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  • Title: Domain swapping reveals that low density lipoprotein (LDL) type A repeat order affects ligand binding to the LDL receptor.
    Author: Yamamoto T, Ryan RO.
    Journal: J Biol Chem; 2009 May 15; 284(20):13396-13400. PubMed ID: 19329437.
    Abstract:
    The low density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) plays a key role in plasma cholesterol homeostasis by binding and internalizing lipoprotein ligands. Studies have revealed that one or more of the seven LDL type A repeats (LA1-LA7) in the receptor are responsible for apolipoprotein binding. In the present study, protein engineering was performed to swap or replace key LA repeats in a recombinant soluble LDLR (sLDLR). Although wild type sLDLR showed strong ligand binding activity, an sLDLR variant in which LA repeat 5 was replaced by a second copy of LA repeat 2 showed low binding activity. Likewise, a variant wherein LA repeats 2 and 5 were swapped displayed low binding activity. At the same time, substitution of LA repeat 2 with a second a copy of repeat 5 resulted in a receptor with ligand binding activity similar to wild type LDLR. When binding assays were conducted with human low density lipoprotein as ligand, LA repeat order was a less important determinant of binding activity. Taken together, the data indicate that the sequential order of LA repeats plays a key role in ligand binding properties of LDLR.
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