2zfe

Crystal structure of bacteriorhodopsin-xenon complexCrystal structure of bacteriorhodopsin-xenon complex

Structural highlights 2zfe is a 1 chain structure with sequence from Halobacterium salinarum. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Method: X-ray diffraction, Resolution 2.5Å Ligands: , , , , , , , Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT Function BACR_HALSA Light-driven proton pump. Evolutionary Conservation Check, as determined by ConSurfDB. You may read the explanation of the method and the full data available from ConSurf. Publication Abstract from PubMed To understand the functional role of apolar cavities in bacteriorhodopsin, a light-driven proton pump found in Halobacterium salinarum, we investigated the crystal structure in pressurized xenon or krypton. Diffraction data from the P622 crystal showed that one Xe or Kr atom binds to a preexisting hydrophobic cavity buried between helices C and D, located at the same depth from the membrane surface as Asp96, a key residue in the proton uptake pathway. The occupation fraction of Xe or Kr was calculated as approximately 0.32 at a pressure of 1 MPa. In the unphotolyzed state, the binding of Xe or Kr caused no large deformation of the cavity. However, the proton pumping cycle was greatly perturbed when an aqueous suspension of purple membrane was pressurized with xenon gas; that is, the decay of the M state was accelerated significantly (~5 times at full occupancy), while the decay of an equilibrium state of N and O was slightly decelerated. A similar but much smaller perturbation in the reaction kinetics was observed upon pressurization with krypton gas. In a glycerol/water mixture, xenon-induced acceleration of M decay became less significant in proportion to the water activity. Together with the structure of the xenon-bound protein, these observations suggest that xenon binding helps water molecules permeate into apolar cavities in the proton uptake pathway, thereby accelerating the water-mediated proton transfer from Asp96 to the Schiff base. Effect of xenon binding to a hydrophobic cavity on the proton pumping cycle in bacteriorhodopsin.,Hayakawa N, Kasahara T, Hasegawa D, Yoshimura K, Murakami M, Kouyama T J Mol Biol. 2008 Dec 26;384(4):812-23. Epub 2008 Oct 9. PMID:18930734 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See Also Bacteriorhodopsin 3D structures

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