Formation of the meta II photointermediate is accompanied by conformational changes in the cytoplasmic surface of rhodopsin.
Formation of the meta II photointermediate is accompanied by conformational changes in the cytoplasmic surface of rhodopsin.
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meta II 光中间体的形成伴随着视紫红质细胞质表面的构象变化。
DOI:
10.1021/bi00096a012
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发表时间:
1993
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Khorana,HG
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文献类型:
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作者:
Resek,JF;Farahbakhsh,ZT;Hubbell,WL;Khorana,HG
Revised Manuscript Received August 31, 1993® abstract: Five mutations of rhodopsin have been produced, each of which contains a unique cysteine residue at positions 62, 65,140, 240, or 316 in the cytoplasmic domain. The single reactive cysteines were derivatized with a sulfhydryl-specific nitroxide spin-label, and the electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectra were analyzed in both lauryl maltoside and digitonin in the dark and after photobleaching. The collision rate of the attached nitroxides with polar and nonpolar paramagnetic agents indicated that they were all exposed to the aqueous environment. Photobleaching of the mutants in digitonin, which arrests the protein at the meta I intermediate, produced little change in mobility of the attached nitroxide. On the other hand, photobleaching in lauryl maltoside produced the meta II intermediate and significant changes in the EPR spectra of the nitroxides attached to positions 140 and 316. These data directly reveal a light-induced conformational change in the cytoplasmic loops that accompanies meta II formation.Rhodopsin, the membrane-bound photoreceptor in the vertebrate rod cell, contains 1 polypeptide chain of 348 amino acids whose sequence has been determined by cDNA and protein sequencing (Ovchinnikov et al., 1982; Hargrave et al., 1983; Nathans & Hogness, 1983). A secondary structure model, assuming that the protein contains seven transmembrane helices, is shown in Figure 1. The chromophore 11-cw-retinal, located in the membrane-embedded helical cluster, is linked to Lys296 inhelix G via a protonated Schiff base. Glutamic acid 113, in helix C, serves as the counterion to the retinylidene Schiff base placing helix C and G in apposition to each other (Sakmar et al., 1989; Zhokovsky & Oprian, 1989; Nathans, 1990). The cytoplasmic interhelical loops (C-*-D, E—* F, and G-* carboxyl terminus) contain the light-dependent binding site for transducin (Konig et al., 1989a; Franke et al., 1990, 1992)(Gt) 1 whereas the carboxyl tail contains the sites for light-dependent phosphorylation (Kuhn,