TY - JOUR
T1 - Characterisation of denatured states of sensory rhodopsin II by solution-state NMR
AU - Tan, Yi Lei
AU - Mitchell, James
AU - Klein-Seetharaman, Judith
AU - Nietlispach, Daniel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2019/7/12
Y1 - 2019/7/12
N2 - Sensory rhodopsin II (pSRII), a retinal-binding photophobic receptor from Natronomonas pharaonis, is a novel model system for membrane protein folding studies. Recently, the SDS-denatured states and the kinetics for reversible unfolding of pSRII have been investigated, opening the door to the first detailed characterisation of denatured states of a membrane protein by solution-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) using uniformly 15N-labelled pSRII. SDS denaturation and acid denaturation of pSRII both lead to fraying of helix ends but otherwise small structural changes in the transmembrane domain, consistent with little changes in secondary structure and disruption of the retinal-binding pocket and tertiary structure. Widespread changes in the backbone amide dynamics are detected in the form of line broadening, indicative of μs-to-ms timescale conformational exchange in the transmembrane region. Detailed analysis of chemical shift and intensity changes lead to high-resolution molecular insights on structural and dynamics changes in SDS- and acid-denatured pSRII, thus highlighting differences in the unfolding pathways under the two different denaturing conditions. These results will form the foundation for furthering our understanding on the folding and unfolding pathways of retinal-binding proteins and membrane proteins in general, and also for investigating the importance of ligand-binding in the folding pathways of other ligand-binding membrane proteins, such as GPCRs.
AB - Sensory rhodopsin II (pSRII), a retinal-binding photophobic receptor from Natronomonas pharaonis, is a novel model system for membrane protein folding studies. Recently, the SDS-denatured states and the kinetics for reversible unfolding of pSRII have been investigated, opening the door to the first detailed characterisation of denatured states of a membrane protein by solution-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) using uniformly 15N-labelled pSRII. SDS denaturation and acid denaturation of pSRII both lead to fraying of helix ends but otherwise small structural changes in the transmembrane domain, consistent with little changes in secondary structure and disruption of the retinal-binding pocket and tertiary structure. Widespread changes in the backbone amide dynamics are detected in the form of line broadening, indicative of μs-to-ms timescale conformational exchange in the transmembrane region. Detailed analysis of chemical shift and intensity changes lead to high-resolution molecular insights on structural and dynamics changes in SDS- and acid-denatured pSRII, thus highlighting differences in the unfolding pathways under the two different denaturing conditions. These results will form the foundation for furthering our understanding on the folding and unfolding pathways of retinal-binding proteins and membrane proteins in general, and also for investigating the importance of ligand-binding in the folding pathways of other ligand-binding membrane proteins, such as GPCRs.
KW - Backbone amides
KW - Chemical shifts
KW - Folding
KW - Membrane proteins
KW - Transmembrane helices
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jmb.2019.04.039
DO - 10.1016/j.jmb.2019.04.039
M3 - Article
C2 - 31071327
AN - SCOPUS:85066452475
SN - 0022-2836
VL - 431
SP - 2790
EP - 2809
JO - Journal of molecular biology
JF - Journal of molecular biology
IS - 15
ER -