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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 347, Issue 4, Pages 803-812Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2005.01.069
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G protein-coupled receptor; magic angle spinning NMR; solidstate NMR; metarhodopsin II; rhodopsin
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- NCRR NIH HHS [S10 RR13889] Funding Source: Medline
- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM-41412] Funding Source: Medline
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Hydrogen bonding interactions between transmembrane helices stabilize the visual pigment rhodopsin in an inactive conformation in the dark. The crystal structure of rhodopsin has previously revealed that Glu122 and Trp126 on transmembrane helix H3 form a complex hydrogen bonding network with Tyr206 and His211 on H5, while the indole nitrogen of Trp265 on H6 forms a water-mediated hydrogen bond with Asn302 on HT Here, we use solid-state magic angle spinning NMR spectroscopy to probe the changes in hydrogen bonding upon rhodopsin activation. The NMR chemical shifts of N-15-labeled tryptophan are consistent with the indole nitrogens of Trp126 and Trp265 becoming more weakly hydrogen bonded between rhodopsin and metarhodopsin II. The NMR chemical shifts of N-15-labeled histidine show that His211 is neutral; the unprotonated imidazole nitrogen is not coordinated to zinc in rhodopsin and becomes more strongly hydrogen bonded in metarhodopsin II. Moreover, measurements of rhodopsin containing C-13-labeled histidine show that a strong hydrogen bond between the side-chain of Glu122 and the backbone carbonyl of His211 is disrupted in metarhodopsin II. The implications of these observations for the activation mechanism of rhodopsin are discussed. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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