Site-directed Alkylation Studies with LacY Provide Evidence for the Alternating Access Model of Transport

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Journal Biochemistry

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 2011 Jan 25

PMID 21254783

Citations 19

Authors

Xiaoxu Jiang

Yiling Nie

H Ronald Kaback

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Abstract

In total, 59 single Cys-replacement mutants in helix VII and helix X of the lactose permease of Escherichia coli were subjected to site-directed fluorescence labeling in right-side-out membrane vesicles to complete the testing of Cys accessibility or reactivity. For both helices, accessibility/reactivity is relatively low at the level of the sugar-binding site where the helices are tightly packed. However, labeling of Cys substitutions in helix VII with tetramethylrhodamine-5-maleimide decreases from the middle toward the cytoplasmic end and increases toward the periplasmic end. Helix X is labeled mainly on the side facing the central hydrophilic cavity with relatively small or no changes in the presence of ligand. In contrast, sugar binding causes a significant increase in accessibility/reactivity at the periplasmic end of helix VII. When considered with similar findings from N-ethylmaleimide alkylation studies, the results confirm and extend support for the alternating access model.

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