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Transient conformers of LacY are trapped by nanobodies.


ABSTRACT: The lactose permease of Escherichia coli (LacY), a highly dynamic membrane protein, catalyzes symport of a galactopyranoside and an H(+) by using an alternating access mechanism, and the transport cycle involves multiple conformational states. Single-domain camelid nanobodies (Nbs) developed against a LacY mutant immobilized in an outward (periplasmic)-open conformation bind to the flexible WT protein and stabilize the open-outward conformation(s). Here, we use site-directed, distance-dependent Trp quenching/unquenching of fluorescent probes inserted on opposite surfaces of LacY to assess the conformational states of the protein complexed with each of eight unique Nbs that bind exclusively to the periplasmic side and block transport, but increase the accessibility of the sugar-binding site. Nb binding involves conformational selection of LacY molecules with exposed binding epitopes. Each of eight Nbs induces quenching with three pairs of cytoplasmic Trp/fluorophore probes, indicating closing of cytoplasmic cavity. In reciprocal fashion, the same Nbs induce unquenching of fluorescence in three pairs of periplasmic probes due to opening of the periplasmic cavity. Because the extent of fluorescence change with various Nbs differs and the differences correlate with changes in the rate of sugar binding, it is also concluded that the Nbs stabilize several different outward-open conformations of LacY.

SUBMITTER: Smirnova I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4653160 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Transient conformers of LacY are trapped by nanobodies.

Smirnova Irina I   Kasho Vladimir V   Jiang Xiaoxu X   Pardon Els E   Steyaert Jan J   Kaback H Ronald HR  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20151028 45


The lactose permease of Escherichia coli (LacY), a highly dynamic membrane protein, catalyzes symport of a galactopyranoside and an H(+) by using an alternating access mechanism, and the transport cycle involves multiple conformational states. Single-domain camelid nanobodies (Nbs) developed against a LacY mutant immobilized in an outward (periplasmic)-open conformation bind to the flexible WT protein and stabilize the open-outward conformation(s). Here, we use site-directed, distance-dependent  ...[more]

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