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X-Ray Crystallography to Study the Oligomeric State Transition of the Thermotoga maritima M42 Aminopeptidase TmPep1050
Published on: May 13, 2020
Identification of a critical chaperoning region on an archaeal recombinant thermosome
Lisa M Bergeron1, Cecilia Lee, Douglas S Clark
1Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, 201 Gilman Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
Abstract:
Chaperone function in water-miscible organic co-solvents is useful for biocatalytic applications requiring enzyme stability in semi-aqueous media and for understanding chaperone behavior in hydrophobic environments. Previously, we have shown that a recombinant single subunit thermosome (rTHS) from Methanocaldococcus jannaschii functions in multiple co-solvents to hydrolyze ATP, prevent protein aggregation, and refold enzymes following solvent denaturation. For the present study, a truncated analog to the thermosome in which 70 N-terminal amino acids are removed is used to identify important regions within the thermosome for its chaperoning functions in organic co-solvents. Data presented herein indicate that the N-terminal region of rTHS is essential for the chaperone to restore the native state of the enzyme citrate synthase, but it is not a critical region for either binding of unfolded proteins or ATP hydrolysis. This is the first demonstration that direct refolding by a Group II chaperonin requires the N-terminal region of the protein.
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