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Peng HC, Mohan S, Huq MT, Bull JA, Michaud T, Piercy TC, Hilber S, Wettasinghe AP, Slinker JD, Kreutz C, Stelling AL. Isotope-Edited Variable Temperature Infrared Spectroscopy for Measuring Transition Temperatures of Single A-T Watson-Crick Base Pairs in DNA Duplexes. Anal Chem 2024; 96:8868-8874. [PMID: 38775341 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.4c00056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2024]
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Experimental methods to determine transition temperatures for individual base pair melting events in DNA duplexes are lacking despite intense interest in these thermodynamic parameters. Here, we determine the dimensions of the thymine (T) C2═O stretching vibration when it is within the DNA duplex via isotopic substitutions at other atomic positions in the structure. First, we determined that this stretching state was localized enough to specific atoms in the molecule to make submolecular scale measurements of local structure and stability in high molecular weight complexes. Next, we develop a new isotope-edited variable temperature infrared method to measure melting transitions at various locations in a DNA structure. As an initial test of this "sub-molecular scale thermometer", we applied our T13C2 difference infrared signal to measure location-dependent melting temperatures (TmL) in a DNA duplex via variable temperature attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared (VT-ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy. We report that the TmL of a single Watson-Crick A-T base pair near the end of an A-T rich sequence (poly T) is ∼34.9 ± 0.7°C. This is slightly lower than the TmL of a single base pair near the middle position of the poly T sequence (TmL ∼35.6±0.2°C). In addition, we also report that the TmL of a single Watson-Crick A-T base pair near the end of a 50% G-C sequence (12-mer) is ∼52.5 ± 0.3°C, which is slightly lower than the global melting Tm of the 12-mer sequence (TmL ∼54.0±0.9°C). Our results provide direct physical evidence for end fraying in DNA sequences with our novel spectroscopic methods.
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- Hao-Che Peng
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Center for Molecular Biosciences Innsbruck (CMBI), University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck 6020, Austria
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- Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
- Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Center for Molecular Biosciences Innsbruck (CMBI), University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck 6020, Austria
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
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Chen X, Al-Mualem ZA, Baiz CR. Lipid Landscapes: Vibrational Spectroscopy for Decoding Membrane Complexity. Annu Rev Phys Chem 2024; 75:283-305. [PMID: 38382566 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-physchem-090722-010230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/23/2024]
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Cell membranes are incredibly complex environments containing hundreds of components. Despite substantial advances in the past decade, fundamental questions related to lipid-lipid interactions and heterogeneity persist. This review explores the complexity of lipid membranes, showcasing recent advances in vibrational spectroscopy to characterize the structure, dynamics, and interactions at the membrane interface. We include an overview of modern techniques such as surface-enhanced infrared spectroscopy as a steady-state technique with single-bilayer sensitivity, two-dimensional sum-frequency generation spectroscopy, and two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy to measure time-evolving structures and dynamics with femtosecond time resolution. Furthermore, we discuss the potential of multiscale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, focusing on recently developed simulation algorithms, which have emerged as a powerful approach to interpret complex spectra. We highlight the ongoing challenges in studying heterogeneous environments in multicomponent membranes via current vibrational spectroscopic techniques and MD simulations. Overall, this review provides an up-to-date comprehensive overview of the powerful combination of vibrational spectroscopy and simulations, which has great potential to illuminate lipid-lipid, lipid-protein, and lipid-water interactions in the intricate conformational landscape of cell membranes.
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- Xiaobing Chen
- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA;
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA;
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Feng RR, Wang M, Zhang W, Gai F. Unnatural Amino Acids for Biological Spectroscopy and Microscopy. Chem Rev 2024; 124:6501-6542. [PMID: 38722769 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.3c00944] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2024]
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Due to advances in methods for site-specific incorporation of unnatural amino acids (UAAs) into proteins, a large number of UAAs with tailored chemical and/or physical properties have been developed and used in a wide array of biological applications. In particular, UAAs with specific spectroscopic characteristics can be used as external reporters to produce additional signals, hence increasing the information content obtainable in protein spectroscopic and/or imaging measurements. In this Review, we summarize the progress in the past two decades in the development of such UAAs and their applications in biological spectroscopy and microscopy, with a focus on UAAs that can be used as site-specific vibrational, fluorescence, electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR), or nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) probes. Wherever applicable, we also discuss future directions.
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- Ran-Ran Feng
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Department of Physics and Applied Optics Beijing Area Major Laboratory, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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Malviya M, Aretz Z, Molvi Z, Lee J, Pierre S, Wallisch P, Dao T, Scheinberg DA. Challenges and solutions for therapeutic TCR-based agents. Immunol Rev 2023; 320:58-82. [PMID: 37455333 PMCID: PMC11141734 DOI: 10.1111/imr.13233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2023] [Accepted: 06/18/2023] [Indexed: 07/18/2023]
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Recent development of methods to discover and engineer therapeutic T-cell receptors (TCRs) or antibody mimics of TCRs, and to understand their immunology and pharmacology, lag two decades behind therapeutic antibodies. Yet we have every expectation that TCR-based agents will be similarly important contributors to the treatment of a variety of medical conditions, especially cancers. TCR engineered cells, soluble TCRs and their derivatives, TCR-mimic antibodies, and TCR-based CAR T cells promise the possibility of highly specific drugs that can expand the scope of immunologic agents to recognize intracellular targets, including mutated proteins and undruggable transcription factors, not accessible by traditional antibodies. Hurdles exist regarding discovery, specificity, pharmacokinetics, and best modality of use that will need to be overcome before the full potential of TCR-based agents is achieved. HLA restriction may limit each agent to patient subpopulations and off-target reactivities remain important barriers to widespread development and use of these new agents. In this review we discuss the unique opportunities for these new classes of drugs, describe their unique antigenic targets, compare them to traditional antibody therapeutics and CAR T cells, and review the various obstacles that must be overcome before full application of these drugs can be realized.
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- Manish Malviya
- Molecular Pharmacology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065
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- Molecular Pharmacology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065
- Physiology, Biophysics & Systems Biology Program, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, 1300 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021
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- Molecular Pharmacology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065
- Physiology, Biophysics & Systems Biology Program, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, 1300 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021
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- Molecular Pharmacology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065
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- Molecular Pharmacology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065
- Tri-Institutional Medical Scientist Program, 1300 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021
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- Molecular Pharmacology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065
- Pharmacology Program, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, 1300 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021
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- Molecular Pharmacology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065
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- Molecular Pharmacology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065
- Pharmacology Program, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, 1300 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021
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Meng W, Peng HC, Liu Y, Stelling A, Wang L. Modeling the Infrared Spectroscopy of Oligonucleotides with 13C Isotope Labels. J Phys Chem B 2023; 127:2351-2361. [PMID: 36898003 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c08915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/12/2023]
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The carbonyl stretching modes have been widely used in linear and two-dimensional infrared (IR) spectroscopy to probe the conformation, interaction, and biological functions of nucleic acids. However, due to their universal appearance in nucleobases, the IR absorption bands of nucleic acids are often highly congested in the 1600-1800 cm-1 region. Following the fruitful applications in proteins, 13C isotope labels have been introduced to the IR measurements of oligonucleotides to reveal their site-specific structural fluctuations and hydrogen bonding conditions. In this work, we combine recently developed frequency and coupling maps to develop a theoretical strategy that models the IR spectra of oligonucleotides with 13C labels directly from molecular dynamics simulations. We apply the theoretical method to nucleoside 5'-monophosphates and DNA double helices and demonstrate how elements of the vibrational Hamiltonian determine the spectral features and their changes upon isotope labeling. Using the double helices as examples, we show that the calculated IR spectra are in good agreement with experiments and the 13C isotope labeling technique can potentially be applied to characterize the stacking configurations and secondary structures of nucleic acids.
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- Wenting Meng
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
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- Department of Statistics, Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, United States
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Špačková J, Goldberga I, Yadav R, Cazals G, Lebrun A, Verdié P, Métro TX, Laurencin D. Fast and Cost-Efficient 17 O-Isotopic Labeling of Carboxylic Groups in Biomolecules: From Free Amino Acids to Peptide Chains. Chemistry 2023; 29:e202203014. [PMID: 36333272 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202203014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2022] [Accepted: 11/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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17 O NMR spectroscopy is a powerful technique, which can provide unique information regarding the structure and reactivity of biomolecules. However, the low natural abundance of 17 O (0.04 %) generally requires working with enriched samples, which are not easily accessible. Here, we present simple, fast and cost-efficient 17 O-enrichment strategies for amino acids and peptides by using mechanochemistry. First, five unprotected amino acids were enriched under ambient conditions, consuming only microliter amounts of costly labeled water, and producing pure molecules with enrichment levels up to ∼40 %, yields ∼60-85 %, and no loss of optical purity. Subsequently, 17 O-enriched Fmoc/tBu-protected amino acids were produced on a 1 g/day scale with high enrichment levels. Lastly, a site-selective 17 O-labeling of carboxylic functions in peptide side-chains was achieved for RGD and GRGDS peptides, with ∼28 % enrichment level. For all molecules, 17 O ssNMR spectra were recorded at 14.1 T in reasonable times, making this an important step forward for future NMR studies of biomolecules.
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- ICGM, CNRS, UM, ENSCM, 34293, Montpellier, France
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Di Meo V, Moccia M, Sanità G, Crescitelli A, Lamberti A, Galdi V, Rendina I, Esposito E. Probing Denaturation of Protein A via Surface-Enhanced Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy. BIOSENSORS 2022; 12:bios12070530. [PMID: 35884333 PMCID: PMC9313297 DOI: 10.3390/bios12070530] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2022] [Revised: 07/12/2022] [Accepted: 07/14/2022] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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We apply surface-enhanced infrared absorption (SEIRA) spectroscopy to monitor the denaturation process of a surface-bound protein A monolayer. Our proposed platform relies on a plasmonic metasurface comprising different spatial subregions (“pixels”) that are engineered to exhibit different resonances covering the infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum that is matched to the vibrational modes of the Amide groups. Specifically, we are able to determine changes in the Amide I and Amide II vibration coupled modes, by comparing the SEIRA reflectance spectra pertaining to the native state and a denatured state induced by a pH variation. In particular, we observe some evident red-shifts in the principal Amide I mode and the Amide II vibration coupled modes (attributable to the breaking of hydrogen bonds), which result in insurmountable barriers for refolding. Thanks to the strong field localization, and consequent enhancement of the light-matter interactions, our proposed sensing platform can operate with extremely small amounts of an analyte, with an estimated detection limit of about 3 femtomoles of molecules.
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- Valentina Di Meo
- Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems—Unit of Naples, National Research Council, 80131 Naples, Italy; (V.D.M.); (G.S.); (A.C.); (I.R.)
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- Fields & Waves Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Sannio, 82100 Benevento, Italy; (M.M.); (V.G.)
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- Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems—Unit of Naples, National Research Council, 80131 Naples, Italy; (V.D.M.); (G.S.); (A.C.); (I.R.)
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- Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems—Unit of Naples, National Research Council, 80131 Naples, Italy; (V.D.M.); (G.S.); (A.C.); (I.R.)
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- Department of Molecular Medicine and Medical Biotechnology, University of Naples Federico II, 80131 Naples, Italy;
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- Fields & Waves Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Sannio, 82100 Benevento, Italy; (M.M.); (V.G.)
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- Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems—Unit of Naples, National Research Council, 80131 Naples, Italy; (V.D.M.); (G.S.); (A.C.); (I.R.)
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- Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems—Unit of Naples, National Research Council, 80131 Naples, Italy; (V.D.M.); (G.S.); (A.C.); (I.R.)
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Guo W, Lu T, Gandhi Z, Chen Z. Probing Orientations and Conformations of Peptides and Proteins at Buried Interfaces. J Phys Chem Lett 2021; 12:10144-10155. [PMID: 34637311 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c02956] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Molecular structures of peptides/proteins at interfaces determine their interfacial properties, which play important roles in many applications. It is difficult to probe interfacial peptide/protein structures because of the lack of appropriate tools. Sum frequency generation (SFG) vibrational spectroscopy has been developed into a powerful technique to elucidate molecular structures of peptides/proteins at buried solid/liquid and liquid/liquid interfaces. SFG has been successfully applied to study molecular interactions between model cell membranes and antimicrobial peptides/membrane proteins, surface-immobilized peptides/enzymes, and physically adsorbed peptides/proteins on polymers and 2D materials. A variety of other analytical techniques and computational simulations provide supporting information to SFG studies, leading to more complete understanding of structure-function relationships of interfacial peptides/proteins. With the advance of SFG techniques and data analysis methods, along with newly developed supplemental tools and simulation methodology, SFG research on interfacial peptides/proteins will further impact research in fields like chemistry, biology, biophysics, engineering, and beyond.
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- Wen Guo
- Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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A photoswitchable helical peptide with light-controllable interface/transmembrane topology in lipidic membranes. iScience 2021; 24:102771. [PMID: 34286233 PMCID: PMC8273423 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2021.102771] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2021] [Revised: 06/02/2021] [Accepted: 06/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The spontaneous insertion of helical transmembrane (TM) polypeptides into lipid bilayers is driven by three sequential equilibria: solution-to-membrane interface (MI) partition, unstructured-to-helical folding, and MI-to-TM helix insertion. A bottleneck for understanding these three steps is the lack of experimental approaches to perturb membrane-bound hydrophobic polypeptides out of equilibrium rapidly and reversibly. Here, we report on a 24-residues-long hydrophobic α-helical polypeptide, covalently coupled to an azobenzene photoswitch (KCALP-azo), which displays a light-controllable TM/MI equilibrium in hydrated lipid bilayers. FTIR spectroscopy reveals that trans KCALP-azo folds as a TM α-helix (TM topology). After trans-to-cis photoisomerization of the azobenzene moiety with UV light (reversed with blue light), the helical structure of KCALP-azo is maintained, but its helix tilt increased from 32 ± 5° to 79 ± 8°, indication of a reversible TM-to-MI transition. Further analysis indicates that this transition is incomplete, with cis KCALP-azo existing in a ∼90% TM and ∼10% MI mixture. We present an α-helical transmembrane peptide modified with a molecular photoswitch The peptide exhibits reversible photocontrol of its membrane topology A fraction moves to the membrane interface with UV and inserts back with blue light This system will be useful to address the molecular mechanism for membrane insertion
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Baiz CR, Błasiak B, Bredenbeck J, Cho M, Choi JH, Corcelli SA, Dijkstra AG, Feng CJ, Garrett-Roe S, Ge NH, Hanson-Heine MWD, Hirst JD, Jansen TLC, Kwac K, Kubarych KJ, Londergan CH, Maekawa H, Reppert M, Saito S, Roy S, Skinner JL, Stock G, Straub JE, Thielges MC, Tominaga K, Tokmakoff A, Torii H, Wang L, Webb LJ, Zanni MT. Vibrational Spectroscopic Map, Vibrational Spectroscopy, and Intermolecular Interaction. Chem Rev 2020; 120:7152-7218. [PMID: 32598850 PMCID: PMC7710120 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.9b00813] [Citation(s) in RCA: 165] [Impact Index Per Article: 41.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Vibrational spectroscopy is an essential tool in chemical analyses, biological assays, and studies of functional materials. Over the past decade, various coherent nonlinear vibrational spectroscopic techniques have been developed and enabled researchers to study time-correlations of the fluctuating frequencies that are directly related to solute-solvent dynamics, dynamical changes in molecular conformations and local electrostatic environments, chemical and biochemical reactions, protein structural dynamics and functions, characteristic processes of functional materials, and so on. In order to gain incisive and quantitative information on the local electrostatic environment, molecular conformation, protein structure and interprotein contacts, ligand binding kinetics, and electric and optical properties of functional materials, a variety of vibrational probes have been developed and site-specifically incorporated into molecular, biological, and material systems for time-resolved vibrational spectroscopic investigation. However, still, an all-encompassing theory that describes the vibrational solvatochromism, electrochromism, and dynamic fluctuation of vibrational frequencies has not been completely established mainly due to the intrinsic complexity of intermolecular interactions in condensed phases. In particular, the amount of data obtained from the linear and nonlinear vibrational spectroscopic experiments has been rapidly increasing, but the lack of a quantitative method to interpret these measurements has been one major obstacle in broadening the applications of these methods. Among various theoretical models, one of the most successful approaches is a semiempirical model generally referred to as the vibrational spectroscopic map that is based on a rigorous theory of intermolecular interactions. Recently, genetic algorithm, neural network, and machine learning approaches have been applied to the development of vibrational solvatochromism theory. In this review, we provide comprehensive descriptions of the theoretical foundation and various examples showing its extraordinary successes in the interpretations of experimental observations. In addition, a brief introduction to a newly created repository Web site (http://frequencymap.org) for vibrational spectroscopic maps is presented. We anticipate that a combination of the vibrational frequency map approach and state-of-the-art multidimensional vibrational spectroscopy will be one of the most fruitful ways to study the structure and dynamics of chemical, biological, and functional molecular systems in the future.
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- Carlos R. Baiz
- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, U.S.A
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- Department of Physical and Quantum Chemistry, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland
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- Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Institute of Biophysics, Max-von-Laue-Str. 1, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Center for Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
- Department of Chemistry, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju 61005, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, U.S.A
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- School of Chemistry and School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K
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- Department of Chemistry, James Franck Institute and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, U.S.A
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, U.S.A
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-2025, U.S.A
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- School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, U.K
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- School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, U.K
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- University of Groningen, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Center for Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, 930 N. University Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109, U.S.A
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- Department of Chemistry, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania 19041, U.S.A
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-2025, U.S.A
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- Chemical Physics Theory Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada
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- Department of Theoretical and Computational Molecular Science, Institute for Molecular Science, Myodaiji, Okazaki, 444-8585, Japan
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6110, U.S.A
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- Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, U.S.A
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- Biomolecular Dynamics, Institute of Physics, Albert Ludwigs University, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, U.S.A
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- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, 800 East Kirkwood, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, U.S.A
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- Molecular Photoscience Research Center, Kobe University, Nada, Kobe 657-0013, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, James Franck Institute and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, U.S.A
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- Department of Applied Chemistry and Biochemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, and Department of Optoelectronics and Nanostructure Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, 3-5-1 Johoku, Naka-Ku, Hamamatsu 432-8561, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Rutgers University, 174 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854, U.S.A
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, 105 E. 24th Street, STOP A5300, Austin, Texas 78712, U.S.A
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1396, U.S.A
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Abstract
Infrared difference spectroscopy probes vibrational changes of proteins upon their perturbation. Compared with other spectroscopic methods, it stands out by its sensitivity to the protonation state, H-bonding, and the conformation of different groups in proteins, including the peptide backbone, amino acid side chains, internal water molecules, or cofactors. In particular, the detection of protonation and H-bonding changes in a time-resolved manner, not easily obtained by other techniques, is one of the most successful applications of IR difference spectroscopy. The present review deals with the use of perturbations designed to specifically change the protein between two (or more) functionally relevant states, a strategy often referred to as reaction-induced IR difference spectroscopy. In the first half of this contribution, I review the technique of reaction-induced IR difference spectroscopy of proteins, with special emphasis given to the preparation of suitable samples and their characterization, strategies for the perturbation of proteins, and methodologies for time-resolved measurements (from nanoseconds to minutes). The second half of this contribution focuses on the spectral interpretation. It starts by reviewing how changes in H-bonding, medium polarity, and vibrational coupling affect vibrational frequencies, intensities, and bandwidths. It is followed by band assignments, a crucial aspect mostly performed with the help of isotopic labeling and site-directed mutagenesis, and complemented by integration and interpretation of the results in the context of the studied protein, an aspect increasingly supported by spectral calculations. Selected examples from the literature, predominately but not exclusively from retinal proteins, are used to illustrate the topics covered in this review.
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Keiderling TA. Structure of Condensed Phase Peptides: Insights from Vibrational Circular Dichroism and Raman Optical Activity Techniques. Chem Rev 2020; 120:3381-3419. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.9b00636] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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- Timothy A. Keiderling
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago 845 West Taylor Street m/c 111, Chicago, Illinois 60607-7061, United States
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Williams IM, Qasim LN, Tran L, Scott A, Riley K, Dutta S. C-D Vibration at C2 Position of Imidazolium Cation as a Probe of the Ionic Liquid Microenvironment. J Phys Chem A 2019; 123:6342-6349. [PMID: 31257885 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b02387] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Unlike molecular solvents, imidazolium-based ionic liquids are entirely made of ions with spatial heterogeneity. There is a need for spectroscopic probes that can assess the microenvironment near the cations of these complex liquids. In this manuscript, we describe simple chemical procedures to label the C2 position of imidazolium cation with a C-D vibrational probe and show, through linear and nonlinear vibrational spectroscopies, that this C-D stretching mode can be a useful analytical tool to assess both the solvent microenvironment and solute-solvent interactions in imidazolium-based ionic liquids from the cation point of view. It is expected that this C-D vibration probe on the cation will lead to the development of innovative experimental strategies that can provide a better understanding of such ionic liquids.
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- Isis Marie Williams
- Department of Chemistry , Xavier University of Louisiana , New Orleans , Louisiana 70125 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Tulane University , New Orleans , Louisiana 70118 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Xavier University of Louisiana , New Orleans , Louisiana 70125 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Xavier University of Louisiana , New Orleans , Louisiana 70125 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Xavier University of Louisiana , New Orleans , Louisiana 70125 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Xavier University of Louisiana , New Orleans , Louisiana 70125 , United States
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Vibrational Approach to the Dynamics and Structure of Protein Amyloids. Molecules 2019; 24:molecules24010186. [PMID: 30621325 PMCID: PMC6337179 DOI: 10.3390/molecules24010186] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2018] [Revised: 12/31/2018] [Accepted: 01/02/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Amyloid diseases, including neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, are linked to a poorly understood progression of protein misfolding and aggregation events that culminate in tissue-selective deposition and human pathology. Elucidation of the mechanistic details of protein aggregation and the structural features of the aggregates is critical for a comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms of protein oligomerization and fibrillization. Vibrational spectroscopies, such as Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) and Raman, are powerful tools that are sensitive to the secondary structure of proteins and have been widely used to investigate protein misfolding and aggregation. We address the application of the vibrational approaches in recent studies of conformational dynamics and structural characteristics of protein oligomers and amyloid fibrils. In particular, introduction of isotope labelled carbonyl into a peptide backbone, and incorporation of the extrinsic unnatural amino acids with vibrational moieties on the side chain, have greatly expanded the ability of vibrational spectroscopy to obtain site-specific structural and dynamic information. The applications of these methods in recent studies of protein aggregation are also reviewed.
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Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy has become one of the major techniques of structural characterization of proteins, peptides, and protein-membrane interactions. While the method does not have the capability of providing the precise, atomic-resolution molecular structure, it is exquisitely sensitive to conformational changes occurring in proteins upon functional transitions or intermolecular interactions. The sensitivity of vibrational frequencies to atomic masses has led to development of "isotope-edited" FTIR spectroscopy, where structural effects in two proteins, one unlabeled and the other labeled with a heavier stable isotope, such as 13C, are resolved simultaneously based on spectral downshift (separation) of the amide I band of the labeled protein. The same isotope effect is used to identify site-specific conformational changes in proteins by site-directed or segmental isotope labeling. Negligible light scattering in the infrared region provides an opportunity to study intermolecular interactions between large protein complexes, interactions of proteins and peptides with lipid vesicles, or protein-nucleic acid interactions without light scattering problems often encountered in ultraviolet spectroscopy. Attenuated total reflection FTIR (ATR-FTIR) is a surface-sensitive version of infrared spectroscopy that has proved useful in studying membrane proteins and lipids, protein-membrane interactions, mechanisms of interfacial enzymes, the structural features of membrane pore forming proteins and peptides, and much more. The purpose of this chapter was to provide a practical guide to analyze protein structure and protein-membrane interactions by FTIR and ATR-FTIR techniques, including procedures of sample preparation, measurements, and data analysis. Basic background information on FTIR spectroscopy, as well as some relatively new developments in structural and functional characterization of proteins and peptides in lipid membranes, is also presented.
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- Suren A Tatulian
- Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA.
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Mitri E, Barbieri L, Vaccari L, Luchinat E. 15N isotopic labelling for in-cell protein studies by NMR spectroscopy and single-cell IR synchrotron radiation FTIR microscopy: a correlative study. Analyst 2018; 143:1171-1181. [DOI: 10.1039/c7an01464c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The effect of 15N-enrichment on human cells analyzed by correlative in-cell NMR and single-cell SR-FTIR experiments.
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- E. Mitri
- Elettra – Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A
- SISSI Beamline – Chemical and Life Sciences Branch
- 34149, Basovizza
- Italy
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- Magnetic Resonance Centre (CERM)
- University of Florence
- 50019 Sesto Fiorentino
- Italy
- Interuniversity Consortium for Magnetic Resonance of Metallo Proteins (CIRMMP)
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- Elettra – Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A
- SISSI Beamline – Chemical and Life Sciences Branch
- 34149, Basovizza
- Italy
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Biomedical Sciences “Mario Serio”
- University of Florence
- 50134 Florence
- Italy
- Magnetic Resonance Centre (CERM)
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Keiderling TA. Sensing site-specific structural characteristics and chirality using vibrational circular dichroism of isotope labeled peptides. Chirality 2017; 29:763-773. [DOI: 10.1002/chir.22749] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2017] [Revised: 08/07/2017] [Accepted: 08/08/2017] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Ghosh A, Ostrander JS, Zanni MT. Watching Proteins Wiggle: Mapping Structures with Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy. Chem Rev 2017; 117:10726-10759. [PMID: 28060489 PMCID: PMC5500453 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00582] [Citation(s) in RCA: 166] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Proteins exhibit structural fluctuations over decades of time scales. From the picosecond side chain motions to aggregates that form over the course of minutes, characterizing protein structure over these vast lengths of time is important to understanding their function. In the past 15 years, two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy (2D IR) has been established as a versatile tool that can uniquely probe proteins structures on many time scales. In this review, we present some of the basic principles behind 2D IR and show how they have, and can, impact the field of protein biophysics. We highlight experiments in which 2D IR spectroscopy has provided structural and dynamical data that would be difficult to obtain with more standard structural biology techniques. We also highlight technological developments in 2D IR that continue to expand the scope of scientific problems that can be accessed in the biomedical sciences.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin—Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin—Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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Adhikary R, Zimmermann J, Romesberg FE. Transparent Window Vibrational Probes for the Characterization of Proteins With High Structural and Temporal Resolution. Chem Rev 2017; 117:1927-1969. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00625] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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- Ramkrishna Adhikary
- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, United States
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You M, Liu L, Zhang W. The covalently bound diazo group as an infrared probe for hydrogen bonding environments. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2017; 19:19420-19426. [DOI: 10.1039/c7cp01867c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The bandwidth or position of diazo groups can probe the polarizability and HBA, or density of HBD groups.
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- Min You
- Center for Advanced Quantum Studies
- Department of Physics and Applied Optics Beijing Area Major Laboratory
- Beijing Normal University
- Beijing
- China
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- Center for Advanced Quantum Studies
- Department of Physics and Applied Optics Beijing Area Major Laboratory
- Beijing Normal University
- Beijing
- China
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- Center for Advanced Quantum Studies
- Department of Physics and Applied Optics Beijing Area Major Laboratory
- Beijing Normal University
- Beijing
- China
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- Juan Zhao
- Beijing
National Laboratory
for Molecular Sciences; Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics,
Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China
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- Beijing
National Laboratory
for Molecular Sciences; Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics,
Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China
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Ding B, Panahi A, Ho JJ, Laaser JE, Brooks CL, Zanni MT, Chen Z. Probing Site-Specific Structural Information of Peptides at Model Membrane Interface In Situ. J Am Chem Soc 2015; 137:10190-8. [PMID: 26241117 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b04024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Isotope labeling is a powerful technique to probe detailed structures of biological molecules with a variety of analytical methods such as NMR and vibrational spectroscopies. It is important to obtain molecular structural information on biological molecules at interfaces such as cell membranes, but it is challenging to use the isotope labeling method to study interfacial biomolecules. Here, by individually (13)C═(16)O labeling ten residues of a peptide, Ovispirin-1, we have demonstrated for the first time that a site-specific environment of membrane associated peptide can be probed by the submonolayer surface sensitive sum frequency generation (SFG) vibrational spectroscopy in situ. With the peptide associated with a single lipid bilayer, the sinusoidal trend of the SFG line width and peak-center frequency suggests that the peptide is located at the interface beneath the lipid headgroup region. The constructive interferences between the isotope labeled peaks and the main peptide amide I peak contributed by the unlabeled components were used to determine the membrane orientation of the peptide. From the SFG spectral peak-center frequency, line width, and polarization dependence of the isotope labeled units, we deduced structural information on individual units of the peptide associated with a model cell membrane. We also performed molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to understand peptide-membrane interactions. The physical pictures described by simulation agree well with the SFG experimental result. This research demonstrates the feasibility and power of using isotope labeling SFG to probe molecular structures of interfacial biological molecules in situ in real time.
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- Bei Ding
- †Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- †Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- ‡Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53703, United States
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- ‡Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53703, United States
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- †Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- ‡Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53703, United States
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- †Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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Huerta-Viga A, Amirjalayer S, Domingos SR, Meuzelaar H, Rupenyan A, Woutersen S. The structure of salt bridges between Arg+ and Glu− in peptides investigated with 2D-IR spectroscopy: Evidence for two distinct hydrogen-bond geometries. J Chem Phys 2015; 142:212444. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4921064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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- Adriana Huerta-Viga
- Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS), University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, Amsterdam 1098 XH, The Netherlands
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- Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS), University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, Amsterdam 1098 XH, The Netherlands
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- Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS), University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, Amsterdam 1098 XH, The Netherlands
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- Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS), University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, Amsterdam 1098 XH, The Netherlands
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- Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS), University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, Amsterdam 1098 XH, The Netherlands
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- Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS), University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, Amsterdam 1098 XH, The Netherlands
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Huerta-Viga A, Domingos SR, Amirjalayer S, Woutersen S. A salt-bridge structure in solution revealed by 2D-IR spectroscopy. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 16:15784-6. [PMID: 24676430 DOI: 10.1039/c4cp00233d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Salt bridges are important interactions for the stability of protein conformations, but up to now it has been difficult to determine salt-bridge geometries in solution. Here we characterize the spatial structure of a salt bridge between guanidinium (Gdm(+)) and acetate (Ac(-)) using two-dimensional vibrational (2D-IR) spectroscopy. We find that as a result of salt bridge formation there is a significant change in the infrared response of Gdm(+) and Ac(-), and cross peaks between them appear in the 2D-IR spectrum. From the 2D-IR spectrum we determine the relative orientation of the transition-dipole moments of the vibrational modes of Gdm(+) and Ac(-), as well as the coupling between them.
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- Adriana Huerta-Viga
- Van't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS), University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Carr JK, Wang L, Roy S, Skinner JL. Theoretical Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy of Peptides. J Phys Chem B 2014; 119:8969-83. [PMID: 25203677 PMCID: PMC4516311 DOI: 10.1021/jp507861t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Vibrational sum frequency generation (SFG) has become a very promising technique for the study of proteins at interfaces, and it has been applied to important systems such as anti-microbial peptides, ion channel proteins, and human islet amyloid polypeptide. Moreover, so-called "chiral" SFG techniques, which rely on polarization combinations that generate strong signals primarily for chiral molecules, have proven to be particularly discriminatory of protein secondary structure. In this work, we present a theoretical strategy for calculating protein amide I SFG spectra by combining line-shape theory with molecular dynamics simulations. We then apply this method to three model peptides, demonstrating the existence of a significant chiral SFG signal for peptides with chiral centers, and providing a framework for interpreting the results on the basis of the dependence of the SFG signal on the peptide orientation. We also examine the importance of dynamical and coupling effects. Finally, we suggest a simple method for determining a chromophore's orientation relative to the surface using ratios of experimental heterodyne-detected signals with different polarizations, and test this method using theoretical spectra.
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- Joshua K Carr
- Theoretical Chemistry Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Theoretical Chemistry Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Theoretical Chemistry Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Theoretical Chemistry Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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Figueiredo KCS, Alves TLM, Borges CP. Myoglobin entrapment in poly(vinyl alcohol) dense membranes. BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING 2014. [DOI: 10.1590/0104-6632.20140313s00002307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Manor J, Arbely E, Beerlink A, Akkawi M, Arkin IT. Use of Isotope-Edited FTIR to Derive a Backbone Structure of a Transmembrane Protein. J Phys Chem Lett 2014; 5:2573-2579. [PMID: 26277945 DOI: 10.1021/jz501055d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Solving structures of membrane proteins has always been a formidable challenge, yet even upon success, the results are normally obtained in a mimetic environment that can be substantially different from a biological membrane. Herein, we use noninvasive isotope-edited FTIR spectroscopy to derive a structural model for the SARS coronavirus E protein transmembrane domain in lipid bilayers. Molecular-dynamics-based structural refinement, incorporating the IR-derived orientational restraints points to the formation of a helical hairpin structure. Disulfide cross-linking and X-ray reflectivity depth profiling provide independent support of the results. The unusually short helical hairpin structure of the protein might explain its ability to deform bilayers and is reminiscent of other peptides with membrane disrupting functionalities. Taken together, we show that isotope-edited FTIR is a powerful tool to analyze small membrane proteins in their native environment, enabling us to relate the unusual structure of the SARS E protein to its function.
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- Joshua Manor
- †Department of Biological Chemistry, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmund J. Safra Campus, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
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- †Department of Biological Chemistry, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmund J. Safra Campus, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
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- ‡Institut für Röntgenphysik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, Göttingen 37077 Germany
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- §Faculty of Science and Technology, Al-Quds University, Abu Dis, Palestinian National Authority
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- †Department of Biological Chemistry, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmund J. Safra Campus, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
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Ghosh A, Wang J, Moroz YS, Korendovych IV, Zanni M, DeGrado WF, Gai F, Hochstrasser RM. 2D IR spectroscopy reveals the role of water in the binding of channel-blocking drugs to the influenza M2 channel. J Chem Phys 2014; 140:235105. [PMID: 24952572 PMCID: PMC4098053 DOI: 10.1063/1.4881188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2013] [Accepted: 05/21/2014] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Water is an integral part of the homotetrameric M2 proton channel of the influenza A virus, which not only assists proton conduction but could also play an important role in stabilizing channel-blocking drugs. Herein, we employ two dimensional infrared (2D IR) spectroscopy and site-specific IR probes, i.e., the amide I bands arising from isotopically labeled Ala30 and Gly34 residues, to probe how binding of either rimantadine or 7,7-spiran amine affects the water dynamics inside the M2 channel. Our results show, at neutral pH where the channel is non-conducting, that drug binding leads to a significant increase in the mobility of the channel water. A similar trend is also observed at pH 5.0 although the difference becomes smaller. Taken together, these results indicate that the channel water facilitates drug binding by increasing its entropy. Furthermore, the 2D IR spectral signatures obtained for both probes under different conditions collectively support a binding mechanism whereby amantadine-like drugs dock in the channel with their ammonium moiety pointing toward the histidine residues and interacting with a nearby water cluster, as predicted by molecular dynamics simulations. We believe these findings have important implications for designing new anti-influenza drugs.
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- Ayanjeet Ghosh
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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Moran SD, Zanni MT. How to Get Insight into Amyloid Structure and Formation from Infrared Spectroscopy. J Phys Chem Lett 2014; 5:1984-1993. [PMID: 24932380 PMCID: PMC4051309 DOI: 10.1021/jz500794d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 182] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2014] [Accepted: 05/16/2014] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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There is an enormous amount of interest in the structures and formation mechanisms of amyloid fibers. In this Perspective, we review the most common structural motifs of amyloid fibers and discuss how infrared spectroscopy and isotope labeling can be used to identify their structures and aggregation kinetics. We present three specific strategies, site-specific labeling to obtain residue-by-residue structural information, isotope dilution of uniformly labeled proteins for identifying structural folds and protein mixtures, and expressed protein ligation for studying the domain structures of large proteins. For each of these methods, vibrational couplings are the source of the identifying features in the infrared spectrum. Examples are provided using the proteins hIAPP, Aβ, polyglutamine, and γD-crystallin. We focus on FTIR spectroscopy but also describe new observables made possible by 2D IR spectroscopy.
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Kar S, Patel MA, Tripathy RK, Bajaj P, Pande AH. Oxidized-phospholipids in reconstituted high density lipoprotein particles affect structure and function of recombinant paraoxonase 1. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Biol Lipids 2013; 1831:1714-20. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbalip.2013.08.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2013] [Revised: 07/31/2013] [Accepted: 08/07/2013] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Tatulian SA. Structural characterization of membrane proteins and peptides by FTIR and ATR-FTIR spectroscopy. Methods Mol Biol 2013; 974:177-218. [PMID: 23404277 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-275-9_9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy is widely used in structural characterization of proteins or peptides. While the method does not have the capability of providing the precise, atomic-resolution molecular structure, it is exquisitely sensitive to conformational changes occurring in proteins upon functional transitions or upon intermolecular interactions. Sensitivity of vibrational frequencies to atomic masses has led to development of "isotope-edited" FTIR spectroscopy, where structural effects in two proteins, one unlabeled and the other labeled with a heavier stable isotope, such as (13)C, are resolved simultaneously based on spectral downshift (separation) of the amide I band of the labeled protein. The same isotope effect is used to identify site-specific conformational changes in proteins by site-directed or segmental isotope labeling. Negligible light scattering in the infrared region provides an opportunity to study intermolecular interactions between large protein complexes, interactions of proteins and peptides with lipid vesicles, or protein-nucleic acid interactions without light scattering problems often encountered in ultraviolet spectroscopy. Attenuated total reflection FTIR (ATR-FTIR) is a surface-sensitive version of infrared spectroscopy that has proved useful in studying membrane proteins and lipids, protein-membrane interactions, mechanisms of interfacial enzymes, and molecular architecture of membrane pore or channel forming proteins and peptides. The purpose of this article was to provide a practical guide to analyze protein structure and protein-membrane interactions by FTIR and ATR-FTIR techniques, including procedures of sample preparation, measurements, and data analysis. Basic background information on FTIR spectroscopy, as well as some relatively new developments in structural and functional characterization of proteins and peptides in lipid membranes, are also presented.
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- Suren A Tatulian
- Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA.
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Shai Y. ATR-FTIR studies in pore forming and membrane induced fusion peptides. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2012. [PMID: 23201348 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2012.11.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Infrared (IR) spectroscopy has been shown to be very reliable for the characterization, identification and quantification of structural data. Particularly, the Attenuated Total Reflectance (ATR) technique which became one of the best choices to study the structure and organization of membrane proteins and membrane-bound peptides in biologically relevant membranes. An important advantage of IR spectroscopy is its ability to analyze material under a very wide range of conditions including solids, liquids and gases. This method allows elucidation of component secondary structure elements of a peptide or protein in a global manner, and by using site specific isotope labeling allows determination of specific regions. A few advantages in using ATR-FTIR spectroscopy include; a relatively simple technique, allow the determination of peptide orientation in the membrane, allow the determination of secondary structures of very small peptides, and importantly, the method is sensitive to isotopic labeling on the scale of single amino acids. Many studies were reported on the use of ATR-FTIR spectroscopy in order to study the structure and orientation of membrane bound hydrophobic peptides and proteins. The list includes native and de-novo designed peptides, as well as those derived from trans-membrane domains of various receptors (TMDs). The present review will focus on several examples that demonstrate the potential and the simplicity in using the ATR-FTIR approach to determine secondary structures of proteins and peptides when bound, inserted, and oligomerized within membranes. The list includes (i) a channel forming protein/peptide: the Ca(2+) channel phospholamban, (ii) a cell penetrating peptide, (iii) changes in the structure of a transmembrane domain located within ordered and non-ordered domains, and (iv) isotope edited FTIR to directly assign structure to the membrane associated fusion peptide in context of a Key gp41 Structural Motif. Importantly, a unique advantage of infrared spectroscopy is that it allows a simultaneous study of the structure of lipids and proteins in intact biological membranes without an introduction of foreign perturbing probes. Because of the long IR wavelength, light scattering problems are virtually non-existent. This allows the investigation of highly aggregated materials or large membrane fragments. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: FTIR in membrane proteins and peptide studies.
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- Yechiel Shai
- Department of Biological Chemistry, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100 Israel.
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Manor J, Arkin IT. Gaining insight into membrane protein structure using isotope-edited FTIR. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2012. [PMID: 23196348 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2012.11.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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FTIR spectroscopy has long been used as a tool used to gain average structural information on proteins. With the advent of stable isotope editing, FTIR can be used to derive accurate information on isolated amino acids. In particular, in an anisotropic sample such as membrane layers, it is possible to measure the orientation of the peptidic carbonyl groups. Herein, we review the theory that enables one to obtain accurate restraints from FTIR spectroscopy, alongside considerations for sample suitability and general applicability. We also propose approaches that may be used to generate structural models of simple membrane proteins based on FTIR orientational restraints. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: FTIR in membrane proteins and peptide studies.
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- Joshua Manor
- Department of Biological Chemistry, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmund J. Safra Campus, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel
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Xue L, Zou F, Zhao Y, Huang X, Qu Y. Nitrile group as infrared probe for the characterization of the conformation of bovine serum albumin solubilized in reverse micelles. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2012; 97:858-863. [PMID: 22902928 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2012.07.076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2012] [Revised: 07/08/2012] [Accepted: 07/22/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Infrared spectroscopy is a powerful technique for structure characterization. For a protein hosted in a reversed micellar medium, the spectral features of the protein are always interfered by the IR absorption bands of the medium in addition to the congestion in their IR spectra. Fortunately, there is a transparent window in the 2500-2200 cm(-1) region. Incorporation of a vibrational probe with IR absorption frequencies in this region into proteins represents a promising strategy for the study of the conformation of a protein in a reverse micelle. In the present work, we incorporated 4-cyanobenzyl group (CN) into bovine serum albumin (BSA) via cysteine alkylation reactions under mild conditions. Circular dichroism spectroscopy showed that the CN modified BSA (CNBSA) could retain its conformation. When CNBSA was hosted in AOT reverse micelle, it was found that the nitrile group on BSA was sensitive to the conformational change of BSA induced by urea as an additive in the reverse micelle. The peak splitting of nitrile group was also observed when the size of AOT reverse micelle and the concentration of an electrolyte were varied. Obviously, the shift of the IR absorption peak and/or peak splitting of nitrile group on BSA are correlated with the change of BSA conformation in AOT reverse micelle. So we conclude that the nitrile infrared probe can be used to study protein conformation in a reverse micelle.
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- Luyan Xue
- Key Laboratory of Colloid & Interface Chemistry of the Education Ministry of China, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, PR China
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Rathod R, Kang Z, Hartson SD, Kumauchi M, Xie A, Hoff WD. Side-chain specific isotopic labeling of proteins for infrared structural biology: The case of ring-D4-tyrosine isotope labeling of photoactive yellow protein. Protein Expr Purif 2012; 85:125-32. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2012.06.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2012] [Accepted: 06/18/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Wang L, Skinner JL. Thermally induced protein unfolding probed by isotope-edited IR spectroscopy. J Phys Chem B 2012; 116:9627-34. [PMID: 22853174 PMCID: PMC3463243 DOI: 10.1021/jp304613b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Infrared (IR) spectroscopy has been widely utilized for the study of protein folding, unfolding, and misfolding processes. We have previously developed a theoretical method for calculating IR spectra of proteins in the amide I region. In this work, we apply this method, in combination with replica-exchange molecular dynamics simulations, to study the equilibrium thermal unfolding transition of the villin headpiece subdomain (HP36). Temperature-dependent IR spectra and spectral densities are calculated. The spectral densities correctly reflect the unfolding conformational changes in the simulation. With the help of isotope labeling, we are able to capture the feature that helix 2 of HP36 loses its secondary structure before global unfolding occurs, in agreement with experiment.
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- Lu Wang
- Theoretical Chemistry Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 USA
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- Theoretical Chemistry Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 USA
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Hohlweg W, Kosol S, Zangger K. Determining the orientation and localization of membrane-bound peptides. Curr Protein Pept Sci 2012; 13:267-79. [PMID: 22044140 PMCID: PMC3394173 DOI: 10.2174/138920312800785049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2010] [Revised: 10/01/2011] [Accepted: 10/10/2011] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Many naturally occurring bioactive peptides bind to biological membranes. Studying and elucidating the mode of interaction is often an essential step to understand their molecular and biological functions. To obtain the complete orientation and immersion depth of such compounds in the membrane or a membrane-mimetic system, a number of methods are available, which are separated in this review into four main classes: solution NMR, solid-state NMR, EPR and other methods. Solution NMR methods include the Nuclear Overhauser Effect (NOE) between peptide and membrane signals, residual dipolar couplings and the use of paramagnetic probes, either within the membrane-mimetic or in the solvent. The vast array of solid state NMR methods to study membrane-bound peptide orientation and localization includes the anisotropic chemical shift, PISA wheels, dipolar waves, the GALA, MAOS and REDOR methods and again the use of paramagnetic additives on relaxation rates. Paramagnetic additives, with their effect on spectral linewidths, have also been used in EPR spectroscopy. Additionally, the orientation of a peptide within a membrane can be obtained by the anisotropic hyperfine tensor of a rigidly attached nitroxide label. Besides these magnetic resonance techniques a series of other methods to probe the orientation of peptides in membranes has been developed, consisting of fluorescence-, infrared- and oriented circular dichroism spectroscopy, colorimetry, interface-sensitive X-ray and neutron scattering and Quartz crystal microbalance.
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- Institute of Chemistry / Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry, University of Graz, Heinrichstrasse 28, A-8010 Graz, Austria
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Manor J, Feldblum ES, Zanni MT, Arkin IT. Environment Polarity in Proteins Mapped Noninvasively by FTIR Spectroscopy. J Phys Chem Lett 2012; 3:939-944. [PMID: 22563521 PMCID: PMC3341589 DOI: 10.1021/jz300150v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The polarity pattern of a macromolecule is of utmost importance to its structure and function. For example, one of the main driving forces for protein folding is the burial of hydrophobic residues. Yet polarity remains a difficult property to measure experimentally, due in part to its non-uniformity in the protein interior. Herein, we show that FTIR linewidth analysis of noninvasive 1-(13)C=(18)O labels can be used to obtain a reliable measure of the local polarity, even in a highly multi-phasic system, such as a membrane protein. We show that in the Influenza M2 H(+) channel, residues that line the pore are located in an environment that is as polar as fully solvated residues, while residues that face the lipid acyl chains are located in an apolar environment. Taken together, FTIR linewidth analysis is a powerful, yet chemically non-perturbing approach to examine one of the most important properties in proteins - polarity.
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- Joshua Manor
- The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences. Department of Biological Chemistry. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmund J. Safra Campus, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel
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- The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences. Department of Biological Chemistry. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmund J. Safra Campus, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706-1396, USA
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- The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences. Department of Biological Chemistry. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmund J. Safra Campus, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel
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Smith AW. Lipid–protein interactions in biological membranes: A dynamic perspective. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2012; 1818:172-7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2011.06.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2011] [Revised: 06/21/2011] [Accepted: 06/23/2011] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Rodríguez-Pérez JC, Hamley IW, Gras SL, Squires AM. Local orientational disorder in peptide fibrils probed by a combination of residue-specific 13C–18O labelling, polarised infrared spectroscopy and molecular combing. Chem Commun (Camb) 2012; 48:11835-7. [DOI: 10.1039/c2cc35586h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Jayaraman M, Kodali R, Sahoo B, Thakur AK, Mayasundari A, Mishra R, Peterson CB, Wetzel R. Slow amyloid nucleation via α-helix-rich oligomeric intermediates in short polyglutamine-containing huntingtin fragments. J Mol Biol 2011; 415:881-99. [PMID: 22178474 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2011.12.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2011] [Revised: 11/01/2011] [Accepted: 12/05/2011] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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The 17-amino-acid N-terminal segment (htt(NT)) that leads into the polyglutamine (polyQ) segment in the Huntington's disease protein huntingtin (htt) dramatically increases aggregation rates and changes the aggregation mechanism, compared to a simple polyQ peptide of similar length. With polyQ segments near or above the pathological repeat length threshold of about 37, aggregation of htt N-terminal fragments is so rapid that it is difficult to tease out mechanistic details. We describe here the use of very short polyQ repeat lengths in htt N-terminal fragments to slow this disease-associated aggregation. Although all of these peptides, in addition to htt(NT) itself, form α-helix-rich oligomeric intermediates, only peptides with Q(N) of eight or longer mature into amyloid-like aggregates, doing so by a slow increase in β-structure. Concentration-dependent circular dichroism and analytical ultracentrifugation suggest that the htt(NT) sequence, with or without added glutamine residues, exists in solution as an equilibrium between disordered monomer and α-helical tetramer. Higher order, α-helix rich oligomers appear to be built up via these tetramers. However, only htt(NT)Q(N) peptides with N=8 or more undergo conversion into polyQ β-sheet aggregates. These final amyloid-like aggregates not only feature the expected high β-sheet content but also retain an element of solvent-exposed α-helix. The α-helix-rich oligomeric intermediates appear to be both on- and off-pathway, with some oligomers serving as the pool from within which nuclei emerge, while those that fail to undergo amyloid nucleation serve as a reservoir for release of monomers to support fibril elongation. Based on a regular pattern of multimers observed in analytical ultracentrifugation, and a concentration dependence of α-helix formation in CD spectroscopy, it is likely that these oligomers assemble via a four-helix assembly unit. PolyQ expansion in these peptides appears to enhance the rates of both oligomer formation and nucleation from within the oligomer population, by structural mechanisms that remain unclear.
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- Murali Jayaraman
- Department of Structural Biology and Pittsburgh Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
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Wang L, Middleton CT, Singh S, Reddy AS, Woys AM, Strasfeld DB, Marek P, Raleigh DP, de Pablo JJ, Zanni MT, Skinner JL. 2DIR spectroscopy of human amylin fibrils reflects stable β-sheet structure. J Am Chem Soc 2011; 133:16062-71. [PMID: 21916515 PMCID: PMC3196637 DOI: 10.1021/ja204035k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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The aggregation of human amylin to form amyloid contributes to islet β-cell dysfunction in type 2 diabetes. Studies of amyloid formation have been hindered by the low structural resolution or relatively modest time resolution of standard methods. Two-dimensional infrared (2DIR) spectroscopy, with its sensitivity to protein secondary structures and its intrinsic fast time resolution, is capable of capturing structural changes during the aggregation process. Moreover, isotope labeling enables the measurement of residue-specific information. The diagonal line widths of 2DIR spectra contain information about dynamics and structural heterogeneity of the system. We illustrate the power of a combined atomistic molecular dynamics simulation and theoretical and experimental 2DIR approach by analyzing the variation in diagonal line widths of individual amide I modes in a series of labeled samples of amylin amyloid fibrils. The theoretical and experimental 2DIR line widths suggest a "W" pattern, as a function of residue number. We show that large line widths result from substantial structural disorder and that this pattern is indicative of the stable secondary structure of the two β-sheet regions. This work provides a protocol for bridging MD simulation and 2DIR experiments for future aggregation studies.
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- Lu Wang
- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States.
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Hickert AS, Durgan AC, Patton DA, Blake SA, Cremeens ME. A B3LYP investigation of the conformational and environmental sensitivity of carbon–deuterium frequencies of aryl-perdeuterated phenylalanine and tryptophan. Theor Chem Acc 2011. [DOI: 10.1007/s00214-011-1050-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Wang L, Middleton CT, Zanni MT, Skinner JL. Development and validation of transferable amide I vibrational frequency maps for peptides. J Phys Chem B 2011; 115:3713-24. [PMID: 21405034 DOI: 10.1021/jp200745r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 154] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Infrared (IR) spectroscopy of the amide I band has been widely utilized for the analysis of peptides and proteins. Theoretical modeling of IR spectra of proteins requires an accurate and efficient description of the amide I frequencies. In this paper, amide I frequency maps for protein backbone and side chain groups are developed from experimental spectra and vibrational lifetimes of N-methylacetamide and acetamide in different solvents. The frequency maps, along with established nearest-neighbor frequency shift and coupling schemes, are then applied to a variety of peptides in aqueous solution and reproduce experimental spectra well. The frequency maps are designed to be transferable to different environments; therefore, they can be used for heterogeneous systems, such as membrane proteins.
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- L Wang
- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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Backus EHG, Bloem R, Donaldson PM, Ihalainen JA, Pfister R, Paoli B, Caflisch A, Hamm P. 2D-IR study of a photoswitchable isotope-labeled alpha-helix. J Phys Chem B 2010; 114:3735-40. [PMID: 20166694 DOI: 10.1021/jp911849n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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A series of photoswitchable, alpha-helical peptides were studied using two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy (2D-IR). Single-isotope labeling with (13)C(18)O at various positions in the sequence was employed to spectrally isolate particular backbone positions. We show that a single (13)C(18)O label can give rise to two bands along the diagonal of the 2D-IR spectrum, one of which is from an amide group that is hydrogen-bonded internally, or to a solvent molecule, and the other from a non-hydrogen-bonded amide group. The photoswitch enabled examination of both the folded and unfolded state of the helix. For most sites, unfolding of the peptide caused a shift of intensity from the hydrogen-bonded peak to the non-hydrogen-bonded peak. The relative intensity of the two diagonal peaks gives an indication of the fraction of molecules hydrogen-bonded at a certain location along the sequence. As this fraction varies quite substantially along the helix, we conclude that the helix is not uniformly folded. Furthermore, the shift in hydrogen bonding is much smaller than the change of helicity measured by CD spectroscopy, indicating that non-native hydrogen-bonded or mis-folded loops are formed in the unfolded ensemble.
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- Ellen H G Backus
- FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Science Park 104, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Miller CS, Corcelli SA. Carbon−Deuterium Vibrational Probes of the Protonation State of Histidine in the Gas-Phase and in Aqueous Solution. J Phys Chem B 2010; 114:8565-73. [DOI: 10.1021/jp1028596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- C. S. Miller
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
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Middleton CT, Woys AM, Mukherjee SS, Zanni MT. Residue-specific structural kinetics of proteins through the union of isotope labeling, mid-IR pulse shaping, and coherent 2D IR spectroscopy. Methods 2010; 52:12-22. [PMID: 20472067 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2010.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2010] [Revised: 05/08/2010] [Accepted: 05/11/2010] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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We describe a methodology for studying protein kinetics using a rapid-scan technology for collecting 2D IR spectra. In conjunction with isotope labeling, 2D IR spectroscopy is able to probe the secondary structure and environment of individual residues in polypeptides and proteins. It is particularly useful for membrane and aggregate proteins. Our rapid-scan technology relies on a mid-IR pulse shaper that computer generates the pulse shapes, much like in an NMR spectrometer. With this device, data collection is faster, easier, and more accurate. We describe our 2D IR spectrometer, as well as protocols for (13)C(18)O isotope labeling, and then illustrate the technique with an application to the aggregation of the human islet amyloid polypeptide implicated in type 2 diabetes.
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- Chris T Middleton
- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706-1396, United States
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Maekawa H, De Poli M, Moretto A, Toniolo C, Ge NH. Toward detecting the formation of a single helical turn by 2D IR cross peaks between the amide-I and -II modes. J Phys Chem B 2010; 113:11775-86. [PMID: 19642666 DOI: 10.1021/jp9045879] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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We have combined two-dimensional infrared (2D IR) spectroscopy and isotope substitutions to reveal the vibrational couplings between a pair of amide-I and -II modes that are several residues away but directly connected through a hydrogen bond in a helical peptide. This strategy is demonstrated on a 3(10)-helical hexapeptide, Z-Aib-L-Leu-(Aib)2-Gly-Aib-OtBu, and its 13C=18O-Leu monolabeled and 13C=18O-Leu/15N-Gly bis-labeled isotopomers in CDCl3. The isotope-dependent amide-I/II cross peaks clearly show that the second and fourth peptide linkages are vibrationally coupled as they are in proximity, forming a 3(10)-helical turn. The experimental spectra are compared to simulations based on a vibrational exciton Hamiltonian model that fully takes into account the amide-I and -II modes. The amide-II local mode frequency is evaluated by a new model based on the effects of hydrogen-bond geometry and sites. Ab initio nearest-neighbor coupling maps of the amide-I/I, -I/II, -II/I and -II/II modes are generated by isotopically isolating the local modes of N-acetyl-glycine N'-methylamide (AcGlyNHMe). Longer range couplings are modeled by transition charge interactions. The effects of the capping groups are incorporated and isotope effects are analyzed based on ab initio calculations of six model compounds. The main features of the 2D IR spectra are reproduced by this modeling. The conformational sensitivity of the isotope-dependent amide-I/II cross peaks is discussed in comparison with the calculated spectra for a semiextended structure. Our experimental and theoretical study demonstrates that the combination of 2D IR and 13C=18O/15N labeling is a useful structural method for detecting helical turn formation with residue-level specificity.
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- Hiroaki Maekawa
- Department of Chemistry, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California 92697-2025, USA
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Maekawa H, Ge NH. Comparative Study of Electrostatic Models for the Amide-I and -II Modes: Linear and Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectra. J Phys Chem B 2010; 114:1434-46. [DOI: 10.1021/jp908695g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Hiroaki Maekawa
- Department of Chemistry, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California 92697-2025
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California 92697-2025
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Esteban-Martín S, Giménez D, Fuertes G, Salgado J. Orientational Landscapes of Peptides in Membranes: Prediction of 2H NMR Couplings in a Dynamic Context. Biochemistry 2009; 48:11441-8. [DOI: 10.1021/bi901017y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Santi Esteban-Martín
- Instituto de Ciencia Molecular, Universitat de València, Polígono La Coma s/n, 46980 Paterna, Valencia, Spain
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- Instituto de Ciencia Molecular, Universitat de València, Polígono La Coma s/n, 46980 Paterna, Valencia, Spain
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- Instituto de Ciencia Molecular, Universitat de València, Polígono La Coma s/n, 46980 Paterna, Valencia, Spain
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- Instituto de Ciencia Molecular, Universitat de València, Polígono La Coma s/n, 46980 Paterna, Valencia, Spain
- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Universitat de València, C/Dr. Moliner, 50, 46100 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain
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