Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (Binyong Liang)

磁共振波谱（梁宾勇）

• 批准号: 10202627
• 负责人: DAVID S CAFISO
• 金额: $ 10.68万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-07-01 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10202627
• 关键词: Amino Acids; Automobile Driving; Binding; Biochemical; Biochemistry; Biological; Biophysics; Calcium; Cell membrane; Chimeric Proteins; Collaborations; Complex; Computer software; Data; Docking; Environment; Exocytosis; Goals; Lipids; Liquid substance; Magnetic Resonance; Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; Measurement; Measures; Membrane; Membrane Fusion; Methods; Modeling; Molecular; Molecular Conformation; NMR Spectroscopy; Nerve; Neurons; Physiologic pulse; Procedures; Process; Property; Proteins; Regulation; Resolution; SNAP receptor; Sampling; Shapes; Solid; Structure; Synaptic Vesicles; System; Techniques; Time; Total Internal Reflection Fluorescent; Training; Vesicle; controlled release; design; experimental study; genetic regulatory protein; in vivo; innovation; instrumentation; member; millisecond; mimetics; nanodisk; neurotransmitter release; presynaptic; programs; reconstitution; structural biology; synaptotagmin

PROJECT SUMMARY The overall goal of this program project is to elucidate the precise molecular mechanism and regulation of the fusion machine that drives exocytosis for the controlled release of neurotransmitter at nerve terminals. The assembly of SNARE molecules residing in the synaptic vesicle and presynaptic plasma membrane takes center stage and provides the driving energy for this process. Even though we know the structure of the fully assembled cis-SNARE complex after fusion in atomic detail and have detailed conformational models for several of the SNAREs before fusion, we do not precisely know how (i) they are conditioned with regulatory proteins such as Munc18 and Munc13 to form an active acceptor complex on the plasma membrane, (ii) how this acceptor SNARE complex engages with the synaptic vesicle SNARE upon encounter, and (iii) how this high-energy trans-SNARE complex is ultimately triggered by the synaptic vesicle protein synaptotagmin and calcium to proceed to full assembly and fusion. Three projects led by three expert leaders in the biochemistry, structural biology, and biophysics of neuronal exocytotic membrane fusion are designed to jointly unravel the precise molecular interactions that drive the neuronal fusion machine through the vesicle docking, priming, and fusion steps with the highest possible structural and time resolution. The team will seek to define the structures and configurations of the active presynaptic acceptor SNARE complex and the fusion-restricted trans-SNARE complex between two membranes, and the team will strive to uncover the molecular mechanism, by which calcium-synaptotagmin engages with the membranes and/or complex to release their fusion-restriction. To achieve this goal the team will use a unique combination of approaches ranging from highly innovative biochemical procedures to reconstitute the relevant proteins, EPR, DEER, and NMR spectroscopy to characterize the pertinent structures in membrane environments, and FLIC and single vesicle TIRF microscopy to measure membrane topology and read out fusion on the millisecond timescale.

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