Crystal structure of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae phosphatidylinositol- transfer protein

Bingdong Sha, Scott E. Phillips, Vytas A. Bankaitis () and Ming Luo ()
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Bingdong Sha: Center for Macromolecular Crystallography
Scott E. Phillips: University of Alabama at Birmingham
Vytas A. Bankaitis: University of Alabama at Birmingham
Ming Luo: Center for Macromolecular Crystallography

Nature, 1998, vol. 391, issue 6666, 506-510

Abstract: Abstract The yeast phosphatidylinositol-transfer protein (Sec14) catalyses exchange of phosphatidylinositol and phosphatidylcholine between membrane bilayers in vitro1,2. In vivo, Sec14 activity is essential for vesicle budding from the Golgi complex3. Here we report a three-dimensional structure for Sec14 at 2.5 Å resolution. Sec14 consists of twelve α-helices, six β-strands, eight 310-helices and has two distinct domains. The carboxy-terminal domain forms a hydrophobic pocket which, in the crystal ructure, is occupied by two molecules of n-octyl-β-D-glucopyranoside and represents the phospholipid-binding domain. This pocket is reinforced by a string motif whose disruption in a sec14 temperature-sensitive mutant results in destabilization of the phospholipid-binding domain. Finally, we have identified an unusual surface helix that may play a critical role in driving Sec14-mediated phospholipid exchange. From this structure, we derive the first molecular clues into how a phosphatidylinositol-transfer protein functions.

Date: 1998
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