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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2010

A conserved helical capping hydrogen bond in PAS domains controls signaling kinetics in the superfamily prototype photoactive yellow protein.

Masato Kumauchi, Sandip Kaledhonkar, Andrew F Philip, James Wycoff, Miwa Hara, Yunxing Li, Aihua Xie, Wouter D Hoff

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Masato KumauchiDepartment of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078, United States.
Sandip Kaledhonkar
Andrew F Philip
James Wycoff
Miwa Hara
Yunxing Li
Aihua Xie
Wouter D Hoff

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Partial Protein Unfolding as a Novel Signaling MechanismR01GM063805 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI HOFF, WOUTER D · 2001 to 2005
$1.1M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM063805NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM063805
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PAS domains form a divergent protein superfamily with more than 20 000 members that perform a wide array of sensing and regulatory functions in all three domains of life. Only nine residues are well-conserved in PAS domains, with an Asn residue at the start of α-helix 3 showing the strongest conservation. The molecular functions of these nine conserved residues are unknown. We use static and time-resolved visible and FTIR spectroscopy to investigate receptor activation in the photosensor photoactive yellow protein (PYP), a PAS domain prototype. The N43A and N43S mutants allow an investigation of the role of side-chain hydrogen bonding at this conserved position. The mutants exhibit a blue-shifted visible absorbance maximum and up-shifted chromophore pK(a). Disruption of the hydrogen bonds in N43A PYP causes both a reduction in protein stability and a 3400-fold increase in the lifetime of the signaling state of this photoreceptor. A significant part of this increase in lifetime can be attributed to the helical capping interaction of Asn43. This extends the known importance of helical capping for protein structure to regulating functional protein kinetics. A model for PYP activation has been proposed in which side-chain hydrogen bonding of Asn43 is critical for relaying light-induced conformational changes. However, FTIR spectroscopy shows that both Asn43 mutants retain full allosteric transmission of structural changes. Analysis of 30 available high-resolution structures of PAS domains reveals that the side-chain hydrogen bonding of residue 43 but not residue identity is highly conserved and suggests that its helical cap affects signaling kinetics in other PAS domains.

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Amino Acid SequenceConserved SequenceHydrogen BondingKineticsModels, MolecularMolecular Sequence DataPhotoreceptors, MicrobialSequence AlignmentSignal TransductionSpectroscopy, Fourier Transform InfraredPhotoreceptors, Microbial

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