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Structure and dynamics of dark-state bovine rhodopsin revealed by chemical cross-linking and high-resolution mass spectrometry

Sandia National Laboratories, Biosystems Department, Livermore, California 94551, USA

(RECEIVED December 15, 2005; FINAL REVISION March 7, 2006; ACCEPTED March 13, 2006)

Recent work using chemical cross-linking to define interresidue distance constraints in proteins has shown that these constraints are useful for testing tertiary structural models. We applied this approach to the G-protein-coupled receptor bovine rhodopsin in its native membrane using lysine- and cysteine-targeted bifunctional cross-linking reagents. Cross-linked proteolytic peptides of rhodopsin were identified by combined liquid chromatography and FT-ICR mass spectrometry with automated data-reduction and assignment software. Tandem mass spectrometry was used to verify cross-link assignments and locate the exact sites of cross-link attachment. Cross-links were observed to form between 10 pairs of residues in dark-state rhodopsin. For each pair, cross-linkers with a range of linker lengths were tested to determine an experimental distance-of-closest-approach (DCA) between reactive side-chain atoms. In all, 28 cross-links were identified using seven different cross-linking reagents. Molecular mechanics procedures were applied to published crystal structure data to calculate energetically achievable theoretical DCAs between reactive atoms without altering the position of the protein backbone. Experimentally measured DCAs are generally in good agreement with the theoretical DCAs. However, a cross-link between C316 and K325 in the C-terminal region cannot be rationalized by DCA simulations and suggests that backbone reorientation relative to the crystal coordinates occurs on the timescale of cross-linking reactions. Biochemical and spectroscopic data from other studies have found that the C-terminal region is highly mobile in solution and not fully represented by X-ray crystallography data. Our results show that chemical cross-linking can provide reliable three-dimensional structural information and insight into local conformational dynamics in a membrane protein.

Keywords: bovine rhodopsin; cross-linking; distance constraints; LC-MS; Q-Tof; FT-ICR; tandem mass spectrometry

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