Three-dimensional structure analysis of mu-agatoxins: further evidence for common motifs among neurotoxins with diverse ion channel specificities

Biochemistry
D O OmecinskyM D Reily

Abstract

We report the solution structure of mu-agatoxin-I (mu-Aga-I) and model structures of the closely related mu-agatoxin-IV (mu-Aga-IV) which were isolated from venom of the American funnel web spider, Agelenopsis aperta. These toxins, which modify the kinetics of neuronal voltage-activated sodium channels in insects, are C-terminally amidated peptides composed to 36 amino acids, including four internal disulfide bonds. The structure of mu-Aga-I was determined by NMR and distance geometry/molecular dynamics calculations. Structural calculations were carried out using 256 interresidue NOE-derived distance restraints and 25 angle restraints obtained from vicinal coupling constants. The peptide contains eight cysteines involved in disulfide bonds, the pairings of which were uncertain and had to be determined from preliminary structure calculations. The toxin has an average rmsd of 0.89 A for the backbone atoms among 38 converged conformers. The structure consists of a well-defined triple-stranded beta-sheet involving residues 7-9, 20-24, and 30-34 and four tight turns. A homologous peptide, mu-Aga-IV, exhibited two distinct and equally populated conformations in solution, which complicated spectral analysis. Analysis of sequential NOE...Continue Reading

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