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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
Volume 22, Issue 24, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms222413587
Keywords
bacteriorhodopsin; Tyrosine 185; retinal chromophore; photo-intermediate and photocycle; AF-QM; MM calculations and MD simulations
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The study investigated the dynamic coupling of Y185 with the bR photocycle through calculations and simulations, revealing its significant role in regulating thermal equilibrium, stabilizing H-bond networks, participating in orientation switch, and opening the channel gate. These findings provide a detailed molecular mechanism of the dynamic couplings of Y185 and the bR photocycle from a structural perspective, with potential applications to other microbial photoreceptors.
Aromatic residues are highly conserved in microbial photoreceptors and play crucial roles in the dynamic regulation of receptor functions. However, little is known about the dynamic mechanism of the functional role of those highly conserved aromatic residues during the receptor photocycle. Tyrosine 185 (Y185) is one of the highly conserved aromatic residues within the retinal binding pocket of bacteriorhodopsin (bR). In this study, we explored the molecular mechanism of its dynamic coupling with the bR photocycle by automated fragmentation quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (AF-QM/MM) calculations and molecular dynamic (MD) simulations based on chemical shifts obtained by 2D solid-state NMR correlation experiments. We observed that Y185 plays a significant role in regulating the retinal cis-trans thermal equilibrium, stabilizing the pentagonal H-bond network, participating in the orientation switch of Schiff Base (SB) nitrogen, and opening the F42 gate by interacting with the retinal and several key residues along the proton translocation channel. Our findings provide a detailed molecular mechanism of the dynamic couplings of Y185 and the bR photocycle from a structural perspective. The method used in this paper may be applied to the study of other microbial photoreceptors.
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