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Bottom-up fabrication of a proteasome-nanopore that unravels and processes single proteins

The precise assembly and engineering of molecular machines capable of handling biomolecules play crucial roles in most single-molecule methods. In this work, using components from all three domains of life, we fabricate an integrated multi-protein complex that controls the unfolding and threading of...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Shengli, Huang, Gang, Versloot, Roderick, Bruininks, Bart Marlon Herwig, Telles de Souza, Paulo Cesar, Marrink, Siewert-Jan, Maglia, Giovanni
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7612055/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34795436
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41557-021-00824-w
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Sumario:The precise assembly and engineering of molecular machines capable of handling biomolecules play crucial roles in most single-molecule methods. In this work, using components from all three domains of life, we fabricate an integrated multi-protein complex that controls the unfolding and threading of individual proteins across a nanopore. This 900 kDa multicomponent device was made in two steps. First, we designed a stable and low-noise β-barrel nanopore sensor by linking the transmembrane region of bacterial protective antigen to a mammalian proteasome activator. Then, an archaeal 20S proteasome was built into the artificial nanopore to control the unfolding and linearised transport of proteins across the nanopore. This multi-component molecular machine opens the door to two approaches in single-molecule protein analysis, in which selected substrate proteins are unfolded, fed to into the proteasomal chamber and then addressed either as fragmented peptides or intact polypeptides.