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Alanine-shaving mutagenesis to determine key interfacial residues governing the assembly of a nano-cage maxi-ferritin.


ABSTRACT: The fundamental process of protein self-assembly is governed by protein-protein interactions between subunits, which combine to form structures that are often on the nano-scale. The nano-cage protein, bacterioferritin from Escherichia coli, a maxi-ferritin made up of 24 subunits, was chosen as the basis for an alanine-shaving mutagenesis study to discover key amino acid residues at symmetry-related protein-protein interfaces that control protein stability and self-assembly. By inspection of these interfaces and "virtual alanine scanning," nine mutants were designed, expressed, purified, and characterized using transmission electron microscopy, size exclusion chromatography, dynamic light scattering, native PAGE, and temperature-dependent CD. Many of the selected amino acids act as hot spot residues. Four of these (Arg-30, which is located at the two-fold axis, and Arg-61, Tyr-114, and Glu-128, which are located at the three-fold axis), when individually mutated to alanine, completely shut down detectable solution formation of 24-mer, favoring a cooperatively folded dimer, suggesting that they may be oligomerization "switch residues." Furthermore, two residues, Arg-30 and Arg-61, when changed to alanine form mutants that are more thermodynamically stable than the native protein. This investigation into the structure and energetics of this self-assembling nano-cage protein not only can act as a jumping off point for the eventual design of novel protein nano-structures but can also help to understand the role that structure plays on the function of this important class of proteins.

SUBMITTER: Zhang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2852946 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Alanine-shaving mutagenesis to determine key interfacial residues governing the assembly of a nano-cage maxi-ferritin.

Zhang Yu Y   Raudah Siti S   Teo Huihian H   Teo Gwenda W S GW   Fan Rongli R   Sun Xiaoming X   Orner Brendan P BP  

The Journal of biological chemistry 20100205 16


The fundamental process of protein self-assembly is governed by protein-protein interactions between subunits, which combine to form structures that are often on the nano-scale. The nano-cage protein, bacterioferritin from Escherichia coli, a maxi-ferritin made up of 24 subunits, was chosen as the basis for an alanine-shaving mutagenesis study to discover key amino acid residues at symmetry-related protein-protein interfaces that control protein stability and self-assembly. By inspection of thes  ...[more]

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