Proton translocation mechanism and energetics in the light-driven pump bacteriorhodopsin.
Proton translocation mechanism and energetics in the light-driven pump bacteriorhodopsin.
复制标题
光驱动泵细菌视紫红质中的质子易位机制和能量学。
DOI:
10.1016/0005-2728(93)90226-6
复制
发表时间:
1993
期刊:
影响因子:
--
通讯作者:
Lanyi,JK
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
Lanyi,JK
The various ion pumps in cells and organelles that generate transmembrane electrochemical potential for protons are driven in various ways: changes in substrate-binding energy during chemical reactions (ionmotive ATPases and NADH/NADP transhydrogenase), electron transfer after photoexcitation and during redox reactions (photosynthetic reaction centers, cytochrome oxidase and the cytochrome bc-com-plex), or directly through pK a changes set off by lightdependent bond-rotations in retinal (bacteriorhodopsin). The last of these is the simplest. It is based on easily visualized acid-base reactions that require no more than what is probably the smallest imaginable functional membrane-spanning protein. Bacteriorhodopsin, the best understood ionic pump, has become the paradigm for both the structure of the transmembrane core of membrane proteins and the internal workings of proton transport systems. Bacteriorhodopsin is an integral membrane protein (26 kDa) whose seven transmembrane helical segments (AG) enclose a binding pocket for the all-trans-retinal chromophore [76], bound via a protonated Schiff base to K216 near the center of helix G and inclined about 20 [79, 99] from the plane of the membrane. A naturally occurring extended two-dimensional hexagonal lattice ('purple membrane') comprised of trimers of this protein has made it possible to determine its three-dimensional electron density map at 3.5-7 A resolution [12, 76, 77]. From this map and the primary and predicted secondary structures, a structural model with nearly atomic resolution was constructed [76]. Although the exact spatial dispositions of some of the residues, particularly at the membrane surfaces, are still uncertain, this model is the point of departure for all attempts to describe the transport mechanism. Illumination of bacteriorhodopsin initiates a multistep reaction cycle that begins with isomerization of the retinal from the 13-trans-15-anti configuration (the'light-adapted'chromophore) to 13-cis-15-anti [6, 22], and proceeds through a series of thermal steps that translocate a proton across the membrane. Spectroscopic changes have identified the intermediates that accumulate in photostationary states when this' photocycle'is arrested at cryogenic temperatures (eg Refs. 15,102,164). Photoexcitation with light pulses shorter than the lifetimes of the intermediate states made it possible to follow the interconversions of these states at ambient temperature and during a single turnover (eg, Refs. 4, 21, 64,118,195,200). The retinal and its configurational transformations have been described in such studies by a variety of spectroscopic methods, including visible, UV, resonance Raman, FTIR, and NMR spectroscopy, and replacement of the retinal with analogues, while changes in the protein have been revealed by FTIR and UV spectroscopy and by studies utilizing site-specific residue replacements. The timecourse of proton exchange between the protein and the bulk has been followed, in turn, using pH-indicator dyes and photoelectric measurements. During the last few years a considerable body of work utilizing these approaches firmly established the basic elements of the proton transport. The purpose of this review is to assemble a coherent mechanistic and thermodynamic model from the diverse findings, and to indicate what information is missing or appears contradictory. Particular emphasis is placed on those residue interactions in bacteriorhodopsin that modulate proton affinities along the pathway of translocation because these should be relevant for proton pumps in general. For additional information on bacteriorhodopsin and other bacterial rhodopsins, as well as …