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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
卷 275, 期 18, 页码 13683-13689出版社
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.275.18.13683
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM51911-01] Funding Source: Medline
Members of the heteropentameric ligand-gated ion channel superfamily rapidly mediate signaling across the synaptic cleft. Sequence analysis and limited experimental studies have yielded a topological model containing four transmembrane alpha-helices, labeled M1 to M4, and a large soluble, extracellular N-terminal domain. This model persists to date despite some recent structural studies that suggest it may be inappropriate. In this study, the topology of the glycine receptor was probed by limited proteolysis coupled to mass spectrometry, Of particular note, accessible cleavage sites within the putative M1 and M3 transmembrane helices were identified. Membrane-associated fragments within the postulated globular extracellular N-terminal domain were also observed. This report presents several key details incorporated in a new topological model and is the first direct experimental evidence that a subset of the transmembrane regions are too short to be membrane-spanning alpha-helices; rather, these regions are proposed to be a mix of alpha-helices and beta-sheets, This report is also the first to exploit the capability of mass spectrometry to probe critically the topology of a class of membrane proteins of unknown structure.
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