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Circular dichroism and molecular modeling of the E. coli TolA periplasmic domains

✍ Scribed by Rahmona Derouiche; Roland Lloubès; Sophie Sasso; Henri Bouteille; Razika Oughideni; Claude Lazdunski; Erwann Loret


Book ID
102660296
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
545 KB
Volume
5
Category
Article
ISSN
1075-4261

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✦ Synopsis


Colicins are killer proteins that use envelope proteins from the outer and the inner membranes to reach their cellular target in susceptible cells of Escherichia coli. Each group A colicin uses a combination of Tol proteins to cross the outer membrane of gram-negative bacteria and to exert their killing activity. The TolA protein, necessary for the import of all the group A colicins, is a 421-amino acid residue protein composed of three domains (TolAI, TolAII, and TolAIII). TolAIII interacts with the N-terminal domain of colicin A (AT1). Analytical ultracentrifugation reveals that TolAII and TolAIII are monomer structures, TolAII has an elongated structure, and TolAIII is rather globular. Circular dichroism (CD) spectra were done with TolAII-III, TolAII, TolAIII, AT1, and the AT1-TolAII-III complex. TolA CD spectra reveal the presence of ␣-helix structure in aqueous solution and the intensity of the ␣-helix signal is the highest with TolAII. Few structural changes are observed with the complex AT1-TolAII-III. Molecular modeling was done for TolAII-III, taking into account CD and ultracentrifugation data and show that domain II can adopt a barrel structure made of three twisted ␣-helices similar to coiled coil helices while domain III can adopt a globular structure.


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