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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 397, Issue 4, Pages 878-882Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2010.02.023
Keywords
beta-barrel membrane protein; Escherichia coli; molecular interactions; unfolding; pH gating
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- DFG [YI 96/31, MU 1791]
- EU [FP7, ITN-SBMP]
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The physical interactions that switch the functional state of membrane proteins are poorly understood. Previously, the pH-gating conformations of the beta-barrel forming outer membrane protein G (OmpG) from Escherichia coli have been solved. When the pH changes from neutral to acidic the flexible extracellular loop L6 folds into and closes the OmpG pore. Here, we used single-molecule force spectroscopy to structurally localize and quantify the interactions that are associated with the pH-dependent closure. At acidic pH, we detected a pH-dependent interaction at loop L6. This interaction changed the (un)folding of loop L6 and of beta-strands 11 and 12, which connect loop L6. All other interactions detected within OmpG were unaffected by changes in pH. These results provide a quantitative and mechanistic explanation of how pH-dependent interactions change the folding of a peptide loop to gate the transmembrane pore. They further demonstrate how the stability of OmpG is optimized so that pH changes modify only those interactions necessary to gate the transmembrane pore. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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