Abstract
We characterized the dynamics of proteorhodopsin (PR), solubilized in diC7PC, a detergent micelle, by liquid-state NMR spectroscopy at T = 323 K. Insights into the dynamics of PR at different time scales could be obtained and dynamic hot spots could be identified at distinct, functionally relevant regions of the protein, including the BC loop, the EF loop, the N-terminal part of helix F and the C-terminal part of helix G. We further characterize the dependence of the photocycle on different detergents (n-Dodecyl β-D-maltoside DDM; 1,2-diheptanoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine diC7PC) by ultrafast time-resolved UV/VIS spectroscopy. While the photocycle intermediates of PR in diC7PC and DDM exhibit highly similar spectral characteristics, significant changes in the population of these intermediates are observed. In-situ NMR experiments have been applied to characterize structural changes during the photocycle. Light-induced chemical shift changes detected during the photocycle in diC7PC are very small, in line with the changes in the population of intermediates in the photocycle of proteorhodopsin in diC7PC, where the late O-intermediate populated in DDM is missing and the population is shifted towards an equilibrium of intermediates states (M, N, O) without accumulation of a single populated intermediate.
Abbreviations
- PR:
-
Proteorhodopsin
- BR:
-
Bacteriorhodopsin
- FT:
-
Fourier transform
- IR:
-
Infrared
- diC7PC:
-
1,2-diheptanoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine
- DDM:
-
n-Dodecyl β-d-maltoside
- NMR:
-
Nuclear magnetic resonance
- MES:
-
2-(N-morpholino)ethanesulfonic acid
- SRII:
-
Sensory rhodopsin II
- UV:
-
Ultra violet
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This work was supported by the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Center 807; DFG-funded Center of Excellence: Macromolecular Complexes; Joint Research Activities in EU-funded project Bio-NMR. We thank Robert Silvers and Tanja Stehle for very insightful discussions.
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Stehle, J., Scholz, F., Löhr, F. et al. Characterization of the ground state dynamics of proteorhodopsin by NMR and optical spectroscopies. J Biomol NMR 54, 401–413 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10858-012-9684-8
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