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Ligand-induced conformational changes in the bacillus subtilis chemoreceptor mcpb determined by disulfide crosslinking in vivo

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authors

  • Szurmant, Hendrik
  • Bunn, M. W.
  • Cho, S. H.
  • Ordal, G. W.

publication date

  • December 2004

journal

  • Journal of Molecular Biology  Journal

abstract

  • Previously, we characterized the organization of the transmembrane (TM) domain of the Bacillus subtilis chemoreceptor McpB using disulfide crosslinking. Cysteine residues were engineered into serial positions along the two helices through the membrane, TM1 and TM2, as well as double mutants in TM1 and TM2, and the extent of crosslinking determined to characterize the organization of the TM domain. In this study, the organization of the TM domain was studied in the presence and absence of ligand to address what ligand-induced structural changes occur. We found that asparagine caused changes in crosslinking rate on all residues along the TM1-TM1' helical interface, whereas the crosslinking rate for almost all residues along the TM2-TM2' interface did not change. These results indicated that helix TM1 rotated counterclockwise and that TM2 did not move in respect to TM2' in the dimer on binding asparagine. Interestingly, intramolecular crosslinking of paired substitutions in 34/280 and 38/273 were unaffected by asparagine, demonstrating that attractant binding to McpB did not induce a "piston-like" vertical displacement of TM2 as seen for Trg and Tar in Escherichia coli. However, these paired substitutions produced oligomeric forms of receptor in response to ligand. This must be due to a shift of the interface between different receptor dimers, within previously suggested trimers of dimers, or even higher order complexes. Furthermore, the extent of disulfide bond formation in the presence of asparagine was unaffected by the presence of the methyl-modification enzymes, CheB and CheR, or the coupling proteins, CheW and CheV, demonstrating that these proteins must have local structural effects on the cytoplasmic domain that is not translated to the entire receptor. Finally, disulfide bond formation was also unaffected by binding proline to McpC. We conclude that ligand-binding induced a conformational change in the TM domain of McpB dimers as an excitation signal that is likely propagated within the cytoplasmic region of receptors and that subsequent adaptational events do not affect this new TM domain conformation.

subject areas

  • Animals
  • Asparagine
  • Bacillus subtilis
  • Bacterial Proteins
  • Chemoreceptor Cells
  • Cross-Linking Reagents
  • Cysteine
  • Disulfides
  • Ligands
  • Membrane Proteins
  • Mutation
  • Protein Conformation
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keywords

  • chemotaxis
  • conformational change
  • disulfide crosslinking
  • receptor
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Identity

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0022-2836

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/j.jmb.2004.09.093

PubMed ID

  • 15544802
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Additional Document Info

start page

  • 919

end page

  • 928

volume

  • 344

issue

  • 4

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