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  • 标题:Decoupling a tandem-repeat protein: Impact of multiple loop insertions on a modular scaffold
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  • 作者:Albert Perez-Riba ; Elizabeth Komives ; Ewan R. G. Main
  • 期刊名称:Scientific Reports
  • 电子版ISSN:2045-2322
  • 出版年度:2019
  • 卷号:9
  • 期号:1
  • 页码:1-11
  • DOI:10.1038/s41598-019-49905-4
  • 出版社:Springer Nature
  • 摘要:The simple topology and modular architecture of tandem-repeat proteins such as tetratricopeptide repeats (TPRs) and ankyrin repeats makes them straightforward to dissect and redesign. Repeat-protein stability can be manipulated in a predictable way using site-specific mutations. Here we explore a different type of modification - loop insertion - that will enable a simple route to functionalisation of this versatile scaffold. We previously showed that a single loop insertion has a dramatically different effect on stability depending on its location in the repeat array. Here we dissect this effect by a combination of multiple and alternated loop insertions to understand the origins of the context-dependent loss in stability. We find that the scaffold is remarkably robust in that its overall structure is maintained. However, adjacent repeats are now only weakly coupled, and consequently the increase in solvent protection, and thus stability, with increasing repeat number that defines the tandem-repeat protein class is lost. Our results also provide us with a rulebook with which we can apply these principles to the design of artificial repeat proteins with precisely tuned folding landscapes and functional capabilities, thereby paving the way for their exploitation as a versatile and truly modular platform in synthetic biology.
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