Karl P Lundquist1, James C Gumbart2. 1. School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30313, United States of America. 2. School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30313, United States of America. Electronic address: gumbart@physics.gatech.edu.
Abstract
Lipopolysaccharides (LPS) provide the outer membrane (OM) of Gram-negative bacteria with a strong protective barrier. The periplasm-spanning Lpt machinery is responsible for the transport of LPS molecules across the periplasm, culminating in insertion by the outer-membrane proteins LptD and LptE. In order to elucidate the mechanisms of LPS insertion by LptDE, we performed over 14 microseconds of equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations. Bilayer-dependent differences in the fluctuations and secondary structure of LptD's extracellular loops are observed for a pure DMPE membrane vs. a model of the OM. Furthermore, LptD's periplasmic N-terminal domain is highly dynamic, which may help to maintain the integrity of the periplasm-spanning complex amidst relative motion of the inner-membrane and outer-membrane anchored domains. In addition, our simulations demonstrate that binding of LPS substrate activates a switching between the associated and dissociated states of two lumenal loops at the interface between the β-barrel and the N-terminal domain as well as LptD's lateral gate on the microsecond timescale, neither of which is observed for the apo state. Placement of a substrate LPS molecule also causes an increase in the average separation of the LptD lateral gate strands and a lowering of the energetic barrier to lateral gate opening.
nclass="Chemical">Lipopolysaccharides (class="Chemical">pan class="Disease">LPS) provide the outer membrane (OM) of Gram-negative bacteria with a strong protective barrier. The periplasm-spanning Lpt machinery is responsible for the transport of LPS molecules across the periplasm, culminating in insertion by the outer-membrane proteins LptD and LptE. In order to elucidate the mechanisms of LPS insertion by LptDE, we performed over 14 microseconds of equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations. Bilayer-dependent differences in the fluctuations and secondary structure of LptD's extracellular loops are observed for a pure DMPE membrane vs. a model of the OM. Furthermore, LptD's periplasmic N-terminal domain is highly dynamic, which may help to maintain the integrity of the periplasm-spanning complex amidst relative motion of the inner-membrane and outer-membrane anchored domains. In addition, our simulations demonstrate that binding of LPS substrate activates a switching between the associated and dissociated states of two lumenal loops at the interface between the β-barrel and the N-terminal domain as well as LptD's lateral gate on the microsecond timescale, neither of which is observed for the apo state. Placement of a substrate LPS molecule also causes an increase in the average separation of the LptD lateral gate strands and a lowering of the energetic barrier to lateral gate opening.
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