2MCV

Solid-state NMR structure of piscidin 1 in aligned 1:1 phosphatidylethanolamine/phosphoglycerol lipid bilayers


Experimental Data Snapshot

  • Method: SOLID-STATE NMR
  • Conformers Calculated: 100 
  • Conformers Submitted: 10 
  • Selection Criteria: structures with the lowest energy 

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Literature

High-resolution structures and orientations of antimicrobial peptides piscidin 1 and piscidin 3 in fluid bilayers reveal tilting, kinking, and bilayer immersion.

Perrin, B.S.Tian, Y.Fu, R.Grant, C.V.Chekmenev, E.Y.Wieczorek, W.E.Dao, A.E.Hayden, R.M.Burzynski, C.M.Venable, R.M.Sharma, M.Opella, S.J.Pastor, R.W.Cotten, M.L.

(2014) J Am Chem Soc 136: 3491-3504

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/ja411119m
  • Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
    2MCU, 2MCV, 2MCW, 2MCX

  • PubMed Abstract: 

    While antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have been widely investigated as potential therapeutics, high-resolution structures obtained under biologically relevant conditions are lacking. Here, the high-resolution structures of the homologous 22-residue long AMPs piscidin 1 (p1) and piscidin 3 (p3) are determined in fluid-phase 3:1 phosphatidylcholine/phosphatidylglycerol (PC/PG) and 1:1 phosphatidylethanolamine/phosphatidylglycerol (PE/PG) bilayers to identify molecular features important for membrane destabilization in bacterial cell membrane mimics. Structural refinement of (1)H-(15)N dipolar couplings and (15)N chemical shifts measured by oriented sample solid-state NMR and all-atom molecular dynamics (MD) simulations provide structural and orientational information of high precision and accuracy about these interfacially bound α-helical peptides. The tilt of the helical axis, τ, is between 83° and 93° with respect to the bilayer normal for all systems and analysis methods. The average azimuthal rotation, ρ, is 235°, which results in burial of hydrophobic residues in the bilayer. The refined NMR and MD structures reveal a slight kink at G13 that delineates two helical segments characterized by a small difference in their τ angles (<10°) and significant difference in their ρ angles (~25°). Remarkably, the kink, at the end of a G(X)4G motif highly conserved among members of the piscidin family, allows p1 and p3 to adopt ρ angles that maximize their hydrophobic moments. Two structural features differentiate the more potent p1 from p3: p1 has a larger ρ angle and less N-terminal fraying. The peptides have comparable depths of insertion in PC/PG, but p3 is 1.2 Å more deeply inserted than p1 in PE/PG. In contrast to the ideal α-helical structures typically assumed in mechanistic models of AMPs, p1 and p3 adopt disrupted α-helical backbones that correct for differences in the amphipathicity of their N- and C-ends, and their centers of mass lie ~1.2-3.6 Å below the plane defined by the C2 atoms of the lipid acyl chains.


  • Organizational Affiliation

    Laboratory of Computational Biology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health , Bethesda, Maryland 20892, United States.


Macromolecules

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Entity ID: 1
MoleculeChains Sequence LengthOrganismDetailsImage
Moronecidin23Morone saxatilisMutation(s): 1 
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Experimental Data & Validation

Experimental Data

  • Method: SOLID-STATE NMR
  • Conformers Calculated: 100 
  • Conformers Submitted: 10 
  • Selection Criteria: structures with the lowest energy 

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Entry History 

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Revision History  (Full details and data files)

  • Version 1.0: 2014-01-22
    Type: Initial release
  • Version 1.1: 2014-02-12
    Changes: Database references
  • Version 1.2: 2014-03-19
    Changes: Database references
  • Version 1.3: 2024-10-30
    Changes: Data collection, Database references, Derived calculations, Structure summary