Amino Acid Sequence; Automatic Data Processing; Base Sequence; Circular Dichroism; Cloning, Molecular; Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; Escherichia coli; Molecular Sequence Data; *Peptides/genetics; Plasmids; Protein Conformation; *Protein Engineering
Abstract :
[en] We have attempted to construct an artificial polypeptide that folds like the eight-stranded parallel beta-barrel structures. Our approach consists of repeating eight times a unit peptide designed to adopt a 'beta-strand/alpha-helix' pattern. A first 'test' sequence for this structural unit was deduced from a series of parameters defined after an analysis of three natural alpha/beta-barrel proteins and including principally the lengths of the secondary structure elements, the alpha/beta packing and the fitting on average Garnier profiles. The gene encoding this structural unit was synthesized, cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli either as a monomer or as direct repeats of 2-12 units. Preliminary structural characterization of the 7-, 8- and 9-fold unit polypeptides by circular dichroism measurements indicates the presence of the predicted amount of alpha-helix in the three proteins. Further analysis by urea-gradient gel electrophoresis demonstrates that, in the conditions tested, only the 8-fold unit polypeptide forms a compact structure through a cooperative and rapid two-state folding transition involving long-range molecular interactions.
Disciplines :
Biochemistry, biophysics & molecular biology
Author, co-author :
Goraj, Karine
Renard, André
Martial, Joseph ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences de la vie > GIGA-R : Biologie et génétique moléculaire
Language :
English
Title :
Synthesis, purification and initial structural characterization of octarellin, a de novo polypeptide modelled on the alpha/beta-barrel proteins
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