期刊
BIOCHEMICAL JOURNAL
卷 425, 期 -, 页码 85-94出版社
PORTLAND PRESS LTD
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20091247
关键词
cyanobacterium; epsilon subunit; F-1-ATPase; Thermosyne-chococcus elongatus
资金
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports. Science and Technology of Japan [180740021, 187700851]
The epsilon subunit, a small subunit located in the F-1 domain of ATP synthase and comprising two distinct domains, all N-terminal beta w-sandwich structure and C-terminal alpha-helical region, serves as an intrinsic inhibitor of ATP hydrolysis activity. This inhibitory function is especially important in photosynthetic organisms as the enzyme cannot synthesize ATP in the dark, but may catalyse futile ATP hydrolysis reactions. To understand the structure-function relationship of this subunit in F-1 from photosynthetic organisms, we solved the NMR structure of the epsilon subunit of ATP synthase obtained from the thermophilic cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus elongatus BP-1, and examined the flexibility of the C-terminal domains using molecular dynamics Simulations. In addition, we revealed the significance of the C-terminal alpha-helical region of the epsilon Subunit in determining the binding affinity to the complex based oil the assessment of the inhibition of ATPase activity by the cyanobacterial epsilon subunit and the chimaeric subunits composed of the N-terminal domain from the cyanobacterium and the C-terminal domain from spinach. The differences observed in the structural and biochemical properties of chloroplast and bacterial epsilon subunits explains the distinctive characteristics of the epsilon subunits in the ATPase complex of the photosynthetic organism.
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