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Estructura de las proteínas. Las estructuras cristalinas de la proteína translocadora (TSPO) y la imitación mutante

Fei Li¹, Jian Liu¹, Yi Zheng¹

¹Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)

|January 31, 2015

Resumen

Las estructuras cristalinas de la proteína translocadora de 18 kilodaltones (TSPO) revelan su sitio de unión y cómo una mutación afecta la unión del colesterol, ofreciendo información sobre su papel fisiológico en las enfermedades.

Área de la Ciencia:

La bioquímica es la bioquímica.
Biología Estructural Biología estructural.
La neurociencia es la neurociencia.

Sus antecedentes:

La proteína translocadora de 18 kilodaltones (TSPO) es crucial para el transporte del colesterol hacia las mitocondrias.
TSPO está implicado en la esteroideogénesis, el cáncer y los trastornos neurológicos como el Alzheimer y el Parkinson.
Los ligandos TSPO se utilizan en el diagnóstico por imágenes y regulan la apoptosis.

Objetivo del estudio:

Para determinar las estructuras cristalinas de Rhodobacter sphaeroides TSPO y un mutante de polimorfismo humano.
Para dilucidar el sitio de unión de los ligandos endógenos de la porfirina.
Para comprender los efectos conformacionales de la mutación Ala147→Thr147 en la función TSPO.

Principales métodos:

Cristalografía de rayos X con una resolución de 1,8 2,5 angstroms.
Técnica de cristalización de la fase cúbica lipídica.
Análisis estructural de las interacciones de dímeros y ligandos TSPO.

Principales resultados:

Se obtuvieron tres estructuras cristalinas de TSPO, revelando un dimer estrechamente interactuando.
Se identificó el sitio de unión de un ligando de porfirina endógeno.
Se observaron cambios conformacionales asociados con la mutación humana Ala147→Thr147, que afectan a la unión del colesterol.

Conclusiones:

Las estructuras cristalinas proporcionan información sobre el controvertido papel fisiológico de TSPO.
El estudio aclara cómo la mutación Ala147→Thr147 afecta la interacción de TSPO con el colesterol.
Los hallazgos pueden informar las estrategias terapéuticas para las enfermedades relacionadas con TSPO.

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