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Han CT, Nguyen KDQ, Berkow MW, Hussain S, Kiani A, Kinnebrew M, Idso MN, Baxter N, Chang E, Aye E, Winslow E, Rahman M, Seppälä S, O'Malley MA, Chmelka BF, Mertz B, Han S. Lipid membrane mimetics and oligomerization tune functional properties of proteorhodopsin. Biophys J 2023; 122:168-179. [PMID: 36352784 PMCID: PMC9822798 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2022.11.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2021] [Revised: 08/01/2022] [Accepted: 11/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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The functional properties of proteorhodopsin (PR) have been found to be strongly modulated by oligomeric distributions and lipid membrane mimetics. This study aims to distinguish and explain their effects by investigating how oligomer formation impacts PR's function of proton transport in lipid-based membrane mimetic environments. We find that PR forms stable hexamers and pentamers in both E. coli membranes and synthetic liposomes. Compared with the monomers, the photocycle kinetics of PR oligomers is ∼2 and ∼4.5 times slower for transitions between the K and M and the M and N photointermediates, respectively, indicating that oligomerization significantly slows PR's rate of proton transport in liposomes. In contrast, the apparent pKa of the key proton acceptor residue D97 (pKaD97) of liposome-embedded PR persists at 6.2-6.6, regardless of cross-protomer modulation of D97, suggesting that the liposome environment helps maintain PR's functional activity at neutral pH. By comparison, when extracted directly from E. coli membranes into styrene-maleic acid lipid particles, the pKaD97 of monomer-enriched E50Q PR drastically increases to 8.9, implying that there is a very low active PR population at neutral pH to engage in PR's photocycle. These findings demonstrate that oligomerization impacts PR's photocycle kinetics, while lipid-based membrane mimetics strongly affect PR's active population via different mechanisms.
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- Chung-Ta Han
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California
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- C. Eugene Bennett Department of Chemistry, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia
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- College of Creative Studies, Biology Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California
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- C. Eugene Bennett Department of Chemistry, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California
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- C. Eugene Bennett Department of Chemistry, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California; Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California.
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Li D, Chu W, Sheng X, Li W. Optimization of Membrane Protein TmrA Purification Procedure Guided by Analytical Ultracentrifugation. MEMBRANES 2021; 11:membranes11100780. [PMID: 34677546 PMCID: PMC8537081 DOI: 10.3390/membranes11100780] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2021] [Revised: 10/06/2021] [Accepted: 10/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
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Membrane proteins are involved in various cellular processes. However, purification of membrane proteins has long been a challenging task, as membrane protein stability in detergent is the bottleneck for purification and subsequent analyses. Therefore, the optimization of detergent conditions is critical for the preparation of membrane proteins. Here, we utilize analytical ultracentrifugation (AUC) to examine the effects of different detergents (OG, Triton X-100, DDM), detergent concentrations, and detergent supplementation on the behavior of membrane protein TmrA. Our results suggest that DDM is more suitable for the purification of TmrA compared with OG and TritonX-100; a high concentration of DDM yields a more homogeneous protein aggregation state; supplementing TmrA purified with a low DDM concentration with DDM maintains the protein homogeneity and aggregation state, and may serve as a practical and cost-effective strategy for membrane protein purification.
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- Dongdong Li
- Institute of Biomedicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; (D.L.); (W.C.)
- National Protein Science Facility, Beijing 100084, China
- School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Institute of Biomedicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; (D.L.); (W.C.)
- National Protein Science Facility, Beijing 100084, China
- School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Lewis Thomas Laboratory, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Washington Road, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
- Correspondence: (X.S.); (W.L.); Tel.: +86-1062782031 (W.L.)
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- Institute of Biomedicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; (D.L.); (W.C.)
- National Protein Science Facility, Beijing 100084, China
- School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
- Correspondence: (X.S.); (W.L.); Tel.: +86-1062782031 (W.L.)
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CryoEM reconstructions of membrane proteins solved in several amphipathic solvents, nanodisc, amphipol and detergents, yield amphipathic belts of similar sizes corresponding to a common ordered solvent layer. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2021; 1863:183693. [PMID: 34271006 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2021.183693] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2021] [Revised: 06/28/2021] [Accepted: 06/30/2021] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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To maintain membrane proteins soluble in aqueous solution, amphipathic compounds are used to shield the hydrophobic patch of their membrane insertion, which forms a belt around the protein. This amphipathic belt is seldom looked at due to the difficulty to visualize it. Cryo-EM is now offering this possibility, where belts are visible in 3D reconstructions. We investigated membrane proteins solved in nanodiscs, amphipols or detergents to analyze whether the nature of the amphipathic compound influences the belt size in 3D reconstructions. We identified belt boundaries in map-density distributions and measured distances for every reconstruction. We showed that all the belts create on average similar reconstructions, whether they originate from the same protein, or from protein from different shapes and structures. There is no difference among detergents or types of nanodisc used. These observations illustrate that the belt observed in 3D reconstructions corresponds to the minimum ordered layer around membrane proteins.
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Montigny C, Huang DL, Beswick V, Barbot T, Jaxel C, le Maire M, Zheng JS, Jamin N. Sarcolipin alters SERCA1a interdomain communication by impairing binding of both calcium and ATP. Sci Rep 2021; 11:1641. [PMID: 33452371 PMCID: PMC7810697 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-81061-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2020] [Accepted: 12/31/2020] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Sarcolipin (SLN), a single-spanning membrane protein, is a regulator of the sarco-endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase (SERCA1a). Chemically synthesized SLN, palmitoylated or not (pSLN or SLN), and recombinant wild-type rabbit SERCA1a expressed in S. cerevisiae design experimental conditions that provide a deeper understanding of the functional role of SLN on the regulation of SERCA1a. Our data show that chemically synthesized SLN interacts with recombinant SERCA1a, with calcium-deprived E2 state as well as with calcium-bound E1 state. This interaction hampers the binding of calcium in agreement with published data. Unexpectedly, SLN has also an allosteric effect on SERCA1a transport activity by impairing the binding of ATP. Our results reveal that SLN significantly slows down the E2 to Ca2.E1 transition of SERCA1a while it affects neither phosphorylation nor dephosphorylation. Comparison with chemically synthesized SLN deprived of acylation demonstrates that palmitoylation is not necessary for either inhibition or association with SERCA1a. However, it has a small but statistically significant effect on SERCA1a phosphorylation when various ratios of SLN-SERCA1a or pSLN-SERCA1a are tested.
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- Cédric Montigny
- CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Université Paris-Saclay, 91198, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230027, China
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- CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Université Paris-Saclay, 91198, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- Department of Physics, Evry-Val-d'Essonne University, 91025, Evry, France
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- CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Université Paris-Saclay, 91198, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Université Paris-Saclay, 91198, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Université Paris-Saclay, 91198, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230027, China.
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- CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Université Paris-Saclay, 91198, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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The SERCA residue Glu340 mediates interdomain communication that guides Ca 2+ transport. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:31114-31122. [PMID: 33229570 PMCID: PMC7733806 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2014896117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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We present a crystal structure, functional data, and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of the sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase (SERCA) mutant E340A. The mutation slows Ca2+-binding kinetics, and the structural differences between wild type and E340A indicate that the mutation disrupts a central interdomain “communication hub” governing Ca2+ binding/dissociation. MD simulations reveal altered dynamics in regions mediating Ca2+ occlusion, a critical step in SERCA’s alternating access mechanism. The mutation stabilizes a more occluded state of the Ca2+ sites. The strict conservation of Glu340 among P-type ATPases is the result of its critical role in interdomain communication between the cytosolic headpiece and the transmembrane domain, ensuring a delicate balance between dynamics of ion binding, occlusion, and release—key steps in the transport process. The sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase (SERCA) is a P-type ATPase that transports Ca2+ from the cytosol into the sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum (SR/ER) lumen, driven by ATP. This primary transport activity depends on tight coupling between movements of the transmembrane helices forming the two Ca2+-binding sites and the cytosolic headpiece mediating ATP hydrolysis. We have addressed the molecular basis for this intramolecular communication by analyzing the structure and functional properties of the SERCA mutant E340A. The mutated Glu340 residue is strictly conserved among the P-type ATPase family of membrane transporters and is located at a seemingly strategic position at the interface between the phosphorylation domain and the cytosolic ends of 5 of SERCA’s 10 transmembrane helices. The mutant displays a marked slowing of the Ca2+-binding kinetics, and its crystal structure in the presence of Ca2+ and ATP analog reveals a rotated headpiece, altered connectivity between the cytosolic domains, and an altered hydrogen bonding pattern around residue 340. Supported by molecular dynamics simulations, we conclude that the E340A mutation causes a stabilization of the Ca2+ sites in a more occluded state, hence displaying slowed dynamics. This finding underpins a crucial role of Glu340 in interdomain communication between the headpiece and the Ca2+-binding transmembrane region.
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Siposova K, Kozar T, Stupakova M, Musatov A. Complementary experimental and computational analysis of the effects of non-ionic detergents and phospholipids on insulin amyloid aggregation. Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces 2020; 197:111428. [PMID: 33129101 DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2020.111428] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2020] [Revised: 10/05/2020] [Accepted: 10/17/2020] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Amphiphilic compounds, both detergents and lipids, are important tools for in vitro analysis of water-soluble and integral membrane proteins. A key question is whether these two groups of amphiphilic molecules use the same pathway to affect structural and functional integrity of proteins. In the present study, we tested the effect of non-ionic detergent dodecyl maltoside (DDM), two phospholipids, 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3- phosphocholine (DMPC), 1,2-dihexanoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DHPC), and the detergent-phospholipid mixtures on insulin amyloidogenesis in vitro. Amyloidogenesis of insulin is significantly affected by DDM in a time-and dose-dependent manner, but only slightly affected by either of phospholipids. Addition of DHPC or DMPC to detergent does not alter the inhibiting pattern, suggesting that DDM preferably binds to insulin. The molecular modeling revealed that DDM and the phospholipids occupy equivalent binding sites. DDM, due to the presence of maltose with several oxygen atoms (hydroxylic, glycosidic and ring) is involved in more hydrogen bonds than DHPC or DMPC. Hydrophobic interactions are important factors to stabilize both, DDM and phospholipids in their binding sites. Our results indicate that certain detergents (applying DDM as an example) and selected phospholipids are not always interchangeable in their use to investigate the effect of amphiphilic compounds on the behavior of amyloid-prone proteins.
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- Katarina Siposova
- Department of Biophysics, Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Watsonova 47, 040 01 Kosice, Slovakia.
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- Center for Interdisciplinary Biosciences, Technology and Innovation Park, P. J. Safarik University, Jesenna 5, 040 01 Kosice, Slovakia.
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- Department of Biophysics, Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Watsonova 47, 040 01 Kosice, Slovakia
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- Department of Biophysics, Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Watsonova 47, 040 01 Kosice, Slovakia
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Vitrac H, Mallampalli VKPS, Bogdanov M, Dowhan W. The lipid-dependent structure and function of LacY can be recapitulated and analyzed in phospholipid-containing detergent micelles. Sci Rep 2019; 9:11338. [PMID: 31383935 PMCID: PMC6683142 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-47824-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2019] [Accepted: 07/24/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Membrane proteins play key roles in cellular functions, their activity mainly depending on their topological arrangement in membranes. Structural studies of membrane proteins have long adopted a protein-centric view regarding the determinants of membrane protein topology and function. Several studies have shown that the orientation of transmembrane domains of polytopic membrane proteins with respect to the plane of the lipid bilayer can be largely determined by membrane lipid composition. However, the mechanism by which membrane proteins exhibit structural and functional duality in the same membrane or different membranes is still unknown. Here we show that lipid-dependent structural and functional assessment of a membrane protein can be conducted in detergent micelles, opening the possibility for the determination of lipid-dependent high-resolution crystal structures. We found that the lactose permease purified from Escherichia coli cells exhibiting varied phospholipid compositions exhibits the same topology and similar function as in its membrane of origin. Furthermore, we found several conditions, including protein mutations and micelle lipid composition, that lead to increased protein stability, correlating with a higher yield of two-dimensional crystal formation. Altogether, our results demonstrate how the membrane lipid environment influences membrane protein topology and arrangement, both in native membranes and in mixed detergent micelles.
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- Heidi Vitrac
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Center for Membrane Biology, University of Texas McGovern Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Center for Membrane Biology, University of Texas McGovern Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Center for Membrane Biology, University of Texas McGovern Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Center for Membrane Biology, University of Texas McGovern Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.
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Idso MN, Baxter NR, Narayanan S, Chang E, Fisher J, Chmelka BF, Han S. Proteorhodopsin Function Is Primarily Mediated by Oligomerization in Different Micellar Surfactant Solutions. J Phys Chem B 2019; 123:4180-4192. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b00922] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Methods of reconstitution to investigate membrane protein function. Methods 2018; 147:126-141. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2018.02.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2018] [Accepted: 02/13/2018] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Lenoir G, Dieudonné T, Lamy A, Lejeune M, Vazquez-Ibar JL, Montigny C. Screening of Detergents for Stabilization of Functional Membrane Proteins. CURRENT PROTOCOLS IN PROTEIN SCIENCE 2018; 93:e59. [PMID: 30021058 DOI: 10.1002/cpps.59] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Membrane protein studies usually require use of detergents to extract and isolate proteins from membranes and manipulate them in a soluble context for their functional or structural characterization. However, solubilization with detergent may interfere with MP stability and may directly affect MP function or structure. Moreover, detergent properties can be affected such as critical micellar concentration (CMC) can be affected by the experimental conditions. Consequently, the experimenter must pay attention to both the protein and the behavior of the detergent. This article provides a convenient protocol for estimating the CMC of detergents in given experimental conditions. Then, it presents two protocols aimed at monitoring the function of a membrane protein in the presence of detergent. Such experiments may help to test various detergents for their inactivating or stabilizing effects on long incubation times, ranging from few hours to some days. © 2018 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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- Guillaume Lenoir
- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX, France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX, France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX, France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX, France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX, France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX, France
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Das S, Balasubramanian S. pH-Induced Rotation of Lidless Lipase LipA from Bacillus subtilis at Lipase-Detergent Interface. J Phys Chem B 2018; 122:4802-4812. [PMID: 29623706 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b02296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Lipases exhibit a unique process during the catalysis of the hydrolysis of triglyceride substrates called interfacial activation. Surfactants are used as cosolvents with water not only to offer a less polar environment to the lipases needed for their interfacial activation but also to solvate the substrate which are poorly soluble in water. However, the presence of detergent in the medium can affect both the lipase and the substrate, making the construction of a microkinetic model for lipase activity in the presence of the detergent difficult. Herein, we study the interfacial activation of a lidless lipase LipA from Bacillus subtilis using extensive atomistic molecular dynamics simulations at different concentrations of the surfactant, Thesit (C12E8), at two pH values. Residues which bind to the monomeric detergent are found to be the same as the ones which have been reported earlier to bind to the substrate. Very importantly, a pH-induced rotation of the enzyme with respect to surfactant aggregate has been observed which not only explains the experimentally observed pH-dependent enzymatic activity of this lidless lipase, but also suggests its reorientation at an aqueous-lipodophilic interface.
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- Sudip Das
- Chemistry and Physics of Materials Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research , Bangalore 560 064 , India
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- Chemistry and Physics of Materials Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research , Bangalore 560 064 , India
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Biophysical characterization and stabilization of detergent-solubilized lipoprotein N-acyl transferase from P. aeruginosa and E. coli. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2018; 1860:1384-1393. [PMID: 29573991 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2018.03.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2018] [Revised: 03/18/2018] [Accepted: 03/20/2018] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Lipoproteins are important for bacterial growth and virulence and interest in them as targets for antibiotic development is growing. Lipoprotein N-acyl transferase (Lnt) catalyzes the final step in the lipoprotein posttranslational processing pathway. The mature lipoprotein can remain in the inner membrane or be trafficked to the outer membrane in the case of diderm prokaryotes. With a view to obtaining high-resolution crystal structures of membrane integral Lnt for use in drug discovery a program was undertaken to generate milligram quantities of stable, homogenous and functional protein. This involved screening across bacterial species for suitable orthologues and optimization at the level of protein expression, solubilization and stability. Combining biophysical and functional characterization, orthologous Lnt from Escherichia coli and the opportunistic human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa was identified as suitable for the proposed structure determination campaign that ultimately yielded crystal structures. The rational approaches taken that eventually provided structure-quality protein are presented in this report.
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Senac C, Urbach W, Kurtisovski E, Hünenberger PH, Horta BAC, Taulier N, Fuchs PFJ. Simulating Bilayers of Nonionic Surfactants with the GROMOS-Compatible 2016H66 Force Field. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2017; 33:10225-10238. [PMID: 28832154 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b01348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Polyoxyethylene glycol alkyl ether amphiphiles (CiEj) are important nonionic surfactants, often used for biophysical and membrane protein studies. In this work, we extensively test the GROMOS-compatible 2016H66 force field in molecular dynamics simulations involving the lamellar phase of a series of CiEj surfactants, namely C12E2, C12E3, C12E4, C12E5, and C14E4. The simulations reproduce qualitatively well the monitored structural properties and their experimental trends along the surfactant series, although some discrepancies remain, in particular in terms of the area per surfactant, the equilibrium phase of C12E5, and the order parameters of C12E3, C12E4, and C12E5. The polar head of the CiEj surfactants is highly hydrated, almost like a single polyethyleneoxide (PEO) molecule at full hydration, resulting in very compact conformations. Within the bilayer, all CiEj surfactants flip-flop spontaneously within tens of nanoseconds. Water-permeation is facilitated, and the bending rigidity is 4 to 5 times lower than that of typical phospholipid bilayers. In line with another recent theoretical study, the simulations show that the lamellar phase of CiEj contains large hydrophilic pores. These pores should be abundant in order to reproduce the comparatively low NMR order parameters. We show that their contour length is directly correlated to the order parameters, and we estimate that they should occupy approximately 7-10% of the total membrane area. Due to their highly dynamic nature (rapid flip-flops, high water permeability, observed pore formation), CiEj surfactant bilayers are found to represent surprisingly challenging systems in terms of modeling. Given this difficulty, the results presented here show that the 2016H66 parameters, optimized independently considering pure-liquid as well as polar and nonpolar solvation properties of small organic molecules, represent a good starting point for simulating these systems.
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- Caroline Senac
- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, INSERM, Laboratoire d'Imagerie Biomédicale , F-75006 Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, INSERM, Laboratoire d'Imagerie Biomédicale , F-75006 Paris, France
- Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, École Normale Supérieure, PSL Research University; Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris-Cité; Sorbonne Universités UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS , 24 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, INSERM, Laboratoire d'Imagerie Biomédicale , F-75006 Paris, France
- Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, École Normale Supérieure, PSL Research University; Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris-Cité; Sorbonne Universités UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS , 24 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris, France
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- Instituto de Química, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro , Rio de Janeiro 21941-909, Brazil
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, INSERM, Laboratoire d'Imagerie Biomédicale , F-75006 Paris, France
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- Institut Jacques Monod, UMR 7592 CNRS, Université Paris Diderot , Sorbonne Paris Cité, F-75205 Paris, France
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Membrane proteins structures: A review on computational modeling tools. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2017; 1859:2021-2039. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2017.07.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2017] [Revised: 07/04/2017] [Accepted: 07/13/2017] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Montigny C, Dieudonné T, Orlowski S, Vázquez-Ibar JL, Gauron C, Georgin D, Lund S, le Maire M, Møller JV, Champeil P, Lenoir G. Slow Phospholipid Exchange between a Detergent-Solubilized Membrane Protein and Lipid-Detergent Mixed Micelles: Brominated Phospholipids as Tools to Follow Its Kinetics. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0170481. [PMID: 28118404 PMCID: PMC5261732 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0170481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2016] [Accepted: 01/05/2017] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Membrane proteins are largely dependent for their function on the phospholipids present in their immediate environment, and when they are solubilized by detergent for further study, residual phospholipids are critical, too. Here, brominated phosphatidylcholine, a phospholipid which behaves as an unsaturated phosphatidylcholine, was used to reveal the kinetics of phospholipid exchange or transfer from detergent mixed micelles to the environment of a detergent-solubilized membrane protein, the paradigmatic P-type ATPase SERCA1a, in which Trp residues can experience fluorescence quenching by bromine atoms present on phospholipid alkyl chains in their immediate environment. Using dodecylmaltoside as the detergent, exchange of (brominated) phospholipid was found to be much slower than exchange of detergent under the same conditions, and also much slower than membrane solubilization, the latter being evidenced by light scattering changes. The kinetics of this exchange was strongly dependent on temperature. It was also dependent on the total concentration of the mixed micelles, revealing the major role for such exchange of the collision of detergent micelles with the detergent-solubilized protein. Back-transfer of the brominated phospholipid from the solubilized protein to the detergent micelle was much faster if lipid-free DDM micelles instead of mixed micelles were added for triggering dissociation of brominated phosphatidylcholine from the solubilized protein, or in the additional presence of C12E8 detergent during exchange, also emphasizing the role of the chemical nature of the micelle/protein interface. This protocol using brominated lipids appears to be valuable for revealing the possibly slow kinetics of phospholipid transfer to or from detergent-solubilized membrane proteins. Independently, continuous recording of the activity of the protein can also be used in some cases to correlate changes in activity with the exchange of a specific phospholipid, as shown here by using the Drs2p/Cdc50p complex, a lipid flippase with specific binding sites for lipids.
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- Cédric Montigny
- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- * E-mail: (CM); (GL)
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- CEA, iBiTec-S, Service de Chimie Bioorganique et de Marquage, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Medical Research Laboratory, Department of Endocrinology and Internal Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Centre for Membrane Pumps in Cells and Disease—PUMPKIN, Danish National Research Foundation, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- * E-mail: (CM); (GL)
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Grønberg C, Sitsel O, Lindahl E, Gourdon P, Andersson M. Membrane Anchoring and Ion-Entry Dynamics in P-type ATPase Copper Transport. Biophys J 2016; 111:2417-2429. [PMID: 27926843 PMCID: PMC5153542 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2016.10.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2016] [Revised: 09/29/2016] [Accepted: 10/17/2016] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Cu+-specific P-type ATPase membrane protein transporters regulate cellular copper levels. The lack of crystal structures in Cu+-binding states has limited our understanding of how ion entry and binding are achieved. Here, we characterize the molecular basis of Cu+ entry using molecular-dynamics simulations, structural modeling, and in vitro and in vivo functional assays. Protein structural rearrangements resulting in the exposure of positive charges to bulk solvent rather than to lipid phosphates indicate a direct molecular role of the putative docking platform in Cu+ delivery. Mutational analyses and simulations in the presence and absence of Cu+ predict that the ion-entry path involves two ion-binding sites: one transient Met148-Cys382 site and one intramembranous site formed by trigonal coordination to Cys384, Asn689, and Met717. The results reconcile earlier biochemical and x-ray absorption data and provide a molecular understanding of ion entry in Cu+-transporting P-type ATPases.
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- Biochemistry & Biophysics, Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Experimental Medical Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Theoretical Physics and Swedish e-Science Research Center, Science for Life Laboratory, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Solna, Sweden.
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Champeil P, Orlowski S, Babin S, Lund S, le Maire M, Møller J, Lenoir G, Montigny C. A robust method to screen detergents for membrane protein stabilization, revisited. Anal Biochem 2016; 511:31-5. [PMID: 27443956 DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2016.07.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2016] [Revised: 07/06/2016] [Accepted: 07/15/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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This report is a follow up of our previous paper (Lund, Orlowski, de Foresta, Champeil, le Maire and Møller (1989), J Biol Chem 264:4907-4915) showing that solubilization in detergent of a membrane protein may interfere with its long-term stability, and proposing a protocol to reveal the kinetics of such irreversible inactivation. We here clarify the fact that when various detergents are tested for their effects, special attention has of course to be paid to their critical micelle concentration. We also investigate the effects of a few more detergents, some of which have been recently advertised in the literature, and emphasize the role of lipids together with detergents. Among these detergents, lauryl maltose neopentyl glycol (LMNG) exerts a remarkable ability, even higher than that of β-dodecylmaltoside (DDM), to protect our test enzyme, the paradigmatic P-type ATPase SERCA1a from sarcoplasmic reticulum. Performing such experiments for one's favourite protein probably remains useful in pre-screening assays testing various detergents.
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- Philippe Champeil
- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Medical Research Laboratory, Department of Endocrinology and Internal Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Centre for Membrane Pumps in Cells and Disease - PUMPKIN, Danish National Research Foundation, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark; Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
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Rayan G, Adrien V, Reffay M, Picard M, Ducruix A, Schmutz M, Urbach W, Taulier N. Surfactant bilayers maintain transmembrane protein activity. Biophys J 2015; 107:1129-1135. [PMID: 25185548 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2014.07.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2013] [Revised: 06/21/2014] [Accepted: 07/07/2014] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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In vitro studies of membrane proteins are of interest only if their structure and function are significantly preserved. One approach is to insert them into the lipid bilayers of highly viscous cubic phases rendering the insertion and manipulation of proteins difficult. Less viscous lipid sponge phases are sometimes used, but their relatively narrow domain of existence can be easily disrupted by protein insertion. We present here a sponge phase consisting of nonionic surfactant bilayers. Its extended domain of existence and its low viscosity allow easy insertion and manipulation of membrane proteins. We show for the first time, to our knowledge, that transmembrane proteins, such as bacteriorhodopsin, sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+)ATPase (SERCA1a), and its associated enzymes, are fully active in a surfactant phase.
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- Gamal Rayan
- Laboratoire de Physique Statistique de l'École Normale Supérieure, UPMC, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS, UMR 8550, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire de Physique Statistique de l'École Normale Supérieure, UPMC, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS, UMR 8550, Paris, France; Laboratoire de Cristallographie et RMN Biologiques, Université Paris Descartes, CNRS, UMR 8015, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire de Physique Statistique de l'École Normale Supérieure, UPMC, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS, UMR 8550, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire de Cristallographie et RMN Biologiques, Université Paris Descartes, CNRS, UMR 8015, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire de Cristallographie et RMN Biologiques, Université Paris Descartes, CNRS, UMR 8015, Paris, France
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- Institut Charles Sadron - UPR 022 - CNRS - Unistra, Strasbourg, France
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- Laboratoire de Physique Statistique de l'École Normale Supérieure, UPMC, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS, UMR 8550, Paris, France; Sorbonnes Université Univ Paris 6, UMR 7371, UMR_S 1146, Laboratoire d'Imagerie Biomédicale, Paris, France; CNRS, UMR 7371, Laboratoire d'Imagerie Biomédicale, Paris, France; INSERM, UMR_S 1146, Laboratoire d'Imagerie Biomédicale, Paris, France
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- Sorbonnes Université Univ Paris 6, UMR 7371, UMR_S 1146, Laboratoire d'Imagerie Biomédicale, Paris, France; CNRS, UMR 7371, Laboratoire d'Imagerie Biomédicale, Paris, France; INSERM, UMR_S 1146, Laboratoire d'Imagerie Biomédicale, Paris, France.
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Liu N, Van Voorst JR, Johnston JB, Kuhn LA. CholMine: Determinants and Prediction of Cholesterol and Cholate Binding Across Nonhomologous Protein Structures. J Chem Inf Model 2015; 55:747-59. [PMID: 25760928 DOI: 10.1021/ci5006542] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Identifying physiological ligands is necessary for annotating new protein structures, yet this presents a significant challenge to biologists and pharmaceutical chemists. Here we develop a predictor of cholesterol and cholate binding that works across diverse protein families, extending beyond sequence motif-based prediction. This approach combines SimSite3D site comparison with the detection of conserved interactions in cholesterol/cholate bound crystal structures to define three-dimensional interaction motifs. The resulting predictor identifies cholesterol sites with an ∼82% unbiased true positive rate in both membrane and soluble proteins, with a very low false positive rate relative to other predictors. The CholMine Web server can analyze users' structures, detect those likely to bind cholesterol/cholate, and predict the binding mode and key interactions. By deciphering the determinants of binding for these important steroids, CholMine may also aid in the design of selective inhibitors and detergents for targets such as G protein coupled receptors and bile acid receptors.
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- Nan Liu
- †Department of Chemistry, ‡Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and §Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1319, United States
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- †Department of Chemistry, ‡Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and §Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1319, United States
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- †Department of Chemistry, ‡Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and §Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1319, United States
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- †Department of Chemistry, ‡Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and §Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1319, United States
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Fulton A, Frauenkron-Machedjou VJ, Skoczinski P, Wilhelm S, Zhu L, Schwaneberg U, Jaeger KE. Exploring the Protein Stability Landscape:Bacillus subtilisLipase A as a Model for Detergent Tolerance. Chembiochem 2015; 16:930-6. [DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201402664] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2014] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Amphipols and Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting Pigment-Protein Complexes. J Membr Biol 2014; 247:1031-41. [DOI: 10.1007/s00232-014-9712-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2014] [Accepted: 07/23/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Olguín Y, Carrascosa LG, Lechuga LM, Young M. The effects of lipids and surfactants on TLR5-proteoliposome functionality for flagellin detection using surface plasmon resonance biosensing. Talanta 2014; 126:136-44. [PMID: 24881544 DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2014.03.065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2013] [Revised: 03/25/2014] [Accepted: 03/27/2014] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The use of proteoliposomes as affinity elements in conjunction with a surface plasmon resonance sensor is a high-sensitivity alternative for the detection of multiple analytes. However, one of the most important aspects of these conformations is maintaining the functionality of the immobilized protein, which is determined by the choice of lipids and surfactants employed in the reconstitutions. Previously, we demonstrated the functionality of TLR5-proteoliposomes as screening affinity elements of bacterial flagellin. In this new study we change the conditions of immobilization of TLR5 and evaluate how the fluidity of the membrane and the final size of the liposomes affect the functionality of the construct and thus increase their utility as an affinity element for design of new biosensors. In particular, we used reconstructions into preformed liposomes composed of the lipids POPC, POPC-DMPC and POPC-POPE mediated by the use of surfactants OG, Triton X100, and DDM, respectively. The affinity results were evaluated by SPR technology proteoliposomes and were correlated with the anisotropic change in the membrane status; the final sizes of the proteoliposomes were estimated. Our results clearly show the dependence of fluidity and final size of the proteoliposomes with surface plasmon resonance affinity measurements.
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- Y Olguín
- Biotechnology Center, Federico Santa Maria Technical University, Valparaíso, Chile.
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- Nanobiosensor and Bioanalytical Applications Group, Institut Catàla de Nanociencia i Nanotecnología (ICN2), CSIC and CIBER-BBN, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Nanobiosensor and Bioanalytical Applications Group, Institut Catàla de Nanociencia i Nanotecnología (ICN2), CSIC and CIBER-BBN, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Biotechnology Center, Federico Santa Maria Technical University, Valparaíso, Chile
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Yang Z, Wang C, Zhou Q, An J, Hildebrandt E, Aleksandrov LA, Kappes JC, DeLucas LJ, Riordan JR, Urbatsch IL, Hunt JF, Brouillette CG. Membrane protein stability can be compromised by detergent interactions with the extramembranous soluble domains. Protein Sci 2014; 23:769-89. [PMID: 24652590 PMCID: PMC4093953 DOI: 10.1002/pro.2460] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2013] [Revised: 03/07/2014] [Accepted: 03/17/2014] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Detergent interaction with extramembranous soluble domains (ESDs) is not commonly considered an important determinant of integral membrane protein (IMP) behavior during purification and crystallization, even though ESDs contribute to the stability of many IMPs. Here we demonstrate that some generally nondenaturing detergents critically destabilize a model ESD, the first nucleotide-binding domain (NBD1) from the human cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR), a model IMP. Notably, the detergents show equivalent trends in their influence on the stability of isolated NBD1 and full-length CFTR. We used differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy to monitor changes in NBD1 stability and secondary structure, respectively, during titration with a series of detergents. Their effective harshness in these assays mirrors that widely accepted for their interaction with IMPs, i.e., anionic > zwitterionic > nonionic. It is noteworthy that including lipids or nonionic detergents is shown to mitigate detergent harshness, as will limiting contact time. We infer three thermodynamic mechanisms from the observed thermal destabilization by monomer or micelle: (i) binding to the unfolded state with no change in the native structure (all detergent classes); (ii) native state binding that alters thermodynamic properties and perhaps conformation (nonionic detergents); and (iii) detergent binding that directly leads to denaturation of the native state (anionic and zwitterionic). These results demonstrate that the accepted model for the harshness of detergents applies to their interaction with an ESD. It is concluded that destabilization of extramembranous soluble domains by specific detergents will influence the stability of some IMPs during purification.
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- Zhengrong Yang
- Department of Chemistry, University of Alabama at BirminghamBirmingham, Alabama
- Center for Structural Biology, University of Alabama at BirminghamBirmingham, Alabama
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia UniversityNew York, New York
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- Center for Structural Biology, University of Alabama at BirminghamBirmingham, Alabama
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- Center for Structural Biology, University of Alabama at BirminghamBirmingham, Alabama
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- Department of Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University Health Sciences CenterLubbock, Texas
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, The University of North Carolina at Chapel HillChapel Hill, North Carolina
- Cystic Fibrosis Treatment and Research Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel HillChapel Hill, North Carolina
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- Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at BirminghamBirmingham, Alabama
- Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Research ServiceBirmingham, Alabama
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- Center for Structural Biology, University of Alabama at BirminghamBirmingham, Alabama
- Department of Optometry, University of Alabama at BirminghamBirmingham, Alabama
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, The University of North Carolina at Chapel HillChapel Hill, North Carolina
- Cystic Fibrosis Treatment and Research Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel HillChapel Hill, North Carolina
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- Department of Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University Health Sciences CenterLubbock, Texas
- Center for Membrane Protein Research, Texas Tech University Health Sciences CenterLubbock, TX
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia UniversityNew York, New York
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Alabama at BirminghamBirmingham, Alabama
- Center for Structural Biology, University of Alabama at BirminghamBirmingham, Alabama
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Commonly used detergent sclerosants including sodium tetradecyl sulphate (STS) and polidocanol (POL) are clinically used to induce endovascular fibrosis and vessel occlusion. They achieve this by lysing the endothelial lining of target vessels. These agents are surface active (surfactant) molecules that interfere with cell membranes. Surfactants have a striking similarity to the phospholipid molecules of the membrane lipid bilayer. By adsorbing at the cell membrane, surfactants disrupt the normal architecture of the lipid bilayer and reduce the surface tension. The outcome of this interaction is concentration dependent. At high enough concentrations, surfactants solubilise cell membranes resulting in cell lysis. At lower concentrations, these agents can induce a procoagulant negatively charged surface on the external aspect of the cell membrane. The interaction is also influenced by the ionic charge, molecular structure, pH and the chemical nature of the diluent (e.g. saline vs. water). The ionic charge of the surfactant molecule can influence the effect on plasma proteins and the protein contents of cell membranes. STS, an anionic detergent, denatures the tertiary complex of most proteins and in particular the clinically relevant clotting factors. By contrast, POL has no effect on proteins due to its non-ionic structure. These agents therefore exhibit remarkable differences in their interaction with lipid membranes, target cells and circulating proteins with potential implications in a range of clinical applications.
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- Kurosh Parsi
- Dermatology, Phlebology and Fluid Mechanics Research Laboratory, St Vincent's Centre for Applied Medical Research, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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Murray D, Griffin J, Cross TA. Detergent optimized membrane protein reconstitution in liposomes for solid state NMR. Biochemistry 2014; 53:2454-63. [PMID: 24665863 PMCID: PMC4004220 DOI: 10.1021/bi500144h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2014] [Revised: 03/24/2014] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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For small helical membrane proteins, their structures are highly sensitive to their environment, and solid state NMR is a structural technique that can characterize these membrane proteins in native-like lipid bilayers and proteoliposomes. To date, a systematic method by which to evaluate the effect of the solubilizing detergent on proteoliposome preparations for solid state NMR of membrane proteins has not been presented in the literature. A set of experiments are presented aimed at determining the conditions most amenable to dialysis mediated reconstitution sample preparation. A membrane protein from M. tuberculosis is used to illustrate the method. The results show that a detergent that stabilizes the most protein is not always ideal and sometimes cannot be removed by dialysis. By focusing on the lipid and protein binding properties of the detergent, proteoliposome preparations can be readily produced, which provide double the signal-to-noise ratios for both the oriented sample and magic angle spinning solid state NMR. The method will allow more membrane protein drug targets to be structurally characterized in lipid bilayer environments.
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- Dylan
T. Murray
- Institute
for Molecular Biophysics, Florida State
University, 91 Chieftan
Way, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, United States
- The
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, 1800 E. Paul Dirac Dr., Tallahassee, Florida 32310, United States
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- The
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, 1800 E. Paul Dirac Dr., Tallahassee, Florida 32310, United States
- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State
University, 95 Chieftan
Way, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, United States
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- Institute
for Molecular Biophysics, Florida State
University, 91 Chieftan
Way, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, United States
- The
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, 1800 E. Paul Dirac Dr., Tallahassee, Florida 32310, United States
- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State
University, 95 Chieftan
Way, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, United States
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UNLABELLED Flavivirus replication is mediated by a complex machinery that consists of viral enzymes, nonenzymatic viral proteins, and host factors. Many of the nonenzymatic viral proteins, such as NS4B, are associated with the endoplasmic reticulum membrane. How these membrane proteins function in viral replication is poorly understood. Here we report a robust method to express and purify dengue virus (DENV) and West Nile virus NS4B proteins. The NS4B proteins were expressed in Escherichia coli, reconstituted in dodecyl maltoside (DDM) detergent micelles, and purified to >95% homogeneity. The recombinant NS4B proteins dimerized in vitro, as evidenced by gel filtration, chemical cross-linking, and multiangle light scattering experiments. The dimeric form of NS4B was also detected when the protein was expressed alone in cells as well as in cells infected with DENV type 2 (DENV-2). Mutagenesis analysis showed that the cytosolic loop (amino acids 129 to 165) and the C-terminal region (amino acids 166 to 248) are responsible for NS4B dimerization. trans-Complementation experiments showed that (i) two genome-length RNAs containing distinct NS4B lethal mutations could not trans-complement each other, (ii) the replication defect of NS4B mutant RNA could be restored in cells containing DENV-2 replicons, and (iii) expression of wild-type NS4B protein alone was not sufficient to restore the replication of the NS4B mutant RNA. Collectively, the results indicate that trans-complementation of a lethal NS4B mutant RNA requires wild-type NS4B presented from a replication complex. IMPORTANCE The reported expression and purification system has made it possible to study the biochemistry and structure of flavivirus NS4B proteins. The finding of flavivirus NS4B dimerization and the mapping of regions important for NS4B dimerization provide the possibility to inhibit viral replication through blocking NS4B dimerization. The requirement of NS4B in the context of the replication complex for successful trans-complementation enhances our understanding of NS4B in flavivirus replication.
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Moraes I, Evans G, Sanchez-Weatherby J, Newstead S, Stewart PDS. Membrane protein structure determination - the next generation. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2014; 1838:78-87. [PMID: 23860256 PMCID: PMC3898769 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2013.07.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 160] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2013] [Revised: 06/28/2013] [Accepted: 07/07/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The field of Membrane Protein Structural Biology has grown significantly since its first landmark in 1985 with the first three-dimensional atomic resolution structure of a membrane protein. Nearly twenty-six years later, the crystal structure of the beta2 adrenergic receptor in complex with G protein has contributed to another landmark in the field leading to the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. At present, more than 350 unique membrane protein structures solved by X-ray crystallography (http://blanco.biomol.uci.edu/mpstruc/exp/list, Stephen White Lab at UC Irvine) are available in the Protein Data Bank. The advent of genomics and proteomics initiatives combined with high-throughput technologies, such as automation, miniaturization, integration and third-generation synchrotrons, has enhanced membrane protein structure determination rate. X-ray crystallography is still the only method capable of providing detailed information on how ligands, cofactors, and ions interact with proteins, and is therefore a powerful tool in biochemistry and drug discovery. Yet the growth of membrane protein crystals suitable for X-ray diffraction studies amazingly remains a fine art and a major bottleneck in the field. It is often necessary to apply as many innovative approaches as possible. In this review we draw attention to the latest methods and strategies for the production of suitable crystals for membrane protein structure determination. In addition we also highlight the impact that third-generation synchrotron radiation has made in the field, summarizing the latest strategies used at synchrotron beamlines for screening and data collection from such demanding crystals. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Structural and biophysical characterisation of membrane protein-ligand binding.
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- Isabel Moraes
- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK; Membrane Protein Laboratory, Diamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot OX11 0DE, UK; Research Complex at Harwell Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot OX11 0FA, UK.
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Abel S, Lorieau A, de Foresta B, Dupradeau FY, Marchi M. Bindings of hMRP1 transmembrane peptides with dodecylphosphocholine and dodecyl-β-d-maltoside micelles: a molecular dynamics simulation study. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2013; 1838:493-509. [PMID: 24157718 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2013.10.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2013] [Revised: 09/17/2013] [Accepted: 10/14/2013] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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In this paper, we describe molecular dynamics simulation results of the interactions between four peptides (mTM10, mTM16, TM17 and KTM17) with micelles of dodecylphosphocholine (DPC) and dodecyl-β-d-maltoside (DDM). These peptides represent three transmembrane fragments (TM10, 16 and 17) from the MSD1 and MSD2 membrane-spanning domains of an ABC membrane protein (hMRP1), which play roles in the protein functions. The peptide-micelle complex structures, including the tryptophan accessibility and dynamics were compared to circular dichroism and fluorescence studies obtained in water, trifluoroethanol and with micelles. Our work provides additional results not directly accessible by experiments that give further support to the fact that these peptides adopt an interfacial conformation within the micelles. We also show that the peptides are more buried in DDM than in DPC, and consequently, that they have a larger surface exposure to water in DPC than in DDM. As noted previously by simulations and experiments we have also observed formation of cation-π bonds between the phosphocholine DPC headgroup and Trp peptide residue. Concerning the peptide secondary structures (SS), we find that in TFE their initial helical conformations are maintained during the simulation, whereas in water their initial SS are lost after few nanoseconds of simulation. An intermediate situation is observed with micelles, where the peptides remain partially folded and more structured in DDM than in DPC. Finally, our results show no sign of β-strand structure formation as invoked by far-UV CD experiments even when three identical peptides are simulated either in water or with micelles.
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- Stéphane Abel
- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, DSV/iBiTEC-S/SB2SM/LBMS & CNRS UMR 8221, Saclay, France.
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Antaloae AV, Montigny C, le Maire M, Watson KA, Sørensen TLM. Optimisation of recombinant production of active human cardiac SERCA2a ATPase. PLoS One 2013; 8:e71842. [PMID: 23951256 PMCID: PMC3741278 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071842] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2013] [Accepted: 07/03/2013] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Methods for recombinant production of eukaryotic membrane proteins, yielding sufficient quantity and quality of protein for structural biology, remain a challenge. We describe here, expression and purification optimisation of the human SERCA2a cardiac isoform of Ca(2+) translocating ATPase, using Saccharomyces cerevisiae as the heterologous expression system of choice. Two different expression vectors were utilised, allowing expression of C-terminal fusion proteins with a biotinylation domain or a GFP- His8 tag. Solubilised membrane fractions containing the protein of interest were purified onto Streptavidin-Sepharose, Ni-NTA or Talon resin, depending on the fusion tag present. Biotinylated protein was detected using specific antibody directed against SERCA2 and, advantageously, GFP-His8 fusion protein was easily traced during the purification steps using in-gel fluorescence. Importantly, talon resin affinity purification proved more specific than Ni-NTA resin for the GFP-His8 tagged protein, providing better separation of oligomers present, during size exclusion chromatography. The optimised method for expression and purification of human cardiac SERCA2a reported herein, yields purified protein (> 90%) that displays a calcium-dependent thapsigargin-sensitive activity and is suitable for further biophysical, structural and physiological studies. This work provides support for the use of Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a suitable expression system for recombinant production of multi-domain eukaryotic membrane proteins.
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- Ana V. Antaloae
- School of Biological Sciences, Whiteknights Campus, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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- CEA, iBiTec-S, CNRS, UMR 8221, Universite Paris-Sud, Saclay, France
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- CEA, iBiTec-S, CNRS, UMR 8221, Universite Paris-Sud, Saclay, France
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- School of Biological Sciences, Whiteknights Campus, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom
- * E-mail: (KAW); (TL-MS)
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- Diamond Light Source Ltd., Diamond House, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
- * E-mail: (KAW); (TL-MS)
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Haferkamp I, Linka N. Functional expression and characterisation of membrane transport proteins. PLANT BIOLOGY (STUTTGART, GERMANY) 2012; 14:675-90. [PMID: 22639981 DOI: 10.1111/j.1438-8677.2012.00591.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Membrane transporters set the framework organising the complexity of plant metabolism in cells, tissues and organisms. Their substrate specificity and controlled activity in different cells is a crucial part for plant metabolism to run pathways in concert. Transport proteins catalyse the uptake and exchange of ions, substrates, intermediates, products and cofactors across membranes. Given the large number of metabolites, a wide spectrum of transporters is required. The vast majority of in silico annotated membrane transporters in plant genomes, however, has not yet been functionally characterised. Hence, to understand the metabolic network as a whole, it is important to understand how transporters connect and control the metabolic pathways of plant cells. Heterologous expression and in vitro activity studies of recombinant transport proteins have highly improved their functional analysis in the last two decades. This review provides a comprehensive overview of the recent advances in membrane protein expression and functional characterisation using various host systems and transport assays.
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- I Haferkamp
- Plant Physiology, Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany Plant Biochemistry, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Plant Physiology, Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany Plant Biochemistry, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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Pagliano C, Barera S, Chimirri F, Saracco G, Barber J. Comparison of the α and β isomeric forms of the detergent n-dodecyl-D-maltoside for solubilizing photosynthetic complexes from pea thylakoid membranes. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2012; 1817:1506-15. [PMID: 22079201 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2011.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2011] [Accepted: 11/01/2011] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Mild non-ionic detergents are indispensable in the isolation of intact integral membrane proteins and protein-complexes from biological membranes. Dodecylmaltoside (DM) belongs to this class of detergents being a glucoside-based surfactant with a bulky hydrophilic head group composed of two sugar rings and a non-charged alkyl glycoside chain. Two isomers of this molecule exist, differing only in the configuration of the alkyl chain around the anomeric center of the carbohydrate head group, axial in α-DM and equatorial in β-DM. In this paper, we have investigated the solubilizing properties of α-DM and β-DM on the isolation of photosynthetic complexes from pea thylakoids membranes maintaining their native architecture of stacked grana and stroma lamellae. Exposure of these stacked thylakoids to a single step treatment with increasing concentrations (5-100mM) of α-DM or β-DM resulted in a quick partial or complete solubilization of the membranes. Regardless of the isomeric form used: 1) at the lowest DM concentrations only a partial solubilization of thylakoids was achieved, giving rise to the release of mainly small protein complexes mixed with membrane fragments enriched in PSI from stroma lamellae; 2) at concentrations above 30mM a complete solubilization occurred with the further release of high molecular weight protein complexes identified as dimeric PSII, PSI-LHCI and PSII-LHCII supercomplexes. However, at concentrations of detergent which fully solubilized the thylakoids, the α and β isomeric forms of DM exerted a somewhat different solubilizing effect on the membranes: higher abundance of larger sized PSII-LHCII supercomplexes retaining a higher proportion of LHCII and lower amounts of PSI-LHCI intermediates were observed in α-DM treated membranes, reflecting the mildness of α-DM compared with its isomer. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Photosynthesis Research for Sustainability: from Natural to Artificial.
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- Cristina Pagliano
- Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering - BioSolar Lab, Politecnico di Torino, Alessandria, Italy.
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Shevchenko G, Musunuri S, Wetterhall M, Bergquist J. Comparison of Extraction Methods for the Comprehensive Analysis of Mouse Brain Proteome using Shotgun-based Mass Spectrometry. J Proteome Res 2012; 11:2441-51. [DOI: 10.1021/pr201169q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Ganna Shevchenko
- Department of Physical
and Analytical Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Physical
and Analytical Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Physical
and Analytical Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Physical
and Analytical Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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Jacquot A, Montigny C, Hennrich H, Barry R, le Maire M, Jaxel C, Holthuis J, Champeil P, Lenoir G. Phosphatidylserine stimulation of Drs2p·Cdc50p lipid translocase dephosphorylation is controlled by phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate. J Biol Chem 2012; 287:13249-61. [PMID: 22351780 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m111.313916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Here, Drs2p, a yeast lipid translocase that belongs to the family of P(4)-type ATPases, was overexpressed in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae together with Cdc50p, its glycosylated partner, as a result of the design of a novel co-expression vector. The resulting high yield allowed us, using crude membranes or detergent-solubilized membranes, to measure the formation from [γ-(32)P]ATP of a (32)P-labeled transient phosphoenzyme at the catalytic site of Drs2p. Formation of this phosphoenzyme could be detected only if Cdc50p was co-expressed with Drs2p but was not dependent on full glycosylation of Cdc50p. It was inhibited by orthovanadate and fluoride compounds. In crude membranes, the phosphoenzyme formed at steady state at 4 °C displayed ADP-insensitive but temperature-sensitive decay. Solubilizing concentrations of dodecyl maltoside left this decay rate almost unaltered, whereas several other detergents accelerated it. Unexpectedly, the dephosphorylation rate for the solubilized Drs2p·Cdc50p complex was inhibited by the addition of phosphatidylserine. Phosphatidylserine exerted its anticipated accelerating effect on the dephosphorylation of Drs2p·Cdc50p complex only in the additional presence of phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate. These results explain why phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate tightly controls Drs2p-catalyzed lipid transport and establish the functional relevance of the Drs2p·Cdc50p complex overexpressed here.
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- Aurore Jacquot
- UMR 8221 (Systèmes Membranaires, Photobiologie, Stress et Détoxication), CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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The sarcoplasmic (SERCA 1a) Ca2+-ATPase is a membrane protein abundantly present in skeletal muscles where it functions as an indispensable component of the excitation-contraction coupling, being at the expense of ATP hydrolysis involved in Ca2+/H+ exchange with a high thermodynamic efficiency across the sarcoplasmic reticulum membrane. The transporter serves as a prototype of a whole family of cation transporters, the P-type ATPases, which in addition to Ca2+ transporting proteins count Na+, K+-ATPase and H+, K+-, proton- and heavy metal transporting ATPases as prominent members. The ability in recent years to produce and analyze at atomic (2·3-3 Å) resolution 3D-crystals of Ca2+-transport intermediates of SERCA 1a has meant a breakthrough in our understanding of the structural aspects of the transport mechanism. We describe here the detailed construction of the ATPase in terms of one membraneous and three cytosolic domains held together by a central core that mediates coupling between Ca2+-transport and ATP hydrolysis. During turnover, the pump is present in two different conformational states, E1 and E2, with a preference for the binding of Ca2+ and H+, respectively. We discuss how phosphorylated and non-phosphorylated forms of these conformational states with cytosolic, occluded or luminally exposed cation-binding sites are able to convert the chemical energy derived from ATP hydrolysis into an electrochemical gradient of Ca2+ across the sarcoplasmic reticulum membrane. In conjunction with these basic reactions which serve as a structural framework for the transport function of other P-type ATPases as well, we also review the role of the lipid phase and the regulatory and thermodynamic aspects of the transport mechanism.
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Infed N, Hanekop N, Driessen AJM, Smits SHJ, Schmitt L. Influence of detergents on the activity of the ABC transporter LmrA. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2011; 1808:2313-21. [PMID: 21651889 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2011.05.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2011] [Revised: 05/20/2011] [Accepted: 05/20/2011] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The ABC transporter LmrA from Lactococcus lactis has been intensively studied and a role in multidrug resistance was proposed. Here, we performed a comprehensive detergent screen to analyze the impact of detergents for a successful solubilization, purification and retention of functional properties of this ABC transporter. Our screen revealed the preference of LmrA for zwitterionic detergents. In detergent solution, LmrA purified with FC-16 was highly active with respect to ATPase activity, which could be stimulated by a substrate (rhodamine 123) of LmrA. Both, high ATPase activity and substrate stimulation were not detected for LmrA solubilized in DDM. Interestingly, reconstituted LmrA showed an opposite behavior, with a high basal ATPase activity and stimulation by rhodamine 123 for a DDM-reconstituted, but only low ATPase activity and no substrate stimulation for a FC-16 reconstituted sample.
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- Nacera Infed
- Institute of Biochemistry, Universitaetstr 1; Heinrich-Heine-University, 40225 Duesseldorf, Germany
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Time evolution of the thermotropic behavior of spontaneous liposomes and disks of the DMPC–DTAC aqueous system. J Colloid Interface Sci 2010; 351:156-65. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2010.06.061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2010] [Revised: 06/25/2010] [Accepted: 06/29/2010] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Yeo KJ, Kim HY, Kim YP, Hwang E, Kim MH, Cheong C, Choe S, Jeon YH. Rapid exploration of the folding topology of helical membrane proteins using paramagnetic perturbation. Protein Sci 2010; 19:2409-17. [PMID: 20945360 DOI: 10.1002/pro.521] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2010] [Revised: 09/13/2010] [Accepted: 09/19/2010] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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An understanding of the folding states of α-helical membrane proteins in detergent systems is important for functional and structural studies of these proteins. Here, we present a rapid and simple method for identification of the folding topology and assembly of transmembrane helices using paramagnetic perturbation in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. By monitoring the perturbation of signals from glycine residues located at specific sites, the folding topology and the assembly of transmembrane helices of membrane proteins were easily identified without time-consuming backbone assignment. This method is validated with Mistic (membrane-integrating sequence for translation of integral membrane protein constructs) of known structure as a reference protein. The folding topologies of two bacterial histidine kinase membrane proteins (SCO3062 and YbdK) were investigated by this method in dodecyl phosphocholine (DPC) micelles. Combing with analytical ultracentrifugation, we identified that the transmembrane domain of YbdK is present as a parallel dimer in DPC micelle. In contrast, the interaction of transmembrane domain of SCO3062 is not maintained in DPC micelle due to disruption of native structure of the periplasmic domain by DPC micelle.
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- Kwon Joo Yeo
- Division of Magnetic Resonance, Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI), Yangcheong-Ri, Ochang, Chungbuk 363-883, Korea
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Cardi D, Pozza A, Arnou B, Marchal E, Clausen JD, Andersen JP, Krishna S, Møller JV, le Maire M, Jaxel C. Purified E255L mutant SERCA1a and purified PfATP6 are sensitive to SERCA-type inhibitors but insensitive to artemisinins. J Biol Chem 2010; 285:26406-16. [PMID: 20530490 PMCID: PMC2924071 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m109.090340] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The antimalarial drugs artemisinins have been described as inhibiting Ca(2+)-ATPase activity of PfATP6 (Plasmodium falciparum ATP6) after expression in Xenopus oocytes. Mutation of an amino acid residue in mammalian SERCA1 (Glu(255)) to the equivalent one predicted in PfATP6 (Leu) was reported to induce sensitivity to artemisinin in the oocyte system. However, in the present experiments, we found that artemisinin did not inhibit mammalian SERCA1a E255L either when expressed in COS cells or after purification of the mutant expressed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Moreover, we found that PfATP6 after expression and purification from S. cerevisiae was insensitive to artemisinin and significantly less sensitive to thapsigargin and 2,5-di(tert-butyl)-1,4-benzohydroquinone than rabbit SERCA1 but retained higher sensitivity to cyclopiazonic acid, another type of SERCA1 inhibitor. Although mammalian SERCA and purified PfATP6 appear to have different pharmacological profiles, their insensitivity to artemisinins suggests that the mechanism of action of this class of drugs on the calcium metabolism in the intact cell is complex and cannot be ascribed to direct inhibition of PfATP6. Furthermore, the successful purification of PfATP6 affords the opportunity to develop new antimalarials by screening for inhibitors against PfATP6.
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- Delphine Cardi
- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Institut de Biologie et de Technologies de Saclay, SB2SM, France
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Chae PS, Guzei IA, Gellman SH. Crystallographic characterization of N-oxide tripod amphiphiles. J Am Chem Soc 2010; 132:1953-9. [PMID: 20095541 PMCID: PMC3090072 DOI: 10.1021/ja9085148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Tripod amphiphiles are designed to promote the solubilization and stabilization of intrinsic membrane proteins in aqueous solution; facilitation of crystallization is a long-range goal. Membrane proteins are subjects of extensive interest because of their critical biological roles, but proteins of this type can be difficult to study because of their low solubility in water. The nonionic detergents that are typically used to achieve solubility can have the unintended effect of causing protein denaturation. Tripod amphiphiles differ from conventional detergents in that the lipophilic segment contains a branchpoint, and previous work has shown that this unusual amphiphilic architecture can be advantageous relative to traditional detergent structures. Here, we report the crystal structures of several tripod amphiphiles that contain an N-oxide hydrophilic group. The data suggest that tripods can adapt themselves to a nonpolar surface by altering the hydrophobic appendage that projects toward that surface and their overall orientation relative to that surface. Although it is not possible to draw firm conclusions regarding amphiphile association in solution from crystallographic data, trends observed among the packing patterns reported here suggest design strategies to be implemented in future studies.
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- Pil Seok Chae
- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706
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Alhamdani MSS, Schröder C, Werner J, Giese N, Bauer A, Hoheisel JD. Single-Step Procedure for the Isolation of Proteins at Near-Native Conditions from Mammalian Tissue for Proteomic Analysis on Antibody Microarrays. J Proteome Res 2010; 9:963-71. [DOI: 10.1021/pr900844q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Mohamed Saiel Saeed Alhamdani
- Division of Functional Genome Analysis, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany, and Department of General Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 110, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Functional Genome Analysis, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany, and Department of General Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 110, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Functional Genome Analysis, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany, and Department of General Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 110, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Functional Genome Analysis, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany, and Department of General Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 110, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Functional Genome Analysis, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany, and Department of General Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 110, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Functional Genome Analysis, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany, and Department of General Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 110, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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Amphipols and fluorinated surfactants: Two alternatives to detergents for studying membrane proteins in vitro. Methods Mol Biol 2010; 601:219-45. [PMID: 20099149 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60761-344-2_14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/08/2022]
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Handling integral membrane proteins in aqueous solutions traditionally relies on the use of detergents, which are surfactants capable of dispersing the components of biological membranes into mixed micelles. The dissociating character of detergents, however, most often causes solubilized membrane proteins to be unstable. This has prompted the development of alternative, less-aggressive surfactants designed to keep membrane proteins soluble, after they have been solubilized, under milder conditions. A short overview is presented of the structure, properties, and uses of two families of such surfactants: amphiphilic polymers ("amphipols") and fluorinated surfactants.
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Montigny C, Arnou B, Champeil P. Glycyl betaine is effective in slowing down the irreversible denaturation of a detergent-solubilized membrane protein, sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase (SERCA1a). Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2009; 391:1067-9. [PMID: 20004176 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2009.12.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2009] [Accepted: 12/04/2009] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Many membrane proteins become labile when they are solubilized by detergent. Here we show that the presence of high concentrations of glycyl betaine stabilizes one of these proteins, the sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+)-ATPase (SERCA1a), solubilized with nonionic detergents like n-dodecyl beta-d-maltopyranoside (DDM) or octaethylene glycol monododecyl ether (C(12)E(8)) which are commonly used for its purification or crystallization. Betaine at high concentrations might become useful as a stabilizing agent for detergent-solubilized membrane proteins, for instance during purification procedures or during the long periods of time required for crystallogenesis.
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- Cédric Montigny
- CNRS, URA 2096, Systèmes Membranaires, Photobiologie, Stress et Détoxication, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Breyton C, Gabel F, Abla M, Pierre Y, Lebaupain F, Durand G, Popot JL, Ebel C, Pucci B. Micellar and biochemical properties of (hemi)fluorinated surfactants are controlled by the size of the polar head. Biophys J 2009; 97:1077-86. [PMID: 19686655 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2009.05.053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2009] [Revised: 05/20/2009] [Accepted: 05/22/2009] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Surfactants with fluorinated and hemifluorinated alkyl chains have yielded encouraging results in terms of membrane protein stability; however, the molecules used hitherto have either been chemically heterogeneous or formed heterogeneous micelles. A new series of surfactants whose polar head size is modulated by the presence of one, two, or three glucose moieties has been synthesized. Analytical ultracentrifugation and small-angle neutron scattering show that fluorinated surfactants whose polar head bears a single glucosyl group form very large cylindrical micelles, whereas those with two or three glucose moieties form small, homogeneous, globular micelles. We studied the homogeneity and stability of the complexes formed between membrane proteins and these surfactants by using bacteriorhodopsin and cytochrome b(6)f as models. Homogeneous complexes were obtained only with surfactants that form homogeneous micelles. Surfactants bearing one or two glucose moieties were found to be stabilizing, whereas those with three moieties were destabilizing. Fluorinated and hemifluorinated surfactants with a two-glucose polar head thus appear to be very promising molecules for biochemical applications and structural studies. They were successfully used for cell-free synthesis of the ion channel MscL.
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- Cécile Breyton
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Unite Mixte de Recherche 7099, Paris, France.
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Structural and dynamic properties of juxta-membrane segments of caveolin-1 and caveolin-2 at the membrane interface. EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL: EBJ 2009; 39:307-25. [PMID: 19847421 DOI: 10.1007/s00249-009-0548-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2009] [Revised: 09/15/2009] [Accepted: 09/24/2009] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Caveolins (cav1-3) are essential membrane proteins found in caveolae. The caveolin scaffolding domain of cav-1 includes a short sequence containing a CRAC motif (V94TKYWFYR101) at its C-terminal end. To investigate the role of this motif in the caveolin-membrane interaction at the atomic level, we performed a detailed structural and dynamics characterization of a cav-1(V94-L102) nonapeptide encompassing this motif and including the first residue of cav-1 hydrophobic domain (L102), in dodecylmaltoside (DM) or dodecylphosphocholine (DPC) micelles, as membrane mimics. Cav-1(V94-L102) partitioned better in DPC and in DM/anionic lipid micelles than in DM micelles, as shown by fluorescence titration and CD. NMR data revealed that this peptide folded as an amphipathic helix located in the polar head group region of DPC micelles. The two tyrosine side-chains, flanked by arginine and lysine residues, are situated on one face of this helix, whereas the phenylalanine and tryptophan side-chains are located on the opposite face. Fluorescence studies showed significant Trp subnanosecond rotations, the presence of several rotamers, and a heterogeneous location within the water/micelle interface. NMR studies of the shorter cav-1(V94-R101) peptide and of the homologous sequence of cav-2(I79SKYVMYKF87) allowed the description of the effect of L102 and of the amino acid variations occurring in cav-2 on the structure and localization in DPC micelles. Based on the topological model of caveolins, our results suggest that the cav-1 and cav-2 nonapeptides studied form interfacial alpha-helix membrane anchors in which the K/RhhhYK/Rh motif, also found in cav-3, may play a significant role.
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le Maire M, Arnou B, Olesen C, Georgin D, Ebel C, Møller JV. Gel chromatography and analytical ultracentrifugation to determine the extent of detergent binding and aggregation, and Stokes radius of membrane proteins using sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase as an example. Nat Protoc 2009; 3:1782-95. [PMID: 18974737 DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2008.177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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For structural studies of integral membrane proteins, including their 3D crystallization, the judicious use of detergent for solubilization and purification is required. Detergent binding by the solubilized protein is an important parameter to determine the hydrodynamic properties in terms of size and aggregational (monomeric/oligo(proto)meric) state of the protein. Detergent binding can be measured by gel filtration chromatography under equilibrium conditions and after separation from mixed micelles of solubilized lipid and detergent. Using sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+)-ATPase as an example, we demonstrate in this protocol complete procedures for measurement of detergent binding using (i) radiolabeled n-dodecyl-beta-D-maltoside (DM) or (ii) from measurements of the increase in refractive index due to the presence of bound detergent on the protein. The latter measurement can also be performed by sedimentation velocity (SV) analysis in the analytical ultracentrifuge which in addition allows determination of the sedimentation coefficient. In combination with estimation of Stokes radius by gel filtration calibration, the molecular mass and asymmetry of the solubilized protein can be calculated. In the proposed protocols, the gel chromatographic procedures require 1 d; SV experiments are performed just after size exclusion. The whole time for these experiments is 24 h. Data analysis of analytical ultracentrifugation requires a couple of days.
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- Marc le Maire
- CEA, Institut de Biologie et Technologies de Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
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Montigny C, Arnou B, Marchal E, Champeil P. Use of glycerol-containing media to study the intrinsic fluorescence properties of detergent-solubilized native or expressed SERCA1a. Biochemistry 2008; 47:12159-74. [PMID: 18947188 DOI: 10.1021/bi8006498] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Rapid irreversible inactivation of Ca (2+)-free states of detergent-solubilized SERCA1a (sarco-endoplasmic reticulum calcium ATPase 1a) has so far prevented the use of Trp fluorescence for functional characterization of this ATPase after its solubilization in various detergents. Here we show that using 20-40% glycerol for protection makes this fluorescence characterization possible. Most of the ligand-induced Trp fluorescence changes previously demonstrated to occur for SERCA1a embedded in native sarcoplasmic reticulum membranes were observed in the combined presence of glycerol and detergent, although the results greatly depended on the detergent used, namely, octaethylene glycol mono- n-dodecyl ether (C 12E 8) or dodecyl maltoside (DDM). In particular, at pH 6, we found a C 12E 8-dependent unexpectedly huge reduction in SERCA1a affinity for Ca (2+). We suggest that a major reason for the different effects of the two detergents is that high concentrations of C 12E 8, but not of DDM, slow down the E2 to E1 transition in solubilized and delipidated SERCA1a. Independently of the characterization of the specific effects of various detergents on SR vesicles, our results open the way to functional characterization by Trp fluorescence of heterologously expressed and purified mutants of SERCA1a in the presence of detergent, without their preliminary reconstitution into liposomes. As an example, we used the E309Q mutant to demonstrate our previous suspicion that Ca (2+) binding to Site I of SERCA1a in fact slightly reduces Trp fluorescence, and consequently that the rise in this fluorescence generally observed when two Ca (2+) ions bind to WT SERCA1a mainly reflects Ca (2+) binding at Site II of SERCA1a.
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- Cédric Montigny
- CNRS, URA 2096, Systemes membranaires, photobiologie, stress et detoxication, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Salvay AG, Santamaria M, le Maire M, Ebel C. Analytical ultracentrifugation sedimentation velocity for the characterization of detergent-solubilized membrane proteins Ca++-ATPase and ExbB. J Biol Phys 2008; 33:399-419. [PMID: 19669527 DOI: 10.1007/s10867-008-9058-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2007] [Accepted: 01/28/2008] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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We have investigated the potential of new methods of analysis of sedimentation velocity (SV) analytical ultracentrifugation (AUC) for the characterization of detergent-solubilized membrane proteins. We analyze the membrane proteins Ca(++)-ATPase and ExbB solubilized with DDM (dodecyl-beta-D: -maltoside). SV is extremely well suited for characterizing sample heterogeneity. DDM micelles (s(20w) = 3.1 S) and complexes (Ca(++)-ATPase: s(20w) = 7.3 S; ExbB: s(20w) = 4 S) are easily distinguished. Using different detergent and protein concentrations, SV does not detect any evidence of self-association for the two proteins. An estimate of bound detergent of 0.9 g/g for Ca(++)-ATPase and 1.5 g/g for ExbB is obtained from the combined analysis of SV profiles obtained using absorbance and interference optics. Combining s(20w) with values of the hydrodynamic radius, R(s) = 5.5 nm for Ca(++)-ATPase or R(s) = 3.4 nm for ExbB, allows the determination of buoyant molar masses, M(b). In view of their M(b) and composition, Ca(++)-ATPase and ExbB are monomers in our experimental conditions. We conclude that one of the main advantages of SV versus other techniques is the possibility to ascertain the homogeneity of the samples and to focus on a given complex even in the presence of other impurities or aggregates. The relative rapidity of SV measurements also allows experiments on unstable samples.
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- Andrés G Salvay
- CNRS, IBS, Laboratoire de Biophysique Moléculaire, Grenoble 38027, France
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Montigny C, Picard M, Lenoir G, Gauron C, Toyoshima C, Champeil P. Inhibitors bound to Ca(2+)-free sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+)-ATPase lock its transmembrane region but not necessarily its cytosolic region, revealing the flexibility of the loops connecting transmembrane and cytosolic domains. Biochemistry 2007; 46:15162-74. [PMID: 18052080 DOI: 10.1021/bi701855r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Ca2+-free crystals of sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase have, up until now, been obtained in the presence of inhibitors such as thapsigargin (TG), bound to the transmembrane region of this protein. Here, we examined the consequences of such binding for the protein. We found that, after TG binding, an active site ligand such as beryllium fluoride can still bind to the ATPase and change the conformation or dynamics of the cytosolic domains (as revealed by the protection afforded against proteolysis), but it becomes unable to induce any change in the transmembrane domain (as revealed by the intrinsic fluorescence of the membranous tryptophan residues). TG also obliterates the Trp fluorescence changes normally induced by binding of MgATP or metal-free ATP, as well as those induced by binding of Mg2+ alone. In the nucleotide binding domain, the environment of Lys515 (as revealed by fluorescein isothiocyanate fluorescence after specific labeling of this residue) is significantly different in the ATPase complex with aluminum fluoride and in the ATPase complex with beryllium fluoride, and in the latter case it is modified by TG. All these facts document the flexibility of the loops connecting the transmembrane and cytosolic domains in the ATPase. In the absence of active site ligands, TG protects the ATPase from cleavage by proteinase K at Thr242-Glu243, suggesting TG-induced reduction in the mobility of these loops. 2,5-Di-tert-butyl-1,4-dihydroxybenzene or cyclopiazonic acid, inhibitors which also bind in or near the transmembrane region, also produce similar overall effects on Ca2+-free ATPase.
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- Cédric Montigny
- CNRS, URA 2096 (Protéines Membranaires Transductrices d'Energie), F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Anna E Speers
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, P.O. Box 6511, MS 8303, Aurora, Colorado 80045, USA
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Le Maire M, Møller JV, Menguy T, Velours J, Champeil P. Protein–protein contacts in solubilized membrane proteins, as detected by cross-linking. Anal Biochem 2007; 362:168-71. [PMID: 17250795 DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2006.11.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2006] [Revised: 11/14/2006] [Accepted: 11/16/2006] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The amount of detergent required for the solubilization of membrane proteins needs to be optimised as an excess may cause loss of activity and insufficiency may result in poor solubilization or heterogeneous samples. With sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ -ATPase as an example we show by cross-linking that it can be misleading to choose the proper amount of detergent based on clarification of membrane suspensions, because clarification -as detected by turbidity measurements, for instance- precedes full protein solubilization as monomers. We demonstrate that to assess the extent of sample homogeneity at a given detergent/protein ratio, cross-linking followed by HPLC gel filtration in detergent usefully complements cross-linking followed by SDS-PAGE.
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- Marc Le Maire
- CEA, DSV, DBJC, SBFM, LRA17V, Université Paris-Sud, and CNRS, URA 2096, CEA Saclay, Gif sur Yvette F-91191, France.
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