title: Defining the interacting regions between apomyoglobin and lipid membrane by hydrogen/deuterium exchange coupled to mass spectrometry.
abstract: Sperm whale myoglobin can be considered as the model protein of the globin family. The pH-dependence of the interactions of apomyoglobin with lipid bilayers shares some similarities with the behavior of pore-forming domains of bacterial toxins belonging also to the globin family. Two different states of apomyoglobin bound to a lipid bilayer have been characterized by using hydrogen/deuterium exchange experiments and mass spectrometry. When bound to the membrane at pH 5.5, apomyoglobin remains mostly native-like and interacts through alpha-helix A. At pH 4, the binding is related to the stabilization of a partially folded state. In that case, alpha-helices A and G are involved in the interaction. At this pH, alpha-helix G, which is the most hydrophobic region of apomyoglobin, is available for interaction with the lipid bilayer because of the loss of the tertiary structure. Our results show the feasibility of such experiments and their potential for the characterization of various membrane-bound states of amphitropic proteins such as pore-forming domains of bacterial toxins. This is not possible with other high-resolution methods, because these proteins are usually in partially folded states when interacting with membranes.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Spectrométrie de Masse des Protéines, Institut de Biologie Structurale (CEA-CNRS-UJF), 41 rue Jules Horowitz, 38027 Grenoble, France.
authors.forename: Petr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Man
authors.forename: Caroline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Montagner
authors.forename: Grégory
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Vernier
authors.forename: Bernard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Dublet
authors.forename: Alexandre
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chenal
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Forest
authors.forename: Vincent
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Forge
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001059:Apoproteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D041961:Deuterium Exchange Measurement; D007700:Kinetics; D008051:Lipid Bilayers / Q000378:metabolism*; D013058:Mass Spectrometry; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009211:Myoglobin / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D010449:Peptide Mapping; D011485:Protein Binding; D017433:Protein Structure, Secondary; D012996:Solutions; D050661:Sperm Whale
chemical_list: D001059:Apoproteins; D008051:Lipid Bilayers; D009211:Myoglobin; D012996:Solutions; C010857:apomyoglobin