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Molecular flexibility demonstrated by paramagnetic enhancements of nuclear relaxation. Application to alamethicin: a voltage-gated peptide channel.

Abstract：

:A nitroxide spin label attached to the C-terminus of the channel forming peptide alamethicin produces an enhancement of the nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rates of peptide protons as a result of both intermolecular and intramolecular magnetic dipole-dipole interactions. The intermolecular contribution provides evidence that alamethicin monomers collide preferentially in a C-terminal-to-N-terminal configuration in methanol. From the intramolecular paramagnetic enhancement of nuclear spin-lattice relaxation times, effective distances between the unpaired electron on the nitroxide at the C-terminus of alamethicin and protons along the peptide backbone were calculated. These distances are much shorter than distances based on the reported crystal structure of alamethicin, and cannot be accounted for by motion in the bonds that attach the nitroxide to the peptide. In addition, the differences between distances deduced from the nuclear spin relaxation and the distances seen in the crystal structure increase toward the N-terminal end of the peptide. The simplest explanation for these data is that the alamethicin backbone suffers large structural fluctuations that yield shorter effective distances between the C-terminus and positions along the backbone. This finding can be interpreted in terms of a molecular mechanism for the voltage-gating of the alamethicin channel. When the distances between a paramagnetic center and a nucleus fluctuate, paramagnetic enhancements are expected to yield distances that are weighted by r-6, and distances calculated using the Solomon-Bloembergen equations may more nearly represent a distance of closest approach than a time average distance. Therefore, the use of paramagnetic centers such as spin labels or metal ions with long electron T1 values provides a distance measurement that reflects a dynamically averaged structure where the averaging process heavily weights short distances. The results of such measurements, when combined with other structural information, may provide particularly clear evidence for the magnitude of structural fluctuations involving distances greater than 10 A.

journal_name

Biophys J

journal_title

Biophysical journal

authors

North CL,Franklin JC,Bryant RG,Cafiso DS

doi

10.1016/S0006-3495(94)80667-8

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1994-11-01 00:00:00

pages

1861-6

issue

eissn

0006-3495

issn

1542-0086

pii

S0006-3495(94)80667-8

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Molecular flexibility demonstrated by paramagnetic enhancements of nuclear relaxation. Application to alamethicin: a voltage-gated peptide channel.