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Low pH structure of heliorhodopsin reveals chloride binding site and intramolecular signaling pathway. Sci Rep 2022; 12:13955. [PMID: 35977989 PMCID: PMC9385722 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-17716-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2022] [Accepted: 07/29/2022] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Within the microbial rhodopsin family, heliorhodopsins (HeRs) form a phylogenetically distinct group of light-harvesting retinal proteins with largely unknown functions. We have determined the 1.97 Å resolution X-ray crystal structure of Thermoplasmatales archaeon SG8-52-1 heliorhodopsin (TaHeR) in the presence of NaCl under acidic conditions (pH 4.5), which complements the known 2.4 Å TaHeR structure acquired at pH 8.0. The low pH structure revealed that the hydrophilic Schiff base cavity (SBC) accommodates a chloride anion to stabilize the protonated retinal Schiff base when its primary counterion (Glu-108) is neutralized. Comparison of the two structures at different pH revealed conformational changes connecting the SBC and the extracellular loop linking helices A–B. We corroborated this intramolecular signaling transduction pathway with computational studies, which revealed allosteric network changes propagating from the perturbed SBC to the intracellular and extracellular space, suggesting TaHeR may function as a sensory rhodopsin. This intramolecular signaling mechanism may be conserved among HeRs, as similar changes were observed for HeR 48C12 between its pH 8.8 and pH 4.3 structures. We additionally performed DEER experiments, which suggests that TaHeR forms possible dimer-of-dimer associations which may be integral to its putative functionality as a light sensor in binding a transducer protein.
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Tutol JN, Lee J, Chi H, Faizuddin FN, Abeyrathna SS, Zhou Q, Morcos F, Meloni G, Dodani SC. A single point mutation converts a proton-pumping rhodopsin into a red-shifted, turn-on fluorescent sensor for chloride. Chem Sci 2021; 12:5655-5663. [PMID: 34163777 PMCID: PMC8179538 DOI: 10.1039/d0sc06061e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2020] [Accepted: 03/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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The visualization of chloride in living cells with fluorescent sensors is linked to our ability to design hosts that can overcome the energetic penalty of desolvation to bind chloride in water. Fluorescent proteins can be used as biological supramolecular hosts to address this fundamental challenge. Here, we showcase the power of protein engineering to convert the fluorescent proton-pumping rhodopsin GR from Gloeobacter violaceus into GR1, a red-shifted, turn-on fluorescent sensor for chloride in detergent micelles and in live Escherichia coli. This non-natural function was unlocked by mutating D121, which serves as the counterion to the protonated retinylidene Schiff base chromophore. Substitution from aspartate to valine at this position (D121V) creates a binding site for chloride. The binding of chloride tunes the pK a of the chromophore towards the protonated, fluorescent state to generate a pH-dependent response. Moreover, ion pumping assays combined with bulk fluorescence and single-cell fluorescence microscopy experiments with E. coli, expressing a GR1 fusion with a cyan fluorescent protein, show that GR1 does not pump ions nor sense membrane potential but instead provides a reversible, ratiometric readout of changes in extracellular chloride at the membrane. This discovery sets the stage to use natural and laboratory-guided evolution to build a family of rhodopsin-based fluorescent chloride sensors with improved properties for cellular applications and learn how proteins can evolve and adapt to bind anions in water.
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- Jasmine N Tutol
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson TX 75080 USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson TX 75080 USA
- Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson TX 75080 USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson TX 75080 USA
- Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson TX 75080 USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson TX 75080 USA
- Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson TX 75080 USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson TX 75080 USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson TX 75080 USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson TX 75080 USA
- Department of Bioengineering, The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson TX 75080 USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson TX 75080 USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson TX 75080 USA
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Functional Mechanism of Cl --Pump Rhodopsin and Its Conversion into H + Pump. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2021; 1293:55-71. [PMID: 33398807 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-8763-4_4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Cl--pump rhodopsin is the second discovered microbial rhodopsin. Although its physiological role has not been fully clarified, its functional mechanism has been studied as a model for anion transporters. After the success of neural activation by channel rhodopsin, the first Cl--pump halorhodopsin (HR) had become widely used as a neural silencer. The emergence of artificial and natural anion channel rhodopsins lowered the importance of HRs. However, the longer absorption maxima of approximately 585-600 nm for HRs are still advantageous for applications in mammalian brains and collaborations with neural activators possessing shorter absorption maxima. In this chapter, the variation and functional mechanisms of Cl- pumps are summarized. After the discovery of HR, Cl--pump rhodopsins were confined to only extremely halophilic haloarchaea. However, after 2014, two Cl--pump groups were newly discovered in marine and terrestrial bacteria. These Cl- pumps are phylogenetically distinct from HRs and have unique characteristics. In particular, the most recently identified Cl- pump has close similarity with the H+ pump bacteriorhodopsin and was converted into the H+ pump by a single amino acid replacement.
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Yun JH, Ohki M, Park JH, Ishimoto N, Sato-Tomita A, Lee W, Jin Z, Tame JRH, Shibayama N, Park SY, Lee W. Pumping mechanism of NM-R3, a light-driven bacterial chloride importer in the rhodopsin family. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2020; 6:eaay2042. [PMID: 32083178 PMCID: PMC7007266 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aay2042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2019] [Accepted: 11/25/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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A newly identified microbial rhodopsin, NM-R3, from the marine flavobacterium Nonlabens marinus, was recently shown to drive chloride ion uptake, extending our understanding of the diversity of mechanisms for biological energy conversion. To clarify the mechanism underlying its function, we characterized the crystal structures of NM-R3 in both the dark state and early intermediate photoexcited states produced by laser pulses of different intensities and temperatures. The displacement of chloride ions at five different locations in the model reflected the detailed anion-conduction pathway, and the activity-related key residues-Cys105, Ser60, Gln224, and Phe90-were identified by mutation assays and spectroscopy. Comparisons with other proteins, including a closely related outward sodium ion pump, revealed key motifs and provided structural insights into light-driven ion transport across membranes by the NQ subfamily of rhodopsins. Unexpectedly, the response of the retinal in NM-R3 to photostimulation appears to be substantially different from that seen in bacteriorhodopsin.
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- Ji-Hye Yun
- Department of Biochemistry, College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, South Korea
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- Research Complex at Harwell, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, OX11 0FA Didcot, UK
- Drug Design Laboratory, Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Tsurumi, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry, College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, South Korea
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- Drug Design Laboratory, Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Tsurumi, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan
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- Division of Biophysics, Department of Physiology, Jichi Medical University, 3311-1 Yakushiji, Shimotsuke, Tochigi 329-0498, Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry, College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, South Korea
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- Department of Biochemistry, College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, South Korea
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- Drug Design Laboratory, Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Tsurumi, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan
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- Division of Biophysics, Department of Physiology, Jichi Medical University, 3311-1 Yakushiji, Shimotsuke, Tochigi 329-0498, Japan
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- Drug Design Laboratory, Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Tsurumi, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry, College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, South Korea
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Singh M, Inoue K, Pushkarev A, Béjà O, Kandori H. Mutation Study of Heliorhodopsin 48C12. Biochemistry 2018; 57:5041-5049. [PMID: 30036039 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.8b00637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Rhodopsins are heptahelical transmembrane photoactive protein families: type 1 (microbial rhodopsins) and type 2 (animal rhodopsins). Both families share similar topologies and chromophore retinal, which is linked covalently as a protonated Schiff base to a Lys at the transmembrane 7 helix. Recently, through functional metagenomics analysis, we reported an unnoticed diverse family, heliorhodopsins (HeRs), which are abundant and distributed globally in archaea, bacteria, eukarya, and viruses. The sequence identity is <15% between HeRs and type 1 rhodopsins, so that many aspects of the molecular properties of HeRs remain unknown. Herein, to gain information about the residues responsible for the interaction with the chromophore, we applied Ala scanning to 30 candidate residues in HeR 48C12. As a result, 12 mutants showed no absorption change, eight exhibited a spectral blue-shift, six exhibited a spectral red-shift, and four did not form a pigment. R104, Y108, G145, and K241 play crucial roles in pigment formation. A combination of single mutants successfully engineered pigments absorbing at 523 nm (S112A/M141A) and 571 nm (H80A/S237A), covering more than ∼50 nm. These results provide fundamental knowledge about the molecular properties of HeRs.
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- Manish Singh
- Department of Life Science and Applied Chemistry , Nagoya Institute of Technology , Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555 , Japan
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- Department of Life Science and Applied Chemistry , Nagoya Institute of Technology , Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555 , Japan.,OptoBioTechnology Research Center , Nagoya Institute of Technology , Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555 , Japan.,Frontier Research Institute for Material Science , Nagoya Institute of Technology , Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555 , Japan.,PRESTO , Japan Science and Technology Agency , 4-1-8 Honcho , Kawaguchi , Saitama 332-0012 , Japan
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- Faculty of Biology , Technion-Israel Institute of Technology , Haifa 32000 , Israel
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- Faculty of Biology , Technion-Israel Institute of Technology , Haifa 32000 , Israel
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- Department of Life Science and Applied Chemistry , Nagoya Institute of Technology , Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555 , Japan.,OptoBioTechnology Research Center , Nagoya Institute of Technology , Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555 , Japan
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Wickstrand C, Dods R, Royant A, Neutze R. Bacteriorhodopsin: Would the real structural intermediates please stand up? Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2014; 1850:536-53. [PMID: 24918316 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2014.05.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2014] [Revised: 05/23/2014] [Accepted: 05/29/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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BACKGROUND Bacteriorhodopsin (bR) is the simplest known light driven proton pump and has been heavily studied using structural methods: eighty four X-ray diffraction, six electron diffraction and three NMR structures of bR are deposited within the protein data bank. Twenty one X-ray structures report light induced structural changes and changes induced by mutation, changes in pH, thermal annealing or X-ray induced photo-reduction have also been examined. SCOPE OF REVIEW We argue that light-induced structural changes that are replicated across several studies by independent research groups are those most likely to represent what is happening in reality. We present both internal distance matrix analyses that sort deposited bR structures into hierarchal trees, and difference Fourier analysis of deposited X-ray diffraction data. MAJOR CONCLUSIONS An internal distance matrix analysis separates most wild-type bR structures according to their different crystal forms, indicating how the protein's structure is influenced by crystallization conditions. A similar analysis clusters eleven studies of illuminated bR crystals as one branch of a hierarchal tree with reproducible movements of the extracellular portion of helix C towards helix G, and of the cytoplasmic portion of helix F away from helices A, B and G. All crystallographic data deposited for illuminated crystals show negative difference density on a water molecule (Wat402) that forms H-bonds to the retinal Schiff Base and two aspartate residues (Asp85, Asp212) in the bR resting state. Other recurring difference density features indicated reproducible side-chain, backbone and water molecule displacements. X-ray induced radiation damage also disorders Wat402 but acts via cleaving the head-groups of Asp85 and Asp212. GENERAL SIGNIFICANCE A remarkable level of agreement exists when deposited structures and crystallographic observations are viewed as a whole. From this agreement a unified picture of the structural mechanism of light-induced proton pumping by bR emerges. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled Structural biochemistry and biophysics of membrane proteins.
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- Cecilia Wickstrand
- Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg, Box 462, SE-40530 Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg, Box 462, SE-40530 Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, IBS, F-38044 Grenoble, France; CNRS, IBS, F-38044 Grenoble, France; CEA, IBS, F-38044 Grenoble, France; European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, F-38043 Grenoble, France.
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- Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg, Box 462, SE-40530 Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Thermodynamic parameters of anion binding to halorhodopsin from Natronomonas pharaonis by isothermal titration calorimetry. Biophys Chem 2013; 172:61-7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bpc.2013.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2012] [Revised: 01/10/2013] [Accepted: 01/14/2013] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Muroda K, Nakashima K, Shibata M, Demura M, Kandori H. Protein-bound water as the determinant of asymmetric functional conversion between light-driven proton and chloride pumps. Biochemistry 2012; 51:4677-84. [PMID: 22583333 DOI: 10.1021/bi300485r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Bacteriorhodopsin (BR) and halorhodopsin (HR) are light-driven outward proton and inward chloride pumps, respectively. They have similar protein architecture, being composed of seven-transmembrane helices that bind an all-trans-retinal. BR can be converted into a chloride pump by a single amino acid replacement at position 85, suggesting that BR and HR share a common transport mechanism, and the ionic specificity is determined by the amino acid at that position. However, HR cannot be converted into a proton pump by the corresponding reverse mutation. Here we mutated 6 and 10 amino acids of HR into BR-like, whereas such multiple HR mutants never pump protons. Light-induced Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy revealed that hydrogen bonds of the retinal Schiff base and water are both strong for BR and both weak for HR. Multiple HR mutants exhibit strong hydrogen bonds of the Schiff base, but the hydrogen bond of water is still weak. We concluded that the cause of nonfunctional conversion of HR is the lack of strongly hydrogen-bonded water, the functional determinant of the proton pump.
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- Kosuke Muroda
- Department of Frontier Materials, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Japan
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Rhinow D, Chizhik I, Baumann RP, Noll F, Hampp N. Crystallinity of Purple Membranes Comprising the Chloride-Pumping Bacteriorhodopsin Variant D85T and Its Modulation by pH and Salinity. J Phys Chem B 2010; 114:15424-8. [DOI: 10.1021/jp108502p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Daniel Rhinow
- Max-Planck-Institute of Biophysics, Department of Structural Biology, Max-von-Laue-Str. 3, D-60438 Frankfurt, Germany, Philipps-University of Marburg, Department of Chemistry, Hans-Meerwein-Str. Bldg. H, D-35032 Marburg, Germany, and Material Sciences Center, D-35032 Marburg, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institute of Biophysics, Department of Structural Biology, Max-von-Laue-Str. 3, D-60438 Frankfurt, Germany, Philipps-University of Marburg, Department of Chemistry, Hans-Meerwein-Str. Bldg. H, D-35032 Marburg, Germany, and Material Sciences Center, D-35032 Marburg, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institute of Biophysics, Department of Structural Biology, Max-von-Laue-Str. 3, D-60438 Frankfurt, Germany, Philipps-University of Marburg, Department of Chemistry, Hans-Meerwein-Str. Bldg. H, D-35032 Marburg, Germany, and Material Sciences Center, D-35032 Marburg, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institute of Biophysics, Department of Structural Biology, Max-von-Laue-Str. 3, D-60438 Frankfurt, Germany, Philipps-University of Marburg, Department of Chemistry, Hans-Meerwein-Str. Bldg. H, D-35032 Marburg, Germany, and Material Sciences Center, D-35032 Marburg, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institute of Biophysics, Department of Structural Biology, Max-von-Laue-Str. 3, D-60438 Frankfurt, Germany, Philipps-University of Marburg, Department of Chemistry, Hans-Meerwein-Str. Bldg. H, D-35032 Marburg, Germany, and Material Sciences Center, D-35032 Marburg, Germany
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Holton JM, Frankel KA. The minimum crystal size needed for a complete diffraction data set. ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA. SECTION D, BIOLOGICAL CRYSTALLOGRAPHY 2010; 66:393-408. [PMID: 20382993 PMCID: PMC2852304 DOI: 10.1107/s0907444910007262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2009] [Accepted: 02/25/2010] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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In this work, classic intensity formulae were united with an empirical spot-fading model in order to calculate the diameter of a spherical crystal that will scatter the required number of photons per spot at a desired resolution over the radiation-damage-limited lifetime. The influences of molecular weight, solvent content, Wilson B factor, X-ray wavelength and attenuation on scattering power and dose were all included. Taking the net photon count in a spot as the only source of noise, a complete data set with a signal-to-noise ratio of 2 at 2 A resolution was predicted to be attainable from a perfect lysozyme crystal sphere 1.2 microm in diameter and two different models of photoelectron escape reduced this to 0.5 or 0.34 microm. These represent 15-fold to 700-fold less scattering power than the smallest experimentally determined crystal size to date, but the gap was shown to be consistent with the background scattering level of the relevant experiment. These results suggest that reduction of background photons and diffraction spot size on the detector are the principal paths to improving crystallographic data quality beyond current limits.
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- James M Holton
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158-2330, USA.
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Nakashima K, Nakamura T, Takeuchi S, Shibata M, Demura M, Tahara T, Kandori H. Properties of the Anion-Binding Site of pharaonis Halorhodopsin Studied by Ultrafast Pump−Probe Spectroscopy and Low-Temperature FTIR Spectroscopy. J Phys Chem B 2009; 113:8429-34. [DOI: 10.1021/jp902596k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Keisuke Nakashima
- Department of Frontier Materials, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan, Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory, Advanced Science Institute (ASI), RIKEN, Hirosawa, Wako 351-0198, Japan, and Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan
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- Department of Frontier Materials, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan, Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory, Advanced Science Institute (ASI), RIKEN, Hirosawa, Wako 351-0198, Japan, and Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan
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- Department of Frontier Materials, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan, Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory, Advanced Science Institute (ASI), RIKEN, Hirosawa, Wako 351-0198, Japan, and Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan
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- Department of Frontier Materials, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan, Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory, Advanced Science Institute (ASI), RIKEN, Hirosawa, Wako 351-0198, Japan, and Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan
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- Department of Frontier Materials, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan, Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory, Advanced Science Institute (ASI), RIKEN, Hirosawa, Wako 351-0198, Japan, and Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan
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- Department of Frontier Materials, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan, Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory, Advanced Science Institute (ASI), RIKEN, Hirosawa, Wako 351-0198, Japan, and Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan
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- Department of Frontier Materials, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan, Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory, Advanced Science Institute (ASI), RIKEN, Hirosawa, Wako 351-0198, Japan, and Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan
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Holton JM. A beginner's guide to radiation damage. JOURNAL OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION 2009; 16:133-42. [PMID: 19240325 PMCID: PMC2651760 DOI: 10.1107/s0909049509004361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 173] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2008] [Accepted: 02/06/2009] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Many advances in the understanding of radiation damage to protein crystals, particularly at cryogenic temperatures, have been made in recent years, but with this comes an expanding literature, and, to the new breed of protein crystallographer who is not really interested in X-ray physics or radiation chemistry but just wants to solve a biologically relevant structure, the technical nature and breadth of this literature can be daunting. The purpose of this paper is to serve as a rough guide to radiation damage issues, and to provide references to the more exacting and detailed work. No attempt has been made to report precise numbers (a factor of two is considered satisfactory), and, since there are aspects of radiation damage that are demonstrably unpredictable, the 'worst case scenario' as well as the 'average crystal' are discussed in terms of the practicalities of data collection.
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- James M Holton
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158-2330, USA.
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Kubo M, Kikukawa T, Miyauchi S, Seki A, Kamiya M, Aizawa T, Kawano K, Kamo N, Demura M. Role of Arg123 in Light-driven Anion Pump Mechanisms ofpharaonisHalorhodopsin. Photochem Photobiol 2009; 85:547-55. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.2009.00538.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Sasaki J, Nara T, Spudich EN, Spudich JL. Constitutive activity in chimeras and deletions localize sensory rhodopsin II/HtrII signal relay to the membrane-inserted domain. Mol Microbiol 2007; 66:1321-30. [PMID: 17986191 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05983.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Halobacterium salinarum sensory rhodopsin II (HsSRII) is a phototaxis receptor for blue-light avoidance that relays signals to its tightly bound transducer HsHtrII (H. salinarum haloarchaeal transducer for SRII). We found that disruption of the salt bridge between the protonated Schiff base of the receptor's retinylidene chromophore and its counterion Asp73 by residue substitutions D73A, N or Q constitutively activates HsSRII, whereas the corresponding Asp75 counterion substitutions do not constitutively activate Natronomonas pharaonis SRII (NpSRII) when complexed with N. pharaonis haloarchaeal transducer for SRII (NpHtrII). However, NpSRII(D75Q) in complex with HsHtrII is fully constitutively active, showing that transducer sensitivity to the receptor signal contributes to the phenotype. The swimming behaviour of cells expressing chimeras exchanging portions of the two homologous transducers localizes their differing sensitivities to the HtrII transmembrane domains. Furthermore, deletion constructs show that the known contact region in the cytoplasmic domain of the NpSRII-NpHtrII complex is not required for phototaxis, excluding the domain as a site for signal transmission. These results distinguish between the prevailing models for SRII-HtrII signal relay, strongly supporting the 'steric trigger-transmembrane relay model', which proposes that retinal isomerization directly signals HtrII through the mid-membrane SRII-HtrII interface, and refuting alternative models that propose signal relay in the cytoplasmic membrane-proximal domain.
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- Jun Sasaki
- Center for Membrane Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical School, 6431 Fannin Street, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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Shibata M, Yoshitsugu M, Mizuide N, Ihara K, Kandori H. Halide Binding by the D212N Mutant of Bacteriorhodopsin Affects Hydrogen Bonding of Water in the Active Site. Biochemistry 2007; 46:7525-35. [PMID: 17547422 DOI: 10.1021/bi7004224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Bacteriorhodopsin (BR), a membrane protein found in Halobacterium salinarum, functions as a light-driven proton pump. The Schiff base region has a quadrupolar structure with positive charges located at the protonated Schiff base and Arg82, and the counterbalancing negative charges located at Asp85 and Asp212. The quadropole inside the protein is stabilized by three water molecules, forming a roughly planar pentagonal cluster composed of these waters and two oxygens of Asp85 and Asp212 (one from each carboxylate side chain). It is known that BR lacks proton-pumping activity if Asp85 or Asp212 is neutralized by mutation, but binding of Cl- has different functional effects in mutants at these positions. Binding of Cl- to D85T converts into a chloride ion pump (Sasaki, J., Brown, L. S., Chon, Y.-S., Kandori, H., Maeda, A., Needleman, R., and Lanyi, J. K. (1995) Science 269, 73-75). On the other hand, photovoltage measurements suggested that binding of Cl- to D212N restores the proton-pumping activity at low pH (Moltke, S., Krebs, M. P., Mollaaghababa, R., Khorana, H. G., and Heyn, M. P. (1995) Biophys. J. 69, 2074-2083). In this paper, we studied halide-bound D212N mutant BR in detail. Light-induced pH changes in a suspension of proteoliposomes containing D212N(Cl-) at pH 5 clearly showed that Cl- restores the proton-pumping activity. Spectral blue-shift induced by halide binding to D212N indicates that halides affect the counterion of the protonated Schiff base, whereas much smaller halide dependence of the lambdamax than in D85T suggests that the binding site is distant from the chromophore. In fact, the K minus BR difference Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectra of D212N at 77 K exhibit little halide dependence for vibrational bands of retinal and protein. The only halide-dependent bands were the C=N stretch of Arg82 and some water O-D stretches, suggesting that these groups constitute a halide-binding pocket. A strongly hydrogen-bonded water molecule is observed for halide-bound D212N, but not for halide-free D212N, which is consistent with our hypothesis that such a water molecule is a prerequisite for proton-pumping activity of rhodopsins. We concluded that halide binding near Arg82 in D212N restores the water-containing hydrogen-bonding network in the Schiff base region. In particular, the ion pair formed by the Schiff base and Asp85 through a strongly hydrogen-bonded water is essential for the proton-pumping activity of this mutant and may be controlled by the halide binding to the distant site.
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- Mikihiro Shibata
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan
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Gmelin W, Zeth K, Efremov R, Heberle J, Tittor J, Oesterhelt D. The Crystal Structure of the L1 Intermediate of Halorhodopsin at 1.9 Å Resolution†. Photochem Photobiol 2007; 83:369-77. [PMID: 17117890 DOI: 10.1562/2006-06-23-ra-947] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The mutant T203V of the light driven chloride pump halorhodopsin from Halobacterium salinarum was crystallized and the X-ray structure was solved at 1.6 angstroms resolution. The T203V structure turned out to be nearly identical to the wild type protein with a root mean square deviation of 0.43 angstroms for the carbon alpha atoms of the protein backbone. Two chloride binding (CB) sites were demonstrated by a substitution of chloride with bromide and an analysis of anomalous difference Fourier maps. The CB1 site was found at the same position as in the wild type structure. In addition, a second chloride binding site CB2 was identified around Q105 due to higher resolution in the mutant crystal. As T203V showed a 10 times slower decay of its photocycle intermediate L, this intermediate could be trapped with an occupancy of 60% upon illumination at room temperature and subsequent cooling to 120 degrees K. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy clearly identified the crystal to be trapped in the L1 intermediate state and the X-ray structure was solved to 1.9 angstroms resolution. In this intermediate, the chloride moved by 0.3 angstroms within binding site CB1 as indicated by peaks in difference Fourier density maps. The chloride in the second binding site CB2 remained unchanged. Thus, intraproteinous chloride translocation from the extracellular to the cytoplasmic part of the protein must occur in reaction steps following the L1 intermediate in the catalytic cycle of halorhodopsin.
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- Walter Gmelin
- Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Department of Membrane Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
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Shibata M, Ihara K, Kandori H. Hydrogen-bonding interaction of the protonated schiff base with halides in a chloride-pumping bacteriorhodopsin mutant. Biochemistry 2006; 45:10633-40. [PMID: 16939215 DOI: 10.1021/bi060555s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Bacteriorhodopsin (BR) and halorhodopsin (HR) are light-driven proton and chloride ion pumps, respectively, in Halobacterium salinarum. The amino acid identity of these proteins is about 25%, suggesting that each has been optimized for their own functions during evolution. However, it is known that the BR mutants, D85T and D85S, can pump chloride ions. This fact implies that the Schiff base region is important in determining ionic selectivity. The X-ray crystallographic structure of D85S(Br(-)) showed the presence of a bromide ion in the Schiff base region (Facciotti, M. T., Cheung, V. S., Nguyen, D., Rouhani, S., and Glaeser, R. M. (2003) Biophys. J. 85, 451-458). In this article, we report on the study of hydrogen bonds of the Schiff base and water molecules in D85S in the absence and presence of various halides, assigning their N-D and O-D stretching vibrations in D(2)O, respectively, in low-temperature Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. We found that the hydrogen bond of the Schiff base in D85S(Cl(-)) is much stronger than that in HR, being as strong as that in wild-type BR. Similar halide dependence in D85S and in solution implies that the Schiff base forms a direct hydrogen bond with a halide, consistent with the X-ray structure. Photoisomerization causes a weakened hydrogen bond of the Schiff base, and halide dependence on the stretching frequency is lost. These spectral features are similar to those in the photocycle of proton-pumping BR, though the weakened hydrogen bond is more significant for BR. However, the spectral features of water bands in D85S are closer to chloride-pumping HR because O-D stretching vibrations of water are observed only at >2500 cm(-)(1). Unlike in BR, we did not observe strongly hydrogen-bonded water molecules for halide-pumping D85S mutants. This observation agrees with our recent hypothesis that strongly hydrogen-bonded water molecules are required for the proton-pumping activity of archaeal rhodopsins. Hydrogen-bonding conditions in the Schiff base region of D85S are discussed on the basis of the spectral comparison with those of wild-type BR and HR.
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- Mikihiro Shibata
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan
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Lunde CS, Rouhani S, Facciotti MT, Glaeser RM. Membrane-protein stability in a phospholipid-based crystallization medium. J Struct Biol 2006; 154:223-31. [PMID: 16600634 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2006.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2005] [Revised: 12/06/2005] [Accepted: 02/07/2006] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Protein stability is a crucial factor to consider when attempting to crystallize integral membrane proteins. Cubic phase, or in meso, lipid-bilayer crystallization media are thought to provide native-like environments that should facilitate membrane protein crystallization by helping to stabilize the native protein conformation for the duration of the crystallization process. While excellent crystals of bacteriorhodopsin (bR) and other Halobacterial rhodopsins have been obtained in lipid-bilayer gels formed with monoglycerides, success remains elusive in the general application of such media to other membrane proteins. Additionally, we have noted that some mutants of bR are highly unstable in gels formed with monoolein. Phosphatidylethanolamines (PE) and derivatives of PE represent another class of lipids that can form connected-bilayer gels. When wildtype bR and a labile bR mutant were reconstituted into this phospholipid gel, spectroscopy showed that the protein is both more stable and has improved conformational homogeneity as compared to gels formed using monoolein. In addition, we demonstrate that well-diffracting crystals of bR can be grown from a PE-based crystallization medium. Since most proteins lack a stability-indicating chromophore and other structure-based analytical techniques are poorly compatible with the lipid gel, we developed a generally-applicable spectroscopic technique based on the intrinsic fluorescence of tryptophan residues. This fluorescence assay makes possible the rapid evaluation of lipid gels as media for the crystallization of membrane proteins.
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Efremov R, Gordeliy VI, Heberle J, Büldt G. Time-resolved microspectroscopy on a single crystal of bacteriorhodopsin reveals lattice-induced differences in the photocycle kinetics. Biophys J 2006; 91:1441-51. [PMID: 16731567 PMCID: PMC1518640 DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.106.083345] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The determination of the intermediate state structures of the bacteriorhodopsin photocycle has lead to an unprecedented level of understanding of the catalytic process exerted by a membrane protein. However, the crystallographic structures of the intermediate states are only relevant if the working cycle is not impaired by the crystal lattice. Therefore, we applied visible and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) microspectroscopy with microsecond time resolution to compare the photoreaction of a single bacteriorhodopsin crystal to that of bacteriorhodopsin residing in the native purple membrane. The analysis of the FTIR difference spectra of the resolved intermediate states reveals great similarity in structural changes taking place in the crystal and in PM. However, the kinetics of the photocycle are significantly altered in the three-dimensional crystal as compared to PM. Strikingly, the L state decay is accelerated in the crystal, whereas the M decay is delayed. The physical origin of this deviation and the implications for trapping of intermediate states are discussed. As a methodological advance, time-resolved step-scan FTIR spectroscopy on a single protein crystal is demonstrated for the first time which may be used in the future to gauge the functionality of other crystallized proteins with the molecular resolution of vibrational spectroscopy.
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- R Efremov
- Forschungszentrum Jülich, IBI-2: Structural Biology, 52425 Jülich, Germany
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Gruia AD, Bondar AN, Smith JC, Fischer S. Mechanism of a molecular valve in the halorhodopsin chloride pump. Structure 2005; 13:617-27. [PMID: 15837200 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2005.01.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2004] [Revised: 12/23/2004] [Accepted: 01/08/2005] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Halorhodopsin is a light-driven chloride anion pump in which the trans-->cis photoisomerization of a retinal chromophore triggers a photocycle resulting in the translocation of chloride across the plasma membrane. The mechanism of chloride transfer past the cis retinal is determined here by computing multiple pathways for this process. The calculations reveal two conditions of the valve mechanism. First, a lumen absent in the ground state structure is transiently opened by chloride passage. Second, this activated opening, which is achieved by flexible deformation of the surrounding protein, is shown to significantly raise the chloride translocation barrier between photocycles, thus preventing chloride backflow. Unlike macroscopic valve designs, the protein allows differential ion flows in the pumping and resting states that are tuned to match the physiological timescales of the cell, thus creating a "kinetic" valve.
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- Andreea D Gruia
- Computational Biochemistry, IWR, Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 368, D-69210 Heidelberg, Germany
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Wojciechowski G, Ratajczak-Sitarz M, Katrusiak A, Brzezinski B. Transformations of the molecular complex of hydroiodide of 7-methyl-1,5,7-triazabicyclo[4.4.0]dec-5-ene and 5,5′-dibromo-2,2′-biphenol between crystal and solutions. J Mol Struct 2005. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2004.12.063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Jang H, Crozier PS, Stevens MJ, Woolf TB. How environment supports a state: molecular dynamics simulations of two states in bacteriorhodopsin suggest lipid and water compensation. Biophys J 2005; 87:129-45. [PMID: 15240452 PMCID: PMC1304336 DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.104.039602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The light-driven proton pump bacteriorhodopsin (bR) is a transmembrane protein that uses large conformational changes for proton transfer from the cytoplasmic to the extracellular regions. Crystal structures, due to their solvent conditions, do not resolve the effect of lipid molecules on these protein conformational changes. To begin to understand the molecular details behind such large conformational changes, we simulated two conformations of wild-type bacteriorhodopsin, one of the dark-adapted state and the second of an intermediate (M(O)) state, each within an explicit dimyristoyl-phosphatidylcholine (DMPC) lipid bilayer. The simulations included all-hydrogen and all-atom representations of protein, lipid, and water and were performed for 20 ns. We investigate the equilibrium properties and the dynamic motions of the two conformations in the lipid setting. We note that the conformational state of the M(O) intermediate bR remains markedly different from the dark-adapted bR state in that the M(O) intermediate shows rearrangement of the cytoplasmic portions of helices C, F, and G, and nearby loops. This difference in the states remained throughout the simulations, and the results are stable on the molecular dynamics timescale and provide an illustration of the changes in both lipid and water that help to stabilize a particular state. Our analysis focuses on how the environment adjusts to these two states and on how the dynamics of the helices, loops, and water molecules can be related to the pump mechanism of bacteriorhodopsin. For example, water generally behaves in the same manner on the extracellular sides of both simulations but is decreased in the cytoplasmic region of the M(O) intermediate. We suspect that the different water behavior is closely related to the fluctuations of microcavities volume in the protein interior, which is strongly coupled to the collective motion of the protein. Our simulation result suggests that experimental observation can be useful to verify a decreased number of waters in the cytoplasmic regions of the late-intermediate stages by measuring the rate of water exchange with the interior of the protein.
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- Hyunbum Jang
- Department of Physiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA.
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Baliga NS, Bonneau R, Facciotti MT, Pan M, Glusman G, Deutsch EW, Shannon P, Chiu Y, Weng RS, Gan RR, Hung P, Date SV, Marcotte E, Hood L, Ng WV. Genome sequence of Haloarcula marismortui: a halophilic archaeon from the Dead Sea. Genome Res 2005; 14:2221-34. [PMID: 15520287 PMCID: PMC525680 DOI: 10.1101/gr.2700304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 252] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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We report the complete sequence of the 4,274,642-bp genome of Haloarcula marismortui, a halophilic archaeal isolate from the Dead Sea. The genome is organized into nine circular replicons of varying G+C compositions ranging from 54% to 62%. Comparison of the genome architectures of Halobacterium sp. NRC-1 and H. marismortui suggests a common ancestor for the two organisms and a genome of significantly reduced size in the former. Both of these halophilic archaea use the same strategy of high surface negative charge of folded proteins as means to circumvent the salting-out phenomenon in a hypersaline cytoplasm. A multitiered annotation approach, including primary sequence similarities, protein family signatures, structure prediction, and a protein function association network, has assigned putative functions for at least 58% of the 4242 predicted proteins, a far larger number than is usually achieved in most newly sequenced microorganisms. Among these assigned functions were genes encoding six opsins, 19 MCP and/or HAMP domain signal transducers, and an unusually large number of environmental response regulators-nearly five times as many as those encoded in Halobacterium sp. NRC-1--suggesting H. marismortui is significantly more physiologically capable of exploiting diverse environments. In comparing the physiologies of the two halophilic archaea, in addition to the expected extensive similarity, we discovered several differences in their metabolic strategies and physiological responses such as distinct pathways for arginine breakdown in each halophile. Finally, as expected from the larger genome, H. marismortui encodes many more functions and seems to have fewer nutritional requirements for survival than does Halobacterium sp. NRC-1.
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- Nitin S Baliga
- Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington 98103, USA.
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Bálint Z, Lakatos M, Ganea C, Lanyi JK, Váró G. The nitrate transporting photochemical reaction cycle of the pharaonis halorhodopsin. Biophys J 2004; 86:1655-63. [PMID: 14990493 PMCID: PMC1304001 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(04)74234-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Time-resolved spectroscopy, absorption kinetic and electric signal measurement techniques were used to study the nitrate transporting photocycle of the pharaonis halorhodopsin. The spectral titration reveals two nitrate-binding constants, assigned to two independent binding sites. The high-affinity binding site (K(a) = 11 mM) contributes to the appearance of the nitrate transporting photocycle, whereas the low-affinity constant (having a K(a) of approximately 7 M) slows the last decay process in the photocycle. Although the spectra of the intermediates are not the same as those found in the chloride transporting photocycle, the sequence of the intermediates and the energy diagrams are similar. The differences in spectra and energy levels can be attributed to the difference in the size of the transported chloride or nitrate. Electric signal measurements show that a charge is transferred across the membrane during the photocycle, as expected. A new observation is an apparent release and rebinding of a small fraction of the retinal, inside the retinal pocket, during the photocycle. The release occurs during the N-to-O transition, whereas the rebinding happens in several seconds, well after the other steps of the photocycle are over.
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- Zoltán Bálint
- Institute of Biophysics, Biological Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, H-6701, Hungary
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Facciotti MT, Cheung VS, Lunde CS, Rouhani S, Baliga NS, Glaeser RM. Specificity of anion binding in the substrate pocket of bacteriorhodopsin. Biochemistry 2004; 43:4934-43. [PMID: 15109251 DOI: 10.1021/bi035757s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The structure of the D85S mutant of bacteriorhodopsin with a nitrate anion bound in the Schiff base binding site and the structure of the anion-free protein have been obtained in the same crystal form. Together with the previously solved structures of this anion pump, in both the anion-free state and bromide-bound state, these new structures provide insight into how this mutant of bacteriorhodopsin is able to bind a variety of different anions in the same binding pocket. The structural analysis reveals that the main structural change that accommodates different anions is the repositioning of the polar side chain of S85. On the basis of these X-ray crystal structures, the prediction is then made that the D85S/D212N double mutant might bind similar anions and do so over a broader pH range than does the single mutant. Experimental comparison of the dissociation constants, K(d), for a variety of anions confirms this prediction and demonstrates, in addition, that the binding affinity is dramatically improved by the D212N substitution.
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- Marc T Facciotti
- Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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Recent crystallographic structures of three different ion pumps provide a first view of the mechanisms by which these molecular machines transfer ions across cell membranes against an electrochemical gradient. Each of the structures reinforces the concept that several buried counter ions have central roles in substrate recruitment, substrate binding and energy transduction during ion pumping. The spatial organization of the counter ions suggests that, initially, one or more counter ions lowers the Born energy cost of binding a substrate ion in the low-dielectric interior of the membrane. Subsequently, a ligand-induced conformational change seems to close a charged access gate to prevent backflow from a subsequent, low-affinity state of the pump. A final role of the buried counter ions might be to couple the input of external energy to a small charge separation between the substrate ion and the buried counter ions, thereby decreasing the binding affinity for the substrate ion in preparation for its release on the high-energy side of the membrane.
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- Marc T Facciotti
- Institute for Systems Biology, 1441 North 34th Street, Seattle, WA 98103, USA
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Facciotti MT, Rouhani S, Glaeser RM. Crystal structures of bR(D85S) favor a model of bacteriorhodopsin as a hydroxyl-ion pump. FEBS Lett 2004; 564:301-6. [PMID: 15111113 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(04)00208-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2003] [Accepted: 02/05/2004] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Structural features on the extracellular side of the D85S mutant of bacteriorhodopsin (bR) suggest that wild-type bR could be a hydroxyl-ion pump. A position between the protonated Schiff base and residue 85 serves as an anion-binding site in the mutant protein, and hydroxyl ions should have access to this site during the O-intermediate of the wild-type bR photocycle. The guanidinium group of R82 is proposed (1) to serve as a shuttle that eliminates the Born energy penalty for entry of an anion into this binding pocket, and conversely, (2) to block the exit of a proton or a related proton carrier.
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- Marc T Facciotti
- Institute for Systems Biology, 1441 North 34th Street, Seattle, WA 98103, USA
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Landau EM, Pebay-Peyroula E, Neutze R. Structural and mechanistic insight from high resolution structures of archaeal rhodopsins. FEBS Lett 2004; 555:51-6. [PMID: 14630318 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(03)01082-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Lipidic cubic phase-grown crystals yielded high resolution structures of a number of archaeal retinal proteins, the molecular mechanisms of which are being revealed as structures of photocycle intermediates become available. The structural basis for bacteriorhodopsin's mechanism of proton pumping is discussed, revealing a well-synchronized sequence of molecular events. Comparison with the high resolution structures of the halide pump halorhodopsin, as well as with the receptor sensory rhodopsin II, illustrates how small and localized structural changes result in functional divergence. Fundamental principles of energy transduction and sensory reception in the archaeal rhodopsins, which may have relevance to other systems, are discussed.
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- Ehud M Landau
- Membrane Protein Laboratory, Sealy Center for Structural Biology, and Department of Physiology and Biophysics, The University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Boulevard, Galveston, TX 77555-0437, USA.
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