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Biochim Biophys Acta ; 1858(9): 2140-2144, 2016 09.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27342374

RESUMO

Methanogenic archaea share one ion gradient forming reaction in their energy metabolism catalyzed by the membrane-spanning multisubunit complex N(5)-methyl-tetrahydromethanopterin: coenzyme M methyltransferase (MtrABCDEFGH or simply Mtr). In this reaction the methyl group transfer from methyl-tetrahydromethanopterin to coenzyme M mediated by cobalamin is coupled with the vectorial translocation of Na(+) across the cytoplasmic membrane. No detailed structural and mechanistic data are reported about this process. In the present work we describe a procedure to provide a highly pure and homogenous Mtr complex on the basis of a selective removal of the only soluble subunit MtrH with the membrane perturbing agent dimethyl maleic anhydride and a subsequent two-step chromatographic purification. A molecular mass determination of the Mtr complex by laser induced liquid bead ion desorption mass spectrometry (LILBID-MS) and size exclusion chromatography coupled with multi-angle light scattering (SEC-MALS) resulted in a (MtrABCDEFG)3 heterotrimeric complex of ca. 430kDa with both techniques. Taking into account that the membrane protein complex contains various firmly bound small molecules, predominantly detergent molecules, the stoichiometry of the subunits is most likely 1:1. A schematic model for the subunit arrangement within the MtrABCDEFG protomer was deduced from the mass of Mtr subcomplexes obtained by harsh IR-laser LILBID-MS.


Assuntos
Proteínas Arqueais/química , Coenzimas/química , Proteínas de Membrana/química , Methanobacteriaceae/química , Metiltransferases/química , Pterinas/química , Proteínas Arqueais/metabolismo , Coenzimas/metabolismo , Espectrometria de Massas , Proteínas de Membrana/metabolismo , Methanobacteriaceae/metabolismo , Metiltransferases/metabolismo , Pterinas/metabolismo
2.
J Biol Chem ; 289(8): 5145-57, 2014 Feb 21.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24379410

RESUMO

Electron bifurcation is a fundamental strategy of energy coupling originally discovered in the Q-cycle of many organisms. Recently a flavin-based electron bifurcation has been detected in anaerobes, first in clostridia and later in acetogens and methanogens. It enables anaerobic bacteria and archaea to reduce the low-potential [4Fe-4S] clusters of ferredoxin, which increases the efficiency of the substrate level and electron transport phosphorylations. Here we characterize the bifurcating electron transferring flavoprotein (EtfAf) and butyryl-CoA dehydrogenase (BcdAf) of Acidaminococcus fermentans, which couple the exergonic reduction of crotonyl-CoA to butyryl-CoA to the endergonic reduction of ferredoxin both with NADH. EtfAf contains one FAD (α-FAD) in subunit α and a second FAD (ß-FAD) in subunit ß. The distance between the two isoalloxazine rings is 18 Å. The EtfAf-NAD(+) complex structure revealed ß-FAD as acceptor of the hydride of NADH. The formed ß-FADH(-) is considered as the bifurcating electron donor. As a result of a domain movement, α-FAD is able to approach ß-FADH(-) by about 4 Å and to take up one electron yielding a stable anionic semiquinone, α-FAD, which donates this electron further to Dh-FAD of BcdAf after a second domain movement. The remaining non-stabilized neutral semiquinone, ß-FADH(•), immediately reduces ferredoxin. Repetition of this process affords a second reduced ferredoxin and Dh-FADH(-) that converts crotonyl-CoA to butyryl-CoA.


Assuntos
Acidaminococcus/enzimologia , Biocatálise , Butiril-CoA Desidrogenase/metabolismo , Flavoproteínas Transferidoras de Elétrons/metabolismo , Elétrons , Butiril-CoA Desidrogenase/química , Cristalografia por Raios X , Transporte de Elétrons , Flavoproteínas Transferidoras de Elétrons/química , Eletroforese em Gel de Poliacrilamida , Ferredoxinas/química , Ferredoxinas/metabolismo , Flavina-Adenina Dinucleotídeo/química , Flavina-Adenina Dinucleotídeo/metabolismo , Flavinas/química , Flavinas/metabolismo , Cinética , Modelos Biológicos , Simulação de Acoplamento Molecular , Estrutura Secundária de Proteína , Estrutura Terciária de Proteína , Proteínas Recombinantes/química , Proteínas Recombinantes/metabolismo , Espectrofotometria Ultravioleta
3.
Biochemistry ; 51(42): 8435-43, 2012 Oct 23.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23013430

RESUMO

Methenyltetrahydromethanopterin (methenyl-H(4)MPT(+)) cyclohydrolase (Mch) catalyzes the interconversion of methenyl-H(4)MPT(+) and formyl-H(4)MPT in the one-carbon energy metabolism of methanogenic, methanotrophic, and sulfate-reducing archaea and of methylotrophic bacteria. To understand the catalytic mechanism of this reaction, we kinetically characterized site-specific variants of Mch from Archaeoglobus fulgidus (aMch) and determined the X-ray structures of the substrate-free aMch(E186Q), the aMch:H(4)MPT complex, and the aMch(E186Q):formyl-H(4)MPT complex. (Formyl-)H(4)MPT is embedded inside a largely preformed, interdomain pocket of the homotrimeric enzyme with the pterin and benzyl rings being oriented nearly perpendicular to each other. The active site is primarily built up by the segment 93:95, Arg183 and Glu186 that either interact with the catalytic water attacking methenyl-H(4)MPT(+) or with the formyl oxygen of formyl-H(4)MPT. The catalytic function of the strictly conserved Arg183 and Glu186 was substantiated by the low enzymatic activities of the E186A, E186D, E186N, E186Q, R183A, R183Q, R183E, R183K, and R183E-E186Q variants. Glu186 most likely acts as a general base. Arg183 decisively influences the pK(a) value of Glu186 and the proposed catalytic water mainly by its positive charge. In addition, Glu186 appears to be also responsible for product specificity by donating a proton to the directly neighbored N(10) tertiary amine of H(4)MPT. Thus, N(10) becomes a better leaving group than N(5) which implies the generation of N(5)-formyl-H(4)MPT. For comparison, methenyltetrahydrofolate (H(4)F) cyclohydrolase produces N(10)-formyl-H(4)F in an analogous reaction. An enzymatic mechanism of Mch is postulated and compared with that of other cyclohydrolases.


Assuntos
Aminoidrolases/metabolismo , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Aminoidrolases/química , Aminoidrolases/genética , Catálise , Domínio Catalítico , Euryarchaeota/enzimologia , Cinética , Pterinas/metabolismo
4.
Structure ; 26(1): 20-27.e3, 2018 01 02.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29249605

RESUMO

Eukaryotic cyclic nucleotide-modulated channels perform their diverse physiological roles by opening and closing their pores to ions in response to cyclic nucleotide binding. We here present a structural model for the cyclic nucleotide-modulated potassium channel homolog from Mesorhizobium loti, MloK1, determined from 2D crystals in the presence of lipids. Even though crystals diffract electrons to only ∼10 Å, using cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM) and recently developed computational methods, we have determined a 3D map of full-length MloK1 in the presence of cyclic AMP (cAMP) at ∼4.5 Å isotropic 3D resolution. The structure provides a clear picture of the arrangement of the cyclic nucleotide-binding domains with respect to both the pore and the putative voltage sensor domains when cAMP is bound, and reveals a potential gating mechanism in the context of the lipid-embedded channel.


Assuntos
Proteínas de Bactérias/química , AMP Cíclico/química , Bicamadas Lipídicas/química , Mesorhizobium/química , Canais de Potássio de Abertura Dependente da Tensão da Membrana/química , Potássio/química , Proteínas de Bactérias/genética , Proteínas de Bactérias/metabolismo , Sítios de Ligação , Proteínas de Caenorhabditis elegans/química , Proteínas de Caenorhabditis elegans/genética , Proteínas de Caenorhabditis elegans/metabolismo , Clonagem Molecular , Microscopia Crioeletrônica/métodos , AMP Cíclico/metabolismo , Escherichia coli/genética , Escherichia coli/metabolismo , Expressão Gênica , Vetores Genéticos/química , Vetores Genéticos/metabolismo , Canais Disparados por Nucleotídeos Cíclicos Ativados por Hiperpolarização/química , Canais Disparados por Nucleotídeos Cíclicos Ativados por Hiperpolarização/genética , Canais Disparados por Nucleotídeos Cíclicos Ativados por Hiperpolarização/metabolismo , Processamento de Imagem Assistida por Computador/métodos , Ativação do Canal Iônico , Canais Iônicos/química , Canais Iônicos/genética , Canais Iônicos/metabolismo , Bicamadas Lipídicas/metabolismo , Mesorhizobium/metabolismo , Modelos Moleculares , Potássio/metabolismo , Canais de Potássio/química , Canais de Potássio/genética , Canais de Potássio/metabolismo , Canais de Potássio de Abertura Dependente da Tensão da Membrana/genética , Canais de Potássio de Abertura Dependente da Tensão da Membrana/metabolismo , Ligação Proteica , Conformação Proteica em alfa-Hélice , Conformação Proteica em Folha beta , Domínios e Motivos de Interação entre Proteínas , Multimerização Proteica , Proteínas Recombinantes/química , Proteínas Recombinantes/genética , Proteínas Recombinantes/metabolismo , Homologia Estrutural de Proteína , Termodinâmica
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J Gen Physiol ; 148(2): 119-32, 2016 08.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27432996

RESUMO

The process of ion channel gating-opening and closing-involves local and global structural changes in the channel in response to external stimuli. Conformational changes depend on the energetic landscape that underlies the transition between closed and open states, which plays a key role in ion channel gating. For the prokaryotic, pH-gated potassium channel KcsA, closed and open states have been extensively studied using structural and functional methods, but the dynamics within each of these functional states as well as the transition between them is not as well understood. In this study, we used solution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to investigate the conformational transitions within specific functional states of KcsA. We incorporated KcsA channels into lipid bicelles and stabilized them into a closed state by using either phosphatidylcholine lipids, known to favor the closed channel, or mutations designed to trap the channel shut by disulfide cross-linking. A distinct state, consistent with an open channel, was uncovered by the addition of cardiolipin lipids. Using selective amino acid labeling at locations within the channel that are known to move during gating, we observed at least two different slowly interconverting conformational states for both closed and open channels. The pH dependence of these conformations and the predictable disruptions to this dependence observed in mutant channels with altered pH sensing highlight the importance of conformational heterogeneity for KcsA gating.


Assuntos
Proteínas de Bactérias/metabolismo , Lipídeos , Canais de Potássio/metabolismo , Cristalografia por Raios X , Ativação do Canal Iônico , Conformação Proteica
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