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Mohammadnezhad G, Farrokhpour H, Görls H, Plass W. Tautomerism in carbohydrate-derived salicylidene schiff bases: Solution, solid-state, and theoretical investigations. J Mol Struct 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2020.129853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Ebrey T. Brighter than the sun: Rajni Govindjee at 80 and her fifty years in photobiology. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2015; 124:1-5. [PMID: 25739899 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-015-0106-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2014] [Accepted: 02/19/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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We celebrate distinguished photobiologist Rajni Govindjee for her pioneering research in photosynthesis and retinal proteins on the occasion of her 80th birthday.
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- Thomas Ebrey
- University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA,
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Kim TY, Moeller M, Winkler K, Kirchberg K, Alexiev U. Dissection of Environmental Changes at the Cytoplasmic Surface of Light-activated Bacteriorhodopsin and Visual Rhodopsin: Sequence of Spectrally Silent Steps. Photochem Photobiol 2009; 85:570-7. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.2008.00525.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Kong Y, Karplus M. The signaling pathway of rhodopsin. Structure 2007; 15:611-23. [PMID: 17502106 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2007.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2006] [Revised: 03/30/2007] [Accepted: 04/06/2007] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The signal-transduction mechanism of rhodopsin was studied by molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of the high-resolution, inactive structure in an explicit membrane environment. The simulations were employed to calculate equal-time correlations of the fluctuating interaction energy of residue pairs. The resulting interaction-correlation matrix was used to determine a network that couples retinal to the cytoplasmic interface, where transducin binds. Two highly conserved motifs, D(E)RY and NPxxY, were found to have strong interaction correlation with retinal. MD simulations with restraints on each transmembrane helix indicated that the major signal-transduction pathway involves the interdigitating side chains of helices VI and VII. The functional roles of specific residues were elucidated by the calculated effect of retinal isomerization from 11-cis to all-trans on the residue-residue interaction pattern. It is suggested that Glu134 may act as a "signal amplifier" and that Asp83 may introduce a threshold to prevent background noise from activating rhodopsin.
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- Yifei Kong
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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Vogel R, Sakmar TP, Sheves M, Siebert F. Coupling of Protonation Switches During Rhodopsin Activation†. Photochem Photobiol 2007; 83:286-92. [PMID: 17576345 DOI: 10.1562/2006-06-19-ir-937] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Recent studies of the activation mechanism of rhodopsin involving Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy and a combination of chromophore modifications and site-directed mutagenesis reveal an allosteric coupling between two protonation switches. In particular, the ring and the 9-methyl group of the all-trans retinal chromophore serve to couple two proton-dependent activation steps: proton uptake by a cytoplasmic network between transmembrane (TM) helices 3 and 6 around the conserved ERY (Glu-Arg-Tyr) motif and disruption of a salt bridge between the retinal protonated Schiff base (PSB) and a protein counterion in the TM core of the receptor. Retinal analogs lacking the ring or 9-methyl group are only partial agonists--the conformational equilibrium between inactive Meta I and active Meta II photoproduct states is shifted to Meta I. An artificial pigment was engineered, in which the ring of retinal was removed and the PSB salt bridge was weakened by fluorination of C14 of the retinal polyene. These modifications abolished allosteric coupling of the proton switches and resulted in a stabilized Meta I state with a deprotonated Schiff base (Meta I(SB)). This state had a partial Meta II-like conformation due to disruption of the PSB salt bridge, but still lacked the cytoplasmic proton uptake reaction characteristic of the final transition to Meta II. As activation of native rhodopsin is known to involve deprotonation of the retinal Schiff base prior to formation of Meta II, this Meta I(SB) state may serve as a model for the structural characterization of a key transient species in the activation pathway of a prototypical G protein-coupled receptor.
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- Reiner Vogel
- Arbeitsgruppe Biophysik, Institut für Molekulare Medizin und Zellforschung, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
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Interaction of chromophore, 11-cis-retinal, with amino acid residues of the visual pigment rhodopsin in the region of protonated Schiff base: A molecular dynamics study. Russ Chem Bull 2007. [DOI: 10.1007/s11172-007-0004-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Crouch RK, Kono M, Koutalos Y. A Tribute to Thomas Ebrey. Photochem Photobiol 2006. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.2006.tb09789.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Lüdeke S, Lórenz Fonfría VA, Siebert F, Vogel R. Time-resolved rapid-scan Fourier transform infrared difference spectroscopy on a noncyclic photosystem: rhodopsin photointermediates from Lumi to Meta II. Biopolymers 2006; 83:159-69. [PMID: 16721790 DOI: 10.1002/bip.20540] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The visual pigment rhodopsin has been extensively studied for the kinetics of its photointermediates by various spectroscopic methods. Unlike such archaeal retinal proteins as bacteriorhodopsin, visual rhodopsin does not thermally recover its dark state after photoexcitation, which precludes repeated excitation of a single sample and thereby complicates time-resolved experiments. Kinetic data on the late rhodopsin photointermediates have so far been available mainly from time-resolved ultraviolet (UV)-visible spectroscopy, but not from Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. The latter has the advantage of being informative of structural changes of both chromophore and protein, but does not allow the highly reproducible, automated sample exchange procedures available to UV-visible spectroscopy. Using rapid-scan FTIR difference spectroscopy, we obtained time-resolved data sets that were analyzed by a maximum entropy inverse Laplace-transform. Covering the time range from 8 ms to 15 s at temperatures of 0 and -7 degrees C, the transitions from the Lumi to the Meta I and from the Meta I to the Meta II photoproduct states could be resolved. In the transition from Meta I to Meta II, our data reveal a partial deprotonation of the retinal Schiff base preceding the conformational change of the receptor protein to Meta II. The technique and the results are discussed in regard to its advantages as well as its limitations.
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- Steffen Lüdeke
- Arbeitsgruppe Biophysik, Institut für Molekulare Medizin und Zellforschung, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Str. 9, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Vogel R, Siebert F, Yan ECY, Sakmar TP, Hirshfeld A, Sheves M. Modulating Rhodopsin Receptor Activation by Altering the pKa of the Retinal Schiff Base. J Am Chem Soc 2006; 128:10503-12. [PMID: 16895417 DOI: 10.1021/ja0627848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The visual pigment rhodopsin is a seven-transmembrane (7-TM) G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR). Activation of rhodopsin involves two pH-dependent steps: proton uptake at a conserved cytoplasmic motif between TM helices 3 and 6, and disruption of a salt bridge between a protonated Schiff base (PSB) and its carboxylate counterion in the transmembrane core of the receptor. Formation of an artificial pigment with a retinal chromophore fluorinated at C14 decreases the intrinsic pKa of the PSB and thereby destabilizes this salt bridge. Using Fourier transform infrared difference and UV-visible spectroscopy, we characterized the pH-dependent equilibrium between the active photoproduct Meta II and its inactive precursor, Meta I, in the 14-fluoro (14-F) analogue pigment. The 14-F chromophore decreases the enthalpy change of the Meta I-to-Meta II transition and shifts the Meta I/Meta II equilibrium toward Meta II. Combining C14 fluorination with deletion of the retinal beta-ionone ring to form a 14-F acyclic artificial pigment uncouples disruption of the Schiff base salt bridge from transition to Meta II and in particular from the cytoplasmic proton uptake reaction, as confirmed by combining the 14-F acyclic chromophore with the E134Q mutant. The 14-F acyclic analogue formed a stable Meta I state with a deprotonated Schiff base and an at least partially protonated protein counterion. The combination of retinal modification and site-directed mutagenesis reveals that disruption of the protonated Schiff base salt bridge is the most important step thermodynamically in the transition from Meta I to Meta II. This finding is particularly important since deprotonation of the retinal PSB is known to precede the transition to the active state in rhodopsin activation and is consistent with models of agonist-dependent activation of other GPCRs.
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- Reiner Vogel
- Arbeitsgruppe Biophysik, Institut für Molekulare Medizin und Zellforschung, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Strasse 9, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Niv MY, Skrabanek L, Filizola M, Weinstein H. Modeling activated states of GPCRs: the rhodopsin template. J Comput Aided Mol Des 2006; 20:437-48. [PMID: 17103019 PMCID: PMC4030242 DOI: 10.1007/s10822-006-9061-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2006] [Accepted: 07/27/2006] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Activation of G Protein-Coupled Receptors (GPCRs) is an allosteric mechanism triggered by ligand binding and resulting in conformational changes transduced by the transmembrane domain. Models of the activated forms of GPCRs have become increasingly necessary for the development of a clear understanding of signal propagation into the cell. Experimental evidence points to a multiplicity of conformations related to the activation of the receptor, rendered important physiologically by the suggestion that different conformations may be responsible for coupling to different signaling pathways. In contrast to the inactive state of rhodopsin (RHO) for which several high quality X-ray structures are available, the structure-related information for the active states of rhodopsin and all other GPCRs is indirect. We have collected and stored such information in a repository we maintain for activation-specific structural data available for rhodopsin-like GPCRs, http://www.physiology.med.cornell.edu/GPCRactivation/gpcrindex.html . Using these data as structural constraints, we have applied Simulated Annealing Molecular Dynamics to construct a number of different active state models of RHO starting from the known inactive structure. The common features of the models indicate that TM3 and TM5 play an important role in activation, in addition to the well-established rearrangement of TM6. Some of the structural changes observed in these models occur in regions that were not involved in the constraints, and have not been previously tested experimentally; they emerge as interesting candidates for further experimental exploration of the conformational space of activated GPCRs. We show that none of the normal modes calculated from the inactive structure has a dominant contribution along the path of conformational rearrangement from inactive to the active forms of RHO in the models. This result may differentiate rhodopsin from other GPCRs, and the reasons for this difference are discussed in the context of the structural properties and the physiological function of the protein.
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- Masha Y Niv
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, 1300 York Ave., New York, NY 10021, USA
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Lewis JW, Szundi I, Kazmi MA, Sakmar TP, Kliger DS. Proton movement and photointermediate kinetics in rhodopsin mutants. Biochemistry 2006; 45:5430-9. [PMID: 16634624 PMCID: PMC2527178 DOI: 10.1021/bi0525775] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The role of ionizable amino acid side chains in the bovine rhodopsin activation mechanism was studied in mutants E134Q, E134R/R135E, H211F, and E122Q. All mutants exhibited bathorhodopsin stability on the 30 ns to 1 micros time scale similar to that of the wild type. Lumirhodopsin decay was also similar to that of the wild type except for the H211F mutant where early decay (20 micros) to a second form of lumirhodopsin was seen, followed by formation of an extremely long-lived Meta I(480) product (34 ms), an intermediate which forms to a much reduced extent, if at all, in dodecyl maltoside suspensions of wild-type rhodopsin. A smaller amount of a similar long-lived Meta I(480) product was seen after photolysis of E122Q, but E134Q and E134R/R135Q displayed kinetics much more similar to those of the wild type under these conditions (i.e., no Meta I(480) product). These results support the idea that specific interaction of His211 and Glu122 plays a significant role in deprotonation of the retinylidene Schiff base and receptor activation. Proton uptake measurements using bromcresol purple showed that E122Q was qualitatively similar to wild-type rhodopsin, with at least one proton being released during lumirhodopsin decay per Meta I(380) intermediate formed, followed by uptake of at least two protons per rhodopsin bleached on a time scale of tens of milliseconds. Different results were obtained for H211F, E134Q, and E134R/R135E, which all released approximately two protons per rhodopsin bleached. These results show that several ionizable groups besides the Schiff base imine are affected by the structural changes involved in rhodopsin activation. At least two proton uptake groups and probably at least one proton release group in addition to the Schiff base are present in rhodopsin.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, Telephone: (831) 459-2106, FAX: (831) 459-4136,
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Crouch RK, Kono M, Koutalos Y. A Tribute to Thomas Ebrey. Photochem Photobiol 2006. [DOI: 10.1562/2006-09-15-ra-1042.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Borucki B. Proton transfer in the photoreceptors phytochrome and photoactive yellow protein. Photochem Photobiol Sci 2006; 5:553-66. [PMID: 16761084 DOI: 10.1039/b603846h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Light-induced activation of the photoreceptors phytochrome and photoactive yellow protein (PYP) is accompanied by protonation changes of the respective chromophores and key residues in the protein moiety. For both systems, proton exchange with the external medium could be observed with pH electrode measurements and with UV-visible absorption spectroscopy using appropriate pH indicator dyes. From these signals, the stoichiometry of proton release and uptake, respectively, was determined by different calibration procedures which will be presented and discussed. Kinetic information on these processes is only available from time-resolved measurements with pH indicator dyes. Vibrational spectroscopy methods such as Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and resonance Raman scattering provided information on the protonation state of individual functional groups suggesting that internal proton transfer processes are involved as well. Deuterium kinetic isotope effects that occurred in the Pr --> Pfr phototransformation of the bacteriophytochromes Cph1 and Agp1 were consistent with proton transfer reactions as rate-limiting steps. In contrast, the apparent rate constants in the photocycle of PYP exhibited only small kinetic isotope effects that could not be interpreted conclusively. Possible mechanisms of proton transfer in the activation of phytochrome and PYP will be discussed.
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- Berthold Borucki
- Biophysics Group, Department of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 14, D-14195 Berlin, Germany.
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Saam J, Tajkhorshid E, Hayashi S, Schulten K. Molecular dynamics investigation of primary photoinduced events in the activation of rhodopsin. Biophys J 2002; 83:3097-112. [PMID: 12496081 PMCID: PMC1302389 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(02)75314-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 154] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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Retinal cis-trans isomerization and early relaxation steps have been studied in a 10-ns molecular dynamics simulation of a fully hydrated model of membrane-embedded rhodopsin. The isomerization, induced by transiently switching the potential energy function governing the C(11)==C(12) dihedral angle of retinal, completes within 150 fs and yields a strongly distorted retinal. The most significant conformational changes in the binding pocket are straightening of retinal's polyene chain and separation of its beta-ionone ring from Trp-265. In the following 500 ps, transition of 6s-cis to 6s-trans retinal and dramatic changes in the hydrogen bonding network of the binding pocket involving the counterion for the protonated Schiff base, Glu-113, occur. Furthermore, the energy initially stored internally in the distorted retinal is transformed into nonbonding interactions of retinal with its environment. During the following 10 ns, increased mobilities of some parts of the protein, such as the kinked regions of the helices, mainly helix VI, and the intracellular loop I2, were observed, as well as transient structural changes involving the conserved salt bridge between Glu-134 and Arg-135. These features prepare the protein for major structural transformations achieved later in the photocycle. Retinal's motion, in particular, can be compared to an opening turnstile freeing the way for the proposed rotation of helix VI. This was demonstrated by a steered molecular dynamics simulation in which an applied torque enforced the rotation of helix VI.
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- Jan Saam
- Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 405 N. Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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