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Venselaar H, Joosten RP, Vroling B, Baakman CAB, Hekkelman ML, Krieger E, Vriend G. Homology modelling and spectroscopy, a never-ending love story. EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL : EBJ 2010; 39:551-63. [PMID: 19718498 PMCID: PMC2841279 DOI: 10.1007/s00249-009-0531-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2009] [Revised: 07/29/2009] [Accepted: 08/04/2009] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Homology modelling is normally the technique of choice when experimental structure data are not available but three-dimensional coordinates are needed, for example, to aid with detailed interpretation of results of spectroscopic studies. Herein, the state of the art of homology modelling will be described in the light of a series of recent developments, and an overview will be given of the problems and opportunities encountered in this field. The major topic, the accuracy and precision of homology models, will be discussed extensively due to its influence on the reliability of conclusions drawn from the combination of homology models and spectroscopic data. Three real-world examples will illustrate how both homology modelling and spectroscopy can be beneficial for (bio)medical research.
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- Hanka Venselaar
- Centre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics, CMBI, NCMLS 260, Radboud University Medical Centre, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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Coarse-grained MD simulations of membrane protein-bilayer self-assembly. Structure 2008; 16:621-30. [PMID: 18400182 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2008.01.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 179] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2007] [Revised: 01/02/2008] [Accepted: 01/07/2008] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Complete determination of a membrane protein structure requires knowledge of the protein position within the lipid bilayer. As the number of determined structures of membrane proteins increases so does the need for computational methods which predict their position in the lipid bilayer. Here we present a coarse-grained molecular dynamics approach to lipid bilayer self-assembly around membrane proteins. We demonstrate that this method can be used to predict accurately the protein position in the bilayer for membrane proteins with a range of different sizes and architectures.
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Lomize AL, Pogozheva ID, Lomize MA, Mosberg HI. Positioning of proteins in membranes: a computational approach. Protein Sci 2006; 15:1318-33. [PMID: 16731967 PMCID: PMC2242528 DOI: 10.1110/ps.062126106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 190] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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A new computational approach has been developed to determine the spatial arrangement of proteins in membranes by minimizing their transfer energies from water to the lipid bilayer. The membrane hydrocarbon core was approximated as a planar slab of adjustable thickness with decadiene-like interior and interfacial polarity profiles derived from published EPR studies. Applicability and accuracy of the method was verified for a set of 24 transmembrane proteins whose orientations in membranes have been studied by spin-labeling, chemical modification, fluorescence, ATR FTIR, NMR, cryo-microscopy, and neutron diffraction. Subsequently, the optimal rotational and translational positions were calculated for 109 transmembrane, five integral monotopic and 27 peripheral protein complexes with known 3D structures. This method can reliably distinguish transmembrane and integral monotopic proteins from water-soluble proteins based on their transfer energies and membrane penetration depths. The accuracies of calculated hydrophobic thicknesses and tilt angles were approximately 1 A and 2 degrees, respectively, judging from their deviations in different crystal forms of the same proteins. The hydrophobic thicknesses of transmembrane proteins ranged from 21.1 to 43.8 A depending on the type of biological membrane, while their tilt angles with respect to the bilayer normal varied from zero in symmetric complexes to 26 degrees in asymmetric structures. Calculated hydrophobic boundaries of proteins are located approximately 5 A lower than lipid phosphates and correspond to the zero membrane depth parameter of spin-labeled residues. Coordinates of all studied proteins with their membrane boundaries can be found in the Orientations of Proteins in Membranes (OPM) database:http://opm.phar.umich.edu/.
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- Andrei L Lomize
- College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1065, USA.
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Javitch JA, Shi L, Simpson MM, Chen J, Chiappa V, Visiers I, Weinstein H, Ballesteros JA. The fourth transmembrane segment of the dopamine D2 receptor: accessibility in the binding-site crevice and position in the transmembrane bundle. Biochemistry 2000; 39:12190-9. [PMID: 11015197 DOI: 10.1021/bi001069m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The binding site of the dopamine D2 receptor, like that of homologous G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), is contained within a water-accessible crevice formed among its seven transmembrane segments (TMSs). Using the substituted-cysteine-accessibility method (SCAM), we are mapping the residues that contribute to the surface of this binding-site crevice. We have mutated to cysteine, one at a time, 21 consecutive residues in the fourth TMS (TM4). Eleven of these mutants reacted with charged sulfhydryl-specific reagents, and bound antagonist protected nine of these from reaction. For the mutants in which cysteine was substituted for residues in the cytoplasmic half of TM4, treatment with the reagents had no effect on binding, consistent with these residues being inaccessible and with the low-resolution structure of the homologous rhodopsin, in which TM3 and TM5 occlude the cytoplasmic half of TM4. Although hydrophobicity analysis positions the C-terminus of TM4 at 4.64, Pro-Pro and Pro-X-Pro motifs, which are known to disrupt alpha-helices, occur at position 4.59 in a number of homologous GPCRs. The SCAM data were consistent with a C-terminus at 4.58, but it is also possible that the alpha-helix extends one additional turn to 4.62 in the D2 receptor, which has a single Pro at 4.59. In homologous GPCRs, the high degree of sequence variation between 4.59 and 4.68 is more characteristic of a loop domain than a helical segment. This region is shown here to be very conserved within functionally related receptors, suggesting an important functional role for this putative nonhelical domain. This inference is supported by observed ligand-specific effects of mutations in this region and by the predicted spatial proximity of this segment to known ligand binding sites in other TMs.
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- J A Javitch
- Center for Molecular Recognition, Departments of Pharmacology and Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, 630 West 168th Street, New York, New York 10032, USA.
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The accumulation of hundreds of olfactory receptor (OR) sequences, along with the recent availability of detailed models of other G-protein-coupled receptors, allows us to analyze the OR amino acid variability patterns in a structural context. A Fourier analysis of 197 multiply aligned olfactory receptor sequences showed an alpha-helical periodicity in the variability profile. This was particularly pronounced in the more variable transmembranal segments 3, 4, and 5. Rhodopsin-based homology modeling demonstrated that the inferred variable helical faces largely point to the interior of the receptor barrel. We propose that a set of 17 hypervariable residues, which point to the barrel interior and are more extracellularly disposed, constitute the odorant complementarity determining regions. While 12 of these residues coincide with established ligand-binding contact positions in other G-protein-coupled receptors, the rest are suggested to form an olfactory-unique aspect of the binding pocket. Highly conserved olfactory receptor-specific sequence motifs, found in the second and third intracellular loops, may comprise the G-protein recognition epitope. The prediction of olfactory receptor functional sites provides concrete suggestions of site-directed mutagenesis experiments for altering ligand and G-protein specificity.
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- Y Pilpel
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Crown Human Genome Center, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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Pogozheva ID, Lomize AL, Mosberg HI. The transmembrane 7-alpha-bundle of rhodopsin: distance geometry calculations with hydrogen bonding constraints. Biophys J 1997; 72:1963-85. [PMID: 9129801 PMCID: PMC1184393 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(97)78842-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 121] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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A 3D model of the transmembrane 7-alpha-bundle of rhodopsin-like G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) was calculated using an iterative distance geometry refinement with an evolving system of hydrogen bonds, formed by intramembrane polar side chains in various proteins of the family and collectively applied as distance constraints. The alpha-bundle structure thus obtained provides H bonding of nearly all buried polar side chains simultaneously in the 410 GPCRs considered. Forty evolutionarily conserved GPCR residues form a single continuous domain, with an aliphatic "core" surrounded by six clusters of polar and aromatic side chains. The 7-alpha-bundle of a specific GPCR can be calculated using its own set of H bonds as distance constraints and the common "average" model to restrain positions of the helices. The bovine rhodopsin model thus determined is closely packed, but has a few small polar cavities, presumably filled by water, and has a binding pocket that is complementary to 11-cis (6-s-cis, 12-s-trans, C = N anti)-retinal or to all-trans-retinal, depending on conformations of the Lys296 and Trp265 side chains. A suggested mechanism of rhodopsin photoactivation, triggered by the cis-trans isomerization of retinal, involves rotations of Glu134, Tyr223, Trp265, Lys296, and Tyr306 side chains and rearrangement of their H bonds. The model is in agreement with published electron cryomicroscopy, mutagenesis, chemical modification, cross-linking, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy, NMR, and optical spectroscopy data. The rhodopsin model and the published structure of bacteriorhodopsin have very similar retinal-binding pockets.
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- I D Pogozheva
- College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109, USA
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Ballesteros JA, Weinstein H. [19] Integrated methods for the construction of three-dimensional models and computational probing of structure-function relations in G protein-coupled receptors. METHODS IN NEUROSCIENCES 1995. [DOI: 10.1016/s1043-9471(05)80049-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2069] [Impact Index Per Article: 71.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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Members of the G protein-linked receptor superfamily have not yet yielded to X-ray crystallography. However, diffraction data from other membrane-bound receptors - the photosynthetic reaction centre and bacteriorhodopsin - have provided some information that may also apply to the G protein family. John Findlay and Elias Eliopoulos integrate this information together with analysis of amino acid sequences from cloned receptors, to derive workable three-dimensional models of these proteins. Such models identify ligand-binding and G protein-associating domains.
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- J Findlay
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, UK
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Donnelly D, Johnson MS, Blundell TL, Saunders J. An analysis of the periodicity of conserved residues in sequence alignments of G-protein coupled receptors. Implications for the three-dimensional structure. FEBS Lett 1989; 251:109-16. [PMID: 2546817 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(89)81438-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Twenty-three sequences from the family of G-protein coupled receptors have been aligned according to the 'historical alignment' procedure of Feng and Doolittle. Fourier transform analysis of this reveals that parts of five of the seven putative membrane-spanning regions exhibit a periodicity of conserved/nonconserved residues which is compatible with the periodicity of the alpha-helix. This would place the conserved residues on one side of the helix, which may face the inside of the proposed seven membered helical bundle.
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- D Donnelly
- Department of Crystallography, Birkbeck College, London, England
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Grant D, Long WF, Williamson FB. A comparison of the antioxidant requirements of proteins with those of synthetic polymers suggests an antioxidant function for clusters of aromatic and bivalent sulphur-containing amino acid residues. Med Hypotheses 1989; 28:245-53. [PMID: 2661975 DOI: 10.1016/0306-9877(89)90078-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Many proteins which function in extracellular environments potentially rich in oxygen-derived free radicals contain clustered tyrosine and cysteine residues which, by analogy with the chemistry of antioxidants used with synthetic polymers, may provide an appreciable antioxidant and redox stabilization activity. Such proteins may function as antioxidants, and as ligand binding sites for free radicals and other active molecules employed in normal biochemical processes.
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- D Grant
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Aberdeen, Marischal College, Scotland, U.K
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Becker RS. The visual process: photophysics and photoisomerization of model visual pigments and the primary reaction. Photochem Photobiol 1988; 48:369-99. [PMID: 3065800 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1988.tb02836.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Findlay JB, Pappin DJ, Eliopoulos EE. Chapter 3 The primary structure, chemistry and molecular modelling of rhodopsin. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1988. [DOI: 10.1016/0278-4327(88)90005-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Carboxymethylation using 14C- or 3H-labelled iodoacetic acid has been used to identify the cysteine residues in bovine rhodopsin involved in the formation of the two intramolecular disulphide bridges. Iodo[2-14C]acetic acid was used to modify 5.8-5.9 residues of cysteine under non-reducing conditions. After dialysis and reduction of disulphide bridges by 2-mercaptoethanol, iodo[2-3H]acetic acid was employed to covalently modify 3.3-3.6 residues of cysteine. Peptide purification and sequencing has unambiguously shown that cysteine residues 322 and 323 are only carboxymethylated after reduction of disulphide bridges. Indirect evidence presented, now coupled with the earlier finding [Findlay & Pappin (1986) Biochem. J. 238, 625-642] suggests that the other disulphide bridge is formed between cysteine residues 110 and 187. A comparison is made of all the sequences of mammalian rhodopsins and colour pigments and attention is drawn to the fact that whereas Cys-322 and Cys-323 are conserved only in three rhodopsins (bovine, ovine and human), the residues corresponding to Cys-110 and Cys-187 are found in all the visual proteins (from rods as well as human cones).
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- S Al-Saleh
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Southampton, U.K
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