Computational analysis of alpha-helical membrane protein structure: implications for the prediction of 3D structural models

Protein Engineering, Design & Selection : PEDS
Tina A EyreJanet M Thornton

Abstract

Relatively little has been known about the structure of alpha-helical membrane proteins, since until recently few structures had been crystallized. These limited data have restricted structural analyses to the prediction of secondary structure, rather than tertiary folds. In order to address this, this paper describes an analysis of the 23 available membrane protein structures. A number of findings are made that are of particular relevance to transmembrane helix packing: (1) on average lipid-tail-accessible transmembrane residues are significantly more hydrophobic, less conserved and contain different residue types to buried residues; (2) charged residues are not always buried and, when accessible to membrane lipid tails, few are paired with another charge and instead they often interact with phospholipid head-groups or with other residue types; (3) a significant proportion of lipid-tail-accessible charged and polar residues form hydrogen bonds only with residues one turn away in the same helix (intra-helix); (4) pore-lining residues are usually hydrophobic and it is difficult to distinguish them from buried residues in terms of either residue type or conservation; and (5) information was gained about the proportion of helices ...Continue Reading

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