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1 Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
2 Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
3 Department of Oral Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
(RECEIVED August 14, 2006; FINAL REVISION October 27, 2006; ACCEPTED October 28, 2006)
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-barrel architecture found in other SH3 domains, with conserved tryptophan and tyrosine residues forming a hydrophobic pocket known to bind "PxxP" motifs. In addition, acidic residues in the RT or nSrc loops are available to interact with the basic anchoring residues that are typically found in ligands or proteins that bind SH3 domains. The DdM7 SH3 differs in the hydrophobicity of the second pocket formed by the 310 helix and following
-strand, which contains polar rather than hydrophobic side chains. Most unusual, however, is that this domain binds its adjacent proline-rich region at a surface remote from the region previously identified to bind "PxxP" motifs. The interaction may affect the orientation of the tail without sacrificing the availability of the canonical "PxxP"-binding surface. Keywords: myosin; SH3 domain; PxxP motif; NMR spectroscopy
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The tail region of DdM7 is comprised of a tandem repeat of two MyTH/FERM domains that are preceded at the N terminus by a proline-rich region and separated by an SH3 domain and a second proline-rich region. M7 is important for cell adhesion, an integral step in phagocytosis and cell motility in Dictyostelium (Maniak 2001; Tuxworth et al. 2001). By using NMR spectroscopy, we have determined the structure of the DdM7 SH3 domain and found that it interacts with its C-terminal proline-rich region. Interestingly, the binding does not involve the hydrophobic surface previously identified to bind proline-rich regions.
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Following the SH3 domain of DdM7 are sequences that contain "PxxP" motifs (Fig. 1A), to which other SH3 domains are reported to bind (Feng et al. 1994; Lim et al. 1994). Therefore, we hypothesized that intramolecular interactions exist between these regions. To test this, we produced protein fragments that contain the SH3 domain alone (A1620V1680) and with varying lengths of the adjacent proline-rich sequence (A1620H1687 and A1620T1706). We compared the [1H, 15N] HSQC spectrum of each of these constructs to determine how the presence of the proline-rich region impacts resonances of the SH3 domain (Fig. 1B,C). The comparison is useful because the chemical shift value at which an atom resonates is sensitive to its chemical environment (Wüthrich 1986), making this analysis a powerful method for identifying residues at contact surfaces (Walters et al. 2001; Kang et al. 2006) or for identifying structural changes (Walters et al. 2003; Wang et al. 2003; Liu et al. 2006a). Strikingly, we observed distinct amide chemical shift perturbations in the SH3 domain of the two longer constructs compared to that of the SH3 domain alone. The data were quantified according to Equation 1
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H represent the chemical shift perturbation value of the amide nitrogen and proton, respectively (Fig. 1D). Significant perturbations (>0.08 ppm) were identified for residues N1642I1644, D1651, V1670, I1675, and L1676. This result was unexpected as these residues are not predicted to be part of the SH3 domain surface previously identified to bind "PxxP" motifs (Feng et al. 1994; Lim et al. 1994).
The region spanning P1682P1685 forms close contacts with the SH3 domain.
In addition to the chemical shift perturbation data, we identified 11 NOE interactions between the SH3 domain and residues P1682, Q1684, and P1685 of the proline-rich region (Fig. 2A,B). "PxxP" motifs that bind SH3 domains are generally flanked by an arginine or lysine basic residue, which is positioned in an acidic pocket proximal to the two hydrophobic ones (Feng et al. 1994; Lim et al. 1994). The proline-rich region resembles such a motif but with a smaller, less basic histidine residue substituted for arginine or lysine, 1682PPQPVH1687 (Fig. 1A). The assignment of these NOEs was confirmed by two approaches. First, the [1H, 15N] HSQC spectrum of the shorter construct demonstrated the same chemical shift perturbations as the longer one (Fig. 1B,C). This finding indicates that residues P1681H1687 are sufficient for SH3 domain interaction and that no additional interactions occur with P1688T1706. Second, a comparison of 15N-dispersed NOESY experiments recorded on the SH3 domain with and without the adjacent proline-rich region aided in distinguishing interactions within the SH3 domain from those involving the proline-rich sequence (V1680T1706). Figure 2A illustrates this approach for I1644. This residue's amide proton interacts with Q1684 H
and P1685 H
atoms, and the corresponding NOEs are absent in the spectrum recorded on the SH3 domain alone. These interactions are also verified by those observed in the 13C-dispersed NOESY spectrum (Fig. 2B). It is worth noting that it is challenging to assign the backbone of the C-terminal proline-rich sequence in A1620T1706 by using the standard triple resonance experiments we employed, as prolines lack the amide protons necessary for such experiments. Although additional methods are available to assign proline-rich regions (Kanelis et al. 2000), we found it unnecessary to implement these for the present study because the shorter construct A1620H1687, which contains only four prolines in the C-terminal tail, exhibited similar chemical shift perturbations compared to the longer one (Fig. 1B,C). In addition, the 13C dispersed NOESY aided the assignment of these prolines in the tail that interacts with the SH3 domain.
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SH3 domain interaction with the C-terminal proline-rich region is intra- rather than intermolecular
For the final stage of purification, the M7 protein fragments are subjected to size exclusion chromatography on an FPLC system. In all cases, the purified protein eluted in fractions expected for a monomer of the corresponding molecular weight. However, to provide further evidence that the observed interaction between the SH3 domain and its C-terminal proline-rich region is intra- rather than intermolecular, we mixed an M7 fragment containing the SH3 domain only (A1620D1679) with one containing the C-terminal proline-rich region in addition (A1620T1738) and subjected the mixture to FPLC size exclusion chromatography. Were the longer fragment forming dimers, a population would be expected in which these two constructs interact to elute in fractions between dimeric A1620T1738 protein and monomeric A1620D1679 protein. No such population was observed in either the UV spectrogram or by gel electrophoresis and Coomassie staining. The spectrogram revealed the presence of two peaks centered on fractions 37 and 50 (Fig. 3) and subsequent gel electrophoresis and Coomassie staining of protein in these fractions confirmed the first to contain only DdM7 A1620T1738, which is 13.6 kDa, and the second to contain only DdM7 A1620D1679, which is 6.9 kDa (data not shown). A small peak was observed in the spectrogram at fraction 24; however, no protein was revealed by gel electrophoresis and Coomassie staining in the fractions spanning 2031 (Fig. 3). Although it is possible that the interactions between the SH3 domain and its proximal proline-rich region are intermolecular at high protein concentrations, we conclude that the DdM7 constructs containing the SH3 domain and adjacent proline-rich regions are largely monomeric at the concentrations used in this study.
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-strands spanning residues Y1622A1625, D1643K1650, W1656L1661, K1664P1669, and V1673L1676 and a 310 helix spanning residues V1670H1672 (Fig. 4A). Its fold resembles that of other SH3 domains reported in the literature (Musacchio et al. 1992; Yu et al. 1992; Noble et al. 1993), with a
-barrel architecture and two prominent loops, termed the n-Src and RT loops. W1656 and Y1629 form a conserved hydrophobic pocket common to SH3 domains that bind "PxxP" motifs. Anchoring basic residues at either end of the motif often engage in salt bridges with acidic residues of the n-Src or RT loops (Weng et al. 1995). D1651 and E1653, of the n-Src loop, or D1633, of the RT loop, are suitably positioned to serve such a role. A second hydrophobic pocket exists in other SH3 domains, and is formed by residues in the 310 helix and following
-strand. This region contains highly conserved P1669, but is less hydrophobic than other reported SH3 domains (Musacchio et al. 1992; Noble et al. 1993) due to the presence of D1671 and H1672 (Fig. 4B).
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-sheets and a hydrophobic surface contains the conserved residues of Y1629, W1656, and P1669. Analogous residues in Src, Fyn, and Grb2 are positioned in a similar orientation and interact with "PxxP" motifs (Lim et al. 1994; Agrawal and Kishan 2002). We expect that these residues in DdM7 form similar interactions with "PxxP" motifs in other proteins. To our surprise, however, residues at the opposite side of the SH3 domain interact with an adjacent "PxxP" motif. In particular, the sequence C-terminal to the SH3 domain bends to enable I1644, D1643, L1661, and L1676 of the SH3 domain to interact with P1682, Q1684, and P1685. Intramolecular interactions involving SH3 domains occur in Src, PI3, and Itk kinases (Koch et al. 1991; Kapeller et al. 1994; Andreotti et al. 1997). In these proteins, however, the interactions perform an autoregulatory role as polyproline motifs bind to residues in the hydrophobic binding pockets to inactivate these kinases. We demonstrate here that the binding of the proline-rich sequence immediately following the SH3 domain of DdM7 does not preclude binding to the surface typically used to bind "PxxP" motifs. The interaction we observe may perform a structural role in orienting the conformation of the region following the SH3 domain. There is precedent for myosins assuming a folded conformation. For example, the tail of M5 has recently been found to be capable of folding over and interacting with the motor domain, an interaction that is thought to regulate the activity of this motor protein (Liu et al. 2006b; Thirumurugan et al. 2006). It is tempting to speculate that intramolecular interactions in the DdM7 tail, perhaps promoted by binding of the SH3 domain with its nearby proline-rich region either plays a similar role in regulating the motor activity of this myosin or is required for interaction of DdM7 with its binding partners. Ongoing efforts to identify DdM7 SH3 domain binding partners through a combination of affinity and yeast two hybrid approaches, and testing of the requirement for the SH3 domain and adjacent Pro-rich sequence for DdM7 function using a complementation approach should provide insight into the functional contribution of the SH3 and proline domains.
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FPLC experiments to test for the presence of intermolecular interactions between the SH3 domain and its C-terminal proline-rich region
DdM7 A1620D1679 and DdM7 A1620T1738 were incubated together overnight at 0.3 mM protein concentration and 25°C in 20 mM NaPO4 and 100 mM NaCl, pH 6.4. The protein components of the mixture were then separated according to their molecular weight by using an FPLC system equipped with a Superdex 75 column (Pharmacia) in a buffer containing 20 mM NaPO4 and 100 mM NaCl (pH 6.4). Fractions were collected every 2 mL and analyzed for the presence of protein using gel electrophoresis and FPLC UV detection.
NMR Spectroscopy
All experiments were performed on Varian INOVA 600 or 800 MHz spectrometers equipped with HCN triple resonance probes and at 25°C with samples dissolved in 20 mM NaPO4, 100 mM NaCl at pH 6.4. Experimental data were processed by NMRPIPE (Delaglio et al. 1995) and the resulting spectra visualized in XEASY (Bartels et al. 1995) on Octane2 Silicon Graphics workstations. To assign chemical shift values for the backbone atoms of the A1620T1706 fragment, a series of three heteronuclear NMR experiments were performed, including [1H,15N,13C] HNCA, [1H,15N,13C] HN(CO)CA, [1H,15N,13C] HNCO experiments. An 15N-edited TOCSY was used for side chain assignments. Two-dimensional homonuclear as well as 15N- and 13C-dispersed NOESY experiments were recorded on the fragment spanning A1620T1706. The 15N- and 13C-dispersed NOESY experiments were recorded with mixing times of 120 and 80 msec, respectively. In addition, 15N-dispersed NOESY spectra were recorded on the fragments spanning A1620D1679 and A1620T1738.
Structure calculations
NOESY experiments were used to generate distance constraints. NOE restraints were grouped into four distance ranges (2.5, 3.5, 4.5, and 6.0 Å) based on peak intensity. The 15N-dispersed NOESY spectrum was calibrated by setting the average integrated value for NOE interactions V1673 H
to E1674 HN and I1675 H
to L1676 HN to 2.5 Å, whereas the intraresidue H
to H
cross-peaks for L1661 and L1637 was set to 2.5 Å to calibrate the 13C-dispersed NOESY spectrum. Hydrogen bonds were identified by 1HN1HN and 1H
1H
NOEs in regions of predicted antiparallel
-strands. In addition, the program TALOS was used to predict the
and
dihedral angle constraints (Cornilescu et al. 1999). The NOE-derived distance constraints, hydrogen bonds, and dihedral angle constraints (Table 1) were used in XPLOR version 3.851 (Brünger 1993) to determine the structure of a DdM7 fragment spanning A1620A1690, which includes the SH3 domain. Of the 21 structures calculated, only one had NOE or dihedral angle violations >0.5 Å or 5°, respectively. The 20 structures with no violations are available through the Protein Data Bank (PDB ID code 2I0N).
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Supplemental material: see www.proteinscience.org
Reprint requests to: Margaret A. Titus, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA; e-mail: titus004{at}umn.edu; fax: (612) 626-6140; or Kylie J. Walters, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA; e-mail: walte048{at}umn.edu; fax: (612) 625-2163.
Article published online ahead of print. Article and publication date are at http://www.proteinscience.org/cgi/doi/10.1110/ps.062496807.
Abbreviations: HSQC, heteronuclear single quantum coherence; M, myosin; IPTG, isopropyl-
-D-thiogalactopyranoside; LB, Luria-Bertani; NMR, nuclear magnetic resonance; NOE, nuclear Overhauser enhancement; ppm, parts per million; SH3, Src homology domain 3.
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