Interaction of transmembrane helices in ATP synthase subunit a in solution as revealed by spin label difference NMR

Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta
Oleg Y DmitrievRobert H Fillingame

Abstract

Subunit a in the membrane traversing F0 sector of Escherichia coli ATP synthase is known to fold with five transmembrane helices (TMHs) with residue 218 in TMH IV packing close to residue 248 in TMH V. In this study, we have introduced a spin label probe at Cys residues substituted at positions 222 or 223 and measured the effects on the Trp epsilon NH indole NMR signals of the seven Trp residues in the protein. The protein was purified and NMR experiments were carried out in a chloroform-methanol-H2O (4:4:1) solvent mixture. The spin label at positions 222 or 223 proved to broaden the signals of W231, W232, W235 and W241 located at the periplasmic ends of TMH IV and TMH V and the connecting loop between these helices. The broadening of W241 would require that the loop residues fold back on themselves in a hairpin-like structure much like it is predicted to fold in the native membrane. Placement of the spin label probe at several other positions also proved to have broadening effects on some of these Trp residues and provided additional constraints on folding of TMH IV and TMH V. The effects of the 223 probes on backbone amide resonances of subunit a were also measured by an HNCO experiment and the results are consistent with th...Continue Reading

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