Spectroscopic evidence for altered chromophore--protein interactions in low-temperature photoproducts of the visual pigment responsible for congenital night blindness

Biochemistry
K FahmyFriedrich Siebert

Abstract

The replacement of Gly90 by Asp in human rhodopsin causes congenital night blindness. It has been suggested that the molecular origin for the trait is an altered electrostatic environment of the protonated retinal Schiff base chromophore. We have investigated the corresponding recombinant bovine rhodopsin mutant G90D, as well as the related mutants E113A and G90D/E113A, using spectroscopy at low temperature. This allows the assessment of chromophore-protein interactions under conditions where conformational changes are mainly restricted to the retinal-binding site. Each of the mutant pigments formed bathorhodopsin- and isorhodopsin-like intermediates, but the concomitant visible absorption changes reflected differences in the electrostatic environment of the protonated Schiff base in each pigment. Fourier transform infrared-difference spectroscopy revealed effects on the chromophore fingerprint and hydrogen-out-of-plane vibrational modes, which were indicative of the removal of an electrostatic perturbation near C12 of the retinal chromophore in all three mutants. A comparison of the UV-visible and infrared-difference spectra of the mutant pigments strongly suggests that Glu113 is stably protonated in G90D. The corresponding ca...Continue Reading

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