Inward-facing glycine residues create sharp turns in β-barrel membrane proteins.

Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta. Biomembranes
Zijian ZhangJames C Gumbart

Abstract

The transmembrane region of outer-membrane proteins (OMPs) of Gram-negative bacteria are almost exclusively β-barrels composed of between 8 and 26 β-strands. To explore the relationship between β-barrel size and shape, we modeled and simulated engineered variants of the Escherichia coli protein OmpX with 8, 10, 12, 14, and 16 β-strands. We found that while smaller barrels maintained a roughly circular shape, the 16-stranded variant developed a flattened cross section. This flat cross section impeded its ability to conduct ions, in agreement with previous experimental observations. Flattening was determined to arise from the presence of inward-facing glycines at sharp turns in the β-barrel. An analysis of all simulations revealed that glycines, on average, make significantly smaller angles with residues on neighboring strands than all other amino acids, including alanine, and create sharp turns in β-barrel cross sections. This observation was generalized to 119 unique structurally resolved OMPs. We also found that the fraction of glycines in β-barrels decreases as the strand number increases, suggesting an evolutionary role for the addition or removal of glycine in OMP sequences.

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