Microsecond Motion of the Bacterial Transporter EmrE in Lipid Bilayers
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Shcherbakov, Alexander A
Brousseau, Merissa
Henzler-Wildman, Katherine A
Hong, Mei
Date Issued
April 25, 2023
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Journal of the American Chemical Society
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American Chemical Society
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Microsecond Motion of the Bacterial Transporter EmrE in Lipid Bilayers. Alexander A. Shcherbakov, Merissa Brousseau, Katherine A. Henzler-Wildman, and Mei Hong. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2023 145 (18), 10104-10115.
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Abstract
The bacterial transporter EmrE is a homo-dimeric membrane protein that effluxes cationic polyaromatic substrates against the concentration gradient by coupling to proton transport. As the archetype of the small multidrug resistance family of transporters, EmrE structure and dynamics provide atomic insights into the mechanism of transport by this family of proteins. We recently determined high-resolution structures of EmrE in complex with a cationic substrate, tetra(4-fluorophenyl)phosphonium (F4-TPP+), using solid-state NMR spectroscopy and an S64V-EmrE mutant. The substrate-bound protein exhibits distinct structures at acidic and basic pH, reflecting changes upon binding or release of a proton from residue E14, respectively. To obtain insight into the protein dynamics that mediate substrate transport, here we measure 15N rotating-frame spin-lattice relaxation (R1ρ) rates of F4-TPP+-bound S64V-EmrE in lipid bilayers under magic-angle spinning (MAS). Using perdeuterated and back-exchanged protein and 1H-detected 15N spin-lock experiments under 55 kHz MAS, we measured 15N R1ρ rates site-specifically. Many residues show spin-lock field-dependent 15N R1ρ relaxation rates. This relaxation dispersion indicates the presence of backbone motions at a rate of about 6000 s–1 at 280 K for the protein at both acidic and basic pH. This motional rate is 3 orders of magnitude faster than the alternating access rate but is within the range estimated for substrate binding. We propose that these microsecond motions may allow EmrE to sample different conformations to facilitate substrate binding and release from the transport pore.
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https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c00340
