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Cis proline mutants of ribonuclease A. I. thermal stability
Author(s) -
Schultz David A.,
Baldwin Robert L.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
protein science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.353
H-Index - 175
eISSN - 1469-896X
pISSN - 0961-8368
DOI - 10.1002/pro.5560010709
Subject(s) - ribonuclease , proline , mutant , chemistry , thermal stability , protein stability , genetics , biochemistry , biology , amino acid , rna , gene , organic chemistry
A chemically synthesized gene for ribonuclease A has been expressed in Escherichia coli using a T7 expression system (Studier, F.W., Rosenberg, A.H., Dunn, J.J., & Dubendorff, J.W., 1990, Methods Enzymol. 185 , 60–89). The expressed protein, which contains an additional N‐terminal methionine residue, has physical and catalytic properties close to those of bovine ribonuclease A. The expressed protein accumulates in inclusion bodies and has scrambled disulfide bonds; the native disulfide bonds are regenerated during purification. Site‐directed mutations have been made at each of the two cis proline residues, 93 and 114, and a double mutant has been made. In contrast to results reported for replacement of trans proline residues, replacement of either cis proline is strongly destabilizing. Thermal unfolding experiments on four single mutants give Δ T m ≅ 10 °C and ΔΔ G 0 (apparent) = 2–3 kcal/mol. The reason is that either the substituted amino acid goes in cis, and cis ⟺ trans isomerization after unfolding pulls the unfolding equilibrium toward the unfolded state, or else there is a conformational change, which by itself is destabilizing relative to the wild‐type conformation, that allows the substituted amino acid to form a trans peptide bond.

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