Zigmantas Toleikis, Piotr Paluch, Ewelina Kuc, Jana Petkus, Darius Sulskis, Mai-Liis Org-Tago, Ago Samoson, Vytautas Smirnovas, Jan Stanek, Alons Lends
{"title":"Solid-state NMR backbone chemical shift assignments of α-synuclein amyloid fibrils at fast MAS regime","authors":"Zigmantas Toleikis, Piotr Paluch, Ewelina Kuc, Jana Petkus, Darius Sulskis, Mai-Liis Org-Tago, Ago Samoson, Vytautas Smirnovas, Jan Stanek, Alons Lends","doi":"10.1007/s12104-024-10186-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12104-024-10186-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The α-synuclein (α-syn) amyloid fibrils are involved in various neurogenerative diseases. Solid-state NMR (ssNMR) has been showed as a powerful tool to study α-syn aggregates. Here, we report the <sup>1</sup>H, <sup>13</sup>C and <sup>15</sup>N back-bone chemical shifts of a new α-syn polymorph obtained using proton-detected ssNMR spectroscopy under fast (95 kHz) magic-angle spinning conditions. The manual chemical shift assignments were cross-validated using FLYA algorithm. The secondary structural elements of α-syn fibrils were calculated using <sup>13</sup>C chemical shift differences and TALOS software.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":492,"journal":{"name":"Biomolecular NMR Assignments","volume":"18 2","pages":"181 - 186"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141475633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Backbone and methyl side-chain resonance assignments of the Fab fragment of adalimumab","authors":"Muzaddid Sarker, Yves Aubin","doi":"10.1007/s12104-024-10187-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12104-024-10187-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Adalimumab is a therapeutic monoclonal antibody developed to target human TNF an important mediator of immune-mediated inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, amongst others. The 48 kDa Fab fragment of adalimumab was produced in <i>Escherichia coli</i> using a single chain approach to allow complete isotopic incorporation of deuterium, carbon-13 and nitrogen-15 along with the protonated isoleucine-d, valine and leucine methyl groups. Here we report the near complete resonance assignment of the polypeptide backbone and the methyl groups of isoleucine, leucine and valine residues.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":492,"journal":{"name":"Biomolecular NMR Assignments","volume":"18 2","pages":"187 - 192"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11511761/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141454426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assignment of the Lassa virus transmembrane domain in the prefusion and postfusion states in detergent micelles","authors":"Patrick M. Keating, Jinwoo Lee","doi":"10.1007/s12104-024-10184-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12104-024-10184-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Lassa virus (LASV) is the most prevalent member of the arenavirus family and the causative agent of Lassa fever, a viral hemorrhagic fever. Although there are annual outbreaks in West Africa, and recently isolated cases worldwide, there are no current therapeutics or vaccines. As such, LASV poses a significant global public health threat. One of the key steps in LASV infection is delivering its genetic material by fusing its viral membrane with the host cell membrane. This process is facilitated by significant conformational changes within glycoprotein 2 (GP2), yielding distinct prefusion and postfusion structural states. However, structural information is missing to understand the changes that occur in the transmembrane domain (TM) during the fusion process. Previously, we showed that the TM undergoes pH-dependent structural changes that result in a helical extension. Here, we provide the <sup>1</sup>H, <sup>15</sup>N, and <sup>13</sup>C assignment of the LASV TM backbone in the prefusion and postfusion states. We also provide the <sup>1</sup>H, <sup>15</sup>N, and <sup>13</sup>C assignment of two mutants, G429P and D432P, which prevent this helical extension. These results will help understand the role the TM plays in membrane fusion and can lead to the design of therapeutics against LASV infection.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":492,"journal":{"name":"Biomolecular NMR Assignments","volume":"18 2","pages":"165 - 169"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141445096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Loic Delcourte, Corinne Sanchez, Estelle Morvan, Mélanie Berbon, Axelle Grélard, Claire Saragaglia, Thierry Dakhli, Stéphane Thore, Benjamin Bardiaux, Birgit Habenstein, Brice Kauffmann, Sven J. Saupe, Antoine Loquet
{"title":"NMR resonance assignment of the cell death execution domain BELL2 from multicellular bacterial signalosomes","authors":"Loic Delcourte, Corinne Sanchez, Estelle Morvan, Mélanie Berbon, Axelle Grélard, Claire Saragaglia, Thierry Dakhli, Stéphane Thore, Benjamin Bardiaux, Birgit Habenstein, Brice Kauffmann, Sven J. Saupe, Antoine Loquet","doi":"10.1007/s12104-024-10183-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12104-024-10183-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Signalosomes are high-order protein machineries involved in complex mechanisms controlling regulated immune defense and cell death execution. The immune response is initiated by the recognition of exogeneous or endogenous signals, triggering the signalosome assembly process. The final step of signalosome fate often involves membrane-targeting and activation of pore-forming execution domains, leading to membrane disruption and ultimately cell death. Such cell death-inducing domains have been thoroughly characterized in plants, mammals and fungi, notably for the fungal cell death execution protein domain HeLo. However, little is known on the mechanisms of signalosome-based immune response in bacteria, and the conformation of cell death executors in bacterial signalosomes is still poorly characterized. We recently uncovered the existence of NLR signalosomes in various multicellular bacteria and used genome mining approaches to identify putative cell death executors in <i>Streptomyces olivochromogenes</i>. These proteins contain a C-terminal amyloid domain involved in signal transmission and a N-terminal domain, termed BELL for Bacteria analogous to fungal HeLL (HeLo-like), presumably responsible for membrane-targeting, pore-forming and cell death execution. In the present study, we report the high yield expression of <i>S. olivochromogenes</i> BELL2 and its characterization by solution NMR spectroscopy. BELL is folded in solution and we report backbone and sidechain assignments. We identified five α-helical secondary structure elements and a folded core much smaller than its fungal homolog HeLo. This study constitutes the first step toward the NMR investigation of the full-length protein assembly and its membrane targeting.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":492,"journal":{"name":"Biomolecular NMR Assignments","volume":"18 2","pages":"159 - 164"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141439906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maria Luiza Caldas Nogueira, Renuk Lakshmanan, Gwladys Rivière, Mario Mietzsch, Antonette Bennett, Robert McKenna, Joanna R. Long
{"title":"Backbone NMR resonance assignments for the VP1u N-terminal receptor-binding domain of the human parvovirus pathogen B19","authors":"Maria Luiza Caldas Nogueira, Renuk Lakshmanan, Gwladys Rivière, Mario Mietzsch, Antonette Bennett, Robert McKenna, Joanna R. Long","doi":"10.1007/s12104-024-10181-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12104-024-10181-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Parvovirus B19 (B19V) is a human pathogen that is the causative agent of several diseases in infants and adults. Due to a lack of antivirals against this virus, treatment options are limited. The minor capsid protein of B19V has a unique N terminus, named VP1u, which is essential for infection. The VP1u encodes a receptor binding domain (RBD), necessary for host cell entry, and a phospholipase A2 (PLA<sub>2</sub>) domain, crucial for endosomal escape during cellular trafficking. Both domains are indispensable for infection, making the RBD a plausible drug target for inhibitors against B19V, as it is located on the exterior surface of the virus. To date, no experimental structural information has been available for the VP1u component for any Parvovirus. Here we report the backbone NMR resonance assignments for the RBD of B19V and demonstrate it forms a stable structure. The backbone chemical shifts are in good agreement with a structure predicted by AlphaFold, validating that the RBD contains three helices connected by tight turns. This RBD construct can now be used for further NMR studies, including assignment of full-length VP1u, determination of protein-protein interaction interfaces, and development of B19 antivirals specific to the RBD domain.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":492,"journal":{"name":"Biomolecular NMR Assignments","volume":"18 2","pages":"147 - 152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141431063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Laura Okmane, Mats Sandgren, Jerry Ståhlberg, Gustav Nestor
{"title":"1H, 13C and 15N backbone resonance assignment of Cel45A from Phanerochaete chrysosporium","authors":"Laura Okmane, Mats Sandgren, Jerry Ståhlberg, Gustav Nestor","doi":"10.1007/s12104-024-10182-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12104-024-10182-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A glycoside hydrolase family 45 (GH45) enzyme from the white-rot basidiomycete fungus <i>Phanerochaete chrysosporium</i> (<i>Pc</i>Cel45A) was expressed in <i>Pichia pastoris</i> with <sup>13</sup>C and <sup>15</sup>N labelling. A nearly complete assignment of <sup>1</sup>H, <sup>13</sup>C and <sup>15</sup>N backbone resonances was obtained, as well as the secondary structure prediction based on the assigned chemical shifts using the TALOS-N software. The predicted secondary structure was almost identical to previously published crystal structures of the same enzyme, except for differences in the termini of the sequence. This is the first NMR study using an isotopically labelled GH45 enzyme.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":492,"journal":{"name":"Biomolecular NMR Assignments","volume":"18 2","pages":"153 - 157"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11511684/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141417127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sunirmala Sahoo, Nitin Dhaka, Sulakshana P. Mukherjee
{"title":"Backbone triple resonance assignments of the dimerization domain of NF-kappaB p52 subunit","authors":"Sunirmala Sahoo, Nitin Dhaka, Sulakshana P. Mukherjee","doi":"10.1007/s12104-024-10179-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12104-024-10179-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>NF-kappaB is a family of inducible transcription factors playing an important role in immune response in vertebrates. All the five members of the family function as dimers in various combinations. Though all the family members recognize and bind to similar DNA elements to regulate the transcription of its target genes, the dimer composition can lead to differential transcriptional outcomes. Here we report the backbone resonance assignment of the 24.2 kDa homodimer of p52 subunit of the NF-kB family. The p52 subunit of NF-kB is a crucial player in the non-canonical NF-kB pathway and its dysregulation has shown detrimental effects in immune response leading to various inflammatory diseases and cancers. While the β-strands predicted using the backbone chemical shifts in this study largely conform with the available crystal structure, the helical turns present in the crystal structure are not observed in our results.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":492,"journal":{"name":"Biomolecular NMR Assignments","volume":"18 2","pages":"135 - 138"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141295328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anaísa Coelho, José M. Silva, Francesca Cantini, Mario Piccioli, Ricardo O. Louro, Catarina M. Paquete
{"title":"Resonance assignments of cytochrome MtoD from the extracellular electron uptake pathway of sideroxydans lithotrophicus ES-1","authors":"Anaísa Coelho, José M. Silva, Francesca Cantini, Mario Piccioli, Ricardo O. Louro, Catarina M. Paquete","doi":"10.1007/s12104-024-10180-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12104-024-10180-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The contribution of Fe(II)-oxidizing bacteria to iron cycling in freshwater, groundwater, and marine environments has been widely recognized in recent years. These organisms perform extracellular electron transfer (EET), which constitutes the foundations of bioelectrochemical systems for the production of biofuels and bioenergy. It was proposed that the Gram-negative bacterium <i>Sideroxydans lithotrophicus</i> ES-1 oxidizes soluble ferrous Fe(II) at the surface of the cell and performs EET through the Mto redox pathway. This pathway is composed by the periplasmic monoheme cytochrome MtoD that is proposed to bridge electron transfer between the cell exterior and the cytoplasm. This makes its functional and structural characterization, as well as evaluating the interaction process with its physiological partners, essential for understanding the mechanisms underlying EET. Here, we report the complete assignment of the heme proton and carbon signals together with a near-complete assignment of <sup>1</sup>H, <sup>13</sup>C and <sup>15</sup>N backbone and side chain resonances for the reduced, diamagnetic form of the protein. These data pave the way to identify and structurally map the molecular interaction regions between the cytochrome MtoD and its physiological redox partners, to explore the EET processes of <i>S. lithotrophicus</i> ES-1.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":492,"journal":{"name":"Biomolecular NMR Assignments","volume":"18 2","pages":"139 - 146"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11511738/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141282649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Myriam L. Cotten, Mary R. Starich, Yi He, Jun Yin, Quan Yuan, Nico Tjandra
{"title":"NMR chemical shift assignment of Drosophila odorant binding protein 44a in complex with 8(Z)-eicosenoic acid","authors":"Myriam L. Cotten, Mary R. Starich, Yi He, Jun Yin, Quan Yuan, Nico Tjandra","doi":"10.1007/s12104-024-10178-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12104-024-10178-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The odorant binding protein, OBP44a is one of the most abundant proteins expressed in the brain of the developing fruit fly <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i>. Its cellular function has not yet been determined. The OBP family of proteins is well established to recognize hydrophobic molecules. In this study, NMR is employed to structurally characterize OBP44a. NMR chemical shift perturbation measurements confirm that OBP44a binds to fatty acids. Complete assignments of the backbone chemical shifts and secondary chemical shift analysis demonstrate that the apo state of OBP44a is comprised of six α-helices. Upon binding 8(Z)-eicosenoic acid (8(Z)-C20:1), the OBP44a C-terminal region undergoes a conformational change, from unstructured to α-helical. In addition to C-terminal restructuring upon ligand binding, some hydrophobic residues show dramatic chemical shift changes. Surprisingly, several charged residues are also strongly affected by lipid binding. Some of these residues could represent key structural features that OBP44a relies on to perform its cellular function. The NMR chemical shift assignment is the first step towards characterizing the structure of OBP44a and how specific residues might play a role in lipid binding and release. This information will be important in deciphering the biological function of OBP44a during fly brain development.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":492,"journal":{"name":"Biomolecular NMR Assignments","volume":"18 2","pages":"129 - 134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11511771/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141185868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Backbone and methyl side-chain resonance assignments of the single chain Fab fragment of trastuzumab","authors":"Donald Gagné, James M. Aramini, Yves Aubin","doi":"10.1007/s12104-024-10177-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12104-024-10177-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Trastuzumab is a therapeutic monoclonal antibody developed to target human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) present at higher levels in early cancers. Here we report the near complete resonance assignment of trastuzumab-scFab fragment backbone and the methyl groups of isoleucine, leucine and valine residues, as well as their stereo-assignments. The antibody fragment was produced using a single chain approach in <i>Escherichia coli</i>.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":492,"journal":{"name":"Biomolecular NMR Assignments","volume":"18 2","pages":"119 - 128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11511688/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140875466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}