Electron diffraction studies of light-induced conformational changes in the Leu-93 → Ala bacteriorhodopsin mutant
AUTOR(ES)
Subramaniam, Sriram
FONTE
The National Academy of Sciences of the USA
RESUMO
We previously have presented evidence for prominent structural changes in helices F and G of bacteriorhodopsin during the photocycle. These changes were determined by carrying out electron diffraction analysis of illuminated two-dimensional crystals of wild-type bacteriorhodopsin or the Asp-96 → Gly mutant that were trapped at a stage in the photocycle after light-driven proton release, but preceding proton uptake from the aqueous medium. Here, we report structural analysis of the long-lived O intermediate observed in the photocycle of the Leu-93 → Ala mutant, which accumulates after the release and uptake of protons, but before the reisomerization of retinal to its initial all-trans state. Projection Fourier difference maps show that upon illumination of the Leu-93 → Ala mutant, significant structural changes occur in the vicinity of helices C, B, and G, and to a lesser extent near helix F. Our results suggest that (i) all four helices that line the proton channel (B, C, F, and G) participate in structural changes during the late stages of the photocycle, and (ii) completion of the photocycle involves significant conformational changes in addition to those that are associated with steps in proton transport.
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