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J Biol Chem, Vol. 273, Issue 46, 30110-30115, November 13, 1998

Intersubunit Interaction between Transmembrane Helices of the Bacterial Aspartate Chemoreceptor Homodimer

From the Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan

The transmembrane domain that connects the extracellular and intracellular domains of cell-surface receptors must play a critical role in signal transduction. Here, we report studies of the interaction between the transmembrane helices (TM1 and TM2) of the Escherichia coli aspartate chemoreceptor (Tar). Tar exists as a homodimer regardless of its state of ligand occupancy. A particular residue substitution in TM1 (A19K) abolishes the signaling ability of Tar. This signaling defect can be suppressed by single residue substitutions in TM2 (W192R, A198E, V201E, and V202L). We have found that these suppressors can be divided into two groups. A198E and V201E (class 1) almost completely suppress the defects caused by A19K, and this suppression occurs between two subunits of the Tar dimer. In contrast, W192R and V202L (class 2) fail to suppress some signaling defects, and their suppression does not occur between subunits. Because disulfide-crosslinking studies predict that residues 198 and 201 point toward residue 19 of the partner subunit, we propose that the class 1 suppressors form an intersubunit salt bridge with Lys-19. Indeed, A19K was suppressed by several additional aspartate or glutamate substitutions on the same face of TM2 occupied by residues 198 and 201. None of these intersubunit salt bridges perturb signaling function, suggesting that the mechanism of transmembrane signal propagation does not involve large displacements (such as extensive rotation) of the TM1 and TM2 helices relative to each other.

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