A gate-free pathway for substrate release from the inward-facing state of the Na+-galactose transporter

被引:19
作者
Li, Jing
Tajkhorshid, Emad [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Illinois, Beckman Inst, Coll Med, Dept Biochem, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
来源
BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES | 2012年 / 1818卷 / 02期
基金
美国国家卫生研究院;
关键词
Membrane transporters; LeuT-fold secondary transporter; Substrate unbinding; Molecular dynamics simulation; Inward-facing state; Sodium-coupled transporter; AMINO-ACID ANTIPORTER; NA+/GLUCOSE COTRANSPORTER SGLT1; NA+/BETAINE SYMPORTER BETP; MOLECULAR-DYNAMICS; CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE; ELECTROGENIC PROPERTIES; CONFORMATIONAL-CHANGES; GLUCOSE COTRANSPORTER; STRUCTURAL BASIS; MECHANISM;
D O I
10.1016/j.bbamem.2011.09.011
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
Employing molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, the pathway and mechanism of substrate unbinding from the inward-facing state of the Na+-coupled galactose transporter, vSGLT, have been investigated. During a 200-ns equilibrium simulation, repeated spontaneous unbinding events of the substrate from its binding site have been observed. In contrast to the previously proposed gating role of a tyrosine residue (Y263), the unbinding mechanism captured in the present equilibrium simulation does not rely on the displacement and/or rotation of this side chain. Rather, the unbinding involves an initial lateral displacement of the substrate out of the binding site which allows the substrate to completely emerge from the region covered by the side chain of Y263 without any noticeable conformational changes of the latter. Starting with the snapshots taken from this equilibrium simulation with the substrate outside the binding site, steered MD (SMD) simulations were then used to probe the translocation of the substrate along the remaining of the release pathway within the protein's lumen and to characterize the nature of protein-substrate interactions involved in the process. Combining the results of the equilibrium and SMD simulations, we provide a description of the full translocation pathway for the substrate release from the binding site into the cytoplasm. Residues E68, N142, T431, and N267 facilitate the initial substrate's displacement out of the binding site, while the translocation of the substrate along the remainder of the exit pathway formed between TM6 and TM8 is facilitated by H-bond interactions between the substrate and a series of conserved, polar residues (Y138, N267, R273, S365, S368, N371, S372, and T375). The observed molecular events indicate that no gating is required for the release of the substrate from the crystallographically captured structure of the inward-facing state of SGLT, suggesting that this conformation might represent an open, rather than occluded, state of the transporter. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Membrane protein structure and function. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:263 / 271
页数:9
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