NMR solution structure of gramicidin A complex with caesium cations

Arseniev, Alexander S.; Barsukov, Igor; Bystrov, V. F.

doi:10.1016/0014-5793(85)80225-8

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“…The obtained set of NOE cross-peaks made it possible to establish that the gramicidine A-cesium (CsGA) complex is a double right 1",1, 72 ~rxLz~ helix [5]. Most of its side chains are apparently very mobile, which was confirmed by averaged H-C~Ca-H coupling constants ranging from 6 Hz to 8 Hz ( Fig.…”

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“…Therefore, interest in alternative conformations of the GA membrane channel is quite natural. The mutual orientation of the GA molecules forming a dimer has been determined in [5] from NMR data. However, the spatial structure GA-Cs + complex (CSGA) could not be determined by usual methods [6,7], because the majority of the residue side chains had high conformational mobility.…”

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The features of the spatial structure of the gramicidine A‐cesium complex

1995

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Earlier obtained two-dimensional ~H-NMR spectroscopy data were used to analyze the spatial structure and conformational mobility of the double right TI 1rlr7~ helix of the complex formed by gramicidine A and Cs ÷ ions in an organic solvent (a chloroform-methanol mixture). Analysis of the experimental data permitted the determination of a set of conformations for each of the high-mobility residue side chains in the solution. The energy refinement of the most probable conformation of the double right 11 7.2 ~'TrLo helix was made and conformational rearrangements of the tryptophan residue side chain were studied in detail.

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The features of the spatial structure of the gramicidine A‐cesium complex

1995

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“…In more polar organic solvents, the parallel double-stranded conformation with a net axial dipole is much more stable. It should be noted that this ''new fold'' was previously described by solution NMR (37).…”

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Validation of the single-stranded channel conformation of gramicidin A by solid-state NMR

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1999

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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The monovalent cation selective channel formed by a dimer of the polypeptide gramicidin A has a single-stranded, right-handed helical motif with 6.5 residues per turn forming a 4-Å diameter pore. The structure has been refined to high resolution against 120 orientational constraints obtained from samples in a liquid-crystalline phase lipid bilayer. These structural constraints from solid-state NMR ref lect the orientation of spin interaction tensors with respect to a unique molecular axis. Because these tensors are fixed in the molecular frame and because the samples are uniformly aligned with respect to the magnetic field of the NMR spectrometer, each constraint restricts the orientation of internuclear vectors with respect to the laboratory frame of reference. The structural motif of this channel has been validated, and the high-resolution structure has led to precise models for cation binding, cation selectivity, and cation conductance efficiency. The structure is consistent with the electrophysiological data and numerous biophysical studies. Orientational constraints derived from solid-state NMR can be used to determine high-resolution three-dimensional structures. Such an approach has been used to define the structure of the ion channel, gramicidin A, in lamellar phase lipids (ref. 1; PDB accession no. 1MAG). Although a reasonable model of this structure has been extant for nearly 30 years (2) and a structure was determined by solution NMR spectroscopy in SDS micelles (3, 4), crystallographic and solution NMR methods have not been successful in a lipid environment. Recently, the validity of the solid-state NMR structure has been challenged (5). In this report, the structural fold of the channel is validated by comparing predicted and observed values for structural constraints not used quantitatively in solving for the structural fold. Furthermore, the NMR observables are compared with predicted values from several structures in the Protein Data Bank. The results establish the high resolution of the solid-state structure and the clear validity of this motif in a lipid environment.Gramicidin A is a polymorphic structure and the dominant sequence in gramicidin D, the biosynthetic product from Bacillus brevis: HCO-Val-Gly-Ala-DLeu-Ala-DVal-Val-ValTrp-DLeu-Trp-DLeu-Trp-DLeu-Trp-NHCH 2 CH 2 OH. In isotropic organic solvents, this peptide typically forms a doublestranded dimer that may be parallel or antiparallel, lefthanded or right-handed and has a range of residues per turn from 5.6 to 7.2 (5-10). In the heterogeneous anisotropic lipid environment, the structure is almost exclusively singlestranded. Because of the short helix length, a single-stranded monomer buries one of its termini in the bilayer. Exposure of the carboxyl terminus to the bilayer surface and lack of exposure for the amino terminus was documented by shift reagent NMR experiments (11). It has been observed that the native monovalent cation selective channel function is maintained when formal charges are introduced at the carboxyl termin...

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“…Gramicidin A is a linear pentadecapeptide which in a dimer conformation forms ion-selective channels in membranes. The mode of insertion of gramicidin in a lipid bilayer has been extensively studied and four classes of models have been proposed: the N-terminal to N-terminal -3 helical dimer (Urry et al, 1983a), the C-terminal to C-terminal helical dimer (Bradley et al, 1978) and parallel (Arseniev et al, 1985) and anti-parallel double helices. The N-N-terminal fl 3 helical dimer was originally proposed by Urry et al (1983b) as the channel conformation and is presently largely accepted on the basis of '3-C-n.m.r., i.r.…”

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