VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY OF BACTERIORHODOPSIN MUTANTS .1. TYROSINE-185 PROTONATES AND DEPROTONATES DURING THE PHOTOCYCLE
VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY OF BACTERIORHODOPSIN MUTANTS .1. TYROSINE-185 PROTONATES AND DEPROTONATES DURING THE PHOTOCYCLE
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DOI:
10.1002/prot.340030403
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发表时间:
1988-01-01
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
ROTHSCHILD, KJ
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作者:
BRAIMAN, MS;MOGI, T;ROTHSCHILD, KJ
The techniques of FTIR difference spectroscopy and site-directed mutagenesis have been combined to investigate the role of individual tyrosine side chains in the proton-pumping mechanism of bacteriorhodopsin (bR). For each of the 11 possible bR mutants containing a single Tyr.fwdarw. Phe substituion, difference spectra have been obtained for the bR.fwdarw. K and bR .fwdarw. M photoreactions. Only the Tyr-185 .fwdarw. Phe mutation results in the disappearance of a set of bands that were previously shown to be due to the protonation of a tyrosinate during the bR .fwdarw. K photoreaction [Rothschild et al.: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 83:347, (1986)]. The Tyr-185 .fwdarw. Phe mutation also eliminates a set of bands in the bR .fwdarw. M difference spectrum associated with deprotonation of a Tyr; most of these bands (e.g., positive 1272-cm-1 peak) are completely unaffected by the other ten Tyr .fwdarw. Phe mutations. Thus, tyrosinate-185 gains a proton during the bR .fwdarw. K reaction and loses it again when M is formed. Our FTIR spectra also provide evidence that Tyr-185 interacts with the protonated Schiff base linkage of the retinal chromophore, since the negative C = NH+ stretch band shift sfrom 1640 cm-1 in the wild tyupe to 1636 cm-1 in the Tyr-185 .fwdarw. Phe mutant. A model that is consistent with these results in that Tyr-185 is normally ionized and serves as a counter-ion to the protonated Schiff base. The primary photoisomerization of the chromophore translocates the Schiff base away from Tyr-185, which raises the pKa of the latter group and results in its protonation.