Kinetics and molecular properties of pheromone binding and release
AUTOR(ES)
Leal, Walter S.
FONTE
National Academy of Sciences
RESUMO
Transient kinetic studies have shown that the uptake of the pheromone (bombykol) of the silkworm moth (Bombyx mori), by its pheromone-binding protein (PBP) BmorPBP, proceeds with an “on” rate of 0.068 ± 0.01 μM–1·s–1. With the high concentration of PBP in the sensillar lymph (10 mM), the half-life for the uptake of pheromone in vivo is ≈1 ms. A pH-dependent conformational change (BmorPBPB → BmorPBPA), associated with the release of pheromone, is a first-order reaction (k = 74.1 ± 0.32 s–1; t1/2, 9.3 ms). Under physiological conditions, both reactions proceed with half-life times on the order of milliseconds, as is required for odorant-oriented navigation in insects. Molecular interactions of bombykol with both native and mutated PBPs were analyzed by a novel binding assay. A recombinant protein with the native conformation (BmorPBP) showed high binding affinity (KD = 105 nM) at pH 7 but low affinity (KD = 1,600 nM) at pH 5, when tested at both low and high KCl concentrations. A protein with a C-terminal segment deleted (BmorPBPΔP129-V142) was found to bind bombykol at pH 7 and at pH 5 with the same affinity as the native protein at pH 7, indicating that the C-terminal segment is essential for preventing binding at low pH. Binding studies with three mutated proteins (BmorPBPW37F, BmorPBPW127F, and BmorPBPW37A) showed that replacing Trp-37 (with Phe or Ala) or Trp-127 (with Phe) did not affect the binding affinity to bombykol. Fluorescence studies shed light on the contributions of Trp-37 and Trp-127 emissions to the overall fluorescence.
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