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Volume 271, Number 43, Issue of October 25, 1996 pp. 26855-26862
©1996 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

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Disulfide Bond Engineering to Monitor Conformational Opening of Apolipophorin III During Lipid Binding

(Received for publication, July 9, 1996)

Vasanthy Narayanaswami , Jianjun Wang , Cyril M. Kay ^§¶ , Douglas G. Scraba ^§ and Robert O. Ryan

From the  Lipid and Lipoprotein Research Group, ^¶ Protein Engineering Network of Centres of Excellence, ^§ Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 252, Canada

Apolipophorin III (apoLp-III) from the Sphinx moth, Manduca sexta, is an exchangeable, amphipathic apolipoprotein that alternately exists in water-soluble and lipid-bound forms. It is organized as a five-helix bundle in solution, which has been postulated to open at putative hinge domains to expose the hydrophobic interior, thereby facilitating interaction with the lipoprotein surface (Breiter, D. R., Kanost, M. R., Benning, M. M., Wesenberg, G., Law, J. H., Wells, M. A., Rayment, I., and Holden, H. M. (1991) Biochemistry 30, 603-608). To test this hypothesis, we engineered two cysteine residues in apoLp-III, which otherwise lacks cysteine, by site-directed mutagenesis at Asn-40 and Leu-90. Under oxidizing conditions the two cysteines spontaneously form a disulfide bond, which should tether the helix bundle and thereby prevent opening and concomitant lipid interaction. N40C/L90C apoLp-III was overexpressed in Escherichia coli and characterized for disulfide bond formation, secondary structure content, and stability, under both oxidizing and reducing conditions. Functional characterization was carried out by comparing the abilities of the oxidized and reduced protein to associate with modified lipoproteins in vitro. While the reduced form behaved like wild type apoLp-III, the oxidized form was unable to associate with lipoproteins. These results suggest that opening of the helix bundle is required for interaction with lipoproteins and provide a molecular basis for the dual existence of water-soluble and lipid-bound forms of apoLp-III. However, in phospholipid bilayer association assays, wild type, reduced, and oxidized N40C/L90C apoLp-III exhibited similar abilities to transform dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine multilamellar vesicles to disc-like complexes, as judged by electron microscopy. These data emphasize that underlying differences exist in initiating or maintaining a stable interaction of apoLp-III with phospholipid disc complexes versus spherical lipoprotein surfaces.

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