Dataset Information

Sugar binding in lactose permease: anomeric state of a disaccharide influences binding structure.

ABSTRACT: Lactose permease in Escherichia coli (LacY) transports both anomeric states of disaccharides but has greater affinity for alpha-sugars. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are used to probe the protein-sugar interactions, binding structures, and global protein motions in response to sugar binding by investigating LacY (the experimental mutant and wild-type) embedded in a fully hydrated lipid bilayer. A total of 12 MD simulations of 20-25 ns each with beta(alpha)-d-galactopyranosyl-(1,1)-beta-d-galactopyranoside (betabeta-(Galp)(2)) and alphabeta-(Galp)(2) result in binding conformational families that depend on the anomeric state of the sugar. Both sugars strongly interact with Glu126 and alphabeta-(Galp)(2) has a greater affinity to this residue. Binding conformations are also seen that involve protein residues not observed in the crystal structure, as well as those involved in the proton translocation (Phe118, Asn119, Asn240, His322, Glu325, and Tyr350). Common to nearly all protein-sugar structures, water acts as a hydrogen bond bridge between the disaccharide and protein. The average binding energy is more attractive for alphabeta-(Galp)(2) than betabeta-(Galp)(2), i.e. -10.7(+/-0.7) and -3.1(+/-1.0) kcal/mol, respectively. Of the 12 helices in LacY, helix-IV is the least stable with betabeta-(Galp)(2) binding resulting in larger distortion than alphabeta-(Galp)(2).

SUBMITTER: Klauda JB

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1995404 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

ACCESS DATA

Publications

Sugar binding in lactose permease: anomeric state of a disaccharide influences binding structure.

Klauda Jeffery B JB Brooks Bernard R BR

Journal of molecular biology 20070207 5

Lactose permease in Escherichia coli (LacY) transports both anomeric states of disaccharides but has greater affinity for alpha-sugars. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are used to probe the protein-sugar interactions, binding structures, and global protein motions in response to sugar binding by investigating LacY (the experimental mutant and wild-type) embedded in a fully hydrated lipid bilayer. A total of 12 MD simulations of 20-25 ns each with beta(alpha)-d-galactopyranosyl-(1,1)-beta-d-g ...[more]

PMID: 17320103

Similar Datasets

Project description:Based on the crystal structure of lactose permease (LacY) open to the cytoplasm, a hybrid molecular simulation approach with self-guided Langevin dynamics is used to describe conformational changes that lead to a periplasmic-open state. This hybrid approach consists of implicit (IM) and explicit (EX) membrane simulations and requires self-guided Langevin dynamics to enhance protein motions during the IM simulations. The pore radius of the lumen increases by 3.5 Å on the periplasmic side and decreases by 2.5 Å on the cytoplasmic side (relative to the crystal structure), suggesting a lumen that is fully open to the periplasm to allow for extracellular sugar transport and closed to the cytoplasm. Based on our simulations, the mechanism that triggers this conformational change to the periplasmic-open state is the protonation of Glu269 and binding of the disaccharide. Then, helix packing is destabilized by breaking of several side chains involved in hydrogen bonding (Asn245, Ser41, Glu374, Lys42, and Gln242). For the periplasmic-open conformations obtained from our simulations, helix-helix distances agree well with experimental measurements using double electron-electron resonance, fluorescence resonance energy transfer, and varying sized cross-linkers. The periplasmic-open conformations are also in compliance with various substrate accessibility/reactivity measurements that indicate an opening of the protein lumen on the periplasmic side on sugar binding. The comparison with these measurements suggests a possible incomplete closure of the cytoplasmic half in our simulations. However, the closure is sufficient to prevent the disaccharide from transporting to the cytoplasm, which is in accordance with the well-established alternating access model. Ser53, Gln60, and Phe354 are determined to be important in sugar transport during the periplasmic-open stage of the sugar transport cycle and the sugar is found to undergo an orientational change in order to escape the protein lumen.

Dataset Information

Sugar binding in lactose permease: anomeric state of a disaccharide influences binding structure.

Publications

Sugar binding in lactose permease: anomeric state of a disaccharide influences binding structure.

Similar Datasets

OmicsDI is part of the ELIXIR infrastructure