Bavi, Navid and Martinac, Adam D and Cortes, D Marien and Bavi, Omid and Ridone, Pietro and Nomura, Takeshi and Hill, Adam P and Martinac, Boris and Perozo, Eduardo (2017) Structural Dynamics of the MscL C-terminal Domain. Scientific Reports, 7 (1). p. 17229. ISSN 2045-2322 (OA)
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Abstract
The large conductance mechanosensitive channel (MscL), acts as an osmoprotective emergency valve in bacteria by opening a large, water-filled pore in response to changes in membrane tension. In its closed configuration, the last 36 residues at the C-terminus form a bundle of five α-helices co-linear with the five-fold axis of symmetry. Here, we examined the structural dynamics of the C-terminus of EcMscL using site-directed spin labelling electron paramagnetic resonance (SDSL EPR) spectroscopy. These experiments were complemented with computational modelling including molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and finite element (FE) modelling. Our results show that under physiological conditions, the C-terminus is indeed an α-helical bundle, located near the five-fold symmetry axis of the molecule. Both experiments and computational modelling demonstrate that only the top part of the C-terminal domain (from the residue A110 to E118) dissociates during the channel gating, while the rest of the C-terminus stays assembled. This result is consistent with the view that the C-terminus functions as a molecular sieve and stabilizer of the oligomeric MscL structure as previously suggested.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) |
| Depositing User: | Repository Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Dec 2017 01:06 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Jan 2018 22:29 |
| URI: | https://eprints.victorchang.edu.au/id/eprint/670 |
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