Randomly organized lipids and marginally stable proteins: A coupling of weak interactions to optimize membrane signaling |
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Authors: | Anne M Rice Ryan Mahling Michael E Fealey Anika Rannikko Katie Dunleavy Troy Hendrickson K Jean Lohese Spencer Kruggel Hillary Heiling Daniel Harren R Bryan Sutton John Pastor Anne Hinderliter |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN, USA;2. Department of Cell Physiology and Molecular Biophysics, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX, USA;3. Department of Biology, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN, USA |
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Abstract: | Eukaryotic lipids in a bilayer are dominated by weak cooperative interactions. These interactions impart highly dynamic and pliable properties to the membrane. C2 domain-containing proteins in the membrane also interact weakly and cooperatively giving rise to a high degree of conformational plasticity. We propose that this feature of weak energetics and plasticity shared by lipids and C2 domain-containing proteins enhance a cell's ability to transduce information across the membrane. We explored this hypothesis using information theory to assess the information storage capacity of model and mast cell membranes, as well as differential scanning calorimetry, carboxyfluorescein release assays, and tryptophan fluorescence to assess protein and membrane stability. The distribution of lipids in mast cell membranes encoded 5.6–5.8 bits of information. More information resided in the acyl chains than the head groups and in the inner leaflet of the plasma membrane than the outer leaflet. When the lipid composition and information content of model membranes were varied, the associated C2 domains underwent large changes in stability and denaturation profile. The C2 domain-containing proteins are therefore acutely sensitive to the composition and information content of their associated lipids. Together, these findings suggest that the maximum flow of signaling information through the membrane and into the cell is optimized by the cooperation of near-random distributions of membrane lipids and proteins. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Interfacially Active Peptides and Proteins. Guest Editors: William C. Wimley and Kalina Hristova. |
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Keywords: | C2 domain Disorder Signaling Membrane domain Information theory |
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