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Molecular dynamics simulations suggest stabilizing mutations in a de novo designed α/β protein

Designing functional proteins that can withstand extreme heat is beneficial for industrial and protein therapeutic applications. Thus, elucidating the atomic-level determinants of thermostability is a major interest for rational protein design. To that end, we compared the structure and dynamics of...

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Autores principales: Gill, Matthew, McCully, Michelle E
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7052480/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32086513
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/protein/gzaa005
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description Designing functional proteins that can withstand extreme heat is beneficial for industrial and protein therapeutic applications. Thus, elucidating the atomic-level determinants of thermostability is a major interest for rational protein design. To that end, we compared the structure and dynamics of a set of previously designed, thermostable proteins based on the activation domain of human procarboxypeptidase A2 (AYEwt). The mutations in these designed proteins were intended to increase hydrophobic core packing and inter-secondary-structure interactions. To evaluate whether these design strategies were successfully deployed, we performed all-atom, explicit-solvent molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of AYEwt and three designed variants at both 25 and 100°C. Our MD simulations agreed with the relative experimental stabilities of the designs based on their secondary structure content, Cα root-mean-square deviation/fluctuation, and buried-residue solvent accessible surface area. Using a contact analysis, we found that the designs stabilize inter-secondary structure interactions and buried hydrophobic surface area, as intended. Based on our analysis, we designed three additional variants to test the role of helix stabilization, core packing, and a Phe → Met mutation on thermostability. We performed the additional MD simulations and analysis on these variants, and these data supported our predictions.
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spelling pubmed-70524802020-03-09 Molecular dynamics simulations suggest stabilizing mutations in a de novo designed α/β protein Gill, Matthew McCully, Michelle E Protein Eng Des Sel Original Article Designing functional proteins that can withstand extreme heat is beneficial for industrial and protein therapeutic applications. Thus, elucidating the atomic-level determinants of thermostability is a major interest for rational protein design. To that end, we compared the structure and dynamics of a set of previously designed, thermostable proteins based on the activation domain of human procarboxypeptidase A2 (AYEwt). The mutations in these designed proteins were intended to increase hydrophobic core packing and inter-secondary-structure interactions. To evaluate whether these design strategies were successfully deployed, we performed all-atom, explicit-solvent molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of AYEwt and three designed variants at both 25 and 100°C. Our MD simulations agreed with the relative experimental stabilities of the designs based on their secondary structure content, Cα root-mean-square deviation/fluctuation, and buried-residue solvent accessible surface area. Using a contact analysis, we found that the designs stabilize inter-secondary structure interactions and buried hydrophobic surface area, as intended. Based on our analysis, we designed three additional variants to test the role of helix stabilization, core packing, and a Phe → Met mutation on thermostability. We performed the additional MD simulations and analysis on these variants, and these data supported our predictions. Oxford University Press 2019-12 2020-02-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7052480/ /pubmed/32086513 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/protein/gzaa005 Text en © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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title_short Molecular dynamics simulations suggest stabilizing mutations in a de novo designed α/β protein
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7052480/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32086513
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/protein/gzaa005
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