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Macrophages ingesting apoptotic cells attenuate inflammatory responses, such as reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation. In atherosclerosis, ongoing inflammation and accumulation of apoptotic/necrotic material are observed, suggesting defects of phagocytes in recognizing or responding to dying cells. Modified lipoproteins such as oxidized LDL (oxLDL) are known to promote inflammation and to interfere with apoptotic cell clearance. Here, we studied the impact of cells exposed to oxLDL on their ability to interfere with the oxidative burst in phagocytes. In contrast to apoptotic cells, cells dying in response to or in the presence of oxLDL failed to suppress ROS generation despite efficiently being taken up by phagocytes. In addition, apoptotic cells, but not oxLDL-treated cells, inhibited phosphorylation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase, which is important for NADPH oxidase activation. oxLDL treatment did not interfere with activation of the antiinflammatory transcriptional regulator peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma by apoptotic cells. Moreover, cells exposed to oxLDL failed to suppress lipopolysaccharide- induced proinflammatory cytokine expression, whereas apoptotic cells attenuated these phagocyte responses. Thus, the presence of oxLDL during cell death impaired the ability of apoptotic cells to act antiinflammatory with regard to oxidative burst inhibition and cytokine expression in phagocytes.
Specific functions of biological systems often require conformational transitions of macromolecules. Thus, being able to describe and predict conformational changes of biological macromolecules is not only important for understanding their impact on biological function, but will also have implications for the modelling of (macro)molecular complex formation and in structure-based drug design approaches. The “conformational selection model” provides the foundation for computational investigations of conformational fluctuations of the unbound protein state. These fluctuations may reveal conformational states adopted by the bound proteins. The aim of this work is to incorporate directional information in a geometry-based approach, in order to sample biologically relevant conformational space extensively. Interestingly, coarse-grained normal mode (CGNM) approaches, e.g., the elastic network model (ENM) and rigid cluster normal mode analysis (RCNMA), have emerged recently and provide directions of intrinsic motions in terms of harmonic modes (also called normal modes). In my previous work and in other studies it has been shown that conformational changes upon ligand binding occur along a few low-energy modes of unbound proteins and can be efficiently calculated by CGNM approaches. In order to explore the validity and the applicability of CGNM approaches, a large-scale comparison of essential dynamics (ED) modes from molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and normal modes from CGNM was performed over a dataset of 335 proteins. Despite high coarse-graining, low frequency normal modes from CGNM correlate very well with ED modes in terms of directions of motions (average maximal overlap is 0.65) and relative amplitudes of motions (average maximal overlap is 0.73). In order to exploit the potential of CGNM approaches, I have developed a three-step approach for efficient exploration of intrinsic motions of proteins. The first two steps are based on recent developments in rigidity and elastic network theory. Initially, static properties of the protein are determined by decomposing the protein into rigid clusters using the graph-theoretical approach FIRST at an all-atom representation of the protein. In a second step, dynamic properties of the molecule are revealed by the rotations-translations of blocks approach (RTB) using an elastic network model representation of the coarse-grained protein. In the final step, the recently introduced idea of constrained geometric simulations of diffusive motions in proteins is extended for efficient sampling of conformational space. Here, the low-energy (frequency) normal modes provided by the RCNMA approach are used to guide the backbone motions. The NMSim approach was validated on hen egg white lysozyme by comparing it to previously mentioned simulation methods in terms of residue fluctuations, conformational space explorations, essential dynamics, sampling of side-chain rotamers, and structural quality. Residue fluctuations in NMSim generated ensemble is found to be in good agreement with MD fluctuations with a correlation coefficient of around 0.79. A comparison of different geometry-based simulation approaches shows that FRODA is restricted in sampling the backbone conformational space. CONCOORD is restricted in sampling the side-chain conformational space. NMSim sufficiently samples both the backbone and the side-chain conformations taking experimental structures and conformations from the state of the art MD simulation as reference. The NMSim approach is also applied to a dataset of proteins where conformational changes have been observed experimentally, either in domain or functionally important loop regions. The NMSim simulations starting from the unbound structures are able to reach conformations similar to ligand bound conformations (RMSD < 2.4 Å) in 4 out of 5 cases of domain moving proteins. In these four cases, good correlation coefficients (R > 0.7) between the RMS fluctuations derived from NMSim generated structures and two experimental structures are observed. Furthermore, intrinsic fluctuations in NMSim simulation correlate with the region of loop conformational changes observed upon ligand binding in 2 out of 3 cases. The NMSim generated pathway of conformational change from the unbound structure to the ligand bound structure of adenylate kinase is validated by a comparison to experimental structures reflecting different states of the pathway as proposed by previous studies. Interestingly, the generated pathway confirms that the LID domain closure precedes the closing of the NMPbind domain, even if no target conformation is provided in NMSim. Hence, the results in this study show that, incorporating directional information in the geometry-based approach NMSim improves the sampling of biologically relevant conformational space and provides a computationally efficient alternative to state of the art MD simulations.
Solid state NMR is a emerging method for the study of membrane proteins, which has received much interest in recent years. Limiting the study of many pharmacologically relevant targets, are the often long measuring times, required to obtain especially higher dimensional solid state NMR spectra of good quality. To address this problem, multiple methods where developed in this work, which can be categorized into two groups. The first set of methods aims at the quality of certain spectra, by implementing a spectral filter, which increases the fidelity of the measured data. The second set of methods, addresses the problem of long measuring times directly, by increasing the sensitivity per unit time, as could be shown, for example, on homo- and heteronuclear singlequantum-singlequantum correlation experiments. The gains in measuring time for the latter group of methods are typically in the order of 2-3, but some experiments allow multiple methods to be employed simultaneously, which can lead to a decrease in measuring time of a factor of up to 8. It is important to mention, that none of the methods introduced in this work require any equipment in addition to the conventional setup present in most sold state NMR laboratories and no changes or addition to the samples under study are required. Therefore the gains reported in this work come at no extra cost and require only minimal implementation effort on the side of the user.
X-ray structure of the Na+-coupled Glycine-Betaine symporter BetP from Corynebacterium glutamicum
(2009)
Cellular membranes are important sites of interaction between cells and their environment. Among the multitude of macromolecular complexes embedded in these membranes, transporters play a particularly important role. These integral membrane proteins perform a number of vital functions that enable cell adaptation to changing environmental conditions. Osmotic stress is a major external stimulus for cells. Bacteria are frequently exposed to either hyperosmotic or hypoosmotic stress. Typical conditions for soil bacteria, such as Corynebacterium glutamicum, vary between dryness and sudden rainfall. Physical stimuli caused by osmotic stress have to be sensed and used to activate appropriate response mechanisms. Hypoosmotic stress causes immediate and uncontrolled influx of water. Cells counteract by instantly opening mechanosensitive channels, which act as emergency valves leading to fast efflux of small solutes out of the cell, therebydiminishing the osmotic gradient across the cell membrane. Hyperosmotic stress, on the other hand, results in water efflux. This is counterbalanced by an accumulation of small, osmotically active solutes in the cytoplasm, the so-called compatible solutes. They comprise a large variety of substances, including amino acids (proline), amino acid derivatives (betaine, ectoine), oligosaccharides (trehalose), and heterosides (glucosylglycerol). Osmoregulated transporters sense intracellular osmotic pressure and respond to hyperosmotic stress by facilitating the inward translocation of compatible solutes across the cell membrane, to restore normal hydration levels. This work presents the first X-ray structure of a member of the Betaine-Choline-Carnitine-Transporter (BCCT) family, BetP. This Na+-coupled symporter from Corynebacterium glutamicum is a highly effective osmoregulated and specific uptake system for glycine-betaine. X-ray structure determination was achieved using single wavelength anomalous dispersion (SAD) of selenium atoms. Selenium was incorporated into the protein during its expression in methione auxotrophic E. coli cells, grown in media supplemented with selenomethionine. SAD data with anomalous signal up to 5 Å led to the detection of 39 selenium sites, which were used to calculate the initial electron density map of the protein. Medium resolution and high data anisotropy made the structure determination of BetP a challenging task. A specific strategy for data anisotropy correction and a combination of various crystallographic programs were necessary to obtain an interpretable electron density map suitable for model building. The crystal structure of BetP shows a trimer with glycine-betaine bound in a three-fold cation-pi interaction built by conserved tryptophan residues. The bound substrate is occluded from both sides of the membrane and aromatic side chains line its transport pathway. Very interestingly, the structure reveals that the alpha-helical C-terminal domain, for which a chemo- and osmosensory function was elucidated by biochemical methods, interacts with cytoplasmic loops of an adjacent monomer. These unexpected monomer-monomer interactions are thought to be crucial for the activation mechanism of BetP, and a new atomic model combing biochemical results with the crystal structure is proposed. BetP is shown to have the same overall fold as three unrelated Na+-coupled symporters. While these were crystallised in either the outward- or inward-facing conformation, BetP reveals a unique intermediate state, opening new perspectives on the alternating access mechanism of transport.
Both the genomes of the epsilonproteobacteria Wolinella succinogenes and Campylobacter jejuni contain operons (sdhABE) that encode for so far uncharacterized enzyme complexes annotated as ‘non-classical’ succinate:quinone reductases (SQRs). However, the role of such an enzyme ostensibly involved in aerobic respiration in an anaerobic organism such as W. succinogenes has hitherto been unknown. We have established the first genetic system for the manipulation and production of a member of the non-classical succinate:quinone oxidoreductase family. Biochemical characterization of the W. succinogenes enzyme reveals that the putative SQR is in fact a novel methylmenaquinol:fumarate reductase (MFR) with no detectable succinate oxidation activity, clearly indicative of its involvement in anaerobic metabolism. We demonstrate that the hydrophilic subunits of the MFR complex are, in contrast to all other previously characterized members of the superfamily, exported into the periplasm via the twin-arginine translocation (tat)-pathway. Furthermore we show that a single amino acid exchange (Ala86→His) in the flavoprotein of that enzyme complex is the only additional requirement for the covalent binding of the otherwise non-covalently bound FAD. Our results provide an explanation for the previously published puzzling observation that the C. jejuni sdhABE operon is upregulated in an oxygen-limited environment as compared with microaerophilic laboratory conditions.
The supersilylated ethene trans-(tBu3Si)HC=CH(SitBu3) (triclinic, P ī) is accessible from the reaction of tBu3SiCHBr2 with nBuLi at −78 °C in THF or Et2 O. The reaction of Li(H2NCH2CH2NH2)C≡CH with tBu3SiBr leads to the formation of (tBu3Si)C≡CH and (tBu3Si)C≡C(SitBu3). X-Ray quality crystals of (tBu3Si)C≡C(SitBu3) (triclinic, P ī) were obtained by recrystallization from hexane. In contrast to the structures of the disilane tBu3Si-SitBu3 and the disiloxane tBu3Si-O-SitBu3, the sterically crowded ethene trans-(tBu3Si)HC=CH(SitBu3) and ethyne (tBu3Si)C≡C(SitBu3) feature dihedral angles of 60° in the solid-state structures.
[MesnacnacZn(μ-H)]2 (1) was synthesized by reaction of MesnacnacZnI with either an equimolar amount of KNH(iPr)BH3 or an excess of NaH and characterized by multinuclear NMR and IR spectroscopy as well as X-ray diffraction. Two polymorphs of 1 were found and their structures determined on single crystals.
In dieser Arbeit sollte die Bindung von Tetrahydromethanopterinderivaten an zwei Enzyme des methanogenen, CO2-reduzierenden Energiestoffwechselweges strukturell charakterisiert werden. In jenem Stoffwechselweg verläuft die schrittweise Reduktion von CO2 über die Bindung an den C1-Carrier Tetrahydromethanopterin (H4MPT), ein Tetrahydrofolat-Analogon, welches unter anderem in methanogenen Archaeen zu finden ist. Die thermophilen bzw. hyperthermophilen Ursprungsorganismen der untersuchten Enzyme, Methanothermobacter marburgensis, Methanocaldococcus jannaschii und Methanopyrus kandleri, sind aufgrund ihrer Anpassung an extreme Habitate durch spezielle genomische, strukturelle und enzymatische Eigenschaften von strukturbiologischem Interesse. Beim ersten in dieser Arbeit untersuchten Enzym handelte es sich um den aus acht Untereinheiten bestehenden membrangebundenen N5-Methyl-H4MPT:Coenzym M-Methyltransferasekomplex (MtrA-H). Dieser katalysiert in einem zweistufigen Mechanismus den Methyltransfer von H4MPT zum Co(I) der prosthetischen Gruppe 5’-Hydroxybenzimidazolylcobamid (Vitamin B12a), um die Methylgruppe dann auf Coenzym M zu übertragen. Gleichzeitig findet ein der Energiekonservierung dienender vektorieller Natriumtransport über die Membran statt. Für den Mtr-Komplex aus M. marburgensis (670 kDa) lag bereits ein Protokoll zur Reinigung unter anaeroben Bedingungen vor. Dieses wurde im Rahmen dieser Arbeit verbessert, für die Isolierung und Reinigung unter aeroben Bedingungen vereinfacht und für die Erfordernisse der zur Strukturbestimmung verwendeten elektronenmikroskopischen Einzelpartikelmessung optimiert. Neben der Präparation des kompletten Komplexes MtrA-H wurde als Alternative die Präparation des Enzymkomplexes MtrA-G unter möglichst vollständiger Abtrennung der hydrophilsten Untereinheit MtrH gewählt. Mit der zu diesem Zweck entwickelten Methode konnte das Abdissoziieren von MtrH besser als im etablierten Protokoll kontrolliert und somit die Homogenität der Probe deutlich verbessert werden. Dies schafft zum einen die Vorraussetzungen für eine Kristallisation zur Röntgenstrukturanalyse, zum anderen war auch in bei der elektronenmikroskopischen Einzelpartikelmessung erkennbar, dass mit dem Mtr-Komplex ohne MtrH bessere Ergebnisse zu erzielen sind. Parallel zu den Untersuchungen am Gesamtkomplex sollten die den Cobamid-Cofaktor bindende Untereinheit MtrA sowie die H4MPT-bindende Untereinheit MtrH in für die Kristallisation und röntgenkristallographische Untersuchung ausreichender Menge und Qualität gereinigt werden. Hierfür wurden MtrA und MtrH aus oben genannten Organismen für die heterologe Expression in E. coli kloniert, die Expressionsbedingungen optimiert und Reinigungsprotokolle etabliert. Anschließend wurden die Untereinheiten umfangreichen Kristallisationsversuchen unterzogen. Die Untereinheit MtrA aus M. jannaschii konnte ohne die C-terminale Transmembranhelix als lösliches Protein in E. coli produziert und als Holoprotein bis zur Homogenität gereinigt werden. Bei M. kandleri MtrA gelang die Herstellung von geringen Mengen teilweise löslichen StrepII-Fusionsproteins ohne C-terminale Transmembranhelix in E. coli. Eine Produktion der Untereinheit MtrH in E. coli als lösliches Protein war bei keiner der in dieser Arbeit getesteten Varianten möglich. Mit dem in Einschlusskörperchen exprimierten Protein aus M. marburgensis wurde eine Reinigung und Rückfaltung versucht. Auch eine Co-Expression der Untereinheiten MtrA und MtrH, durch welche eine bessere Faltung und Löslichkeit erreicht werden sollte, war nur in Einschlusskörperchen möglich. Das zweite in dieser Arbeit untersuchte Enzym, die F420 abhängige N5,N10 Methylen-H4MPT-Dehydrogenase (Mtd), katalysiert den reversiblen, stereospezifischen Hydrid-Transfer zwischen reduziertem F420 (F420H2) und Methenyl-H4MPT+, welches hierbei zu Methylen-H4MPT reduziert wird. Die Reaktion verläuft über einen ternären Komplex bestehend aus Protein, Substrat (Methylen-H4MPT) und Cosubstrat (F420), welcher strukturell charakterisiert werden sollte. Das gereinigte, rekombinante Enzym aus M. kandleri wurde mit verschiedenen H4MPT- und F420-Derivaten co-kristallisiert, die Struktur des ternären Komplexes röntgenkristallographisch bestimmt und die Bindung von H4MPT und F420 analysiert. Methenyl-H4MPT+ und F420H2 sind in der in dieser Arbeit gelösten Kristallstruktur in katalytisch aktiver Konformation gebunden, jedoch kann bei einer Auflösung von 1,8 Å nicht beurteilt werden, ob Methylen-H4MPT und F420 oder Methenyl-H4MPT+ und F420H2 vorlagen. Ein Vergleich mit der Struktur von M. kandleri-Mtd (KMtd) ohne Substrat und Cosubstrat ergab nur äußerst geringe Abweichungen in der Proteinkonformation, sodass sich KMtd überraschenderweise als Beispiel für ein Enzym mit ungewöhnlich starrer, vorgegebener Bindetasche erwies.