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The order of PDZ3 and TrpCage in fusion chimeras determines their properties—a biophysical characterization

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    0543260 - ÚOCHB 2022 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
    Boušová, Kristýna - Bednárová, Lucie - Zouharová, Monika - Vetýšková, Veronika - Poštulková, Klára - Hofbauerová, Kateřina - Petrvalská, Olivia - Vaněk, O. - Tripsianes, K. - Vondrášek, Jiří
    The order of PDZ3 and TrpCage in fusion chimeras determines their properties—a biophysical characterization.
    Protein Science. Roč. 30, č. 8 (2021), s. 1653-1666. ISSN 0961-8368. E-ISSN 1469-896X
    R&D Projects: GA MŠMT(CZ) EF16_019/0000729; GA ČR(CZ) GA19-03488S
    Institutional support: RVO:61388963 ; RVO:61388971 ; RVO:67985823
    Keywords : chimeras * fusion protein * protein domains * protein dynamic studies
    OECD category: Biochemistry and molecular biology; Biochemistry and molecular biology (FGU-C)
    Impact factor: 6.993, year: 2021
    Method of publishing: Limited access
    https://doi.org/10.1002/pro.4107

    Most of the structural proteins known today are composed of domains that carry their own functions while keeping their structural properties. It is supposed that such domains, when taken out of the context of the whole protein, can retain their original structure and function to a certain extent. Information on the specific functional and structural characteristics of individual domains in a new context of artificial fusion proteins may help to reveal the rules of internal and external domain communication. Moreover, this could also help explain the mechanism of such communication and address how the mutual allosteric effect plays a role in a such multi-domain protein system. The simple model system of the two-domain fusion protein investigated in this work consisted of a well-folded PDZ3 domain and an artificially designed small protein domain called Tryptophan Cage (TrpCage). Two fusion proteins with swapped domain order were designed to study their structural and functional features as well as their biophysical properties. The proteins composed of PDZ3 and TrpCage, both identical in amino acid sequence but different in composition (PDZ3-TrpCage, TrpCage-PDZ3), were studied using circualr dichroism (CD) spectrometry, analytical ultracentrifugation, and molecular dynamic simulations. The biophysical analysis uncovered different structural and denaturation properties of both studied proteins, revealing their different unfolding pathways and dynamics.
    Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0320500

     
     
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