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Inada M, Kinoshita M, Sumino A, Oiki S, Matsumori N. A concise method for quantitative analysis of interactions between lipids and membrane proteins. Anal Chim Acta 2019; 1059:103-112. [PMID: 30876624 DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2019.01.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2018] [Revised: 01/17/2019] [Accepted: 01/18/2019] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Although interactions between lipids and membrane proteins (MPs) have been considered crucially important for understanding the functions of lipids, lack of useful and convincing experimental methods has hampered the analysis of the interactions. Here, we developed a surface plasmon resonance (SPR)-based concise method for quantitative analysis of lipid-MP interactions, coating the sensor chip surface with self-assembled monolayer (SAM) with C6-chain. To develop this method, we used bacteriorhodopsin (bR) as an MP, and examined its interaction with various types of lipids. The merits of using C6-SAM-modified sensor chip are as follows: (1) alkyl-chains of SAM confer a better immobilization of MPs because of the efficient preconcentration due to hydrophobic contacts; (2) SAM provides immobilized MPs with a partial membranous environment, which is important for the stabilization of MPs; and (3) a thinner C6-SAM layer (1 nm) compared with MP size forces the MP to bulge outward from the SAM surface, allowing extraneously injected lipids to be accessible to the hydrophobic transmembrane regions. Actually, the amount of bR immobilized on C6-SAM is 10 times higher than that on a hydrophilic CM5 sensor chip, and AFM observations confirmed that bR molecules are exposed on the SAM surface. Of the lipids tested, S-TGA-1, a halobacterium-derived glycolipid, had the highest specificity to bR with a nanomolar dissociation constant. This is consistent with the reported co-crystal structure that indicates the formation of several intermolecular hydrogen bonds. Therefore, we not only reproduced the specific lipid-bR recognition, but also succeeded in its quantitative evaluation, demonstrating the validity and utility of this method.
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- Masataka Inada
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Fukui, Fukui, 910-1193, Japan; High-speed AFM for Biological Application Unit, Institute for Frontier Science Initiative, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, 920-1192, Japan; Bio-AFM Frontier Research Center, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, 920-1192, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Fukui, Fukui, 910-1193, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan.
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Saab MB, Estephan E, Cloitre T, Legros R, Cuisinier FJG, Zimányi L, Gergely C. Assembly of purple membranes on polyelectrolyte films. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2009; 25:5159-5167. [PMID: 19397356 DOI: 10.1021/la9002274] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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The membrane protein bacteriorhodopsin in its native membrane bound form (purple membrane) was adsorbed and incorporated into polyelectrolyte multilayered films, and adsorption was in situ monitored by optical waveguide light-mode spectroscopy. The formation of a single layer or a double layer of purple membranes was observed when adsorbed on negatively or positively charged surfaces, respectively. The purple membrane patches adsorbed on the polyelectrolyte multilayers were also evidenced by atomic force microscopy images. The driving forces of the adsorption process were evaluated by varying the ionic strength of the solution as well as the purple membrane concentration. At high purple membrane concentration, interpenetrating polyelectrolyte loops might provide new binding sites for the adsorption of a second layer of purple membranes, whereas at lower concentrations only a single layer is formed. Negative surfaces do not promote a second protein layer adsorption. Driving forces other than just electrostatic ones, such as hydrophobic forces, should play a role in the polyelectrolyte/purple membrane layering. The subtle interplay of all these factors determines the formation of the polyelectrolyte/purple membrane matrix with a presumably high degree of orientation for the incorporated purple membranes, with their cytoplasmic, or extracellular side toward the bulk on negatively or positively charged polyelectrolyte, respectively. The structural stability of bacteriorhodopsin during adsorption onto the surface and incorporation into the polyelectrolyte multilayers was investigated by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy in attenuated total reflection mode. Adsorption and incorporation of purple membranes within polyelectrolyte multilayers does not disturb the conformational majority of membrane-embedded alpha-helix structures of the protein, but may slightly alter the structure of the extramembraneous segments or their interaction with the environment. This high stability is different from the lower stability of the predominantly beta-sheet structures of numerous globular proteins when adsorbed onto surfaces.
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- Marie-belle Saab
- Groupe d'Etude des Semi-conducteurs, UMR 5650, CNRS-Universite Montpellier II, 34095, Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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Fricke B. Quantitative determination of zwitterionic detergents using salt-induced phase separation of Triton X-100. Anal Biochem 2000; 281:144-50. [PMID: 10870829 DOI: 10.1006/abio.2000.4552] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Zwitterionic detergents interfere with the salt-induced phase separation for nonionic detergents in a concentration-dependent manner by shifting the normal cloud point of nonionic detergents to a higher ionic strength at room temperature. This phenomenon was used to determine the concentration of the zwitterionic detergents CHAPS, CHAPSO, and sulfobetaine SB-12 in solution by titration with ammonium sulfate in the presence of Triton X-100. Among the ionic detergents tested, the method was only applicable to sodium cholate. The assay can be used to control the removal of zwitterionic detergents during the reconstitution of membrane proteins in liposomes. However, it cannot be used to determine the specific binding of zwitterionic detergents to highly diluted, pure membrane proteins because of the limited sensitivity. Neither proteins nor phospholipids interfered with this method at concentrations up to 20 mg/ml of test solution (human serum albumin) or 10 mg/ml (phospholipids), respectively. Since the assay is based on the competition between salts and nonionic detergents for water molecules, it is important to equalize the ionic strength of samples and calibration standards.
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- B Fricke
- Institute for Physiological Chemistry, Medical Faculty, Martin Luther University, Halle, Germany.
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Müller DJ, Engel A. The height of biomolecules measured with the atomic force microscope depends on electrostatic interactions. Biophys J 1997; 73:1633-44. [PMID: 9284330 PMCID: PMC1181062 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(97)78195-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 220] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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In biological applications of atomic force microscopy, the different surface properties of the biological sample and its support become apparent. Observed height differences between the biomolecule and its supporting surface are thus not only of structural origin, but also depend on the different sample-tip and support-tip interactions. This can result in negative or positive contributions to the measured height, effects that are described by the DLVO (Derjaguin, Landau, Verwey, Overbeek) theory. Experimental verification shows that the electrostatic interactions between tip and sample can strongly influence the result obtained. To overcome this problem, pH and electrolyte concentration of the buffer solution have to be adjusted to screen out electrostatic forces. Under these conditions, the tip comes into direct contact with the surface of support and biological system, even when low forces required to prevent sample deformation are applied. In this case, the measured height can be related to the thickness of the native biological structure. The observed height dependence of the macromolecules on electrolyte concentration makes it possible to estimate surface charge densities.
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- D J Müller
- M. E. Muller Institute for Microscopic Structural Biology, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland
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Müller DJ, Amrein M, Engel A. Adsorption of biological molecules to a solid support for scanning probe microscopy. J Struct Biol 1997; 119:172-88. [PMID: 9245758 DOI: 10.1006/jsbi.1997.3875] [Citation(s) in RCA: 244] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Scanning probe microscopes are now established tools to study the surface structure of biological macromolecules under physiological conditions. Sample preparation methods for this microscopy all have the objective to attach the specimen firmly to a support. Here we analyse the commonly used method of adsorbing biological specimens to freshly cleaved mica. This is facilitated by adjusting the electrolyte concentration and the pH of the buffer solution. Native macromolecular systems absorbed to mica in this way can be reproducibly imaged at submolecular resolution.
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- D J Müller
- M.E. Müller-Institute for Microscopy, University of Basel, Switzerland
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The cytoplasmic surface topography of purple membranes imaged by the atomic force microscope depends mainly on the force applied to the stylus. Imaged at forces of 300 pN, individual bacteriorhodopsin molecules reveal two domains. The resulting donut-shaped trimers reversibly transform into structures exhibiting three prominent protrusions when scanned at 100 pN. In parallel, the height of the protein moiety above the lipid layer increases from 4 A to 6 A. From the known structure of bacteriorhodopsin it appears that this change may be related to a bending of the most prominent cytoplasmic loop.
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- D J Müller
- M. E. Müller-Institute for Structural Biology Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland
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Müller DJ, Schabert FA, Büldt G, Engel A. Imaging purple membranes in aqueous solutions at sub-nanometer resolution by atomic force microscopy. Biophys J 1995; 68:1681-6. [PMID: 7612811 PMCID: PMC1282071 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(95)80345-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 267] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Purple membranes adsorbed to mica were imaged in buffer solution using the atomic force microscope. The hexagonal diffraction patterns of topographs from the cytoplasmic and the extracellular surface showed a resolution of 0.7 and 1.2 nm, respectively. On the cytoplasmic surface, individual bacteriorhodopsin molecules consistently exhibited a distinct substructure. Depending on the pH value of the buffer solution, the height of the purple membranes decreased from 5.6 nm (pH 10.5) to 5.1 nm (pH 4). The results are discussed with respect to the structure determined by cryo-electron microscopy.
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- D J Müller
- M. E. Müller-Institute for Microscopic Structural Biology, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland
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Stuart JA, Vought BW, Zhang CF, Birge RR. The active site of bacteriorhodopsin. Two-photon spectroscopic evidence for a positively charged chromophore binding site mediated by calcium. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1995. [DOI: 10.1002/bspy.350010104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Hazard ES, Govindjee R, Ebrey TG, Crouch RK. Biosynthetic incorporation of m-fluorotyrosine into bacteriorhodopsin. Photochem Photobiol 1992; 56:929-34. [PMID: 1492136 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1992.tb09715.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Halobacterium halobium, grown in a defined medium where tyrosine had been largely replaced with m-fluorotyrosine, biosynthetically produced purple membrane. Analysis of this membrane by high pressure liquid chromatography of phenylthiocarbamyl derivatized amino acids of membrane acid hydrolysates revealed that up to 50% of the tyrosine was present as the m-fluorotyrosine form. Yields of the purple membrane decreased as the level of incorporation increased. The experimental purple membrane showed a single 19F NMR resonance at -61.983 ppm (relative to trifluoroacetic acid). The bacteriorhodopsin (bR) in the purple membrane was normal as assayed by gel electrophoresis, isoelectric focusing, circular dichroic spectra, and UV-visible spectra. However, the fluorinated tyrosine bacteriorhodopsins at near neutral pH exhibited slightly slower rates of proton uptake and a slower M-state decay with biphasic kinetics reminiscent of alkaline solutions of bR (pH > 9). These results imply that the tyrosines in bacteriorhodopsin may play a role in the photoactivated proton translocation process of this pigment.
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- E S Hazard
- Department of Ophthalmology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston 29425-2501
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Hildebrandt V, Polakowski F, Büldt G. PURPLE FISSION YEAST: OVEREXPRESSION and PROCESSING OF THE PIGMENT BACTERIORHODOPSIN IN Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Photochem Photobiol 1991. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1991.tb02123.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Homogeneous bacteriorhodopsin was obtained preparatively (100 mg batches) from purple membrane of Halobacterium halobium cells. The homogeneity of the protein was considerably affected by variations in the growth conditions of the bacteria. Fully matured bacteriorhodopsin having a blocked N-terminus and a homogeneous C-terminus, was reproducibly obtained when cells were grown in a sufficiently aerated medium.
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- B Lorber
- Center for Macromolecular Crystallography, University of Alabama, Birmingham, 35294
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