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The participation of the amino acid beta83 in determining the sensitivity of chloroplast ATP synthases to tentoxin was reported previously. We have changed codon 83 of the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii atpB gene by site-directed mutagenesis to further examine the role of this amino acid in the response of the ATP synthase to tentoxin and in the mechanism of ATP synthesis and hydrolysis. Amino acid beta83 was changed from Glu to Asp (betaE83D) and to Lys (betaE83K), and the highly conserved tetrapeptide betaT82-E83-G84-L85 (DeltaTEGL) was deleted. Mutant strains were produced by particle gun transformation of atpB deletion mutants cw15DeltaatpB and FUD50 with the mutated atpB genes. The transformants containing the betaE83D and betaE83K mutant genes grew well photoautotrophically. The DeltaTEGL transformant did not grow photoautotrophically, and no CF1 subunits were detected by immunostaining of Western blots using CF1 specific antibodies. The rates of ATP synthesis at clamped DeltapH with thylakoids isolated from cw15 and the two mutants, betaE83D and betaE83K, were similar. However, only the phosphorylation activity of the mutant betaE83D was inhibited by tentoxin with 50% inhibition attained at 4 microM. These results confirm that amino acid beta83 is critical in determining the response of ATP synthase to tentoxin. The rates of the latent Mg-ATPase activity of the CF1s isolated from cw15, betaE83D, and betaE83K were similar and could be enhanced by heat, alcohols, and octylglucoside. As in the case of the membrane-bound enzyme, only CF1 from the betaE83D mutant was sensitive to tentoxin. A lower alcohol concentration was required for optimal stimulation of the ATPase of the betaE83K-CF1 than that of CF1 from the other two strains. Moreover, the optimal activity of the betaE83K-CF1 was also lower. These results suggest that introduction of an amino acid with a positively charged side chain in position 83 in the "crown" domain affects the active conformation of the CF1-ATPase.
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PMID:Catalytic properties and sensitivity to tentoxin of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii ATP synthases changed in codon 83 of atpB by site-directed mutagenesis. 903 47

Late-infantile ceroid-lipofuscinosis is a fatal autosomal recessively inherited disease characterized by massive accumulations of lysosomal storage bodies in many tissues. A major constituent of the storage bodies is the subunit c protein of mitochondrial ATP synthase. Juvenile ceroid-lipofuscinosis, a disease that is similar to but genetically distinct from the late-infantile disorder, also involves lysosomal accumulation of the subunit c protein. In the juvenile disease, the stored form of the protein contains an epsilon-N-trimethyllysine (TML) residue at position 43. Analyses were performed to determine whether subunit c protein stored in the late-infantile disease is also trimethylated at lysine residue 43. Amino acid composition analysis of the subunit c protein stored in brains from subjects with the late-infantile disease indicated that one of the two lysine residues in the protein is trimethylated. Data from molecular mass analysis of the protein was consistent with the presence of three methyl groups not present in the unmodified protein. The TML in the storage body subunit c protein was found by amino acid sequence analysis to occur exclusively at residue 43. The lysine at this position in the stored protein was completely methylated. Recent studies suggest that the subunit c protein from normal mitochondria may also have the same amino acid modification. Thus, it appears that specific methylation of lysine residue 43 of mitochondrial ATP synthase subunit c is probably a normal post-translational modification, and that the lysosomal storage of this protein in late-infantile, as well as in juvenile ceroid-lipofuscinosis, does not result from a defect in its methylation.
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PMID:Late-infantile ceroid-lipofuscinosis: lysine methylation of mitochondrial ATP synthase subunit c from lysosomal storage bodies. 924 91

A cDNA encoding subunits 8 and 6 of mitochondrial ATPase of the cephalochordate lancelet (Branchiostoma lanceolatum), a direct ancestor of vertebrates, has been cloned and sequenced. A unique transcript encodes the 8 and 6 subunits. In the course of isolation of the 5' end of the ATPase 8 subunit gene, we also determined the sequence of the 5' adjacent tRNA-Lys gene. The anticodon used by mitochondrial tRNA-Lys is TTT.
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PMID:A unique cDNA coding for subunits 8 and 6 of mitochondrial adenosine triphosphatase of the lancelet Branchiostoma lanceolatum, an ancestor of vertebrates. 933 12

The Atp12p protein of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is required for assembly of the F1 moiety of the mitochondrial ATP synthase. The current work has used mutant forms of Atp12p in an effort to learn about amino acids and/or domains that are important for the action of the protein. In one set of studies, the mutant atp12 genes were cloned and sequenced from 13 independent isolates of chemically mutagenized yeast. Of the 10 different mutant alleles that were identified, 9 (8 nonsense and 1 frameshift) lead to the early termination of the protein. A single missense mutation that substitutes lysine for Glu-289 was identified in two of the atp12 strains. Analysis of several Atp12p variants, each with different substitutions at Glu-289, showed that the functional activity of Atp12p is compromised when non-acidic residues are introduced at position 289 in the sequence. In other work, deletion analysis led to the assignment of two domains in Atp12p; the functional domain of the protein was mapped to the sequence between Gln-181 and Val-306, and a structural domain (Asp-307 through Gln-325) was identified that confers Atp12p the ability to oligomerize with other proteins in mitochondria.
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PMID:Mutational studies with Atp12p, a protein required for assembly of the mitochondrial F1-ATPase in yeast. Identification of domains important for Atp12p function and oligomerization. 944 13

The catalytic portion of the chloroplast ATP synthase (CF1) is structurally asymmetric. Asymmetry of the otherwise symmetrical alpha3beta3 heterohexamer is induced by the presence of tightly bound nucleotides and interactions with the single-copy, smaller subunits. Lucifer Yellow vinyl sulfone (4-amino-N-[3-(vinylsulfonyl)phenyl]naphthalimide-3,6-disulfonic acid) rapidly and covalently binds to lysine 378 on one alpha subunit [Nalin, C. M., Snyder, B., and McCarty, R. E., (1985) Biochemistry 24, 2318-2324] [Shapiro, A. B. (1991) Ph.D. Thesis, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY). The asymmetrical binding of Lucifer Yellow to CF1 provides a method to investigate the cause of asymmetry in the alpha subunits. The reaction of CF1 with Lucifer Yellow was monitored by total fluorescence of bound Lucifer Yellow as well as by quantitative determination of Lucifer Yellow bound to the tryptic peptide that contains lysine 378 of the alpha subunit. The total binding of Lucifer Yellow to CF1 was not affected by the presence of tightly bound nucleotides or nucleotide in the medium. Neither the total binding of Lucifer Yellow to CF1 nor the reaction of alpha-lysine 378 with Lucifer Yellow was changed by the removal of the epsilon subunit, the delta subunit, or both subunits. The extent of incorporation of Lucifer Yellow into lysine 378 of the alpha subunit in (alphabeta)n was about three times that of Lucifer Yellow incorporation into CF1. Reconstitution of (alphabeta)n with gamma restored the binding of one Lucifer Yellow per alpha3beta3gamma. Therefore, the interactions between gamma and the alphabeta heterohexamer are important in conferring asymmetry to the alpha subunits of CF1.
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PMID:Asymmetry of the alpha subunit of the chloroplast ATP synthase as probed by the binding of Lucifer Yellow vinyl sulfone. 948 99

Cross-linking studies on the Escherichia coli F0F1-ATP synthase indicated a site of interaction involving gamma and epsilon subunits in F1 and subunit c in F0 (Watts, S. D., Tang, C., and Capaldi, R. A. (1996) J. Biol. Chem. 271, 28341-28347). To assess the function of these interactions, we introduced random mutations in this region of the gamma subunit (gamma194-213). One mutation, gammaGlu-208 to Lys (gammaE208K), caused a temperature-sensitive defect in oxidative phosphorylation-dependent growth. ATP hydrolytic rates of the gammaE208K F0F1 enzyme became increasingly uncoupled from H+ pumping above 28 degreesC. In contrast, Arrhenius plot of steady-state ATP hydrolysis of the mutant enzyme was linear from 20 to 50 degreesC. Analysis of this plot revealed a significant increase in the activation energy of the catalytic transition state to a value very similar to soluble, epsilon subunit-inhibited F1 and suggested that the mutation blocked normal release of epsilon inhibition of ATP hydrolytic activity upon binding of F1 to F0. The difference in temperature dependence suggested that the gammaE208K mutation perturbed release of inhibition via a different mechanism than it did energy coupling. Suppressor mutations in the polar loop of subunit c restored ATP-dependent H+ pumping and transition state thermodynamic parameters close to wild-type values indicating that interactions between gamma and c subunits mediate release of epsilon inhibition and communication of coupling information.
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PMID:A mutation in the Escherichia coli F0F1-ATP synthase rotor, gammaE208K, perturbs conformational coupling between transport and catalysis. 971 46

Escherichia coli F1-ATPase from mutant betaY331W was potently inhibited by fluoroaluminate plus MgADP but not by MgADP alone. beta-Trp-331 fluorescence was used to measure MgADP binding to catalytic sites. Fluoroaluminate induced a very large increase in MgADP binding affinity at catalytic site one, a smaller increase at site two, and no effect at site three. Mutation of either of the critical catalytic site residues beta-Lys-155 or beta-Glu-181 to Gln abolished the effects of fluoroaluminate on MgADP binding. The results indicate that the MgADP-fluoroaluminate complex is a transition state analog and independently demonstrate that residues beta-Lys-155 and (particularly) beta-Glu-181 are important for generation and stabilization of the catalytic transition state. Dicyclohexylcarbodiimide-inhibited enzyme, with 1% residual steady-state ATPase, showed normal transition state formation as judged by fluoroaluminate-induced MgADP binding affinity changes, consistent with a proposed mechanism by which dicyclohexylcarbodiimide prevents a conformational interaction between catalytic sites but does not affect the catalytic step per se. The fluorescence technique should prove valuable for future transition state studies of F1-ATPase.
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PMID:Binding of the transition state analog MgADP-fluoroaluminate to F1-ATPase. 1006 61

Beta-Arg-182 in Escherichia coli F1-ATPase (beta-Arg-189 in bovine mitochondrial F1) is a residue which lies close to catalytic site bound nucleotide (Abrahams et al. (1994) Nature 370, 621-628). Here we investigated the role of this residue by characterizing two mutants, betaR182Q and betaR182K. Oxidative phosphorylation and steady-state ATPase activity of purified F1 were severely impaired by both mutations. Catalytic site nucleotide-binding parameters were measured using the fluorescence quench of beta-Trp-331 that occurred upon nucleotide binding to purified F1 from betaR182Q/betaY331W and betaR182K/betaY331W double mutants. It was found that (a) beta-Arg-182 interacts with the gamma-phosphate of MgATP, particularly at catalytic sites 1 and 2, (b) beta-Arg-182 has no functional interaction with the beta-phosphate of MgADP or with the magnesium of the magnesium-nucleotide complex in the catalytic sites, and (c) beta-Arg-182 is directly involved in the stabilization of the catalytic transition state. In these features the role of beta-Arg-182 resembles that of another positively charged residue in the catalytic site, the conserved lysine of the Walker A motif, beta-Lys-155. A further role of beta-Arg-182 is suggested, namely involvement in conformational change at the catalytic site beta-alpha subunit interface that is required for multisite catalysis.
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PMID:The role of beta-Arg-182, an essential catalytic site residue in Escherichia coli F1-ATPase. 1038 6

The rotation of the gamma-subunit has been included in the binding-change mechanism of ATP synthesis/hydrolysis by the proton ATP synthase (FOF1). The Escherichia coli ATP synthase was engineered for rotation studies such that its ATP hydrolysis and synthesis activity is similar to that of wild type. A fluorescently labeled actin filament connected to the gamma-subunit of the F1 sector rotated on addition of ATP. This progress enabled us to analyze the gammaM23K (the gamma-subunit Met-23 replaced by Lys) mutant, which is defective in energy coupling between catalysis and proton translocation. We found that the F1 sector produced essentially the same frictional torque, regardless of the mutation. These results suggest that the gammaM23K mutant is defective in the transformation of the mechanical work into proton translocation or vice versa.
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PMID:The gamma-subunit rotation and torque generation in F1-ATPase from wild-type or uncoupled mutant Escherichia coli. 1039 98

A component of the stator of the yeast ATP synthase (subunit 4 or b) showed many cross-linked products with the homobifunctional reagent dithiobis[succinimidyl propionate], which reacts with the amino group of lysine residues. The positions in subunit 4 that were involved in the cross-linkings were determined by using cysteine-generated mutants constructed by site-directed mutagenesis of ATP4. Cross-linking experiments with the heterobifunctional reagent p-azidophenacyl bromide, which has a spacer arm of 9 A, were performed with mitochondria and crude Triton X-100 extracts containing the solubilized enzyme. Substitution of lysine residues by cysteine residues in the hydrophilic C-terminal part of subunit 4 allowed cross-links with subunit h from C98 and with subunit d from C141, C143, and C151. OSCP was cross-linked from C174 and C209. A cross-linked product, 4+beta, was also obtained from C174. It is concluded that the C-terminus of subunit 4 is distant from the membrane surface and close to F(1) and OSCP. The N-terminal part of subunit 4 is close to subunit g, as demonstrated by the identification of a cross-linked product involving subunit g and the cysteine residues 7 or 14 of subunit 4.
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PMID:The second stalk of the yeast ATP synthase complex: identification of subunits showing cross-links with known positions of subunit 4 (subunit b). 1055 84


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