Building the stator of the yeast vacuolar-ATPase: Specific interaction between subunits E and G

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Contributors

  • James Féthière - , European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg (Author)
  • David Venzke - , European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg (Author)
  • Meikel Diepholz - , European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg (Author)
  • Anja Seybert - , European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg (Author)
  • Arie Geerlof - , European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg (Author)
  • Marc Gentzel - , European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg (Author)
  • Matthias Wilm - , European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg (Author)
  • Bettina Böttcher - , European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg (Author)

Abstract

The vacuolar (H+)-ATPase (or V-ATPase) is a membrane protein complex that is structurally related to F1 and F0 ATP syntheses. The V-ATPase is composed of an integral domain (V0) and a peripheral domain (V1) connected by a central stalk and up to three peripheral stalks. The number of peripheral stalks and the proteins that comprise them remain controversial. We have expressed subunits E and G in Escherichia coli as maltose binding protein fusion proteins and detected a specific interaction between these two subunits. This interaction was specific for subunits E and G and was confirmed by co-expression of the subunits from a bicistronic vector. The EG complex was characterized using size exclusion chromatography, cross-linking with short length chemical cross-linkers, circular dichroism spectroscopy, and electron microscopy. The results indicate a tight interaction between subunits E and G and revealed interacting helices in the EG complex with a length of about 220 Å. We propose that the V-ATPase EG complex forms one of the peripheral stators similar to the one formed by the two copies of subunit b in F-ATPase.

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)40670-40676
Number of pages7
JournalJournal of Biological Chemistry
Volume279
Issue number39
Publication statusPublished - 24 Sept 2004
Peer-reviewedYes
Externally publishedYes

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PubMed 15292229
ORCID /0000-0002-4482-6010/work/142251041

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