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Crystal structure of the pheromone Er-13 from the ciliate Euplotes raikovi, with implications for a protein-protein association model in pheromone/receptor interactions.


ABSTRACT: In the ciliate Euplotes raikovi, water-borne protein pheromones promote the vegetative cell growth and mating by competitively binding as autocrine and heterologous signals to putative cell receptors represented by membrane-bound pheromone isoforms. A previously determined crystal structure of pheromone Er-1 supported a pheromone/receptor binding model in which strong protein-protein interactions result from the cooperative utilization of two distinct types of contact interfaces that arrange molecules into linear chains, and these into two-dimensional layers. We have now determined the crystal structure of a new pheromone, Er-13, isolated from cultures that are strongly mating reactive withculturessource of pheromone Er-1.The comparison between the Er-1 and Er-13 crystal structuresreinforces the fundamental of the cooperative model of pheromone/receptor binding, in that the molecules arrange into linear chains taking a rigorously alternate opposite orientation reflecting the presumed mutual orientation of pheromone and receptor molecules on the cell surface. In addition, the comparison provides two new lines of evidence for a univocal rationalization of observations on the differentbehaviourbetween the autocrine and heterologous pheromone/receptor complexes. (i) In the Er-13 crystal, chains do not form layers which thus appear to be an over-structureunique tothe Er-1 crystal, not essential for the pheromone signalling mechanisms. (ii) In both crystal structures, the intra-chain interfaces are equally derived from burying amino-acid side-chains mostly residing on helix-3 of the three-helical pheromonefold. This helix is thus identified as the key structural motif underlying the pheromone activity, in line with its tight intra- and interspecificstructuralconservation.

SUBMITTER: Pedrini B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9218940 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Crystal structure of the pheromone Er-13 from the ciliate Euplotes raikovi, with implications for a protein-protein association model in pheromone/receptor interactions.

Pedrini Bill B   Finke Aaron D AD   Marsh May M   Luporini Pierangelo P   Vallesi Adriana A   Alimenti Claudio C  

Journal of structural biology 20211117 1


In the ciliate Euplotes raikovi, water-borne protein pheromones promote the vegetative cell growth and mating by competitively binding as autocrine and heterologous signals to putative cell receptors represented by membrane-bound pheromone isoforms. A previously determined crystal structure of pheromone Er-1 supported a pheromone/receptor binding model in which strong protein-protein interactions result from the cooperative utilization of two distinct types of contact interfaces that arrange mol  ...[more]

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