Crystal Structure of a Photoactivated Deprotonated Intermediate of Rhodopsin.
From: Novasite Pharmaceuticals Inc., San Diego, CA 92121, USA.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Publish Date: Oct 2006
- ISSN: 0027-8424
- Volume: 103
- Issue: 44
- Pages: 16123-8
- Medium: Print
- Language: English
- Citation (JAMA): Salom David, Lodowski David T, Stenkamp Ronald E, et al. Crystal Structure of a Photoactivated Deprotonated Intermediate of Rhodopsin.. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. Oct 2006;103:16123-8
Abstract
The changes that lead to activation of G protein-coupled receptors have not been elucidated at the structural level. In this work we report the crystal structures of both ground state and a photoactivated deprotonated intermediate of bovine rhodopsin at a resolution of 4.15 A. In the photoactivated state, the Schiff base linking the chromophore and Lys-296 becomes deprotonated, reminiscent of the G protein-activating state, metarhodopsin II. The structures reveal that the changes that accompany photoactivation are smaller than previously predicted for the metarhodopsin II state and include changes on the cytoplasmic surface of rhodopsin that possibly enable the coupling to its cognate G protein, transducin. Furthermore, rhodopsin forms a potentially physiologically relevant dimer interface that involves helices I, II, and 8, and when taken with the prior work that implicates helices IV and V as the physiological dimer interface may account for one of the interfaces of the oligomeric structure of rhodopsin seen in the membrane by atomic force microscopy. The activation and oligomerization models likely extend to the majority of other G protein-coupled receptors.
Mesh Headings (Keywords): Animals, Cattle, Crystallization, Crystallography, X-Ray, Dimerization, Models, Molecular, Photochemistry, Protein Folding, Protein Structure, Quaternary, Protein Structure, Tertiary, Protons, Retinoids, Rhodopsin, Spectrum Analysis, Structural Homology, Protein
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