How to arm a supervillin: designing F-actin binding activity into supervillin headpiece.
Villin-type headpiece domains are compact motifs that have been used extensively as model systems for protein folding. Although the majority of headpiece domains bind actin, there are some that lack this activity. Here, we present the first NMR solution structure and (15)N-relaxation analysis of a villin-type headpiece domain natively devoid of F-actin binding activity, that of supervillin headpiece (SVHP). The structure was found to be similar to that of other headpiece domains that bind F-actin. Our NMR analysis demonstrates that SVHP lacks a conformationally flexible region (V-loop) present in all other villin-type headpiece domains and which is essential to the phosphoryl regulation of dematin headpiece. In comparing the electrostatic surface potential map of SVHP to that of other villin-type headpiece domains with significant affinity for F-actin, we identified a positive surface potential conserved among headpiece domains that bind F-actin but absent from SVHP. A single point mutation (L38K) in SVHP, which creates a similar positive surface potential, endowed SVHP with specific affinity for F-actin that is within an order of magnitude of the tightest binding headpiece domains. We propose that this effect is likely conferred by a specific buried salt bridge between headpiece and actin. As no high-resolution structural information exists for the villin-type headpiece F-actin complex, our results demonstrate that through positive mutagenesis, it is possible to design binding activity into homologous proteins without structural information of the counterpart's binding surface.
Brown
Jeffrey W
JW
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Boston University School of Medicine, 700 Albany Street, Boston, MA 02118, USA.
Vardar-Ulu
Didem
D
McKnight
C James
CJ
D000199:Actins / Q000378:metabolism*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D019943:Amino Acid Substitution; D017124:Conserved Sequence; D006801:Humans; D007930:Leucine; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D008840:Microfilament Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D050505:Mutant Proteins / Q000737:chemistry; D017354:Point Mutation / Q000235:genetics; D011485:Protein Binding; D015202:Protein Engineering; D017433:Protein Structure, Secondary; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D055672:Static Electricity; D013499:Surface Properties
D000199:Actins; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D008840:Microfilament Proteins; D050505:Mutant Proteins; C109413:SVIL protein, human; D007930:Leucine
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