単分子原子力顕微鏡で発見されたメタロプロテイン・フェルドキシンの逆転展開と折り畳み
Hai Lei1,2, Yabin Guo2, Xiaodong Hu1
1State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurements Technology and Instruments, School of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronics Engineering, Tianjin University , Tianjin 300072, People's Republic of China.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|January 12, 2017
まとめ
光合成に不可欠な植物フェルドキシンが 逆転可能な展開と再折りについて 研究することができます この単一分子の研究は 鉄と硫黄のクラスターが このプロセスにどのように関与しているかを明らかにし 新しい研究の道を開きます
科学分野:
- 生物化学
- バイオ物理学
- 構造生物学
背景:
- 植物型 [2Fe-2S]フェルドキシンは,光合成における重要な電子転送タンパク質である.
- フェレドキシンの展開を in vitro で研究することは,不可逆的な鉄硫黄のクラスター損失のために困難です.
- In vivoの折りたたみには特定のフェレドキシン生物生成タンパク質が必要です.
研究 の 目的:
- 単分子力顕微鏡を用いて植物型 [2Fe-2S]フェルドキシンの機械的な展開と再折りについて直接調査する.
- 展開再折りメカニズムにおける [2Fe-2S] メタルセンターの役割を明らかにする.
- 単一分子レベルでフェレドキシン折り畳みの可逆性を実証する.
主な方法:
- 原子力顕微鏡による単分子力スペクトロスコーピー
- タンパク質の工学技術
- 単一のフェレドキシン分子の機械的な伸縮とリラックスサイクル.
主要な成果:
- フェレドキシンには,タンパク質配列の展開と [2Fe-2S] 金属中心の力による破裂を含む3つの状態の展開メカニズムがあります.
- 完全に展開されたフェルドキシン分子は,再構成された [2Fe-2S] センターで元のホロフォームに再折りたたまれることが観察されました.
- 単一分子レベルでの個々のフェルドキシンの可逆的な展開-再折り合いを証明した.
結論:
- Ferredoxinの展開-再折れは単一分子レベルで逆転可能であり,以前の不可逆性の概念に挑戦しています.
- この研究は,メタルプロテインの折りたたみ-展開メカニズムと金属中心の反応性を研究するための新しい in vitro 方法を提供します.
- 電子伝達タンパク質のダイナミクスを理解するための新しい道を開きます.
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