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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 427, Issue 10, Pages 1977-1992Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2015.03.011
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- Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada [RG121541]
- Canada Research Chairs Program
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The intrinsically disordered, 18.5-kDa isoform of myelin basic protein (MBP) is a peripheral membrane protein that is essential to proper myelin formation in the central nervous system. MBP acts in oligodendrocytes both to adjoin membrane leaflets to each other in forming myelin and as a hub in numerous protein-protein and protein membrane interaction networks. Like many intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs), MBP multi-functionality arises from its high conformational plasticity and its ability to undergo reversible disorder-to-order transitions. One such transition is the disorder-to-a-helical conformational change that is induced upon MBP membrane binding. Here, we have investigated the disorder-to-a-helical transition of MBP-derived alpha-peptides and the full-length 18.5-kDa protein. This transition was induced through titration of the membrane-mimetic solvent trifluoroethanol into both protein and peptide solutions, and conformational change was monitored using circular dichroism spectroscopy, 1-anilinonaphthalene-8-sulfonic acid binding, tryptophan fluorescence quenching, and Forster (fluorescence) resonance energy transfer measurements. The data suggest that the disorder-to-a-helical transition of MBP follows a 3-state model: disordered <-> intermediate alpha-helical, with each of the identified equilibrium states likely representing a conformational ensemble. The disordered state is characterized by slight compaction with little regular secondary structure, whereas the intermediate is also disordered but globally more compact. Surprisingly, the a-helical conformation is less compact than the intermediate. This study suggests that multifunctionality in MBP could arise from differences in the population of energetically distinct ensembles under different conditions and also provides an example of an IDP that undergoes cooperative global conformation change. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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