ESEEM Reveals Bound Substrate Histidine in the ABC Transporter HisQMP2

Autor: Johanna Heuveling, Erwin Schneider, Nikolay Isaev, Heinz-Jürgen Steinhoff, Nikita V. Ivanisenko
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Applied Magnetic Resonance. 50:883-893
ISSN: 1613-7507
0937-9347
DOI: 10.1007/s00723-019-01114-y
Popis: Localization of substrates in membrane proteins is an important but challenging task. In this paper, we show that deuterium electron spin echo envelope modulation spectroscopy (2H ESEEM) combined with site-directed spin labeling is a powerful tool to localize the substrate, histidine-d5, in the ABC transporter HisQMP2. Based on a homology model and spin label rotamer analyses, we calculated 2H ESEEM spectra for eight possible labeling positions close to the putative substrate-binding site. Experimental 2H ESEEM spectra were determined with spin labels bound either at position 169 of HisM, for which a detectable 2H ESEEM signal was calculated, or with a spin label bound at position 54 of HisQ as a negative control. The agreement between the calculated and experimental ESEEM spectra provides strong evidence for the histidine located in a binding site primarily liganded by residues of HisM as proposed by the homology model.
Databáze: OpenAIRE