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Vladimirov VI, Baksheeva VE, Mikhailova IV, Ismailov RG, Litus EA, Tikhomirova NK, Nazipova AA, Permyakov SE, Zernii EY, Zinchenko DV. A Novel Approach to Bacterial Expression and Purification of Myristoylated Forms of Neuronal Calcium Sensor Proteins. Biomolecules 2020; 10:biom10071025. [PMID: 32664359 PMCID: PMC7407513 DOI: 10.3390/biom10071025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2020] [Revised: 07/05/2020] [Accepted: 07/07/2020] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
N-terminal myristoylation is a common co-and post-translational modification of numerous eukaryotic and viral proteins, which affects their interaction with lipids and partner proteins, thereby modulating various cellular processes. Among those are neuronal calcium sensor (NCS) proteins, mediating transduction of calcium signals in a wide range of regulatory cascades, including reception, neurotransmission, neuronal growth and survival. The details of NCSs functioning are of special interest due to their involvement in the progression of ophthalmological and neurodegenerative diseases and their role in cancer. The well-established procedures for preparation of native-like myristoylated forms of recombinant NCSs via their bacterial co-expression with N-myristoyl transferase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae often yield a mixture of the myristoylated and non-myristoylated forms. Here, we report a novel approach to preparation of several NCSs, including recoverin, GCAP1, GCAP2, neurocalcin δ and NCS-1, ensuring their nearly complete N-myristoylation. The optimized bacterial expression and myristoylation of the NCSs is followed by a set of procedures for separation of their myristoylated and non-myristoylated forms using a combination of hydrophobic interaction chromatography steps. We demonstrate that the refolded and further purified myristoylated NCS-1 maintains its Са2+-binding ability and stability of tertiary structure. The developed approach is generally suited for preparation of other myristoylated proteins.
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Affiliation(s)
- Vasiliy I. Vladimirov
- Laboratory of pharmacokinetics, Department of Biological Testing, Branch of Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Puschino, Pushchino, 142290 Moscow Region, Russia; (V.I.V.); (I.V.M.)
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- Department of Cell Signaling, Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119992 Moscow, Russia; (V.E.B.); (N.K.T.); (E.Y.Z.)
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- Laboratory of pharmacokinetics, Department of Biological Testing, Branch of Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Puschino, Pushchino, 142290 Moscow Region, Russia; (V.I.V.); (I.V.M.)
- Faculty of BioMedPharmTechnological, Pushchino State Institute of Natural Sciences, Pushchino, 142290 Moscow Region, Russia
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- Laboratory of New Methods in Biology, Institute for Biological Instrumentation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Federal Research Center “Pushchino Scientific Center for Biological Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences”, Pushchino, 142290 Moscow Region, Russia; (R.G.I.); (E.A.L.); (A.A.N.); (S.E.P.)
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- Laboratory of New Methods in Biology, Institute for Biological Instrumentation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Federal Research Center “Pushchino Scientific Center for Biological Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences”, Pushchino, 142290 Moscow Region, Russia; (R.G.I.); (E.A.L.); (A.A.N.); (S.E.P.)
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- Department of Cell Signaling, Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119992 Moscow, Russia; (V.E.B.); (N.K.T.); (E.Y.Z.)
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- Laboratory of New Methods in Biology, Institute for Biological Instrumentation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Federal Research Center “Pushchino Scientific Center for Biological Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences”, Pushchino, 142290 Moscow Region, Russia; (R.G.I.); (E.A.L.); (A.A.N.); (S.E.P.)
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- Laboratory of New Methods in Biology, Institute for Biological Instrumentation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Federal Research Center “Pushchino Scientific Center for Biological Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences”, Pushchino, 142290 Moscow Region, Russia; (R.G.I.); (E.A.L.); (A.A.N.); (S.E.P.)
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- Department of Cell Signaling, Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119992 Moscow, Russia; (V.E.B.); (N.K.T.); (E.Y.Z.)
- Institute of Molecular Medicine, Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Laboratory of pharmacokinetics, Department of Biological Testing, Branch of Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Puschino, Pushchino, 142290 Moscow Region, Russia; (V.I.V.); (I.V.M.)
- Correspondence:
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Hoareau E, Belley N, Klinker K, Desbat B, Boisselier É. Characterization of neurocalcin delta membrane binding by biophysical methods. Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces 2019; 174:291-299. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2018.11.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2018] [Revised: 11/02/2018] [Accepted: 11/07/2018] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Novel approaches to probe the binding of recoverin to membranes. EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL: EBJ 2018; 47:679-691. [DOI: 10.1007/s00249-018-1304-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2018] [Revised: 04/05/2018] [Accepted: 04/13/2018] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Potvin-Fournier K, Valois-Paillard G, Lefèvre T, Cantin L, Salesse C, Auger M. Membrane fluidity is a driving force for recoverin myristoyl immobilization in zwitterionic lipids. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2017; 490:1268-1273. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2017.07.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2017] [Accepted: 07/02/2017] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Potvin-Fournier K, Lefèvre T, Picard-Lafond A, Marcotte C, Dufresne C, Cantin L, Salesse C, Auger M. Discriminating Lipid– from Protein–Calcium Binding To Understand the Interaction between Recoverin and Phosphatidylglycerol Model Membranes. Biochemistry 2016; 55:3481-91. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.6b00408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Kim Potvin-Fournier
- Département
de chimie, Regroupement québécois de recherche sur la
fonction, l’ingénierie et les applications des protéines
(PROTEO), Centre de recherche sur les matériaux avancés
(CERMA), Centre québécois sur les matériaux fonctionnels
(CQMF), Université Laval, Pavillon Alexandre-Vachon, 1045
avenue de la médecine, Québec, Québec G1V 0A6, Canada
- CUO-recherche,
Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec, Hôpital du Saint-Sacrement,
Département d’ophtalmologie, Faculté de médecine,
PROTEO, Université Laval, Québec, Québec G1S 4L8, Canada
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- Département
de chimie, Regroupement québécois de recherche sur la
fonction, l’ingénierie et les applications des protéines
(PROTEO), Centre de recherche sur les matériaux avancés
(CERMA), Centre québécois sur les matériaux fonctionnels
(CQMF), Université Laval, Pavillon Alexandre-Vachon, 1045
avenue de la médecine, Québec, Québec G1V 0A6, Canada
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- Département
de chimie, Regroupement québécois de recherche sur la
fonction, l’ingénierie et les applications des protéines
(PROTEO), Centre de recherche sur les matériaux avancés
(CERMA), Centre québécois sur les matériaux fonctionnels
(CQMF), Université Laval, Pavillon Alexandre-Vachon, 1045
avenue de la médecine, Québec, Québec G1V 0A6, Canada
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- Département
de chimie, Regroupement québécois de recherche sur la
fonction, l’ingénierie et les applications des protéines
(PROTEO), Centre de recherche sur les matériaux avancés
(CERMA), Centre québécois sur les matériaux fonctionnels
(CQMF), Université Laval, Pavillon Alexandre-Vachon, 1045
avenue de la médecine, Québec, Québec G1V 0A6, Canada
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- Département
de chimie, Regroupement québécois de recherche sur la
fonction, l’ingénierie et les applications des protéines
(PROTEO), Centre de recherche sur les matériaux avancés
(CERMA), Centre québécois sur les matériaux fonctionnels
(CQMF), Université Laval, Pavillon Alexandre-Vachon, 1045
avenue de la médecine, Québec, Québec G1V 0A6, Canada
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- CUO-recherche,
Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec, Hôpital du Saint-Sacrement,
Département d’ophtalmologie, Faculté de médecine,
PROTEO, Université Laval, Québec, Québec G1S 4L8, Canada
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- CUO-recherche,
Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec, Hôpital du Saint-Sacrement,
Département d’ophtalmologie, Faculté de médecine,
PROTEO, Université Laval, Québec, Québec G1S 4L8, Canada
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- Département
de chimie, Regroupement québécois de recherche sur la
fonction, l’ingénierie et les applications des protéines
(PROTEO), Centre de recherche sur les matériaux avancés
(CERMA), Centre québécois sur les matériaux fonctionnels
(CQMF), Université Laval, Pavillon Alexandre-Vachon, 1045
avenue de la médecine, Québec, Québec G1V 0A6, Canada
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Rajanikanth V, Sharma AK, Rajyalakshmi M, Chandra K, Chary KVR, Sharma Y. Liaison between Myristoylation and Cryptic EF-Hand Motif Confers Ca2+ Sensitivity to Neuronal Calcium Sensor-1. Biochemistry 2015; 54:1111-22. [DOI: 10.1021/bi501134g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
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- CSIR-Centre for
Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad 500007, India
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- CSIR-Centre for
Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad 500007, India
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- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Colaba, Mumbai 400005, India
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- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Colaba, Mumbai 400005, India
- Center
for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Hyderabad 500075, India
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- CSIR-Centre for
Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad 500007, India
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Potvin-Fournier K, Lefèvre T, Picard-Lafond A, Valois-Paillard G, Cantin L, Salesse C, Auger M. The thermal stability of recoverin depends on calcium binding and its myristoyl moiety as revealed by infrared spectroscopy. Biochemistry 2013; 53:48-56. [PMID: 24359287 DOI: 10.1021/bi401336g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
To evaluate the structural stability of recoverin, a member of the neuronal calcium sensor family, the effect of temperature, myristoylation, and calcium:protein molar ratio on its secondary structure has been studied by transmission infrared spectroscopy. On the basis of the data, the protein predominantly adopts α-helical structures (∼50-55%) with turns, unordered structures, and β-sheets at 25 °C. The data show no significant impact of the presence of calcium and myristoylation on secondary structure. It is found that, in the absence of calcium, recoverin denatures and self-aggregates while being heated, with the formation of intermolecular antiparallel β-sheets. The nonmyristoylated protein (Rec-nMyr) exhibits a lower temperature threshold of aggregation and a higher intermolecular β-sheet content at 65 °C than the myristoylated protein (Rec-Myr). The former thus appears to be less thermally stable than the latter. In the presence of excess calcium ions (calcium:protein ratio of 10), the protein is thermally stable up to 65 °C with no significant conformational change, the presence of the myristoyl chain having no effect on the thermal stability of recoverin under these conditions. A decrease in the thermal stability of recoverin is observed as the calcium:protein molar ratio decreases, with Rec-nMyr being less stable than Rec-Myr. The data overall suggest that a minimal number of coordinated calcium ions is necessary to fully stabilize the structure of recoverin and that, when bound to the membrane, i.e., when the myristoyl chain protrudes from the interior pocket, recoverin should be more stable than in a Ca-free solution, i.e., when the myristoyl chain is sequestered in the interior.
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- Kim Potvin-Fournier
- Département de chimie, Regroupement québécois de recherche sur la fonction, la structure et l'ingénierie des protéines (PROTEO), Centre de recherche sur les matériaux avancés (CERMA), Université Laval , Pavillon Alexandre-Vachon, 1045 avenue de la médecine, Québec, Québec G1V 0A6, Canada
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Ranaghan MJ, Kumar RP, Chakrabarti KS, Buosi V, Kern D, Oprian DD. A highly conserved cysteine of neuronal calcium-sensing proteins controls cooperative binding of Ca2+ to recoverin. J Biol Chem 2013; 288:36160-7. [PMID: 24189072 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m113.524355] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
Abstract
Recoverin, a 23-kDa Ca(2+)-binding protein of the neuronal calcium sensing (NCS) family, inhibits rhodopsin kinase, a Ser/Thr kinase responsible for termination of photoactivated rhodopsin in rod photoreceptor cells. Recoverin has two functional EF hands and a myristoylated N terminus. The myristoyl chain imparts cooperativity to the Ca(2+)-binding sites through an allosteric mechanism involving a conformational equilibrium between R and T states of the protein. Ca(2+) binds preferentially to the R state; the myristoyl chain binds preferentially to the T state. In the absence of myristoylation, the R state predominates, and consequently, binding of Ca(2+) to the non-myristoylated protein is not cooperative. We show here that a mutation, C39A, of a highly conserved Cys residue among NCS proteins, increases the apparent cooperativity for binding of Ca(2+) to non-myristoylated recoverin. The binding data can be explained by an effect on the T/R equilibrium to favor the T state without affecting the intrinsic binding constants for the two Ca(2+) sites.
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Effect of oxidation of polyunsaturated phospholipids on the binding of proteins in monolayers. Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces 2013; 109:109-14. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2013.03.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2012] [Revised: 03/08/2013] [Accepted: 03/12/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Calvez P, Demers E, Boisselier E, Salesse C. Analysis of the contribution of saturated and polyunsaturated phospholipid monolayers to the binding of proteins. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2011; 27:1373-9. [PMID: 21210634 DOI: 10.1021/la104097n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
Abstract
The binding of peripheral proteins to membranes results in different biological effects. The large diversity of membrane lipids is thought to modulate the activity of these proteins. However, information on the selective binding of peripheral proteins to membrane lipids is still largely lacking. Lipid monolayers at the air/water interface are useful model membrane systems for studying the parameters responsible for peripheral protein membrane binding. We have thus measured the maximum insertion pressure (MIP) of two proteins from the photoreceptors, Retinitis pigmentosa 2 (RP2) and recoverin, to estimate their binding to lipid monolayers. Photoreceptor membranes have the unique characteristic that more than 60% of their fatty acids are polyunsaturated, making them the most unsaturated natural membranes known to date. These membranes are also thought to contain significant amounts of saturated phospholipids. MIPs of RP2 and recoverin have thus been measured in the presence of saturated and polyunsaturated phospholipids. MIPs higher than the estimated lateral pressure of biomembranes have been obtained only with a saturated phospholipid for RP2 and with a polyunsaturated phospholipid for recoverin. A new approach was then devised to analyze these data properly. In particular, a parameter called the synergy factor allowed us to highlight the specificity of RP2 for saturated phospholipids and recoverin for polyunsaturated phospholipids as well as to demonstrate clearly the preference of RP2 for saturated phospholipids that are known to be located in microdomains.
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- Philippe Calvez
- LOEX/CUO-Recherche, Centre Hospitalier Affilié Universitaire de Québec, Département d'Ophtalmologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada
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Desmeules P, Penney SE, Desbat B, Salesse C. Determination of the contribution of the myristoyl group and hydrophobic amino acids of recoverin on its dynamics of binding to lipid monolayers. Biophys J 2007; 93:2069-82. [PMID: 17526567 PMCID: PMC1959526 DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.106.103481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2006] [Accepted: 05/17/2007] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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It has been postulated that myristoylation of peripheral proteins would facilitate their binding to membranes. However, the exact involvement of this lipid modification in membrane binding is still a matter of debate. Proteins containing a Ca(2+)-myristoyl switch where the extrusion of their myristoyl group is dependent on calcium binding is best illustrated by the Ca(2+)-binding recoverin, which is present in retinal rod cells. The parameters responsible for the modulation of the membrane binding of recoverin are still largely unknown. This study was thus performed to determine the involvement of different parameters on recoverin membrane binding. We have used surface pressure measurements and PM-IRRAS spectroscopy to monitor the adsorption of myristoylated and nonmyristoylated recoverin onto phospholipid monolayers in the presence and absence of calcium. The adsorption curves have shown that the myristoyl group and hydrophobic residues of myristoylated recoverin strongly accelerate membrane binding in the presence of calcium. In the case of nonmyristoylated recoverin in the presence of calcium, hydrophobic residues alone are responsible for its much faster monolayer binding than myristoylated and nonmyristoylated recoverin in the absence of calcium. The infrared spectra revealed that myristoylated and nonmyristoylated recoverin behave very different upon adsorption onto phospholipid monolayers. Indeed, PM-IRRAS spectra indicated that the myristoyl group allows a proper orientation and organization as well as faster and stronger binding of myristoylated recoverin to lipid monolayers compared to nonmyristoylated recoverin. Simulations of the spectra have allowed us to postulate that nonmyristoylated recoverin changes conformation and becomes hydrated at large extents of adsorption as well as to estimate the orientation of myristoylated recoverin with respect to the monolayer plane. In addition, adsorption measurements and electrophoresis of trypsin-treated myristoylated recoverin in the presence of zinc or calcium demonstrated that recoverin has a different conformation but a similar extent of monolayer binding in the presence of such ions.
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- Philippe Desmeules
- Unité de Recherche en Opthalmologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec, Pavillon CHUL, and Département d'Opthalmologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
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Boucher J, Trudel E, Méthot M, Desmeules P, Salesse C. Organization, structure and activity of proteins in monolayers. Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces 2007; 58:73-90. [PMID: 17509839 DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2007.03.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2007] [Revised: 03/24/2007] [Accepted: 03/26/2007] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Many different processes take place at the cell membrane interface. Indeed, for instance, ligands bind membrane proteins which in turn activate peripheral membrane proteins, some of which are enzymes whose action is also located at the membrane interface. Native cell membranes are difficult to use to gain information on the activity of individual proteins at the membrane interface because of the large number of different proteins involved in membranous processes. Model membrane systems, such as monolayers at the air-water interface, have thus been extensively used during the last 50 years to reconstitute proteins and to gain information on their organization, structure and activity in membranes. In the present paper, we review the recent work we have performed with membrane and peripheral proteins as well as enzymes in monolayers at the air-water interface. We show that the structure and orientation of gramicidin has been determined by combining different methods. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the secondary structure of rhodopsin and bacteriorhodopsin is indistinguishable from that in native membranes when appropriate conditions are used. We also show that the kinetics and extent of monolayer binding of myristoylated recoverin is much faster than that of the nonmyristoylated form and that this binding is highly favored by the presence polyunsaturated phospholipids. Moreover, we show that the use of fragments of RPE65 allow determine which region of this protein is most likely involved in membrane binding. Monomolecular films were also used to further understand the hydrolysis of organized phospholipids by phospholipases A2 and C.
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- Julie Boucher
- Unité de recherche en ophtalmologie, Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec and Département d'Ophtalmologie, Faculté de médecine, Université Laval, Québec, Que. G1V 4G2, Canada
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