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Molecular basis for retinol binding by serum amyloid A during infection
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- Issue Date
- 2019-09
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Citation
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol.116 No.38, pp.19077-19082
- Abstract
- Serum amyloid A (SAA) proteins are strongly induced in the liver by systemic infection and in the intestine by bacterial colonization. In infected mice, SAA proteins circulate in association with the vitamin A derivative retinol, suggesting that SAAs transport retinol during infection. Here we illuminate a structural basis for the retinol-SAA interaction. In the bloodstream of infected mice, most SAA is complexed with high-density lipoprotein (HDL). However, we found that the majority of the circulating retinol was associated with the small fraction of SAA proteins that circulate without binding to HDL, thus identifying free SAA as the predominant retinolbinding form in vivo. We then determined the crystal structure of retinol-bound mouse SAA3 at a resolution of 2.2 angstrom. Retinol-bound SAA3 formed a novel asymmetric trimeric assembly that was generated by the hydrophobic packing of the conserved amphipathic helices alpha 1 and alpha 3. This hydrophobic packing created a retinol-binding pocket in the center of the trimer, which was confirmed by mutagenesis studies. Together, these findings illuminate the molecular basis for retinol transport by SAA proteins during infection.
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- 0027-8424
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