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ACS OMEGA
卷 4, 期 1, 页码 1238-1243出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.8b02872
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- US National Institutes of Health [GM088668, 5T32GM007183-34]
- Chicago Biomedical Consortium
- Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust
- Chemical Sciences council of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO-CW) through an ECHO grant
- NWO-CW VICI grant
Algae, plants, bacteria, and fungi contain flavin-binding light-oxygen-voltage (LOV) domains that function as blue light sensors to control cellular responses to light. In the second LOV domain of phototropins, called LOV2 domains, blue light illumination leads to covalent bond formation between protein and flavin that induces the dissociation and unfolding of a C-terminally attached alpha helix (J alpha) and the N-terminal helix (A'alpha). To date, the majority of studies on these domains have focused on versions that contain truncations in the termini, which creates difficulties when extrapolating to the much larger proteins that contain these domains. Here, we study the influence of deletions and extensions of the A'alpha helix of the LOV2 domain of Avena sativa phototropin 1 (AsLOV2) on the light-triggered structural response of the protein by Fourier-transform infrared difference spectroscopy. Deletion of the A'alpha helix abolishes the light-induced unfolding of J alpha, whereas extensions of the A'alpha helix lead to an attenuated structural change of J alpha. These results are different from shorter constructs, indicating that the conformational changes in full-length phototropin LOV domains might not be as large as previously assumed, and that the well-characterized full unfolding of the J alpha helix in AsLOV2 with short A'alpha helices may be considered a truncation artifact. It also suggests that the N- and C-terminal helices of phot-LOV2 domains are necessary for allosteric regulation of the phototropin kinase domain and may provide a basis for signal integration of LOV1 and LOV2 domains in phototropins.
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