Refolding of bacteriorhodopsin from expressed polypeptide fragments.

The Journal of Biological Chemistry
T Marti

Abstract

Bacteriorhodopsin is a heptahelical membrane protein that can be refolded to the native state following denaturation. To analyze the in vitro folding process with independent structural domains, eight fragments comprising two (AB, FG), three (AC, EG), four (AD, DG) or five (AE, CG) of the transmembrane segments were produced by expression in Escherichia coli. The polypeptides were purified to homogeneity by solvent extraction of E. coli membranes, repeated phase separation, and anion-exchange chromatography employing the C-terminal tail of bacteriorhodopsin for adsorption. Upon reconstitution into phospholipid/detergent micelles pairs of complementary fragments (AB.CG, AC.DG, AD.EG, and AE.FG) assembled in the presence of retinal to regenerate the characteristic bacteriorhodopsin chromophore with high efficiency. Together with previous studies, these results demonstrate that the covalent connections in each of the six interhelical loops are dispensable for a correct association of the helices. The different loops, however, contribute to the stability of the folded structure, as shown by increased susceptibilities toward denaturation in SDS and at acidic pH, and decreased Schiff base pKa values for the AB.CG, AC. DG, AD.EG, and ...Continue Reading

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