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Cheng Y, Farasati Far B, Jahanbakhshi M, Bahrami S, Tamimi P, Sedaghat M, Ghazizadeha E. Exploring the potential of a polyvinyl alcohol/chitosan-based nanofibrous matrix for erythromycin delivery: fabrication, in vitro and in vivo evaluation. RSC Adv 2023; 13:18450-18460. [PMID: 37342809 PMCID: PMC10278589 DOI: 10.1039/d3ra02987e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2023] [Accepted: 05/29/2023] [Indexed: 06/23/2023] Open
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This study aimed to investigate the potential of polyvinyl alcohol/chitosan nanofibers as a drug delivery system for erythromycin. Polyvinyl alcohol/chitosan nanofibers were fabricated using the electrospinning method and characterized using SEM, XRD, AFM, DSC, FTIR, swelling assessment and viscosity analysis. The in vitro drug release kinetics, biocompatibility, and cellular attachments of the nanofibers have been evaluated using in vitro release studies and cell culture assays. The results showed that the polyvinyl alcohol/chitosan nanofibers displayed improved in vitro drug release and biocompatibility compared to the free drug. The study provides important insights into the potential of polyvinyl alcohol/chitosan nanofibers as a drug delivery system for erythromycin and highlights the need for further investigation into the development of nanofibrous drug delivery systems based on polyvinyl alcohol/chitosan for improved therapeutic efficacy and reduced toxicity. The nanofibers prepared in this approach use less antibiotics, which may be beneficial to the environment. The resulting nanofibrous matrix can be used for external drug delivery applications, such as wound healing or topical antibiotic therapy.
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- Yuan Cheng
- School of Materials and Chemical Engineering, Chuzhou University Chuzhou 239000 China
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- School of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran Tehran Iran
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- Non-communicable Diseases Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences Shiraz Iran
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- Center for Research and Training in Skin Disease and Leprosy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences Tehran Iran
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- Advanced Materials Research Center, Materials Engineering Department, Islamic Azad University Najafabad Branch Najafabad 8514143131 Iran
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- Department of Medical Biotechnology, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences Iran
- Department of Bioinspired Materials and Biosensor Technologies, Institute of Materials Science, Faculty of Engineering, Kiel University Iran
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S-Adenosyl-L-Methionine and Cu(II) Impact Green Plant Regeneration Efficiency. Cells 2022; 11:cells11172700. [PMID: 36078107 PMCID: PMC9454820 DOI: 10.3390/cells11172700] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2022] [Revised: 08/17/2022] [Accepted: 08/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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The biological improvement of triticale, a cereal of increasing importance in agriculture, may be accelerated via the production of doubled haploid lines using in vitro culture. Among the relevant factors affecting the culture efficiency are Cu(II) or Ag(I) acting, e.g., as cofactors of enzymes. The copper ions are known to positively affect green plant regeneration efficiency. However, the biochemical basis, mainly its role in the generation of in vitro-induced genetic and epigenetic variation and green plant regeneration efficiency, is not well understood. Here, we employed structural equation modeling to evaluate the relationship between de novo DNA methylation affecting the asymmetric context of CHH sequences, the methylation-sensitive Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism related sequence variation, and the concentration of Cu(II) and Ag(I) ions in induction media, as well as their effect on S-adenosyl-L-methionine perturbations, observed using FTIR spectroscopy, and the green plant regeneration efficiency. Our results allowed the construction of a theory-based model reflecting the biological phenomena associated with green plant regeneration efficiency. Furthermore, it is shown that Cu(II) ions in induction media affect plant regeneration, and by manipulating their concentration, the regeneration efficiency can be altered. Additionally, S-adenosyl-L-methionine is involved in the efficiency of green plant regeneration through methylation of the asymmetric CHH sequence related to de novo methylation. This shows that the Yang cycle may impact the production of green regenerants.
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Yee EF, Oldemeyer S, Böhm E, Ganguly A, York DM, Kottke T, Crane BR. Peripheral Methionine Residues Impact Flavin Photoreduction and Protonation in an Engineered LOV Domain Light Sensor. Biochemistry 2021; 60:1148-1164. [PMID: 33787242 PMCID: PMC8107827 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.1c00064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Proton-coupled electron transfer reactions play critical roles in many aspects of sensory phototransduction. In the case of flavoprotein light sensors, reductive quenching of flavin excited states initiates chemical and conformational changes that ultimately transmit light signals to downstream targets. These reactions generally require neighboring aromatic residues and proton-donating side chains for rapid and coordinated electron and proton transfer to flavin. Although photoreduction of flavoproteins can produce either the anionic (ASQ) or neutral semiquinone (NSQ), the factors that favor one over the other are not well understood. Here we employ a biologically active variant of the light-oxygen-voltage (LOV) domain protein VVD devoid of the adduct-forming Cys residue (VVD-III) to probe the mechanism of flavin photoreduction and protonation. A series of isosteric and conservative residue replacements studied by rate measurements, fluorescence quantum yields, FTIR difference spectroscopy, and molecular dynamics simulations indicate that tyrosine residues facilitate charge recombination reactions that limit sustained flavin reduction, whereas methionine residues facilitate radical propagation and quenching and also gate solvent access for flavin protonation. Replacement of a single surface Met residue with Leu favors formation of the ASQ over the NSQ and desensitizes photoreduction to oxidants. In contrast, increasing site hydrophilicity by Gln substitution promotes rapid NSQ formation and weakens the influence of the redox environment. Overall, the photoreactivity of VVD-III can be understood in terms of redundant electron donors, internal hole quenching, and coupled proton transfer reactions that all depend upon protein conformation, dynamics, and solvent penetration.
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- Estella F. Yee
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Physical and Biophysical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Bielefeld University, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany
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- Physical and Biophysical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Bielefeld University, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany
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- Laboratory for Biomolecular Simulation Research, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA
- Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA
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- Laboratory for Biomolecular Simulation Research, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA
- Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA
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- Physical and Biophysical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Bielefeld University, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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Mei G, Mamaeva N, Ganapathy S, Wang P, DeGrip WJ, Rothschild KJ. Analog Retinal Redshifts Visible Absorption of QuasAr Transmembrane Voltage Sensors into Near-infrared. Photochem Photobiol 2019; 96:55-66. [PMID: 31556123 PMCID: PMC7004139 DOI: 10.1111/php.13169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2019] [Revised: 09/05/2019] [Accepted: 09/07/2019] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Opsin‐based transmembrane voltage sensors (OTVSs) are increasingly important tools for neuroscience enabling neural function in complex brain circuits to be explored in live, behaving animals. However, the visible wavelengths required for fluorescence excitation of the current generation of OTVSs limit optogenetic imaging in the brain to depths of only a few mm due to the strong absorption and scattering of visible light by biological tissues. We report that substitution of the native A1 retinal chromophore of the widely used QuasAr1/2 OTVSs with the retinal analog MMAR containing a methylamino‐modified dimethylphenyl ring results in over a 100‐nm redshift of the maxima of the absorption and fluorescence emission bands to near 700 and 840 nm, respectively. FT‐Raman spectroscopy reveals that at pH 7 QuasAr1 with both the A1 and MMAR chromophores possess predominantly an all‐trans protonated Schiff base configuration with the MMAR chromophore exhibiting increased torsion of the polyene single‐/double‐bond system similar to the O‐intermediate of the BR photocycle. In contrast, the A1 and the MMAR chromophores of QuasAr2 exist partially in a 13‐cis PSB configuration. These results demonstrate that QuasArs containing the MMAR chromophore are attractive candidates for use as NIR‐OTVSs, especially for applications such as deep brain imaging.
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- Gaoxiang Mei
- Molecular Biophysics Laboratory, Photonics Center and Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA
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- Molecular Biophysics Laboratory, Photonics Center and Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA
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- Department of Biophysical Organic Chemistry, Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biophysical Organic Chemistry, Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.,Department of Biochemistry, Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Molecular Biophysics Laboratory, Photonics Center and Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA
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Grafted hyaluronic acid N-acetyl-l-methionine for targeting of LAT1 receptor: In-silico, synthesis and microscale thermophoresis studies. Int J Biol Macromol 2019; 125:767-777. [PMID: 30553855 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2018.12.104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2018] [Revised: 11/29/2018] [Accepted: 12/12/2018] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Neutral amino acids can be delivered into cells through the l-type amino acid transporter-1 (LAT1), which is a sodium independent transporter. The LAT1 protein is expressed in different tissues, including kidney, blood brain barrier and intestinal wall hence LAT1 can be used as a target in diseases associated with its overexpression. In-silico interactions between different ligands, including methionine (Met), N-acetyl-l-methionine (AcMet), hyaluronic acid (HA), grafted hyaluronic-acid l-methionine (HA-ADH-Met) and a novel grafted hyaluronic acid-N-acetyl-l-methionine (HA-ADH-AcMet), which are at the active site of the LAT1 transporter, were studied and the binding energies calculated. The HA-ADH-AcMet complex demonstrated binding energy and solvation energy of -74.84 and 81.46 kcal/mol, respectively, thus validating its potential to be synthesized. The structural conformation of the HA-ADH-AcMet was confirmed using 1H NMR, FTIR, DSC and PXRD. Microscale thermophoresis was employed to study the binding affinity between the different ligands and LAT1. The binding affinity was expressed in terms of a dissociation constant (Kd), where that of HA-ADH-AcMet was found to be 408 nM which was considered the strongest among the different ligands tested. HA-ADH-AcMet can be used as a targeting moiety for development of medicines to treat different diseases and processes that express LAT1 protein.
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Mei G, Mamaeva N, Ganapathy S, Wang P, DeGrip WJ, Rothschild KJ. Raman spectroscopy of a near infrared absorbing proteorhodopsin: Similarities to the bacteriorhodopsin O photointermediate. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0209506. [PMID: 30586409 PMCID: PMC6306260 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0209506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2018] [Accepted: 12/06/2018] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Microbial rhodopsins have become an important tool in the field of optogenetics. However, effective in vivo optogenetics is in many cases severely limited due to the strong absorption and scattering of visible light by biological tissues. Recently, a combination of opsin site-directed mutagenesis and analog retinal substitution has produced variants of proteorhodopsin which absorb maximally in the near-infrared (NIR). In this study, UV-Visible-NIR absorption and resonance Raman spectroscopy were used to study the double mutant, D212N/F234S, of green absorbing proteorhodopsin (GPR) regenerated with MMAR, a retinal analog containing a methylamino modified β-ionone ring. Four distinct subcomponent absorption bands with peak maxima near 560, 620, 710 and 780 nm are detected with the NIR bands dominant at pH <7.3, and the visible bands dominant at pH 9.5. FT-Raman using 1064-nm excitation reveal two strong ethylenic bands at 1482 and 1498 cm-1 corresponding to the NIR subcomponent absorption bands based on an extended linear correlation between λmax and γC = C. This spectrum exhibits two intense bands in the fingerprint and HOOP mode regions that are highly characteristic of the O640 photointermediate from the light-adapted bacteriorhodopsin photocycle. In contrast, 532-nm excitation enhances the 560-nm component, which exhibits bands very similar to light-adapted bacteriorhodopsin and/or the acid-purple form of bacteriorhodopsin. Native GPR and its mutant D97N when regenerated with MMAR also exhibit similar absorption and Raman bands but with weaker contributions from the NIR absorbing components. Based on these results it is proposed that the NIR absorption in GPR-D212N/F234S with MMAR arises from an O-like chromophore, where the Schiff base counterion D97 is protonated and the MMAR adopts an all-trans configuration with a non-planar geometry due to twists in the conjugated polyene segment. This configuration is characterized by extensive charge delocalization, most likely involving nitrogens atoms in the MMAR chromophore.
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- Gaoxiang Mei
- Molecular Biophysics Laboratory, Photonics Center and Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Molecular Biophysics Laboratory, Photonics Center and Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Biophysical Organic Chemistry, Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden UniversityAR Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Bruker Corporation, Billerica, MA, United States of America
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- Department of Biophysical Organic Chemistry, Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden UniversityAR Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Molecular Biophysics Laboratory, Photonics Center and Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Investigation of Drug-Polymer Compatibility Using Chemometric-Assisted UV-Spectrophotometry. Pharmaceutics 2017; 9:pharmaceutics9010007. [PMID: 28275214 PMCID: PMC5374373 DOI: 10.3390/pharmaceutics9010007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2016] [Revised: 12/28/2016] [Accepted: 01/03/2017] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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A simple chemometric-assisted UV-spectrophotometric method was used to study the compatibility of clindamycin hydrochloride (HC1) with two commonly used natural controlled-release polymers, alginate (Ag) and chitosan (Ch). Standard mixtures containing 1:1, 1:2, and 1:0.5 w/w drug-polymer ratios were prepared and UV scanned. A calibration model was developed with partial least square (PLS) regression analysis for each polymer separately. Then, test mixtures containing 1:1 w/w drug-polymer ratios with different sets of drug concentrations were prepared. These were UV scanned initially and after three and seven days of storage at 25 °C. Using the calibration model, the drug recovery percent was estimated and a decrease in concentration of 10% or more from initial concentration was considered to indicate instability. PLS models with PC3 (for Ag) and PC2 (for Ch) showed a good correlation between actual and found values with root mean square error of cross validation (RMSECV) of 0.00284 and 0.01228, and calibration coefficient (R²) values of 0.996 and 0.942, respectively. The average drug recovery percent after three and seven days was 98.1 ± 2.9 and 95.4 ± 4.0 (for Ag), and 97.3 ± 2.1 and 91.4 ± 3.8 (for Ch), which suggests more drug compatibility with an Ag than a Ch polymer. Conventional techniques including DSC, XRD, FTIR, and in vitro minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) for (1:1) drug-polymer mixtures were also performed to confirm clindamycin compatibility with Ag and Ch polymers.
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Arthur IN, Hennessy JE, Padmakshan D, Stigers DJ, Lesturgez S, Fraser SA, Liutkus M, Otting G, Oakeshott JG, Easton CJ. In Situ Deprotection and Incorporation of Unnatural Amino Acids during Cell-Free Protein Synthesis. Chemistry 2013; 19:6824-30. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201203923] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2012] [Revised: 02/15/2013] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Clair ECS, Ogren JI, Mamaev S, Kralj JM, Rothschild KJ. Conformational changes in the archaerhodopsin-3 proton pump: detection of conserved strongly hydrogen bonded water networks. J Biol Phys 2011; 38:153-68. [PMID: 23277676 DOI: 10.1007/s10867-011-9246-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2011] [Accepted: 10/25/2011] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Archaerhodopsin-3 (AR3) is a light-driven proton pump from Halorubrum sodomense, but little is known about its photocycle. Recent interest has focused on AR3 because of its ability to serve both as a high-performance, genetically-targetable optical silencer of neuronal activity and as a membrane voltage sensor. We examined light-activated structural changes of the protein, retinal chromophore, and internal water molecules during the photocycle of AR3. Low-temperature and rapid-scan time-resolved FTIR-difference spectroscopy revealed that conformational changes during formation of the K, M, and N photocycle intermediates are similar, although not identical, to bacteriorhodopsin (BR). Positive/negative bands in the region above 3,600 cm( - 1), which have previously been assigned to structural changes of weakly hydrogen bonded internal water molecules, were substantially different between AR3 and BR. This included the absence of positive bands recently associated with a chain of proton transporting water molecules in the cytoplasmic channel and a weakly hydrogen bonded water (W401), which is part of a hydrogen-bonded pentagonal cluster located near the retinal Schiff base. However, many of the broad IR continuum absorption changes below 3,000 cm( - 1) assigned to networks of water molecules involved in proton transport through cytoplasmic and extracellular portions in BR were very similar in AR3. This work and subsequent studies comparing BR and AR3 structural changes will help identify conserved elements in BR-like proton pumps as well as bioengineer AR3 to optimize neural silencing and voltage sensing.
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- Erica C Saint Clair
- Department of Physics, Photonics Center and Molecular Biophysics Laboratory, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215 USA
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Sudo Y, Tanaka R, Kobayashi T, Kamo N, Kohno T, Kojima C. Functional expression of a two-transmembrane HtrII protein using cell-free synthesis. Biophysics (Nagoya-shi) 2011; 7:51-58. [PMID: 27857592 PMCID: PMC5036783 DOI: 10.2142/biophysics.7.51] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2011] [Accepted: 05/23/2011] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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An approach of cell-free synthesis is presented for the functional expression of transmembrane proteins without the need of refolding. The transmembrane region of the pharaonis halobacterial transducer protein, pHtrII, was translated with various large soluble tags added (thioredoxin, glutathione S-transferase, green fluorescent protein and maltose binding protein). In this system, all fusion pHtrII were translated in a soluble fraction, presumably, forming giant micelle-like structures. The detergent n-dodecyl-β-d-maltoside was added for enhancing the solubilization of the hydrophobic region of pHtrII. The activity of the expressed pHtrII, having various tags, was checked using a pull-down assay, using the fact that pHtrII forms a signaling complex with pharaonis phoborhodopsin (ppR) in the membrane, as also in the presence of a detergent. All tagged pHtrII showed a binding activity with ppR. Interestingly, the binding activity with ppR was positively correlated with the molecular weight of the soluble tags. Thus, larger soluble tags lead to higher binding activities. We could show, that our approach is beneficial for the preparation of active membrane proteins, and is also potentially applicable for larger membrane proteins, such as 7-transmembrane proteins.
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- Yuki Sudo
- Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan; PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), 4-1-8 Honcho Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
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- Mitsubishi Kagaku Institute of Life Sciences, Machida, Tokyo 194-0031, Japan
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- Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0101, Japan
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- College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Matsuyama University, 4-2 Bunkyo-cho, Matsuyama, Ehime 790-8578, Japan
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- Mitsubishi Kagaku Institute of Life Sciences, Machida, Tokyo 194-0031, Japan
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- Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0101, Japan; Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, 3-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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Stigers DJ, Watts ZI, Hennessy JE, Kim HK, Martini R, Taylor MC, Ozawa K, Keillor JW, Dixon NE, Easton CJ. Incorporation of chlorinated analogues of aliphatic amino acids during cell-free protein synthesis. Chem Commun (Camb) 2011; 47:1839-41. [DOI: 10.1039/c0cc02879g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Arkin IT. Isotope-edited IR spectroscopy for the study of membrane proteins. Curr Opin Chem Biol 2006; 10:394-401. [PMID: 16935550 PMCID: PMC7185810 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2006.08.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2006] [Accepted: 08/15/2006] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy has long been a powerful tool for structural analysis of membrane proteins. However, because of difficulties in resolving contributions from individual residues, most of the derived measurements tend to yield average properties for the system under study. Isotope editing, through its ability to resolve individual vibrations, establishes FTIR as a method that is capable of yielding accurate structural data on individual sites in a protein.
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- Isaiah T Arkin
- The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Department of Biological Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmund J Safra Campus, Givat-Ram, Jerusalem, Israel.
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Zehender F, Labahn A, Koslowski T. Detecting protein-protein interactions by isotope-edited infrared spectroscopy: a numerical approach. J Phys Chem B 2005; 109:23674-8. [PMID: 16375347 DOI: 10.1021/jp053487c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We present a theoretical and numerical analysis of the vibrational coupling between isotope-edited amino acids in protein dimers. Depending on the presence and magnitude of coupling between 13Calpha=O peptide bond oscillators, characteristic level splittings of vibrational eigenstates are predicted. For the example of the Gramicidin A ion channel polypeptide, we observe typical IR fingerprints for the head-to-head and the antiparallel double-helical conformation of the dimer. We suggest that these findings can be used to clearly identify the structure of polypeptide aggregates using a particularly simple isotope substitution pattern.
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- Fabian Zehender
- Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Universität Freiburg, Albertstrasse 23a, D-79104 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
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Bergo VB, Spudich EN, Rothschild KJ, Spudich JL. Photoactivation perturbs the membrane-embedded contacts between sensory rhodopsin II and its transducer. J Biol Chem 2005; 280:28365-9. [PMID: 15951432 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m505555200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The photoactivation mechanism of the sensory rho-dopsin II (SRII)-HtrII receptor-transducer complex of Natronomonas pharaonis was investigated by time-resolved Fourier transform infrared difference spectroscopy to identify structural changes associated with early events in the signal relay mechanism from the receptor to the transducer. Several prominent bands in the wild-type SRII-HtrII spectra are affected by amino acid substitutions at the receptor Tyr(199) and transducer Asn(74) residues, which form a hydrogen bond between the two proteins near the middle of the bilayer. Our results indicate disappearance of this hydrogen bond in the M and O photointermediates, the likely signaling states of the complex. This event represents one of the largest light-induced alterations in the binding contacts between the receptor and transducer. The vibrational frequency changes suggest that Asn(74) and Tyr(199) form other stronger hydrogen bonds in the M state. The light-induced disruption of the Tyr(199)-Asn(74) bond also occurs when the Schiff base counterion Asp(75) is replaced with a neutral asparagine. We compared the decrease in intensity of difference bands assigned to the Tyr(199)-Asn(74) pair and to chromophore and protein groups of the receptor at various time points during the recovery of the initial state. All difference bands exhibit similar decay kinetics indicating that reformation of the Tyr(199)-Asn(74) hydrogen bond occurs concomitantly with the decay of the M and O photointermediates. This work demonstrates that the signal relay from SRII to HtrII involves early structural alterations in the deeply membrane-embedded domain of the complex and provides a spectroscopic signal useful for correlation with the downstream events in signal transduction.
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- Vladislav B Bergo
- Center for Membrane Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical School, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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Becker J, Becher F, Hucke O, Labahn A, Koslowski T. Theory and Simulation of Vibrational Coupling in Deuterated Proteins: Toward a New Structural Probe? J Phys Chem B 2003. [DOI: 10.1021/jp034944x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Johanna Becker
- Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Universität Freiburg, Albertstrasse 23a, D-79104 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
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- Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Universität Freiburg, Albertstrasse 23a, D-79104 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
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- Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Universität Freiburg, Albertstrasse 23a, D-79104 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
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- Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Universität Freiburg, Albertstrasse 23a, D-79104 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
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- Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Universität Freiburg, Albertstrasse 23a, D-79104 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
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Bergo V, Spudich EN, Spudich JL, Rothschild KJ. Conformational changes detected in a sensory rhodopsin II-transducer complex. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:36556-62. [PMID: 12821665 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m303719200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
Abstract
Sensory rhodopsins (SRs) are light receptors that belong to the growing family of microbial rhodopsins. SRs have now been found in all three major domains of life including archaea, bacteria, and eukaryotes. One of the most extensively studied sensory rhodopsins is SRII, which controls a blue light avoidance motility response in the halophilic archaeon Natronobacterium pharaonis. This seven-helix integral membrane protein forms a tight intermolecular complex with its cognate transducer protein, HtrII. In this work, the structural changes occurring in a fusion complex consisting of SRII and the two transmembrane helices (TM1 and TM2) of HtrII were investigated by time-resolved Fourier transform infrared difference spectroscopy. Although most of the structural changes observed in SRII are conserved in the fusion complex, several distinct changes are found. A reduction in the intensity of a prominent amide I band observed for SRII indicates that its structural changes are altered in the fusion complex, possibly because of the close interaction of TM2 with the F helix, which interferes with the F helix outward tilt. Deprotonation of at least one Asp/Glu residue is detected in the transducer-free receptor with a pKa near 7 that is abolished or altered in the fusion complex. Changes are also detected in spectral regions characteristic of Asn and Tyr vibrations. At high hydration levels, transducer-fusion interactions lead to a stabilization of an M-like intermediate that most likely corresponds to an active signaling form of the transducer. These findings are discussed in the context of a recently elucidated x-ray structure of the fusion complex.
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Affiliation(s)
- Vladislav Bergo
- Department of Physics and Molecular Biophysics Laboratory, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
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