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Sun J, Boyle AL, Brünle S, Ubbink M. A low-barrier proton shared between two aspartates acts as a conformational switch that changes the substrate specificity of the β-lactamase BlaC. Int J Biol Macromol 2024; 278:134665. [PMID: 39134195 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2024.134665] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2024] [Revised: 08/09/2024] [Accepted: 08/09/2024] [Indexed: 08/19/2024]
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Serine β-lactamases inactivate β-lactam antibiotics in a two-step mechanism comprising acylation and deacylation. For the deacylation step, a water molecule is activated by a conserved glutamate residue to release the adduct from the enzyme. The third-generation cephalosporin ceftazidime is a poor substrate for the class A β-lactamase BlaC from Mycobacterium tuberculosis but it can be hydrolyzed faster when the active site pocket is enlarged, as was reported for mutant BlaC P167S. The conformational change in the Ω-loop of the P167S mutant displaces the conserved glutamate (Glu166), suggesting it is not required for deacylation of the ceftazidime adduct. Here, we report the characterization of wild type BlaC and BlaC E166A at various pH values. The presence of Glu166 strongly enhances activity against nitrocefin but not ceftazidime, indicating it is indeed not required for deacylation of the adduct of the latter substrate. At high pH wild type BlaC was found to exist in two states, one of which converts ceftazidime much faster, resembling the open state previously reported for the BlaC mutant P167S. The pH-dependent switch between the closed and open states is caused by the loss at high pH of a low-barrier hydrogen bond, a proton shared between Asp172 and Asp179. These results illustrate how readily shifts in substrate specificity can occur as a consequence of subtle changes in protein structure.
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- Jing Sun
- Macromolecular Biochemistry, Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, Einsteinweg 55, 2333 CC Leiden, the Netherlands
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- Macromolecular Biochemistry, Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, Einsteinweg 55, 2333 CC Leiden, the Netherlands
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- Biophysical Structure Chemistry, Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, Einsteinweg 55, 2333 CC Leiden, the Netherlands
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- Macromolecular Biochemistry, Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, Einsteinweg 55, 2333 CC Leiden, the Netherlands.
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Many enzymes that show a large specificity in binding the enzymatic transition state with a higher affinity than the substrate utilize substrate binding energy to drive protein conformational changes to form caged substrate complexes. These protein cages provide strong stabilization of enzymatic transition states. Using part of the substrate binding energy to drive the protein conformational change avoids a similar strong stabilization of the Michaelis complex and irreversible ligand binding. A seminal step in the development of modern enzyme catalysts was the evolution of enzymes that couple substrate binding to a conformational change. These include enzymes that function in glycolysis (triosephosphate isomerase), the biosynthesis of lipids (glycerol phosphate dehydrogenase), the hexose monophosphate shunt (6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase), and the mevalonate pathway (isopentenyl diphosphate isomerase), catalyze the final step in the biosynthesis of pyrimidine nucleotides (orotidine monophosphate decarboxylase), and regulate the cellular levels of adenine nucleotides (adenylate kinase). The evolution of enzymes that undergo ligand-driven conformational changes to form active protein-substrate cages is proposed to proceed by selection of variants, in which the selected side chain substitutions destabilize a second protein conformer that shows compensating enhanced binding interactions with the substrate. The advantages inherent to enzymes that incorporate a conformational change into the catalytic cycle provide a strong driving force for the evolution of flexible protein folds such as the TIM barrel. The appearance of these folds represented a watershed event in enzyme evolution that enabled the rapid propagation of enzyme activities within enzyme superfamilies.
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- John P Richard
- Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, the State University of New York, Buffalo, New York 14260-3000, United States
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Kumar A, Wiedemann C, Bellstedt P, Ramachandran R, Ohlenschläger O. NMR of intrinsically disordered proteins: A note on the application of 15N- 13C α het-TOCSY mixing for 13C α magnetisation transfers. JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE (SAN DIEGO, CALIF. : 1997) 2022; 337:107166. [PMID: 35245815 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2022.107166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2021] [Revised: 02/04/2022] [Accepted: 02/06/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) or protein regions represent functionally important biomolecules without unique structure. Their inherent flexibility prevents high-resolution structure determination by X-ray or cryo-EM methods. In contrast, NMR spectroscopy provides an extensive and still growing set of experimental approaches to obtain detailed information on structure and dynamics of IDPs. Here, it is experimentally demonstrated that 15N-13Cα band-selective heteronuclear cross-polarisation that has been successfully employed recently to achieve the efficient transfer of 15Nx magnetisation from amino acid residue 'i' to 'i + 1' and 'i - 1' residues in uniformly (15N,13C)-labelled intrinsically disordered proteins can also be applied to transfer, without significant relaxation losses, 13Cαx magnetisation from an amino acid residue to its neighbouring residues. The possibility to obtain in one-shot correlation spectra arising from the simultaneous transfer of 15Nx and 13Cαx magnetisations from an amino acid residue to neighbouring residues is also demonstrated.
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- Amit Kumar
- Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute, Beutenbergstr. 11, D-07745 Jena, Germany
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- Friedrich-Schiller-University, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry, Biostructural Interactions, Humboldtstr. 10, D-07743 Jena, Germany
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- Friedrich Schiller University, Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences, Humboldtstr. 10, D-07743 Jena, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute, Beutenbergstr. 11, D-07745 Jena, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute, Beutenbergstr. 11, D-07745 Jena, Germany.
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Byrne M, Kashyap A, Esquirol L, Ranson N, Sainsbury F. The structure of a plant-specific partitivirus capsid reveals a unique coat protein domain architecture with an intrinsically disordered protrusion. Commun Biol 2021; 4:1155. [PMID: 34615994 PMCID: PMC8494798 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-02687-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2021] [Accepted: 09/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Persistent plant viruses may be the most common viruses in wild plants. A growing body of evidence for mutualism between such viruses and their hosts, suggests that they play an important role in ecology and agriculture. Here we present the capsid structure of a plant-specific partitivirus, Pepper cryptic virus 1, at 2.9 Å resolution by Cryo-EM. Structural features, including the T = 1 arrangement of 60 coat protein dimers, are shared with fungal partitiviruses and the picobirnavirus lineage of dsRNA viruses. However, the topology of the capsid is markedly different with protrusions emanating from, and partly comprising, the binding interface of coat protein dimers. We show that a disordered region at the apex of the protrusion is not required for capsid assembly and represents a hypervariable site unique to, and characteristic of, the plant-specific partitiviruses. These results suggest a structural basis for the acquisition of additional functions by partitivirus coat proteins that enables mutualistic relationships with diverse plant hosts.
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- Matthew Byrne
- Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
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- Centre for Cell Factories and Biopolymers, Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD, 4111, Australia
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- Centre for Cell Factories and Biopolymers, Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD, 4111, Australia
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- Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- Centre for Cell Factories and Biopolymers, Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD, 4111, Australia.
- Synthetic Biology Future Science Platform, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Brisbane, QLD, 4001, Australia.
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Li X, Tian R, Ji Y, Liu S, Jiang X, Li F, Luo Q, Hou C, Xu J, Liu J. Construction of Ultralarge Two-Dimensional Fluorescent Protein Arrays via a Reengineered Rhodamine B-Based Molecular Tool. ACS Macro Lett 2021; 10:307-311. [PMID: 35570786 DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.0c00805] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The self-luminous property of enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) makes it an extremely attractive building block for creating functional biomaterials. A practical challenge in the design of EGFP-based materials, however, stems from the structural and chemical heterogeneity of the EGFP surface. In this study, a maleimide-functionalized rhodamine B molecule (RhG2M) was designed as a versatile molecular tool to overcome this obstacle. Site-specific modification of an EGFP variant (EGFP-4C) with RhG2M allowed for the fabrication of a series of well-defined two-dimensional (2D) arrays that span nano- and micrometer scales. Furthermore, the resulting ultralarge 2D EGFP-4C arrays feature both structural uniformity and flexibility, together with the inherent optical properties, making them advanced materials with great potential for practical applications. In addition, this strategy can be further extended into three dimensions and applied to the modular generation of periodic functional materials with more complex structures.
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- Xiumei Li
- College of Material, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, P. R. China
- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun 130012, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun 130012, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun 130012, China
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- College of Material, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, P. R. China
- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun 130012, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun 130012, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun 130012, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun 130012, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun 130012, China
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- College of Material, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, P. R. China
- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun 130012, China
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- College of Material, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, P. R. China
- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun 130012, China
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Kumar A, Bellstedt P, Wiedemann C, Wißbrock A, Imhof D, Ramachandran R, Ohlenschläger O. NMR experiments on the transient interaction of the intrinsically disordered N-terminal peptide of cystathionine-β-synthase with heme. JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE (SAN DIEGO, CALIF. : 1997) 2019; 308:106561. [PMID: 31345774 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2019.07.048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2019] [Revised: 07/10/2019] [Accepted: 07/15/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The N-terminal segment of human cystathionine-β-synthase (CBS(1-40)) constitutes an intrinsically disordered protein stretch that transiently interacts with heme. We illustrate that the HCBCACON experimental protocol provides an efficient alternative approach for probing transient interactions of intrinsically disordered proteins with heme in situations where the applicability of the conventional [1H, 15N]-HSQC experiment may be limited. This experiment starting with the excitation of protein side chain protons delivers information about the proline residues and thereby makes it possible to use these residues in interaction mapping experiments. Employing this approach in conjunction with site-specific mutation we show that transient heme binding is mediated by the Cys15-Pro16 motif of CBS(1-40).
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- Amit Kumar
- Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute, Beutenbergstr. 11, D-07745 Jena, Germany
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- Institute for Organic Chemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry, Friedrich Schiller University, Humboldtstr. 10, D-07743 Jena, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Kurt-Mothes-Str. 3a, D-06120 Halle, Germany
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- Pharmaceutical Institute, University of Bonn, An der Immenburg 4, D-53121 Bonn, Germany
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- Pharmaceutical Institute, University of Bonn, An der Immenburg 4, D-53121 Bonn, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute, Beutenbergstr. 11, D-07745 Jena, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute, Beutenbergstr. 11, D-07745 Jena, Germany.
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Zeng Y, Xu J, Fu X, Tan M, Liu F, Zheng H, Song H. Effects of different carbohydrate-binding modules on the enzymatic properties of pullulanase. Int J Biol Macromol 2019; 137:973-981. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2019.07.054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2019] [Revised: 07/04/2019] [Accepted: 07/07/2019] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Extreme Fuzziness: Direct Interactions between Two IDPs. Biomolecules 2019; 9:biom9030081. [PMID: 30813629 PMCID: PMC6468500 DOI: 10.3390/biom9030081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2018] [Revised: 02/10/2019] [Accepted: 02/18/2019] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Protein interactions involving intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) greatly extend the range of binding mechanisms available to proteins. In interactions employing coupled folding and binding, IDPs undergo disorder-to-order transitions to form a complex with a well-defined structure. In many other cases, IDPs retain structural plasticity in the final complexes, which have been defined as the fuzzy complexes. While a large number of fuzzy complexes have been characterized with variety of fuzzy patterns, many of the interactions are between an IDP and a structured protein. Thus, whether two IDPs can interact directly to form a fuzzy complex without disorder-to-order transition remains an open question. Recently, two studies of interactions between IDPs (4.1G-CTD/NuMA and H1/ProTα) have found a definite answer to this question. Detailed characterizations combined with nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), single-molecule Förster resonance energy transfer (smFRET) and molecular dynamics (MD) simulation demonstrate that direct interactions between these two pairs of IDPs do form fuzzy complexes while retaining the conformational dynamics of the isolated proteins, which we name as the extremely fuzzy complexes. Extreme fuzziness completes the full spectrum of protein-protein interaction modes, suggesting that a more generalized model beyond existing binding mechanisms is required. Previous models of protein interaction could be applicable to some aspects of the extremely fuzzy interactions, but in more general sense, the distinction between native and nonnative contacts, which was used to understand protein folding and binding, becomes obscure. Exploring the phenomenon of extreme fuzziness may shed new light on molecular recognition and drug design.
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Kulkarni P, Uversky VN. Intrinsically Disordered Proteins and the Janus Challenge. Biomolecules 2018; 8:biom8040179. [PMID: 30567293 PMCID: PMC6315817 DOI: 10.3390/biom8040179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2018] [Accepted: 12/13/2018] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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To gain a new insight into the role of proteins in the origin of life on Earth, we present the Janus Challenge: identify an intrinsically disordered protein (IDP), naturally occurring or synthetic, that has catalytic activity. For example, such a catalytic IDP may perform condensation reactions to catalyze a peptide bond or a phosphodiester bond formation utilizing natural/un-natural amino acids or nucleotides, respectively. The IDP may also have autocatalytic, de novo synthesis, or self-replicative activity. Meeting this challenge may not only shed new light and provide an alternative to the RNA world hypothesis, but it may also serve as an impetus for technological advances with important biomedical applications.
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- Prakash Kulkarni
- Department of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA 91010, USA.
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33612, USA.
- Laboratory of New methods in Biology, Institute for Biological Instrumentation, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino 142290, Moscow Region, Russia.
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Zhao B, Xue B. Decision-Tree Based Meta-Strategy Improved Accuracy of Disorder Prediction and Identified Novel Disordered Residues Inside Binding Motifs. Int J Mol Sci 2018; 19:E3052. [PMID: 30301243 PMCID: PMC6213717 DOI: 10.3390/ijms19103052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2018] [Revised: 09/24/2018] [Accepted: 10/04/2018] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Using computational techniques to identify intrinsically disordered residues is practical and effective in biological studies. Therefore, designing novel high-accuracy strategies is always preferable when existing strategies have a lot of room for improvement. Among many possibilities, a meta-strategy that integrates the results of multiple individual predictors has been broadly used to improve the overall performance of predictors. Nonetheless, a simple and direct integration of individual predictors may not effectively improve the performance. In this project, dual-threshold two-step significance voting and neural networks were used to integrate the predictive results of four individual predictors, including: DisEMBL, IUPred, VSL2, and ESpritz. The new meta-strategy has improved the prediction performance of intrinsically disordered residues significantly, compared to all four individual predictors and another four recently-designed predictors. The improvement was validated using five-fold cross-validation and in independent test datasets.
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- Bi Zhao
- Department of Cell Biology, Microbiology and Molecular Biology, School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, College of Arts and Sciences, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA.
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- Department of Cell Biology, Microbiology and Molecular Biology, School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, College of Arts and Sciences, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA.
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Petrović D, Risso VA, Kamerlin SCL, Sanchez-Ruiz JM. Conformational dynamics and enzyme evolution. J R Soc Interface 2018; 15:20180330. [PMID: 30021929 PMCID: PMC6073641 DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2018.0330] [Citation(s) in RCA: 115] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2018] [Accepted: 06/27/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Enzymes are dynamic entities, and their dynamic properties are clearly linked to their biological function. It follows that dynamics ought to play an essential role in enzyme evolution. Indeed, a link between conformational diversity and the emergence of new enzyme functionalities has been recognized for many years. However, it is only recently that state-of-the-art computational and experimental approaches are revealing the crucial molecular details of this link. Specifically, evolutionary trajectories leading to functional optimization for a given host environment or to the emergence of a new function typically involve enriching catalytically competent conformations and/or the freezing out of non-competent conformations of an enzyme. In some cases, these evolutionary changes are achieved through distant mutations that shift the protein ensemble towards productive conformations. Multifunctional intermediates in evolutionary trajectories are probably multi-conformational, i.e. able to switch between different overall conformations, each competent for a given function. Conformational diversity can assist the emergence of a completely new active site through a single mutation by facilitating transition-state binding. We propose that this mechanism may have played a role in the emergence of enzymes at the primordial, progenote stage, where it was plausibly promoted by high environmental temperatures and the possibility of additional phenotypic mutations.
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- Dušan Petrović
- Department of Chemistry, BMC, Uppsala University, Box 576, 751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Departamento de Quimica Fisica, Facultad de Ciencias, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
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- Departamento de Quimica Fisica, Facultad de Ciencias, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
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Kurzbach D, Beier A, Vanas A, Flamm AG, Platzer G, Schwarz TC, Konrat R. NMR probing and visualization of correlated structural fluctuations in intrinsically disordered proteins. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 19:10651-10656. [PMID: 28397898 DOI: 10.1039/c7cp00430c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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A novel statistical analysis of paramagnetic relaxation enhancement (PRE) and paramagnetic relaxation interference (PRI) based nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) data is proposed based on the computation of correlation matrices. The technique is demonstrated with an example of the intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) osteopontin (OPN) and brain acid soluble protein 1 (BASP1). The correlation analysis visualizes in detail the subtleties of conformational averaging in IDPs and highlights the presence of correlated structural fluctuations of individual sub-domains in IDPs.
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- Dennis Kurzbach
- Département de Chimie, Ecole Normale Supérieure, PSL Research University, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, Laboratoire des Biomolécules (LBM), 24 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris, France.
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Cooperativity and flexibility in enzyme evolution. Curr Opin Struct Biol 2018; 48:83-92. [DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2017.10.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2017] [Accepted: 10/24/2017] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Yadavalli NS, Borodinov N, Choudhury CK, Quiñones-Ruiz T, Laradji AM, Tu S, Lednev IK, Kuksenok O, Luzinov I, Minko S. Thermal Stabilization of Enzymes with Molecular Brushes. ACS Catal 2017. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.7b03138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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- Nataraja S. Yadavalli
- Nanostructured
Materials Laboratory, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29634, United States
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- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29634, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, New York 12222, United States
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- Nanostructured
Materials Laboratory, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29634, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, New York 12222, United States
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- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29634, United States
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- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29634, United States
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- Nanostructured
Materials Laboratory, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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Covarrubias AA, Cuevas-Velazquez CL, Romero-Pérez PS, Rendón-Luna DF, Chater CCC. Structural disorder in plant proteins: where plasticity meets sessility. Cell Mol Life Sci 2017; 74:3119-3147. [PMID: 28643166 PMCID: PMC11107788 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-017-2557-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2017] [Accepted: 06/01/2017] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Plants are sessile organisms. This intriguing nature provokes the question of how they survive despite the continual perturbations caused by their constantly changing environment. The large amount of knowledge accumulated to date demonstrates the fascinating dynamic and plastic mechanisms, which underpin the diverse strategies selected in plants in response to the fluctuating environment. This phenotypic plasticity requires an efficient integration of external cues to their growth and developmental programs that can only be achieved through the dynamic and interactive coordination of various signaling networks. Given the versatility of intrinsic structural disorder within proteins, this feature appears as one of the leading characters of such complex functional circuits, critical for plant adaptation and survival in their wild habitats. In this review, we present information of those intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) from plants for which their high level of predicted structural disorder has been correlated with a particular function, or where there is experimental evidence linking this structural feature with its protein function. Using examples of plant IDPs involved in the control of cell cycle, metabolism, hormonal signaling and regulation of gene expression, development and responses to stress, we demonstrate the critical importance of IDPs throughout the life of the plant.
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- Alejandra A Covarrubias
- Departamento de Biología Molecular de Plantas, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 62250, Cuernavaca, Mexico.
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- Departamento de Biología Molecular de Plantas, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 62250, Cuernavaca, Mexico
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- Departamento de Biología Molecular de Plantas, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 62250, Cuernavaca, Mexico
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- Departamento de Biología Molecular de Plantas, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 62250, Cuernavaca, Mexico
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- Departamento de Biología Molecular de Plantas, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 62250, Cuernavaca, Mexico
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Palombo M, Bonucci A, Etienne E, Ciurli S, Uversky VN, Guigliarelli B, Belle V, Mileo E, Zambelli B. The relationship between folding and activity in UreG, an intrinsically disordered enzyme. Sci Rep 2017; 7:5977. [PMID: 28729736 PMCID: PMC5519622 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-06330-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2017] [Accepted: 06/12/2017] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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A growing body of literature on intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) led scientists to rethink the structure-function paradigm of protein folding. Enzymes are often considered an exception to the rule of intrinsic disorder (ID), believed to require a unique structure for catalysis. However, recent studies revealed the presence of disorder in several functional native enzymes. In the present work, we address the importance of dynamics for catalysis, by investigating the relationship between folding and activity in Sporosarcina pasteurii UreG (SpUreG), a P-loop GTPase and the first discovered native ID enzyme, involved in the maturation of the nickel-containing urease. The effect of denaturants and osmolytes on protein structure and activity was analyzed using circular dichroism (CD), Site-Directed Spin Labeling (SDSL) coupled to EPR spectroscopy, and enzymatic assays. Our data show that SpUreG needs a "flexibility window" to be catalytically competent, with both too low and too high mobility being detrimental for its activity.
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- Marta Palombo
- Laboratory of Bioinorganic Chemistry, Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Viale G. Fanin 40, Bologna, 40127, Italy
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- Aix-Marseille Univ, CNRS, IMM (FR 3479), BIP (UMR 7281), 31 chemin Joseph Aiguier, Marseille, 13402, France
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- Aix-Marseille Univ, CNRS, IMM (FR 3479), BIP (UMR 7281), 31 chemin Joseph Aiguier, Marseille, 13402, France
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- Laboratory of Bioinorganic Chemistry, Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Viale G. Fanin 40, Bologna, 40127, Italy
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, University of South Florida, 12901 Bruce B. Downs Blvd., Tampa, MDC07, USA
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- Aix-Marseille Univ, CNRS, IMM (FR 3479), BIP (UMR 7281), 31 chemin Joseph Aiguier, Marseille, 13402, France
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- Aix-Marseille Univ, CNRS, IMM (FR 3479), BIP (UMR 7281), 31 chemin Joseph Aiguier, Marseille, 13402, France
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- Aix-Marseille Univ, CNRS, IMM (FR 3479), BIP (UMR 7281), 31 chemin Joseph Aiguier, Marseille, 13402, France.
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- Laboratory of Bioinorganic Chemistry, Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Viale G. Fanin 40, Bologna, 40127, Italy.
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Olsen JG, Teilum K, Kragelund BB. Behaviour of intrinsically disordered proteins in protein-protein complexes with an emphasis on fuzziness. Cell Mol Life Sci 2017; 74:3175-3183. [PMID: 28597296 PMCID: PMC5533869 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-017-2560-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2017] [Accepted: 06/01/2017] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) do not, by themselves, fold into a compact globular structure. They are extremely dynamic and flexible, and are typically involved in signalling and transduction of information through binding to other macromolecules. The reason for their existence may lie in their malleability, which enables them to bind several different partners with high specificity. In addition, their interactions with other macromolecules can be regulated by a variable amount of chemically diverse post-translational modifications. Four kinetically and energetically different types of complexes between an IDP and another macromolecule are reviewed: (1) simple two-state binding involving a single binding site, (2) avidity, (3) allovalency and (4) fuzzy binding; the last three involving more than one site. Finally, a qualitative definition of fuzzy binding is suggested, examples are provided, and its distinction to allovalency and avidity is highlighted and discussed.
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- Johan G Olsen
- Structural Biology and NMR Laboratory (SBiNLab) and the Linderstrøm-Lang Centre for Protein Science, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Ole Maaløes Vej 5, 2200, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Structural Biology and NMR Laboratory (SBiNLab) and the Linderstrøm-Lang Centre for Protein Science, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Ole Maaløes Vej 5, 2200, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Structural Biology and NMR Laboratory (SBiNLab) and the Linderstrøm-Lang Centre for Protein Science, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Ole Maaløes Vej 5, 2200, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Pohorille A, Wilson MA, Shannon G. Flexible Proteins at the Origin of Life. Life (Basel) 2017; 7:E23. [PMID: 28587235 PMCID: PMC5492145 DOI: 10.3390/life7020023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2017] [Revised: 05/10/2017] [Accepted: 05/24/2017] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Almost all modern proteins possess well-defined, relatively rigid scaffolds that provide structural preorganization for desired functions. Such scaffolds require the sufficient length of a polypeptide chain and extensive evolutionary optimization. How ancestral proteins attained functionality, even though they were most likely markedly smaller than their contemporary descendants, remains a major, unresolved question in the origin of life. On the basis of evidence from experiments and computer simulations, we argue that at least some of the earliest water-soluble and membrane proteins were markedly more flexible than their modern counterparts. As an example, we consider a small, evolved in vitro ligase, based on a novel architecture that may be the archetype of primordial enzymes. The protein does not contain a hydrophobic core or conventional elements of the secondary structure characteristic of modern water-soluble proteins, but instead is built of a flexible, catalytic loop supported by a small hydrophilic core containing zinc atoms. It appears that disorder in the polypeptide chain imparts robustness to mutations in the protein core. Simple ion channels, likely the earliest membrane protein assemblies, could also be quite flexible, but still retain their functionality, again in contrast to their modern descendants. This is demonstrated in the example of antiamoebin, which can serve as a useful model of small peptides forming ancestral ion channels. Common features of the earliest, functional protein architectures discussed here include not only their flexibility, but also a low level of evolutionary optimization and heterogeneity in amino acid composition and, possibly, the type of peptide bonds in the protein backbone.
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- Andrew Pohorille
- Exobiology Branch, MS 239-4, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA.
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94132, USA.
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- Exobiology Branch, MS 239-4, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA.
- SETI Institute, 189 N Bernardo Ave #200, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
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- Exobiology Branch, MS 239-4, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA.
- NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA.
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Monzon AM, Zea DJ, Fornasari MS, Saldaño TE, Fernandez-Alberti S, Tosatto SCE, Parisi G. Conformational diversity analysis reveals three functional mechanisms in proteins. PLoS Comput Biol 2017; 13:e1005398. [PMID: 28192432 PMCID: PMC5330503 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005398] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2016] [Revised: 02/28/2017] [Accepted: 02/02/2017] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Protein motions are a key feature to understand biological function. Recently, a large-scale analysis of protein conformational diversity showed a positively skewed distribution with a peak at 0.5 Å C-alpha root-mean-square-deviation (RMSD). To understand this distribution in terms of structure-function relationships, we studied a well curated and large dataset of ~5,000 proteins with experimentally determined conformational diversity. We searched for global behaviour patterns studying how structure-based features change among the available conformer population for each protein. This procedure allowed us to describe the RMSD distribution in terms of three main protein classes sharing given properties. The largest of these protein subsets (~60%), which we call "rigid" (average RMSD = 0.83 Å), has no disordered regions, shows low conformational diversity, the largest tunnels and smaller and buried cavities. The two additional subsets contain disordered regions, but with differential sequence composition and behaviour. Partially disordered proteins have on average 67% of their conformers with disordered regions, average RMSD = 1.1 Å, the highest number of hinges and the longest disordered regions. In contrast, malleable proteins have on average only 25% of disordered conformers and average RMSD = 1.3 Å, flexible cavities affected in size by the presence of disordered regions and show the highest diversity of cognate ligands. Proteins in each set are mostly non-homologous to each other, share no given fold class, nor functional similarity but do share features derived from their conformer population. These shared features could represent conformational mechanisms related with biological functions.
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- Alexander Miguel Monzon
- Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (CONICET), Bernal, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Bioinformatics Unit, Fundación Instituto Leloir (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (CONICET), Bernal, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (CONICET), Bernal, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (CONICET), Bernal, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (CONICET), Bernal, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Luo Q, Hou C, Bai Y, Wang R, Liu J. Protein Assembly: Versatile Approaches to Construct Highly Ordered Nanostructures. Chem Rev 2016; 116:13571-13632. [PMID: 27587089 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 357] [Impact Index Per Article: 44.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Nature endows life with a wide variety of sophisticated, synergistic, and highly functional protein assemblies. Following Nature's inspiration to assemble protein building blocks into exquisite nanostructures is emerging as a fascinating research field. Dictating protein assembly to obtain highly ordered nanostructures and sophisticated functions not only provides a powerful tool to understand the natural protein assembly process but also offers access to advanced biomaterials. Over the past couple of decades, the field of protein assembly has undergone unexpected and rapid developments, and various innovative strategies have been proposed. This Review outlines recent advances in the field of protein assembly and summarizes several strategies, including biotechnological strategies, chemical strategies, and combinations of these approaches, for manipulating proteins to self-assemble into desired nanostructures. The emergent applications of protein assemblies as versatile platforms to design a wide variety of attractive functional materials with improved performances have also been discussed. The goal of this Review is to highlight the importance of this highly interdisciplinary field and to promote its growth in a diverse variety of research fields ranging from nanoscience and material science to synthetic biology.
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- Quan Luo
- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University , 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun 130012, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University , 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun 130012, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University , 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun 130012, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau , Taipa, Macau SAR 999078, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University , 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun 130012, P. R. China
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Ruiz DM, Turowski VR, Murakami MT. Effects of the linker region on the structure and function of modular GH5 cellulases. Sci Rep 2016; 6:28504. [PMID: 27334041 PMCID: PMC4917841 DOI: 10.1038/srep28504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2016] [Accepted: 06/03/2016] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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The association of glycosyl hydrolases with catalytically inactive modules is a successful evolutionary strategy that is commonly used by biomass-degrading microorganisms to digest plant cell walls. The presence of accessory domains in these enzymes is associated with properties such as higher catalytic efficiency, extension of the catalytic interface and targeting of the enzyme to the proper substrate. However, the importance of the linker region in the synergistic action of the catalytic and accessory domains remains poorly understood. Thus, this study examined how the inter-domain region affects the structure and function of modular GH5 endoglucanases, by using cellulase 5A from Bacillus subtilis (BsCel5A) as a model. BsCel5A variants featuring linkers with different stiffnesses or sizes were designed and extensively characterized, revealing that changes in flexibility or rigidity in this region differentially affect kinetic behavior. Regarding the linker length, we found that precise inter-domain spacing is required to enable efficient hydrolysis because excessively long or short linkers were equally detrimental to catalysis. Together, these findings identify molecular and structural features that may contribute to the rational design of chimeric and multimodular glycosyl hydrolases.
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- Diego M. Ruiz
- Laboratório Nacional de Biociências, Centro Nacional de Pesquisa em Energia e Materiais, Campinas/SP, 13083-970, Brazil
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- Laboratório Nacional de Biociências, Centro Nacional de Pesquisa em Energia e Materiais, Campinas/SP, 13083-970, Brazil
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- Laboratório Nacional de Biociências, Centro Nacional de Pesquisa em Energia e Materiais, Campinas/SP, 13083-970, Brazil
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Glover K, Mei Y, Sinha SC. Identifying intrinsically disordered protein regions likely to undergo binding-induced helical transitions. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS 2016; 1864:1455-63. [PMID: 27179590 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2016.05.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2015] [Revised: 05/08/2016] [Accepted: 05/10/2016] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Many proteins contain intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) lacking stable secondary and ordered tertiary structure. IDRs are often implicated in macromolecular interactions, and may undergo structural transitions upon binding to interaction partners. However, as binding partners of many protein IDRs are unknown, these structural transitions are difficult to verify and often are poorly understood. In this study we describe a method to identify IDRs that are likely to undergo helical transitions upon binding. This method combines bioinformatics analyses followed by circular dichroism spectroscopy to monitor 2,2,2-trifluoroethanol (TFE)-induced changes in secondary structure content of these IDRs. Our results demonstrate that there is no significant change in the helicity of IDRs that are not predicted to fold upon binding. IDRs that are predicted to fold fall into two groups: one group does not become helical in the presence of TFE and includes examples of IDRs that form β-strands upon binding, while the other group becomes more helical and includes examples that are known to fold into helices upon binding. Therefore, we propose that bioinformatics analyses combined with experimental evaluation using TFE may provide a general method to identify IDRs that undergo binding-induced disorder-to-helix transitions.
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- Karen Glover
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58108-6050, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58108-6050, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58108-6050, USA.
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Sengupta RN, Van Schie SNS, Giambaşu G, Dai Q, Yesselman JD, York D, Piccirilli JA, Herschlag D. An active site rearrangement within the Tetrahymena group I ribozyme releases nonproductive interactions and allows formation of catalytic interactions. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2016; 22:32-48. [PMID: 26567314 PMCID: PMC4691833 DOI: 10.1261/rna.053710.115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2015] [Accepted: 09/23/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Biological catalysis hinges on the precise structural integrity of an active site that binds and transforms its substrates and meeting this requirement presents a unique challenge for RNA enzymes. Functional RNAs, including ribozymes, fold into their active conformations within rugged energy landscapes that often contain misfolded conformers. Here we uncover and characterize one such "off-pathway" species within an active site after overall folding of the ribozyme is complete. The Tetrahymena group I ribozyme (E) catalyzes cleavage of an oligonucleotide substrate (S) by an exogenous guanosine (G) cofactor. We tested whether specific catalytic interactions with G are present in the preceding E•S•G and E•G ground-state complexes. We monitored interactions with G via the effects of 2'- and 3'-deoxy (-H) and -amino (-NH(2)) substitutions on G binding. These and prior results reveal that G is bound in an inactive configuration within E•G, with the nucleophilic 3'-OH making a nonproductive interaction with an active site metal ion termed MA and with the adjacent 2'-OH making no interaction. Upon S binding, a rearrangement occurs that allows both -OH groups to contact a different active site metal ion, termed M(C), to make what are likely to be their catalytic interactions. The reactive phosphoryl group on S promotes this change, presumably by repositioning the metal ions with respect to G. This conformational transition demonstrates local rearrangements within an otherwise folded RNA, underscoring RNA's difficulty in specifying a unique conformation and highlighting Nature's potential to use local transitions of RNA in complex function.
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- Raghuvir N Sengupta
- Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, Leiden, 2333 CC, The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA Department of Chemical Engineering, Engineering, and Medicine for Human Health (ChEM-H), Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA Department of Chemistry, Engineering, and Medicine for Human Health (ChEM-H), Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA Department of Chemistry, Engineering, and Medicine for Human Health (ChEM-H), Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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Ambadipudi S, Zweckstetter M. Targeting intrinsically disordered proteins in rational drug discovery. Expert Opin Drug Discov 2015; 11:65-77. [DOI: 10.1517/17460441.2016.1107041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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- Susmitha Ambadipudi
- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), 37077 Göttingen, Germany
- Department for NMR-based Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
- DFG Research Center for Nanoscale Microscopy and Molecular Physiology of the Brain (CNMPB), University Medical Center Göttingen, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
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SIGNIFICANCE Selenoproteins employ selenium to supplement the chemistry available through the common 20 amino acids. These powerful enzymes are affiliated with redox biology, often in connection with the detection, management, and signaling of oxidative stress. Among them, membrane-bound selenoproteins play prominent roles in signaling pathways, Ca(2+) regulation, membrane complexes integrity, and biosynthesis of lipophilic molecules. RECENT ADVANCES The number of selenoproteins whose physiological roles, protein partners, expression, evolution, and biosynthesis are characterized is steadily increasing, thus offering a more nuanced view of this specialized family. This review focuses on human membrane selenoproteins, particularly the five least characterized ones: selenoproteins I, K, N, S, and T. CRITICAL ISSUES Membrane-bound selenoproteins are the least understood, as it is challenging to provide the membrane-like environment required for their biochemical and biophysical characterization. Hence, their studies rely mostly on biological rather than structural and biochemical assays. Another aspect that has not received much attention is the particular role that their membrane association plays in their physiological function. FUTURE DIRECTIONS Findings cited in this review show that it is possible to infer the structure and the membrane-binding mode of these lesser-studied selenoproteins and design experiments to examine the role of the rare amino acid selenocysteine.
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- Jun Liu
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware , Newark, Delaware
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware , Newark, Delaware
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Wiedemann C, Goradia N, Häfner S, Herbst C, Görlach M, Ohlenschläger O, Ramachandran R. HN-NCA heteronuclear TOCSY-NH experiment for (1)H(N) and (15)N sequential correlations in ((13)C, (15)N) labelled intrinsically disordered proteins. JOURNAL OF BIOMOLECULAR NMR 2015; 63:201-212. [PMID: 26282620 DOI: 10.1007/s10858-015-9976-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2015] [Accepted: 08/08/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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A simple triple resonance NMR experiment that leads to the correlation of the backbone amide resonances of each amino acid residue 'i' with that of residues 'i-1' and 'i+1' in ((13)C, (15)N) labelled intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) is presented. The experimental scheme, {HN-NCA heteronuclear TOCSY-NH}, exploits the favourable relaxation properties of IDPs and the presence of (1) J CαN and (2) J CαN couplings to transfer the (15)N x magnetisation from amino acid residue 'i' to adjacent residues via the application of a band-selective (15)N-(13)C(α) heteronuclear cross-polarisation sequence of ~100 ms duration. Employing non-uniform sampling in the indirect dimensions, the efficacy of the approach has been demonstrated by the acquisition of 3D HNN chemical shift correlation spectra of α-synuclein. The experimental performance of the RF pulse sequence has been compared with that of the conventional INEPT-based HN(CA)NH pulse scheme. As the availability of data from both the HCCNH and HNN experiments will make it possible to use the information extracted from one experiment to simplify the analysis of the data of the other and lead to a robust approach for unambiguous backbone and side-chain resonance assignments, a time-saving strategy for the simultaneous collection of HCCNH and HNN data is also described.
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- Christoph Wiedemann
- Research Group Biomolecular NMR Spectroscopy, Leibniz Institute for Age Research, Fritz Lipmann Institute, Beutenbergstr. 11, 07745, Jena, Germany
- Institute of Biochemistry/Biotechnology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Kurt-Mothes-Strasse 3, 06120, Halle/Salle, Germany
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- Research Group Biomolecular NMR Spectroscopy, Leibniz Institute for Age Research, Fritz Lipmann Institute, Beutenbergstr. 11, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Research Group Biomolecular NMR Spectroscopy, Leibniz Institute for Age Research, Fritz Lipmann Institute, Beutenbergstr. 11, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Research Group Biomolecular NMR Spectroscopy, Leibniz Institute for Age Research, Fritz Lipmann Institute, Beutenbergstr. 11, 07745, Jena, Germany
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Ubon Ratchathani University, Ubon Ratchathani, 34190, Thailand
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- Research Group Biomolecular NMR Spectroscopy, Leibniz Institute for Age Research, Fritz Lipmann Institute, Beutenbergstr. 11, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Research Group Biomolecular NMR Spectroscopy, Leibniz Institute for Age Research, Fritz Lipmann Institute, Beutenbergstr. 11, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Research Group Biomolecular NMR Spectroscopy, Leibniz Institute for Age Research, Fritz Lipmann Institute, Beutenbergstr. 11, 07745, Jena, Germany.
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Kowalski A. Abundance of intrinsic structural disorder in the histone H1 subtypes. Comput Biol Chem 2015; 59 Pt A:16-27. [PMID: 26366527 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2015.08.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2014] [Revised: 08/03/2015] [Accepted: 08/30/2015] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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The intrinsically disordered proteins consist of partially structured regions linked to the unstructured stretches, which consequently form the transient and dynamic conformational ensembles. They undergo disorder to order transition upon binding their partners. Intrinsic disorder is attributed to histones H1, perceived as assemblers of chromatin structure and the regulators of DNA and proteins activity. In this work, the comparison of intrinsic disorder abundance in the histone H1 subtypes was performed both by the analysis of their amino acid composition and by the prediction of disordered stretches, as well as by identifying molecular recognition features (MoRFs) and ANCHOR protein binding regions (APBR) that are responsible for recognition and binding. Both human and model organisms-animals, plants, fungi and protists-have H1 histone subtypes with the properties typical of disordered state. They possess a significantly higher content of hydrophilic and charged amino acid residues, arranged in the long regions, covering over half of the whole amino acid residues in chain. Almost complete disorder corresponds to histone H1 terminal domains, including MoRFs and ANCHOR. Those motifs were also identified in a more ordered histone H1 globular domain. Compared to the control (globular and fibrous) proteins, H1 histones demonstrate the increased folding rate and a higher proportion of low-complexity segments. The results of this work indicate that intrinsic disorder is an inherent structural property of histone H1 subtypes and it is essential for establishing a protein conformation which defines functional outcomes affecting on DNA- and/or partner protein-dependent cell processes.
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- Andrzej Kowalski
- Department of Biochemistry and Genetics, Institute of Biology, Jan Kochanowski University, ul. Świętokrzyska 15, 25-406 Kielce, Poland.
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Baraldi E, Coller E, Zoli L, Cestaro A, Tosatto SCE, Zambelli B. Unfoldome variation upon plant-pathogen interactions: strawberry infection by Colletotrichum acutatum. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2015; 89:49-65. [PMID: 26245354 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-015-0353-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2015] [Accepted: 07/26/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are proteins that lack secondary and/or tertiary structure under physiological conditions. These proteins are very abundant in eukaryotic proteomes and play crucial roles in all molecular mechanisms underlying the response to environmental challenges. In plants, different IDPs involved in stress response have been identified and characterized. Nevertheless, a comprehensive evaluation of protein disorder in plant proteomes under abiotic or biotic stresses is not available so far. In the present work the transcriptome dataset of strawberry (Fragaria X ananassa) fruits interacting with the fungal pathogen Colletotrichum acutatum was actualized onto the woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca) genome. The obtained cDNA sequences were translated into protein sequences, which were subsequently subjected to disorder analysis. The results, providing the first estimation of disorder abundance associated to plant infection, showed that the proteome activated in the strawberry red fruit during the active fungal propagation is remarkably depleted in disorder. On the other hand, in the resistant white fruit, no significant disorder reduction is observed in the proteins expressed in response to fungal infection. Four representative proteins, FvSMP, FvPRKRIP, FvPCD-4 and FvFAM32A-like, predicted as mainly disordered and never experimentally characterized before, were isolated, and the absence of structure was validated at the secondary and tertiary level using circular dichroism and differential scanning fluorimetry. Their quaternary structure was also established using light scattering. The results are discussed considering the role of protein disorder in plant defense.
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- Elena Baraldi
- Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Research and Innovation Centre, Foundation Edmund Mach (FEM), San Michele all' Adige, Trento, Italy
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Padua, Italy
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- Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Research and Innovation Centre, Foundation Edmund Mach (FEM), San Michele all' Adige, Trento, Italy
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- Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
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Cooperativity in human glucokinase (GCK), the body's primary glucose sensor and a major determinant of glucose homeostatic diseases, is fundamentally different from textbook models of allostery because GCK is monomeric and contains only one glucose-binding site. Prior work has demonstrated that millisecond timescale order-disorder transitions within the enzyme's small domain govern cooperativity. Here, using limited proteolysis, we map the site of disorder in unliganded GCK to a 30-residue active-site loop that closes upon glucose binding. Positional randomization of the loop, coupled with genetic selection in a glucokinase-deficient bacterium, uncovers a hyperactive GCK variant with substantially reduced cooperativity. Biochemical and structural analysis of this loop variant and GCK variants associated with hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia reveal two distinct mechanisms of enzyme activation. In α-type activation, glucose affinity is increased, the proteolytic susceptibility of the active site loop is suppressed and the (1)H-(13)C heteronuclear multiple quantum coherence (HMQC) spectrum of (13)C-Ile-labeled enzyme resembles the glucose-bound state. In β-type activation, glucose affinity is largely unchanged, proteolytic susceptibility of the loop is enhanced, and the (1)H-(13)C HMQC spectrum reveals no perturbation in ensemble structure. Leveraging both activation mechanisms, we engineer a fully noncooperative GCK variant, whose functional properties are indistinguishable from other hexokinase isozymes, and which displays a 100-fold increase in catalytic efficiency over wild-type GCK. This work elucidates specific structural features responsible for generating allostery in a monomeric enzyme and suggests a general strategy for engineering cooperativity into proteins that lack the structural framework typical of traditional allosteric systems.
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Bar-Even A, Milo R, Noor E, Tawfik DS. The Moderately Efficient Enzyme: Futile Encounters and Enzyme Floppiness. Biochemistry 2015. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.5b00621] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Arren Bar-Even
- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- Institute
of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich, Auguste-Piccard-Hof 1, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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Balabanova L, Golotin V, Podvolotskaya A, Rasskazov V. Genetically modified proteins: functional improvement and chimeragenesis. Bioengineered 2015. [PMID: 26211369 DOI: 10.1080/21655979.2015.1075674] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022] Open
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This review focuses on the emerging role of site-specific mutagenesis and chimeragenesis for the functional improvement of proteins in areas where traditional protein engineering methods have been extensively used and practically exhausted. The novel path for the creation of the novel proteins has been created on the farther development of the new structure and sequence optimization algorithms for generating and designing the accurate structure models in result of x-ray crystallography studies of a lot of proteins and their mutant forms. Artificial genetic modifications aim to expand nature's repertoire of biomolecules. One of the most exciting potential results of mutagenesis or chimeragenesis finding could be design of effective diagnostics, bio-therapeutics and biocatalysts. A sampling of recent examples is listed below for the in vivo and in vitro genetically improvement of various binding protein and enzyme functions, with references for more in-depth study provided for the reader's benefit.
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- Larissa Balabanova
- a G.B. Elyakov Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry; Far Eastern Branch; Russian Academy of Science ; Vladivostok , Russia.,b Far Eastern Federal University ; Vladivostok , Russia
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- a G.B. Elyakov Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry; Far Eastern Branch; Russian Academy of Science ; Vladivostok , Russia.,b Far Eastern Federal University ; Vladivostok , Russia
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- a G.B. Elyakov Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry; Far Eastern Branch; Russian Academy of Science ; Vladivostok , Russia
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Exploring the potential impact of an expanded genetic code on protein function. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2015; 112:6961-6. [PMID: 26038548 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1507741112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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With few exceptions, all living organisms encode the same 20 canonical amino acids; however, it remains an open question whether organisms with additional amino acids beyond the common 20 might have an evolutionary advantage. Here, we begin to test that notion by making a large library of mutant enzymes in which 10 structurally distinct noncanonical amino acids were substituted at single sites randomly throughout TEM-1 β-lactamase. A screen for growth on the β-lactam antibiotic cephalexin afforded a unique p-acrylamido-phenylalanine (AcrF) mutation at Val-216 that leads to an increase in catalytic efficiency by increasing kcat, but not significantly affecting KM. To understand the structural basis for this enhanced activity, we solved the X-ray crystal structures of the ligand-free mutant enzyme and of the deacylation-defective wild-type and mutant cephalexin acyl-enzyme intermediates. These structures show that the Val-216-AcrF mutation leads to conformational changes in key active site residues-both in the free enzyme and upon formation of the acyl-enzyme intermediate-that lower the free energy of activation of the substrate transacylation reaction. The functional changes induced by this mutation could not be reproduced by substitution of any of the 20 canonical amino acids for Val-216, indicating that an expanded genetic code may offer novel solutions to proteins as they evolve new activities.
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Larion M, Miller B, Brüschweiler R. Conformational heterogeneity and intrinsic disorder in enzyme regulation: Glucokinase as a case study. INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEINS 2015; 3:e1011008. [PMID: 28232887 DOI: 10.1080/21690707.2015.1011008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2014] [Revised: 12/14/2014] [Accepted: 01/08/2015] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Many human proteins are predicted to contain intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs), yet their occurrence in enzymes is notably rare. Human pancreatic glucokinase (GCK) is one of a small, but growing number of enzymes shown to possess an IDR. In this commentary, we summarize the results of recent biophysical studies that provide evidence for a functionally significant disorder-order transition within the IDR of GCK during the enzyme's catalytic cycle. High-resolution NMR studies indicate that kinetic cooperativity in GCK results from glucose-mediated millisecond conformational dynamics within the structurally heterogeneous and partially disordered small domain of this monomeric enzyme, whereby the precise timescale of these motions is critical for the manifestation of the kinetic cooperativity effect. GCK provides an excellent case study for understanding how structural and dynamic alterations within an IDR enable novel regulatory mechanisms. These studies also establish GCK as a model system for investigating the functional consequences of disorder and conformational heterogeneity in enzymatic systems in general.
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- Mioara Larion
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry; The Ohio State University ; Columbus, OH USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry; Florida State University ; Tallahassee, FL USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry; The Ohio State University; Columbus, OH USA; The Campus Chemical Instrument Center; The Ohio State University; Columbus, OH USA
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Catici DAM, Horne JE, Cooper GE, Pudney CR. Polyubiquitin Drives the Molecular Interactions of the NF-κB Essential Modulator (NEMO) by Allosteric Regulation. J Biol Chem 2015; 290:14130-9. [PMID: 25866210 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m115.640417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2015] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The NF-κB essential modulator (NEMO) is the master regulator of NF-κB signaling, controlling the immune and nervous systems. NEMO affects the activity of IκB kinase-β (IKKβ), which relieves the inhibition of the NF-κB transcriptional regulation machinery. Despite major effort, there is only a very sparse, phenomenological understanding of how NEMO regulates IKKβ and shows specificity in its large range of molecular interactions. We explore the key molecular interactions of NEMO using a molecular biophysics approach, incorporating rapid-mixing stopped-flow, high-pressure, and CD spectroscopies. Our study demonstrates that NEMO has a significant degree of native structural disorder and that molecular flexibility and ligand-induced conformational change are at the heart of the molecular interactions of NEMO. We found that long chain length, unanchored, linear polyubiquitin drives NEMO activity, enhancing the affinity of NEMO for IKKβ and the kinase substrate IκBα and promoting membrane association. We present evidence that unanchored polyubiquitin achieves this regulation by inducing NEMO conformational change by an allosteric mechanism. We combine our quantitative findings to give a detailed molecular mechanistic model for the activity of NEMO, providing insight into the molecular mechanism of NEMO activity with broad implications for the biological role of free polyubiquitin.
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- Dragana A M Catici
- From the Department of Biology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom
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- From the Department of Biology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom
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- From the Department of Biology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom
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- From the Department of Biology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom
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Schulenburg C, Stark Y, Künzle M, Hilvert D. Comparative laboratory evolution of ordered and disordered enzymes. J Biol Chem 2015; 290:9310-20. [PMID: 25697360 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m115.638080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2015] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Intrinsically disordered proteins are ubiquitous in nature. To assess potential evolutionary advantages and disadvantages of structural disorder under controlled laboratory conditions, we directly compared the evolvability of weakly active ordered and disordered variants of dihydrofolate reductase by genetic selection. The circularly permuted Escherichia coli enzyme, which exists as a molten globule in the absence of ligands, and a well folded deletion mutant of the Bacillus stearothermophilus enzyme served as starting points. Both scaffolds evolved at similar rates and to similar extents, reaching near-native activity after three rounds of mutagenesis and selection. Surprisingly, however, the starting structural properties of the two scaffolds changed only marginally during optimization. Although the ordered and disordered proteins accumulated distinct sets of mutations, the changes introduced likely improved catalytic efficiency indirectly in both cases by bolstering the network of dynamic conformational fluctuations that productively couple into the reaction coordinate.
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- Cindy Schulenburg
- From the Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- From the Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- From the Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- From the Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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Goradia N, Wiedemann C, Herbst C, Görlach M, Heinemann SH, Ohlenschläger O, Ramachandran R. An Approach to NMR Assignment of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins. Chemphyschem 2015; 16:739-46. [DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201402872] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2014] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Le P, Zhao J, Franzen S. Correlation of Heme Binding Affinity and Enzyme Kinetics of Dehaloperoxidase. Biochemistry 2014; 53:6863-77. [DOI: 10.1021/bi5005975] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Peter Le
- Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States
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de Diego I, Veillard F, Sztukowska MN, Guevara T, Potempa B, Pomowski A, Huntington JA, Potempa J, Gomis-Rüth FX. Structure and mechanism of cysteine peptidase gingipain K (Kgp), a major virulence factor of Porphyromonas gingivalis in periodontitis. J Biol Chem 2014; 289:32291-32302. [PMID: 25266723 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m114.602052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Cysteine peptidases are key proteolytic virulence factors of the periodontopathogen Porphyromonas gingivalis, which causes chronic periodontitis, the most prevalent dysbiosis-driven disease in humans. Two peptidases, gingipain K (Kgp) and R (RgpA and RgpB), which differ in their selectivity after lysines and arginines, respectively, collectively account for 85% of the extracellular proteolytic activity of P. gingivalis at the site of infection. Therefore, they are promising targets for the design of specific inhibitors. Although the structure of the catalytic domain of RgpB is known, little is known about Kgp, which shares only 27% sequence identity. We report the high resolution crystal structure of a competent fragment of Kgp encompassing the catalytic cysteine peptidase domain and a downstream immunoglobulin superfamily-like domain, which is required for folding and secretion of Kgp in vivo. The structure, which strikingly resembles a tooth, was serendipitously trapped with a fragment of a covalent inhibitor targeting the catalytic cysteine. This provided accurate insight into the active site and suggested that catalysis may require a catalytic triad, Cys(477)-His(444)-Asp(388), rather than the cysteine-histidine dyad normally found in cysteine peptidases. In addition, a 20-Å-long solvent-filled interior channel traverses the molecule and links the bottom of the specificity pocket with the molecular surface opposite the active site cleft. This channel, absent in RgpB, may enhance the plasticity of the enzyme, which would explain the much lower activity in vitro toward comparable specific synthetic substrates. Overall, the present results report the architecture and molecular determinants of the working mechanism of Kgp, including interaction with its substrates.
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- Iñaki de Diego
- Proteolysis Lab, Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona, Spanish Research Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas), Barcelona Science Park, Helix Building, Baldiri Reixac 15-21, 08028 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Oral Immunology and Infectious Disease, University of Louisville School of Dentistry, Louisville, Kentucky 40202
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- Oral Immunology and Infectious Disease, University of Louisville School of Dentistry, Louisville, Kentucky 40202
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- Proteolysis Lab, Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona, Spanish Research Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas), Barcelona Science Park, Helix Building, Baldiri Reixac 15-21, 08028 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Oral Immunology and Infectious Disease, University of Louisville School of Dentistry, Louisville, Kentucky 40202
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/Medical Research Council Building, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0XY, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/Medical Research Council Building, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0XY, United Kingdom
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- Oral Immunology and Infectious Disease, University of Louisville School of Dentistry, Louisville, Kentucky 40202,; Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 7, 30-387 Kraków, Poland, and.
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- Proteolysis Lab, Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona, Spanish Research Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas), Barcelona Science Park, Helix Building, Baldiri Reixac 15-21, 08028 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain,.
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Acheson JF, Bailey LJ, Elsen NL, Fox BG. Structural basis for biomolecular recognition in overlapping binding sites in a diiron enzyme system. Nat Commun 2014; 5:5009. [PMID: 25248368 PMCID: PMC4200526 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2014] [Accepted: 08/18/2014] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Productive biomolecular recognition requires exquisite control of affinity and specificity. Accordingly, nature has devised many strategies to achieve proper binding interactions. Bacterial multicomponent monooxygenases provide a fascinating example, where a diiron hydroxylase must reversibly interact with both ferredoxin and catalytic effector in order to achieve electron transfer and O2 activation during catalysis. Because these two accessory proteins have distinct structures, and because the hydroxylase-effector complex covers the entire surface closest to the hydroxylase diiron centre, how ferredoxin binds to the hydroxylase has been unclear. Here we present high-resolution structures of toluene 4-monooxygenase hydroxylase complexed with its electron transfer ferredoxin and compare them with the hydroxylase-effector structure. These structures reveal that ferredoxin or effector protein binding produce different arrangements of conserved residues and customized interfaces on the hydroxylase in order to achieve different aspects of catalysis.
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- Justin F Acheson
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry Addition, 433 Babcock Drive, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry Addition, 433 Babcock Drive, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry Addition, 433 Babcock Drive, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry Addition, 433 Babcock Drive, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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The conformational response to Zn(II) and Ni(II) binding of Sporosarcina pasteurii UreG, an intrinsically disordered GTPase. J Biol Inorg Chem 2014; 19:1341-54. [PMID: 25200810 DOI: 10.1007/s00775-014-1191-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2014] [Accepted: 08/25/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Urease is an essential Ni(II) enzyme involved in the nitrogen metabolism of bacteria, plants and fungi. Ni(II) delivery into the enzyme active site requires the presence of four accessory proteins, named UreD, UreF, UreG and UreE, acting through a complex protein network regulated by metal binding and GTP hydrolysis. The GTPase activity is catalyzed by UreG, which couples this function to a non-enzymatic role as a molecular chaperone. This moonlighting activity is reflected in a flexible fold that makes UreG the first discovered intrinsically disordered enzyme. UreG binds Ni(II) and Zn(II),which in turn modulate the interactions with other urease chaperones. The aim of this study is to understand the structural implications of metal binding to Sporosarcina pasteurii UreG (SpUreG). A combination of light scattering, calorimetry, mass spectrometry, and NMR spectroscopy revealed that SpUreG exists in monomer-dimer equilibrium (K(d)= 45 µM), sampling three distinct folding populations with different degrees of compactness. Binding of Zn(II) ions, occurring in two distinct sites (K(d1) = 3 nM, K(d2) = 0.53 µM), shifts the protein conformational landscape toward the more compact population, while maintaining the overall protein structural plasticity. Differently, binding of Ni(II) ions occurs in three binding sites (K(d1(= 14 µM; K(d2) = 270 µM; K(d3)= 160 µM), with much weaker influence on the protein conformational equilibrium. These distinct conformational responses of SpUreG to Ni(II) and Zn(II) binding suggest that selective metal binding modulates protein plasticity, possibly having an impact on the protein-protein interactions and the enzymatic activity of UreG.
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Goldman L, Amyes TL, Goryanova B, Gerlt JA, Richard JP. Enzyme architecture: deconstruction of the enzyme-activating phosphodianion interactions of orotidine 5'-monophosphate decarboxylase. J Am Chem Soc 2014; 136:10156-65. [PMID: 24958125 PMCID: PMC4227808 DOI: 10.1021/ja505037v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2014] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The mechanism for activation of orotidine 5'-monophosphate decarboxylase (OMPDC) by interactions of side chains from Gln215 and Try217 at a gripper loop and R235, adjacent to this loop, with the phosphodianion of OMP was probed by determining the kinetic parameters k(cat) and K(m) for all combinations of single, double, and triple Q215A, Y217F, and R235A mutations. The 12 kcal/mol intrinsic binding energy of the phosphodianion is shown to be equal to the sum of the binding energies of the side chains of R235 (6 kcal/mol), Q215 (2 kcal/mol), Y217 (2 kcal/mol), and hydrogen bonds to the G234 and R235 backbone amides (2 kcal/mol). Analysis of a triple mutant cube shows small (ca. 1 kcal/mol) interactions between phosphodianion gripper side chains, which are consistent with steric crowding of the side chains around the phosphodianion at wild-type OMPDC. These mutations result in the same change in the activation barrier to the OMPDC-catalyzed reactions of the whole substrate OMP and the substrate pieces (1-β-D-erythrofuranosyl)orotic acid (EO) and phosphite dianion. This shows that the transition states for these reactions are stabilized by similar interactions with the protein catalyst. The 12 kcal/mol intrinsic phosphodianion binding energy of OMP is divided between the 8 kcal/mol of binding energy, which is utilized to drive a thermodynamically unfavorable conformational change of the free enzyme, resulting in an increase in (k(cat))(obs) for OMPDC-catalyzed decarboxylation of OMP, and the 4 kcal/mol of binding energy, which is utilized to stabilize the Michaelis complex, resulting in a decrease in (K(m))(obs).
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- Lawrence
M. Goldman
- Department
of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, New York 14260-3000, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, New York 14260-3000, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, New York 14260-3000, United States
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- Departments
of Biochemistry and Chemistry, University
of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United
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- Department
of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, New York 14260-3000, United States
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Jiménez-Osés G, Osuna S, Gao X, Sawaya MR, Gilson L, Collier SJ, Huisman GW, Yeates TO, Tang Y, Houk KN. The role of distant mutations and allosteric regulation on LovD active site dynamics. Nat Chem Biol 2014; 10:431-6. [PMID: 24727900 PMCID: PMC4028369 DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.1503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 134] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2013] [Accepted: 03/13/2014] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Natural enzymes have evolved to perform their cellular functions under complex selective pressures, which often require their catalytic activities to be regulated by other proteins. We contrasted a natural enzyme, LovD, which acts on a protein-bound (LovF) acyl substrate, with a laboratory-generated variant that was transformed by directed evolution to accept instead a small free acyl thioester and no longer requires the acyl carrier protein. The resulting 29-mutant variant is 1,000-fold more efficient in the synthesis of the drug simvastatin than the wild-type LovD. This is to our knowledge the first nonpatent report of the enzyme currently used for the manufacture of simvastatin as well as the intermediate evolved variants. Crystal structures and microsecond-scale molecular dynamics simulations revealed the mechanism by which the laboratory-generated mutations free LovD from dependence on protein-protein interactions. Mutations markedly altered conformational dynamics of the catalytic residues, obviating the need for allosteric modulation by the acyl carrier LovF.
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- Gonzalo Jiménez-Osés
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095
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- Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095
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- Codexis, Inc., 200 Penobscot Drive, Redwood City, California 94063
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- Codexis, Inc., 200 Penobscot Drive, Redwood City, California 94063
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- Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569
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Are proposed early genetic codes capable of encoding viable proteins? J Mol Evol 2014; 78:263-74. [PMID: 24826911 DOI: 10.1007/s00239-014-9622-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2013] [Accepted: 04/28/2014] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
Abstract
Proteins are elaborate biopolymers balancing between contradicting intrinsic propensities to fold, aggregate, or remain disordered. Assessing their primary structural preferences observable without evolutionary optimization has been reinforced by the recent identification of de novo proteins that have emerged from previously non-coding sequences. In this paper we investigate structural preferences of hypothetical proteins translated from random DNA segments using the standard genetic code and three of its proposed evolutionarily predecessor models encoding 10, 6, and 4 amino acids, respectively. Our only main assumption is that the disorder, aggregation, and transmembrane helix predictions used are able to reflect the differences in the trends of the protein sets investigated. We found that the 10-residue code encodes proteins that resemble modern proteins in their predicted structural properties. All of the investigated early genetic codes give rise to proteins with enhanced disorder and diminished aggregation propensities. Our results suggest that an ancestral genetic code similar to the proposed 10-residue one is capable of encoding functionally diverse proteins but these might have existed under conditions different from today's common physiological ones. The existence of a protein functional repertoire for the investigated earlier stages which is quite distinct as it is today can be deduced from the presented results.
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