Consensus designs and thermal stability determinants of a human glutamate transporter

  1. Erica Cirri
  2. Sébastien Brier
  3. Reda Assal
  4. Juan Carlos Canul-Tec
  5. Julia Chamot-Rooke
  6. Nicolas Reyes  Is a corresponding author
  1. Institut Pasteur, France
  2. UMR 3528, CNRS, Institut Pasteur, France
  3. USR 2000, CNRS, Institut Pasteur, France
7 figures, 1 table and 3 additional files

Figures

Figure 1 with 1 supplement
| EAAT1 consensus mutants.

(a-b) Residues exchanged for consensus amino acids in EAAT1CO (a) and EAAT1COCO (b) are mapped into the structure of the EAAT1CRYST (PDB 5LLM) trimer viewed from the extracellular medium (left …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.40110.002
Figure 1—figure supplement 1
| Amino acid alignment EAAT1 constructs.

(a), Amino acid sequences of EAAT1CO, EAAT1COCO, and EAAT1WT are compared. The rectangles above the sequences highlight the transmembrane helices observed in the crystal structure of EAAT1CRYST (PDB …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.40110.003
Figure 2 with 5 supplements
| Deuterium exchange at 20°C.

(a-c) Deuterium uptake kinetics at 20°C of examples peptides from EAAT1WT (grey), EAAT1CO (blue), and EAAT1COCO (red), respectively, covering both helical and unstructured regions of the …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.40110.004
Figure 2—figure supplement 1
| Deuterium exchange behavior of EAAT1CO.

(a) Sequence coverage of EAAT1COCO obtained after 2 min pepsin digestion. Each bar below the protein sequence corresponds to a unique peptide identified by data independent MS/MS acquisition. A …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.40110.005
Figure 2—figure supplement 2
| Deuterium exchange behavior of EATTCOCO.

(a) Sequence coverage of EAAT1COCO obtained after 2 min pepsin digestion. Each bar below the protein sequence corresponds to a unique peptide identified by data independent MS/MS acquisition. A …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.40110.006
Figure 2—figure supplement 3
| Examples of representative unimodal m/z envelopes (EX2 kinetics) observed in EAAT1CO and EAAT1COCO.

(a-b) Raw MS data of example peptides 357–369 (a) and 390–399 (b) in EAAT1CO (left column) and EAAT1COCO (right column). The top mass spectra represent the isotopic distribution of the undeuterated …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.40110.007
Figure 2—figure supplement 4
| Deuterium uptake kinetics in EAAT1WT, EAAT1CO, and EAAT1COCO.

Deuterium uptake kinetic plots at 20°C of example peptides from EAAT1WT (grey), EAAT1CO (blue), and EAAT1COCO (red), respectively, covering both helical and unstructured regions of the transporters. …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.40110.008
Figure 2—figure supplement 5
| Deuterium exchange behavior of EAAT1WT.

(a) Sequence coverage of EAAT1WT obtained after 2 min pepsin digestion. Each bar below the protein sequence corresponds to a unique peptide identified by data independent MS/MS acquisition. A total …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.40110.009
Figure 3 with 1 supplement
| Subunit dissociation by SEC.

(a-c) Size-exclusion chromatograms of purified EAAT1CO (a), EAAT1COCO (b), and the chimeric transporter EAAT1-ScaDCO-TranDCOCO (c), respectively, pre-heated at different temperatures. The …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.40110.010
Figure 3—figure supplement 1
| Neurotransmitter uptake by EAAT1COCO pre-heated at 55°C.

a, Representative SEC profiles of purified EAAT1COCO samples at 4°C (reference temperature) or pre-heated at 55°C. The profiles are also shown in Figure 3b. (b), Radioactive L-glutamate uptake in …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.40110.011
Figure 4 with 2 supplements
| Temperature-induced HDX changes.

(a-b) Changes in deuterium incorporation induced by pre-pulses at nearly the T50-SEC of EAAT1CO (50°C) (a), and EAAT1COCO (40°C) (b), respectively, measured after 1 hr at 20°C. The changes are …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.40110.012
Figure 4—figure supplement 1
| Temperature-induced changes in EAAT1CO HDX pattern.

(a-c) Difference in fractional deuterium uptake between the reference pre-pulse temperature (20°C) and 40°C (a), 50°C (b), or 65°C (c) plotted as a function of the peptide position in the protein …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.40110.013
Figure 4—figure supplement 2
| Temperature-induced changes in EAAT1COCO HDX pattern.

(a-b) Difference in fractional deuterium uptake between the reference pre-pulse temperature (20°C), and 40 (a) or 50°C (b) plotted as a function of the peptide position in the protein sequence. The …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.40110.014
| Temperature-induced bimodal m/z envelopes at the trimeric interface.

(a-b) m/z envelopes of an example peptide covering residues 174–184 of EAAT1CO (a) and EAAT1COCO (b), respectively, at different pre-pulse temperatures. Grey symbols represent the average of three …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.40110.015
Figure 6 with 1 supplement
| Local thermal unfolding.

(a-b) Deuterium uptake kinetics at different pre-pulse temperatures of example peptides containing residues 174–184 in EAAT1CO (a), and EAAT1COCO (b), respectively. Solid lines represent …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.40110.016
Figure 6—figure supplement 1
| Deuterium uptake kinetics in EAAT1CO and EAAT1COCO at different temperatures.

Deuterium uptake kinetic plots at different pre-pulse temperatures of example peptides covering different regions of the ScaD (peptides 162–170, and 187–194) and the TranD (peptides 374–389, and …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.40110.017
| Thermal unfolding pathway.

Cartoon representation of the temperature-induced structural changes observed in the consensus designs. At the reference temperature the transporters are trimeric and have the substrate (sticks) …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.40110.018

Tables

Key resources table
Reagent type (species) or resourceDesignationSource or referenceIdentifiersAdditional information
Gene
(Homo sapiens)
EAAT1WTDNA2.0 syntheticUniprot P43003-1Codon optimized
Homo sapiens
Cell line
(Homo sapiens)
HEK293FThermo FisherR79007negative for
mycoplasma
Transfected construct
(Homo sapiens)
EAAT1COThis paper
Transfected construct
(Homo sapiens)
EAAT1COCOThis paper
Transfected construct
(Homo sapiens)
EAAT1
ScaCO-TranDCOCO
This paper
Recombinant DNA
reagent
pCDNA3.1Invitrogen,
doi: 10.1038/nature22064
Software,
algorithm
FELIX 4.1.2Photon Technology
International/Horiba
Software,
algorithm
DynamX 3.0Waters
Software,
algorithm
HX-Express2http://www.hxms.com/HXExpress
Software,
algorithm
Sigma Plot 12Sysat Inc.
Software,
algorithm
ExcelMicrosoft

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