Ricardo N Dos Santos, G. F. Bottino, F. Gozzo, F. Morcos, L. Martínez
{"title":"Structural complementarity of distance constraints obtained from chemical cross‐linking and amino acid coevolution","authors":"Ricardo N Dos Santos, G. F. Bottino, F. Gozzo, F. Morcos, L. Martínez","doi":"10.1002/prot.25843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/prot.25843","url":null,"abstract":"The analysis of amino acid coevolution has emerged as a practical method for protein structural modeling by providing structural contact information from alignments of amino acid sequences. In parallel, chemical cross‐linking/mass spectrometry (XLMS) has gained attention as a universally applicable method for obtaining low‐resolution distance constraints to model the quaternary arrangements of proteins, and more recently even protein tertiary structures. Here, we show that the structural information obtained by XLMS and coevolutionary analysis are effectively complementary: the distance constraints obtained by each method are almost exclusively associated with non‐coincident pairs of residues, and modeling results obtained by the combination of both sets are improved relative to considering the same total number of constraints of a single type. The structural rationale behind the complementarity of the distance constraints is discussed and illustrated for a representative set of proteins with different sizes and folds.","PeriodicalId":20789,"journal":{"name":"Proteins: Structure","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72830811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pearl Magala, R. Klevit, W. Thomas, E. Sokurenko, R. Stenkamp
{"title":"RMSD analysis of structures of the bacterial protein FimH identifies five conformations of its lectin domain","authors":"Pearl Magala, R. Klevit, W. Thomas, E. Sokurenko, R. Stenkamp","doi":"10.1002/prot.25840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/prot.25840","url":null,"abstract":"FimH is a bacterial adhesin protein located at the tip of Escherichia coli fimbria that functions to adhere bacteria to host cells. Thus, FimH is a critical factor in bacterial infections such as urinary tract infections and is of interest in drug development. It is also involved in vaccine development and as a model for understanding shear‐enhanced catch bond cell adhesion. To date, over 60 structures have been deposited in the Protein Data Bank showing interactions between FimH and mannose ligands, potential inhibitors, and other fimbrial proteins. In addition to providing insights about ligand recognition and fimbrial assembly, these structures provide insights into conformational changes in the two domains of FimH that are critical for its function. To gain further insights into these structural changes, we have superposed FimH's mannose binding lectin domain in all these structures and categorized the structures into five groups of lectin domain conformers using RMSD as a metric. Many structures also include the pilin domain, which anchors FimH to the fimbriae and regulates the conformation and function of the lectin domain. For these structures, we have also compared the relative orientations of the two domains. These structural analyses enhance our understanding of the conformational changes associated with FimH ligand binding and domain‐domain interactions, including its catch bond behavior through allosteric action of force in bacterial adhesion.","PeriodicalId":20789,"journal":{"name":"Proteins: Structure","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86720898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Proteins: StructurePub Date : 2020-04-01Epub Date: 2019-10-25DOI: 10.1002/prot.25839
Samvel Avagyan, Daniel Vasilchuk, George I Makhatadze
{"title":"Protein adaptation to high hydrostatic pressure: Computational analysis of the structural proteome.","authors":"Samvel Avagyan, Daniel Vasilchuk, George I Makhatadze","doi":"10.1002/prot.25839","DOIUrl":"10.1002/prot.25839","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hydrostatic pressure has a vital role in the biological adaptation of the piezophiles, organisms that live under high hydrostatic pressure. However, the mechanisms by which piezophiles are able to adapt their proteins to high hydrostatic pressure is not well understood. One proposed hypothesis is that the volume changes of unfolding (ΔV<sub>Tot</sub> ) for proteins from piezophiles is distinct from those of nonpiezophilic organisms. Since ΔV<sub>Tot</sub> defines pressure dependence of stability, we performed a comprehensive computational analysis of this property for proteins from piezophilic and nonpiezophilic organisms. In addition, we experimentally measured the ΔV<sub>Tot</sub> of acylphosphatases and thioredoxins belonging to piezophilic and nonpiezophilic organisms. Based on this analysis we concluded that there is no difference in ΔV<sub>Tot</sub> for proteins from piezophilic and nonpiezophilic organisms. Finally, we put forward the hypothesis that increased concentrations of osmolytes can provide a systemic increase in pressure stability of proteins from piezophilic organisms and provide experimental thermodynamic evidence in support of this hypothesis.</p>","PeriodicalId":20789,"journal":{"name":"Proteins: Structure","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/prot.25839","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87670739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Proton relay network in P450cam formed upon docking of putidaredoxin","authors":"I. Ugur, P. Chandrasekhar","doi":"10.1002/prot.25835","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/prot.25835","url":null,"abstract":"Cytochromes P450 are versatile heme‐based enzymes responsible for vital life processes. Of these, P450cam (substrate camphor) has been most studied. Despite this, precise mechanisms of the key O─O cleavage step remain partly elusive to date; effects observed in various enzyme mutants remain partly unexplained. We have carried out extended (to 1000 ns) MM‐MD and follow‐on quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics computations, both on the well‐studied FeOO state and on Cpd(0) (compound 0). Our simulations include (all camphor‐bound): (a) WT (wild type), FeOO state. (b) WT, Cpd(0). (c) Pdx (Putidaredoxin, redox partner of P450)‐docked‐WT, FeOO state. (d) Pdx‐docked WT, Cpd(0). (e) Pdx‐docked T252A mutant, Cpd(0). Among our key findings: (a) Effect of Pdx docking appears to go far beyond that indicated in prior studies: it leads to specific alterations in secondary structure that create the crucial proton relay network. (b) Specific proton relay networks we identify are: FeOO(H)⋯T252⋯nH 2O⋯D251 in WT; FeOO(H)⋯nH 2O⋯D251 in T252A mutant; both occur with Pdx docking. (c) Direct interaction of D251 with –FeOOH is, respectively, rare/frequent in WT/T252A mutant. (d) In WT, T252 is in the proton relay network. (e) Positioning of camphor appears significant: when camphor is part of H‐bonding network, second protonation appears to be facilitated.","PeriodicalId":20789,"journal":{"name":"Proteins: Structure","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91163922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xiao-Xuan Shi, Si-Kao Guo, Pengye Wang, Hong Chen, P. Xie
{"title":"All‐atom molecular dynamics simulations reveal how kinesin transits from one‐head‐bound to two‐heads‐bound state","authors":"Xiao-Xuan Shi, Si-Kao Guo, Pengye Wang, Hong Chen, P. Xie","doi":"10.1002/prot.25833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/prot.25833","url":null,"abstract":"Kinesin dimer walks processively along a microtubule (MT) protofilament in a hand‐over‐hand manner, transiting alternately between one‐head‐bound (1HB) and two‐heads‐bound (2HB) states. In 1HB state, one head bound by adenosine diphosphate (ADP) is detached from MT and the other head is bound to MT. Here, using all‐atom molecular dynamics simulations we determined the position and orientation of the detached ADP‐head relative to the MT‐bound head in 1HB state. We showed that in 1HB state when the MT‐bound head is in ADP or nucleotide‐free state, with its neck linker being undocked, the detached ADP‐head and the MT‐bound head have the high binding energy, and after adenosine triphosphate (ATP) binds to the MT‐bound head, with its neck linker being docked, the binding energy between the two heads is reduced greatly. These results reveal how the kinesin dimer retains 1HB state before ATP binding and how the dimer transits from 1HB to 2HB state after ATP binding. Key residues involved in the head‐head interaction in 1HB state were identified.","PeriodicalId":20789,"journal":{"name":"Proteins: Structure","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91527085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Issue Information ‐ Table of Content","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/prot.25717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/prot.25717","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20789,"journal":{"name":"Proteins: Structure","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77837958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Damjanovic, Ada Y. Chen, R. Rosenberg, D. Roe, Xiongwu Wu, B. Brooks
{"title":"Protonation state of the selectivity filter of bacterial voltage‐gated sodium channels is modulated by ions","authors":"A. Damjanovic, Ada Y. Chen, R. Rosenberg, D. Roe, Xiongwu Wu, B. Brooks","doi":"10.1002/prot.25831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/prot.25831","url":null,"abstract":"The selectivity filter (SF) of bacterial voltage‐gated sodium channels consists of four glutamate residues arranged in a C4 symmetry. The protonation state population of this tetrad is unclear. To address this question, we simulate the pore domain of bacterial voltage‐gated sodium channel of Magnetococcus sp. (NavMs) through constant pH methodology in explicit solvent and free energy perturbation calculations. We find that at physiological pH the fully deprotonated as well as singly and doubly protonated states of the SF appear feasible, and that the calculated pKa decreases with each additional bound ion, suggesting that a decrease in the number of ions in the pore can lead to protonation of the SF. Previous molecular dynamics simulations have suggested that protonation can lead to a decrease in the conductance, but no pKa calculations were performed. We confirm a decreased ionic population of the pore with protonation, and also observe structural symmetry breaking triggered by protonation; the SF of the deprotonated channel is closest to the C4 symmetry observed in crystal structures of the open state, while the SF of protonated states display greater levels of asymmetry which could lead to transition to the inactivated state which possesses a C2 symmetry in the crystal structure. We speculate that the decrease in the number of ions near the mouth of the channel, due to either random fluctuations or ion depletion due to conduction, could be a self‐regulatory mechanism resulting in a nonconducting state that functionally resembles inactivated states.","PeriodicalId":20789,"journal":{"name":"Proteins: Structure","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86005289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Delineation of a new structural motif involving NHN γ‐turn","authors":"Jesmita Dhar, R. Kishore, P. Chakrabarti","doi":"10.1002/prot.25820","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/prot.25820","url":null,"abstract":"Macromolecules are characterized by distinctive arrangement of hydrogen bonds. Different patterns of hydrogen bonds give rise to distinct and stable structural motifs. An analysis of 4114 non‐redundant protein chains reveals the existence of a three‐residue, (i − 1) to (i + 1), structural motif, having two hydrogen‐bonded five‐membered pseudo rings (the first, an NH···OC involving the first residue, and the second being NH∙∙∙N involving the last two residues), separated by a peptide bond. There could be an additional hydrogen bond between the side‐chain at (i‐1) and the main‐chain NH of (i + 1). The average backbone torsion angles of −76(±21)° and – 12(±17)° at i creates a tight turn in the polypeptide chain, akin to a γ‐turn. Indeed, a search of three‐residue fragments with restriction on the terminal Cα···Cα distance and the existence of the two pseudo rings on either side revealed the presence 14 846 cases of a variant, termed NHN γ‐turn, distinct from the NHO γ‐turn (2032 cases) that has traditionally been characterized by the presence of NHO hydrogen bond linking the terminal main‐chain atoms. As in the latter, the newly identified γ‐turns are also of two types—classical and inverse, occurring in the ratio of 1:6. The propensities of residues to occur in these turns and their secondary structural features have been enumerated. An understanding of these turns would be useful for structure prediction and loop modeling, and may serve as models to represent some of the unfolded state or disordered region in proteins.","PeriodicalId":20789,"journal":{"name":"Proteins: Structure","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73453239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Accessory mutations balance the marginal stability of the HIV‐1 protease in drug resistance","authors":"T. Weikl, B. Hemmateenejad","doi":"10.1002/prot.25826","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/prot.25826","url":null,"abstract":"The HIV‐1 protease is a major target of inhibitor drugs in AIDS therapies. The therapies are impaired by mutations of the HIV‐1 protease that can lead to resistance to protease inhibitors. These mutations are classified into major mutations, which usually occur first and clearly reduce the susceptibility to protease inhibitors, and minor, accessory mutations that occur later and individually do not substantially affect the susceptibility to inhibitors. Major mutations are predominantly located in the active site of the HIV‐1 protease and can directly interfere with inhibitor binding. Minor mutations, in contrast, are typically located distal to the active site. A central question is how these distal mutations contribute to resistance development. In this article, we present a systematic computational investigation of stability changes caused by major and minor mutations of the HIV‐1 protease. As most small single‐domain proteins, the HIV‐1 protease is only marginally stable. Mutations that destabilize the folded, active state of the protease therefore can shift the conformational equilibrium towards the unfolded, inactive state. We find that the most frequent major mutations destabilize the HIV‐1 protease, whereas roughly half of the frequent minor mutations are stabilizing. An analysis of protease sequences from patients in treatment indicates that the stabilizing minor mutations are frequently correlated with destabilizing major mutations, and that highly resistant HIV‐1 proteases exhibit significant fractions of stabilizing mutations. Our results thus indicate a central role of minor mutations in balancing the marginal stability of the protease against the destabilization induced by the most frequent major mutations.","PeriodicalId":20789,"journal":{"name":"Proteins: Structure","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81448081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}