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Bid: a Bax-like BH3 protein.

L P Billen¹, A Shamas-Din, D W Andrews

¹Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

|July 31, 2009

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Bid, a pro-apoptotic protein, acts as a sentinel for protease-mediated death signals. Structural analysis reveals Bid is functionally and structurally similar to Bax, a multi-BH region protein.

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Area of Science:

Cell Biology
Molecular Biology
Biochemistry

Background:

Bid is a pro-apoptotic protein in the Bcl-2 family, known to bind both pro-apoptotic and anti-apoptotic proteins.
Bid is cleaved by various proteases during apoptosis, including caspases and granzyme B.
Cleaved Bid translocates to mitochondria, inducing outer membrane permeabilization via Bax and Bak.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the structural and functional relationship between Bid and other Bcl-2 family proteins, particularly Bax.
To elucidate the mechanism of membrane binding and mitochondrial translocation of protease-cleaved Bid.

Main Methods:

Sequence, structural, and phylogenetic analysis of Bid.
Analysis of membrane binding properties of protease-cleaved Bid.
Comparison of Bid's membrane binding mechanism with that of Bax.

Main Results:

Structural and phylogenetic analyses suggest Bid is more related to multi-BH region proteins like Bax than to typical BH3-only proteins.
Protease-cleaved Bid exhibits mechanistic similarities to Bax in membrane binding.
Bid's membrane binding involves N-terminal inhibition relief, hydrophobic hairpin insertion, and BH3 region exposure.

Conclusions:

Bid functions as a BH3-only protein with structural and functional similarities to multi-BH region proteins like Bax.
Bid acts as a crucial link between protease activation and mitochondrial apoptotic pathways.
Understanding Bid's dual nature provides insights into the regulation of apoptosis.