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. 1988 May;53(5):671–676. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(88)83148-5

The orientation of beta-sheets in porin. A polarized Fourier transform infrared spectroscopic investigation.

E Nabedryk 1, R M Garavito 1, J Breton 1
PMCID: PMC1330245  PMID: 2455547

Abstract

The orientation of the protein secondary structures in porin is investigated by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) linear dichroism of oriented multilayers of porin reconstituted in lipid vesicles. The FTIR absorbance spectrum shows the amide I band at 1,631 cm-1 and several shoulders around 1,675 cm-1 and at 1,696 cm-1 indicative of antiparallel beta-sheets. The amide II is centered around 1,530 cm-1. The main dichroic signals peak at 1,738, 1,698, 1,660, 1,634, and 1,531 cm-1. The small magnitude of the 1,634 cm-1 and 1,531 cm-1 positive dichroism bands demonstrates that the transition moments of the amide I and amide II vibrations are on the average tilted at 47 degrees +/- 3 degrees from the membrane normal. This indicates that the plane of the beta-sheets is approximately perpendicular to the bilayer. From these IR dichroism results and previously reported diffuse x-ray data which revealed that a substantial number of beta-strands are nearly perpendicular to the membrane, a model for the packing of beta-strands in porin is proposed which satisfies both IR and x-ray requirements. In this model, the porin monomer consists of at least two beta-sheet domains, both with their plane perpendicular to the membrane. One sheet has its strands direction lying nearly parallel to the membrane normal while the other sheet has its strands inclined at a small angle away from the membrane plane.

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