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BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 42, Issue 31, Pages 9374-9382Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bi034195+
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM 60418, GM52598] Funding Source: Medline
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The interactions of PI-PLC with nonsubstrate zwitterionic [phosphatidylcholine (PC)] and anionic [phosphatidylmethanol (PMe), phosphatidylserine, phosphatidylglycerol, and phosphatidic acid] interfaces that affect the catalytic activity of PI-PLC have been examined. PI-PLC binding is strongly coupled to vesicle curvature and is tighter at acidic pH for all of the phospholipids examined. PI-PLC binds to small unilamellar vesicles (SUVs) of anionic lipids with much higher affinity (K-d is 0.01-0.07 muM for a site consisting of n = 100 +/- 25 lipids when analyzed with a Langmuir adsorption isotherm) than to zwitterionic PC SUVs (K-d is 5-20 muM and n = 8 +/- 3). The binding to PC surfaces is dominated by hydrophobic interactions, while binding to anionic surfaces is dominated by electrostatic interactions. The contributions of specific cationic side chains and hydrophobic groups at the rim of the alphabeta-barrel to zwitterionic and anionic vesicle binding have been assessed with mutagenesis. The results are used to explain how PC activates the enzyme for both phosphotransferase and cyclic phosphodiesterase activities.
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