期刊
JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
卷 289, 期 9, 页码 5596-5608出版社
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M113.541037
关键词
Apolipoproteins; Lipid-binding Protein; Mass Spectrometry (MS); Molecular Dynamics; Protein Cross-linking; Protein Structure; Apolipoprotein A-IV; Lipid-free; Small Angle X-ray Scattering
资金
- National Institutes of Health [RO1 GM098458, HL67093]
Background: Apolipoprotein (apo)A-IV is involved in lipid and glucose metabolism, but its full-length structure is not known. Results: Stable isotope-assisted cross-linking combined with molecular modeling produced new models of the full-length protein. Conclusion: At least three hydrophobic residues participate in a unique clasp mechanism that regulates apoA-IV function. Significance: We report the most detailed models of lipid-free apoA-IV to date and demonstrate their utility in terms of functional predictions. Apolipoprotein (apo)A-IV plays important roles in dietary lipid and glucose metabolism, and knowledge of its structure is required to fully understand the molecular basis of these functions. However, typical of the entire class of exchangeable apolipoproteins, its dynamic nature and affinity for lipid has posed challenges to traditional high resolution structural approaches. We previously reported an x-ray crystal structure of a dimeric truncation mutant of apoA-IV, which showed a unique helix-swapping molecular interface. Unfortunately, the structures of the N and C termini that are important for lipid binding were not visualized. To build a more complete model, we used chemical cross-linking to derive distance constraints across the full-length protein. The approach was enhanced with stable isotope labeling to overcome ambiguities in determining molecular span of the cross-links given the remarkable similarities in the monomeric and dimeric apoA-IV structures. Using 51 distance constraints, we created a starting model for full-length monomeric apoA-IV and then subjected it to two modeling approaches: (i) molecular dynamics simulations and (ii) fitting to small angle x-ray scattering data. This resulted in the most detailed models yet for lipid-free monomeric or dimeric apoA-IV. Importantly, these models were of sufficient detail to direct the experimental identification of new functional residues that participate in a clasp mechanism to modulate apoA-IV lipid affinity. The isotope-assisted cross-linking approach should prove useful for further study of this family of apolipoproteins in both the lipid-free and -bound states.
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