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Antollini SS, Barrantes FJ. Carlos Gutiérrez-Merino: Synergy of Theory and Experimentation in Biological Membrane Research. Molecules 2024; 29:820. [PMID: 38398572 PMCID: PMC10893188 DOI: 10.3390/molecules29040820] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2024] [Revised: 02/06/2024] [Accepted: 02/07/2024] [Indexed: 02/25/2024] Open
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Professor Carlos Gutiérrez-Merino, a prominent scientist working in the complex realm of biological membranes, has made significant theoretical and experimental contributions to the field. Contemporaneous with the development of the fluid-mosaic model of Singer and Nicolson, the Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) approach has become an invaluable tool for studying molecular interactions in membranes, providing structural insights on a scale of 1-10 nm and remaining important alongside evolving perspectives on membrane structures. In the last few decades, Gutiérrez-Merino's work has covered multiple facets in the field of FRET, with his contributions producing significant advances in quantitative membrane biology. His more recent experimental work expanded the ground concepts of FRET to high-resolution cell imaging. Commencing in the late 1980s, a series of collaborations between Gutiérrez-Merino and the authors involved research visits and joint investigations focused on the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and its relation to membrane lipids, fostering a lasting friendship.
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- Silvia S. Antollini
- Departamento de Biología, Bioquímica y Farmacia, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de Bahía Blanca (CONICET-UNS), Bahía Blanca 8000, Argentina;
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- Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology, BIOMED UCA-CONICET, Buenos Aires C1107AAZ, Argentina
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Zagotta WN, Sim BS, Nhim AK, Raza MM, Evans EG, Venkatesh Y, Jones CM, Mehl RA, Petersson EJ, Gordon SE. An improved fluorescent noncanonical amino acid for measuring conformational distributions using time-resolved transition metal ion FRET. eLife 2021; 10:e70236. [PMID: 34623258 PMCID: PMC8500717 DOI: 10.7554/elife.70236] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2021] [Accepted: 08/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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With the recent explosion in high-resolution protein structures, one of the next frontiers in biology is elucidating the mechanisms by which conformational rearrangements in proteins are regulated to meet the needs of cells under changing conditions. Rigorously measuring protein energetics and dynamics requires the development of new methods that can resolve structural heterogeneity and conformational distributions. We have previously developed steady-state transition metal ion fluorescence resonance energy transfer (tmFRET) approaches using a fluorescent noncanonical amino acid donor (Anap) and transition metal ion acceptor to probe conformational rearrangements in soluble and membrane proteins. Here, we show that the fluorescent noncanonical amino acid Acd has superior photophysical properties that extend its utility as a donor for tmFRET. Using maltose-binding protein (MBP) expressed in mammalian cells as a model system, we show that Acd is comparable to Anap in steady-state tmFRET experiments and that its long, single-exponential lifetime is better suited for probing conformational distributions using time-resolved FRET. These experiments reveal differences in heterogeneity in the apo and holo conformational states of MBP and produce accurate quantification of the distributions among apo and holo conformational states at subsaturating maltose concentrations. Our new approach using Acd for time-resolved tmFRET sets the stage for measuring the energetics of conformational rearrangements in soluble and membrane proteins in near-native conditions.
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- William N Zagotta
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, United States
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, United States
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, United States
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, United States
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States
- Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Graduate Group, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, United States
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Lee M, Peterson BR. Quantification of Small Molecule-Protein Interactions using FRET between Tryptophan and the Pacific Blue Fluorophore. ACS OMEGA 2016; 1:1266-1276. [PMID: 28058293 PMCID: PMC5204206 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.6b00356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2016] [Accepted: 12/06/2016] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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We report a new method to quantify the affinity of small molecules for proteins. This method is based on Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) between endogenous tryptophan (Trp) residues and the coumarin-derived fluorophore Pacific Blue (PB). Tryptophan residues are frequently found in proteins near ligand-binding sites, making this approach potentially applicable to a wide range of systems. To improve access to PB, we developed a scalable multigram synthesis of this fluorophore, starting with inexpensive 2,3,4,5-tetrafluorobenzoic acid. This route was used to synthesize fluorescent derivatives of biotin, as well as lower affinity thiobiotin, iminobiotin, and imidazolidinethione analogues that bind the protein streptavidin. Compared with previously published FRET acceptors for tryptophan, PB proved to be superior in both sensitivity and efficiency. These unique properties of PB enabled direct quantification of dissociation constants (Kd) as well as competitive inhibition constants (Ki) in the micromolar to nanomolar range. In comparison to analogous binding studies using fluorescence polarization, fluorescence quenching, or fluorescence enhancement, affinities determined using Trp-FRET were more precise and accurate as validated using independent isothermal titration calorimetry studies. FRET between tryptophan and PB represents a new tool for the characterization of protein-ligand complexes.
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Shah S, Mandecki W, Li J, Gryczynski Z, Borejdo J, Gryczynski I, Fudala R. FRET study in oligopeptide-linked donor-acceptor system in PVA matrix. Methods Appl Fluoresc 2016; 4:047002. [PMID: 28192309 DOI: 10.1088/2050-6120/4/4/047002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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An oligopeptide: Lys-Gly-Pro-Arg-Ser-Leu-Ser-Gly-Lys-NH2, cleaved specifically by a matrix metalloproteinase 9 (MMP-9) at the Ser-Leu bond, was labeled on the ε-NH2 groups of lysine with donor (5, 6 TAMRA) and acceptor (HiLyte647) dye. The donor control was a peptide labeled with 5, 6 TAMRA only on the C-terminal lysine, and the acceptor control was free HiLyte647. Following three products were studied by dissolving in 10% (w/w) poly(vinyl alcohol) and dried on glass slides forming 200 micron films. Absorption spectra of the films show full additivity of donor and acceptor absorptions. A strong Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) with an efficiency of about 85% was observed in the fluorescence emission and excitation spectra. The lifetime of the donor was shorter and heterogeneous compared with the donor control.
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- Sunil Shah
- Institute of Molecular Medicine, Center for Fluorescence Technologies and Nanomedicine, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA
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Kovrigina EA, Pattengale B, Xia C, Galiakhmetov AR, Huang J, Kim JJP, Kovrigin EL. Conformational States of Cytochrome P450 Oxidoreductase Evaluated by Förster Resonance Energy Transfer Using Ultrafast Transient Absorption Spectroscopy. Biochemistry 2016; 55:5973-5976. [PMID: 27741572 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.6b00623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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NADPH-cytochrome P450 oxidoreductase (CYPOR) was shown to undergo large conformational rearrangements in its functional cycle. Using a new Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) approach based on femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy (TA), we determined the donor-acceptor distance distribution in the reduced and oxidized states of CYPOR. The unmatched time resolution of TA allowed the quantitative assessment of the donor-acceptor FRET, indicating that CYPOR assumes a closed conformation in both reduced and oxidized states in the absence of the redox partner. The described ultrafast TA measurements of FRET with readily available red-infrared fluorescent labels open new opportunities for structural studies in chromophore-rich proteins and their complexes.
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- Elizaveta A Kovrigina
- Biochemistry Department, Medical College of Wisconsin , Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226, United States.,Chemistry Department, Marquette University , P.O. Box 1881, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, United States
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- Chemistry Department, Marquette University , P.O. Box 1881, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, United States
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- Biochemistry Department, Medical College of Wisconsin , Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226, United States
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- Chemistry Department, Marquette University , P.O. Box 1881, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, United States
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- Chemistry Department, Marquette University , P.O. Box 1881, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, United States
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- Biochemistry Department, Medical College of Wisconsin , Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226, United States
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- Chemistry Department, Marquette University , P.O. Box 1881, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, United States
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Shah S, Gryczynski Z, Chib R, Fudala R, Baxi A, Borejdo J, Synak A, Gryczynski I. Demonstration of FRET in solutions. Methods Appl Fluoresc 2016. [DOI: 10.1088/2050-6120/4/1/015001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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RUEDAS-RAMA MJ, ALVAREZ-PEZ JM, ORTE A. SOLVING SINGLE BIOMOLECULES BY ADVANCED FRET-BASED SINGLE-MOLECULE FLUORESCENCE TECHNIQUES. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2014. [DOI: 10.1142/s1793048013300041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The use of Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) has undergone a renaissance in the last two decades, especially in the study of structure of biomolecules, biomolecular interactions, and dynamics. Thanks to powerful advances in single-molecule fluorescence (SMF) techniques, seeing molecules at work is a reality, which has helped to build up the mindset of molecular machines. In the last few years, many technical developments have broadened the applications of SMF-FRET, expanding the amount of information that can be recovered from individual molecules. Here, we focus on the non-standard SMF-FRET techniques, such as two-color coincidence detection (TCCD), alternating laser excitation (ALEX), multiparameter fluorescence detection (MFD); the addition of fluorescence lifetime as an orthogonal dimension in single-molecule experiments; or the development of novel and improved methods of analysis constituting to a set of advanced methodologies that may become routine tools in a close future. [Formula: see text]Special Issue Comment: This review about advanced single-molecule FRET techniques is specially related to the review by Jørgensen and Hatzakis,6 who detail experimetal strategies to solve the activity of single enzymes. The advanced techniques described in our paper may serve as interesting alternatives when applied to enzyme studies. Our manuscript is also related to the reviews in this Special Issue that deal with model solving.22,130
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- M. J. RUEDAS-RAMA
- Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Granada, Cartuja Campus, Granada, 18071, Spain
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- Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Granada, Cartuja Campus, Granada, 18071, Spain
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- Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Granada, Cartuja Campus, Granada, 18071, Spain
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Flory JD, Shinde S, Lin S, Liu Y, Yan H, Ghirlanda G, Fromme P. PNA-peptide assembly in a 3D DNA nanocage at room temperature. J Am Chem Soc 2013; 135:6985-93. [PMID: 23521013 DOI: 10.1021/ja400762c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Proteins and peptides fold into dynamic structures that access a broad functional landscape; however, designing artificial polypeptide systems is still a great challenge. Conversely, DNA engineering is now routinely used to build a wide variety of 2D and 3D nanostructures from hybridization based rules, and their functional diversity can be significantly expanded through site specific incorporation of the appropriate guest molecules. Here we demonstrate a new approach to rationally design 3D nucleic acid-amino acid complexes using peptide nucleic acid (PNA) to assemble peptides inside a 3D DNA nanocage. The PNA-peptides were found to bind to the preassembled DNA nanocage in 5-10 min at room temperature, and assembly could be performed in a stepwise fashion. Biophysical characterization of the DNA-PNA-peptide complex was performed using gel electrophoresis as well as steady state and time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy. Based on these results we have developed a model for the arrangement of the PNA-peptides inside the DNA nanocage. This work demonstrates a flexible new approach to leverage rationally designed nucleic acid (DNA-PNA) nanoscaffolds to guide polypeptide engineering.
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- Justin D Flory
- Center for Bio-Inspired Solar Fuel Production, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, United States
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Nagarajan S, Amir D, Grupi A, Goldenberg D, Minton A, Haas E. Modulation of functionally significant conformational equilibria in adenylate kinase by high concentrations of trimethylamine oxide attributed to volume exclusion. Biophys J 2011; 100:2991-9. [PMID: 21689533 PMCID: PMC3123985 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2011.03.065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2011] [Revised: 03/04/2011] [Accepted: 03/14/2011] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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The effect of an inert small molecule osmolyte, trimethyl amine N-oxide (TMAO), upon the conformational equilibria of Escherichia coli adenylate kinase was studied using time-resolved FRET. The relative populations of open and closed clefts between the LID and the CORE domains were measured as functions of the concentrations of the substrate ATP over the concentration range 0-18 mM and TMAO over the concentration range 0-4 M. A model was constructed according to which the enzyme exists in equilibrium among four conformational states, corresponding to combinations of open and closed conformations of the LID-CORE and AMP-CORE clefts. ATP is assumed to bind only to those conformations with the closed LID-CORE cleft, and TMAO is assumed to be differentially excluded as a hard spherical particle from each of the four conformations in accordance with calculations based upon x-ray crystallographic structures. This model was found to describe quantitatively the dependence of the fraction of the closed LID-CORE cleft upon the concentrations of both ATP and TMAO over the entire range of concentrations with just five undetermined parameters.
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- The Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
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- The Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
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- Section on Physical Biochemistry, Laboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- The Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
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Scholes CA, Millar DP, Gee ML, Smith TA. Resonance energy-transfer studies of the conformational change on the adsorption of oligonucleotides to a silica interface. J Phys Chem B 2011; 115:6329-39. [PMID: 21500794 DOI: 10.1021/jp201332w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Time-resolved evanescent wave-induced fluorescence studies have been carried out on a series of fluorescently labeled oligonucleotide sequences adsorbed to a silica surface from solution. The fluorescence decay profiles of a fluorescent energy donor group undergoing resonance energy transfer to a nonemissive energy-acceptor molecule have been analyzed in terms of a distribution of donor-acceptor distances to reveal the conformational changes that occur in these oligonucleotides upon adsorption. Evanescent wave-induced time-resolved Förster resonance energy-transfer (EW-TRFRET) measurements indicate that at a high electrolyte concentration, there is localized separation of the oligonucleotide strands, and the helical structure adopts an "unraveled" conformation as a result of adsorption. This is attributed to the flexibility within the oligonucleotide at high electrolyte concentration allowing multiple segments of the oligonucleotide to have direct surface interaction. In contrast, the EW-TRFRET measurements at a lower electrolyte concentration reveal that the oligonucleotide retains its helical conformation in a localized extended state. This behavior implies that the rigidity of the oligonucleotide at this electrolyte concentration restricts direct interaction with the silica to a few segments, which correspondingly introduces kinks in the double helix conformation and results in significant oligonucleotide segmental extension into solution.
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- Colin A Scholes
- School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
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Lakowicz JR, Laczko G, Gryczynski I, Szmacinski H, Wiczk W, Johnson ML. Frequency-domain fluorescence spectroscopy; principles, biochemical applications and future developments. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010. [DOI: 10.1002/bbpc.19890930321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Felorzabihi N, Froimowicz P, Haley JC, Bardajee GR, Li B, Bovero E, van Veggel FCJM, Winnik MA. Determination of the Förster Distance in Polymer Films by Fluorescence Decay for Donor Dyes with a Nonexponential Decay Profile. J Phys Chem B 2009; 113:2262-72. [DOI: 10.1021/jp807637s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Neda Felorzabihi
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Toronto, 200 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3E5; Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 3H6; and Department of Chemistry, University of Victoria, Finnerty Road, Victoria, BC, Canada V8P 5C2
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Toronto, 200 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3E5; Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 3H6; and Department of Chemistry, University of Victoria, Finnerty Road, Victoria, BC, Canada V8P 5C2
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Toronto, 200 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3E5; Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 3H6; and Department of Chemistry, University of Victoria, Finnerty Road, Victoria, BC, Canada V8P 5C2
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Toronto, 200 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3E5; Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 3H6; and Department of Chemistry, University of Victoria, Finnerty Road, Victoria, BC, Canada V8P 5C2
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Toronto, 200 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3E5; Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 3H6; and Department of Chemistry, University of Victoria, Finnerty Road, Victoria, BC, Canada V8P 5C2
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Toronto, 200 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3E5; Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 3H6; and Department of Chemistry, University of Victoria, Finnerty Road, Victoria, BC, Canada V8P 5C2
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Toronto, 200 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3E5; Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 3H6; and Department of Chemistry, University of Victoria, Finnerty Road, Victoria, BC, Canada V8P 5C2
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Toronto, 200 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3E5; Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 3H6; and Department of Chemistry, University of Victoria, Finnerty Road, Victoria, BC, Canada V8P 5C2
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Xing J, Chinnaraj M, Zhang Z, Cheung HC, Dong WJ. Structural studies of interactions between cardiac troponin I and actin in regulated thin filament using Förster resonance energy transfer. Biochemistry 2009; 47:13383-93. [PMID: 19053249 DOI: 10.1021/bi801492x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The Ca(2+)-induced interaction between cardiac troponin I (cTnI) and actin plays a key role in the regulation of cardiac muscle contraction and relaxation. In this report we have investigated changes of this interaction in response to strong cross-bridge formation between myosin S1 and actin and PKA phosphorylation of cTnI within reconstituted thin filament. The interaction was monitored by measuring Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) between the fluorescent donor 5-(iodoacetamidoethyl)aminonaphthalene-1-sulfonic acid (AEDANS) attached to the residues 131, 151, 160 167, 188, and 210 of cTnI and the nonfluorescent acceptor 4-(dimethylamino)phenylazophenyl-4'-maleimide (DABM) attached to cysteine 374 of actin. The FRET distance measurements showed that bound Ca(2+) induced large increases in the distances from actin to the cTnI sites, indicating a Ca(2+)-triggered separation of cTnI from actin. Strongly bound myosin S1 induced additional increases in these distances in the presence of bound Ca(2+). The two ligand-induced increases were independent of each other. These two-step changes in distances provide a direct link of structural changes at the interface between cTnI and actin to the three-state model of thin filament regulation of muscle contraction and relaxation. When cTnC was inactivated through mutations of key residues within the 12-residue Ca(2+)-binding loop, strongly bound S1 alone induced increases in the distances in spite of the fact that the filaments no longer bound regulatory Ca(2+). These results suggest bound Ca(2+) or strongly bound S1 alone can partially activate thin filament, but full activation requires both bound Ca(2+) and strongly bound S1. The distributions of the FRET distances revealed different structural dynamics associated with different regions of cTnI in different biochemical states. The second actin-binding region appears more rigid than the inhibitory/regulatory region. In the Mg(2+) state, the regulatory region appears more flexible than the inhibitory region, and in the Ca(2+) state the inhibitory region becomes more flexible. PKA phosphorylation of cTnI at Ser23 and Ser24 distance from actin to cTnI residue 131 by 2.2-5.2 A in different biochemical states and narrowed the distributions of the distances from actin to the inhibitory and regulatory regions of cTnI. The observed phosphorylation effects are likely due to an intramolecular interaction of the phosphorylated N-terminal segment and the inhibitory region of cTnI.
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- Jun Xing
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 354294, USA
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Czuper A, Gryczynski I, Kuśba J. Förster energy transfer from nonexponentially decaying donors. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY B-BIOLOGY 2007; 87:200-8. [PMID: 17537640 DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2007.04.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2006] [Revised: 04/10/2007] [Accepted: 04/16/2007] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Necessary modifications to the expression for the Förster energy transfer rate are discussed when fluorescence decay of the donor in the absence of acceptor is nonexponential. Discrete and continuous models of the nonexponentiality are taken into account. No general solution of the problem is found. It is, however, suggested that in many of the biochemical problems the most appropriate modification of the transfer rate can be that which is based on the assumption of the same constant value of the radiative decay rate for all donor molecules. The effect of the assumed form of the Förster energy transfer rate on the recovered values of the distance distribution and dynamics parameters of some exemplary bichromophoric systems is examined.
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- Agnieszka Czuper
- Faculty of Applied Physics and Mathematics, Gdańsk University of Technology, ul. Narutowicza 11/12, 80-952 Gdańsk, Poland
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Galian RE, Veglia AV. Fluorescence quenching inhibition of substituted indoles by neutral and ionized cyclodextrins nanocavities. J Photochem Photobiol A Chem 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2006.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Chowdhury RP, Chatterji D. Estimation of Förster's distance between two ends of Dps protein from mycobacteria: distance heterogeneity as a function of oligomerization and DNA binding. Biophys Chem 2007; 128:19-29. [PMID: 17368913 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpc.2007.02.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2007] [Revised: 02/23/2007] [Accepted: 02/27/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Dps protein (DNA binding Protein from Starved Cells) from Mycobacterium smegmatis (Ms-Dps) is known to undergo an in vitro irreversible oligomeric transition from trimer to dodecamer. This transition helps the protein to provide for bimodal protection to the bacterial DNA from the free radical and Fenton mediated damages in the stationary state. The protein exists as a stable trimer, when purified from E. coli cells transformed with an over-expression plasmid. Both trimer as well as dodecamer are known to exhibit ferroxidation activity, thus removing toxic hydroxyl radicals in vivo, whereas iron accumulation and non-sequence specific DNA binding activity are found in dodecamer only. This seems to be aided by the positively charged long C-terminal tail of the protein. We used frequency domain phase-modulation fluorescence spectroscopy and Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) to monitor this oligomeric switch from a trimer to a dodecamer and to elucidate the structure of DNA-Dps dodecamer complex. As Ms-Dps is devoid of any Cysteine residues, a Serine is mutated to Cysteine (S169C) at a position adjacent to the putative DNA binding domain. This Cysteine is subsequently labeled with fluorescent probe and another probe is placed at the N-terminus, as crystal structure of the protein reveals several side-chain interactions between these two termini, and both are exposed towards the surface of the protein. Here, we report the Förster's distance distribution in the trimer and the dodecamer in the presence and absence of DNA. Through discrete lifetime analysis of the probes tagged at the respective regions in the macromolecule, coupled with Maximum Entropy Method (MEM) analysis, we show that the dodecamer, upon DNA binding shows conformational heterogeneity in overall structure, perhaps mediated by a non-specific DNA-protein interaction. On the other hand, the nature of DNA-Dps interaction is not known and several models exist in literature. We show here with the help of fluorescence anisotropy measurements of labeled DNA having different length and unlabeled native dodecameric protein that tandem occupation of DNA binding sites by a series of Dps molecules perhaps guide the tight packing of Dps over DNA backbone.
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Jain V, Saleem-Batcha R, Chatterji D. Synthesis and hydrolysis of pppGpp in mycobacteria: a ligand mediated conformational switch in Rel. Biophys Chem 2006; 127:41-50. [PMID: 17188418 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpc.2006.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2006] [Revised: 12/07/2006] [Accepted: 12/07/2006] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Bacteria respond to starvation by synthesizing a polyphosphate derivative of guanosine, (p)ppGpp, that helps the bacteria in surviving during stress. The protein in Gram-positive organisms required for (p)ppGpp synthesis is Rel, a bifunctional enzyme that carries out both synthesis and hydrolysis of this molecule. Rel shows increased pppGpp synthesis in the presence of uncharged tRNA, the effect of which is regulated by the C-terminal of Rel. We show by fluorescence resonance energy transfer that the distance between the N-terminus cysteine residue at the catalytic domain and C692 at the C-terminus increases upon the addition of uncharged tRNA. In apparent anomaly, the steady state anisotropy of the Rel protein decreases upon tRNA binding suggesting "compact conformation" vis-à-vis "open conformation" of the free Rel. We propose that the interaction between C692 and the residues present in the pppGpp synthesis site results in the regulated activity and this interaction is abrogated upon addition of uncharged tRNA. We also report here the binding of pppGpp to the C-terminal part of the protein that leads to more unfolding in this region.
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- Vikas Jain
- Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
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Eftink MR. Fluorescence techniques for studying protein structure. METHODS OF BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS 2006; 35:127-205. [PMID: 2002770 DOI: 10.1002/9780470110560.ch3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 230] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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- M R Eftink
- Department of Chemistry, University of Mississippi
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Saxena AM, Udgaonkar JB, Krishnamoorthy G. Characterization of Intra-molecular Distances and Site-specific Dynamics in Chemically Unfolded Barstar: Evidence for Denaturant-dependent Non-random Structure. J Mol Biol 2006; 359:174-89. [PMID: 16603185 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2006.03.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2005] [Revised: 03/02/2006] [Accepted: 03/08/2006] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The structure and dynamics of the unfolded form of a protein are expected to play critical roles in determining folding pathways. In this study, the urea and guanidine hydrochloride (GdnHCl)-unfolded forms of the small protein barstar were explored by time-resolved fluorescence techniques. Barstar was labeled specifically with thionitrobenzoate (TNB), by coupling it to the thiol side-chain of a cysteine residue at one of the following positions on the sequence: 14, 25, 40, 42, 62, 82 and 89, in single cysteine-containing mutant proteins. Seven intra-molecular distances (R(DA)) under unfolding conditions were estimated from measurements of time-resolved fluorescence resonance energy transfer between the donor Trp53 and the non-fluorescent acceptor TNB coupled to one of the seven cysteine side-chains. The unfolded protein chain expands with an increase in the concentration of the denaturants. The extent of expansion was found to be non-uniform, with different intra-molecular distances expanding to different extents. In general, shorter distances were found to expand less when compared to longer spans. The extent of expansion was higher in the case of GdnHCl when compared to urea. A comparison of the measured values of R(DA) with those derived from a model based on excluded volume, revealed that while shorter spans showed good agreement, the experimental values of R(DA) of longer spans were smaller when compared to the theoretical values. Sequence-specific flexibility of the polypeptide was determined by time-resolved fluorescence anisotropy decay measurements on acrylodan or 1,5-IAEDANS labeled single cysteine-containing proteins under unfolding conditions. Rotational dynamics derived from these measurements indicated that the level of flexibility increased with increase in the concentration of denaturants and showed a graded increase towards the C-terminal end. Taken together, these results appear to indicate the presence of specific non-random coil structures and show that the deviation from random coil structure is different for the two denaturants.
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- Anoop M Saxena
- Department of Chemical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
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Lamani E, Mewbourne RB, Fletcher DS, Maltsev SD, Danilov LL, Veselovsky VV, Lozanova AV, Grigorieva NY, Pinsker OA, Xing J, Forsee WT, Cheung HC, Schutzbach JS, Shibaev VN, Jedrzejas MJ. Structural studies and mechanism of Saccharomyces cerevisiae dolichyl-phosphate-mannose synthase: insights into the initial step of synthesis of dolichyl-phosphate-linked oligosaccharide chains in membranes of endoplasmic reticulum. Glycobiology 2006; 16:666-78. [PMID: 16549409 DOI: 10.1093/glycob/cwj104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Dolichyl-phosphate-mannose (Dol-P-Man) synthase catalyzes the reversible formation of a key intermediate that is involved as a mannosyl donor in at least three different pathways for the synthesis of glycoconjugates important for eukaryotic development and viability. The enzyme is found associated with membranes of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), where it transfers mannose from the water soluble cytoplasmic donor, guanosine 5'-diphosphate (GDP)-Man, to the membrane-bound, extremely hydrophobic, and long-chain polyisoprenoid acceptor, dolichyl-phosphate (Dol-P). The enzyme from Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been utilized to investigate the structure and activity of the protein and interactions of the enzyme with Dol-P and synthetic Dol-P analogs containing fluorescent probes. These interactions have been explored utilizing fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) to establish intramolecular distances within the protein molecule as well as intermolecular distances to determine the localization of the active site and the hydrophobic substrate on the enzyme's surface. A three-dimensional (3D) model of the enzyme was produced with bound substrates, Dol-P, GDP-Man, and divalent cations to delineate the binding sites for these substrates as well as the catalytic site. The FRET analysis was used to characterize the functional properties of the enzyme and to evaluate its modeled structure. The data allowed for proposing a molecular mechanism of catalysis as an inverting mechanism of mannosyl residue transfer.
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- Ejvis Lamani
- Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, CA 94609, USA
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Buskiewicz I, Peske F, Wieden HJ, Gryczynski I, Rodnina MV, Wintermeyer W. Conformations of the Signal Recognition Particle Protein Ffh from Escherichia coli as Determined by FRET. J Mol Biol 2005; 351:417-30. [PMID: 16005894 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2005.06.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2005] [Revised: 06/06/2005] [Accepted: 06/07/2005] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The signal recognition particle (SRP) initiates the co-translational targeting of proteins to the plasma membrane in bacteria by binding to the N-terminal signal sequence emerging from the translating ribosome. SRP in Escherichia coli is composed of one protein, Ffh, and 4.5S RNA. In the present work, we probe the structure of Ffh alone and in the complex with 4.5S RNA by measuring distances between different positions within Ffh and between Ffh and 4.5S RNA by fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET). According to the FRET distances, NG and M domains in free Ffh are in close contact, as in the A/A arrangement in the crystal structure of Ffh from Thermus aquaticus, in agreement with the formation of a crosslink between cysteine residues at two critical positions in the G and M domains. Upon Ffh binding to 4.5S RNA or a 61 nucleotide fragment comprising internal loops A-C, the G and M domains move apart to assume a more open conformation, as indicated by changes of FRET distances. The movement is smaller when Ffh binds to a 49 nucleotide fragment of 4.5S RNA comprising only internal loops A and B, i.e. lacking the binding site of the NG domain. The FRET results suggest that in the SRP complex 4.5S RNA is present in a bent, rather than extended, conformation. The domain rearrangement of Ffh that takes place upon formation of the SRP is probably important for subsequent steps of membrane targeting, including interactions with the translating ribosome and the SRP receptor.
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- Iwona Buskiewicz
- Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Witten/Herdecke, 58448 Witten, Germany
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Buskiewicz I, Kubarenko A, Peske F, Rodnina MV, Wintermeyer W. Domain rearrangement of SRP protein Ffh upon binding 4.5S RNA and the SRP receptor FtsY. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2005; 11:947-57. [PMID: 15923378 PMCID: PMC1370779 DOI: 10.1261/rna.7242305] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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The signal recognition particle (SRP) mediates membrane targeting of translating ribosomes displaying a signal-anchor sequence. In Escherichia coli, SRP consists of 4.5S RNA and a protein, Ffh, that recognizes the signal peptide emerging from the ribosome and the SRP receptor at the membrane, FtsY. In the present work, we studied the interactions between the NG and M domains in Ffh and their rearrangements upon complex formation with 4.5S RNA and/or FtsY. In free Ffh, the NG and M domains are facing one another in an orientation that allows cross-linking between positions 231 in the G domain and 377 in the M domain. There are binding interactions between the two domains, as the isolated domains form a strong complex. The interdomain contacts are disrupted upon binding of Ffh to 4.5S RNA, consuming a part of the total binding energy of 4.5S RNA-Ffh association that is roughly equivalent to the free energy of domain binding to each other. In the SRP particle, the NG domain binds to 4.5S RNA in a region adjacent to the binding site of the M domain. Ffh binding to FtsY also requires a reorientation of NG and M domains. These results suggest that in free Ffh, the binding sites for 4.5S RNA and FtsY are occluded by strong domain-domain interactions which must be disrupted for the formation of SRP or the Ffh-FtsY complex.
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- Iwona Buskiewicz
- Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany
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Czuper A, Kuśba J, Lakowicz J. Site-to-site distance distribution in flexible molecules: theoretical evaluation of the donor and/or acceptor fluorescence decay function. JOURNAL OF LUMINESCENCE 2005; 112:434-438. [PMID: 33828338 PMCID: PMC8022884 DOI: 10.1016/j.jlumin.2004.09.067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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We present the theoretical expression describing dependence of the fluorescence intensity decays on the distance distribution P(r)between energy donors and acceptors in flexible bichromophoric molecules. The expression allows for multiexponential fluorescence decay of the donor- and acceptor-only molecules and takes into account the possibility of incomplete labeling of the molecules by acceptors. It is assumed that the donors and acceptors are static in space and do not move relative to each other during the excited-state lifetime. The potential application of the obtained expression is evaluation of the parameters of the function P(r).
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- A. Czuper
- Faculty of Applied Physics and Mathematics, Gdańsk University of Technology, ul. Narutowicza 11/12, 80-952 Gdańsk, Poland
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- Faculty of Applied Physics and Mathematics, Gdańsk University of Technology, ul. Narutowicza 11/12, 80-952 Gdańsk, Poland
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Center for Fluorescence Spectroscopy, University of Maryland at Baltimore, 725 West Lombard Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
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Tiroli AO, Tasic L, Oliveira CLP, Bloch C, Torriani I, Farah CS, Ramos CHI. Mapping contacts between regulatory domains of skeletal muscle TnC and TnI by analyses of single-chain chimeras. FEBS J 2005; 272:779-90. [PMID: 15670158 DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2004.04515.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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The troponin (Tn) complex is formed by TnC, TnI and TnT and is responsible for the calcium-dependent inhibition of muscle contraction. TnC and TnI interact in an antiparallel fashion in which the N domain of TnC binds in a calcium-dependent manner to the C domain of TnI, releasing the inhibitory effect of the latter on the actomyosin interaction. While the crystal structure of the core cardiac muscle troponin complex has been determined, very little high resolution information is available regarding the skeletal muscle TnI-TnC complex. With the aim of obtaining structural information regarding specific contacts between skeletal muscle TnC and TnI regulatory domains, we have constructed two recombinant chimeric proteins composed of the residues 1-91 of TnC linked to residues 98-182 or 98-147 of TnI. The polypeptides were capable of binding to the thin filament in a calcium-dependent manner and to regulate the ATPase reaction of actomyosin. Small angle X-ray scattering results showed that these chimeras fold into compact structures in which the inhibitory plus the C domain of TnI, with the exception of residues 148-182, were in close contact with the N-terminal domain of TnC. CD and fluorescence analysis were consistent with the view that the last residues of TnI (148-182) are not well folded in the complex. MS analysis of fragments produced by limited trypsinolysis showed that the whole TnC N domain was resistant to proteolysis, both in the presence and in the absence of calcium. On the other hand the TnI inhibitory and C-terminal domains were completely digested by trypsin in the absence of calcium while the addition of calcium results in the protection of only residues 114-137.
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- Ana O Tiroli
- Centro de Biologia Molecular Estrutural, Laboratório Nacional de Luz Síncrotron, Brazil
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Bacchiocchi C, Graceffa P, Lehrer SS. Myosin-induced movement of alphaalpha, alphabeta, and betabeta smooth muscle tropomyosin on actin observed by multisite FRET. Biophys J 2004; 86:2295-307. [PMID: 15041668 PMCID: PMC1304079 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(04)74287-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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The interaction of the alphaalpha, betabeta, and alphabeta smooth muscle tropomyosin (Tm) isoforms with F-actin was systematically studied in the absence and in the presence of myosin subfragment 1 (S1) using multifrequency phase/modulation Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET). A Gaussian double distance distribution model was adopted to fit FRET data between a 5-(2-iodoacetyl-amino-ethyl-amino)naphthalene-1-sulfonic acid donor at either Cys-36 of the beta-chain or Cys-190 of the alpha-chain and a 4-dimethylaminophenylazophenyl 4'-maleimide acceptor at Cys-374 of F-actin. Experimental data were obtained for singly and doubly labeled alphabeta Tm (donor only at alpha, only at beta, or both) and for doubly labeled alphaalpha or betabeta Tm. Data for singly labeled alphabetaTm were combined in a global analysis with doubly labeled alphabetaTm. In all doubly labeled isoforms, upon S1 binding, one donor-acceptor "apparent" distance increased slightly by 0.5-2 A, whereas the other decreased by 6-9 A. These changes are consistent with a uniform "rolling" motion of Tm over the F-actin surface. The analysis indicates that Tm occupies relatively well-defined positions, with some flexibility, in both the predominantly closed (-S1) and open (+S1) thin-filament states. The results for the alphabetaTm heterodimer indicate that the local twofold symmetry of alphaalpha or betabeta Tm is effectively broken in alphabetaTm bound to F-actin, which implies a difference between the alpha- and beta-chains in terms of their interaction with F-actin.
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- Corrado Bacchiocchi
- Muscle and Motility Group, Boston Biomedical Research Institute, Watertown, Massachusetts 02472, USA.
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Weljie AM, Robertson KM, Vogel HJ. Conformational changes in the Ca2+-regulatory region from soybean calcium-dependent protein kinase-alpha: fluorescence resonance energy transfer studies. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:43764-9. [PMID: 12941950 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m306799200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Calcium-dependent protein kinases are key proteins involved in plant and protozoal Ca2+ signaling. These unique molecules include a calcium regulatory calmodulin-like domain (CLD), which binds to another small regulatory domain named the junction domain (JD). Both CLD and JD are part of the same polypeptide as the protein kinase domain. The CLD consists of N- and C-terminal lobes, each having two helix-loop-helix Ca2+-binding motifs. In this study, fluorescence resonance energy transfer using a series of Trp and Cys site-directed mutants was undertaken to probe the relative motions of the two lobes of CLD between the apo- and Ca2+-saturated forms, as well as bound to a peptide encoding the JD sequence. Using an IAEDANS-modified Cys, a total of 15 Trp --> Cys distances were measured in these three states from the five donor-acceptor combinations F334W-Cys436, L371W-Cys436, L403W-Cys436, F334W-L403C, and L371W-L403C. Consistent with recently reported NMR diffusion measurements and with 1H,15N heteronuclear correlation NMR spectra, the distances derived from fluorescence resonance energy transfer measurements in apoCLD indicate partial unfolding and a subsequent contraction on binding Ca2+, which is maintained on addition of the JD peptide. Interpretation of the distances suggests that the Ca2+-saturated form is open with the two lobes sitting side-by-side although highly flexible. The transition to the JD-CLD state appears to be accompanied by a rotation of the N- and C-terminal domains with respect to each other inducing a slightly more closed overall complex. The observed differences between the behavior of CLD and the well studied related protein calmodulin are likely because of different physiological requirements for activation in vivo.
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- Aalim M Weljie
- Structural Biology Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada
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Sheldahl C, Xing J, Dong WJ, Harvey SC, Cheung HC. The calcium-saturated cTnI/cTnC complex: structure of the inhibitory region of cTnI. Biophys J 2003; 84:1057-64. [PMID: 12547787 PMCID: PMC1302683 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(03)74922-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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The contiguous inhibitory and regulatory regions of troponin I in the heterotrimeric troponin complex play a critical role in Ca(2+) activation of striated muscle. Knowledge of the structure of this critical region within the complex will enhance efforts toward understanding regulatory mechanisms. Toward this goal, we have used simulated annealing to study the structure of the inhibitory and regulatory regions of cardiac muscle troponin I in the calcium-saturated complex formed between cardiac troponin C and cardiac troponin I. We have incorporated distances determined experimentally by Förster resonance energy transfer in the full-length complex, rather than using peptides derived from cTnI. For these models, we assume a helix-loop-helix conformation for the inhibitory region. We have found several structures that satisfy the experimental constraints fairly well. Although it is not possible to eliminate any of these models at this time, future studies with additional experimental restraints will yield insights on the mechanisms of calcium regulation in cardiac muscle.
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- Christopher Sheldahl
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, USA
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Lidke DS, Thomas DD. Coordination of the two heads of myosin during muscle contraction. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2002; 99:14801-6. [PMID: 12417762 PMCID: PMC137499 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.232161999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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We have used luminescence resonance energy transfer between regulatory light chains (RLC) to detect structural changes within the dimeric myosin molecule in contracting muscle fibers. Fully functional scallop muscle fibers were prepared such that each myosin molecule contained a terbium-labeled (luminescent donor) RLC on one head and a rhodamine-labeled (acceptor) RLC on the other. Time-resolved luminescence energy transfer between the two heads increased upon the transition from relaxation (ATP) to contraction (ATP plus Ca) and increased further in rigor (no ATP). Combined with experiments on mutant RLCs labeled specifically at other sites, these results support a model in which the force-generating weak-to-strong transition causes one myosin LC domain to tilt through a 30 degrees angle toward the other, thus acting as a coordinated lever arm.
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- Diane S Lidke
- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, USA
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Bacchiocchi C, Lehrer SS. Ca(2+)-induced movement of tropomyosin in skeletal muscle thin filaments observed by multi-site FRET. Biophys J 2002; 82:1524-36. [PMID: 11867466 PMCID: PMC1301952 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(02)75505-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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To obtain information on Ca(2+)-induced tropomyosin (Tm) movement in Ca(2+)-regulated muscle thin filaments, frequency-domain fluorescence energy transfer data were collected between 5-(2-iodoacetyl-amino-ethyl-amino)naphthalene-1-sulfonic acid at Cys-190 of Tm and phalloidin-tetramethylrhodamine B isothiocyanate bound to F-actin. Two models were used to fit the experimental data: an atomic coordinate (AC) model coupled with a search algorithm that varies the position and orientation of Tm on F-actin, and a double Gaussian distance distribution (DD) model. The AC model showed that little or no change in transfer efficiency is to be expected between different sites on F-actin and Tm if Ca(2+) causes azimuthal movement of Tm of the magnitude suggested by structural data (C. Xu, R. Craig, L. Tobacman, R. Horowitz, and W. Lehman. 1999. Biophys. J. 77:985-992). However, Ca(2+) produced a small but significant change in our phase/modulation versus frequency data, showing that changes in lifetime decay can be detected even when a change of the steady-state transfer efficiency is very small. A change in Tm azimuthal position of 17 on the actin filament obtained with the AC model indicates that solution data are in reasonable agreement with EM image reconstruction data. In addition, the data indicate that Tm also appears to rotate about its axis, resulting in a rolling motion over the F-actin surface. The DD model showed that the distance from one of the two chains of Tm to F-actin was mainly affected, further verifying that Ca(2+) causes Tm to roll over the F-actin surface. The width of the distance distributions indicated that the position of Tm in absence and in presence of Ca(2+) is well defined with appreciable local flexibility.
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- Corrado Bacchiocchi
- Muscle and Motility Group, Boston Biomedical Research Institute, Watertown, Massachusetts 02472, USA.
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Somogyi B, Lakos Z, Szarka A, Nyitrai M. Protein flexibility as revealed by fluorescence resonance energy transfer: an extension of the method for systems with multiple labels. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY. B, BIOLOGY 2000; 59:26-32. [PMID: 11332886 DOI: 10.1016/s1011-1344(00)00130-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The temperature profile of the normalized fluorescence resonance energy transfer efficiency is capable of monitoring the relative change of flexibility and/or conformational state of macromolecules [Biochemistry 23 (1984) 3403]. The method described earlier for one donor-one acceptor systems is extended to multiple fluorophore systems when the energy transfer occurs between either one donor-m acceptors, or n donors-one acceptor or n donors-m acceptors (where n and m are integer values). It is shown that the normalized energy transfer efficiency obtained for systems containing multiple labels is a linear combination of the normalized transfer efficiency assigned to individual donor-acceptor pairs of the system, thus its temperature profile is capable of monitoring the change of intramolecular flexibility and/or conformational state.
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- B Somogyi
- Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences at the University of Pécs, Faculty of Medicine
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Loura LMS, Prieto M. Resonance Energy Transfer in Heterogeneous Planar and Bilayer Systems: Theory and Simulation. J Phys Chem B 2000. [DOI: 10.1021/jp000245y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Luís M. S. Loura
- Centro de Química-Física Molecular, Instituto Superior Técnico, P-1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal, and Departamento de Química, Universidade de Évora, Rua Romão Ramalho, 59, P-7000-671 Évora, Portugal
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- Centro de Química-Física Molecular, Instituto Superior Técnico, P-1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal, and Departamento de Química, Universidade de Évora, Rua Romão Ramalho, 59, P-7000-671 Évora, Portugal
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Zhao X, Kobayashi T, Gryczynski Z, Gryczynski I, Lakowicz J, Wade R, Collins JH. Calcium-induced flexibility changes in the troponin C-troponin I complex. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2000; 1479:247-54. [PMID: 11004542 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4838(00)00026-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The contraction of vertebrate striated muscle is modulated by Ca(2+) binding to the regulatory protein troponin C (TnC). Ca(2+) binding causes conformational changes in TnC which alter its interaction with the inhibitory protein troponin I (TnI), initiating the regulatory process. We have used the frequency domain method of fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) to measure distances and distance distributions between specific sites in the TnC-TnI complex in the presence and absence of Ca(2+) or Mg(2+). Using sequences based on rabbit skeletal muscle proteins, we prepared functional, binary complexes of wild-type TnC and a TnI mutant which contains no Cys residues and a single Trp residue at position 106 within the TnI inhibitory region. We used TnI Trp-106 as the FRET donor, and we introduced energy acceptor groups into TnC by labeling at Met-25 with dansyl aziridine or at Cys-98 with N-(iodoacetyl)-N'-(1-sulfo-5-naphthyl)ethylenediamine. Our distance distribution measurements indicate that the TnC-TnI complex is relatively rigid in the absence of Ca(2+), but becomes much more flexible when Ca(2+) binds to regulatory sites in TnC. This increased flexibility may be propagated to the whole thin filament, helping to release the inhibition of actomyosin ATPase activity and allowing the muscle to contract. This is the first report of distance distributions between TnC and TnI in their binary complex.
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- X Zhao
- Medical Biotechnology Center, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
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Ishii Y, Kimura Y, Kitamura K, Tanaka H, Wazawa T, Yanagida T. Imaging and nano-manipulation of single actomyosin motors at work. Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol 2000; 27:229-37. [PMID: 10744353 DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1681.2000.03226.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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1. Muscle contraction is achieved by the sliding movement of myosin and actin using the energy of ATPase. 2. Our research has focused on the question of how chemical energy is used to perform mechanical work. Recent developments of single molecule imaging and manipulation techniques have allowed us to study the chemical and mechanical events at a molecular level. 3. There are many lines of evidence that show that the energy liberated from ATPase is stored in the actomyosin molecules for later use. 4. The displacement produced by a single ATP molecule is made up of several steps, each of 5.3 nm. Sometimes the mechanical event is delayed after the ADP is released from myosin. 5. This storage of energy may be explained by a slow conformational transition between the metastable states of the proteins. This suggestion has been supported by results obtained using single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy.
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- Y Ishii
- Single Molecule Processes Project, International Cooperative Research Project, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Osaka, Japan.
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Dong WJ, Robinson JM, Xing J, Umeda PK, Cheung HC. An interdomain distance in cardiac troponin C determined by fluorescence spectroscopy. Protein Sci 2000; 9:280-9. [PMID: 10716180 PMCID: PMC2144559 DOI: 10.1110/ps.9.2.280] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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The distance between Ca2+-binding site III in the C-terminal domain and Cys35 in the N-terminal domain in cardiac muscle troponin C (cTnC) was determined with a single-tryptophan mutant using bound Tb3+ as the energy donor and iodoacetamidotetramethylrhodamine linked to the cysteine residue as energy acceptor. The luminescence of bound Tb3+ was generated through sensitization by the tryptophan located in the 12-residue binding loop of site III upon irradiation at 295 nm, and this sensitized luminescence was the donor signal transferred to the acceptor. In the absence of bound cation at site II, the mean interdomain distance was found to be 48-49 A regardless of whether the cTnC was unbound or bound to cardiac troponin I, or reconstituted into cardiac troponin. These results suggest that cTnC retains its overall length in the presence of bound target proteins. The distribution of the distances was wide (half-width >9 A) and suggests considerable interdomain flexibility in isolated cTnC, but the distributions became narrower for cTnC in the complexes with the other subunits. In the presence of bound cation at the regulatory site II, the interdomain distance was shortened by 6 A for cTnC, but without an effect on the half-width. The decrease in the mean distance was much smaller or negligible when cTnC was complexed with cTnI or cTnI and cTnT under the same conditions. Although free cTnC has considerable interdomain flexibility, this dynamics is slightly reduced in troponin. These results indicate that the transition from the relaxed state to an activated state in cardiac muscle is not accompanied by a gross alteration of the cTnC conformation in cardiac troponin.
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- W J Dong
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35294-2041, USA
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She M, Xing J, Dong WJ, Umeda PK, Cheung HC. Calcium binding to the regulatory domain of skeletal muscle troponin C induces a highly constrained open conformation. J Mol Biol 1998; 281:445-52. [PMID: 9698560 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.1933] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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We have used fluorescence resonance energy transfer to investigate the conformation of the apo and calcium-loaded states of the regulatory N-terminal domain of full-length troponin C mutants from skeletal muscle. The mutants studied each contained a single tryptophan residue (position 22 or 90) and a single cysteine residue (position 52 or 101). The intrinsic fluorophore in each mutant served as an energy donor and the cysteine was conjugated to the acceptor probe 5-(iodoacetamidoethyl)amino-naphthalene-1-sulfonic acid. The distributions of two intersite distances (between residues 22 and 52, and residues 90 and 52) were broad in the apo state, indicative of considerable structural dynamics. These distributions were shifted to longer distances and considerably sharpened in the calcium-loaded state. The shifts to longer distances by 8 to 11 A indicate a calcium-induced opening of the N-terminal domain conformation. The transition of the troponin C structure from a closed conformation to an open conformation is accompanied by a substantial reduction of structural fluctuations that dominate in the apo structure as evidenced from the large decrease of the widths of the distributions. This highly constrained open conformation is required as part of the structural basis to facilitate productive interaction between troponin C and troponin I to trigger contraction in skeletal muscle.
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- M She
- Department of Physics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 35294, USA
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Yang M, Millar DP. Fluorescence resonance energy transfer as a probe of DNA structure and function. Methods Enzymol 1997; 278:417-44. [PMID: 9170325 DOI: 10.1016/s0076-6879(97)78022-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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- M Yang
- Department of Molecular Biology, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
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Speiser S. Photophysics and Mechanisms of Intramolecular Electronic Energy Transfer in Bichromophoric Molecular Systems: Solution and Supersonic Jet Studies. Chem Rev 1996; 96:1953-1976. [PMID: 11848817 DOI: 10.1021/cr941193+] [Citation(s) in RCA: 373] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Shammai Speiser
- Department of Chemistry, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
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Sanramé, CN, de Rossi RH, Argüello GA. Effect of β-Cyclodextrin on the Excited State Properties of 3-Substituted Indole Derivatives. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1996. [DOI: 10.1021/jp953369x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Szmacinski H, Wiczk W, Fishman MN, Eis PS, Lakowicz JR, Johnson ML. Distance distributions from the tyrosyl to disulfide residues in the oxytocin and [Arg8]-vasopressin measured using frequency-domain fluorescence resonance energy transfer. EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL : EBJ 1996; 24:185-93. [PMID: 8852563 PMCID: PMC6905183 DOI: 10.1007/bf00180276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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We have examined the fluorescence intensity decays of oxytocin and [Arg8]-vasopressin resulting from the single tyrosyl residue in each peptide, and the intensity decay of the Asu1,6-analogues in which the disulfide bridge is substituted by a CH2-CH2 bridge. Viscosity-dependent steady state and intensity decay measurements indicated that fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) from tyrosyl phenol to the disulfide bridge is responsible for the decrease in fluorescence relative to the Asu-analogues. The frequency-domain phase and modulation data for the tyrosyl donor were interpreted in terms of fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) to the weakly absorbing disulfide bridge and a distribution of donor-to-acceptor distances. Energy transfer efficiencies were determined from both time-resolved and steady-state measurements. Fitting the frequency-domain phase and modulation data to a Gaussian distance distribution indicated that the average inter-chromophoric distance (Rav) is similar in both compounds, Rav = 7.94 A for oxytocin and Rav = 8.00 A for vasopressin. However, the width of the distance distribution is narrower for vasopression (hw = 2.80 A) than for oxytocin (hw = 3.58 A), which is consistent with restriction of the tyrosine phenol motion due to its stacking wih the Phe3 side chain of vasopressin. Finally, the recovered distance distribution functions are compared with histograms describing the distance between the chromophores during the course of long, in vacuo, molecular dynamics runs using the computer program CHARMm and the QUANTA 3.0 parameters.
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- H Szmacinski
- Department of Biological Chemistry, Center for Fluorescence Spectroscopy, University of Maryland at Baltimore 21201, USA
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Amler E, Abbott A, Malak H, Lakowicz J, Ball WJ. The carbohydrate moieties of the beta-subunit of Na+, K(+)-ATPase: their lateral motions and proximity to the cardiac glycoside site. Biophys J 1996; 70:182-93. [PMID: 8770197 PMCID: PMC1224919 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(96)79562-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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The beta-subunit associated with the catalytic (alpha) subunit of the mammalian Na+, K(+) -ATPase is a transmembrane glycoprotein with three extracellularly located N-glycosylation sites. Although beta appears to be essential for a functional enzyme, the role of beta and its sugars remains unknown. In these studies, steady-state and dynamic fluorescence measurements of the fluorophore lucifer yellow (LY) covalently linked to the carbohydrate chains of beta have demonstrated that the bound probes are highly solvent exposed but restricted in their diffusional motions. Furthermore, the probes' environments on beta were not altered by Na+ or K+ or ouabain-induced enzyme conformational changes, but both divalent cation and oligomycin addition evoked modest changes in LY fluorescence. Frequency domain measurements reflecting the Förster fluorescence energy transfer (FET) occurring between anthroylouabain (AO) bound to the cardiac glycoside receptor site on alpha and the carbohydrate-linked LY demonstrated their close proximity (18 A). Additional FET determinations made between LY as donor and erythrosin-5-isothiocyanate, covalently bound at the enzyme's putative ATP binding site domain, indicated that a distance of about 85 A separates these two regions and that this distance is reduced upon divalent cation binding and increased upon the Na+E1-->K+E2 conformational transition. These data suggest a model for the localization of the terminal moieties of the oligosaccharides that places them, on average, about 18 A from the AO binding site and this distance or less from the extracellular membrane surface.
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- E Amler
- Department of Pharmacology and Cell Biophysics, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, Ohio 45267-0575, USA
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Zhao X, Kobayashi T, Malak H, Gryczynski I, Lakowicz J, Wade R, Collins JH. Calcium-induced troponin flexibility revealed by distance distribution measurements between engineered sites. J Biol Chem 1995; 270:15507-14. [PMID: 7797544 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.270.26.15507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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The contraction of vertebrate striated muscle is regulated by Ca2+ binding to troponin C (TnC). This causes conformational changes which alter the interaction of TnC with the inhibitory protein TnI and the tropomyosin-binding protein TnT. We have used the frequency domain method of fluorescence resonance energy transfer to measure TnT-TnC and TnT-TnI distances and distance distributions, in the presence of Ca2+, Mg2+, or EGTA, in TnC.TnI.TnT complexes. We reconstituted functional, ternary troponin complexes using the following recombinant subunits whose sequences were based on those of rabbit skeletal muscle: wild-type TnC; TnT25, a mutant C-terminal 25-kDa fragment of TnT containing a single Trp212 which was used as the sole donor for fluorescence energy transfer measurements; Trp-less TnI mutants which contained either no Cys or a single Cys at position 9, 96, or 117. Energy acceptor groups were introduced into TnC or TnI by labeling with dansyl aziridine or N-(iodoacetyl)-N'-(1-sulfo-5-naphthyl)ethylenediamine. Our results indicate that the troponin complex is relatively rigid in relaxed muscle, but becomes much more flexible when Ca2+ binds to regulatory sites in TnC. This increased flexibility may be propagated to the whole thin filament, releasing the inhibition of actomyosin ATPase activity and allowing the muscle to contract. This is the first report of distance distribution measurements between troponin subunits.
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- X Zhao
- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore 21201, USA
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Wu P, Brand L. Conformational flexibility in a staphylococcal nuclease mutant K45C from time-resolved resonance energy transfer measurements. Biochemistry 1994; 33:10457-62. [PMID: 8068683 DOI: 10.1021/bi00200a029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Thermal fluctuations exist in native proteins and other macromolecules in solution. Some may play a role in ligand or receptor binding, control rates of enzymatic catalysis, or define a range of conformations a segment can adopt in solution. We apply the method of time-resolved resonance energy transfer to study the conformational flexibility of a staphylococcal nuclease mutant, K45C, where lysine 45 located at a flexible loop is replaced by a cysteine. We labeled the thiol group with DTNB (5,5'-dithiobis(2-nitrobenzoic acid)) and used the TNB group covalently attached to the protein as an energy acceptor from a single tryptophan at residue 140 as the donor. Conformational flexibility occurring on the time scale of nanoseconds or longer is dispersed as an apparent distance distribution in time-resolved resonance energy transfer measurements. Below room temperature the apparent distance distribution was fitted with a symmetric Lorentzian model with a full width at half maximum height of about 6 A, indicating substantial degrees of heterogeneity between residues 45 and 140. At room or higher temperature where the protein is in its native state, the apparent distance distribution is asymmetric, indicating the presence of static disorders. Segments in the protein that contribute to the static disorder can be converted to mobile ones with the addition of denaturing guanidinium chloride.
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- P Wu
- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218
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Lakowicz JR, Gryczynski I, Laczko G, Wiczk W, Johnson ML. Distribution of distances between the tryptophan and the N-terminal residue of melittin in its complex with calmodulin, troponin C, and phospholipids. Protein Sci 1994; 3:628-37. [PMID: 8003981 PMCID: PMC2142859 DOI: 10.1002/pro.5560030411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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We used frequency-domain measurements of fluorescence resonance energy transfer to measure the distribution of distances between Trp-19 of melittin and a 1-dimethylamino-5-sulfonylnaphthalene (dansyl) residue on the N-terminal-alpha-amino group. Distance distributions were obtained for melittin free in solution and when complexed with calmodulin (CaM), troponin C (TnC), or palmitoyloleoyl-L-alpha-phosphatidylcholine (POPC) vesicles. A wide range of donor (Trp-19)-to-acceptor (dansyl) distances was found for free melittin, which is consistent with that expected for the random coil state, characterized by a Gaussian width (full width at half maxima) of 28.2 A. In contrast, narrow distance distributions were found for melittin complexed with CaM, 8.2 A, or with POPC vesicles, 4.9 A. A somewhat wider distribution was found for the melittin complex with TnC, 12.8 A, suggesting the presence of heterogeneity in the mode of binding between melittin and TnC. For all the complexes the mean Trp-19 to dansyl distance was near 20 A. This value is somewhat smaller than expected for the free alpha-helical state of melittin, suggesting that binding with CaM or TnC results in a modest decrease in the length of the melittin molecule.
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- J R Lakowicz
- Department of Biological Chemistry, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore 21201
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This article discusses several strategies for the use steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence methods to monitor unfolding transitions in proteins. The assumptions and limitations of several methods are discussed. Simulations are presented to show that certain fluorescence observables directly track the population of states in an unfolding transition, whereas other observables skew the transition toward the dominant fluorescing species. Several examples are given, involving the unfolding of Staphylococcal aureus nuclease A, in which thermodynamic information is obtained for the temperature and denaturant induced transitions in this protein.
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- M R Eftink
- Department of Chemistry, University of Mississippi, University 38677
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Lakowicz JR, Gryczynski I, Kuśba J, Wiczk W, Szmacinski H, Johnson ML. Site-to-site diffusion in proteins as observed by energy transfer and frequency-domain fluorometry. Photochem Photobiol 1994; 59:16-29. [PMID: 8127937 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1994.tb04996.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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We report measurements of the site-to-site diffusion coefficients in proteins and model compounds, which were measured using time-dependent energy transfer and frequency-domain fluorometry. The possibility of measuring these diffusion coefficients were shown from simulations, which demonstrate that donor (D)-to-acceptor (A) diffusion alters the donor frequency response, and that this effect is observable in the presence of a distribution of donor-to-acceptor distances. For decay times typical of tryptophan fluorescence, the simulations indicate that D-A diffusion coefficients can be measured ranging from 10(-7) to 10(-5) cm2/s. This possibility was verified by studies of a methylene-chain linked D-A pair in solutions of varying viscosity. The D-A diffusion was also measured for two labeled peptides and two proteins, melittin and troponin I. In most cases we used global analysis of data sets obtained with varying amounts of collisional quenchers to vary the donor decay time. Unfolding of troponin I results in more rapid D-A diffusion, whereas for melittin more rapid diffusion was observed in the alpha-helical state but over a limited range of distances.
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- J R Lakowicz
- University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Biological Chemistry, Baltimore 21201
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Kuśba J, Lakowicz JR. Diffusion-modulated energy transfer and quenching: analysis by numerical integration of diffusion equation in laplace space. Methods Enzymol 1994; 240:216-62. [PMID: 7823833 DOI: 10.1016/s0076-6879(94)40051-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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- J Kuśba
- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore 21201
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Wu PG, James E, Brand L. Compact thermally-denatured state of a staphylococcal nuclease mutant from resonance energy transfer measurements. Biophys Chem 1993; 48:123-33. [PMID: 8298051 DOI: 10.1016/0301-4622(93)85004-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Thermal denaturation of a staphylococcal nuclease mutant K78C, where lysine 78 is replaced by cysteine, was studied by circular dichroism (CD) and resonance energy transfer. CD spectra suggest that residual structures remain in the denatured state. Steady-state energy transfer from intrinsic tyrosines to a single and intrinsic tryptophan was measured at different temperatures. In the thermally-denatured state of K78C, there is still a substantial degree of energy transfer from tyrosine(s) to tryptophan, indicating residual structures in the denatured state. The cysteine residue in mutant K78C was labeled with a cysteine specific probe IAEDANS. Fluorescence decays of the tryptophan were measured to estimate distance distributions between Trp 140 and IAEDANS at position 78. Measurements were done as a function of temperature from 4 degrees C (native) to 65 degrees C (denatured) both with and without Ca2+ and inhibitor pdTp. Below 30 degrees C, the apparent distance distribution of both the ligand-free nuclease and the enzyme with bound pdTp can be adequately described by a Gaussian model. Above 40 degrees C, where the ligand-free nuclease but not the ternary complex begins to denature, two different populations are required to fit the data both with and without pdTp. One population has a compact structure and the other has an expanded structure. As temperature rises, the population of the expanded structure increases. At the highest temperature, the non-native compact structure is still the major form (60 to 70%). The overall thermally-denatured states of staphylococcal nuclease mutant K78C in the absence and presence of ligands are thus compact and heterogeneous.
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- P G Wu
- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218
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Maliwal BP, Lakowicz JR, Kupryszewski G, Rekowski P. Fluorescence study of conformational flexibility of RNase S-peptide: distance-distribution, end-to-end diffusion, and anisotropy decays. Biochemistry 1993; 32:12337-45. [PMID: 8241120 PMCID: PMC6822270 DOI: 10.1021/bi00097a009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Frequency-domain fluorescence resonance energy transfer and anisotropy measurements were performed to characterize conformational dynamics of an analog of the RNase S-peptide (residues 1-20). Trp was used as a donor by replacing Phe 8, and a dansyl acceptor group was introduced at position 1 or 18. The distance-distribution parameters, half width of the distribution, end-to-end diffusion coefficient, and to some extent anisotropy decays were sensitive to changes in the S-peptide conformation. The observed mean distance of about 13-14 A between residues 1 and 8 in the presence of 50% TFE and when bound to RNase S-protein is in reasonable accord with the X-ray structure of RNase. The mean distance of 9.3 A between residues 8 and 18 in the presence of 50% TFE is, however, significantly smaller than 15.3 A found for the S-protein complex. The half-width of the distance distribution increased from about 9 to 18 A for residues 1-8 and from about 6 to 14 A for segment 8-18 with the loss of helical structure. The half-widths of 9 A in the case of 1-8 segment when peptide is helical suggests the presence of considerable conformational heterogeneity. Also, the 14 A half-width for segment 8-18 when it is random-coil is smaller than that expected for a random coil 11-residue segment. The donor-to-acceptor diffusion coefficients were less than 1 x 10(-7) cm2/s at 2 degrees C for both segments and increased to 1-2 x 10(-6) cm2/s at 35 degrees C.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- B P Maliwal
- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore 21201
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Eis PS, Lakowicz JR. Time-resolved energy transfer measurements of donor-acceptor distance distributions and intramolecular flexibility of a CCHH zinc finger peptide. Biochemistry 1993; 32:7981-93. [PMID: 8347602 PMCID: PMC6897574 DOI: 10.1021/bi00082a020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Time-resolved frequency-domain fluorescence energy transfer measurements have been used to investigate the solution structure of a single-domain CCHH-type zinc finger peptide. These measurements reveal not only the range of accessible distances for a given donor-acceptor pair within the molecule but also the degree of conformational flexibility that occurs in solution. Two donor-acceptor (D-A)-pair zinc finger peptides have been synthesized. A single tryptophan residue located at the midpoint of the sequence was the energy donor for two different acceptors. One acceptor, attached at the amino terminus was a 5-(dimethylamino)-1-naphthalenesulfonyl (DNS) group; the second acceptor was a 7-amino-4-methyl-coumarin-3-acetyl (AMCA) group, attached to the epsilon-amino function of a carboxy-terminal lysine residue. Distance distributions and the mutual site-to-site diffusion coefficients were determined for these two D-A-labeled peptides under zinc-bound, metal-free, and denatured conditions. The D-A distance distributions determined for these two peptides under metal-free and zinc-bound conditions indicated a shorter distance and a unique conformation (narrow distribution) when metal was bound and a longer distance with greater conformational flexibility when metal ion was absent. No site-to-site diffusion was detected for the zinc-bound peptide, whereas an appreciable amount of diffusion was measured for both metal-free and denatured peptide. Anisotropy measurements on the peptides indicated increased flexibility of all regions of the peptide chain in the absence of zinc and a more compact, less flexible structure when zinc was bound. It was concluded from these results that the metal-bound conformation represents a unique, well-defined structure. Comparison of distance distributions measured for metal-free and denatured peptide indicated that there is some residual structure present in the metal-free peptide.
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- P S Eis
- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Baltimore 21201
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