Annexin-A6 presents two modes of association with phospholipid membranes. A combined QCM-D, AFM and cryo-TEM study - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 2009 Oct;168(1):107-16.

doi: 10.1016/j.jsb.2009.03.007. Epub 2009 Mar 21.

Marcin Golczak, Joséphine Lai-Kee-Him, Olivier Lambert, Béatrice Tessier, Céline Gounou, Rémi Bérat, Anne Simon, Thierry Granier, Jean-Marc Chevalier, Serge Mazères, Joanna Bandorowicz-Pikula, Slawomir Pikula, Alain R Brisson

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Annexin-A6 presents two modes of association with phospholipid membranes. A combined QCM-D, AFM and cryo-TEM study

Nikolay Buzhynskyy et al. J Struct Biol. 2009 Oct.

Abstract

Annexins are soluble proteins that bind to biological membranes in a Ca(2+)-dependent manner. Annexin-A6 (AnxA6) is unique in the annexin family as it consists of the repeat of two annexin core modules, while all other annexins consist of a single module. AnxA6 has been proposed to participate in various membrane-related processes, including endocytosis and exocytosis, yet the molecular mechanism of association of AnxA6 with biological membranes, especially its ability to aggregate membranes, is still unclear. To address this question, we studied the association of AnxA6 with model phospholipid membranes by combining the techniques of quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring (QCM-D), (cryo-) transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM). The properties of membrane binding and membrane aggregation of AnxA6 were compared to two reference systems, annexin A5 (AnxA5), which is the annexin prototype, and a chimerical AnxA5-dimer molecule, which is able to aggregate two membranes in a symmetrical manner. We show that AnxA6 presents two modes of association with lipid membranes depending on Ca(2+)-concentration. At low Ca(2+)-concentration ( approximately 60-150microM), AnxA6 binds to membranes via its two coplanar annexin modules and is not able to associate two separate membranes. At high Ca(2+)-concentration ( approximately 2mM), AnxA6 molecules are able to bind two adjacent phospholipid membranes and present a conformation similar to the AnxA6 3D crystallographic structure. Possible biological implications of these novel membrane-binding properties of AnxA6 are discussed.

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