Structures of the Ca2+-regulated photoprotein obelin Y138F mutant before and after bioluminescence support the catalytic function of a water molecule in the reaction

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Тип публикации: статья из журнала

Год издания: 2014

Идентификатор DOI: 10.1107/S1399004713032434

Ключевые слова: Bioluminescence, Ca2+-regulated photoproteins, Obelin, calcium, photoprotein, water, article, bioluminescence resonance energy transfer, catalysis, chemistry, genetics, time, X ray crystallography, Bioluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer Techniques, Crystallography, X-Ray, Luminescent Proteins, Time Factors

Аннотация: Ca2+-regulated photoproteins, which are responsible for light emission in a variety of marine coelenterates, are a highly valuable tool for measuring Ca2+ inside living cells. All of the photoproteins are a single-chain polypeptide to which a 2-hydroperoxycoelenterazine molecule is tightly but noncovalently bound. Bioluminescence rПоказать полностьюesults from the oxidative decarboxylation of 2-hydroperoxycoelenterazine, generating protein-bound coelenteramide in an excited state. Here, the crystal structures of the Y138F obelin mutant before and after bioluminescence are reported at 1.72 and 1.30 angstrom resolution, respectively. The comparison of the spatial structures of the conformational states of Y138F obelin with those of wild-type obelin gives clear evidence that the substitution of Tyr by Phe does not affect the overall structure of both Y138F obelin and its product following Ca2+ discharge compared with the corresponding conformational states of wild-type obelin. Despite the similarity of the overall structures and internal cavities of Y138F and wild-type obelins, there is a substantial difference: in the cavity of Y138F obelin a water molecule corresponding to W2 in wild-type obelin is not found. However, in Ca2+-discharged Y138F obelin this water molecule now appears in the same location. This finding, together with the observed much slower kinetics of Y138F obelin, clearly supports the hypothesis that the function of a water molecule in this location is to catalyze the 2-hydroperoxycoelenterazine decarboxylation reaction by protonation of a dioxetanone anion before its decomposition into the excited-state product. Although obelin differs from other hydromedusan Ca2+-regulated photoproteins in some of its properties, they are believed to share a common mechanism.

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Журнал: ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION D-BIOLOGICAL CRYSTALLOGRAPHY

Выпуск журнала: Vol. 70, Part3

Номера страниц: 720-732

ISSN журнала: 13990047

Место издания: HOBOKEN

Издатель: WILEY-BLACKWELL

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  • Natashin Pavel V. (Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Biophys, Natl Lab Biomacromol, Beijing 100080, Peoples R China; Russian Acad Sci, Inst Biophys, Photobiol Lab, Siberian Branch, Krasnoyarsk, Russia; Siberian Fed Univ, Inst Fundamental Biol & Biotechnol, Lab Bioluminescence Biotechnol, Chair Biophys, Krasnoyarsk, Russia)
  • Ding Wei (Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Biophys, Natl Lab Biomacromol, Beijing 100080, Peoples R China; Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Biophys, Ctr Biol Imaging, Beijing 100080, Peoples R China)
  • Eremeeva Elena V. (Russian Acad Sci, Inst Biophys, Photobiol Lab, Siberian Branch, Krasnoyarsk, Russia; Siberian Fed Univ, Inst Fundamental Biol & Biotechnol, Lab Bioluminescence Biotechnol, Chair Biophys, Krasnoyarsk, Russia)
  • Markova Svetlana V. (Russian Acad Sci, Inst Biophys, Photobiol Lab, Siberian Branch, Krasnoyarsk, Russia; Siberian Fed Univ, Inst Fundamental Biol & Biotechnol, Lab Bioluminescence Biotechnol, Chair Biophys, Krasnoyarsk, Russia)
  • Lee John (Univ Georgia, Dept Biochem Mol Biol, Athens, GA 30602 USA)
  • Vysotski Eugene S. (Russian Acad Sci, Inst Biophys, Photobiol Lab, Siberian Branch, Krasnoyarsk, Russia; Siberian Fed Univ, Inst Fundamental Biol & Biotechnol, Lab Bioluminescence Biotechnol, Chair Biophys, Krasnoyarsk, Russia)
  • Liu Zhi-Jie (Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Biophys, Natl Lab Biomacromol, Beijing 100080, Peoples R China; Shanghai Tech Univ, Human Inst, Shanghai, Peoples R China)