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  • Title: Light-stable rhodopsin. II. An opsin mutant (TRP-265----Phe) and a retinal analog with a nonisomerizable 11-cis configuration form a photostable chromophore.
    Author: Ridge KD, Bhattacharya S, Nakayama TA, Khorana HG.
    Journal: J Biol Chem; 1992 Apr 05; 267(10):6770-5. PubMed ID: 1532391.
    Abstract:
    In order to prepare a completely light-stable rhodopsin, we have synthesized an analog, II, of 11-cis retinal in which isomerization at the C11-C12 cis-double bond is blocked by formation of a cyclohexene ring from the C10 to C13-methyl. We used this analog to generate a rhodopsin-like pigment from opsin expressed in COS-1 cells and opsin from rod outer segments (Bhattacharya, S., Ridge, K.D., Knox, B.E., and Khorana, H. G. (1992) J. Biol. Chem. 267, 6763-6769). The pigment (lambda max, 512 nm) formed from opsin and analog II (rhodospin-II) showed ground state properties very similar to those of rhodopsin, but was not entirely stable to light. In the present work, 12 opsin mutants (Ala-117----Phe, Glu-122----Gln(Ala, Asp), Trp-126----Phe(Leu, Ala), Trp-265----Ala(Tyr, Phe), Tyr-268----Phe, and Ala-292----Asp), where the mutations were presumed to be in the retinal binding pocket, were reconstituted with analog II. While all mutants formed rhodopsin-like pigments with II, blue-shifted (12-30 nm) chromophores were obtained with Ala-117----Phe, Glu-122----Gln(Ala), Trp-126----Leu(Ala), and Trp-265----Ala(Tyr, Phe) opsins. The extent of chromophore formation was markedly reduced in the mutants Ala-117----Phe and Trp-126----Ala. Upon illumination, the reconstituted pigments showed varying degrees of light sensitivity; the mutants Trp-126----Phe(Leu) showed light sensitivity similar to wild-type. Continuous illumination of the mutants Glu-122----Asp, Trp-265----Ala, Tyr-268----Phe, and Ala-292----Asp resulted in hydrolysis of the retinyl Schiff base. Markedly reduced light sensitivity was observed with the mutant Trp-265----Tyr, while the mutant Trp-265----Phe was light-insensitive. Consistent with this result, the mutant Trp-265----Phe showed no detectable light-dependent activation of transducin or phosphorylation by rhodopsin kinase.
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