Intersubunit Distances in Full-length, Dimeric, Bacterial Phytochrome Agp1, As Measured by Pulsed Electron-electron Double Resonance (PELDOR) Between Different Spin Label Positions, Remain Unchanged Upon Photoconversion

Overview

Journal J Biol Chem

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 2017 Mar 15

PMID 28289094

Citations 5

Authors

Sylwia Kacprzak

Ibrahim Njimona

Anja Renz

Juan Feng

Edward Reijerse

Wolfgang Lubitz

Norbert Krauss

Patrick Scheerer

Soshichiro Nagano

Tilman Lamparter

Stefan Weber

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Abstract

Bacterial phytochromes are dimeric light-regulated histidine kinases that convert red light into signaling events. Light absorption by the N-terminal photosensory core module (PCM) causes the proteins to switch between two spectrally distinct forms, Pr and Pfr, thus resulting in a conformational change that modulates the C-terminal histidine kinase region. To provide further insights into structural details of photoactivation, we investigated the full-length Agp1 bacteriophytochrome from the soil bacterium using a combined spectroscopic and modeling approach. We generated seven mutants suitable for spin labeling to enable application of pulsed EPR techniques. The distances between attached spin labels were measured using pulsed electron-electron double resonance spectroscopy to probe the arrangement of the subunits within the dimer. We found very good agreement of experimental and calculated distances for the histidine-kinase region when both subunits are in a parallel orientation. However, experimental distance distributions surprisingly showed only limited agreement with either parallel- or antiparallel-arranged dimer structures when spin labels were placed into the PCM region. This observation indicates that the arrangements of the PCM subunits in the full-length protein dimer in solution differ significantly from that in the PCM crystals. The pulsed electron-electron double resonance data presented here revealed either no or only minor changes of distance distributions upon Pr-to-Pfr photoconversion.

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