Models of toxic beta-sheet channels of protegrin-1 suggest a common subunit organization motif shared with toxic alzheimer beta-amyloid ion channels.

Biophysical Journal
Hyunbum JangRuth Nussinov

Abstract

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) induce cytotoxicity by altering membrane permeability. The electrical properties of membrane-associated AMPs as well as their cellular effects have been extensively documented; however their three-dimensional structure is poorly understood. Gaining insight into channel structures is important to the understanding of the protegrin-1 (PG-1) and other AMP cytolytic mechanisms, and to antibiotics design. We studied the beta-sheet channels morphology using molecular dynamics simulations. We modeled PG-1 channels as intrinsic barrel-stave and toroidal membrane pores, and simulated them in zwitterionic and anionic lipid bilayers. PG-1 channels consist of eight beta-hairpins in a consecutive NCCN (N and C represent the beta-hairpin's N- and C-termini) packing organization yielding antiparallel and parallel beta-sheet channels. Both channels preserve the toroidal, but not the barrel-stave pores. The two lipid leaflets of the bilayer bend toward each other at the channels' edges, producing a semitoroidal pore with the outward-pointing hydrophobic residues preventing the polar lipid headgroups from moving to the bilayer center. In all simulated lipid environments, PG-1 channels divide into four or five beta-s...Continue Reading

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