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Coiled-coil formation of the membrane-fusion K/E peptides viewed by electron paramagnetic resonance.
PloS One 2018
The interaction of the complementary K (Ac-(KIAALKE)3-GW-NH2) and E (Ac-(EIAALEK)3-GY-NH2) peptides, components of the zipper of an artificial membrane fusion system (Robson Marsden H. et al. Angew Chemie Int Ed. 2009) is investigated by electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR). By frozen solution continuous-wave EPR and double electron-electron resonance (DEER), the distance between spin labels attached to the K- and to the E-peptide is measured. Three constructs of spin-labelled K- and E-peptides are used in five combinations for low temperature investigations. The K/E heterodimers are found to be parallel, in agreement with previous studies. Also, K homodimers in parallel orientation were observed, a finding that was not reported before. Comparison to room-temperature, solution EPR shows that the latter method is less specific to detect this peptide-peptide interaction. Combining frozen solution cw-EPR for short distances (1.8 nm to 2.0 nm) and DEER for longer distances thus proves versatile to detect the zipper interaction in membrane fusion. As the methodology can be applied to membrane samples, the approach presented suggests itself for in-situ studies of the complete membrane fusion process, opening up new avenues for the study of membrane fusion.
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