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Garcia DC, Cheng X, Land ML, Standaert RF, Morrell-Falvey JL, Doktycz MJ. Computationally Guided Discovery and Experimental Validation of Indole-3-acetic Acid Synthesis Pathways. ACS Chem Biol 2019; 14:2867-2875. [PMID: 31693336 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.9b00725] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Elucidating the interaction networks associated with secondary metabolite production in microorganisms is an ongoing challenge made all the more daunting by the rate at which DNA sequencing technology reveals new genes and potential pathways. Developing the culturing methods, expression conditions, and genetic systems needed for validating pathways in newly discovered microorganisms is often not possible. Therefore, new tools and techniques are needed for defining complex metabolic pathways. Here, we describe an in vitro computationally assisted pathway description approach that employs bioinformatic searches of genome databases, protein structural modeling, and protein-ligand-docking simulations to predict the gene products most likely to be involved in a particular secondary metabolite production pathway. This information is then used to direct in vitro reconstructions of the pathway and subsequent confirmation of pathway activity using crude enzyme preparations. As a test system, we elucidated the pathway for biosynthesis of indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) in the plant-associated microbe Pantoea sp. YR343. This organism is capable of metabolizing tryptophan into the plant phytohormone IAA. BLAST analyses identified a likely three-step pathway involving an amino transferase, an indole pyruvate decarboxylase, and a dehydrogenase. However, multiple candidate enzymes were identified at each step, resulting in a large number of potential pathway reconstructions (32 different enzyme combinations). Our approach shows the effectiveness of crude extracts to rapidly elucidate enzymes leading to functional pathways. Results are compared to affinity purified enzymes for select combinations and found to yield similar relative activities. Further, in vitro testing of the pathway reconstructions revealed the "underground" nature of IAA metabolism in Pantoea sp. YR343 and the various mechanisms used to produce IAA. Importantly, our experiments illustrate the scalable integration of computational tools and cell-free enzymatic reactions to identify and validate metabolic pathways in a broadly applicable manner.
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- David C. Garcia
- Biological and Nanoscale Systems Group, Biosciences Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
- Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-4519, United States
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- College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
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- Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Biological and Nanoscale Systems Group, Biosciences Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
- Department of Chemistry, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee 37604, United States
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- Biological and Nanoscale Systems Group, Biosciences Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Biological and Nanoscale Systems Group, Biosciences Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
- Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-4519, United States
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Crowley EL, Rafferty SP. Review of lactose-driven auto-induction expression of isotope-labelled proteins. Protein Expr Purif 2019; 157:70-85. [PMID: 30708035 DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2019.01.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2019] [Accepted: 01/18/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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NMR is an important method in the structural and functional characterization of proteins, but such experiments typically require isotopic labelling because of the low natural abundance of the nuclei of interest. Isotope-labelled protein for NMR experiments is typically obtained from IPTG-inducible bacterial expression systems in a minimal media that contains labelled carbon or nitrogen sources. Optimization of expression conditions is crucial yet challenging; large amounts of labelled protein are desired, yet protein yields are lower in minimal media, while the labelled precursors are expensive. Faced with these challenges there is a growing body of literature that apply innovative methods of induction to optimize the yield of isotope-labelled protein. A promising technique is lactose-driven auto-induction as it mitigates user intervention and can lead to higher protein yields. This review assesses the current advances and limitations surrounding the ability of researchers to isotope label proteins using auto-induction, and it identifies key components for optimization.
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- Erika L Crowley
- Environmental and Life Sciences Graduate Program, Trent University, 1600 West Bank Drive, Peterborough, ON, K9J 0G2, Canada.
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- Department of Chemistry, Trent University, 1600 West Bank Drive, Peterborough, ON, K9J 0G2, Canada.
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Kim DJ, Bitto E, Bingman CA, Kim HJ, Han BW, Phillips GN. Crystal structure of the protein At3g01520, a eukaryotic universal stress protein-like protein from Arabidopsis thaliana in complex with AMP. Proteins 2015; 83:1368-73. [PMID: 25921306 PMCID: PMC4624624 DOI: 10.1002/prot.24821] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2015] [Revised: 04/20/2015] [Accepted: 04/24/2015] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Members of the universal stress protein (USP) family are conserved in a phylogenetically diverse range of prokaryotes, fungi, protists, and plants and confer abilities to respond to a wide range of environmental stresses. Arabidopsis thaliana contains 44 USP domain‐containing proteins, and USP domain is found either in a small protein with unknown physiological function or in an N‐terminal portion of a multi‐domain protein, usually a protein kinase. Here, we report the first crystal structure of a eukaryotic USP‐like protein encoded from the gene At3g01520. The crystal structure of the protein At3g01520 was determined by the single‐wavelength anomalous dispersion method and refined to an R factor of 21.8% (Rfree = 26.1%) at 2.5 Å resolution. The crystal structure includes three At3g01520 protein dimers with one AMP molecule bound to each protomer, comprising a Rossmann‐like α/β overall fold. The bound AMP and conservation of residues in the ATP‐binding loop suggest that the protein At3g01520 also belongs to the ATP‐binding USP subfamily members. Proteins 2015; 83:1368–1373. © 2015 The Authors. Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Do Jin Kim
- Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-742, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey, 08701
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- Department of Biochemistry, Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, 53706
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- Laboratory of Stem Cell and Molecular Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, 156-756, Korea
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- Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-742, Korea
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- Department of Biochemistry, Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, 53706.,BioSciences at Rice and Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas, 77251
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Expression platforms for producing eukaryotic proteins: a comparison of E. coli cell-based and wheat germ cell-free synthesis, affinity and solubility tags, and cloning strategies. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2015; 16:67-80. [PMID: 25854603 DOI: 10.1007/s10969-015-9198-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2015] [Accepted: 03/25/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Vectors designed for protein production in Escherichia coli and by wheat germ cell-free translation were tested using 21 well-characterized eukaryotic proteins chosen to serve as controls within the context of a structural genomics pipeline. The controls were carried through cloning, small-scale expression trials, large-scale growth or synthesis, and purification. Successfully purified proteins were also subjected to either crystallization trials or (1)H-(15)N HSQC NMR analyses. Experiments evaluated: (1) the relative efficacy of restriction/ligation and recombinational cloning systems; (2) the value of maltose-binding protein (MBP) as a solubility enhancement tag; (3) the consequences of in vivo proteolysis of the MBP fusion as an alternative to post-purification proteolysis; (4) the effect of the level of LacI repressor on the yields of protein obtained from E. coli using autoinduction; (5) the consequences of removing the His tag from proteins produced by the cell-free system; and (6) the comparative performance of E. coli cells or wheat germ cell-free translation. Optimal promoter/repressor and fusion tag configurations for each expression system are discussed.
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Su XD, Zhang H, Terwilliger TC, Liljas A, Xiao J, Dong Y. Protein Crystallography from the Perspective of Technology Developments. CRYSTALLOGR REV 2014; 21:122-153. [PMID: 25983389 DOI: 10.1080/0889311x.2014.973868] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Early on, crystallography was a domain of mineralogy and mathematics and dealt mostly with symmetry properties and imaginary crystal lattices. This changed when Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered X-rays in 1895, and in 1912 Max von Laue and his associates discovered X-ray irradiated salt crystals would produce diffraction patterns that could reveal the internal atomic periodicity of the crystals. In the same year the father-and-son team, Henry and Lawrence Bragg successfully solved the first crystal structure of sodium chloride and the era of modern crystallography began. Protein crystallography (PX) started some 20 years later with the pioneering work of British crystallographers. In the past 50-60 years, the achievements of modern crystallography and particularly those in protein crystallography have been due to breakthroughs in theoretical and technical advancements such as phasing and direct methods; to more powerful X-ray sources such as synchrotron radiation (SR); to more sensitive and efficient X-ray detectors; to ever faster computers and to improvements in software. The exponential development of protein crystallography has been accelerated by the invention and applications of recombinant DNA technology that can yield nearly any protein of interest in large amounts and with relative ease. Novel methods, informatics platforms, and technologies for automation and high-throughput have allowed the development of large-scale, high efficiency macromolecular crystallography efforts in the field of structural genomics (SG). Very recently, the X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) sources and its applications in protein crystallography have shown great potential for revolutionizing the whole field again in the near future.
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- Xiao-Dong Su
- State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, and Biodynamic Optical Imaging Center (BIOPIC), School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, and Biodynamic Optical Imaging Center (BIOPIC), School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mail Stop M888, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, and Biodynamic Optical Imaging Center (BIOPIC), School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China
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Park MS, Bitto E, Kim KR, Bingman CA, Miller MD, Kim HJ, Han BW, Phillips GN. Crystal structure of human protein N-terminal glutamine amidohydrolase, an initial component of the N-end rule pathway. PLoS One 2014; 9:e111142. [PMID: 25356641 PMCID: PMC4214742 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0111142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2014] [Accepted: 09/28/2014] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The N-end rule states that half-life of protein is determined by their N-terminal amino acid residue. N-terminal glutamine amidohydrolase (Ntaq) converts N-terminal glutamine to glutamate by eliminating the amine group and plays an essential role in the N-end rule pathway for protein degradation. Here, we report the crystal structure of human Ntaq1 bound with the N-terminus of a symmetry-related Ntaq1 molecule at 1.5 Å resolution. The structure reveals a monomeric globular protein with alpha-beta-alpha three-layer sandwich architecture. The catalytic triad located in the active site, Cys-His-Asp, is highly conserved among Ntaq family and transglutaminases from diverse organisms. The N-terminus of a symmetry-related Ntaq1 molecule bound in the substrate binding cleft and the active site suggest possible substrate binding mode of hNtaq1. Based on our crystal structure of hNtaq1 and docking study with all the tripeptides with N-terminal glutamine, we propose how the peptide backbone recognition patch of hNtaq1 forms nonspecific interactions with N-terminal peptides of substrate proteins. Upon binding of a substrate with N-terminal glutamine, active site catalytic triad mediates the deamination of the N-terminal residue to glutamate by a mechanism analogous to that of cysteine proteases.
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- Mi Seul Park
- Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey, United States of America
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- Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Biochemistry, Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- College of Pharmacy, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea
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- Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
- * E-mail: (BWH); (GNP)
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- Department of Biochemistry, Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- * E-mail: (BWH); (GNP)
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Xu X, Paik I, Zhu L, Bu Q, Huang X, Deng XW, Huq E. PHYTOCHROME INTERACTING FACTOR1 Enhances the E3 Ligase Activity of CONSTITUTIVE PHOTOMORPHOGENIC1 to Synergistically Repress Photomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis. THE PLANT CELL 2014; 26:1992-2006. [PMID: 24858936 PMCID: PMC4079364 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.114.125591] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2014] [Revised: 04/11/2014] [Accepted: 04/22/2014] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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CONSTITUTIVE PHOTOMORPHOGENIC1 (COP1) is a RING/WD40 repeat-containing ubiquitin E3 ligase that is conserved from plants to humans. COP1 forms complexes with SUPPRESSOR OF PHYTOCHROME A (SPA) proteins, and these complexes degrade positively acting transcription factors in the dark to repress photomorphogenesis. Phytochrome-interacting basic helix-loop-helix transcription factors (PIFs) also repress photomorphogenesis in the dark. In response to light, the phytochrome family of sensory photoreceptors simultaneously inactivates COP1-SPA complexes and induces the rapid degradation of PIFs to promote photomorphogenesis. However, the functional relationship between PIFs and COP1-SPA complexes is still unknown. Here, we present genetic evidence that the pif and cop1/spa Arabidopsis thaliana mutants synergistically promote photomorphogenesis in the dark. LONG HYPOCOTYL5 (HY5) is stabilized in the cop1 pif1, spa123 pif1, and pif double, triple, and quadruple mutants in the dark. Moreover, the hy5 mutant suppresses the constitutive photomorphogenic phenotypes of the pifq mutant in the dark. PIF1 forms complexes with COP1, HY5, and SPA1 and enhances the substrate recruitment and autoubiquitylation and transubiquitylation activities of COP1. These data uncover a novel function of PIFs as the potential cofactors of COP1 and provide a genetic and biochemical model of how PIFs and COP1-SPA complexes synergistically repress photomorphogenesis in the dark.
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- Xiaosa Xu
- Department of Molecular Biosciences and Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences and Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences and Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences and Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712
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- Peking-Yale Joint Center for Plant Molecular Genetics and Agro-Biotechnology, State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
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- Peking-Yale Joint Center for Plant Molecular Genetics and Agro-Biotechnology, State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences and Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712
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Arbing MA, Chan S, Harris L, Kuo E, Zhou TT, Ahn CJ, Nguyen L, He Q, Lu J, Menchavez PT, Shin A, Holton T, Sawaya MR, Cascio D, Eisenberg D. Heterologous expression of mycobacterial Esx complexes in Escherichia coli for structural studies is facilitated by the use of maltose binding protein fusions. PLoS One 2013; 8:e81753. [PMID: 24312350 PMCID: PMC3843698 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081753] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2013] [Accepted: 10/15/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The expression of heteroligomeric protein complexes for structural studies often requires a special coexpression strategy. The reason is that the solubility and proper folding of each subunit of the complex requires physical association with other subunits of the complex. The genomes of pathogenic mycobacteria encode many small protein complexes, implicated in bacterial fitness and pathogenicity, whose characterization may be further complicated by insolubility upon expression in Escherichia coli, the most common heterologous protein expression host. As protein fusions have been shown to dramatically affect the solubility of the proteins to which they are fused, we evaluated the ability of maltose binding protein fusions to produce mycobacterial Esx protein complexes. A single plasmid expression strategy using an N-terminal maltose binding protein fusion to the CFP-10 homolog proved effective in producing soluble Esx protein complexes, as determined by a small-scale expression and affinity purification screen, and coupled with intracellular proteolytic cleavage of the maltose binding protein moiety produced protein complexes of sufficient purity for structural studies. In comparison, the expression of complexes with hexahistidine affinity tags alone on the CFP-10 subunits failed to express in amounts sufficient for biochemical characterization. Using this strategy, six mycobacterial Esx complexes were expressed, purified to homogeneity, and subjected to crystallization screening and the crystal structures of the Mycobacterium abscessus EsxEF, M. smegmatis EsxGH, and M. tuberculosis EsxOP complexes were determined. Maltose binding protein fusions are thus an effective method for production of Esx complexes and this strategy may be applicable for production of other protein complexes.
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- Mark A. Arbing
- UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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Joshi N, Hoobler EK, Perry S, Diaz G, Fox B, Holman TR. Kinetic and structural investigations into the allosteric and pH effect on the substrate specificity of human epithelial 15-lipoxygenase-2. Biochemistry 2013; 52:8026-35. [PMID: 24171444 DOI: 10.1021/bi4010649] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Lipoxygenases, important enzymes in inflammation, can regulate their substrate specificity by allosteric interactions with their own hydroperoxide products. In this work, addition of both 13-(S)-hydroxy-(9Z,11E)-octadecadienoic acid [13-(S)-HODE] and 13-(S)-hydroperoxy-(6Z,9Z,11E)-octadecatrienoic acid to human epithelial 15-lipoxygenase-2 (15-LOX-2) increases the kcat/KM substrate specificity ratio of arachidonic acid (AA) and γ-linolenic acid (GLA) by 4-fold. 13-(S)-HODE achieves this change by activating kcat/KM(AA) but inhibiting kcat/KM(GLA), which indicates that the allosteric structural changes at the active site discriminate between the length and unsaturation differences of AA and GLA to achieve opposite kinetic effects. The substrate specificity ratio is further increased, 11-fold in total, with an increase in pH, suggesting mechanistic differences between the pH and allosteric effects. Interestingly, the loss of the PLAT domain affects substrate specificity but does not eliminate the allosteric properties of 15-LOX-2, indicating that the allosteric site is located in the catalytic domain. However, the removal of the PLAT domain does change the magnitude of the allosteric effect. These data suggest that the PLAT domain moderates the communication pathway between the allosteric and catalytic sites, thus affecting substrate specificity. These results are discussed in the context of protein dimerization and other structural changes.
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- Netra Joshi
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California , Santa Cruz, California 95064, United States
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Smith DW, Han MR, Park JS, Kim KR, Yeom T, Lee JY, Kim DJ, Bingman CA, Kim HJ, Jo K, Han BW, Phillips GN. Crystal structure of the protein from Arabidopsis thaliana gene At5g06450, a putative DnaQ-like exonuclease domain-containing protein with homohexameric assembly. Proteins 2013; 81:1669-1675. [PMID: 23616405 DOI: 10.1002/prot.24315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2013] [Revised: 03/09/2013] [Accepted: 03/17/2013] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Arabidopsis thaliana gene At5g06450 encodes a putative DnaQ-like 3'-5' exonuclease domain-containing protein (AtDECP). The DnaQ-like 3'-5' exonuclease domain is often found as a proofreading domain of DNA polymerases. The overall structure of AtDECP adopts an RNase H fold that consists of a mixed β-sheet flanked by α-helices. Interestingly, AtDECP forms a homohexameric assembly with a central six fold symmetry, generating a central cavity. The ring-shaped structure and comparison with WRN-exo, the best structural homologue of AtDECP, suggest a possible mechanism for implementing its exonuclease activity using positively charged patch on the N-terminal side of the homohexameric assembly. The homohexameric structure of AtDECP provides unique information about the interaction between the DnaQ-like 3'-5' exonuclease and its substrate nucleic acids.
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- David W Smith
- Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
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- Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
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- Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Sogang University, Seoul 121-742, Korea
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- Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
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- Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
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- Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- College of Pharmacy, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 156-756, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Sogang University, Seoul 121-742, Korea
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- Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
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- Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.,Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice University, Houston, TX 77251, USA
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Structural basis of substrate specificity and selectivity of murine cytosolic 5'-nucleotidase III. J Mol Biol 2012; 423:540-54. [PMID: 22925580 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2012.08.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2012] [Revised: 08/14/2012] [Accepted: 08/19/2012] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Cytosolic 5'-nucleotidase III (cN-III) is responsible for selective degradation of pyrimidine 5'-monoribonucleotides during maturation of reticulocytes to erythrocytes. The lack of this enzymatic activity due to genetic aberrations or lead poisoning results in a mild to moderate nonspherocytic hemolytic anemia. In affected individuals, pyrimidine nucleotides as well as their precursor polymers and their off-path metabolites accumulate in erythrocytes, interfering with their proper function in ways that are not yet fully understood. This report describes the first X-ray structure of a catalytically inactivated variant of murine cN-III with a natural substrate, uridine 5'-monophosphate, in the active site at 1.74Å resolution. The structure captures in an atomic detail the closed conformation that cN-III adopts upon substrate binding. Structure and sequence analysis coupled with enzymatic characterization of several mutants confirmed that the aromatic ring of a nitrogenous base of substrate nucleotide is stabilized by parallel π-stacking interactions with conserved aromatic rings of Trp113 and His68. The nitrogenous base is further stabilized by T-shaped stacking with the conserved aromatic ring of Tyr114, as well as by polar contacts with side chains of Thr66 and Ser117. Two water molecules help to stabilize the nucleotide binding by bridging it to protein residues Asp72 and His68 via hydrogen bonds. Finally, fully conserved Glu96 is responsible for recognition of ribose ring via two hydrogen bonds. The presented substrate complex structure elucidates how cN-III achieves specificity for pyrimidine 5'-nucleotides and how it selects against purine 5'-nucleotides.
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Bitto E, Kim DJ, Bingman CA, Kim HJ, Han BW, Phillips GN. Crystal structure of tandem ACT domain-containing protein ACTP from Galdieria sulphuraria. Proteins 2012; 80:2105-2109. [PMID: 22528523 DOI: 10.1002/prot.24101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2012] [Revised: 04/13/2012] [Accepted: 04/17/2012] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The ACT domain is a structurally conserved small molecule binding domain which is mostly involved in amino acid and purine metabolism. Here, we report the crystal structure of a tandem ACT domain-containing protein (ACTP) from Galdieria sulphuraria. The two ACTP monomers in the asymmetric unit form a dimer with a non-crystallographic twofold axis in a domain-swapped manner, showing a horseshoe-like structure with a central crevice. This structure contributes to expand our knowledge on the structural diversity of ACT domain-containing proteins.
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- Eduard Bitto
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey 08701, USA
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- Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
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- Department of Biochemistry, Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- College of Pharmacy, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 156-756, Korea
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- Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
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- Department of Biochemistry, Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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Burgie SE, Bingman CA, Soni AB, Phillips GN. Structural characterization of human Uch37. Proteins 2011; 80:649-54. [PMID: 21953935 DOI: 10.1002/prot.23147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2011] [Accepted: 07/07/2011] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Uch37 is a de-ubiquitylating enzyme that is functionally linked with the 26S proteasome via Rpn13, and is essential for metazoan development. Here, we report the X-ray crystal structure of full-length human Uch37 at 2.95 Å resolution. Uch37's catalytic domain is similar to those of all UCH enzymes characterized to date. The C-terminal extension is elongated, predominantly helical and contains coiled coil interactions. Additionally, we provide an initial characterization of Uch37's oligomeric state and identify a systematic error in previous analyses of Uch37 activity. Taken together, these data provide a strong foundation for further analysis of Uch37's several functions.
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- Sethe E Burgie
- Department of Biochemistry, Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison Wisconsin 53706-1544
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Bianchetti CM, Bingman CA, Phillips GN. Structure of the C-terminal heme-binding domain of THAP domain containing protein 4 from Homo sapiens. Proteins 2011; 79:1337-41. [PMID: 21387410 PMCID: PMC3179982 DOI: 10.1002/prot.22944] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2010] [Accepted: 11/05/2010] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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- Christopher M. Bianchetti
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA,Centers for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA,Centers for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA,Centers for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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Ziarek JJ, Peterson FC, Lytle BL, Volkman BF. Binding site identification and structure determination of protein-ligand complexes by NMR a semiautomated approach. Methods Enzymol 2011; 493:241-75. [PMID: 21371594 PMCID: PMC3635485 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-381274-2.00010-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Over the last 15 years, the role of NMR spectroscopy in the lead identification and optimization stages of pharmaceutical drug discovery has steadily increased. NMR occupies a unique niche in the biophysical analysis of drug-like compounds because of its ability to identify binding sites, affinities, and ligand poses at the level of individual amino acids without necessarily solving the structure of the protein-ligand complex. However, it can also provide structures of flexible proteins and low-affinity (K(d)>10(-6)M) complexes, which often fail to crystallize. This chapter emphasizes a throughput-focused protocol that aims to identify practical aspects of binding site characterization, automated and semiautomated NMR assignment methods, and structure determination of protein-ligand complexes by NMR.
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- Joshua J. Ziarek
- Department of Biochemistry, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53226 USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53226 USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53226 USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53226 USA
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Sun P, Tropea JE, Waugh DS. Enhancing the solubility of recombinant proteins in Escherichia coli by using hexahistidine-tagged maltose-binding protein as a fusion partner. Methods Mol Biol 2011; 705:259-274. [PMID: 21125392 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61737-967-3_16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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In the field of biotechnology, fusing recombinant proteins to highly soluble partners is a common practice for overcoming aggregation in Escherichia coli. E. coli maltose-binding protein (MBP) has been recognized as one of the most effective solubilizing agents, having frequently been observed to improve the yield, enhance the solubility, and promote the proper folding of its fusion partners. The use of a dual hexahistidine-maltose-binding protein affinity tag (His(6)-MBP) has the additional advantage of allowing the fusion protein to be purified by immobilized metal affinity chromatography (IMAC) instead of or in addition to amylose affinity chromatography. This chapter describes a generic method for the overproduction of combinatorially tagged His(6)-MBP fusion proteins in E. coli, with particular emphasis on the use of recombinational cloning to construct expression vectors. In addition, simple methods for evaluating the solubility of the fusion protein and the passenger protein after it is cleaved from the dual His(6)-MBP tag are presented.
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- Ping Sun
- Macromolecular Crystallography Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, MD, USA.
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Jeon WB. Retrospective analyses of the bottleneck in purification of eukaryotic proteins from Escherichia coli as affected by molecular weight, cysteine content and isoelectric point. BMB Rep 2010; 43:319-24. [PMID: 20510014 DOI: 10.5483/bmbrep.2010.43.5.319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Experimental bioinformatics data obtained from an E. coli cell-based eukaryotic protein purification experiment were analyzed in order to identify any bottleneck as well as the factors affecting the target purification. All targets were expressed as His-tagged maltose-binding protein (MBP) fusion constructs and were initially purified by immobilized metal affinity chromatography (IMAC). The targets were subsequently separated from the His-tagged MBP through TEV protease cleavage followed by a second IMAC isolation. Of the 743 total purification trials, 342 yielded more than 3 mg of target proteins for structural studies. The major reason for failure of target purification was poor TEV proteolysis. The overall success rate for target purification decreased linearly as cysteine content or isoelectric point (pI) of the target increased. This pattern of pI versus overall success rate strongly suggests that pI should be incorporated into target scoring criteria with a threshold value.
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- Won Bae Jeon
- Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, Korea.
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Bae E, Bitto E, Bingman CA, McCoy JG, Wesenberg GE, Phillips GN. Crystal structure of an eIF4G-like protein from Danio rerio. Proteins 2010; 78:1803-6. [PMID: 20229607 DOI: 10.1002/prot.22703] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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- Euiyoung Bae
- Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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Zucker FH, Stewart C, dela Rosa J, Kim J, Zhang L, Xiao L, Ross J, Napuli AJ, Mueller N, Castaneda LJ, Nakazawa Hewitt SR, Arakaki TL, Larson ET, Subramanian E, Verlinde CLMJ, Fan E, Buckner FS, Van Voorhis WC, Merritt EA, Hol WGJ. Prediction of protein crystallization outcome using a hybrid method. J Struct Biol 2010; 171:64-73. [PMID: 20347992 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2010.03.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2009] [Revised: 03/18/2010] [Accepted: 03/23/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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The great power of protein crystallography to reveal biological structure is often limited by the tremendous effort required to produce suitable crystals. A hybrid crystal growth predictive model is presented that combines both experimental and sequence-derived data from target proteins, including novel variables derived from physico-chemical characterization such as R(30), the ratio between a protein's DSF intensity at 30°C and at T(m). This hybrid model is shown to be more powerful than sequence-based prediction alone - and more likely to be useful for prioritizing and directing the efforts of structural genomics and individual structural biology laboratories.
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- Frank H Zucker
- Medical Structural Genomics of Pathogenic Protozoa, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-7742, United States
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Bianchetti CM, Blouin GC, Bitto E, Olson JS, Phillips GN. The structure and NO binding properties of the nitrophorin-like heme-binding protein from Arabidopsis thaliana gene locus At1g79260.1. Proteins 2010; 78:917-31. [PMID: 19938152 PMCID: PMC2811769 DOI: 10.1002/prot.22617] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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The protein from Arabidopsis thaliana gene locus At1g79260.1 is comprised of 166-residues and is of previously unknown function. Initial structural studies by the Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics (CESG) suggested that this protein might bind heme, and consequently, the crystal structures of apo and heme-bound forms were solved to near atomic resolution of 1.32 A and 1.36 A, respectively. The rate of hemin loss from the protein was measured to be 3.6 x 10(-5) s(-1), demonstrating that it binds heme specifically and with high affinity. The protein forms a compact 10-stranded beta-barrel that is structurally similar to the lipocalins and fatty acid binding proteins (FABPs). One group of lipocalins, the nitrophorins (NP), are heme proteins involved in nitric oxide (NO) transport and show both sequence and structural similarity to the protein from At1g79260.1 and two human homologues, all of which contain a proximal histidine capable of coordinating a heme iron. Rapid-mixing and laser photolysis techniques were used to determine the rate constants for carbon monoxide (CO) binding to the ferrous form of the protein (k'(CO) = 0.23 microM(-1) s(-1), k(CO) = 0.050 s(-1)) and NO binding to the ferric form (k'(NO) = 1.2 microM(-1) s(-1), k(NO) = 73 s(-1)). Based on both structural and functional similarity to the nitrophorins, we have named the protein nitrobindin and hypothesized that it plays a role in NO transport. However, one of the two human homologs of nitrobindin contains a THAP domain, implying a possible role in apoptosis. Proteins 2010. (c) 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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- Christopher M. Bianchetti
- Departments of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA,Centers for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology and the W. M. Keck Center for Computational Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgian Court University, Lakewood NJ 08701
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- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology and the W. M. Keck Center for Computational Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005
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- Departments of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA,Centers for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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Bitto E, Bingman CA, Bittova L, Frederick RO, Fox BG, Phillips GN. X-ray structure of Danio rerio secretagogin: A hexa-EF-hand calcium sensor. Proteins 2010; 76:477-83. [PMID: 19241471 DOI: 10.1002/prot.22362] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Many essential physiological processes are regulated by the modulation of calcium concentration in the cell. The EF-hand proteins represent a superfamily of calcium-binding proteins involved in calcium signaling and homeostasis. Secretagogin is a hexa-EF-hand protein that is highly expressed in pancreatic islet of Langerhans and neuroendocrine cells and may play a role in the trafficking of secretory granules. We present the X-ray structure of Danio rerio secretagogin, which is 73% identical to human secretagogin, in calcium-free form at 2.1-A resolution. Secretagogin consists of the three globular domains each of which contains a pair of EF-hand motifs. The domains are arranged into a V-shaped molecule with a distinct groove formed at the interface of the domains. Comparison of the secretagogin structure with the solution structure of calcium-loaded calbindin D(28K) revealed a striking difference in the spatial arrangement of their domains, which involves approximately 180 degrees rotation of the first globular domain with respect to the module formed by the remaining domains.
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- Eduard Bitto
- Department of Biochemistry, Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 53706-1544, USA
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Oppenheimer M, Pierce BS, Crawford JA, Ray K, Helm RF, Sobrado P. Recombinant expression, purification, and characterization of ThmD, the oxidoreductase component of tetrahydrofuran monooxygenase. Arch Biochem Biophys 2010; 496:123-31. [PMID: 20159007 DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2010.02.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2009] [Revised: 02/09/2010] [Accepted: 02/10/2010] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Tetrahydrofuran monooxygenase (Thm) catalyzes the NADH-and oxygen-dependent hydroxylation of tetrahydrofuran to 2-hydroxytetrahydrofuran. Thm is composed of a hydroxylase enzyme, a regulatory subunit, and an oxidoreductase named ThmD. ThmD was expressed in Escherichia coli as a fusion to maltose-binding protein (MBP) and isolated to homogeneity after removal of the MBP. Purified ThmD contains covalently bound FAD, [2Fe-2S] center, and was shown to use ferricyanide, cytochrome c, 2,6-dichloroindophenol, and to a lesser extent, oxygen as surrogate electron acceptors. ThmD displays 160-fold preference for NADH over NADPH and functions as a monomer. The flavin-binding domain of ThmD (ThmD-FD) was purified and characterized. ThmD-FD displayed similar activity as the full-length ThmD and showed a unique flavin spectrum with a major peak at 463nm and a small peak at 396 nm. Computational modeling and mutagenesis analyses suggest a novel three-dimensional fold or covalent flavin attachment in ThmD.
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Lytle BL, Song J, de la Cruz NB, Peterson FC, Johnson KA, Bingman CA, Phillips GN, Volkman BF. Structures of two Arabidopsis thaliana major latex proteins represent novel helix-grip folds. Proteins 2009; 76:237-43. [PMID: 19326460 DOI: 10.1002/prot.22396] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Betsy L Lytle
- Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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Markley JL, Aceti DJ, Bingman CA, Fox BG, Frederick RO, Makino SI, Nichols KW, Phillips GN, Primm JG, Sahu SC, Vojtik FC, Volkman BF, Wrobel RL, Zolnai Z. The Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics. JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS 2009; 10:165-79. [PMID: 19130299 PMCID: PMC2705709 DOI: 10.1007/s10969-008-9057-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2008] [Accepted: 12/12/2008] [Indexed: 10/29/2022]
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The Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics (CESG) is a "specialized" or "technology development" center supported by the Protein Structure Initiative (PSI). CESG's mission is to develop improved methods for the high-throughput solution of structures from eukaryotic proteins, with a very strong weighting toward human proteins of biomedical relevance. During the first three years of PSI-2, CESG selected targets representing 601 proteins from Homo sapiens, 33 from mouse, 10 from rat, 139 from Galdieria sulphuraria, 35 from Arabidopsis thaliana, 96 from Cyanidioschyzon merolae, 80 from Plasmodium falciparum, 24 from yeast, and about 25 from other eukaryotes. Notably, 30% of all structures of human proteins solved by the PSI Centers were determined at CESG. Whereas eukaryotic proteins generally are considered to be much more challenging targets than prokaryotic proteins, the technology now in place at CESG yields success rates that are comparable to those of the large production centers that work primarily on prokaryotic proteins. We describe here the technological innovations that underlie CESG's platforms for bioinformatics and laboratory information management, target selection, protein production, and structure determination by X-ray crystallography or NMR spectroscopy.
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- John L Markley
- Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, Biochemistry Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA.
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Aceti DJ, Bitto E, Yakunin AF, Proudfoot M, Bingman CA, Frederick RO, Sreenath HK, Vojtik FC, Wrobel RL, Fox BG, Markley JL, Phillips GN. Structural and functional characterization of a novel phosphatase from the Arabidopsis thaliana gene locus At1g05000. Proteins 2009; 73:241-53. [PMID: 18433060 DOI: 10.1002/prot.22041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The crystal structure of the protein product of the gene locus At1g05000, a hypothetical protein from A. thaliana, was determined by the multiple-wavelength anomalous diffraction method and was refined to an R factor of 20.4% (R(free) = 24.9%) at 3.3 A. The protein adopts the alpha/beta fold found in cysteine phosphatases, a superfamily of phosphatases that possess a catalytic cysteine and form a covalent thiol-phosphate intermediate during the catalytic cycle. In At1g05000, the analogous cysteine (Cys(150)) is located at the bottom of a positively-charged pocket formed by residues that include the conserved arginine (Arg(156)) of the signature active site motif, HCxxGxxRT. Of 74 model phosphatase substrates tested, purified recombinant At1g05000 showed highest activity toward polyphosphate (poly-P(12-13)) and deoxyribo- and ribonucleoside triphosphates, and less activity toward phosphoenolpyruvate, phosphotyrosine, phosphotyrosine-containing peptides, and phosphatidyl inositols. Divalent metal cations were not required for activity and had little effect on the reaction.
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- David J Aceti
- Department of Biochemistry, The Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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McCoy JG, Bailey LJ, Ng YH, Bingman CA, Wrobel R, Weber APM, Fox BG, Phillips GN. Discovery of sarcosine dimethylglycine methyltransferase from Galdieria sulphuraria. Proteins 2009; 74:368-77. [PMID: 18623062 DOI: 10.1002/prot.22147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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An enzyme with sarcosine dimethylglycine methyltransferase (SDMT) activity has been identified in the thermophilic eukaryote, Galdieria sulphuraria. The crystal structure of the enzyme, solved to a resolution of 1.95 A, revealed a fold highly similar to that of mycolic acid synthases. The kcat and apparent K(M) values were 64.3 min(-1) and 2.0 mM for sarcosine and 85.6 min(-1) and 2.8 mM for dimethylglycine, respectively. Apparent K(M) values of S-adenosylmethionine were 144 and 150 microM for sarcosine and dimethylglycine, respectively, and the enzyme melting temperature was 61.1 degrees C. Modeling of cofactor binding in the active site based on the structure of methoxy mycolic acid synthase 2 revealed a number of conserved interactions within the active site.
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- Jason G McCoy
- Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics and Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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Bitto E, Bingman CA, Bittova L, Houston NL, Boston RS, Fox BG, Phillips GN. X-ray structure of ILL2, an auxin-conjugate amidohydrolase from Arabidopsis thaliana. Proteins 2009; 74:61-71. [PMID: 18543330 DOI: 10.1002/prot.22124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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The plant hormone indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) is the most abundant natural auxin involved in many aspects of plant development and growth. The IAA levels in plants are modulated by a specific group of amidohydrolases from the peptidase M20D family that release the active hormone from its conjugated storage forms. Here, we describe the X-ray crystal structure of IAA-amino acid hydrolase IAA-leucine resistantlike gene 2 (ILL2) from Arabidopsis thaliana at 2.0 A resolution. ILL2 preferentially hydrolyses the auxin-amino acid conjugate N-(indol-3-acetyl)-alanine. The overall structure of ILL2 is reminiscent of dinuclear metallopeptidases from the M20 peptidase family. The structure consists of two domains, a larger catalytic domain with three-layer alpha beta alpha sandwich architecture and aminopeptidase topology and a smaller satellite domain with two-layer alphabeta-sandwich architecture and alpha-beta-plaits topology. The metal-coordinating residues in the active site of ILL2 include a conserved cysteine that clearly distinguishes this protein from previously structurally characterized members of the M20 peptidase family. Modeling of N-(indol-3-acetyl)-alanine into the active site of ILL2 suggests that Leu175 serves as a key determinant for the amino acid side-chain specificity of this enzyme. Furthermore, a hydrophobic pocket nearby the catalytic dimetal center likely recognizes the indolyl moiety of the substrate. Finally, the active site of ILL2 harbors an absolutely conserved glutamate (Glu172), which is well positioned to act as a general acid-base residue. Overall, the structure of ILL2 suggests that this enzyme likely uses a catalytic mechanism that follows the paradigm established for the other enzymes of the M20 peptidase family.
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- Eduard Bitto
- Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1544, USA
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A protocol for ligation-dependent cloning using the Flexi Vector method in a 96-well format is described. The complete protocol includes PCR amplification of the desired gene to append Flexi Vector cloning sequences, restriction digestion of the PCR products, ligation of the digested PCR products into a similarly digested acceptor vector, transformation and growth of host cells, analysis of the transformed clones, and storage of a sequence-verified clone. The protocol also includes transfer of the sequence-verified clones into another Flexi Vector plasmid backbone. Smaller numbers of cloning reactions can be undertaken by appropriate scaling of the indicated reaction volumes.
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Bitto E, Bingman CA, Bittova L, Kondrashov DA, Bannen RM, Fox BG, Markley JL, Phillips GN. Structure of human J-type co-chaperone HscB reveals a tetracysteine metal-binding domain. J Biol Chem 2008; 283:30184-92. [PMID: 18713742 PMCID: PMC2573069 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m804746200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2008] [Revised: 08/14/2008] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Iron-sulfur proteins play indispensable roles in a broad range of biochemical processes. The biogenesis of iron-sulfur proteins is a complex process that has become a subject of extensive research. The final step of iron-sulfur protein assembly involves transfer of an iron-sulfur cluster from a cluster-donor to a cluster-acceptor protein. This process is facilitated by a specialized chaperone system, which consists of a molecular chaperone from the Hsc70 family and a co-chaperone of the J-domain family. The 3.0 A crystal structure of a human mitochondrial J-type co-chaperone HscB revealed an L-shaped protein that resembles Escherichia coli HscB. The important difference between the two homologs is the presence of an auxiliary metal-binding domain at the N terminus of human HscB that coordinates a metal via the tetracysteine consensus motif CWXCX(9-13)FCXXCXXXQ. The domain is found in HscB homologs from animals and plants as well as in magnetotactic bacteria. The metal-binding site of the domain is structurally similar to that of rubredoxin and several zinc finger proteins containing rubredoxin-like knuckles. The normal mode analysis of HscB revealed that this L-shaped protein preferentially undergoes a scissors-like motion that correlates well with the conformational changes of human HscB observed in the crystals.
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- Eduard Bitto
- Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1544, USA
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Structural basis for RNA recognition by a type II poly(A)-binding protein. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2008; 105:15317-22. [PMID: 18824697 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0801274105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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We identified a functional domain (XlePABP2-TRP) of Xenopus laevis embryonic type II poly(A)-binding protein (XlePABP2). The NMR structure of XlePABP2-TRP revealed that the protein is a homodimer formed by the antiparallel association of beta-strands from the single RNA recognition motif (RRM) domain of each subunit. In each subunit of the homodimer, the canonical RNA recognition site is occluded by a polyproline motif. Upon poly(A) binding, XlePABP2-TRP undergoes a dimer-monomer transition that removes the polyproline motif from the RNA recognition site and allows it to be replaced by the adenosine nucleotides of poly(A). Our results provide high-resolution structural information concerning type II PABPs and an example of a single RRM domain protein that transitions from a homodimer to a monomer upon RNA binding. These findings advance our understanding of RRM domain regulation, poly(A) recognition, and are relevant to understanding how type II PABPs function in mRNA processing and human disease.
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Liew CK, Gamsjaeger R, Mansfield RE, Mackay JP. NMR spectroscopy as a tool for the rapid assessment of the conformation of GST-fusion proteins. Protein Sci 2008; 17:1630-5. [PMID: 18556474 DOI: 10.1110/ps.034983.108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Glutathione-S-transferase (GST)-fusion proteins are used extensively for structural, biochemical, and functional analyses. Although the conformation of the target protein is of critical importance, confirmation of the folded state of the target is often not undertaken or is cumbersome because of the requirement to first remove the GST tag. Here, we demonstrate that it is possible to record conventional (15)N-HSQC NMR spectra of small GST-fusion proteins and that the observed signals arise almost exclusively from the target protein. This approach constitutes a rapid and straightforward means of assessing the conformation of a GST-fusion protein without having to cleave the GST and should prove valuable, both to biochemists seeking to check the conformation of their proteins prior to functional studies and to structural biologists screening protein constructs for suitability as targets for structural studies.
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- Chu Kong Liew
- School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia.
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Song J, Bettendorff L, Tonelli M, Markley JL. Structural basis for the catalytic mechanism of mammalian 25-kDa thiamine triphosphatase. J Biol Chem 2008; 283:10939-48. [PMID: 18276586 PMCID: PMC2447667 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m709675200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2007] [Revised: 02/06/2008] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Mammalian soluble thiamine triphosphatase (ThTPase) is a 25-kDa cytosolic enzyme that specifically catalyzes the conversion of thiamine triphosphate (ThTP) to thiamine diphosphate and has an absolute requirement for divalent cations. We have investigated the kinetic properties of recombinant mouse thiamine triphosphatase (mThTPase) and determined its solution structure by NMR spectroscopy. Residues responsible for binding Mg(2+) and ThTP were determined from NMR titration experiments. The binding of Mg(2+) induced only a minor local conformational change, whereas ThTP binding was found to cause a more global conformational change. We derived a structural model for the mThTPase.ThTP.Mg(2+) ternary complex and concluded from this that whereas free mThTPase has an open cleft fold, the enzyme in the ternary complex adopts a tunnel fold. Our results provide a functional rationale for a number of conserved residues and suggest an essential role for Mg(2+) in catalysis. We propose a mechanism underlying the high substrate specificity of mThTPase and discuss the possible role of water molecules in enzymatic catalysis.
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- Jikui Song
- Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics and National Magnetic Resonance Facility at Madison, Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1544, USA
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Bae E, Bingman CA, Bitto E, Aceti DJ, Phillips GN. Crystal structure of Arabidopsis thaliana cytokinin dehydrogenase. Proteins 2008; 70:303-6. [PMID: 17886275 DOI: 10.1002/prot.21678] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Euiyoung Bae
- Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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Bitto E, Bingman CA, Kondrashov DA, McCoy JG, Bannen RM, Wesenberg GE, Phillips GN. Structure and dynamics of gamma-SNAP: insight into flexibility of proteins from the SNAP family. Proteins 2008; 70:93-104. [PMID: 17634982 DOI: 10.1002/prot.21468] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment protein gamma (gamma-SNAP) is a member of an eukaryotic protein family involved in intracellular membrane trafficking. The X-ray structure of Brachydanio rerio gamma-SNAP was determined to 2.6 A and revealed an all-helical protein comprised of an extended twisted-sheet of helical hairpins with a helical-bundle domain on its carboxy-terminal end. Structural and conformational differences between multiple observed gamma-SNAP molecules and Sec17, a SNAP family protein from yeast, are analyzed. Conformational variation in gamma-SNAP molecules is matched with great precision by the two lowest frequency normal modes of the structure. Comparison of the lowest-frequency modes from gamma-SNAP and Sec17 indicated that the structures share preferred directions of flexibility, corresponding to bending and twisting of the twisted sheet motif. We discuss possible consequences related to the flexibility of the SNAP proteins for the mechanism of the 20S complex disassembly during the SNAP receptors recycling.
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- Eduard Bitto
- Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1544, USA
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Methods for protein characterization by mass spectrometry, thermal shift (ThermoFluor) assay, and multiangle or static light scattering. Methods Mol Biol 2008; 426:299-318. [PMID: 18542872 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60327-058-8_19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/04/2022]
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Mass spectrometry (MS) is widely used within structural and functional proteomics for a variety of tasks including protein quality assessment, identification, and characterization. MS is used routinely for the determination of the total mass of proteins, including N-glycosylated proteins, analysis of selenomethionine incorporation, crystal content verification, and analysis of N-glycosylation site occupancy. Protocols for sample preparation, data collection, and analysis are given.A recent development is the fluorescence-based thermal shift (ThermoFluor) assay. It uses an environmentally sensitive dye, Sypro Orange, to monitor the thermal stability of a protein and investigate factors (e.g., buffers, additives, and ligands) affecting this stability. This chapter describes the application of this method using a 96-condition in-house screen. The measurements are performed on a commercially available real-time PCR machine. Multiangle or static light scattering (SLS) is a very powerful technique to determine the conformational state of proteins in solution, especially when used in combination with size exclusion chromatography (SEC). In the authors' experimental set-up the SLS detector is connected in-line to a standard protein purification machine (e.g., the Akta Purifier) equipped with an analytical SEC column. The data collection and analysis are performed using commercial software.
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Small-scale, semi-automated purification of eukaryotic proteins for structure determination. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 8:153-66. [PMID: 17985212 PMCID: PMC2668602 DOI: 10.1007/s10969-007-9032-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2007] [Accepted: 10/16/2007] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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A simple approach that allows cost-effective automated purification of recombinant proteins in levels sufficient for functional characterization or structural studies is described. Studies with four human stem cell proteins, an engineered version of green fluorescent protein, and other proteins are included. The method combines an expression vector (pVP62K) that provides in vivo cleavage of an initial fusion protein, a factorial designed auto-induction medium that improves the performance of small-scale production, and rapid, automated metal affinity purification of His8-tagged proteins. For initial small-scale production screening, single colony transformants were grown overnight in 0.4 ml of auto-induction medium, produced proteins were purified using the Promega Maxwell 16, and purification results were analyzed by Caliper LC90 capillary electrophoresis. The yield of purified [U-15N]-His8-Tcl-1 was 7.5 μg/ml of culture medium, of purified [U-15N]-His8-GFP was 68 μg/ml, and of purified selenomethione-labeled AIA–GFP (His8 removed by treatment with TEV protease) was 172 μg/ml. The yield information obtained from a successful automated purification from 0.4 ml was used to inform the decision to scale-up for a second meso-scale (10–50 ml) cell growth and automated purification. 1H–15N NMR HSQC spectra of His8-Tcl-1 and of His8-GFP prepared from 50 ml cultures showed excellent chemical shift dispersion, consistent with well folded states in solution suitable for structure determination. Moreover, AIA–GFP obtained by proteolytic removal of the His8 tag was subjected to crystallization screening, and yielded crystals under several conditions. Single crystals were subsequently produced and optimized by the hanging drop method. The structure was solved by molecular replacement at a resolution of 1.7 Å. This approach provides an efficient way to carry out several key target screening steps that are essential for successful operation of proteomics pipelines with eukaryotic proteins: examination of total expression, determination of proteolysis of fusion tags, quantification of the yield of purified protein, and suitability for structure determination.
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Bae E, Bingman CA, Aceti DJ, Phillips GN. Crystal structure of Homo sapiens protein LOC79017. Proteins 2007; 70:588-91. [DOI: 10.1002/prot.21719] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Nallamsetty S, Waugh DS. A generic protocol for the expression and purification of recombinant proteins in Escherichia coli using a combinatorial His6-maltose binding protein fusion tag. Nat Protoc 2007; 2:383-91. [PMID: 17406599 DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2007.50] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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We describe a generic protocol for the overproduction and purification of recombinant proteins in Escherichia coli. The strategy utilizes a dual His6-maltose binding protein (HisMBP) affinity tag that can be removed from the target protein by digestion of the fusion protein at a designed site by tobacco etch virus protease. The MBP moiety serves to enhance the solubility and promote the proper folding of its fusion partners, and the polyhistidine tag facilitates its purification to homogeneity. This protocol is divided into three stages, each of which takes approximately 1 week to complete: (i) construction of a HisMBP fusion vector; (ii) a pilot experiment to assess the yield and solubility of the target protein; and (iii) the large-scale production and purification of the target protein.
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- Sreedevi Nallamsetty
- Macromolecular Crystallography Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, P.O. Box B, Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201, USA
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Hansen JK, Demick KP, Mansfield JM, Forest KT. Conserved regions from Neisseria gonorrhoeae pilin are immunosilent and not immunosuppressive. Infect Immun 2007; 75:4138-47. [PMID: 17562775 PMCID: PMC1951979 DOI: 10.1128/iai.02015-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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PilE is the primary subunit of type IV pili from Neisseria gonorrhoeae and contains a surface-exposed hypervariable region thought to be one feature of pili that has prevented development of a pilin-based vaccine. We have created a three-dimensional structure-based antigen by replacing the hypervariable region of PilE with an aspartate-glutamine linker chosen from the sequence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PilA. We then characterized murine immune responses to this novel protein to determine if conserved PilE regions could serve as a vaccine candidate. The control PilE protein elicited strong T-cell-dependent B-cell responses that are specific to epitopes in both the hypervariable deletion and control proteins. In contrast, the hypervariable deletion protein was unable to elicit an immune response in mice, suggesting that in the absence of the hypervariable region, the conserved regions of PilE alone are not sufficient for antibody production. Further analysis of these PilE proteins with suppressor cell assays showed that neither suppresses T- or B-cell responses, and flow cytometry experiments suggested that they do not exert suppressor effects by activating T regulatory cells. Our results show that in the murine model, the hypervariable region of PilE is required to activate immune responses to pilin, whereas the conserved regions are unusually nonimmunogenic. In addition, we show that both hypervariable and conserved regions of pilin are not suppressive, suggesting that PilE does not cause the decrease in T-cell populations observed during gonococcal cervicitis.
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- Johanna K Hansen
- Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 420 Henry Mall, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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Bae E, Reiter NJ, Bingman CA, Kwan SS, Lee D, Phillips GN, Butcher SE, Brow DA. Structure and interactions of the first three RNA recognition motifs of splicing factor prp24. J Mol Biol 2007; 367:1447-58. [PMID: 17320109 PMCID: PMC1939982 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2007.01.078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2006] [Revised: 01/24/2007] [Accepted: 01/31/2007] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The essential Saccharomyces cerevisiae pre-messenger RNA splicing protein 24 (Prp24) has four RNA recognition motifs (RRMs) and facilitates U6 RNA base-pairing with U4 RNA during spliceosome assembly. Prp24 is a component of the free U6 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particle (snRNP) but not the U4/U6 bi-snRNP, and so is thought to be displaced from U6 by U4/U6 base-pairing. The interaction partners of each of the four RRMs of Prp24 and how these interactions direct U4/U6 pairing are not known. Here we report the crystal structure of the first three RRMs and the solution structure of the first two RRMs of Prp24. Strikingly, RRM 2 forms extensive inter-domain contacts with RRMs 1 and 3. These contacts occupy much of the canonical RNA-binding faces (beta-sheets) of RRMs 1 and 2, but leave the beta-sheet of RRM 3 exposed. Previously identified substitutions in Prp24 that suppress mutations in U4 and U6 spliceosomal RNAs cluster primarily in the beta-sheet of RRM 3, but also in a conserved loop of RRM 2. RNA binding assays and chemical shift mapping indicate that a large basic patch evident on the surface of RRMs 1 and 2 is part of a high affinity U6 RNA binding site. Our results suggest that Prp24 binds free U6 RNA primarily with RRMs 1 and 2, which may remodel the U6 secondary structure. The beta-sheet of RRM 3 then influences U4/U6 pairing through interaction with an unidentified ligand.
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- Euiyoung Bae
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
- Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
- Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
- Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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Tyler RC, Bitto E, Berndsen CE, Bingman CA, Singh S, Lee MS, Wesenberg GE, Denu JM, Phillips GN, Markley JL. Structure of Arabidopsis thaliana At1g77540 protein, a minimal acetyltransferase from the COG2388 family. Biochemistry 2007; 45:14325-36. [PMID: 17128971 PMCID: PMC2533278 DOI: 10.1021/bi0612059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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We describe X-ray crystal and NMR solution structures of the protein coded for by Arabidopsis thaliana gene At1g77540.1 (At1g77540). The crystal structure was determined to 1.15 A with an R factor of 14.9% (Rfree = 17.0%) by multiple-wavelength anomalous diffraction using sodium bromide derivatized crystals. The ensemble of NMR conformers was determined with protein samples labeled with 15N and 13C + 15N. The X-ray structure and NMR ensemble were closely similar with rmsd 1.4 A for residues 8-93. At1g77540 was found to adopt a fold similar to that of GCN5-related N-acetyltransferases. Enzymatic activity assays established that At1g77540 possesses weak acetyltransferase activity against histones H3 and H4. Chemical shift perturbations observed in 15N-HSQC spectra upon the addition of CoA indicated that the cofactor binds and identified its binding site. The molecular details of this interaction were further elucidated by solving the X-ray structure of the At1g77540-CoA complex. This work establishes that the domain family COG2388 represents a novel class of acetyltransferase and provides insight into possible mechanistic roles of the conserved Cys76 and His41 residues of this family.
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- To whom correspondence should be addressed: Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706. Telephone: (608) 263-9349. Fax: (608) 262-3759. E-mail:
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Bitto E, Bingman CA, Wesenberg GE, McCoy JG, Phillips GN. Structure of aspartoacylase, the brain enzyme impaired in Canavan disease. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007; 104:456-61. [PMID: 17194761 PMCID: PMC1766406 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0607817104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2006] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Aspartoacylase catalyzes hydrolysis of N-acetyl-l-aspartate to aspartate and acetate in the vertebrate brain. Deficiency in this activity leads to spongiform degeneration of the white matter of the brain and is the established cause of Canavan disease, a fatal progressive leukodystrophy affecting young children. We present crystal structures of recombinant human and rat aspartoacylase refined to 2.8- and 1.8-A resolution, respectively. The structures revealed that the N-terminal domain of aspartoacylase adopts a protein fold similar to that of zinc-dependent hydrolases related to carboxypeptidases A. The catalytic site of aspartoacylase shows close structural similarity to those of carboxypeptidases despite only 10-13% sequence identity between these proteins. About 100 C-terminal residues of aspartoacylase form a globular domain with a two-stranded beta-sheet linker that wraps around the N-terminal domain. The long channel leading to the active site is formed by the interface of the N- and C-terminal domains. The C-terminal domain is positioned in a way that prevents productive binding of polypeptides in the active site. The structures revealed that residues 158-164 may undergo a conformational change that results in opening and partial closing of the channel entrance. We hypothesize that the catalytic mechanism of aspartoacylase is closely analogous to that of carboxypeptidases. We identify residues involved in zinc coordination, and propose which residues may be involved in substrate binding and catalysis. The structures also provide a structural framework necessary for understanding the deleterious effects of many missense mutations of human aspartoacylase.
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- Eduard Bitto
- Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706-1544
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- Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706-1544
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- Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706-1544
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- Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706-1544
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- Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706-1544
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Cornvik T, Dahlroth SL, Magnusdottir A, Flodin S, Engvall B, Lieu V, Ekberg M, Nordlund P. An efficient and generic strategy for producing soluble human proteins and domains in E. coli by screening construct libraries. Proteins 2006; 65:266-73. [PMID: 16948159 DOI: 10.1002/prot.21090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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The implementation of generic and efficient technologies for the production of recombinant eukaryotic proteins remains an outstanding challenge in structural genomics programs. We have recently developed a new method for rapid identification of soluble protein expression in E. coli, the colony filtration blot (CoFi blot). In this study, the CoFi blot was used to screen libraries where the N-terminal translation start point was randomized. To investigate the efficiency of this strategy, we have attributed a large number of proteins to this process. In a set of 32 mammalian proteins, we were able to double the success rate (from 34 to 68%) of producing soluble and readily purifiable proteins in E. coli. Most of the selected constructs had their N-termini close to predicted domain borders and the method therefore provides a mean for experimental "domain foot printing." Surprisingly, for most of the targets, we also observed expressing constructs that were close to full-length. In summary this strategy constitutes a generic and efficient method for producing mammalian proteins for structural and functional studies.
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- Tobias Cornvik
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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McCoy JG, Bitto E, Bingman CA, Wesenberg GE, Bannen RM, Kondrashov DA, Phillips GN. Structure and dynamics of UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase from Arabidopsis thaliana with bound UDP-glucose and UTP. J Mol Biol 2006; 366:830-41. [PMID: 17178129 PMCID: PMC1847403 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2006.11.059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2006] [Revised: 11/15/2006] [Accepted: 11/17/2006] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The structure of the UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase encoded by Arabidopsis thaliana gene At3g03250 has been solved to a nominal resolution of 1.86 Angstroms. In addition, the structure has been solved in the presence of the substrates/products UTP and UDP-glucose to nominal resolutions of 1.64 Angstroms and 1.85 Angstroms. The three structures revealed a catalytic domain similar to that of other nucleotidyl-glucose pyrophosphorylases with a carboxy-terminal beta-helix domain in a unique orientation. Conformational changes are observed between the native and substrate-bound complexes. The nucleotide-binding loop and the carboxy-terminal domain, including the suspected catalytically important Lys360, move in and out of the active site in a concerted fashion. TLS refinement was employed initially to model conformational heterogeneity in the UDP-glucose complex followed by the use of multiconformer refinement for the entire molecule. Normal mode analysis generated atomic displacement predictions in good agreement in magnitude and direction with the observed conformational changes and anisotropic displacement parameters generated by TLS refinement. The structures and the observed dynamic changes provide insight into the ordered mechanism of this enzyme and previously described oligomerization effects on catalytic activity.
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- Jason G McCoy
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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Vedadi M, Lew J, Artz J, Amani M, Zhao Y, Dong A, Wasney GA, Gao M, Hills T, Brokx S, Qiu W, Sharma S, Diassiti A, Alam Z, Melone M, Mulichak A, Wernimont A, Bray J, Loppnau P, Plotnikova O, Newberry K, Sundararajan E, Houston S, Walker J, Tempel W, Bochkarev A, Kozieradzki I, Edwards A, Arrowsmith C, Roos D, Kain K, Hui R. Genome-scale protein expression and structural biology of Plasmodium falciparum and related Apicomplexan organisms. Mol Biochem Parasitol 2006; 151:100-10. [PMID: 17125854 DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2006.10.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 185] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2006] [Revised: 10/19/2006] [Accepted: 10/20/2006] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Parasites from the protozoan phylum Apicomplexa are responsible for diseases, such as malaria, toxoplasmosis and cryptosporidiosis, all of which have significantly higher rates of mortality and morbidity in economically underdeveloped regions of the world. Advances in vaccine development and drug discovery are urgently needed to control these diseases and can be facilitated by production of purified recombinant proteins from Apicomplexan genomes and determination of their 3D structures. To date, both heterologous expression and crystallization of Apicomplexan proteins have seen only limited success. In an effort to explore the effectiveness of producing and crystallizing proteins on a genome-scale using a standardized methodology, over 400 distinct Plasmodium falciparum target genes were chosen representing different cellular classes, along with select orthologues from four other Plasmodium species as well as Cryptosporidium parvum and Toxoplasma gondii. From a total of 1008 genes from the seven genomes, 304 (30.2%) produced purified soluble proteins and 97 (9.6%) crystallized, culminating in 36 crystal structures. These results demonstrate that, contrary to previous findings, a standardized platform using Escherichia coli can be effective for genome-scale production and crystallography of Apicomplexan proteins. Predictably, orthologous proteins from different Apicomplexan genomes behaved differently in expression, purification and crystallization, although the overall success rates of Plasmodium orthologues do not differ significantly. Their differences were effectively exploited to elevate the overall productivity to levels comparable to the most successful ongoing structural genomics projects: 229 of the 468 target genes produced purified soluble protein from one or more organisms, with 80 and 32 of the purified targets, respectively, leading to crystals and ultimately structures from one or more orthologues.
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- Masoud Vedadi
- Structural Genomics Consortium, U. of Toronto, 100 College St. Rm 522B, Toronto, Ont., Canada M5G 1L5
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Jeon WB, Allard STM, Bingman CA, Bitto E, Han BW, Wesenberg GE, Phillips GN. X-ray crystal structures of the conserved hypothetical proteins from Arabidopsis thaliana gene loci At5g11950 and AT2g37210. Proteins 2006; 65:1051-4. [PMID: 17048257 DOI: 10.1002/prot.21166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Won Bae Jeon
- Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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Han BW, Bingman CA, Wesenberg GE, Phillips GN. Crystal structure of Homo sapiens thialysine Nepsilon-acetyltransferase (HsSSAT2) in complex with acetyl coenzyme A. Proteins 2006; 64:288-93. [PMID: 16596569 DOI: 10.1002/prot.20967] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Byung Woo Han
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 53706-1544, USA
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Peti W, Page R. Strategies to maximize heterologous protein expression in Escherichia coli with minimal cost. Protein Expr Purif 2006; 51:1-10. [PMID: 16904906 DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2006.06.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 169] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2006] [Revised: 06/20/2006] [Accepted: 06/26/2006] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Automation and miniaturization are key issues of high-throughput research projects in the post-genomic era. The implementation of robotics and parallelization has enabled researchers to process large numbers of protein targets for structural studies in a short time with reasonable cost efficiency. However, the cost of implementing the robotics and parallelization often prohibit their use in the traditional academic laboratory. Fortunately, multiple groups have made significant efforts to minimize the cost of heterologous protein expression for the production of protein samples in quantities suitable for high resolution structural studies. In this review, we describe recent efforts to continue to minimize the cost for the parallel processing of multiple protein targets and focus on those materials and strategies that are highly suitable for the traditional academic laboratory.
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- Wolfgang Peti
- Brown University, Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biotechnology, Box G-E3, Providence, RI 02912, USA
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Bitto E, Bingman CA, Wesenberg GE, McCoy JG, Phillips GN. Structure of pyrimidine 5'-nucleotidase type 1. Insight into mechanism of action and inhibition during lead poisoning. J Biol Chem 2006; 281:20521-9. [PMID: 16672222 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m602000200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Eukaryotic pyrimidine 5'-nucleotidase type 1 (P5N-1) catalyzes dephosphorylation of pyrimidine 5'-mononucleotides. Deficiency of P5N-1 activity in red blood cells results in nonspherocytic hemolytic anemia. The enzyme deficiency is either familial or can be acquired through lead poisoning. We present the crystal structure of mouse P5N-1 refined to 2.35 A resolution. The mouse P5N-1 has a 92% sequence identity to its human counterpart. The structure revealed that P5N-1 adopts a fold similar to enzymes of the haloacid dehydrogenase superfamily. The active site of this enzyme is structurally highly similar to those of phosphoserine phosphatases. We propose a catalytic mechanism for P5N-1 that is also similar to that of phosphoserine phosphatases and provide experimental evidence for the mechanism in the form of structures of several reaction cycle states, including: 1) P5N-1 with bound Mg(II) at 2.25 A, 2) phosphoenzyme intermediate analog at 2.30 A, 3) product-transition complex analog at 2.35 A, and 4) product complex at 2.1A resolution with phosphate bound in the active site. Furthermore the structure of Pb(II)-inhibited P5N-1 (at 2.35 A) revealed that Pb(II) binds within the active site in a way that compromises function of the cationic cavity, which is required for the recognition and binding of the phosphate group of nucleotides.
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- Eduard Bitto
- Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1544, USA
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McCoy JG, Arabshahi A, Bitto E, Bingman CA, Ruzicka FJ, Frey PA, Phillips GN. Structure and mechanism of an ADP-glucose phosphorylase from Arabidopsis thaliana. Biochemistry 2006; 45:3154-62. [PMID: 16519510 PMCID: PMC2532824 DOI: 10.1021/bi052232m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The X-ray crystal structure of the At5g18200.1 protein has been determined to a nominal resolution of 2.30 A. The structure has a histidine triad (HIT)-like fold containing two distinct HIT-like motifs. The sequence of At5g18200.1 indicates a distant family relationship to the Escherichia coli galactose-1-P uridylyltransferase (GalT): the determined structure of the At5g18200.1 protein confirms this relationship. The At5g18200.1 protein does not demonstrate GalT activity but instead catalyzes adenylyl transfer in the reaction of ADP-glucose with various phosphates. The best acceptor among those evaluated is phosphate itself; thus, the At5g18200.1 enzyme appears to be an ADP-glucose phosphorylase. The enzyme catalyzes the exchange of (14)C between ADP-[(14)C]glucose and glucose-1-P in the absence of phosphate. The steady state kinetics of exchange follows the ping-pong bi-bi kinetic mechanism, with a k(cat) of 4.1 s(-)(1) and K(m) values of 1.4 and 83 microM for ADP-[(14)C]glucose and glucose-1-P, respectively, at pH 8.5 and 25 degrees C. The overall reaction of ADP-glucose with phosphate to produce ADP and glucose-1-P follows ping-pong bi-bi steady state kinetics, with a k(cat) of 2.7 s(-)(1) and K(m) values of 6.9 and 90 microM for ADP-glucose and phosphate, respectively, at pH 8.5 and 25 degrees C. The kinetics are consistent with a double-displacement mechanism that involves a covalent adenylyl-enzyme intermediate. The X-ray crystal structure of this intermediate was determined to 1.83 A resolution and shows the AMP group bonded to His(186). The value of K(eq) in the direction of ADP and glucose-1-P formation is 5.0 at pH 7.0 and 25 degrees C in the absence of a divalent metal ion, and it is 40 in the presence of 1 mM MgCl(2).
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- Jason G. McCoy
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706
- University of Wisconsin Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 53706
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706
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- University of Wisconsin Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 53706
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- University of Wisconsin Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 53706
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706
- University of Wisconsin Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 53706
- Corresponding author: George N. Phillips Jr., Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 433 Babcock Dr., Madison, WI 53706-1544, Tel (608)263-6142, EM
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