Labeling of the ATP synthase of Escherichia coli from the head-group region of the lipid bilayer.
Labeling of the ATP synthase of Escherichia coli from the head-group region of the lipid bilayer.
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从脂质双层的头基区域标记大肠杆菌的 ATP 合酶。
DOI:
10.1021/bi00396a036
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发表时间:
1987
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Capaldi,RA
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作者:
Aggeler,R;Zhang,YZ;Capaldi,RA
Revised Manuscript Received May 18, 1987 abstract: The isolated and membrane-bound forms of the adenosinetriphosphatase of Escherichia coli (ECF! and ECFiF0, respectively) have been reacted with two lysine-specific reagents, sodium hexadecyl 4-[3H] formylphenyl phosphate (HFPP) and sodium methyl4-[3H] formylphenyl phosphate (MFPP), and with the photoreactive reagent l, 2-[3H] dipalmitoyl-s,«-glycerol 3-[[[(4-azido-2-nitrophenyl) amino] ethyl]-phosphate](arylazidoPE). HFPP and arylazidoPE are amphipathic molecules, inserting by their hexadecyl moieties (one and two chains, respectively) into the lipid bilayer, with the reactive groups intercalated among the phospholipid head groups. MFPP is the water-soluble analogue of HFPP. The labeling patterns of ECF/Fq obtained with HFPP and arylazidoPE were very similar; in both cases the a and b subunits of the F0 part were the most heavily labeled polypeptides of the complex. Models of subunit a, arranged in six transmembrane helices, place most of the lysines in the head-group region, available for reaction with HFPP. Subunits a and 0 of the ECFi part were very poorly labeled in comparison to the a and b subunits, together incorporating only 4% as much HFPP and 7.5% as much arylazidoPE as the two F0 subunits together on a protein mass basis. Trypsin cleavage studies localized any labeling of the a subunit by arylazidoPE to the N-terminal 15 residues of this polypeptide. When MFPP was used, the a and (J subunits were very much more reacted than the F0 subunits. This impliesthat most of the mass of the a and/3 subunits in ECFiF0 is abovethe membrane and not in contact with the bilayer surface. One subunit of ECFb the 8 subunit, was heavily labeled by HFPP and MFPP in free ECF [but was shielded from reaction with both of these probes and with arylazidoPE in ECFiF0 preparations. The implication is that the 8 subunit, a link between ECF [and F0, is shielded by protein-protein interactions, at least in the lipid head-group region of the bilayer. e adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP) synthase of Escherichia coli (EFiF „) is organized into two major domains, the F! part, extrinsic to the membrane lipid bilayer and containing the catalytic sites, and an F0 part, intrinsic to the membrane bilayer continuum and involved in proton translocation. ECF, contains fivedifferent subunits, a,@, y, 8, and «, in the molar ratio 3: 3: 1: 1: 1. F0 contains three different polypeptides, a, b, and c, in the molar ratio 1: 2: 10 or 12 [reviewed in Senior and Wise (1983), Walker et al.(1984), and Bragg (1984)]. The Fi part of the ATP synthase is very similar in all organisms, with the same number of subunits and with considerable se-quence conservation of the a and 0 polypeptides (Walker et al., 1984). Fi, with a molecular weight of 380000, is a large globular structure. X-ray studies of the rat liver enzyme indicate that the protein is an ellipsoid with dimensions of around 110 X 80 A (Amzel et al., 1982). How the Fi is oriented in the F^ q complex is not known. Electron microscopy studies of the ATP synthases from bacteria, mitochondria, and chloroplasts show F [associated fThis research was supported byNational Institutes of Health Grant HL-22050. RA was supported by a fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation.