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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2010

Perturbing the folding energy landscape of the bacterial immunity protein Im7 by site-specific N-linked glycosylation.

Mark M Chen, Alice I Bartlett, Paul S Nerenberg, Claire T Friel, Christian P R Hackenberger, Collin M Stultz, Sheena E Radford, Barbara Imperiali

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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38 citing papers in PubMed, 86 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Mark M ChenDepartment of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Alice I Bartlett
Paul S Nerenberg
Claire T Friel
Christian P R Hackenberger
Collin M Stultz
Sheena E Radford
Barbara Imperiali
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · USInstitute of Structural and Molecular Biology · GBUniversity of Leeds · GB

Funding

SPECIFICITY IN CO- AND POST-TRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATIONR01GM039334 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI ALLEN, KAREN N., IMPERIALI, BARBARA · 1993 to 2025
$8.0M
SPECIFICITY IN CO POST TRANSLATION MODIFICATIONR29GM039334 · NIGMS · CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY · PI IMPERIALI, BARBARA · 1988 to 1992
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Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council 24/B17145Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/526502/1NIGMS NIH HHS GM039334NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM039334
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

N-linked glycosylation modulates protein folding and stability through a variety of mechanisms. As such there is considerable interest in the development of general rules to predict the structural consequences of site-specific glycosylation and to understand how these effects can be exploited in the design and development of modified proteins with advantageous properties. In this study, expressed protein ligation is used to create site-specifically glycosylated variants of the bacterial immunity protein Im7 modified with the chitobiose disaccharide (GlcNAc-GlcNAc). Glycans were introduced at seven solvent exposed sites within the Im7 sequence and the kinetic and thermodynamic consequences of N-linked glycosylation analyzed. The ΔΔG° values for glycan incorporation were found to range from +5.2 to -3.8 kJ·mol(-1). In several cases, glycosylation influences folding by modulating the local conformational preferences of the glycosylated sequence. These locally mediated effects are most prominent in the center of α-helices where glycosylation negatively effects folding and in compact turn motifs between segments of ordered secondary structure where glycosylation promotes folding and enhances the overall stability of the native protein. The studies also provide insight into why glycosylation is commonly identified at the transition between different types of secondary structure and when glycosylation may be used to elaborate protein structure to protect disordered sequences from proteolysis or immune system recognition.

Indexed as

Protein FoldingThermodynamicsAmino Acid SequenceBinding SitesCarrier ProteinsCircular DichroismDisaccharidesEscherichia coli ProteinsGlycosylationKineticsModels, MolecularMolecular Sequence DataMutationProtein ConformationProtein StabilityProtein Structure, SecondaryCarrier ProteinschitobioseDisaccharidesE colicin-binding immunity protein Im7, E coliEscherichia coli Proteins

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PMID21148421
PMCPMC3012502
OpenAlexW1982855062

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