Biphasic Force-Regulated Phosphorylation Site Exposure and Unligation of ERM Bound with PSGL-1 : A Novel Insight into PSGL-1 Signaling via Steered Molecular Dynamics Simulations

The PSGL-1-actin cytoskeleton linker proteins ezrin/radixin/moesin (ERM), an adaptor between P-selectin glycoprotein ligand-1 (PSGL-1) and spleen tyrosine kinase (Syk), is a key player in PSGL-1 signal, which mediates the adhesion and recruitment of leukocytes to the activated endothelial cells in flow. Binding of PSGL-1 to ERM initials intracellular signaling through inducing phosphorylation of Syk, but effects of tensile force on unligation and phosphorylation site exposure of ERM bound with PSGL-1 remains unclear. To answer this question, we performed a series of so-called "ramp-clamp" steered molecular dynamics (SMD) simulations on the radixin protein FERM domain of ERM bound with intracellular juxtamembrane PSGL-1 peptide. The results showed that, the rupture force of complex pulled with constant velocity was over 250 pN, which prevented the complex from breaking in front of pull-induced exposure of phosphorylation site on immunoreceptor tyrosine activation motif (ITAM)-like motif of ERM; the stretched complex structure under constant tensile forces <100 pN maintained on a stable quasi-equilibrium state, showing a high mechano-stabilization of the clamped complex; and, in consistent with the force-induced allostery at clamped stage, increasing tensile force (<50 pN) would decrease the complex dissociation probability but facilitate the phosphorylation site exposure, suggesting a force-enhanced biophysical connectivity of PSGL-1 signaling. These force-enhanced characters in both phosphorylation and unligation of ERM bound with PSGL-1 should be mediated by a catch-slip bond transition mechanism, in which four residue interactions on binding site were involved. This study might provide a novel insight into the transmembrane PSGL-1 signal, its biophysical connectivity and molecular structural basis for cellular immune responses in mechano-microenvironment, and showed a rational SMD-based computer strategy for predicting structure-function relation of protein under loads.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:21

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International journal of molecular sciences - 21(2020), 19 vom: 25. Sept.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Feng, Jingjing [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Yan [VerfasserIn]
Li, Quhuan [VerfasserIn]
Fang, Ying [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Jianhua [VerfasserIn]

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144517-21-5
Cytoskeletal Proteins
ERM protein
ITAM-like motif
Journal Article
Leukocyte
Membrane Glycoproteins
Membrane Proteins
Molecular dynamics simulations
P-selectin ligand protein
PSGL-1
Radixin
Syk

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Date Completed 02.03.2021

Date Revised 02.03.2021

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/ijms21197064

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM315633816