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Butterfoss GL, DeRose EF, Gabel SA, Perera L, Krahn JM, Mueller GA, Zheng X, London RE. Conformational dependence of 13C shielding and coupling constants for methionine methyl groups. JOURNAL OF BIOMOLECULAR NMR 2010; 48:31-47. [PMID: 20734113 PMCID: PMC5598763 DOI: 10.1007/s10858-010-9436-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2010] [Accepted: 07/13/2010] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Methionine residues fulfill a broad range of roles in protein function related to conformational plasticity, ligand binding, and sensing/mediating the effects of oxidative stress. A high degree of internal mobility, intrinsic detection sensitivity of the methyl group, and low copy number have made methionine labeling a popular approach for NMR investigation of selectively labeled protein macromolecules. However, selective labeling approaches are subject to more limited information content. In order to optimize the information available from such studies, we have performed DFT calculations on model systems to evaluate the conformational dependence of (3)J (CSCC), (3)J (CSCH), and the isotropic shielding, sigma(iso). Results have been compared with experimental data reported in the literature, as well as data obtained on [methyl-(13)C]methionine and on model compounds. These studies indicate that relative to oxygen, the presence of the sulfur atom in the coupling pathway results in a significantly smaller coupling constant, (3)J (CSCC)/(3)J (COCC) approximately 0.7. It is further demonstrated that the (3)J (CSCH) coupling constant depends primarily on the subtended CSCH dihedral angle, and secondarily on the CSCC dihedral angle. Comparison of theoretical shielding calculations with the experimental shift range of the methyl group for methionine residues in proteins supports the conclusion that the intra-residue conformationally-dependent shift perturbation is the dominant determinant of delta(13)Cepsilon. Analysis of calmodulin data based on these calculations indicates that several residues adopt non-standard rotamers characterized by very large approximately 100 degrees chi(3) values. The utility of the delta(13)Cepsilon as a basis for estimating the gauche/trans ratio for chi(3) is evaluated, and physical and technical factors that limit the accuracy of both the NMR and crystallographic analyses are discussed.
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- Glenn L. Butterfoss
- The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and the Center for Genomics & Systems Biology, New York University, New York, NY 10003 USA
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- Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, 111 T. W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
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- Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, 111 T. W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
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- Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, 111 T. W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
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- Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, 111 T. W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
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- Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, 111 T. W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
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- Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, 111 T. W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
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- Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, 111 T. W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
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Harauz G, Ishiyama N, Hill CMD, Bates IR, Libich DS, Farès C. Myelin basic protein-diverse conformational states of an intrinsically unstructured protein and its roles in myelin assembly and multiple sclerosis. Micron 2004; 35:503-42. [PMID: 15219899 DOI: 10.1016/j.micron.2004.04.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 189] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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The 18.5 kDa isoform of myelin basic protein (MBP) is a major component of the myelin sheath in the central nervous system of higher vertebrates, and a member of a larger family of proteins with a multiplicity of forms and post-translational modifications (PTMs). The 18.5 kDa protein is the exemplar of the family, being most abundant in adult myelin, and thus the most-studied. It is peripherally membrane-associated, but has generally been investigated in isolated form. MBP is an 'intrinsically unstructured' protein with a high proportion (approximately 75%) of random coil, but postulated to have core elements of beta-sheet and alpha-helix. We review here the properties of the MBP family, especially of the 18.5 kDa isoform, and discuss how its three-dimensional (3D) structure may be resolved by direct techniques available to us, viz., X-ray and electron crystallography, and solution and solid-state NMR spectrometry. In particular, we emphasise that creating an appropriate environment in which the protein can adopt a physiologically relevant fold is crucial to such endeavours. By solving the 3D structure of 18.5 kDa MBP and the effects of PTMs, we will attain a better understanding of myelin architecture, and of the molecular mechanisms that transpire in demyelinating diseases such as multiple sclerosis.
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- George Harauz
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Biophysics Interdepartmental Group, University of Guelph, Room 230, Axelrod Building, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, Ont., Canada N1G 2W1.
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is characterized by the active degradation of central nervous system myelin, a multilamellar membrane system that insulates nerve axons. MS arises from complex interactions between genetic, immunological, infective, and biochemical mechanisms. Although the circumstances of MS etiology remain hypothetical, one persistent theme involves immune system recognition of myelin-specific antigens derived from myelin basic protein, the most abundant extrinsic myelin membrane protein, and/or another equally suitable myelin protein or lipid. Knowledge of the biochemical and physical-chemical properties of myelin proteins, and lipids, particularly their composition, organization, structure, and accessibility with respect to the compacted myelin multilayers, thus becomes central to understanding how and why these antigens become selected during the development of MS. This article focuses on the current understanding of the molecular basis of MS as it may relate to the protein and lipid components of myelin, which dictate myelin morphology on the basis of protein-lipid and lipid-lipid interactions, and the relationship, if any, between the protein/lipid components and the destruction of myelin in pathological situations.
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- K A Williams
- Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Consideration of the evidence presented in this review leads to the following conclusions: (a) Isolated MBP in aqueous solution has little ordered secondary or tertiary structure. (b) In this state, the protein can associate with a wide range of hydrophobic and amphiphilic compounds, these interactions involving limited sections of the protein. (c) The strength of binding to bilayers and the accompanying conformational changes in the protein are greatest for systems containing acidic lipids, presumably because of the involvement of ionic interactions. (d) When bound to bilayers of acidic lipids, MBP will have substantially more ordered secondary structure than it manifests in aqueous solution, and it is likely to be oligomeric (possibly hexameric). (e) MBP does affect the organization of lipid aggregates. It influences strongly the separation of bilayers in multilayers of purified lipids, and at present this must be viewed as its prime role within myelin. The greatest impediment to our understanding of MBP is the lack of an assayable biological activity. In contrast to the situation with enzymes, for example, we have no functional test for changes in protein structure or changes accompanying interactions with other molecules. Current evidence suggests that the protein has a structural role within myelin and that its own three-dimensional structure is strongly dependent on the molecules with which it is associated. If this picture is correct, studies of the isolated protein or of the protein in reconstituted lipid systems may yield, at best, a rough guide to the structure within its biological environment. Further clarification of the structure and function of MBP may have to await development of more powerful techniques for studying proteins bound to large molecular aggregates, such as lipid bilayers. The paucity of generally applicable methods is reflected in the fact that even low resolution structures are known for only a handful of intrinsic membrane proteins, and even more limited information exists for proteins associated with membrane surfaces. However, the increasing use of a combination of electron microscopy and diffraction on two-dimensional arrays of proteins formed on lipid bilayers (Henderson et al., 1990) offers the hope that it may not be too long before it will be possible to study at moderate resolution the three-dimensional structure of MBP bound to a lipid membrane.
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- R Smith
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) and a number of related distinctive diseases are characterized by the active degradation of central nervous system (CNS) myelin, an axonal sheath comprised essentially of proteins and lipids. These demyelinating diseases appear to arise from complex interactions of genetic, immunological, infective, and biochemical mechanisms. While circumstances of MS etiology remain hypothetical, one persistent theme involves recognition by the immune system of myelin-specific antigens derived from myelin basic protein (MBP), the most abundant extrinsic myelin membrane protein, and/or another equally susceptible myelin protein or lipid component. Knowledge of the biochemical and physical-chemical properties of myelin proteins and lipids, particularly their composition, organization, structure, and accessibility with respect to the compacted myelin multilayers, thus becomes central to the understanding of how and why these antigens become selected during the development of MS. This review focuses on current understanding of the molecular basis underlying demyelinating disease as it may relate to the impact of the various protein and lipid components on myelin morphology; the precise molecular architecture of this membrane as dictated by protein-lipid and lipid-lipid interactions; and the relationship, if any, between the protein/lipid components and the destruction of myelin in pathological situations.
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- C M Deber
- Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Páli T, Ebert B, Horváth LI. ESR imaging of myelin basic protein induced vesicle aggregation. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1987; 904:346-52. [PMID: 2444261 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(87)90384-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Using a modulated magnetic field gradient technique, the conventional ESR spectrum of well-defined spatial sections and the one-dimensional-ESR image of the nitroxide centre line of spin-labeled stearic acid in phospholipid vesicles were recorded with a spatial resolution of 4.10(-5) m after pelleting the vesicles inside 1 mm (i.d.) sample capillaries in a slow centrifuge (2500 X g). The sedimentation characteristics of dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine and dimyristoylphosphatidylglycerol vesicles were quantitatively compared with particular reference to vesicle aggregation induced by myelin basic protein. Protein-induced changes in the effective molecular mass were determined from ESR images of sedimentation profiles. The present data lend further support to the notion that the primary target of myelin basic protein-lipid interaction is the acidic lipid pool of myelin.
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- T Páli
- Institute of Biophysics, Biological Research Center, Szeged, Hungary
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McElhaney RN. Differential scanning calorimetric studies of lipid-protein interactions in model membrane systems. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1986; 864:361-421. [PMID: 3539194 DOI: 10.1016/0304-4157(86)90004-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 137] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Interaction in vitro of nonepithelial intermediate filament proteins with total cellular lipids, individual phospholipids, and a phospholipid mixture. J Biol Chem 1986. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)67421-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Deber CM, Hughes DW, Fraser PE, Pawagi AB, Moscarello MA. Binding of human normal and multiple sclerosis-derived myelin basic protein to phospholipid vesicles: effects on membrane head group and bilayer regions. Arch Biochem Biophys 1986; 245:455-63. [PMID: 2420275 DOI: 10.1016/0003-9861(86)90237-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The detailed interaction of human myelin basic protein (MBP) with charged lipids may be critical in organizing the myelin sheath into its biologically functional structure. Carbon-13 and phosphorus-31 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy has been used to study this interaction by examining spectral consequences of additions of MBP to membrane preparations of the negatively charged lipid phosphatidylglycerol (PG). Lipid head group 13C and 31P linewidths were found to narrow upon addition of protein, while concomitant broadening was noted for bilayer carbon resonances. At intermediate MBP/PG ratios, two components in slow exchange on the NMR time scale (bulk PG and a protein-induced PG domain) were observed for the 13C resonance of the head group carbon atom adjacent to phosphate. These results, and other spectral evidence, suggested that head groups in free PG vesicles are motionally restricted by intermolecular interactions which are disrupted by competition with MBP Lys and Arg positively charged side chains. Titration of PG with the homopolypeptide poly-L-lysine produced comparable effects on PG 13C head group spectra, indicating that electrostatic attractions constitute the primary basis of the observed interactions. Vicinal and/or geminal 13C-31P coupling constants measured from the spectra of PG head group carbons were found to be essentially invariant for free PG in dimethyl sulfoxide solution, free PG vesicles, PG vesicles + MBP, and PG vesicles + poly-L-lysine. Comparison of the spectral effects induced in PG head group resonances by normal vs multiple sclerosis-derived MBP (MS-MBP) indicated that the MS-MBP is relatively less effective in converting PG to the protein-induced domain, a result which was attributed to increased protein self-aggregation arising from the reduced net positive character of the MS protein samples.
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Devaux PF, Seigneuret M. Specificity of lipid-protein interactions as determined by spectroscopic techniques. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1985; 822:63-125. [PMID: 2988624 DOI: 10.1016/0304-4157(85)90004-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 201] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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The induction of liposome aggregation by myelin basic protein. Neurochem Int 1985; 7:441-7. [DOI: 10.1016/0197-0186(85)90167-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/1984] [Accepted: 09/24/1984] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Surface accessibility of 13C-labeled lysine residues in membrane-bound myelin basic protein. J Biol Chem 1984. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)47206-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Stubbs CD, Smith AD. The modification of mammalian membrane polyunsaturated fatty acid composition in relation to membrane fluidity and function. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1984; 779:89-137. [PMID: 6229284 DOI: 10.1016/0304-4157(84)90005-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1223] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Lampe PD, Wei GJ, Nelsestuen GL. Stopped-flow studies of myelin basic protein association with phospholipid vesicles and subsequent vesicle aggregation. Biochemistry 1983; 22:1594-9. [PMID: 6189513 DOI: 10.1021/bi00276a011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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When mixed with vesicles containing acidic phospholipids, myelin basic protein causes vesicle aggregation. The kinetics of this vesicle cross-linking by myelin basic protein was investigated by using stopped-flow light scattering. The process was highly cooperative, requiring about 20 protein molecules per vesicle to produce a measurable aggregation rate and about 35 protein molecules per vesicle to produce the maximum rate. The maximum aggregation rate constant approached the theoretical vesicle-vesicle collisional rate constant. Vesicle aggregation was second order in vesicle concentration and was much slower than protein-vesicle interaction. The highest myelin basic protein concentration used here did not inhibit vesicle aggregation, indicating that vesicle cross-linking occurred through protein-protein interactions. In contrast, poly(L-lysine)-induced vesicle aggregation was easily inhibited by increasing peptide concentrations, indicating that it did cross-link vesicles as a peptide monomer. The myelin basic protein:vesicle stoichiometry required for aggregation and the low affinity for protein dimerization suggested that multiple protein cross-links were needed to form a stable aggregate. Stopped-flow fluorescence was used to estimate the kinetics of myelin basic protein-vesicle binding. The half-times obtained suggested a rate constant that approached the theoretical protein-vesicle collisional rate constant.
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Deber CM, Cheifetz S, Moscarello MA. Microheterogeneity of bovine myelin basic protein studied by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Biopolymers 1983; 22:377-80. [PMID: 6201203 DOI: 10.1002/bip.360220148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Lampe PD, Nelsestuen GL. Myelin basic protein-enhanced fusion of membranes. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1982; 693:320-5. [PMID: 6186278 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(82)90438-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Myelin basic protein caused rapid aggregation of vesicles containing acidic phospholipids. Aggregation could be reversed by trypsin digestion of the myelin basic protein. Aggregated vesicles containing gel phase phospholipids or vesicles containing greater than 15 mol% lysolecithin underwent fusion. The extent of fusion was measured by irreversible changes in the light-scattering intensities or diffusion coefficients of the vesicles. Fusion was also measured by the fluorescence quenching which occurred when vesicles containing a covalently bound fluorophore. N-4-nitrobenzo-2-oxa-1,3-diazole, were fused with vesicles containing the covalently bound spin label, 4,4-dimethyl-oxazolidine-N-oxyl. The kinetics of fusion were first order in phospholipid and had half-times of 0.5-5 min depending on lysolecithin composition. This protein-enhanced membrane fusion may provide a valuable model system for studying some types of biological membrane fusions.
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Smith R. 1H-nuclear magnetic resonance study of the association of the basic protein of central nervous system myelin with lysophosphatidylcholine. Biophys Chem 1982; 16:347-54. [PMID: 6186300 DOI: 10.1016/0301-4622(82)87038-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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High-resolution 270 MHZ 1H-nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy has been used to follow the interaction of myristoyllysophosphatidylcholine with bovine myelin basic protein. At lipid/protein ratios up to 30:1 it proved possible to follow changes in the spectra of both the protein and the lipid. Lysophosphatidylcholine induced several changes in the protein spectrum. Foremost amongst these changes were downfield shifts of histidine C2 protons, and upfield shifts and broadening of the phenylalanine aromatic proteins. Several other resonances assigned to nonpolar amino acid side chains also broadened. But even at a lipid/protein molar ratio of 30:1 the majority of the protein appeared to remain in a loosely coiled conformation. In the presence of the protein the lipid acyl chain peaks were moved upfield and broadened, whereas the resonances associated with the head-group protons were unaffected. These changes were consistent with partial immobilization of the acyl chain of lysophosphatidylcholine on binding to the basic protein, with hydrophobic interactions providing the predominant attraction between this lipid and the basic protein.
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Hughes DW, Stollery JG, Moscarello MA, Deber CM. Binding of myelin basic protein to phospholipid micelles. J Biol Chem 1982. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)34580-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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