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1 Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences (SILS)Mass Spectrometry Group, University of Amsterdam, Nieuwe Achtergracht 166, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2 SILSMolecular Biology Group, University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 318, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
3 Nijmegen Center for Mitochondrial and Metabolic disorders, University Medical Center Nijmegen, Geert Grooteplein 10, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Reprint requests to: Jaap Willem Back, SILS/Mass Spectrometry Group, Nieuwe Achtergracht 166, 1018WV Amsterdam, The Netherlands; e-mail: jwback{at}science.uva.nl; fax: 31(20)5256568.
(RECEIVED April 25, 2002; FINAL REVISION July 1, 2002; ACCEPTED July 10, 2002)
Article and publication are at http://www.proteinscience.org/cgi/doi/10.1110/ps.0212602.
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Keywords: Crosslinking; mass spectrometry; prohibitin complex; PHB complex; structure prediction
Abbreviations: PHB, prohibitin DTSP, dithiobis(succinimidylpropionate) sBID,sulfo-N-benzyliminodiacetoylhydroxysuccinimid BNE, blue native gel electrophoresis MALDI, matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization ESI, electrospray ionization TOF, time of flight MS, mass spectrometry MSMS, low energy collision experiments CID, collision-induced dissociation TMHMM, trans-membrane hidden Markov model 3D-PSSM, three-dimensional position-specific scoring matrix
| Introduction |
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Also, despite the increasing number of determined macromolecular structures, structural genomics and protein modeling are still limited to known folds or structures. Although PHB proteins are highly conserved in evolution, their low sequence similarity to known protein folds makes them difficult to model.
As an alternative approach to structure determination we have generated amino acid distance information using crosslinking technology and mass spectrometry for the identification of crosslinks (Bennett et al. 2000b). Although the atomic distance information provided by crosslinks might be of low resolution, a limited number of distance constraints (Young et al. 2000) can be of valuable help to solve the tertiary structure of a macromolecule. Our crosslinking results suggest that the PHB complex is built from heterodimers, where PHB1 and PHB2 run parallel and intertwined for a long distance through their primary structure, raising the concept of a PHB "unit cell." We predict the unit cells to be organized into a large palisade shaped macromolecular complex.
| Results |
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After crosslinking the complex still migrated in BNE at 1 MD. In the second (SDS) dimension the band at 32 kD was replaced by a new band at approximately 70 kD (illustrated for sBID in Fig. 1B
). Peptide mass fingerprinting showed this new band to contain both PHB1 and PHB2 (data not shown). Figure 2
shows the aligned sequences of the homologous PHB polypeptides. Also indicated are the positions of the many lysine-residues, scattered along the peptide chains, providing numerous crosslink opportunities.
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Foremost it is noteworthy that all but two (PHB1 K151-K154 and PHB2 K13 -K17, which are four residue spanning crosslinks, amounting to one
-helical turn) crosslinks observed are between residues in a PHB1 and a PHB2 chain. We have neither observed any crosslinks from one PHB1 molecule to another PHB1, nor from a PHB2 molecule to another PHB2. This leads directly to the hypothesis that the complex consists of heterodimeric PHB1PHB2 building blocks.
From the observation of the crosslink pairs PHB1K74PHB2K103, PHB1K151PHB2K176, and PHB1K204PHB2K233, which align in primary and secondary structure, we hypothesize both chains to run intertwined for long stretches. This fits the results in that it would give extensive possibilities for interchain crosslinking, and render the chances of residues within the same chain to be within crosslinking distance less likely.
As can be seen in Figure 4
crosslinks are found predominantly in the C-terminal helical region. In the central beta sheets only PHB1K74 links to PHB2K103. This latter PHB2K103 is also close to PHB1K154, as is PHB1K76 with PHB2K269.
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To predict possible fold formation, we used the algorithms Jpred2 (Cuff and Barton 1999, 2000) and PSSM (Kelley et al. 2000) at default settings. From the output a model for both chains was built, in which we assigned similar secondary structure to aligned portions of both molecules. This structure is depicted in Figure 4
. It is clear that the proteins belong to the mixed
/ß-fold family, a very broad group of proteins with many possible fold formations.
The PSSM fold recognition algorithm subsequently suggested homology of the C-terminal domain of prohibitin to the PSSM superfamily with founder ID c1fioa, consisting of the four-helix bundle proteins syntaxin 1A and T-Snare protein SSO1. For PHB2 this structure ranked first, scoring a PSSM E-value of 0.513; for PHB1, this structure ranked third, scoring an E-value of 1.81. Although these values are not convincing in itself (confidence interval approximately 50%), many of the crosslinks found in this study were superimposable on this template, while other possible solutions were ruled out because we could not fit in the observed crosslinks in the corresponding 3D models. This further increases the confidence intervals, although it cannot be yet expressed in numbers. To our knowledge this is the first report on a hitherto unknown protein structure where computed structural predictions were substantiated via crosslinks as distance restraints. Still, all precautions that are to be taken with structural modeling are valid, and the model presented should be viewed as a best approach given current limitations. Therefore, the model is not refined to high resolution, but only a fold designation of the predicted secondary structure is presented.
The output of the structural prediction algorithms was imported into 3D viewers. The suggested regions of homology, comprising two
helices and a connecting ß strand were selected and positioning was constrained by the span of the crosslinks found. We used a length of 8 Å (± 1 Å) for the length of DTSP, as computed by Green (Green et al. 2001). It is plausible that the four-helix bundle present in Snares is represented by a two-helix contribution from both PHB1 and PHB2. Taken together, a model depicted in Figure 5
is constructed. In this model a ß-sheet region (containing the crosslink between PHB1K74 and PHB2K103) is close to the membrane and the four-helix bundle protrudes further into the mitochondrial intermembrane space.
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Prediction methods propose a trans-membrane helix for PHB2 (residues 3759) (Krogh et al. 2001). By analogy, in our model the hydrophobic helix in the N terminus of PHB1 (residues 1430) is expected to be membrane associated. Both chains are on the same side of the membrane (Nijtmans et al. 2002), as is exemplified by our finding of an extensive number of crosslinks between the two chains. A model in which an assembly of PHB1 is found on one side, and an assembly of PHB2 on the other side of the mitochondrial inner membrane is ruled out as has already been suggested (Nijtmans et al. 2002). A model best fitting our experimental results is presented in Figure 5
. We propose this assembly to project into the mitochondrial intermembrane space based on previous observations (Steglich et al. 1999). It should be kept in mind that this structure is built based on computed predictions.
Combining the proposed function of the PHB complex as a holdase/unfoldase for the assembly of respiratory chain protein complexes (Nijtmans et al. 2002) with the elongated unit cell building block and the expected size of the PHB complex, we arrive at a tentative model of the super structure, as given in Figure 6
. The molecular mass of the complex (1 MD), suggests an intact complex to be built from approximately 14 (range 1216) of these unit cells. Although this will be a fixed number, the exact count does not affect the palisade shaped model. Large multimeric assemblies consisting of a number of identical structural units usually arrange in a circular fashion, which in this case lines the cavity to hold newly synthesized mitochondrial polypeptide chains.
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| Materials and methods |
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phb1
phb2) transformed with the multicopy shuttle vector YEplac195 containing both PHB1 and PHB2 genes was used (see Nijtmans et al. 2000). Yeast was grown on WO minimal media (0.67% Yeast Nitrogen Base, 2% galactose) complemented with amino acids and lacking uracil for selection of the plasmid.
Preparation of mitochondrial fractions
Yeast cells were grown as described above. Highly purified mitochondria were obtained following the protocol described by Glick et al (Glick and Pon 1995), with slight modifications.
Blue native electrophoresis and electro-elution
Blue native gel electrophoresis was performed according to Schägger and von Jagow (1991). Electroelution was performed basically as described by Schägger (1995). In some instances the electroelution buffer was supplemented with 0.01% lauryl maltoside and 2.5% glycerol.
Secondary structure prediction
For predicting trans-membrane helices we used the TMHMM 2.0 algorithm (Krogh et al. 2001) available at http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/TMHMM-2.0/. Secondary structure was predicted using the Jpred2 (Cuff and Barton 1999, 2000) algorithm available at http://jura.ebi.ac.uk:8888/, and 3D-PSSM V2.6.0 (Kelley et al. 2000) available at http://www.bmm.icnet.uk/~3dpssm/. All programs were used at default settings.
Chemical crosslinking
Dithiobis (succinimidylpropionate) (DTSP) was purchased from Sigma. SulfoBID, a water-soluble analog of BID (Back et al. 2001), was synthesized as previously described for BID, with the replacement of N-hydroxysuccinimide by sulfo-N-hydroxysuccinimide (Pierce). The sulfonate groups introduced by this procedure render the crosslinker water soluble.
Crosslinking of the electroeluted complex was done at a protein concentration of 0.5 mg/mL in 20 mM sodium phosphate pH 7.8, 1.25% glycerol. Crosslinkers were added to a final concentration of 2 mM. The solution was kept at room temperature for 25 min.
Crosslinking in Blue native gel pieces was performed as follows. Pieces of gel were cut out and washed five times for 1 h with crosslinking buffer (50 mM tri-ethanolamine pH 8.0) at 4°C. Then an aliquot with a volume equal to the gel pieces of 4 mM DTSP in crosslinking buffer was added and incubated at room temperature for 30 min.
Tryptic digestion and sample preparation for mass spectrometry
Digestion of proteins and crosslinked products contained in polyacrylamide gel pieces was performed according to (Shevchenko et al. 1996) with sequencing grade trypsin (Roche). Peptides were collected in 20 mM NH4HCO3 and desalted and concentrated on ZipTip C18 (Millipore), and eluted in 10 µL 60% acetonitrile/1% HCOOH.
Mass spectrometry
For MALDI analyses 0.5 µL of peptides were mixed with 0.5 µL
-cyano hydroxycinnaminic acid (10 mg/mL in ethanol:acetonitrile 1:1), spotted on target plates and allowed to dry.
Reflectron MALDI-TOF mass spectra were recorded on a TofSpec 2EC mass spectrometer (Micromass) equipped with a 2 GHz digitizer. Electrospray MS and low-energy collision-induced dissociation (MSMS) analyses were performed on a Q-Tof (Micromass) mass spectrometer with a Z-Spray orthogonal ESI source. Fragmentation of peptides was performed using argon as a collision gas at a quadrupole pressure gauge reading of 4 * 10-5 mbar.
For direct infusions, peptides were introduced using gold-coated nano electrospray capillaries (New Objective).
After mass calibration (better than 40 ppm), the MALDI and electrospray MS spectra were charge deconvoluted using the MaxENT 3 algorithm (MaxENT Solutions); what resulted is the mass list of principle isotope ions with single charge.
Analysis of mass spectrometric data
For each experiment, the above-obtained MS data were scanned for digest fragments that were modified with the used chemical cross linker. A custom-made software tool called FindLink supported these analyses. The FindLink program generates a mass/fragment database, based on the input of the residue sequence of the proteins in the complex, the selectivity of the digest cleavages, and the amino acid residue chemical selectivity of the chemical crosslink reagent molecule. Database entries include all fragment candidates for surface label modifications, for intramolecular crosslinking within a fragment, and all fragment combinations for crosslinking within and between proteins in the complex. Each database entry is automatically matched within a definable mass tolerance with the experimentally obtained mass lists. The matches for surface labeling, intramolecular crosslinking within a single digest fragment, and intermolecular crosslinking between digest fragments within and between proteins in the complex are systematically documented as output of the analyses.
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