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Using cryo-EM maps to determine protein
transmembrane regions
Georgina Csizmadia
GPU Day 2019
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TheMemBlob database and server
Transmembrane proteins are significantdrug targets
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Membrane(bilayer)
Extracellularside
Intracellularside
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CFTR (PDBID: 5UAK)
Experimental data on the bilayer boundaries is sparse
CFTR (PDBID: 5UAK)
In silico methods are predictions
PPM MemProtMDTMDET
pdbtm.enzim.hu opm.phar.umich.edu memprotmd.bioch.ox.ac.uk
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Membrane embedment data is a blob in the EMD maps
CFTR (PDBID: 5UAK, EMD-8516)
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EMD
subtractionChimera
We extract theMemBlob from theEMD map
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PDB
CFTR (PDBID: 5UAK)
DMtheoretical
VMD
TMDET-PPM MEMPROTMD-PPM CG-PPM
In silico methods have similar resultsP
DB
ID
Csizmadia,G. et al. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal (2018)
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z, Å
α, deg
We convert the membrane blob to membrane boundaries
∑d(z, α, ∑d)
z
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water phaseUNK
hydrophobic core
interface region
Our pipeline is available as a webserver on memblob.hegelab.org
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Some EMD maps lack blobs
EMD-7338
EMD-7073
memblob
ABCC8/Kir6.2 complex
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20 14
Database
Successfulrun
No visiblememblob
High noise& other
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a
Some of the experimental membrane blobs are thicker than expected
Membrane boundaries
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bMemBlob: solid lines
TMDET: dashed lines
c
Distribution of bilayer centres
TMDETz=0
d
Distribution of bilayerThickness
TMDET
MemBlob
Some proteins sit deep in the lipids
Lipid densitiesTMDET membrane boundaries
ABCC8/Kir6.2 (PDBID: 6BAA, EMD-7073)
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Does the membrane thickness depend on the type of membrane mimetics?
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similar membrane thickness
thicker more than 8 Å
thinner more than 8 Å
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• EM density maps contain extra information
•MemBlob is a pipeline to extract transmembrane
regions from EMD maps
• This provides high resolution experimental data on
transmembrane regions
Conclusions
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NKFIH-111678, NKFI-127961
CFF HEGEDU18I0, KIFÜ HPC
MTA Wigner GPU Laboratory
Semmelweis Science and Innovation Fund
FIKP 2018
Acknowledgments
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Eszter Katona
Gábor E. Tusnády
Tamás Hegedűs