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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 7, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-06334-5
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- MEXT/JSPS KAKENHI [25104002, 15H04357]
- MEXT as Priority Issue on Post-K computer (Building Innovative Drug Discovery Infrastructure Through Functional Control of Biomolecular Systems)
- JSPS [26291037, 15H0164, 15H05902, 17H03674, 17H06006]
- RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science through the HPCI System Research project [hp150270, hp160207, hp170254]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26291037, 15H05902, 17H06006, 15H04357, 17H03674, 25104002, 17K19529] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The BAR domain superfamily proteins sense or induce curvature in membranes. The inverse-BAR domain (I-BAR) is a BAR domain that forms a straight zeppelin-shaped dimer. The mechanisms by which IRSp53 I-BAR binds to and deforms a lipid membrane are investigated here by all-atom molecular dynamics simulation (MD), binding energy analysis, and the effects of mutation experiments on filopodia on HeLa cells. I-BAR adopts a curved structure when crystallized, but adopts a flatter shape in MD. The binding of I-BAR to membrane was stabilized by similar to 30 salt bridges, consistent with experiments showing that point mutations of the interface residues have little effect on the binding affinity whereas multiple mutations have considerable effect. Salt bridge formation increases the local density of lipids and deforms the membrane into a concave shape. In addition, the point mutations that break key intra-molecular salt bridges within I-BAR reduce the binding affinity; this was confirmed by expressing these mutants in HeLa cells and observing their effects. The results indicate that the stiffness of I-BAR is important for membrane deformation, although I-BAR does not act as a completely rigid template.
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