Probing the Lower Size Limit for Protein-like Fold Stability: Ten-residue Microproteins with Specific, Rigid Structures in Water

Overview

Journal J Am Chem Soc

Publisher American Chemical Society

Specialty Chemistry

Date 2008 Oct 10

PMID 18842046

Citations 20

Authors

Brandon L Kier

Niels H Andersen

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Abstract

Mutational optimization of two long-range interactions first observed in Ac-WINGKWT-NH2, (a) bifurcated H-bonding involving the threonine amide H(N) and side chain OH and the N-terminal acetyl carbonyl and (b) an H-bond between the entgegen-H(N) of the C-terminal amide and the indole ring of Trp6 that stabilizes a face-to-edge indole/indole interaction between Trp1 and Trp6, has afforded < or = 10 residue systems that yield a remarkably stable fold in water. Optimization was achieved by designing a hydrophobic cluster that sequesters these H-bonds from solvent exposure. The structures and extent of amide H/D exchange protection for CH3CH2CO-WI pGXWTGPS (p = D-Pro, X = Leu or Ile) were determined. These two systems are greater than 94% folded at 298 K (97.5% at 280 K) with melting temperatures > 75 degrees C. The fold appears to display minimal fluxionality; a well-converged NMR structure rationalizes all of the large structuring shifts observed, and we suggest that these designed constructs can be viewed as microproteins.

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