Defining the Escherichia coli SecA Dimer Interface Residues through In Vivo Site-Specific Photo-Cross-Linking
| Autor: | Andy J. Wowor, James L. Cole, Dongmei Yu, Debra A. Kendall |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Molecular Dimer Context (language use) Plasma protein binding Biology medicine.disease_cause environment and public health Microbiology chemistry.chemical_compound Bacterial Proteins Escherichia coli medicine Protein Structure Quaternary Molecular Biology Preprotein binding Adenosine Triphosphatases SecA Proteins Membrane Transport Proteins Articles chemistry Biochemistry Cyclic nucleotide-binding domain Cytoplasm Biophysics bacteria Mutant Proteins Ultracentrifuge Protein Multimerization Ultracentrifugation SEC Translocation Channels Protein Binding |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Bacteriology. 195:2817-2825 |
| ISSN: | 1098-5530 0021-9193 |
| DOI: | 10.1128/jb.02269-12 |
| Popis: | The motor protein SecA is a core component of the bacterial general secretory (Sec) pathway and is essential for cell viability. Despite evidence showing that SecA exists in a dynamic monomer-dimer equilibrium favoring the dimeric form in solution and in the cytoplasm, there is considerable debate as to the quaternary structural organization of the SecA dimer. Here, a site-directed photo-cross-linking technique was utilized to identify residues on the Escherichia coli SecA ( ec SecA) dimer interface in the cytosol of intact cells. The feasibility of this method was demonstrated with residue Leu6, which is essential for ec SecA dimerization based on our analytical ultracentrifugation studies of SecA L6A and shown to form the cross-linked SecA dimer in vivo with p -benzoyl-phenylalanine ( p Bpa) substituted at position 6. Subsequently, the amino terminus (residues 2 to 11) in the nucleotide binding domain (NBD), Phe263 in the preprotein binding domain (PBD), and Tyr794 and Arg805 in the intramolecular regulator of the ATPase 1 domain (IRA1) were identified to be involved in ec SecA dimerization. Furthermore, the incorporation of p Bpa at position 805 did not form a cross-linked dimer in the SecA Δ2-11 context, indicating the possibility that the amino terminus may directly contact Arg805 or that the deletion of residues 2 to 11 alters the topology of the naturally occurring ec SecA dimer. |
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