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Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, March 2000, p. 13-33, Vol. 64, No. 1
Department of Microbiology, Groningen
Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of
Groningen, 9751 NN Haren, The Netherlands
1092-2172/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
Membrane Topology and Insertion of Membrane
Proteins: Search for Topogenic Signals
SUMMARY
INTRODUCTION
MEMBRANE TOPOLOGY
Principles
Enzyme Tags
The enzymes: alkaline phosphatase, 
-galactosidase, and
-lactamase.
Complementarity.
Expression levels and specific activity.
Sandwich fusions.
Assumptions and rules.
Glycosylation Tags
Glycosylation of membrane proteins.
Distance between OST and the membrane.
Glycosylation scanning.
Glycosylation fusions.
Chemical Modification
Cysteine residues in membrane proteins.
Cysteine-scanning mutagenesis.
Additional advantages.
Conclusions.
The BAD Tag
BAD.
BAD in topology studies.
Folding kinetics.
Proteolysis
MEMBRANE INSERTION
Topology and Insertion
Membrane Protein Biogenesis
Insertion machinery in the ER membrane.
Insertion into the bacterial cytoplasmic membrane.
(i) Bacterial translocation machinery.
(ii) Sec-dependent and Sec-independent insertion of
membrane proteins.
Insertion mechanism.
Insertion of Isolated Hydrophobic Segments
Principles.
Insertion vehicles.
(i) M0 and M1 system.
(ii) Lep system.
(iii) Prolactin system.
SA and ST activities of isolated transmembrane segments.
Similar studies in E. coli.
Interaction between Multiple Insertion Signals
Charge distribution and hydrophobic segments.
Interaction between different hydrophobic segments.
(i) Insertion depending on upstream segments.
(ii) Insertion depending on downstream segments.
(iii) Folding intermediates.
PROSPECTS
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Integral membrane proteins are found in all cellular membranes and carry out many of the functions that are essential to life. The membrane-embedded domains of integral membrane proteins are structurally quite simple, allowing the use of various prediction methods and biochemical methods to obtain structural information about membrane proteins. A critical step in the biosynthetic pathway leading to the folded protein in the membrane is its insertion into the lipid bilayer. Understanding of the fundamentals of the insertion and folding processes will significantly improve the methods used to predict the three-dimensional membrane protein structure from the amino acid sequence. In the first part of this review, biochemical approaches to elucidate membrane protein topology are reviewed and evaluated, and in the second part, the use of similar techniques to study membrane protein insertion is discussed. The latter studies search for signals in the polypeptide chain that direct the insertion process. Knowledge of the topogenic signals in the nascent chain of a membrane protein is essential for the evaluation of membrane topology studies.
INTRODUCTION
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Integral membrane proteins represent an important class of proteins that are involved in a wide variety of cellular functions. Knowledge of the structure of proteins is crucial to understanding their function. Unfortunately, there are no general and reliable methods for forming three-dimensional crystals of membrane proteins suitable for crystallographic analysis, and to date, only a handful of high-resolution membrane protein structures have been solved whereas several thousands of three-dimensional structures of globular proteins are known. Because of this, biochemical and prediction methods were needed to obtain structural information about membrane proteins.
Although integral membrane proteins come in a variety of sizes and
shapes, they have common basic architectural principles, most probably
due to the lipid environment in which they are embedded. The
membrane-spanning portions of the so-called 
-helix bundle proteins,
which are the subjects of this review, contain one or more
transmembrane -helices, each of which is a stretch of approximately 20 amino acids with largely hydrophobic side chains. The -helices are oriented more or less perpendicular to the plane of the membrane. In bitopic membrane proteins, a single helix connects two domains of
the protein on either side of the membrane. In polytopic membrane proteins, the membrane-spanning portion of the protein consists of
multiple -helices that are connected by extramembranous domains, i.e., the loops. Three-dimensional structures show that the helices of
polytopic membrane proteins are packed intimately in the membrane. Analysis of the hydrophobic moments of transmembrane -helices in
polytopic membrane proteins of known structures indicates that the most
polar face of each helix is buried in the interior of the molecule
while the least polar face is exposed to the lipids (148,
149).
A fundamental aspect of the structure of polytopic membrane proteins is
the membrane topology, i.e. the number of transmembrane segments and
their orientation in the membrane. Fortunately, despite the
difficulties encountered in obtaining high-resolution structures, the
physicochemical constraints imposed by the lipid environment provide a
simple method to predict the topology of a membrane protein. The
predicted topology can be verified by a variety of molecular and
biochemical techniques. Membrane protein topology predictions are based
on the observations that (i) the transmembrane -helices have a high
overall hydrophobicity and (ii) the charge distribution of the
hydrophilic loops that connect the transmembrane segments follows the
"positive inside" rule, which states that nontranslocated loops are
enriched in positively charged residues compared to translocated loops
(191). The first observation is used to identify the
transmembrane segments in the amino acid sequence by analyzing the
hydropathic properties of the amino acid sequence (39, 103, 175,
191), and the second observation is used to predict the overall
orientation of the protein in the membrane. The biochemical techniques
used to verify the predicted membrane topology are, without exception,
based on modifications of the proteins by engineering the structural
genes coding for the proteins. These techniques are reviewed and
evaluated in the first part of this review.
The success of biochemical approaches to determining membrane protein
topologies will increase dramatically with the understanding of the
dynamics of the biosynthetic pathway leading to the folded protein in
the membrane. Thus, as well as knowledge of membrane protein synthesis
and targeting to the appropriate membrane, understanding of the process
of insertion into the membrane and formation of the final
three-dimensional structure is necessary to determine and understand
the topology of membrane proteins (Fig.
1). Many important aspects of membrane
protein biosynthesis seem to rely on rather well-defined signals
encoded in the polypeptide chain, such as targeting signals and
topogenic signals. The membrane topology is formed in a process in
which the topogenic signals in the nascent polypeptide chain are
recognized and translated by the insertion machinery. Topology studies
and prediction methods will become much more reliable when all the
topogenic signals present in the amino acid sequence of a membrane
protein are recognized and understood and when it is known how the
insertion machinery deals with them. Although several targeting and
topological signals have been investigated extensively, a lot of
topogenic information is still hidden in the polypeptide chains of
membrane proteins as unknown signals. The second part of this review
focuses on studies that specifically search for topogenic signals by
using similar techniques to those used in the studies of membrane
topology.
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MEMBRANE TOPOLOGY
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Principles
Plasma membrane proteins cross the membrane in a zigzag fashion
and expose their hydrophilic loops alternately in the two compartments
that are separated by the membrane. To verify predicted membrane
protein topology models, the existence of all the putative transmembrane domains must be verified and the hydrophilic loops must
be localized to one of the compartments. The simple structure of
membrane proteins, the nature of the membrane, and the possibility of
genetically modifying proteins allowed the development of a variety of biochemical and molecular techniques for the
elucidation of the membrane topology of integral membrane proteins. In
vivo, the membrane represents a barrier that separates different
intracellular compartments from each other or separates the interior of
the cell from the external environment. Due to the impermeability of
the membrane to hydrophilic molecules, parts of a membrane protein that
lie on opposite sides of the membrane are differently accessible to
various agents. Easily identified target sites are inserted in the
polypeptide, and membrane-impenetrable reagents are used to determine
their accessibility at one side of the membrane (Fig.
2A). Examples of target sites include
N-glycosylation sites, Cys residues, iodinatable sites, antibody
epitopes, and proteolytic sites that are introduced at specific
positions in the protein by site directed mutagenesis. By
inserting the tag at different positions in the protein, the
complete topology can be determined.
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A second approach to generate topological information makes use of gene fusions. A reporter molecule is attached to a hydrophilic domain of a membrane protein, and the cellular location of the reporter is determined by the topogenic information in the membrane protein (Fig. 2B). The reporters are typically molecules whose properties (for example, enzymatic activity) depend on their subcellular location. The gene encoding the reporter protein is fused at different sites in the gene encoding the membrane protein, and the properties of the resulting fusion proteins reveal at which side of the membrane the fusion sites reside. In the resulting fusion proteins, the C-terminal part of the membrane protein is deleted and replaced by the reporter moiety. Therefore, the fusions are termed C-terminal deletion fusions.
Enzyme Tags
The enzymes: alkaline phosphatase, 
-galactosidase, and
-lactamase.
The most commonly used reporter protein for gene
fusion studies in prokaryotes is alkaline phosphatase, encoded by the
Escherichia coli phoA gene (24, 118, 175).
Alkaline phosphatase (PhoA) is a metalloenzyme that consists of two
identical subunits and resides in the bacterial periplasm
(30). Each of the subunits contains two intramolecular
disulfide bridges. PhoA is initially synthesized as a precursor with an
N-terminal signal sequence that is removed during translocation across
the membrane. In the periplasm, the mature part of PhoA is oxidized.
The cysteine residues form disulfide bridges, triggering the correct
folding of PhoA, a partially protease resistant conformation. The
folding process is completed by dimer formation, yielding the active
enzyme complex (5). The process of folding and assembly of
PhoA occurs only after export to the periplasmic space, because various
factors prevent formation of the disulfide bonds in the cytoplasm
(48). This location-specific character of PhoA allowed its
wide use as a reporter molecule in membrane protein topology studies in prokaryotic cells (47) and is applicable to heterologously
expressed eukaryotic membrane proteins as well (21, 67,
108). In these studies, the mature part of PhoA, lacking its
signal sequence, is fused behind various C-terminal truncated parts of
a membrane protein. The truncated protein takes over the function of
the signal sequence. If PhoA is fused to a domain of a membrane protein that normally is located in the cytoplasm, the PhoA molecule also remains in the cytoplasm and is inactive. In contrast, when PhoA is
fused to a domain that normally is exported across the membrane, the
PhoA moiety of the fusion protein is also exported across the membrane
and is folded and assembled into the active state. Thus, the enzymatic
activity of the fusion protein reveals the cellular location of the
fusion site. The alkaline phosphatase activity of the fusion
proteins is most easily determined by a plate assay using a
chromogenic substrate such as XP
(5-bromo-4-chloro-3-indolylphosphate) or, more
quantitatively, by spectroscopic enzyme assays (124). Commercially available antibodies directed against PhoA enable the detection and quantitation of the fusion proteins by immunoblotting.
-galactosidase (LacZ), a
large tetrameric cytoplasmic enzyme, are used in a complementary
fashion to the PhoA fusions. In contrast to PhoA, LacZ exhibits
enzymatic activity in the cytoplasm. When attached downstream of an
export signal, the enzyme is trapped in the membrane, which prevents proper folding; therefore, the enzyme is inactive (164).
Thus, fusions of LacZ to a periplasmic fusion site of a membrane
protein are inactive, while fusions to a cytoplasmic domain are active. Similar to PhoA fusions, -galactosidase is visualized by a plate assay using the chromogenic substrate X-Gal
(5-bromo-4-chloro-3-indolyl--D-galactoside) or is
measured quantitatively using the spectroscopic enzyme assay (63). Antibodies directed against LacZ to quantify the
expression level are commercially available as well.
The third commonly used reporter molecule, which has been used as an
alternative to PhoA, is the mature form of the monomeric periplasmic
enzyme -lactamase, encoded by the bla gene
(28). Periplasmic -lactamase protects cells against lysis
by -lactam antibiotics such as ampicillin, which otherwise
inactivate enzymes essential for cell wall biosynthesis that are
anchored to the outer surface of the cytoplasmic membrane. Cells
expressing cytoplasmic -lactamase are sensitive to the antibiotics
because cytoplasmic -lactamase cannot intervene between the incoming
antibiotic and their periplasmic targets. Thus, cells expressing fusion
proteins in which the mature form of -lactamase is fused to a
cytoplasmic domain of a membrane protein fail to grow on plates with a
high ampicillin concentration while cells expressing fusions to
periplasmic domains are able to grow on these plates. Plating the cells
at a high density identifies in-frame cytoplasmic fusions. Under these
conditions, lysis of a fraction of the cell population liberates enough
of the cytoplasmic -lactamase to permit growth of the cells. Plates
with different ampicillin concentrations are used to determine the
localization of the -lactamase moiety (27).
Complementarity.
Various topology models have
been tested using a combination of PhoA and LacZ fusions
(45, 57, 76, 91, 92, 106, 170, 202, 206). Random fusions to
both reporter molecules are often constructed, and this is followed by
screening for positive clones on indicator plates. Positive LacZ
fusions represent fusions to cytoplasmic domains, while positive PhoA
fusions represent fusions to periplasmic domains. Genetic tricks have
been developed which make it possible to exchange the LacZ reporter
molecules in positive fusions for the PhoA molecule and vice versa
(117, 200), resulting in fusions with complementary
enzymatic properties (76, 170). The use of PhoA as a
reporter molecule in these studies is advantageous in principle because
a positive result (i.e., a high-activity fusion) requires the active
export of the mature reporter enzyme moiety into the periplasm. In
contrast, the use of LacZ as a complementary cytoplasmic reporter may
give a positive phenotype as a result of many artifacts. Saturation of
the export machinery, especially when using overexpression systems, and
the liberation of an initially membrane-embedded, inactive portion of
-galactosidase may explain the unexpectedly high -galactosidase
activity. Conflicting results, i.e., high LacZ and PhoA activity at the
same fusion site, have been reported in a number of membrane topology
studies (45, 63, 68, 70, 77, 184). Furthermore, in a few
cases, the truncated membrane proteins adopt alternate conformations
depending on which reporter protein is present. For unknown reasons,
the correct folding in the membrane is more often achieved with PhoA as
the reporter (57, 106). In recent years, most topology
studies have been done with just PhoA or -lactamase.
Expression levels and specific activity. It is important to demonstrate that the low activity of an alkaline phosphatase fusion protein is due to a cytoplasmic location of the PhoA moiety and not to a lower level of expression of the fusion protein. Thus, the level of expression is usually determined by Western blot analysis using antibodies raised against PhoA to quantitatively relate the enzymatic activity to the protein concentration. If all full-length fusion proteins in a set show more or less the same level of expression, irrespective of their localization and activity, the activities of the fusion proteins can easily be corrected for the level of expression or may be taken to indicate topology without correction (152, 169). On the other hand, if different amounts of fusion protein are detected within a set, this may indicate differential stability or differential synthesis, which can be resolved by pulse-chase immunoblot experiments (156). Instability of the membrane protein moiety results in the liberation of alkaline phosphatase from the fusion protein. The fate of the alkaline phosphatase then depends on the side of the membrane at which it is released. Release into the periplasm results in stable and active PhoA. Immunoblots show mixtures of full-length fusion proteins and free PhoA in ratios that depend on the stability of the membrane-embedded part of the proteins. In contrast, due to improper folding of the PhoA moiety in the cytoplasm, in cytoplasmic fusion proteins the free PhoA moiety is rapidly degraded and is not or poorly detected by Western blotting. As a consequence, fusions with a periplasmic PhoA moiety show larger amounts of immunoreactive products on a Western blot than do cytoplasmic fusions (45, 106, 143, 184). This systematic behavior can be used as an additional method to discriminate between fusions with a periplasmic or cytoplasmic PhoA moiety, but it is important that it is not used to normalize the activities. To demonstrate the synthesis of the fusion proteins, pulse and/or pulse-chase experiments are generally used (26, 45, 151, 152, 168, 170, 206, 208).
Sandwich fusions. In the PhoA sandwich approach (55), the alkaline phosphatase sequence, lacking the signal sequence, is inserted into the membrane protein rather than replacing different C-terminal membrane protein sequences. Thus, the entire membrane protein is present and the approach does not suffer from the drawbacks pertinent to the C-terminal deletion fusion approach. This approach may give a more accurate picture of the topology if the final topology of a protein is affected by interactions between amino- and carboxyl-terminal sequences. Similar to the fusion approach, high alkaline phosphatase activity of a sandwich construct reveals a periplasmic location of the domain bearing the insertion while low activity corresponds to a cytoplasmic location.
The sandwich approach was used solely or in addition to PhoA fusions to determine the topology of a number of bacterial proteins including the maltose transporter subunit MalF (55), the aromatic amino acid permease AroP (42), the phenylalanine-specific permease PheP (137), the tryptophan transporter Mtr (157), and the eukaryotic multidrug resistance protein MDR (21). To minimize the disruption of known topological signals, such as positively charged residues in cytoplasmic loops, the fusions were positioned in the C-terminal portion of each hydrophilic loop (see also the next section). While in principle sandwich fusions may be the better approach, in practice many insertion constructs are inactive (like C-terminal deletion fusions). Only 3 of 25 AroP-PhoA sandwich fusions (42) and 5 of 25 PheP-PhoA sandwich-fusions (137) retained some transport activity. As was also observed with the Mtr permease (157), the active constructs involved insertions into periplasmic domains. Since it is possible that insertion of the large PhoA domain alters the topology of the protein, inactive sandwich proteins are risky for use in topology studies and do not provide an advantage relative to C-terminal deletion fusions.Assumptions and rules. Experimental support for a topological model requires a minimum of one fusion in each extra membranous domain. If the protein contains stretches of residues of intermediate hydrophobicity that cannot unambiguously be identified as membrane spanning, fusions should be made approximately every 30 residues (26).
The major assumption in the fusion approach to membrane protein topology is that truncation of a membrane protein does not affect its native topology. The fusion technique, especially using the reporter molecule alkaline phosphatase, has been used in a large number of topology studies (for a list of proteins until 1994, see reference 24), and several of the models that were obtained have been confirmed by other biochemical data (29, 143, 180) or even by crystallographic data (36, 85, 86, 177, 208), indicating that the assumption is valid for at least a number of proteins. On the other hand, different types of anomalous behavior of fusion proteins have been reported, which has led to the formulation of rules to optimize the analysis and to avoid pitfalls (24, 108, 175). One type of anomalous behavior is the unexpectedly high activity that is observed when alkaline phosphatase is fused near the N-terminal end of a cytoplasmic loop. An extensive study of MalF in which PhoA was fused at different sites in a cytoplasmic loop suggested that the high activity of fusions near the N-terminal end may be due to loss of C-terminal hydrophilic sequences containing positively charged residues that would lock the loop in the cytoplasm (25). It was proposed that fusions should be constructed to the C-terminal end of cytoplasmic loops or at least downstream of basic amino acid residues (26). A comparative study using-lactamase as
the reporter domain demonstrated that the equivalent
MalF--lactamase fusions did not confer anomalous high resistance to
ampicillin, indicating that the -lactamase domain was
correctly retained in the cytoplasm. The difference in behavior of PhoA
and -lactamase as the reporter domain may be the result of
differences in the ability of the reporter proteins to fold into
export-incompetent states in the cytoplasm; -lactamase would fold
more rapidly than PhoA (144). Similar to the -lactamase fusions, the equivalent fusions of MalF and the biotin acceptor domain
of the Propionibacterium shermanii transcarboxylase (see "The BAD tag" below) as the reporter did not result in anomalous behavior (87). The data obtained with truncated MalF fusions suggested that a truncated membrane protein may adopt different topologies depending on which reporter protein is present. However, the
membrane protein also plays a role. -Lactamase fusions in the first
cytoplasmic domain of the rhamnose/H+ symporter of
Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (174)
conferred an anomalous high resistance to ampicillin, indicating that
with this protein -lactamase is not retained in the
cytoplasm. Also, PhoA fusions in two different positively charged
cytoplasmic loops of the melibiose permease MelB resulted,
independent of the positions of the fusion sites relative to the
positive charges, in low-activity fusions, demonstrating that the
positive charges were not essential for locking the reporter in the
cytoplasm (143). Apparently, the behavior of fusion proteins
is dependent on the combination of membrane protein and reporter protein.
A second type of mislocation of the reporter molecule was observed when
PhoA was fused in periplasmic loops following a transmembrane segment
containing one or more charged residues. The low activity of the
fusions indicated that the membrane segment is retained in the
cytoplasm (6, 29). The export ability of the segment may be
reduced because of an overall lower hydrophobicity or because C-terminal sequences of the membrane protein are required to stabilize the segment in the membrane through the formation of interhelical salt
bridges. Replacing the PhoA moiety in these fusions with -lactamase
resulted in the same anomalous behavior (144).
An artefact occurs with membrane proteins whose N termini face the
periplasm, such as the E. coli inner membrane protein ProW (76), which is a component of the ProU osmoregulatory system (71). Fusions of the reporter molecule to the N-terminal
domain lack transmembrane sequences and are bound to remain in the
cytoplasm (76, 109, 144, 198).
An extensive PhoA fusion analysis study with the lactose permease,
LacY, and the melibiose permease, MelB, of E. coli led to
remarkable new insights. Fusions constructed at intervals of 3 to 5 residues in each predicted transmembrane segment showed a sharp change
from high to low PhoA activity. The hypothesis was proposed that the
cytoplasmic half of an outgoing segment is enough to promote
translocation of the alkaline phosphatase moiety to the periplasmic
space while the periplasmic half of an ingoing segment is enough to
prevent translocation (29, 143, 180). This rule was used to
determine the approximate middle of transmembrane segments VII and XI
in LacY by constructing PhoA fusions at alternating residues. The
fusion point of the chimera that showed a sharp increase in alkaline
phosphatase activity was set at the middle of the transmembrane segment
(180). A similar sharp transition in low and high alkaline
phosphatase activity for fusions that were 6 to 10 residues apart was
observed with the glutamate transporter of Bacillus
stearothermophilus, GltT (169). Clearly, these
observations and explanations are in marked contrast to those discussed above.
Proper assembly of the truncated membrane protein part of a fusion
protein in the membrane seems to depend on the membrane protein, the
reporter protein, and the location of the fusion site. Therefore, the
fusion approach is successful for certain membrane proteins but not for
others. The folding of the fusion proteins depends on features of the
nascent chain such as charges and hydrophobicity, but it may also
depend on the rate of folding of extramembranous domains and, clearly,
on other still unknown features. It should be noted that the fusions
that behave anomalously are only a minor fraction of all the fusions.
They may be especially helpful in understanding additional features
that give a particular stretch of residues a transmembrane disposition
(see "Membrane insertion" below). When we understand all these
features, we may be able to deduce the complete membrane topology from
the results of the reporter fusion technique.
Glycosylation Tags
Glycosylation of membrane proteins. In eukaryotic cells, glycosylation activity is found in the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and is accomplished by the enzyme oligosaccharyl transferase (OST), which adds oligosaccharides to the amino group of asparagine (Asn) residues of the consensus sequence Asn-X-Thr/Ser (196). N glycosylation is a common feature of eukaryotic membrane proteins, and the consensus sequence is usually found in the largest luminal exposed loop of the protein (104). The presence of endogenous sites in multiple loops is possible as well (171). Since modification of the glycosylation site occurs in a compartment-specific manner, the presence of glycosylation provides topological information. The loop(s) carrying the oligosaccharide is identified by successive elimination of potential glycosylation sites by site-directed mutagenesis (83). The state of glycosylation of native or mutant proteins is assayed in an in vivo expression system or in vitro in cell-free systems consisting of reticulocyte lysate or wheat germ lysate supplemented with microsomes, membranes derived from the ER. Addition of the oligosaccharide chain to a single site results in an increase in the apparent molecular mass of approximately 2.5 kDa on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Glycosylation can be manipulated by treatment with glycosidases (for example, Endo H [134, 187] and N-glycosidase F [132, 189]) or by expression of the protein in the presence of glycosylation inhibitors (for example, tunicamycin [18]) or competitive acceptor peptides (for example, Ac-Asn-Tyr-Thr-NH2 [140] and N-benzoyl-Asn-Leu-Thr-N-methylamide [130, 187]).
Glycosylation scanning mutagenesis and glycosylation fusions make use of the glycosylation properties in the ER lumen to study the complete topology of membrane proteins in the ER membrane. They have become the counterpart of the PhoA fusion and sandwich techniques to analyze eukaryotic membrane proteins. In the glycosylation scanning mutagenesis approach, consensus glycosylation sites or domains bearing a glycosylation site are introduced into membrane proteins devoid of glycosylation sites. Localization of the insertion site on the luminal or cytoplasmic side of the membrane is inferred from the presence or absence of glycosylation of the engineered protein, respectively. The technique has proven very useful in defining the folding pattern of various membrane proteins (18, 32, 34, 84, 131, 132, 140, 167, 178). In the glycosylation fusion approach, a domain bearing one or more glycosylation sites is fused behind different C-terminal deletion mutants of a membrane protein. The fused glycosylation site functions as a reporter molecule in which glycosylation of the domain indicates a luminal position of the fusion point while no glycosylation indicates a cytoplasmic location (13, 132, 187).Distance between OST and the membrane.
The OST enzyme,
which is responsible for the glycosylation of
eukaryotic membrane proteins, is embedded in the ER membrane and has
its catalytic site facing the luminal compartment (196). Successful N glycosylation by the active site of OST
requires adequate spacing of the acceptor site in the luminal loop of
the membrane protein from the membrane surface (131, 197).
The exact distance has been determined using E. coli leader
peptidase as a model protein (130). It was found that there
is a precise distance constraint that allows
glycosylation of acceptor sites only when the Asn
residue is located a minimum of 12 residues upstream or 14 residues
downstream of a transmembrane segment (Fig.
3). A survey of polytopic membrane
proteins revealed that luminal loops containing N-linked
oligosaccharides have a minimum size of about 30 residues, with the
N-glycosylation acceptor site at least 10 residues away from the predicted transmembrane segment
(104). N-glycosylation scanning
mutagenesis of extracytosolic loops in the anion exchanger of the
erythrocyte membrane Band 3 demonstrated that the distance requirements
inferred from Leader peptidase applied to this protein
(140). Introduced acceptor sites were glycosylated only in
loops larger than 25 residues, and a sharp cutoff was observed in
glycosylation of sites positioned too close to the
membrane. Furthermore, insertion of a small
glycosylation tag in short loops did not result in N
glycosylation, whereas these loops were efficiently
glycosylated when a large domain bearing a
glycosylation site was inserted. The results account for the lack of glycosylation of endogenous
(104) or introduced (140, 178) sites that are
close to the membrane. The distance constraint between OST and the
glycosylation site was used to map the ends of the
transmembrane segments of Band 3, resulting in a refined topology model
(140).
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Glycosylation scanning.
To study the topology of
membrane proteins by using glycosylation scanning
mutagenesis, the endogenous glycosylation sites in the
protein must be removed and novel sites must be introduced at various
positions. The mutations necessary to remove the endogenous sites and
the resulting absence of glycosylation are not expected to have profound effects on the topology of membrane proteins. Indeed,
the activities of several deglycosylated proteins, such as Band 3 (74), the erythrocyte glucose transporter GLUT1
(84), the glycine transporter GLYT1 (132), and
the human Na+/glucose cotransporter SGLT1 (178),
were comparable to those of the wild-type proteins, implying that
glycosylation is not necessary for function and that
the mutations to remove the glycosylation sites do not
affect activity. The deglycosylated
Na+/Cl
-coupled 
-aminobutyric acid (GABA)
transporter from rat brain (GAT-1) exhibited only 38% of wild-type
activity, but it was shown that the reduction in activity was due at
least in part to reduced trafficking to the plasma membrane
(18).
Glycosylation fusions.
Domains bearing a
glycosylation site have been used as reporter molecules
in topology studies in very much the same way as alkaline phosphatase
in PhoA fusions: the reporter molecule containing one or more
glycosylation sites is fused behind different
C-terminal deletions of a membrane protein. The domain will be
glycosylated only when it is translocated to the luminal side of the ER
membrane. Often, the technique is used in combination with in vitro
translation and insertion in the presence or absence of
insertion-competent microsomes derived from the ER membrane.
Translation in the absence of microsomes results in a protein with the
apparent molecular mass of the full-length fusion protein, while
translation in the presence of microsomes results in the same or a
higher apparent molecular mass depending on the cytoplasmic or
luminal localization of the domain, respectively (see
"Glycosylation of membrane proteins" above). The -subunit of the
gastric H+,K+-ATPase contains five N-linked
glycosylation sites and has been used as a reporter
molecule for the topological analysis of a number of membrane proteins,
including the gastric H+,K+-ATPase
(13), two rat Ca2+ ATPases (16) the
rabbit gastric cholecystokinin A (CCK-A) receptor (17), and the glycine transporter GLYT1
(132). The membrane topology of the glutamate carrier GLT1
was studied by fusing a glycosylation consensus
sequence behind a series of C-terminally truncated proteins
(194). The in vitro translation-transcription system was
also used to study the topology of the P-type ATPase from
Helicobacter pylori (123) and the sodium
ion-dependent citrate carrier of Klebsiella pneumoniae CitS
(187), demonstrating that bacterial proteins can be
expressed and analyzed in the ER system as well.
Chemical Modification
Cysteine residues in membrane proteins. The cysteine residue is a relatively hydrophobic, nonbulky residue, and its introduction at most positions in a membrane protein is likely to be tolerated. This feature and the ease of specific chemical modification with sulfhydryl reagents are the basis of several methods aiming at topological and structure-function-related information on membrane proteins. In cysteine scanning mutagenesis, a series of single cysteine mutants is created and the reactivity of the single cysteine mutant to various sulfhydryl reagents is assessed under different conditions. To obtain single Cys mutants, the native cysteine residues present in the membrane protein are removed and novel cysteine residues are introduced at specific positions in the Cys-less protein. The native cysteine residues are generally removed by replacement by serine residues, which usually renders an active protein. Substitution of amino acids with cysteine residues appears to be tolerated at most positions as well. The eight native cysteine residues of the lactose permease (LacY) of E. coli have been replaced simultaneously to yield a Cys-less permease that retained at least 50% of its wild-type activity (188). Furthermore, it was demonstrated that except for four amino acids, all the amino acids of LacY could be replaced by a cysteine residue without disrupting the function of the transporter (for reviews, see references 62 and 93). Thus, cysteine-scanning mutagenesis permits topology assessment and other structure-function studies under conditions in which the proteins are active and therefore, presumably, the protein structure is not seriously altered.
Cysteine-scanning mutagenesis.
In topology studies,
amino acids that are thought to reside in the putative extracellular or
intracellular loops of a membrane protein are replaced by cysteine
residues and the orientation with respect to the membrane is evaluated
using membrane-permeable and -impermeable sulfhydryl reagents.
Sulfhydryl reagents are available that contain either a biotin group
(115), a fluorescent group (212), or a radiolabel
(97), allowing detection of labelled proteins by
streptavidin binding, fluorescence, or autoradiography, respectively.
Labelling of a cysteine residue with a membrane-permeable reagent
containing a detectable group after pretreatment of whole cells,
spheroplasts, or right-side-out-oriented membrane vesicles with a
membrane-impermeable reagent is indicative of a cytoplasmic cysteine
residue, while the absence of labelling reveals a periplasmic location
(Fig. 4). In addition to subcellular
localization, labelling of a cysteine residue may depend on reactivity,
possible steric constraints due to local structure, and, in cells and
spheroplasts, scavenging of the label by thiol groups on cytoplasmic
proteins. Therefore, it is essential to analyze labelling from both
sides of the membrane either by performing the complementary experiment using inside-out membrane vesicles or by showing that the protein can be labelled in a noncompartmentalized system, i.e., in
detergent solution. The sulfhydryl reagent reacts with cysteine
residues present in all other proteins in the membrane, and therefore
immunoprecipitation of the membrane protein or a purification step is
necessary to show specific labelling.
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Additional advantages. An attractive feature of the use of cysteine scanning mutagenesis is that the library of functional single-cysteine mutants can be used for a more detailed structural analysis of the membrane protein. The E. coli LacY protein is the most complete example of cysteine-scanning mutagenesis to date, and its library of cysteine mutants (single and double Cys mutants) has been analyzed by a number of biophysical techniques aiming at obtaining both structural and dynamic information (62, 93). Helix packing, helix tilt, and ligand-induced conformational changes have been investigated using sulfhydryl-specific cross-linkers, spin labels, and fluorescent probes as well as site-directed peptide bond cleavage. Furthermore, cysteine-scanning mutagenesis in putative transmembrane segments has been used to explore the secondary structure of the segment in detail and to map channel-lining residues. Similar studies have been done for several other membrane proteins including the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (1, 2, 4), the GABA receptor (203, 204), the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) (3), the UhpT transporter (205), potassium channels (136), the tetracycline antiporter TetB (98), the erythrocyte anion exchanger AE1 (172), the GABA transporter GAT-1 (207), the oxalate/formate antiporter OxlT (64), and the serotonin transporter SERT (35). In these studies, sulfhydryl reagents that differ in charge, size, and hydrophilicity were used (88). These approaches are not discussed any further here.
Conclusions. Cysteine-scanning mutagenesis is the most useful technique developed for topology studies so far, at least for bacterial systems. The advantages are as follows: (i) the analysis is done on the complete and active protein; (ii) the modifications of the protein are minimal and restricted to a single amino acid residue change, and so they are not likely to disturb the membrane topology; (iii) the point mutations are well tolerated, usually leaving the proteins active; (iv) the actual analysis is done by chemical modification after insertion of the protein into the membrane; (v) the chemical modification can be done using whole cells, thereby avoiding problems related to the conversion of cells into membrane vesicles with a uniform orientation; and (vi) the library of single Cys mutants forms the basis for many other types of investigations. Disadvantages of the technique are as follows: (i) a Cys-less mutant of the protein has to be constructed, and (ii) the Cys residues in the single Cys mutants may not be accessible to the thiol reagents. The Cys-scanning mutagenesis approach has also been used for eukaryotic membrane proteins (18, 75, 93, 160) but has not yet been used in combination with in vitro translation/insertion using microsomes derived from the ER membrane, which may have additional advantages. Besides cysteine residues, other amino acids may be useful. In a study to test the accessibility of predicted external loops of the serotonin neurotransmitter transporter, SERT, lysine residues were introduced as targets for the impermeant biotinylating reagent NHS-SS-biotin, which reacts specifically with lysine residues (35). A mutant SERT protein in which four native lysine residues in loop regions were replaced by arginine or glutamine residues showed normal transport activity. Similarly, a series of active mutant proteins containing novel single external lysine residues could be constructed, indicating that the replacement of lysine residues is tolerated, at least in external loops. A disadvantage of using lysine residues is that most proteins contain many lysine residues, making it less easy to construct a functional protein devoid of lysine residues.
The BAD Tag
BAD.
Biotin carboxylases are a family of enzymes that
use a covalently attached biotin moiety as a mobile carboxy carrier to
catalyze the transfer of CO2 between metabolites
(155). The biotin group is attached posttranslationally to a
specific lysine residue of newly synthesized biotin carboxylases by the
cytoplasmic enzyme biotin ligase, which uses ATP to activate the
carboxy group of biotin during the reaction (Fig.
6) (163). Biotinylated
proteins are rare in nature, varying from one to five in different
organisms. The biotin carboxyl carrier protein of acetyl coenzyme A
carboxylase is the only biotinylated protein found in E. coli (59). A high degree of sequence homology is
observed around the biotin attachment site of all biotinylated
proteins, and it was demonstrated that the biotin ligase enzyme from
different sources is able to biotinylate acceptor proteins from various
species both in vivo (43) and in vitro (121). The
minimum size of the biotin domain necessary for biotinylation is about
75 to 80 residues (43, 110), and this domain, the biotin
acceptor domain (BAD), exists as a stable entity. The crystal structure
of the BAD of the E. coli biotin carboxyl carrier protein
has been solved (11). Expression of gene fusions of the BAD
of various carboxylases to the C terminus of different soluble proteins
resulted in in vivo biotinylated proteins. Biotin binds to avidin with
unusually high affinity (the dissociation constants are in the order of
1015 M), yielding a complex that is extremely stable over
a wide range of temperatures and pH values (72). The
biotin-avidin system is used to detect biotinylated proteins with high
sensitivity and to purify biotinylated proteins in one step by affinity
chromatography using immobilized avidin (33, 43). Similar to
soluble proteins, membrane proteins fused to BAD result in biotinylated
proteins (41, 141, 184). Lac permease constructs with the
BAD of the oxaloacetate decarboxylase of K. pneumoniae either inserted in the middle cytoplasmic loop or
fused at the C terminus catalyze active transport and become
biotinylated in vivo (180). Due to incomplete in vivo
biotinylation, only a fraction of the transport protein was recovered
upon purification using immobilized avidin. Recently, a method for in
vitro biotinylation of the LacY-BAD fusion protein, resulting in
complete biotinylation, has been described (142). Similarly,
fusions of the same BAD to the C terminus of the citrate transporter
CitS resulted in active and in vivo biotinylated protein and could be
purified in a functional state (141). Membrane topology
studies based on the BAD make use of the compartment-specific in vivo
biotinylation of the domain (87, 209) or the high
sensitivity to detect the biotinylated proteins in combination with
proteolysis (184).
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BAD in topology studies. The membrane topology of the lactose transporter of E. coli LacY has been determined by a variety of biochemical techniques. The BAD of the oxaloacetate decarboxylase from K. pneumoniae was inserted into various loops to investigate the suitability of the BAD for topology studies. The rationale was that BAD inserted in a cytoplasmic domain would be biotinylated because it is accessible to the cytoplasmic biotin ligase enzyme and, consequently, BAD inserted in a periplasmic domain would not be biotinylated. The following observations led to the conclusion that the approach was hindered by unexpected effects. Insertion of the BAD in two out of four cytoplasmic loops of LacY did not result in biotinylation of the domain (209). Lack of biotinylation was also observed when the BAD was inserted at one specific position in the most C-terminal cytoplasmic domain of the citrate transporter CitS protein, while efficient biotinylation was observed when the domain was inserted at a different position in the same loop (M. van Geest and J. S. Lolkema, submitted for publication). Possibly, the biotinylation site is buried in the structure of the folded membrane protein, rendering the domain inaccessible to the biotin ligase enzyme. Alternatively, interactions of the domain with other regions of the membrane protein may prevent the proper folding of the BAD necessary for recognition by the biotin ligase enzyme. Insertions of the BAD into periplasmic domains of LacY resulted in biotinylated proteins that were all inactive in lactose transport (209). It could be shown that the domain was not translocated to the periplasm. Insertion of the BAD into a periplasmic loop blocks the translocation of the loop and, in all likelihood, the insertion of the two adjacent helices, resulting in a misfolded, inactive protein (209). In contrast, fusion of the BAD to the periplasmic C terminus of CitS resulted in an active fusion protein, and it was shown that the domain was translocated to the periplasm (184). Apparently, translocation of the domain is blocked only when sandwiched in a hydrophilic domain and not when fused to a hydrophilic domain, suggesting that the BAD is useful as a topological marker when using C-terminal deletion fusions. Biotinylation of the BAD of the 1.3S subunit of Propionibacterium shermanii transcarboxylase fused behind a series of C-terminal deletion mutants of the inner membrane protein MalF was indeed in agreement with the known topology of MalF (87). In fact, MalF-BAD fusions did not suffer from the problems encountered with MalF-PhoA fusions, in which the fusion site was at the beginning of a cytoplasmic loop, which resulted erroneously in the export of the PhoA moiety (see also "Complementarity" above) (26). In the corresponding MalF-BAD fusion, the BAD was securely locked in the cytoplasm, suggesting that the domain requires a less strong signal for cytoplasmic localization than does PhoA (87). This feature may be related to the fact that PhoA is a periplasmic protein while the BAD is part of a cytoplasmic protein.
In conclusion, C-terminal deletion fusions of the BAD may be a good alternative to LacZ fusions as positive indicators of cytoplasmic localization, with PhoA as the complementary positive indicator of periplasmic localization. Insertions of the BAD in putative cytoplasmic and periplasmic loops seem to result in many artifacts that make the domain less suitable as a topological marker. Only insertions that leave the protein active and that result in biotinylation report a trustworthy localization of the loop in the cytoplasm. Insertions of the BAD into putative cytoplasmic loops of CitS that did not compromise transport activity were used to verify a topology model of CitS that was based on C-terminal deletion PhoA fusions (van Geest and Lolkema, submitted) (see "Proteolysis" below).Folding kinetics. Biotin acceptor domain fusions have been used to study the rate of translocation of secretory proteins or periplasmic domains of membrane proteins (87, 153). The degree of biotinylation is taken as a measure of the time spent in the cytoplasm before translocation. The degree of biotinylation is determined by the rate of biotinylation of the BAD by the biotin ligase in the cytoplasm and the rate of translocation to the periplasm catalyzed by the export machinery. When the BAD was fused to the periplasmic proteins PhoA or maltose binding protein, little or no biotinylation of the domain was observed in E. coli. Biotinylation of the domain was observed when the protein secretion process was slowed by mutations in components of the export machinery or by azide treatment, which specifically inhibits the ATP driven translocation. Thus, the biotinylation of the BAD functions as an indicator of impaired protein export. The rates of translocation of several periplasmic domains of MalF were studied upon sodium azide treatment or depletion of SecE (a component of the export machinery), demonstrating the involvement of the export machinery in the insertion mechanism of the MalF protein (87). Similar studies have been performed with the BAD fused to the periplasmic C terminus of the citrate transporter CitS. The level of biotinylation was much lower than observed for the BAD fused to the cytoplasmic N terminus, consistent with the periplasmic location of the domain. Upon addition of sodium azide to the growth medium, the level of biotinylation of the C-terminal fusion increased significantly (M. van Geest and J. S. Lolkema, unpublished results).
Proteolysis
Membrane proteins, like all proteins, contain cleavage sites for various proteolytic enzymes. Externally added proteolytic enzymes cannot cross the membrane, and therefore cytoplasmic sites are protected against cleavage by the membrane upon exposure of bacterial right-side-out membranes or spheroplasts whereas these sites are not protected against cleavage in inside-out membranes. Similarly, in ER microsomes, the luminally exposed sites are protected against cleavage. Cleavage of the site(s) can be analyzed after sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and immunoblotting using antibodies directed against the protein. The technique has a clear advantage when it can be applied to native proteins without the need for modification. The limitations of the technique are that the naturally occurring cleavage sites are often not sensitive to the proteases and that more sites may be present, which complicates the analysis. To overcome the latter problem, proteolytic sites for specific proteases, for instance factor Xa, have been engineered into different loops of membrane proteins (154, 199). Similar to this are methods in which the accessibility of hydrophilic loops to nonspecific proteases, such as proteinase K, is assayed after the insertion of a detectable proteineous tag in the loop. Insertion into a cytoplasmic domain results in degradation of the tag upon exposure of inside-out membranes to proteinase K, and the protein or fragments thereof is no longer detectable. In contrast, treatment of spheroplasts or right-side-out membranes will result in the detection of a protected fragment. Insertion into a periplasmic loop gives the opposite result. Tags that have been used are the BAD of the oxaloacetate decarboxylase of K. pneumoniae (184, 209), a tag consisting of six histidine residues (His tag) (122, 185), and several antigenic epitopes, such as an epitope of the hemagglutinin of influenza virus (94-96), the 8-amino-acid FLAG epitope (135), the Myc epitope (31), and the secretory protein prolactin (38). Insertion of antigenic epitopes into membrane proteins which are expressed in eukaryotic cells allow the determination of the sidedness of the tag directly by immunofluorescence microscopy (94-96). The accessibility of an epitope tag or protease site to the antibody or protease has been improved by inserting multiple copies of the tag into the membrane protein (95, 96, 154). As with all these approaches, only functional insertion mutants are reliable for topology mapping, since their use guarantees that insertion of the tag did not alter the native membrane topology of the protein.
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Topology and Insertion
The previous part of this review presented an overview of biochemical approaches aimed at elucidating the membrane topology of polytopic membrane proteins. Some of the techniques work with intact and functional membrane proteins, but most techniques involve modified or truncated proteins. The changes to the proteins are made at the level of the coding sequences, while the results are interpreted in terms of the structure of the proteins as they sit in the membrane, thereby ignoring the steps in between that lead to the mature protein. Certain aspects of membrane protein structure may be properly understood only in the light of how these proteins are inserted into the lipid bilayer. Since membrane proteins contain domains that must be translocated across the bilayer, it is no surprise that the enzymatic machinery responsible for translocating proteins across the membrane also plays a role during the assembly of integral membrane proteins. An important notion is that the insertion machinery may not only insert the membrane protein but also determine its topology. Depending on the "communication" between the nascent polypeptide chain and the insertion machinery, the polypeptide is inserted into the membrane. Only when we are able to understand the "language" used by the polypeptide chain and the insertion machinery will it become possible to predict the complete structure of a membrane protein from the amino acid sequence. The success of the biochemical approaches that involve engineering of the proteins to determine membrane topology may improve significantly when we understand how the signals in the amino acid sequence interact with the insertion machinery. The next section briefly reviews the insertion machineries in the ER membrane and the bacterial cytoplasmic membrane and provides a discussion of several techniques used to detect topogenic signals in the polypeptide chain that trigger a certain response in the insertion machinery and thereby to determine the folding of the protein in the membrane.
Membrane Protein Biogenesis
Insertion machinery in the ER membrane.
In the ER,
insertion of membrane proteins into the membrane and preprotein
translocation into the lumen proceed by similar mechanisms (for
reviews, see references 147 and
195). The process of targeting of membrane and
secretory proteins begins in the cytosol when a hydrophobic segment of
a nascent polypeptide chain, either a signal sequence or the first
transmembrane segment, emerges from the ribosome and is recognized by
the signal recognition particle (SRP) (Fig.
7). Binding of the SRP to the ribosome
results in translational arrest, and the whole complex is targeted to translocation sites in the membrane via interactions with the SRP
receptor. Translation resumes after dissociation of the SRP from the
ribosome, and the nascent chain is transferred cotranslationally into
the translocon. The ordered binding and recognition steps along this
pathway are controlled by GTP binding and hydrolysis and GDP-GTP
exchange (Fig. 7) (12, 40, 125, 146). The cotranslational integration of the membrane proteins is mediated by the translocon, consisting of the heterotrimeric Sec61 complex (120, 138,
159) and a number of other membrane proteins, including the
translocating chain-associated membrane protein (TRAM) in mammalian
cells (81, 82) or the heterotetrameric Sec62/63p complex in
yeast (138). Since the Sec61 complex both translocates
secretory proteins and integrates membrane proteins into the lipid
bilayer, it must coordinate a number of different functions. For
membrane proteins, cytoplasmic domains have to be left in the
cytoplasm, luminal domains have to be passed through the membrane, and
transmembrane domains have to be properly oriented and inserted into
the membrane.
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Insertion into the bacterial cytoplasmic membrane.
(i) Bacterial translocation machinery. It is a matter of debate whether the same pathway is used in E. coli for export of preproteins and insertion of membrane proteins. In contrast to membrane protein insertion, translocation of preproteins across the inner membrane of E. coli has been studied extensively (50-52). Rather than occurring cotranslationally, preprotein translocation across the bacterial membrane occurs in a posttranslational manner and is carried out by a system involving chaperones like SecB and GroEL-GroES and the inner membrane components of the secretory (Sec) machinery, SecA, SecY, SecE, SecG, SecD, and SecF. Secretory proteins are synthesized as preproteins with an amino-terminal signal sequence. The signal sequence and/or mature domain of the preprotein is recognized in the cytoplasm by chaperones which ensure that the nascent secretory proteins do not fold or aggregate prematurely and which help to deliver the preproteins to specific receptors on the cytoplasmic membrane (for a review, see reference 60). The integral membrane components SecY, SecE, and SecG, which are homologous to subunits of the eukaryotic Sec61 complex, are believed to form a channel through which the nascent chain is extruded. SecA, which is peripherally bound to the SecYEG complex in the membrane and which does not have an eukaryotic counterpart, carries out an ATP-driven cycle of insertion and deinsertion into the translocase, during which 20 to 30 residues of the nascent chain are moved through the membrane (54, 179). In the bacterial system, SecA is the engine that drives translocation, while in the ER, translocation is driven by synthesis of the nascent chain on the ribosomes. The membrane-bound SecD and SecF components that are not essential for protein translocation per se stabilize SecA in its active conformation (53).
(ii) Sec-dependent and Sec-independent insertion of
membrane proteins.
Recent evidence has changed our views about
membrane protein insertion in bacteria. Previously, it was believed
that insertion occurred by two different mechanisms, a Sec-dependent
mechanism and a Sec-independent one. Proteins could use one mechanism
exclusively, or domains within a protein could use one or the other
mechanism. A Sec-dependent mechanism was demonstrated for inner
membrane proteins containing large periplasmic domains, such as the
maltose transporter subunit MalF and leader peptidase Lep (176,
201). In contrast, insertion of proteins without large
periplasmic domains was proposed to be Sec independent (14,
201). Sec dependency would be related to the length of
periplasmic loops (9) and to the number of charged residues
in the translocated loops (10). Sec-dependent insertion was
believed to occur in a sequential, N- to C-terminal fashion, similar to
that in the ER membrane (see "Insertion mechanism" below).
Sec-independent insertion was, for thermodynamic reasons, thought to
occur via "helical hairpins" composed of interacting antiparallel
-helices formed from two consecutive hydrophobic segments and their
short intervening polar loops (58). Formation of the helical
hairpin would sufficiently increase the net hydrophobicity of the
sequence to drive insertion into the lipid bilayer. In summary, the Sec
machinery would assist only in situations when insertion could not
follow a simple spontaneous mechanism based on the physicochemical
properties of the polypeptide chain and the membrane.
Insertion mechanism.
For reasons discussed above, most
data on the actual insertion mechanism by the Sec machinery come from
studies involving the eukaryotic ER system. The translocon forms an
aqueous channel that permits the translocation of hydrophilic
polypeptides (44, 69, 165) and opens laterally to allow the
exit of transmembrane segments into the lipid bilayer (119,
127). Membrane integration is regulated by topogenic signals in
the amino acid sequence of the nascent chain emerging from the ribosome
(20). In a simple view, a series of alternating signal
anchor (SA) and stop transfer (ST) sequences directs the integration of
polytopic membrane proteins (22, 61, 112). A SA sequence is
defined as a hydrophobic segment that has the ability to insert into
the membrane with the N terminus in the cytoplasm and the C terminus in
the lumen (Ncyt-Clum orientation). The sequence
following the SA will be translocated to the lumen until translation of
the next hydrophobic region, the ST sequence, which is retained in the
membrane as an Nlum-Ccyt transmembrane segment.
The following sequences will have a cytoplasmic location until the next
SA sequence emerges from the ribosome and the cycle starts all over
again (Fig. 8). Thus, according to this
view, insertion of the polypeptide into the membrane occurs
sequentially in an N- to C-terminal fashion, with the hydrophobic
segments inserting into the membrane with alternating orientations.
Consequently, the N-terminal segment determines the orientation of the
protein in the membrane.
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Insertion of Isolated Hydrophobic Segments
Principles. Sequences throughout the amino acid sequence of a polytopic membrane protein are identified that are able to insert independently of each other into the ER membrane, with a preferred orientation. Different algorithms (56, 99) that predict putative membrane-spanning sequences are used to guide the initial selection of potential candidates. The glycosylation fusion approach (see "Glycosylation fusions" above) has been used mainly to assay the sequences for their membrane insertion properties. Briefly, a reporter molecule containing one or more glycosylation sites is fused behind the sequence encoding the putative transmembrane segment and in vitro transcription-translation is carried out in the presence of microsomes. Glycosylation of the reporter corresponds to insertion of the segment into the ER membrane, indicating that the segment exhibits SA activity, whereas a lack of glycosylation corresponds to a lack of SA activity. Fusion of a sequence encoding a transmembrane segment in front of the putative segment indicates insertion of the segment in the opposite orientation, i.e., ST activity. Different types of systems have been developed for these studies. Insertion vehicles based on the H+/K+-ATPase (M0 and M1 vectors), the E. coli inner membrane protein leader peptidase (Lep), and the prolactin molecule have been used to analyze both eukaryotic (13, 133) and bacterial (123, 187) membrane proteins in the ER. Possible methods to perform similar studies in the bacterial membrane are discussed below (see "Similar studies in E. coli").
Insertion vehicles.
(i) M0 and M1 system.
The
H+/K+-ATPase is a P-type ATPase that pumps
H+ and K+ in opposite directions across the
gastric membrane, driven by ATP hydrolysis. The enzyme consists of two
subunits, and , that both are integral membrane proteins. The
C-terminal region of the -subunit contains five N-linked
glycosylation sites. A vector was developed containing the DNA sequences encoding the cytoplasmic N-terminal region of the
-subunit excluding (M0 vector) or including (M1 vector) the first
transmembrane segment, followed by a variable region representing the
amino acid sequence under investigation, which is followed by the
C-terminal region of the -subunit containing the
glycosylation sites (Fig.
9). The M0 translation product, without
an insertion in the variable region, was not glycosylated when
synthesized in the presence of microsomes, demonstrating that the
-subunit fragment does not insert into the membrane (13).
The M0 vector assays for the SA capacity of the inserted sequences,
while the M1 vector identifies segments with ST activity. Membrane
insertion sequences of the H+/K+-ATPase
(13), the ER and sarcoplasmic Ca2+-ATPases
(16), a P-type ATPase of Heliobacter pylori
(123), and the rabbit gastric cholecystokinin A receptor
(17) have been identified using the M0 and M1 system
(15). Topogenic properties of putative transmembrane
segments of the glycine transporter GLYT1 were analyzed in a similar
system (132).
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(ii) Lep system.
The system based on the E. coli membrane protein leader peptidase (Lep) does not suffer from
the above problem. Leader peptidase is involved in the removal of
targeting sequences from exported proteins. Lep is anchored to the
cytoplasmic membrane by two N-terminal transmembrane segments, H1 and
H2, connected by a cytoplasmic P1 domain, and it also contains the
periplasmic catalytic C-terminal P2 domain. The insertion of Lep into
the microsomal membrane has been studied extensively (65, 89,
192) using in vitro transcription-translation. In the presence of
microsomes, the Lep molecule inserts into the membrane with both the N
and C termini facing the lumen and with the P1 and P2 domains in the
cytoplasm and lumen, respectively. The H1 domain has an intrinsic
ability to target to the ER membrane and to insert with the N terminus
in the lumen. The orientation of the H1 segment is determined largely
by the highly positively charged P1 loop. An engineered
glycosylation site C-terminal of H2 is efficiently
glycosylated upon correct insertion into the microsomal membrane
(89, 130). In the insertion vehicle, the H2 domain is
replaced by segments encoding individual putative transmembrane
segments of membrane proteins and glycosylation of the
P2 domain is used as an indicator of the SA activity of the segment
(Fig. 10). Since all constructs contain
the H1 domain and the P1 loop, targeting of the molecules to the
membrane is mediated by H1 and the N-terminal end of the variable
sequence is locked in the cytoplasm. Thus, the construct measures the
"intrinsic" SA function of various fragments that have already been
targeted to the microsomal membrane. A similar Lep construct, in which the variable sequence was inserted in between the H2 and P2 domain, was
used to measure the ST efficiency of a segment. The constructs have
been used to study ST activities of artificial peptides with different
hydrophobicities (153) and SA and ST activities of the
putative transmembrane segments of the bacterial citrate transporter CitS (187).
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(iii) Prolactin system.
Three types of insertion
vehicles for isolated putative segments have been developed based on
prolactin (Fig. 11). Prolactin is a
secreted protein, and preprolactin consists of a signal sequence followed by the mature prolactin domain. A vector described by Kuroiwa
et al. (100) measures ST activity. The signal peptide of
prolactin, mature prolactin, an inserted transmembrane segment, and a
second mature prolactin molecule are arranged sequentially. Upon in
vitro transcription-translation in the presence of microsomes, the
whole construct is targeted to the membrane by the signal sequence and
the first prolactin moiety is exported to the lumen. ST activity of the
inserted transmembrane segment results in a cytoplasmic location of the
second prolactin moiety, where it is sensitive to externally added
proteinase K. Lack of ST activity results in translocation of the
molecule to the lumen, where it is fully resistant to the protease.
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-aminobutyrate transporter GAT-1
(37), and the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance
regulator, CFTR (116); they have also been used to study SA
and ST functions of artificial sequences (101, 102). In some
studies, the insertion vehicles contained different reporter molecules,
such as interleukin-2 (101).
SA and ST activities of isolated transmembrane segments. Many hydrophobic segments of membrane proteins function equally efficient as SA and ST sequences when assayed in the M0 and M1 system. These include the four N-terminal segments of the H+/K+-ATPase (13) and the Ca2+-ATPase (16) and most of the transmembrane segments of the CCK-A receptor (17). For the P-type ATPase of H. pylori (123), the ability to insert in both orientations seemed to correlate with the orientation of the segments in the native protein. All four segments expected to have an SA orientation in the native protein showed both SA and ST activity when assayed as individual segments. In contrast, three of the four segments expected to have an ST orientation in the native protein were not able to act as SA sequences but did show ST activity. Similar observations were made with ST segments of the H+/K+-ATPase (13), the Ca2+-ATPase (16), and the CCK-A receptor (17), suggesting that SA activity is more critically dependent on a particular segment than is ST activity. It should be noted, though, that the M0 and M1 system does not discriminate between SA activity and targeting (see above). Since the average hydrophobicity of the ST segments was not lower than the average hydrophobicity of the SA segments, factors other than hydrophobicity must play a role in membrane insertion or targeting.
The 12 hydrophobic segments of the citrate transporter CitS all demonstrated SA activity when assayed in the Lep insertion vehicle. Thus, in contrast to what was observed above, all ST segments in the native protein inserted equally well as SA sequences in the membrane as isolated segments. No correlation between the hydrophobicity of the segment and insertion efficiency was seen. Interestingly, one hydrophobic segment of CitS that is located in the periplasm in the native protein (184, 187) was fully functional as SA and exhibited significant but incomplete ST activity. Apparently, signals present in the remaining part of the CitS polypeptide mediate the exclusion of this hydrophobic segment from the membrane during the insertion of CitS (see below). Various sequences in the region of the fifth and sixth transmembrane domains of the H+/K+-ATPase (13) and the Ca2+-ATPase (16) did not show any membrane-inserting properties when assayed as individual segments in the M0 and M1 system. The average hydrophobicity of these segments was lower than that of the other segments. Similarly, one transmembrane segment of the CCK-A receptor did not show any membrane insertion properties and 4 out of 14 segments of the anion exchanger Band 3 that were supposed to be SA sequences showed insufficient SA activity. Since these segments are found to be transmembrane segments in the native proteins, their insertion in the membrane must be dependent on other signals in the polypeptide chain.Similar studies in E. coli. The topogenic functions of isolated transmembrane segments in the E. coli membrane have not been studied as extensively as those in the ER membrane, and approaches that combine insertion vehicles and in vitro translation-insertion have not been explored to their full potential. The efficiency of ST activity of a set of pseudo-random amino acid segments was measured both in the ER membrane and in E. coli (153). The E. coli study was done in vivo using a modified Lep molecule as the insertion vehicle in which the P2 domain was replaced by the mature part of alkaline phosphatase (PhoA). Most sequences behaved similarly in both systems, indicating that the criteria for functional ST sequences are largely conserved between prokaryotes and eukaryotes, but subtle differences were detected.
The insertion properties of various isolated sequences of the ArsB protein, a subunit of the bacterial arsenical resistance pump, were assayed in vivo in E. coli by fusing the segments in front of the-lactamase reporter protein (202). Similarly, the first transmembrane segment of the E. coli serine
chemoreceptor Tsr was fused in front of both -galactosidase and the
mature part of alkaline phosphatase (see "The enzymes: alkaline
phosphatase, -galactosidase, and -lactamase" above) to assay
the tolerance of its signal anchor function to mutations. It was
concluded that a threshold hydrophobicity of the segment is required
for efficient insertion into the membrane (107). The
C-terminal transmembrane segment of the citrate transporter CitS, which
has an Ncyt-Cper orientation, was fused with
its C terminus to the mature part of PhoA. Expression of the construct
resulted in efficient secretion of the PhoA molecule to the periplasm,
demonstrating independent insertion of the segment (van Geest and
Lolkema, unpublished). Extension of these methods to other segments and
other membrane proteins would allow a detailed comparison between
interactions of the eukaryotic and bacterial insertion systems with
nascent polypeptide chains and may provide important information about the insertion mechanisms in both systems.
Interaction between Multiple Insertion Signals
Charge distribution and hydrophobic segments. Besides hydrophobic segments, the distribution of positively charged amino acids appears to be an important determinant in membrane topology, in both eukaryotic and bacterial membranes. Statistical studies of bacterial cytoplasmic membrane proteins have demonstrated that cytoplasmic domains contain more positive charged amino acids than do periplasmic domains, which resulted in the so-called positive inside rule (190, 191). Statistical analyses indicated that a similar positive inside rule is applicable to eukaryotic membrane proteins (79, 90, 105, 166, 193), although the tendency for positive charges to be absent from extracellular domains is somewhat weaker (65). The influence of positive charges on the topology of single and double membrane spanning proteins (7, 8, 129, 190, 193) as well as of polytopic membrane proteins (65, 66) has been experimentally demonstrated. The positive charges prevent the translocation of N- and C-terminal segments as well as the connecting loops of polytopic membrane proteins and therefore determine to some extent the orientation of a transmembrane segment. Thus, hydrophobic segments and positive charges in the connecting loops represent two types of topogenic signals.
In marked contrast to the above results, introduction of a positively charged lysine residue into the cytoplasmic domain just downstream of the second transmembrane segment of the serine chemoreceptor protein Tsr of E. coli resulted in enhanced export of the domain (161). The lysine residue was introduced into a stretch of 11 residues that is strongly amphipatic when folded as an-helix. A
total of 10 different mutations in the amphipatic stretch resulted in a
correlation between enhanced export of the cytoplasmic domain and the
amphipathicity of the stretch. It was suggested that an amphipathic
sequence located immediately downstream of a transmembrane sequence
represents a determinant of membrane topology.
Model proteins, consisting of four transmembrane segments and a
distribution of positively charged residues in the loops that does not
conform the positive inside rule in either of the two orientations in
the membrane ("frustrated proteins"), have been characterized in
the E. coli (66) and the ER (65)
membrane. In both membrane types, some proteins adopted a
"leave-one-out" topology, in which only three segments inserted
into the membrane but in which the highly positively charged loops were
in the cytoplasm. Leave-one-out topologies were also observed for
P-glycoprotein mutants (211) and GLUT1 glucose transporter
mutants (158) as a result of a change in the distribution of
positively charged residues in domains flanking transmembrane segments.
The leave-one-out topologies demonstrate that the topogenic signal
imposed by the distribution of positively charged residues may overrule
the topogenic signal imposed by the hydrophobic segment; the
distribution of positively charged residues is a stronger signal than a
hydrophobic segment. These studies demonstrate that mechanisms exist by
which a hydrophobic segment can be excluded from the membrane.
Interaction between different hydrophobic segments.
(i) Insertion depending on upstream segments. In the topology model of the anion exchanger Band 3, which is based on various experimental approaches (for a review, see reference 173), the first transmembrane segment, an SA segment, is connected by a short loop to the second transmembrane segment, an ST segment. A C-terminal deletion mutant containing the first two segments folded as in the complete molecule. However, when the second segment was separated from the first transmembrane segment by a loop containing 200 residues, the second segment exhibited insufficient ST activity (133). ST activity of the second segment improved when it was located closer to the first segment, as in the original Band 3 molecule. Thus, the distance between the two segments was critical for the topogenic process. The authors proposed that with the short connecting loop the preceding sequence might still be in the translocon, allowing a direct interaction between the two hydrophobic segments which would make it easier for the second segment to stop in the translocon. In this way, a segment with a lower hydrophobicity may become integrated into the membrane. With the long connecting loop, the first transmembrane segment may leave the translocation channel prematurely and cannot "help" with the insertion of the second segment (133).
The citrate transporter CitS contains a hydrophobic segment that in the complete molecule is translocated to the periplasm (187). The segment exhibited both SA and ST activities when assayed as an individual segment. It appeared that the presence of the preceding transmembrane segment in CitS was largely responsible for the exclusion of the segment from the membrane. Possibly, interactions between the two segments in the translocon occur which direct the second hydrophobic segment from the translocon to the periplasm. The nature of these interactions is unknown.(ii) Insertion depending on downstream segments.
Some
transmembrane segments of Band 3 which are inserted in the membrane in
an SA orientation in the complete protein exhibited either insufficient
or no insertion activity when assayed as individual segments
(133). The segments are followed by highly hydrophobic segments with a strong preference for the ST orientation over the SA
orientation. The authors suggested that segments with weak insertion
signals might be integrated into the membrane by the immediate
downstream segments (134) (Fig.
12A).
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(iii) Folding intermediates. The apparent interdependence between transmembrane segments for insertion may be a manifestation of the presence of folding intermediates during the insertion process. The intermediates may serve to insert segments that are relevant for catalysis and hence less hydrophobic. Figure 12 shows a number of hypothetical folding intermediates based on the examples above. Each intermediate requires very specific properties of the involved segments, resulting in specific actions of the insertion machinery to prevent a sequential insertion mechanism of the hydrophobic segments. A moderately hydrophobic segment at the cytoplasmic side of the membrane may be inserted into the membrane by the following hydrophobic segment (the "driving" segment) when the latter has a strong ST activity (Fig. 12A [based on Band 3 and Sec61 topologies]). In the folding intermediate, the hydrophobic driving segment does not enter the translocon as an SA sequence but is retained in the cytoplasm. Only when both segments are completed do the two insert as a helical hairpin. The latter action may take place in the translocon or after lateral movement into the lipid bilayer, either spontaneous or assisted by chaperone-like proteins. Similarly, a moderately hydrophobic periplasmic or luminal segment may be inserted by a downstream hydrophobic segment (Fig. 12B [based upon the Sec61 topology]). In the folding intermediate, the driving segment is exported to the periplasm. The loop between the two segments is initially translocated across the membrane to end up in the cytoplasm after the coordinate insertion of the two segments. Finally, the driving segment may also precede the less hydrophobic segment (Fig. 12C [based upon the CitS topology]). The insertion machinery translocates the driving segment across the membrane, where it waits for the less hydrophobic segment to be exported before both insert in concert.
The presence of folding intermediates as described above would imply that the folding of the polypeptide into the transmembrane segments cannot be understood solely based upon the energetics of transmembrane helix partitioning between the aqueous and membrane phases (139). The folding would be determined by the insertion machinery, and not all transmembrane domains may form autonomous folding domains. Importantly, such domains are likely to play a pivotal role in the function of the protein. For such membrane proteins, it is unlikely that they will refold from the denatured state into the native structure in vitro. The catalytically active structure of the protein is trapped in a local free energy minimum that is higher than the overall free energy minimum of the polypeptide and that cannot be reached in the absence of the biosynthetic machinery.
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High-resolution three-dimensional structures are indispensable to our understanding of protein function. Given the enormous number of sequences that are produced in genome-sequencing projects, it is not realistic to assume that the structures of all the encoded proteins will be generated by crystallographic approaches, especially for membrane proteins. The structures will have to be generated by computational techniques. This review emphasizes that biochemical approaches provide, besides topological information, important information about the insertion process. Only when the molecular mechanism behind the insertion of a membrane protein is understood will it become possible to predict the three-dimensional structures from the amino acid sequence by a simple successive decoding of all the topogenic signals present in the amino acid sequence. Knowledge about new topogenic sequences present in the nascent chain of membrane proteins and about the interactions between different topogenic signals will help to develop better prediction algorithms and biochemical techniques to predict and determine membrane protein structure.
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* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Microbiology, University of Groningen Biological Center, Kerklaan 30, 9751 NN Haren, The Netherlands. Phone: 3150-3532155. Fax: 3150-3632154. E-mail: j.s.lolkema{at}biol.rug.nl.
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