR in nanodiscs composed of different lipid ratios exhibited highly similar absorption features of the retinal moiety at 560 nm, referring to the conservation of the tertiary structure of bR in nanodiscs of different lipid compositions. In addition, transient absorption contours showed that the photocycle kinetics of bR was significantly retarded and the transient populations of intermediates N and O were decreased as the content of DMPG or DOPG was reduced. This observation could be attributed to the negatively charged lipid heads of DMPG and DOPG, exhibiting similar proton relay capability as the native phosphatidylglycerol (PG) analog lipids in the purple membrane. In this work, we not only demonstrated the usefulness of nanodiscs as a membrane-mimicking system, but also showed that the surrounding lipids play a crucial role in altering the biological functions, e.g., the ion translocation kinetics of the transmembrane proteins.
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Ward ME, Wang S, Munro R, Ritz E, Hung I, Gor'kov PL, Jiang Y, Liang H, Brown LS, Ladizhansky V. In situ structural studies of Anabaena sensory rhodopsin in the E. coli membrane. Biophys J 2016; 108:1683-1696. [PMID: 25863060 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2015.02.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2014] [Revised: 12/18/2014] [Accepted: 02/12/2015] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Magic-angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance is well suited for the study of membrane proteins in the nativelike lipid environment. However, the natural cellular membrane is invariably more complex than the proteoliposomes most often used for solid-state NMR (SSNMR) studies, and differences may affect the structure and dynamics of the proteins under examination. In this work we use SSNMR and other biochemical and biophysical methods to probe the structure of a seven-transmembrane helical photoreceptor, Anabaena sensory rhodopsin (ASR), prepared in the Escherichia coli inner membrane, and compare it to that in a bilayer formed by DMPC/DMPA lipids. We find that ASR is organized into trimers in both environments but forms two-dimensional crystal lattices of different symmetries. It favors hexagonal packing in liposomes, but may form a square lattice in the E. coli membrane. To examine possible changes in structure site-specifically, we perform two- and three-dimensional SSNMR experiments and analyze the differences in chemical shifts and peak intensities. Overall, this analysis reveals that the structure of ASR is largely conserved in the inner membrane of E. coli, with many of the important structural features of rhodopsins previously observed in ASR in proteoliposomes being preserved. Small, site-specific perturbations in protein structure that occur as a result of the membrane changes indicate that the protein can subtly adapt to its environment without large structural rearrangement.
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- Meaghan E Ward
- Department of Physics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada; Biophysics Interdepartmental Group, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada; Biophysics Interdepartmental Group, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada; Biophysics Interdepartmental Group, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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- National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
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- National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
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- Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado
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- Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado
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- Department of Physics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada; Biophysics Interdepartmental Group, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
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- Department of Physics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada; Biophysics Interdepartmental Group, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
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Gavvala K, Koninti RK, Sengupta A, Hazra P. Excited state proton transfer dynamics of an eminent anticancer drug, ellipticine, in octyl glucoside micelle. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 16:14953-60. [PMID: 24931633 DOI: 10.1039/c4cp01783h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Photophysics and proton transfer dynamics of an eminent anticancer drug, ellipticine (EPT), have been investigated inside a biocompatible octyl-β-D-glucoside (OBG) micellar medium using steady state and time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopic techniques. EPT exists as protonated form in aqueous solution of pH 7. When EPT molecules are encapsulated in OBG micelles, protonated form is converted to neutral form in the ground state due to the hydrophobic effect of the micellar environment. Interestingly, steady state fluorescence results indicate the existence of both neutral and protonated forms of EPT in the excited state, even though neutral molecules are selectively excited, and it is attributed to the conversion of neutral to protonated form of EPT by the excited state proton transfer (ESPT) process. A clear isoemissive point in the time-resolved area normalized emission spectra (TRANES) further supports the excited state conversion of neutral to protonated form of EPT. Notably, this kind of proton transfer dynamics is not observed in other conventional micelles, such as, SDS, Triton-X and CTAB. Therefore, the observed ESPT dynamics is believed to be an outcome of combined effects of the local dielectric constant felt by EPT and the local proton concentration at the OBG micellar surface.
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- Krishna Gavvala
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune-411008, Maharashtra, India.
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Dutta S, Nair DK, Namboothiri INN, Wachtel E, Friedman N, Sheves M, Patchornik G. Engineered-membranes and engineered-micelles as efficient tools for purification of halorhodopsin and bacteriorhodopsin. Analyst 2015; 140:204-12. [DOI: 10.1039/c4an01423e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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We describe two alternative and complementary purification methods for halorhodopsin and bacteriorhodopsin.
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- Sansa Dutta
- Department of Organic Chemistry
- Weizmann Institute of Science
- Rehovot
- Israel
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- Department of Chemistry
- Indian Institute of Technology
- Bombay
- India
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- Chemical Research Infrastructure Unit
- Weizmann Institute of Science
- Rehovot
- Israel
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- Department of Organic Chemistry
- Weizmann Institute of Science
- Rehovot
- Israel
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- Department of Organic Chemistry
- Weizmann Institute of Science
- Rehovot
- Israel
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- Department of Biological Chemistry
- Ariel University
- Ariel
- Israel
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Structural analysis of bacteriorhodopsin solubilized by lipid-like phosphocholine biosurfactants with varying micelle concentrations. J Colloid Interface Sci 2015; 437:170-180. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2014.09.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2014] [Revised: 09/05/2014] [Accepted: 09/08/2014] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Tsukamoto T, Demura M, Sudo Y. Irreversible trimer to monomer transition of thermophilic rhodopsin upon thermal stimulation. J Phys Chem B 2014; 118:12383-94. [PMID: 25279934 DOI: 10.1021/jp507374q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Assembly is one of the keys to understand biological molecules, and it takes place in spatial and temporal domains upon stimulation. Microbial rhodopsin (also called retinal protein) is a membrane-embedded protein that has a retinal chromophore within seven-transmembrane α-helices and shows homo-, di-, tri-, penta-, and hexameric assemblies. Those assemblies are closely related to critical physiological properties such as stabilizing the protein structure and regulating their photoreaction dynamics. Here we investigated the assembly and disassembly of thermophilic rhodopsin (TR), which is a novel proton-pumping rhodopsin derived from a thermophile living at 75 °C. TR was characterized using size-exclusion chromatography and circular dichroism spectroscopy, and formed a trimer at 25 °C, but irreversibly dissociated into monomers upon thermal stimulation. The transition temperature was estimated to be 68 °C. The irreversible nature made it possible to investigate the photochemical properties of both the trimer and the monomer independently. Compared with the trimer, the absorption maximum of the monomer is blue-shifted by 6 nm without any changes in the retinal composition, pKa value for the counterion or the sequence of the proton movement. The photocycling rate of the monomeric TR was similar to that of the trimeric TR. A similar trimer-monomer transition upon thermal stimulation was observed for another eubacterial rhodopsin GR but not for the archaeal rhodopsins AR3 and HwBR, suggesting that the transition is conserved in bacterial rhodopsins. Thus, the thermal stimulation of TR induces the irreversible disassembly of the trimer.
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- Takashi Tsukamoto
- Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University , 1-1-1 Tsushima-naka, Kita-ku, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
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Han SG, Na JH, Lee WK, Park D, Oh J, Yoon SH, Lee CK, Sung MH, Shin YK, Yu YG. An amphipathic polypeptide derived from poly-γ-glutamic acid for the stabilization of membrane proteins. Protein Sci 2014; 23:1800-7. [PMID: 25283538 DOI: 10.1002/pro.2575] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2014] [Revised: 09/14/2014] [Accepted: 09/30/2014] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Difficulties in the extraction of membrane proteins from cell membrane and their solubilization in native conformations have hindered their structural and biochemical analysis. To overcome these difficulties, an amphipathic polypeptide was synthesized by the conjugation of octyl and glucosyl groups to the carboxyl groups of poly-γ-glutamic acid (PGA). This polymer, called amphipathic PGA (APG), self-assembles as mono-disperse oligomers consisted of 4-5 monomers. APG shows significantly low value of critical micelle concentration and stabilization activity toward membrane proteins. Most of the sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS)-solubilized membrane proteins from Escherichia coli remain soluble state in the presence of APG even after the removal of SDS. In addition, APG stabilizes purified 7 transmembrane proteins such as bacteriorhodopsin and human endothelin receptor Type A (ETA ) in their active conformations. Furthermore, ETA in complex with APG is readily inserted into liposomes without disrupting the integrity of liposomes. These properties of APG can be applied to overcome the difficulties in the stabilization and reconstitution of membrane proteins.
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- Seong-Gu Han
- Department of Chemistry, Kookmin University, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, 136-702, Republic of Korea
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Effects of Triton X-100 on Proton Transfer and in the Photocycle of Archaerhodopsin 4. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem 2014; 76:250-6. [DOI: 10.1271/bbb.110508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Solubilization and Structural Stability of Bacteriorhodopsin with a Mild Nonionic Detergent,n-Octyl-β-thioglucoside. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem 2014; 75:376-8. [DOI: 10.1271/bbb.100726] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Solid-state NMR spectroscopy structure determination of a lipid-embedded heptahelical membrane protein. Nat Methods 2013; 10:1007-12. [DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.2635] [Citation(s) in RCA: 179] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2013] [Accepted: 07/22/2013] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Puthenveetil R, Vinogradova O. Optimization of the design and preparation of nanoscale phospholipid bilayers for its application to solution NMR. Proteins 2013; 81:1222-31. [PMID: 23436707 PMCID: PMC5051544 DOI: 10.1002/prot.24271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2012] [Revised: 01/23/2013] [Accepted: 02/06/2013] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Despite arduous efforts and recent technological developments structural investigation of integral membrane proteins remains a challenge. The primary deterrents include difficulties with their expression, low inherent solubility, and problems associated with existing membrane mimicking systems. A relatively new class of membrane mimetics, nanodiscs, is emerging as a promising alternative. Although nanodiscs have been proven successful for several biophysical applications, they yet remain to become the system of preferred choice for structure determination. We have hereby made nanodiscs more suitable for solution NMR applications by reducing the diameter of the self-assembly complex to its potential limit. We achieved a noticeable improvement in the quality of NMR spectra obtained for the transmembrane and cytoplasmic domains of integrin αIIb incorporated into these smaller discs rendering them susceptible for a thorough structural investigation. In addition, we also present an on-column method for a rapid, efficient, single-step preparation of protein incorporated nanodiscs at high concentrations. These discs have been fully characterized by transmission electron microscopy, dynamic light scattering, and differential scanning calorimetry.
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
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Ng KC, Chu LK. Effects of Surfactants on the Purple Membrane and Bacteriorhodopsin: Solubilization or Aggregation? J Phys Chem B 2013; 117:6241-9. [DOI: 10.1021/jp401254j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Ka Chon Ng
- Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University, 101, Sec. 2, Kuang-Fu Rd., Hsinchu 30013,
Taiwan
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- Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University, 101, Sec. 2, Kuang-Fu Rd., Hsinchu 30013,
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Wang S, Munro RA, Kim SY, Jung KH, Brown LS, Ladizhansky V. Paramagnetic Relaxation Enhancement Reveals Oligomerization Interface of a Membrane Protein. J Am Chem Soc 2012; 134:16995-8. [DOI: 10.1021/ja308310z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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- Department of Life Science and
Institute of Biological Interfaces, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Life Science and
Institute of Biological Interfaces, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea
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Homotrimer formation and dissociation of pharaonis halorhodopsin in detergent system. Biophys J 2012; 102:2906-15. [PMID: 22735541 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2012.05.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2011] [Revised: 05/06/2012] [Accepted: 05/08/2012] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Halorhodopsin from NpHR is a light-driven Cl(-) pump that forms a trimeric NpHR-bacterioruberin complex in the native membrane. In the case of NpHR expressed in Escherichia coli cell, NpHR forms a robust homotrimer in a detergent DDM solution. To identify the important residue for the homotrimer formation, we carried out mutation experiments on the aromatic amino acids expected to be located at the molecular interface. The results revealed that Phe(150) was essential to form and stabilize the NpHR trimer in the DDM solution. Further analyses for examining the structural significance of Phe(150) showed the dissociation of the trimer in F150A (dimer) and F150W (monomer) mutants. Only the F150Y mutant exhibited dissociation into monomers in an ionic strength-dependent manner. These results indicated that spatial positions and interactions between F150-aromatic side chains were crucial to homotrimer stabilization. This finding was supported by QM calculations. In a functional respect, differences in the reaction property in the ground and photoexcited states were revealed. The analysis of photointermediates revealed a decrease in the accumulation of O, which is important for Cl(-) release, and the acceleration of the decay rate in L1 and L2, which are involved in Cl(-) transfer inside the molecule, in the trimer-dissociated mutants. Interestingly, the affinity of them to Cl(-) in the photoexcited state increased rather than the trimer, whereas that in the ground state was almost the same without relation to the oligomeric state. It was also observed that the efficient recovery of the photocycle to the ground state was inhibited in the mutants. In addition, a branched pathway that was not included in Cl(-) transportation was predicted. These results suggest that the trimer assembly may contribute to the regulation of the dynamics in the excited state of NpHR.
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Sasaki T, Razak NWA, Kato N, Mukai Y. Characteristics of halorhodopsin-bacterioruberin complex from Natronomonas pharaonis membrane in the solubilized system. Biochemistry 2012; 51:2785-94. [PMID: 22369627 DOI: 10.1021/bi201876p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Halorhodopsin is a retinal protein with a seven-transmembrane helix and acts as an inward light-driven Cl(-) pump. In this study, structural state of the solubilized halorhodopsin (NpHR) from the biomembrane of mutant strain KM-1 of Natronomonas pharaonis in nonionic detergent was investigated. A gel filtration chromatography monitored absorbances at 280 and 504 nm corresponding to the protein and a lipid soluble pigment of bacterioruberin (BR), respectively, has clearly detected an oligomer formation of the NpHRs and a complex formation between the NpHR and BR in the solubilized system. A molar ratio of NpHR:BR in the solubilized complex was close to 1:1. Further SDS-PAGE analysis of the solubilized NpHR cross-linked by 1% glutaraldehyde has revealed that the NpHR forms homotrimer in detergent system. Although this trimeric structure was stable in the presence of NaCl, it was dissociated to the monomer by the heat treatment at 45 °C in the desalted condition. The same tendency has been reported in the case of trimeric NpHR expressed heterologously on the E. coli membrane, leading to a conclusion that the change of strength of the trimeric association dependent on the ion binding is a universal feature of the NpHR. Interestingly, the trimer dissociation on the NpHR was accompanied by the complete dissociation of the BR molecule from the protein, indicated that the cavity formed by the NpHR protomers in the trimeric conformation is important for tight binding of the BR. Because the binding affinity for Cl(-) and the resistance to hydroxylamine under light illumination showed only minor differences between the NpHR in the solubilized state and that on the biomembrane, the influences of solubilization to the tertiary structure and function of the protein are thought to be minor. This NpHR-BR complex in the solubilized system has a potential to be a good model system to investigate the intermolecular interaction between the membrane protein and lipid.
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- Takanori Sasaki
- School of Science and Technology, Meiji University, Tama-ku, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa 214-8571, Japan.
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Lobasso S, Lopalco P, Vitale R, Saponetti MS, Capitanio G, Mangini V, Milano F, Trotta M, Corcelli A. The light-activated proton pump Bop I of the archaeon Haloquadratum walsbyi. Photochem Photobiol 2012; 88:690-700. [PMID: 22248212 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.2012.01089.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We have isolated and characterized the light-driven proton pump Bop I from the ultrathin square archaeon Haloquadratum walsbyi, the most abundant component of the dense microbial community inhabiting hypersaline environments. The disruption of cells by hypo-osmotic shock yielded Bop I retinal protein highly enriched membranes, which contain one main 27 kDa protein band together with a high content of the carotenoid bacterioruberin. Light-induced pH changes were observed in suspensions of Bop I retinal protein-enriched membranes under sustained illumination. Solubilization of H. walsbyi cells with Triton X-100, followed by phenyl-Sepharose chromatography, resulted in isolation of two purified Bop I retinal protein bands; mass spectrometry analysis revealed that the Bop I was present as only protein in both the bands. The study of light/dark adaptations, M-decay kinetics, responses to titration with alkali in the dark and endogenous lipid compositions of the two Bop I retinal protein bands showed functional differences that could be attributed to different protein aggregation states. Proton-pumping activity of Bop I during the photocycle was observed in liposomes constituted of archaeal lipids. Similarities and differences of Bop I with other archaeal proton-pumping retinal proteins will be discussed.
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- Simona Lobasso
- Department of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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Ranaghan MJ, Schwall CT, Alder NN, Birge RR. Green proteorhodopsin reconstituted into nanoscale phospholipid bilayers (nanodiscs) as photoactive monomers. J Am Chem Soc 2011; 133:18318-27. [PMID: 21951206 PMCID: PMC3218432 DOI: 10.1021/ja2070957] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Over 4000 putative proteorhodopsins (PRs) have been identified throughout the oceans and seas of the Earth. The first of these eubacterial rhodopsins was discovered in 2000 and has expanded the family of microbial proton pumps to all three domains of life. With photophysical properties similar to those of bacteriorhodopsin, an archaeal proton pump, PRs are also generating interest for their potential use in various photonic applications. We perform here the first reconstitution of the minimal photoactive PR structure into nanoscale phospholipid bilayers (nanodiscs) to better understand how protein-protein and protein-lipid interactions influence the photophysical properties of PR. Spectral (steady-state and time-resolved UV-visible spectroscopy) and physical (size-exclusion chromatography and electron microscopy) characterization of these complexes confirms the preparation of a photoactive PR monomer within nanodiscs. Specifically, when embedded within a nanodisc, monomeric PR exhibits a titratable pK(a) (6.5-7.1) and photocycle lifetime (∼100-200 ms) that are comparable to the detergent-solubilized protein. These ndPRs also produce a photoactive blue-shifted absorbance, centered at 377 or 416 nm, that indicates that protein-protein interactions from a PR oligomer are required for a fast photocycle. Moreover, we demonstrate how these model membrane systems allow modulation of the PR photocycle by variation of the discoidal diameter (i.e., 10 or 12 nm), bilayer thickness (i.e., 23 or 26.5 Å), and degree of saturation of the lipid acyl chain. Nanodiscs also offer a highly stable environment of relevance to potential device applications.
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- Matthew J. Ranaghan
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, 91 North Eagleville Road, Storrs, Connecticut 06269 (USA)
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, 91 North Eagleville Road, Storrs, Connecticut 06269 (USA)
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, 91 North Eagleville Road, Storrs, Connecticut 06269 (USA)
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, 91 North Eagleville Road, Storrs, Connecticut 06269 (USA)
- Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, 55 North Eagleville Road, Storrs, Connecticut 06269 (USA)
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Sonoyama M, Fukumoto M, Kuwabara Y. Highly Stable Solubilization of Membrane Protein Bacteriorhodopsin with a Short-chain Phospholipid Diheptanoylphosphatidylcholine. CHEM LETT 2010. [DOI: 10.1246/cl.2010.876] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Clays K, Hendrickx E, Triest M, Verbiest T, Persoons A, Dehu C, Brédas JL. Nonlinear optical properties of proteins measured by hyper-rayleigh scattering in solution. Science 2010; 262:1419-22. [PMID: 17736822 DOI: 10.1126/science.262.5138.1419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Hyper-Rayleigh scattering has been used to determine the nonlinear optical properties of a chromophore-containing protein in solution. Because the technique of hyper-Rayleigh scattering allows the measurement of hyperpolarizabilities in an isotropic solution without the application of an electric field, this method is ideally suited for the study of proteins that carry a net charge. The observed orientational correlation between the nonlinear optical chromophores in incompletely solubilized protein molecules suggests that guidelines from protein structures can be used for the engineering of supramolecular structures with high optical nonlinearity.
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Unique biphasic band shape of the visible circular dichroism of bacteriorhodopsin in purple membrane: Excitons, multiple transitions or protein heterogeneity? Biophys J 2010; 63:1432-42. [PMID: 19431860 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(92)81701-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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OVER A DECADE AND A HALF AGO, WHEN THE FIRST VISIBLE MEMBRANE SUSPENSION CIRCULAR DICHROIC (CD) SPECTRUM OF THE PURPLE MEMBRANE (PM) WAS PRESENTED, TWO MECHANISMS WERE PROPOSED TO ACCOUNT FOR THE OBSERVED BIPHASIC SHAPED CD BAND: (a) excitonic interactions among the retinals of the sole protein bacteriorhodopsin (bR) in the crystalline structure of the PM, and (b) combination of CD bands with opposite rotational strengths due to a retinal-apoprotein heterogeneity of the bR molecules or due to two possible close-lying long-wavelength transitions of the retinal of the bR with opposite rotational strengths. Since that time, an impressive body of experimental and theoretical evidence has been accumulated, mostly consistent with an exciton model but many at serious odds with any heterogeneity or multiple transition model. Recently, a number of articles have appeared reporting analyses of new experimental observations which are proposed to cast serious doubts on the viability of the exciton model, and therefore, may revive the heterogeneity or multiple transition model as an explanation for the unique shape of the CD band of the PM. The intent of this article is to demonstrate that if all observations found in literature baring on this question are considered in toto and in a consistent manner, they can be interpreted without exception by excitons, and furthermore, that there is no plausible evidence available to warrant the revival of the heterogeneity or multiple transition model as an explanation for the unique shape of the biphasic CD band of the PM.
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Arlt B, Datta S, Sottmann T, Wiegand S. Soret Effect of n-Octyl β-d-Glucopyranoside (C8G1) in Water around the Critical Micelle Concentration. J Phys Chem B 2010; 114:2118-23. [DOI: 10.1021/jp907988r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Bastian Arlt
- Institute of Solid State Research - Soft Matter, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany, and Department of Chemistry, University of Cologne, Cologne
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- Institute of Solid State Research - Soft Matter, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany, and Department of Chemistry, University of Cologne, Cologne
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- Institute of Solid State Research - Soft Matter, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany, and Department of Chemistry, University of Cologne, Cologne
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- Institute of Solid State Research - Soft Matter, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany, and Department of Chemistry, University of Cologne, Cologne
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Chae PS, Laible PD, Gellman SH. Tripod Amphiphiles for Membrane Protein Manipulation. MOLECULAR BIOSYSTEMS 2010; 6:89-94. [PMID: 23814603 PMCID: PMC3693755 DOI: 10.1039/b915162c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/19/2024]
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Integral membrane proteins (IMPs) are crucial biological components, mediating the transfer of material and information between cells and their environment. Many IMPs have proven to be difficult to isolate and study. High-resolution structural information on this class of proteins is limited, largely because of difficulties in generating soluble forms of such proteins that retain native folding and activity, and difficulties in generating high-quality crystals from such preparations. Isolated IMPs typically do not dissolve in aqueous solution, a property that arises from the large patches of hydrophobic surface necessary for favorable interactions with the core of a lipid bilayer. Detergents are generally required for IMP solubilization: hydrophobic segments of detergent molecules cluster around and shield from water the hydrophobic protein surfaces. The critical role played by detergents in membrane protein manipulation, and the fact that many IMPs are recalcitrant to solubilization and/or crystallization with currently available detergents, suggest that it should be valuable to explore new types of amphiphiles for these purposes. This review constitutes a progress report on our long-term effort to develop a new class of organic molecules, collectively designated "tripod amphiphiles," that are intended as alternatives to conventional detergents for membrane protein manipulation. One long-range goal of this research is to identify new types of amphiphiles that facilitate IMP crystallization. This review should help introduce an important biochemical need to organic chemists, and perhaps inspire new approaches to the problem.
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- Pil Seok Chae
- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706 (USA). Fax: (+1) 608-265-4534; Tel: (+1) 608-262-3303
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- Biosciences Division Argonne National Laborotory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439 (USA). Fax: (+1) 630-252-3387
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706 (USA). Fax: (+1) 608-265-4534; Tel: (+1) 608-262-3303
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Amphipols and fluorinated surfactants: Two alternatives to detergents for studying membrane proteins in vitro. Methods Mol Biol 2010; 601:219-45. [PMID: 20099149 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60761-344-2_14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/08/2022]
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Handling integral membrane proteins in aqueous solutions traditionally relies on the use of detergents, which are surfactants capable of dispersing the components of biological membranes into mixed micelles. The dissociating character of detergents, however, most often causes solubilized membrane proteins to be unstable. This has prompted the development of alternative, less-aggressive surfactants designed to keep membrane proteins soluble, after they have been solubilized, under milder conditions. A short overview is presented of the structure, properties, and uses of two families of such surfactants: amphiphilic polymers ("amphipols") and fluorinated surfactants.
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Chu LK, El-Sayed MA. Bacteriorhodopsin O-state Photocycle Kinetics: A Surfactant Study. Photochem Photobiol 2010; 86:70-6. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.2009.00629.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Shimono K, Goto M, Kikukawa T, Miyauchi S, Shirouzu M, Kamo N, Yokoyama S. Production of functional bacteriorhodopsin by an Escherichia coli cell-free protein synthesis system supplemented with steroid detergent and lipid. Protein Sci 2009; 18:2160-71. [PMID: 19746358 DOI: 10.1002/pro.230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Cell-free expression has become a highly promising tool for the efficient production of membrane proteins. In this study, we used a dialysis-based Escherichia coli cell-free system for the production of a membrane protein actively integrated into liposomes. The membrane protein was the light-driven proton pump bacteriorhodopsin, consisting of seven transmembrane alpha-helices. The cell-free expression system in the dialysis mode was supplemented with a combination of a detergent and a natural lipid, phosphatidylcholine from egg yolk, in only the reaction mixture. By examining a variety of detergents, we found that the combination of a steroid detergent (digitonin, cholate, or CHAPS) and egg phosphatidylcholine yielded a large amount (0.3-0.7 mg/mL reaction mixture) of the fully functional bacteriorhodopsin. We also analyzed the process of functional expression in our system. The synthesized polypeptide was well protected from aggregation by the detergent-lipid mixed micelles and/or lipid disks, and was integrated into liposomes upon detergent removal by dialysis. This approach might be useful for the high yield production of functional membrane proteins.
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- Kazumi Shimono
- RIKEN Systems and Structural Biology Center, Yokohama, Japan
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Sonoyama M, Kikukawa T, Yokoyama Y, Demura M, Kamo N, Mitaku S. Effect of Molecular Assembly on Photocycle of Reconstituted Bacteriorhodopsin: Significant Blue Shift of the Late M Photointermediate in the Liquid Crystalline Phase. CHEM LETT 2009. [DOI: 10.1246/cl.2009.1134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Breyton C, Gabel F, Abla M, Pierre Y, Lebaupain F, Durand G, Popot JL, Ebel C, Pucci B. Micellar and biochemical properties of (hemi)fluorinated surfactants are controlled by the size of the polar head. Biophys J 2009; 97:1077-86. [PMID: 19686655 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2009.05.053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2009] [Revised: 05/20/2009] [Accepted: 05/22/2009] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Surfactants with fluorinated and hemifluorinated alkyl chains have yielded encouraging results in terms of membrane protein stability; however, the molecules used hitherto have either been chemically heterogeneous or formed heterogeneous micelles. A new series of surfactants whose polar head size is modulated by the presence of one, two, or three glucose moieties has been synthesized. Analytical ultracentrifugation and small-angle neutron scattering show that fluorinated surfactants whose polar head bears a single glucosyl group form very large cylindrical micelles, whereas those with two or three glucose moieties form small, homogeneous, globular micelles. We studied the homogeneity and stability of the complexes formed between membrane proteins and these surfactants by using bacteriorhodopsin and cytochrome b(6)f as models. Homogeneous complexes were obtained only with surfactants that form homogeneous micelles. Surfactants bearing one or two glucose moieties were found to be stabilizing, whereas those with three moieties were destabilizing. Fluorinated and hemifluorinated surfactants with a two-glucose polar head thus appear to be very promising molecules for biochemical applications and structural studies. They were successfully used for cell-free synthesis of the ion channel MscL.
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- Cécile Breyton
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Unite Mixte de Recherche 7099, Paris, France.
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Ritchie TK, Grinkova YV, Bayburt TH, Denisov IG, Zolnerciks JK, Atkins WM, Sligar SG. Chapter 11 - Reconstitution of membrane proteins in phospholipid bilayer nanodiscs. Methods Enzymol 2009; 464:211-31. [PMID: 19903557 DOI: 10.1016/s0076-6879(09)64011-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 638] [Impact Index Per Article: 42.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Self-assembled phospholipid bilayer Nanodiscs have become an important and versatile tool among model membrane systems to functionally reconstitute membrane proteins. Nanodiscs consist of lipid domains encased within an engineered derivative of apolipoprotein A-1 scaffold proteins, which can be tailored to yield homogeneous preparations of disks with different diameters, and with epitope tags for exploitation in various purification strategies. A critical aspect of the self-assembly of target membranes into Nanodiscs lies in the optimization of the lipid:protein ratio. Here we describe strategies for performing this optimization and provide examples for reconstituting bacteriorhodopsin as a trimer, rhodopsin, and functionally active P-glycoprotein. Together, these demonstrate the versatility of Nanodisc technology for preparing monodisperse samples of membrane proteins of wide-ranging structure.
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- T K Ritchie
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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The membrane protein bacteriorhodopsin (BR) can be kept soluble in its native state for months in the absence of detergent by amphipol (APol) A8-35, an amphiphilic polymer. After an actinic flash, A8-35-complexed BR undergoes a complete photocycle, with kinetics intermediate between that in detergent solution and that in its native membrane. BR/APol complexes form well defined, globular particles comprising a monomer of BR, a complete set of purple membrane lipids, and, in a peripheral distribution, approximately 2 g APol/g BR, arranged in a compact layer. In the absence of free APol, BR/APol particles can autoassociate into small or large ordered fibrils.
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Ming M, Wang Y, Wu J, Ma D, Li Q, Ding J. Triton X-100 can alter the temporal sequence of the light-driven proton pump of archaerhodopsin 4. FEBS Lett 2006; 580:6749-53. [PMID: 17134701 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.11.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2006] [Revised: 10/30/2006] [Accepted: 11/13/2006] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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We report that Triton X-100 can alter the temporal sequence of the light-induced proton uptake and release of archaerhodopsin 4 (AR4), a proton pumping protein in a species of Halobacteria from a Tibetan salt lake. Under physiological conditions, AR4 isolated from the bacterium exhibits a reversed temporal order of proton release and uptake compared to what is observed for bacteriorhodopsin (BR). However, in the presence of Triton X-100 early proton release was observed in AR4 at neutral pH by us. Further, this temporal order for light-driven proton release and uptake for AR4 was found to be recovered after the removal of Triton X-100 by Biobeads. This phenomenon of detergent-induced alteration of the order of proton release and uptake has not yet been reported in any other retinal-containing membrane protein such as BR. Our findings indicate that the function of AR4 is influenced by its self-assembled state, and meanwhile imply some subtle protein-lipid interactions or protein-protein interactions in adjusting the proton pumping behavior of AR4.
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- Ming Ming
- Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers of the Chinese Ministry of Education, Department of Macromolecular Science, Lab of Advanced Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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Bayburt TH, Grinkova YV, Sligar SG. Assembly of single bacteriorhodopsin trimers in bilayer nanodiscs. Arch Biochem Biophys 2006; 450:215-22. [PMID: 16620766 DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2006.03.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2006] [Revised: 03/09/2006] [Accepted: 03/10/2006] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Nanodiscs, phospholipid bilayer assemblies of controlled size, were used to self-assemble bacteriorhodopsin (bR) into single trimers. Self-assembly at optimal bR to Nanodisc and phospholipid stoichiometry yielded particles containing three bR molecules. Analysis of solution small angle X-ray scattering indicated that bacteriorhodopsin is embedded in a discoidal phospholipid bilayer structure. Formation of trimers, as evidenced by visible circular dichroism of the retinal absorbance bands, is facilitated in Nanodiscs at a specific size threshold, suggesting that a critical bilayer area or amount of lipid is necessary to maintain a native oligomeric state. The lipid to bR ratio in the assembly process was also found to be an important factor in determining oligomerization state. These nanoscale bilayers offer the opportunity to understand and control the assembly of oligomeric integral membrane proteins critical to macromolecular recognition and cellular signaling.
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- Timothy H Bayburt
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois, 116 Morrill Hall, 505 S. Goodwin, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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Efremov R, Gordeliy VI, Heberle J, Büldt G. Time-resolved microspectroscopy on a single crystal of bacteriorhodopsin reveals lattice-induced differences in the photocycle kinetics. Biophys J 2006; 91:1441-51. [PMID: 16731567 PMCID: PMC1518640 DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.106.083345] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The determination of the intermediate state structures of the bacteriorhodopsin photocycle has lead to an unprecedented level of understanding of the catalytic process exerted by a membrane protein. However, the crystallographic structures of the intermediate states are only relevant if the working cycle is not impaired by the crystal lattice. Therefore, we applied visible and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) microspectroscopy with microsecond time resolution to compare the photoreaction of a single bacteriorhodopsin crystal to that of bacteriorhodopsin residing in the native purple membrane. The analysis of the FTIR difference spectra of the resolved intermediate states reveals great similarity in structural changes taking place in the crystal and in PM. However, the kinetics of the photocycle are significantly altered in the three-dimensional crystal as compared to PM. Strikingly, the L state decay is accelerated in the crystal, whereas the M decay is delayed. The physical origin of this deviation and the implications for trapping of intermediate states are discussed. As a methodological advance, time-resolved step-scan FTIR spectroscopy on a single protein crystal is demonstrated for the first time which may be used in the future to gauge the functionality of other crystallized proteins with the molecular resolution of vibrational spectroscopy.
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- R Efremov
- Forschungszentrum Jülich, IBI-2: Structural Biology, 52425 Jülich, Germany
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Sasaki T, Sonoyama M, Demura M, Mitaku S. Photobleaching of Bacteriorhodopsin Solubilized with Triton X-100. Photochem Photobiol 2005; 81:1131-7. [PMID: 15934791 DOI: 10.1562/2005-03-22-ra-470] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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In the current studies, we examined the effects of hexagonal lattice formation with lipid membranes on the structural stability of native bacteriorhodopsin (bR). Denaturation kinetic measurements for bR solubilized with the mild nonionic detergent Triton X-100 (TX100) were performed in the dark and under illumination by visible light. The solubilized bR was stable in the dark over a wide concentration range of TX100 (1 to 200 mM). In purple membranes, a bilobed band was observed in visible circular dichroism spectra due to interactions between neighboring chromophores. At all concentrations of TX100, this was replaced by a single positive band. Upon illumination with visible light, TX100-solubilized bR clearly showed photobleaching to bacterioopsin. These experimental results suggest that photobleaching is due to a lack of intermolecular interactions inside the purple membrane lattice. Extensive kinetic measurements further revealed that the rate constant of photobleaching is strongly dependent on the detergent concentration, although the activation energy for photobleaching does not significantly change with the TX100 concentration. The mechanism of photobleaching for the solubilized bR is discussed with respect to detergent micelle properties.
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- Takanori Sasaki
- Department of Biotechnology, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan.
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