title: Evidence for specificity in lipid-rhodopsin interactions.
abstract: The interaction of bovine rhodopsin with poly- and monounsaturated lipids was studied by (1)H MAS NMR with magnetization transfer from rhodopsin to lipid. Experiments were conducted on bovine rod outer segment (ROS) disks and on recombinant membranes containing lipids with polyunsaturated, docosahexaenoyl (DHA) chains. Poly- and monounsaturated lipids interact specifically with different sites on the rhodopsin surface. Rates of magnetization transfer from protein to DHA are lipid headgroup-dependent and increased in the sequence PC < PS < PE. Boundary lipids are in fast exchange with the lipid matrix on a time scale of milliseconds or shorter. All rhodopsin photointermediates transferred magnetization preferentially to DHA-containing lipids, but highest rates were observed for Meta-III rhodopsin. The experiments show clearly that the surface of rhodopsin has sites for specific interaction with lipids. Current theories of lipid-protein interaction do not account for such surface heterogeneity.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Membrane Biochemistry and Biophysics, NIAAA, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Soubias
authors.forename: Walter E
authors.initials: WE
authors.lastname: Teague
authors.forename: Klaus
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Gawrisch
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D050356:Lipid Metabolism; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D011485:Protein Binding; D012243:Rhodopsin / Q000378:metabolism*; D012374:Rod Cell Outer Segment / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000528:radiation effects
chemical_list: D012243:Rhodopsin