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Structural consequences of cutting a binding loop: two circularly permuted variants of streptavidin.


ABSTRACT: Circular permutation of streptavidin was carried out in order to investigate the role of a main-chain amide in stabilizing the high-affinity complex of the protein and biotin. Mutant proteins CP49/48 and CP50/49 were constructed to place new N-termini at residues 49 and 50 in a flexible loop involved in stabilizing the biotin complex. Crystal structures of the two mutants show that half of each loop closes over the binding site, as observed in wild-type streptavidin, while the other half adopts the open conformation found in the unliganded state. The structures are consistent with kinetic and thermodynamic data and indicate that the loop plays a role in enthalpic stabilization of the bound state via the Asn49 amide-biotin hydrogen bond. In wild-type streptavidin, the entropic penalties of immobilizing a flexible portion of the protein to enhance binding are kept to a manageable level by using a contiguous loop of medium length (six residues) which is already constrained by its anchorage to strands of the ?-barrel protein. A molecular-dynamics simulation for CP50/49 shows that cleavage of the binding loop results in increased structural fluctuations for Ser45 and that these fluctuations destabilize the streptavidin-biotin complex.

SUBMITTER: Le Trong I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3663120 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Structural consequences of cutting a binding loop: two circularly permuted variants of streptavidin.

Le Trong Isolde I   Chu Vano V   Xing Yi Y   Lybrand Terry P TP   Stayton Patrick S PS   Stenkamp Ronald E RE  

Acta crystallographica. Section D, Biological crystallography 20130511 Pt 6


Circular permutation of streptavidin was carried out in order to investigate the role of a main-chain amide in stabilizing the high-affinity complex of the protein and biotin. Mutant proteins CP49/48 and CP50/49 were constructed to place new N-termini at residues 49 and 50 in a flexible loop involved in stabilizing the biotin complex. Crystal structures of the two mutants show that half of each loop closes over the binding site, as observed in wild-type streptavidin, while the other half adopts  ...[more]

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