Identification of interacting hot spots in the beta3 integrin stalk using comprehensive interface design.
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ABSTRACT: Protein-protein interfaces are usually large and complementary surfaces, but specific side chains, representing energetic "hot spots," often contribute disproportionately to binding free energy. We used a computational method, comprehensive interface design, to identify hot spots in the interface between the stalk regions of the ?3 and the complementary ?IIb and ?v integrin subunits. Using the Rosetta alanine-scanning and design algorithms to predict destabilizing, stabilizing, and neutral mutations in the ?3 region extending from residues Lys(532) through Gly(690), we predicted eight alanine mutations that would destabilize the ?IIb?3 interface as well as nine predicted to destabilize the ?v?3 interface, by at least 0.3 kcal/mol. The mutations were widely and unevenly distributed, with four between residues 552 and 563 and five between 590 and 610, but none between 565 and 589, and 611 and 655. Further, mutations destabilizing the ?v?3 and ?IIb?3 interfaces were not identical. The predictions were then tested by introducing selected mutations into the full-length integrins expressed in Chinese hamster ovary cells. Five mutations predicted to destabilize ?IIb and ?3 caused fibrinogen binding to ?IIb?3, whereas three of four predicted to be neutral or stabilizing did not. Conversely, a mutation predicted to destabilize ?v?3, but not ?IIb?3 (D552A), caused osteopontin binding to ?v?3, but not fibrinogen binding to ?IIb?3. These results indicate that stability of the distal stalk interface is involved in constraining integrins in stable, inactive conformations. Further, they demonstrate the ability of comprehensive interface design to identify functionally significant integrin mutations.
SUBMITTER: Donald JE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2992298 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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