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SUBMITTER: Pogoryelov D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3382517 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pogoryelov Denys D Klyszejko Adriana L AL Krasnoselska Ganna O GO Heller Eva-Maria EM Leone Vanessa V Langer Julian D JD Vonck Janet J Müller Daniel J DJ Faraldo-Gómez José D JD Meier Thomas T
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20120524 25
ATP synthase membrane rotors consist of a ring of c-subunits whose stoichiometry is constant for a given species but variable across different ones. We investigated the importance of c/c-subunit contacts by site-directed mutagenesis of a conserved stretch of glycines (GxGxGxGxG) in a bacterial c(11) ring. Structural and biochemical studies show a direct, specific influence on the c-subunit stoichiometry, revealing c(<11), c(12), c(13), c(14), and c(>14) rings. Molecular dynamics simulations rati ...[more]