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Interaction between the Lentil Lipid Transfer Protein Lc-LTP2 and Its Novel Signal Ligand PI(4,5)P2

It is known that plant lipid transfer proteins (LTPs) bind a broad spectrum of ligands including fatty acids (FAs), phospho- and glycolipids, acyl-coenzyme A and secondary metabolites. In this work, we used protein−lipid overlay assays to identify new putative LTP ligands. In our experiments, the le...

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Autores principales: Melnikova, Daria, Bogdanov, Ivan, Ovchinnikova, Tatiana, Finkina, Ekaterina
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7699592/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33233540
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/membranes10110357
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author Melnikova, Daria
Bogdanov, Ivan
Ovchinnikova, Tatiana
Finkina, Ekaterina
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Bogdanov, Ivan
Ovchinnikova, Tatiana
Finkina, Ekaterina
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description It is known that plant lipid transfer proteins (LTPs) bind a broad spectrum of ligands including fatty acids (FAs), phospho- and glycolipids, acyl-coenzyme A and secondary metabolites. In this work, we used protein−lipid overlay assays to identify new putative LTP ligands. In our experiments, the lentil lipid transfer protein Lc-LTP2 as well as LTPs from other plants were shown to bind phosphatidylinositol (4,5)-bisphosphate (PI(4,5)P2). Molecular modeling, 2-p-toluidinonaphthalene-6-sulphonate (TNS) displacement and liposome leakage experiments with Lc-LTP2 and its mutant analogs (R45A, Y80A, R45A/Y80A) were performed to investigate interactions between the protein and PI(4,5)P2. It was shown that PI(4,5)P2 initially interacted with the “bottom” entrance of the protein cavity and after complex formation the large polar head of this ligand was also oriented towards the same entrance. We also found that two highly conserved residues in plant LTPs, Arg45 and Tyr80, played an important role in protein-ligand interactions. Apparently, Arg45 is a key residue for interaction with PI(4,5)P2 during both initial contacting and holding in the protein cavity, while Tyr80 is probably a key amino acid playing an essential role in Lc-LTP2 docking to the membrane. Thus, we assumed that the ability of Lc-LTP2 to bind PI(4,5)P2 suggests the involvement of this protein in plant signal transduction.
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spelling pubmed-76995922020-11-29 Interaction between the Lentil Lipid Transfer Protein Lc-LTP2 and Its Novel Signal Ligand PI(4,5)P2 Melnikova, Daria Bogdanov, Ivan Ovchinnikova, Tatiana Finkina, Ekaterina Membranes (Basel) Article It is known that plant lipid transfer proteins (LTPs) bind a broad spectrum of ligands including fatty acids (FAs), phospho- and glycolipids, acyl-coenzyme A and secondary metabolites. In this work, we used protein−lipid overlay assays to identify new putative LTP ligands. In our experiments, the lentil lipid transfer protein Lc-LTP2 as well as LTPs from other plants were shown to bind phosphatidylinositol (4,5)-bisphosphate (PI(4,5)P2). Molecular modeling, 2-p-toluidinonaphthalene-6-sulphonate (TNS) displacement and liposome leakage experiments with Lc-LTP2 and its mutant analogs (R45A, Y80A, R45A/Y80A) were performed to investigate interactions between the protein and PI(4,5)P2. It was shown that PI(4,5)P2 initially interacted with the “bottom” entrance of the protein cavity and after complex formation the large polar head of this ligand was also oriented towards the same entrance. We also found that two highly conserved residues in plant LTPs, Arg45 and Tyr80, played an important role in protein-ligand interactions. Apparently, Arg45 is a key residue for interaction with PI(4,5)P2 during both initial contacting and holding in the protein cavity, while Tyr80 is probably a key amino acid playing an essential role in Lc-LTP2 docking to the membrane. Thus, we assumed that the ability of Lc-LTP2 to bind PI(4,5)P2 suggests the involvement of this protein in plant signal transduction. MDPI 2020-11-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7699592/ /pubmed/33233540 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/membranes10110357 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Melnikova, Daria
Bogdanov, Ivan
Ovchinnikova, Tatiana
Finkina, Ekaterina
Interaction between the Lentil Lipid Transfer Protein Lc-LTP2 and Its Novel Signal Ligand PI(4,5)P2
title Interaction between the Lentil Lipid Transfer Protein Lc-LTP2 and Its Novel Signal Ligand PI(4,5)P2
title_full Interaction between the Lentil Lipid Transfer Protein Lc-LTP2 and Its Novel Signal Ligand PI(4,5)P2
title_fullStr Interaction between the Lentil Lipid Transfer Protein Lc-LTP2 and Its Novel Signal Ligand PI(4,5)P2
title_full_unstemmed Interaction between the Lentil Lipid Transfer Protein Lc-LTP2 and Its Novel Signal Ligand PI(4,5)P2
title_short Interaction between the Lentil Lipid Transfer Protein Lc-LTP2 and Its Novel Signal Ligand PI(4,5)P2
title_sort interaction between the lentil lipid transfer protein lc-ltp2 and its novel signal ligand pi(4,5)p2
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7699592/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33233540
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/membranes10110357
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