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Rasmussen SG DeVree BT Zou Y Kruse AC Chung KY Kobilka TS Thian FS Chae PS Pardon E Calinski D Mathiesen JM Shah ST Lyons JA Caffrey M Gellman SH Steyaert J Skiniotis G Weis WI Sunahara RK Kobilka BK 《Nature》2011,477(7366):549-555
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are responsible for the majority of cellular responses to hormones and neurotransmitters as well as the senses of sight, olfaction and taste. The paradigm of GPCR signalling is the activation of a heterotrimeric GTP binding protein (G protein) by an agonist-occupied receptor. The β(2) adrenergic receptor (β(2)AR) activation of Gs, the stimulatory G protein for adenylyl cyclase, has long been a model system for GPCR signalling. Here we present the crystal structure of the active state ternary complex composed of agonist-occupied monomeric β(2)AR and nucleotide-free Gs heterotrimer. The principal interactions between the β(2)AR and Gs involve the amino- and carboxy-terminal α-helices of Gs, with conformational changes propagating to the nucleotide-binding pocket. The largest conformational changes in the β(2)AR include a 14 ? outward movement at the cytoplasmic end of transmembrane segment 6 (TM6) and an α-helical extension of the cytoplasmic end of TM5. The most surprising observation is a major displacement of the α-helical domain of Gαs relative to the Ras-like GTPase domain. This crystal structure represents the first high-resolution view of transmembrane signalling by a GPCR. 相似文献
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Coilín Boland Dianfan Li Syed Tasadaque Ali Shah Stefan Haberstock Volker Dötsch Frank Bernhard Martin Caffrey 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》2014,71(24):4895-4910
Membrane proteins are key elements in cell physiology and drug targeting, but getting a high-resolution structure by crystallographic means is still enormously challenging. Novel strategies are in big demand to facilitate the structure determination process that will ultimately hasten the day when sequence information alone can provide a three-dimensional model. Cell-free or in vitro expression enables rapid access to large quantities of high-quality membrane proteins suitable for an array of applications. Despite its impressive efficiency, to date only two membrane proteins produced by the in vitro approach have yielded crystal structures. Here, we have analysed synergies of cell-free expression and crystallisation in lipid mesophases for generating an X-ray structure of the integral membrane enzyme diacylglycerol kinase to 2.28-Å resolution. The quality of cellular and cell-free-expressed kinase samples has been evaluated systematically by comparing (1) spectroscopic properties, (2) purity and oligomer formation, (3) lipid content and (4) functionality. DgkA is the first membrane enzyme crystallised based on cell-free expression. The study provides a basic standard for the crystallisation of cell-free-expressed membrane proteins and the methods detailed here should prove generally useful and contribute to accelerating the pace at which membrane protein structures are solved. 相似文献
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Meriem El Ghachi Nicole Howe Rodolphe Auger Alexandre Lambion Annick Guiseppi François Delbrassine Guillaume Manat Sophie Roure Sabine Peslier Eric Sauvage Lutz Vogeley Juan-Carlos Rengifo-Gonzalez Paulette Charlier Dominique Mengin-Lecreulx Maryline Foglino Thierry Touzé Martin Caffrey Frédéric Kerff 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》2017,74(12):2319-2332
Type 2 phosphatidic acid phosphatases (PAP2s) can be either soluble or integral membrane enzymes. In bacteria, integral membrane PAP2s play major roles in the metabolisms of glycerophospholipids, undecaprenyl-phosphate (C55-P) lipid carrier and lipopolysaccharides. By in vivo functional experiments and biochemical characterization we show that the membrane PAP2 coded by the Bacillus subtilis yodM gene is the principal phosphatidylglycerol phosphate (PGP) phosphatase of B. subtilis. We also confirm that this enzyme, renamed bsPgpB, has a weaker activity on C55-PP. Moreover, we solved the crystal structure of bsPgpB at 2.25 Å resolution, with tungstate (a phosphate analog) in the active site. The structure reveals two lipid chains in the active site vicinity, allowing for PGP substrate modeling and molecular dynamic simulation. Site-directed mutagenesis confirmed the residues important for substrate specificity, providing a basis for predicting the lipids preferentially dephosphorylated by membrane PAP2s. 相似文献
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Rosenbaum DM Zhang C Lyons JA Holl R Aragao D Arlow DH Rasmussen SG Choi HJ Devree BT Sunahara RK Chae PS Gellman SH Dror RO Shaw DE Weis WI Caffrey M Gmeiner P Kobilka BK 《Nature》2011,469(7329):236-240
G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are eukaryotic integral membrane proteins that modulate biological function by initiating cellular signalling in response to chemically diverse agonists. Despite recent progress in the structural biology of GPCRs, the molecular basis for agonist binding and allosteric modulation of these proteins is poorly understood. Structural knowledge of agonist-bound states is essential for deciphering the mechanism of receptor activation, and for structure-guided design and optimization of ligands. However, the crystallization of agonist-bound GPCRs has been hampered by modest affinities and rapid off-rates of available agonists. Using the inactive structure of the human β(2) adrenergic receptor (β(2)AR) as a guide, we designed a β(2)AR agonist that can be covalently tethered to a specific site on the receptor through a disulphide bond. The covalent β(2)AR-agonist complex forms efficiently, and is capable of activating a heterotrimeric G protein. We crystallized a covalent agonist-bound β(2)AR-T4L fusion protein in lipid bilayers through the use of the lipidic mesophase method, and determined its structure at 3.5?? resolution. A comparison to the inactive structure and an antibody-stabilized active structure (companion paper) shows how binding events at both the extracellular and intracellular surfaces are required to stabilize an active conformation of the receptor. The structures are in agreement with long-timescale (up to 30?μs) molecular dynamics simulations showing that an agonist-bound active conformation spontaneously relaxes to an inactive-like conformation in the absence of a G protein or stabilizing antibody. 相似文献
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Yvon-Durocher G Caffrey JM Cescatti A Dossena M del Giorgio P Gasol JM Montoya JM Pumpanen J Staehr PA Trimmer M Woodward G Allen AP 《Nature》2012,487(7408):472-476
Ecosystem respiration is the biotic conversion of organic carbon to carbon dioxide by all of the organisms in an ecosystem, including both consumers and primary producers. Respiration exhibits an exponential temperature dependence at the subcellular and individual levels, but at the ecosystem level respiration can be modified by many variables including community abundance and biomass, which vary substantially among ecosystems. Despite its importance for predicting the responses of the biosphere to climate change, it is as yet unknown whether the temperature dependence of ecosystem respiration varies systematically between aquatic and terrestrial environments. Here we use the largest database of respiratory measurements yet compiled to show that the sensitivity of ecosystem respiration to seasonal changes in temperature is remarkably similar for diverse environments encompassing lakes, rivers, estuaries, the open ocean and forested and non-forested terrestrial ecosystems, with an average activation energy similar to that of the respiratory complex (approximately 0.65?electronvolts (eV)). By contrast, annual ecosystem respiration shows a substantially greater temperature dependence across aquatic (approximately 0.65?eV) versus terrestrial ecosystems (approximately 0.32?eV) that span broad geographic gradients in temperature. Using a model derived from metabolic theory, these findings can be reconciled by similarities in the biochemical kinetics of metabolism at the subcellular level, and fundamental differences in the importance of other variables besides temperature—such as primary productivity and allochthonous carbon inputs—on the structure of aquatic and terrestrial biota at the community level. 相似文献
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Structural studies of membranes and surface layers up to 1,000 A thick using X-ray standing waves 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
The X-ray standing wave (XSW) method, developed in the 1960s, was used originally to determine heavy atom positions in and on silicon and germanium single crystals. An X-ray standing wave generated by the interference of coherent incident and reflected beams excites X-ray fluorescence from the heavy atom, the intensity of which as a function of incident angle provides an indication of the atom's distance from the X-ray reflecting surface. The availability of X-ray mirrors and the ability to prepare layered synthetic microstructures has made possible the study of biologically relevant structures using the XSW technique on length scales of typically tens to hundreds of ?ngstr?ms, allowing heavy atoms in such structures to be located with ?ngstr?m or sub?ngstr?m resolution. Many model biological systems (such as Langmuir-Blodgett films, which mimic membranes) require access to still larger scales, but it is not obvious that an XSW will remain coherent over such length scales. Here we report studies of a lipid multilayer system using the XSW method, in which we have been able to locate the metal atoms in a zinc arachidate bilayer with ?ngstr?m resolution at a distance of almost 1,000 A above the surface of a gold mirror. Our results indicate that the XSW technique should be useful for structural studies of supramolecular aggregates, receptor-ligand interactions and multi-membrane stacks, in which length scales of this order are encountered. 相似文献
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Cytochrome c oxidase is a member of the haem copper oxidase superfamily (HCO). HCOs function as the terminal enzymes in the respiratory chain of mitochondria and aerobic prokaryotes, coupling molecular oxygen reduction to transmembrane proton pumping. Integral to the enzyme's function is the transfer of electrons from cytochrome c to the oxidase via a transient association of the two proteins. Electron entry and exit are proposed to occur from the same site on cytochrome c. Here we report the crystal structure of the caa3-type cytochrome oxidase from Thermus thermophilus, which has a covalently tethered cytochrome c domain. Crystals were grown in a bicontinuous mesophase using a synthetic short-chain monoacylglycerol as the hosting lipid. From the electron density map, at 2.36?? resolution, a novel integral membrane subunit and a native glycoglycerophospholipid embedded in the complex were identified. Contrary to previous electron transfer mechanisms observed for soluble cytochrome c, the structure reveals the architecture of the electron transfer complex for the fused cupredoxin/cytochrome c domain, which implicates different sites on cytochrome c for electron entry and exit. Support for an alternative to the classical proton gate characteristic of this HCO class is presented. 相似文献
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The Membrane Protein Data Bank (MPDB) is an online, searchable, relational database of structural and functional information
on integral, anchored and peripheral membrane proteins and peptides. Data originates from the Protein Data Bank and other
databases, and from the literature. Structures are based on X-ray and electron diffraction, nuclear magnetic resonance and
cryoelectron microscopy. The MPDB is searchable online by protein characteristic, structure determination method, crystallization
technique, detergent, temperature, pH, author, etc. Record entries are hyperlinked to the PDB and Pfam for viewing sequence,
three-dimensional structure and domain architecture, and for downloading coordinates. Links to PubMed are also provided. The
MPDB is updated weekly in parallel with the Protein Data Bank. Statistical analysis of MPDB records can be performed and viewed
online. A summary of the statistics as applied to entries in the MPDB is presented. The data suggest conditions appropriate
for crystallization trials with novel membrane proteins.
Received 3 August 2005; received after revision 18 September 2005; accepted 26 September 2005
This paper and the Membrane Protein Data Bank celebrate the 20th anniversary of the landmark paper in Nature (1985, 318: 618–624) describing the first ‘high-resolution’ three-dimensional structure of a membrane protein, the photosynthetic reaction
center from Rhodopseudomonas (Blastochloris) viridis. 相似文献
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