Reaction of internal forms of the choline carrier of erythrocytes with N-ethylmaleimide: Evidence for a carrier conformational change on complex formation |
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Authors: | R Devés R M Krupka |
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Institution: | (1) Research Institute, Agriculture Canada, N6A 5B7 London, Ontario, Canada;(2) Department of Biochemistry, University of Western Ontario, N6A 5C1 London, Ontario, Canada;(3) Present address: Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Casilla 6524, Santiago, Chile |
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Abstract: | Summary The choline carrier of human erythrocyte membranes exists in distinguishable outward-facing and inward-facing conformations, and previous studies demonstrated that only the latter reacts with N-ethylmaleimide, producing an irreversible inhibition of transport. We now report experiments to determine the individual reaction rates for the two inward-facing forms: the free carrier and the complex. The pseudo-first-order rate constant for the complex with a substrate analog, di-n-butylaminoethanol, is found to be nearlydouble that for the free carrier, showing that the carrier conformation is altered following addition of a ligand (with 1mm N-ethylmaleimide at pH 6.8, 37°C, the constants are 0.57±0.05 min–1 and 0.33±0.02 min–1, respectively). Hence three different conformational states have been distinguished by experiment: (1) the inward-facing free carrier; (2) the inward-facing complex; and (3) the outward-facing carrier. |
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Keywords: | carrier conformational change choline transport substrate complex inhibition N-ethylmaleimide |
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