Ligand-coupled conformational changes in a cyclic nucleotide-gated ion channel revealed by time-resolved transition metal ion FRET

  1. Pierce Eggan
  2. Sharona E Gordon  Is a corresponding author
  3. William N Zagotta  Is a corresponding author
  1. Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, United States
7 figures, 2 tables and 1 additional file

Figures

SthK as a model protein for characterizing the allosteric regulation in CNBD channels.

(A) Representative macroscopic A208V-cfSthK currents in inside-out patches from bacterial spheroplasts in response to voltage steps shown at the top, in the absence of cyclic nucleotide (top black …

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Excel data for representative electrophysiology traces (Figure 1A) and summary of cyclic nucleotide dose response (Figure 1B).

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Expression, purification, and analysis of tetrameric SthKCterm.

(A) In-gel protein fluorescence showing selective Acd incorporation into SthKCterm in the absence and presence of S361Acd TAG site, Acd aminoacyl tRNA synthetase/tRNA (RS/tRNA), and unnatural amino …

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Steady-state tmFRET data from tetrameric SthKCterm.

(A) Left: structure of one subunit of SthKCterm-S361Acd with [Fe(phenM)3]2+ acceptor incorporated at V416C (adapted from PDB: 4D7T; Kesters et al., 2015). Middle: Time course of average fluorescence …

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Excel data for time courses and dot plots of steady-state FRET efficiencies and dose response (Figure 3A–D).

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Steady-state tmFRET of monomeric and tetrameric SthKCterm.

(A) SEC chromatogram showing separation of monomeric (empty triangle, blue area) and tetrameric protein (solid triangle, gray area) fractions for SthKCterm-I359Acd and SthKCterm-I359Acd-R417C (no WT …

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Excel data for size exclusion chromatography traces, monomer and tetramer steady-state time courses, and FRET efficiency summaries (Figure 3—figure supplement 1A–D).

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Distance distribution predictions with chiLife.

(A) Structure of resting state (left, PDB:7RSH) (Gao et al., 2022), and cAMP-bound active state (right, PDB:4D7T) (Kesters et al., 2015) with rotameric clouds predicted by chiLife for the labels …

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Lifetime measurements of SthKCterm-S361Acd-V416C with [Fe(phenM)3]2+ and [Ru(bpy)2phenM]2+.

Chemical structures of acceptors and legends for all plots shown on top. (A–B) Representative Weber plots of phase delay and modulation ratio for SthKCterm-S361Acd-V416C labeled with [Fe(phenM)3]2+

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Excel data for Weber plots, spaghetti plots and summary of Gaussian fit scatter plots (Figure 5A–F).

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Representative Weber plot of measured lifetimes of SthKCterm-S361Acd donor-only (grey), then in the presence of [Fe(phenM)3]2+ (black), and after the addition of 1.23 mM cAMP (red), showing no change in lifetimes in the absence of a cysteine residue.
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Excel data for fluorescence lifetimes Weber plot.

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Parameters used in the lifetimes fitting model for both the single and sum of two Gaussian approaches, shown in blue.

(A) Graph of donor-only fluorescence-lifetime decay with two exponential components with time constants (τD1, τD2) (B) FRET efficiency (E) plot as a function of distance (r) between donor and acceptor …

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Analysis of lifetime data with global fit model allowing sum of two Gaussian distance distributions.

(A) Representative phasor plot of measured lifetimes with [Fe(phenM)3]2+ acceptor, where markers on universal circle indicate single-exponential time constants (in nanoseconds). Data shown are …

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Excel data for phasor plot coordinates, Weber plot, spaghetti plot and dot plot for summary of Gaussian fit parameters from global fits (Figure 6A–E).

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Figure 6—figure supplement 1
Representative phasor plot of measured lifetimes of SthKCterm-S361Acd-V416C alone (donor-only, grey), in the presence of [Ru(bpy)2phenM]2+ (apo, black), in the presence of 1 µM cAMP (cyan) and presence of 1.23 mM cAMP (red).
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Excel data for phasor plot coordinates.

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Identifiability of parameters in the sum of two Gaussian distributions model, with global fitting [Fe(phenM)3]2+ and [Ru(bpy)2phenM]2+ data.

(A–B) Minimization of χ2 values for the Gaussian average distance (r¯) (A) and standard deviation (σ) (B) for the resting (black) and active states (red). (C) Minimization of χ2 values for …

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Excel data for χ2 surface graphs for different model parameters (Figure 6—figure supplement 2A–D).

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Lifetime measurements in 150 mM KCl versus 500 mM KCl conditions.

(A) Normalized SEC traces of SthKCterm in 150 mM KCl (solid curve) and 500 mM KCl (dashed curve). (B) Representative Weber plot for [Fe(phenM)3]2+ lifetimes in 150 mM (open circles) and 500 mM KCl …

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Excel data for size exclusion chromatography traces, Weber plot, and dot plots for summary of Gaussian fit parameters from global fits (Figure 7A–D).

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Tables

Table 1
Calculated energetics of the four state model.
Ligand conditionIonic strength (mM KCl)∆G (kcal/mol)∆∆G (kcal/mol)
Apo1501.14±0.03--
5001.2±0.03--
cAMP150----
500<–2.7±0<–3.9±0.03
cGMP1500.67±0.03–0.47±0.04
5000.38±0.02–0.82±0.04
  1. Energies are reported in mean values ± SEM.

Key resources table
Reagent type (species) or resourceDesignationSource or referenceIdentifiersAdditional information
Strain, strain background (Escherichia coli)B-95.ΔA E. coliAddgeneBacterial strain #197933
Recombinant DNA reagentpDule2-Mj Acd A9 (plasmid)AddgenePlasmid #197652
Recombinant DNA reagentMBP-S361TAG -ctermSthK-TEV-TWS.pETM11 (plasmid)AddgenePlasmid #231098
Recombinant DNA reagentMBP- S361TAG -V416C-ctermSthK-TEV-TWS.pETM11 (plasmid)AddgenePlasmid #231099
Recombinant DNA reagentMBP-Q364TAG -ctermSthK-TEV-TWS.pETM11 (plasmid)AddgenePlasmid #231100
Recombinant DNA reagentMBP- Q364TAG -R417C-ctermSthK-TEV-TWS.pETM11 (plasmid)AddgenePlasmid #231101
Software, algorithmFDlifetime_17_Igor_procedures.ipfZagotta, 2021https://github.com/zagotta/FDlifetime_program

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