重新设计 metionyl-tRNA合成酶以适应性地形平整和实验为β-methionine活动
Vaitea Opuu1, Giuliano Nigro1, Christine Lazennec-Schurdevin1
1Laboratoire de Biologie Structurale de la Cellule (CNRS UMR7654), Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France.
Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society
|July 30, 2023
概括
计算式蛋白质设计使得非正规氨基酸的氨基-tRNA合成酶的工程成为可能. 这种进步使得蛋白质工程中的新蛋白质结构和构建块成为可能.
科学领域:
- 生物化学 生化学
- 蛋白质工程是指蛋白质工程.
- 计算生物学 计算生物学
背景情况:
- 非正规氨基酸 (AAs) 为蛋白质工程提供了新的可能性.
- 纳入非正规的AA需要特定的氨基酸-tRNA合成酶,这些合成酶在使用传统方法时具有挑战性.
- 计算式蛋白质设计 (CPD) 提供了一种替代方法来设计这些酶.
研究的目的:
- 用一种新的CPD方法重新设计MethionineRS (MetRS),以增强其对β-Methionine (β-Met) 的活性.
- 探索CPD在创建非正规氨基酸酶方面的潜力.
- 为了证明将AAs与非正规的骨干结合到蛋白质中的可行性.
主要方法:
- 采用了一种新的CPD方法,专注于MetRS.的关键活性部位残留物.
- 蒙特卡洛序列太空探索被利用了自适应偏差能量学习来平整apo酶的自由能量格局.
- 取样的酶变体是基于它们与甲结合的亲和力,在有联体和偏差能量的情况下.
主要成果:
- 实验测试了18种经过计算设计的MetRS变体,其中10种显示可检测的β-Met腺化活性.
- 与野生类型相比,最好的突变者对正规α-Met的偏好比β-Met减少了29倍.
- 高分辨率的晶体结构证实了突变酶活性部位内β-Met的活性构造.
结论:
- 开发的CPD方法在重新设计非正规氨基酸的氨基-tRNA合成酶方面是有效的.
- 这项工作为扩展基因代码提供了一条途径,通过新的氨基酸构建块来扩展基因代码.
- 工程MetRS变体证明了在蛋白质工程应用中加入β-Met的效用增加.
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