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Warschawski DE, Lakshmi KV, Marcotte I. Foreword to: Biophysical studies of membrane systems and interactions - Commemorative issue in honour of Professor Michèle Auger. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2021; 1863:183609. [PMID: 33794169 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2021.183609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2021] [Accepted: 03/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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- Dror E Warschawski
- Laboratoire des Biomolécules, LBM, CNRS UMR 7203, Sorbonne Université, École normale supérieure, PSL University, 75005 Paris, France
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and The Baruch '60 Center for Biochemical Solar Energy Research, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Université du Québec à Montréal, P.O. Box 8888, Downtown Station, H3C 3P8 Montreal, Canada.
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Akutsu H. Structure and dynamics of phospholipids in membranes elucidated by combined use of NMR and vibrational spectroscopies. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2020; 1862:183352. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2020.183352] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2019] [Revised: 05/04/2020] [Accepted: 05/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Fillion M, Goudreault M, Voyer N, Bechinger B, Auger M. Amphiphilicity Is a Key Determinant in the Membrane Interactions of Synthetic 14-mer Cationic Peptide Analogues. Biochemistry 2016; 55:6919-6930. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.6b00961] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, UMR7177, Institut de
Chimie, 4, Rue Blaise
Pascal, 67070 Strasbourg, France
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Fillion M, Auger M. Oriented samples: a tool for determining the membrane topology and the mechanism of action of cationic antimicrobial peptides by solid-state NMR. Biophys Rev 2015; 7:311-320. [PMID: 28510228 PMCID: PMC5425733 DOI: 10.1007/s12551-015-0167-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2015] [Accepted: 02/05/2015] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Overuse and misuse of antibiotics have led bacteria to acquire several mechanisms of resistance. In response to this, researchers have identified natural antimicrobial peptides as promising candidates to fight against multiresistant bacteria. However, their mode of action is still unclear, and a better understanding of the mode of action of these peptides is of primary importance to develop new peptides displaying high antibacterial activity and low hemolytic activity. One of the main features that defines the mechanism of action is the membrane topology of the peptide. Among the spectroscopic techniques, solid-state NMR is the technique of choice for determining the location of the peptide within the membrane. It can be achieved by performing experiments with oriented samples. In the literature, the two most common types of oriented samples are bicelles and phospholipids mechanically oriented between glass plates. The mode of perturbation of the membrane-active peptide can be studied by phosphorus-31 and deuterium NMR. On the other hand, several experiments such as nitrogen-15 and fluorine solid-state NMR, that require labeled peptides, can give valuable information on the membrane topology of the peptide. The combination of the latter techniques allows the determination of a precise topology, thus a better knowledge of the molecular determinants involved in the membrane interactions of antimicrobial peptides.
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- Matthieu Fillion
- Department of Chemistry, Regroupement québécois de recherche sur la fonction, la structure et l'ingénierie des protéines (PROTEO), Centre de recherche sur les matériaux avancés (CERMA), Centre québécois sur les matériaux fonctionnels (CQMF), Université Laval, Québec, QC, G1V 0A6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Regroupement québécois de recherche sur la fonction, la structure et l'ingénierie des protéines (PROTEO), Centre de recherche sur les matériaux avancés (CERMA), Centre québécois sur les matériaux fonctionnels (CQMF), Université Laval, Québec, QC, G1V 0A6, Canada.
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Misiewicz J, Afonin S, Grage SL, van den Berg J, Strandberg E, Wadhwani P, Ulrich AS. Action of the multifunctional peptide BP100 on native biomembranes examined by solid-state NMR. JOURNAL OF BIOMOLECULAR NMR 2015; 61:287-98. [PMID: 25616492 DOI: 10.1007/s10858-015-9897-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2014] [Accepted: 01/10/2015] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Membrane composition is a key factor that regulates the destructive activity of antimicrobial peptides and the non-leaky permeation of cell penetrating peptides in vivo. Hence, the choice of model membrane is a crucial aspect in NMR studies and should reflect the biological situation as closely as possible. Here, we explore the structure and dynamics of the short multifunctional peptide BP100 using a multinuclear solid-state NMR approach. The membrane alignment and mobility of this 11 amino acid peptide was studied in various synthetic lipid bilayers with different net charge, fluidity, and thickness, as well as in native biomembranes harvested from prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. (19)F-NMR provided the high sensitivity and lack of natural abundance background that are necessary to observe a labelled peptide even in protoplast membranes from Micrococcus luteus and in erythrocyte ghosts. Six selectively (19)F-labeled BP100 analogues gave remarkably similar spectra in all of the macroscopically oriented membrane systems, which were studied under quasi-native conditions of ambient temperature and full hydration. This similarity suggests that BP100 has the same surface-bound helical structure and high mobility in the different biomembranes and model membranes alike, independent of charge, thickness or cholesterol content of the system. (31)P-NMR spectra of the phospholipid components did not indicate any bilayer perturbation, so the formation of toroidal wormholes or micellarization can be excluded as a mechanism of its antimicrobial or cell penetrating action. However, (2)H-NMR analysis of the acyl chain order parameter profiles showed that BP100 leads to considerable membrane thinning and thereby local destabilization.
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- Julia Misiewicz
- Institute of Organic Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Fritz-Haber-Weg 6, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany
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Kemayo Koumkoua P, Aisenbrey C, Salnikov E, Rifi O, Bechinger B. On the design of supramolecular assemblies made of peptides and lipid bilayers. J Pept Sci 2014; 20:526-36. [PMID: 24909405 DOI: 10.1002/psc.2656] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2014] [Revised: 04/29/2014] [Accepted: 04/29/2014] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Peptides confer interesting properties to materials, supramolecular assemblies and to lipid membranes and are used in analytical devices or within delivery vehicles. Their relative ease of production combined with a high degree of versatility make them attractive candidates to design new such products. Here, we review and demonstrate how CD- and solid-state NMR spectroscopic approaches can be used to follow the reconstitution of peptides into membranes and to describe some of their fundamental characteristics. Whereas CD spectroscopy is used to monitor secondary structure in different solvent systems and thereby aggregation properties of the highly hydrophobic domain of p24, a protein involved in vesicle trafficking, solid-state NMR spectroscopy was used to deduce structural information and the membrane topology of a variety of peptide sequences found in nature or designed. (15)N chemical shift solid-state NMR spectroscopy indicates that the hydrophobic domain of p24 as well as a designed sequence of 19 hydrophobic amino acid residues adopt transmembrane alignments in phosphatidylcholine membranes. In contrast, the amphipathic antimicrobial peptide magainin 2 and the designed sequence LK15 align parallel to the bilayer surface. Additional angular information is obtained from deuterium solid-state NMR spectra of peptide sites labelled with (2)H3-alanine, whereas (31)P and (2)H solid-state NMR spectra of the lipids furnish valuable information on the macroscopic order and phase properties of the lipid matrix. Using these approaches, peptides and reconstitution protocols can be elaborated in a rational manner, and the analysis of a great number of peptide sequences is reviewed. Finally, a number of polypeptides with membrane topologies that are sensitive to a variety of environmental conditions such as pH, lipid composition and peptide-to-lipid ratio will be presented.
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- Patricia Kemayo Koumkoua
- Université de Strasbourg / CNRS, UMR7177, Institut de Chimie, 1, rue Blaise Pascal, 67070, Strasbourg, France
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Fillion M, Noël M, Lorin A, Voyer N, Auger M. Investigation of the mechanism of action of novel amphipathic peptides: insights from solid-state NMR studies of oriented lipid bilayers. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2014; 1838:2173-9. [PMID: 24508758 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2014.01.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2013] [Revised: 01/26/2014] [Accepted: 01/29/2014] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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We have investigated in the present study the effect of both non-selective and selective cationic 14-mer peptides on the lipid orientation of DMPC bilayers by (31)P solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Depending on the position of substitution, these peptides adopt mainly either an α-helical structure able to permeabilize DMPC and DMPG vesicles (non-selective peptides) or an intermolecular β-sheet structure only able to permeabilize DMPG vesicles (selective peptides). Several systems have been investigated, namely bilayers mechanically oriented between glass plates as well as bicelles oriented with their normal perpendicular or parallel to the external magnetic field. The results have been compared with spectral simulations with the goal of elucidating the difference in the interaction of these two types of peptides with zwitterionic lipid bilayers. The results indicate that the perturbation induced by selective peptides is much greater than that induced by non-selective peptides in all the lipid systems investigated, and this perturbation has been associated to the aggregation of the selective β-sheet peptides in these systems. On the other hand, the oriented lipid spectra obtained in the presence of non-selective peptides suggest the presence of toroidal pores. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Interfacially Active Peptides and Proteins. Guest Editors: William C. Wimley and Kalina Hristova.
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- Matthieu Fillion
- Department of Chemistry, Regroupement québécois de recherche sur la fonction, la structure et l'ingénierie des protéines (PROTEO), Centre de recherche sur les matériaux avancés (CERMA), Centre québécois sur les matériaux fonctionnels (CQMF), Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Regroupement québécois de recherche sur la fonction, la structure et l'ingénierie des protéines (PROTEO), Centre de recherche sur les matériaux avancés (CERMA), Centre québécois sur les matériaux fonctionnels (CQMF), Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Regroupement québécois de recherche sur la fonction, la structure et l'ingénierie des protéines (PROTEO), Centre de recherche sur les matériaux avancés (CERMA), Centre québécois sur les matériaux fonctionnels (CQMF), Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, PROTEO, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Regroupement québécois de recherche sur la fonction, la structure et l'ingénierie des protéines (PROTEO), Centre de recherche sur les matériaux avancés (CERMA), Centre québécois sur les matériaux fonctionnels (CQMF), Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada.
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Sani MA, Weber DK, Delaglio F, Separovic F, Gehman JD. A practical implementation of de-Pake-ing via weighted Fourier transformation. PeerJ 2013; 1:e30. [PMID: 23638366 PMCID: PMC3628600 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.30] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2012] [Accepted: 01/15/2013] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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We provide an NMRPipe macro to meet an increasing need in membrane biophysics for facile de-Pake-ing of axially symmetric deuterium, and to an extent phosphorous, static lineshapes. The macro implements the development of McCabe & Wassall (1997), and is run as a simple replacement for the usual Fourier transform step in an NMRPipe processing procedure.
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- Marc-Antoine Sani
- School of Chemistry, Bio21 Institute , University of Melbourne , Australia
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Lorin A, Noël M, Provencher MÈ, Turcotte V, Cardinal S, Lagüe P, Voyer N, Auger M. Determining the mode of action involved in the antimicrobial activity of synthetic peptides: a solid-state NMR and FTIR study. Biophys J 2012; 103:1470-9. [PMID: 23062339 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2012.08.055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2012] [Revised: 08/20/2012] [Accepted: 08/28/2012] [Indexed: 10/27/2022] Open
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We have previously shown that leucine to lysine substitution(s) in neutral synthetic crown ether containing 14-mer peptide affect the peptide structure and its ability to permeabilize bilayers. Depending on the substitution position, the peptides adopt mainly either a α-helical structure able to permeabilize dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC) and dimyristoylphosphatidylglycerol (DMPG) vesicles (nonselective peptides) or an intermolecular β-sheet structure only able to permeabilize DMPG vesicles (selective peptides). In this study, we have used a combination of solid-state NMR and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy to investigate the effects of nonselective α-helical and selective intermolecular β-sheet peptides on both types of bilayers. (31)P NMR results indicate that both types of peptides interact with the headgroups of DMPC and DMPG bilayers. (2)H NMR and Fourier transform infrared results reveal an ordering of the hydrophobic core of bilayers when leakage is noted, i.e., for DMPG vesicles in the presence of both types of peptides and DMPC vesicles in the presence of nonselective peptides. However, selective peptides have no significant effect on the ordering of DMPC acyl chains. The ability of these 14-mer peptides to permeabilize lipid vesicles therefore appears to be related to their ability to increase the order of the bilayer hydrophobic core.
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- Aurélien Lorin
- Département de chimie, PROTEO (Regroupement Québécois de Recherche sur la Fonction, la Structure et l'Ingénierie des Protéines), CERMA (Centre de Recherche sur les Matériaux Avancés), Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada
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Bechinger B, Salnikov ES. The membrane interactions of antimicrobial peptides revealed by solid-state NMR spectroscopy. Chem Phys Lipids 2012; 165:282-301. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2012.01.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2011] [Revised: 01/25/2012] [Accepted: 01/27/2012] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Guimond-Tremblay J, Gagnon MC, Pineault-Maltais JA, Turcotte V, Auger M, Paquin JF. Synthesis and properties of monofluorinated dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine derivatives: Potential fluorinated probes for the study of membrane topology. Org Biomol Chem 2012; 10:1145-8. [DOI: 10.1039/c2ob06570c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Lorin A, Noël M, Provencher MÈ, Turcotte V, Masson C, Cardinal S, Lagüe P, Voyer N, Auger M. Revisiting peptide amphiphilicity for membrane pore formation. Biochemistry 2011; 50:9409-20. [PMID: 21942823 DOI: 10.1021/bi201335t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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It has previously been shown that an amphipathic de novo designed peptide made of 10 leucines and four phenylalanines substituted with crown ethers induces vesicle leakage without selectivity. To gain selectivity against negatively charged dimyristoylphosphatidylglycerol (DMPG) bilayers, one or two leucines of the peptide were substituted with positively charged residues at each position. All peptides induce significant calcein leakage of DMPG vesicles. However, some peptides do not induce significant leakage of zwitterionic dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine vesicles and are thus active against only bacterial model membranes. The intravesicular leakage is induced by pore formation instead of membrane micellization. Nonselective peptides are mostly helical, while selective peptides mainly adopt an intermolecular β-sheet structure. This study therefore demonstrates that the position of the lysine residues significantly influences the secondary structure and bilayer selectivity of an amphipathic 14-mer peptide, with β-sheet peptides being more selective than helical peptides.
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- Aurélien Lorin
- Département de chimie, Regroupement québécois de recherche sur la fonction, la structure et l'ingénierie des protéines, Centre de recherche sur les matériaux avancés, Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada G1V 0A6
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Importance of residue 13 and the C-terminus for the structure and activity of the antimicrobial peptide aurein 2.2. Biophys J 2011; 99:2926-35. [PMID: 21044590 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2010.08.077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2010] [Revised: 08/24/2010] [Accepted: 08/30/2010] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Previous studies on aurein 2.2 and 2.3 in DMPC/DMPG and POPC/POPG membranes have shown that bilayer thickness and phosphatidylglycerol content have a significant impact on the interaction of these peptides with membrane bilayers. Further examination with the DiSC(3)5 assay has indicated that aurein 2.2 induces greater membrane leakage than aurein 2.3 in Staphylococcus aureus C622. The only difference between these peptides is a Leu to Ile mutation at residue 13. To better understand the importance of this residue, the structure and activity of the L13A, L13F, and L13V mutants were investigated. In addition, we investigated a number of peptides with truncations at the C-terminus to determine whether the C-terminus, which contains residue 13, is crucial for antimicrobial activity. Solution circular dichroism results demonstrated that the L13F mutation and the truncation of the C-terminus by six residues resulted in decreased helical content, whereas the L13A or L13V mutation and the truncation of the C-terminus by three residues showed little to no effect on the structure. Oriented circular dichroism results demonstrated that only an extensive C-terminal truncation reduced the ability of the peptide to insert into lipid bilayers. (31)P NMR spectroscopy showed that all peptides disorder the headgroups. The implications of these results in terms of antimicrobial activity and the ability of these peptides to induce leakage in S. aureus are discussed. The results suggest that the presence of the 13th residue in aurein 2.2 is important for structure and activity, but the exact nature of residue 13 is less important as long as it is a hydrophobic residue.
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Cheng JTJ, Hale JD, Elliott M, Hancock REW, Straus SK. The importance of bacterial membrane composition in the structure and function of aurein 2.2 and selected variants. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2010; 1808:622-33. [PMID: 21144817 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2010.11.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2010] [Revised: 10/08/2010] [Accepted: 11/20/2010] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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For cationic antimicrobial peptides to become useful therapeutic agents, it is important to understand their mechanism of action. To obtain high resolution data, this involves studying the structure and membrane interaction of these peptides in tractable model bacterial membranes rather than directly utilizing more complex bacterial surfaces. A number of lipid mixtures have been used as bacterial mimetics, including a range of lipid headgroups, and different ratios of neutral to negatively charged headgroups. Here we examine how the structure and membrane interaction of aurein 2.2 and some of its variants depend on the choice of lipids, and how these models correlate with activity data in intact bacteria (MICs, membrane depolarization). Specifically, we investigated the structure and membrane interaction of aurein 2.2 and aurein 2.3 in 1:1 cardiolipin/1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phospho-(1'-rac-glycerol) (CL/POPG) (mol/mol), as an alternative to 1:1 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine(POPC)/POPG and a potential model for Gram positive bacteria such as S. aureus. The structure and membrane interaction of aurein 2.2, aurein 2.3, and five variants of aurein 2.2 were also investigated in 1:1 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine (POPE)/POPG (mol/mol) lipids as a possible model for other Gram positive bacteria, such as Bacillus cereus. Solution circular dichroism (CD) results demonstrated that the aurein peptides adopted α-helical structure in all lipid membranes examined, but demonstrated a greater helical content in the presence of POPE/POPG membranes. Oriented CD and ³¹P NMR results showed that the aurein peptides had similar membrane insertion profiles and headgroup disordering effects on POPC/POPG and CL/POPG bilayers, but demonstrated reduced membrane insertion and decreased headgroup disordering on mixing with POPE/POPG bilayers at low peptide concentrations. Since the aurein peptides behaved very differently in POPE/POPG membrane, minimal inhibitory concentrations (MICs) of the aurein peptides in B. cereus strain C737 were determined. The MIC results indicated that all aurein peptides are significantly less active against B. cereus than against S. aureus and S. epidermidis. Overall, the data suggest that it is important to use a relevant model for bacterial membranes to gain insight into the mode of action of a given antimicrobial peptide in specific bacteria.
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- John T J Cheng
- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T1Z1, Canada
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Bechinger B, Resende JM, Aisenbrey C. The structural and topological analysis of membrane-associated polypeptides by oriented solid-state NMR spectroscopy: established concepts and novel developments. Biophys Chem 2010; 153:115-25. [PMID: 21145159 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpc.2010.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2010] [Revised: 11/05/2010] [Accepted: 11/05/2010] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Solid-state NMR spectroscopy is a powerful technique for the investigation of membrane-associated peptides and proteins as well as their interactions with lipids, and a variety of conceptually different approaches have been developed for their study. The technique is unique in allowing for the high-resolution investigation of liquid disordered lipid bilayers representing well the characteristics of natural membranes. Whereas magic angle solid-state NMR spectroscopy follows approaches that are related to those developed for solution NMR spectroscopy the use of static uniaxially oriented samples results in angular constraints which also provide information for the detailed analysis of polypeptide structures. This review introduces this latter concept theoretically and provides a number of examples. Furthermore, ongoing developments combining solid-state NMR spectroscopy with information from solution NMR spectroscopy and molecular modelling as well as exploratory studies using dynamic nuclear polarization solid-state NMR will be presented.
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- Burkhard Bechinger
- Université de Strasbourg/CNRS, UMR7177, Institut de Chimie, 4 Rue Blaise Pascal, 67070 Strasbourg, France.
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Salnikov E, Aisenbrey C, Vidovic V, Bechinger B. Solid-state NMR approaches to measure topological equilibria and dynamics of membrane polypeptides. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2010; 1798:258-65. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2009.06.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2009] [Revised: 06/12/2009] [Accepted: 06/29/2009] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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McDermott A. Structure and dynamics of membrane proteins by magic angle spinning solid-state NMR. Annu Rev Biophys 2009; 38:385-403. [PMID: 19245337 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.050708.133719] [Citation(s) in RCA: 288] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Membrane proteins remain difficult to study by traditional methods. Magic angle spinning solid-state NMR (MAS SSNMR) methods present an important approach for studying membrane proteins of moderate size. Emerging MAS SSNMR methods are based on extensive assignments of the nuclei as a basis for structure determination and characterization of function. These methods have already been used to characterize fibrils and globular proteins and are being increasingly used to study membrane proteins embedded in lipids. This review highlights recent applications to intrinsic membrane proteins and summarizes recent technical advances that will enable these methods to be utilized for more complex membrane protein systems in the near future.
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- Ann McDermott
- Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.
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Verly RM, de Moraes CM, Resende JM, Aisenbrey C, Bemquerer MP, Piló-Veloso D, Valente AP, Almeida FCL, Bechinger B. Structure and membrane interactions of the antibiotic peptide dermadistinctin K by multidimensional solution and oriented 15N and 31P solid-state NMR spectroscopy. Biophys J 2009; 96:2194-203. [PMID: 19289046 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2008.11.063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2008] [Revised: 10/18/2008] [Accepted: 11/06/2008] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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DD K, a peptide first isolated from the skin secretion of the Phyllomedusa distincta frog, has been prepared by solid-phase chemical peptide synthesis and its conformation was studied in trifluoroethanol/water as well as in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate and dodecylphosphocholine micelles or small unilamellar vesicles. Multidimensional solution NMR spectroscopy indicates an alpha-helical conformation in membrane environments starting at residue 7 and extending to the C-terminal carboxyamide. Furthermore, DD K has been labeled with (15)N at a single alanine position that is located within the helical core region of the sequence. When reconstituted into oriented phosphatidylcholine membranes the resulting (15)N solid-state NMR spectrum shows a well-defined helix alignment parallel to the membrane surface in excellent agreement with the amphipathic character of DD K. Proton-decoupled (31)P solid-state NMR spectroscopy indicates that the peptide creates a high level of disorder at the level of the phospholipid headgroup suggesting that DD K partitions into the bilayer where it severely disrupts membrane packing.
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- Rodrigo M Verly
- Departamento de Química Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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