Structural reorganization of the acetylcholine binding site of the Torpedo nicotinic receptor as revealed by dynamic photoaffinity labeling

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作者
Grutter, T
Bertrand, S
Kotzyba-Hibert, F
Bertrand, D
Goeldner, M
机构
[1] Inst Pasteur, Lab Recepteurs & Cognit, F-75724 Paris 15, France
[2] Univ Strasbourg, Lab Recepteurs & Cognit, F-75724 Strasbourg 15, France
[3] Univ Strasbourg, Chim Bioorgan Lab, Strasbourg, France
[4] CMU, Fac Med, Physiol Lab, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
关键词
allosterism; photoaffinity labeling; receptors; structure-activity relationships;
D O I
10.1002/1439-7633(20020703)3:7<652::AID-CBIC652>3.0.CO;2-L
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
We explored the structural changes that occur at the acetylcholine binding site of the Torpedo marmorata nicotinic receptor during activation by the tritiated photoactivatable agonist (diazocyclo-hexadienoylpropyl)trimethylommonium ([H-3]DCTA). We quantified the incorporation, of radioactivity into the receptor subunits as a function of the mixing time of [H-3]DCTA with the receptor by using a rapid-mixing,device adopted with a photochemical quenching system. A saturable increase of the specific photolobeling on the a and gamma subunits was observed with a half-time of about 2 minutes. We further analyzed this photoincorporation either after rapid mixing for 500 ms or after equilibration for 50 minutes. Under these conditions, [H-3]DCTA explored transient state(s) and the stable desensitized state, respectively. Comparative analyses showed that at a probe concentration of 10mum the relative variation of photoincorporation was more pronounced for the gamma subunit (three-to fourfold) than for the a subunit (about twofold). By contrast the relative distribution of radioactivity among a-subunit labeled residues (alpha7yr190, alphaCys192, alphaCysC793, and alphaTyr198) did not change. Altogether, these results reveal that during the course of agonist-induced receptor desensitization, the site-fining peptide loops, which belong to adjacent alpha and gamma subunits, move closer to each other.
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页码:652 / 658
页数:7
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