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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 358, Issue 5, Pages 1221-1228Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2006.02.065
Keywords
Delta G; dimerization; GALLEX; membrane protein folding; transmembrane; helix; stability
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM070985] Funding Source: Medline
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Despite some promising progress in the understanding of membrane protein folding and assembly, there is little experimental information regarding the thermodynamic stability of transmembrane helix interactions and even less on the stability of transmembrane helix-helix interactions in a biological membrane. Here we describe an approach that allows quantitative measurement of transmembrane helix interactions in a biological membrane, and calculation of changes in the interaction free energy resulting from substitution of single amino acids. Dimerization of several variants of the glycophorin A transmembrane domain are characterized and compared to the wild-type (wt) glycophorin A transmembrane helix dimerization. The calculated Delta Delta G(app) values are further compared with values found in the literature. In addition, we compare interactions between the wt glycophorin A transmembrane domain and helices in which critical glycine residues are replaced by alanine or serine, respectively The data demonstrate that replacement of the glycine residues by serine is less destabilizing than replacement by alanine with a Delta Delta G(app) value of about 0.4 kcal/mol. Our study comprises the first measurement of a transmembrane helix interaction in a biological membrane, and we are optimistic that it can be further developed and applied. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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