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ArticleProtein science : a publication of the Protein Society2012

Designing redox potential-controlled protein switches based on mutually exclusive proteins.

Qing Peng, Na Kong, Hui-Chuan Eileen Wang, Hongbin Li

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Article in Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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Qing PengDepartment of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Na Kong
Hui-Chuan Eileen Wang
Hongbin Li

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Abstract

Synthetic/artificial protein switches provide an efficient means of controlling protein functions using chemical signals and stimuli. Mutually exclusive proteins, in which only the host or guest domain can remain folded at a given time owing to conformational strain, have been used to engineer novel protein switches that can switch enzymatic functions on and off in response to ligand binding. To further explore the potential of mutually exclusive proteins as protein switches and sensors, we report here a new redox-based approach to engineer a mutually exclusive folding-based protein switch. By introducing a disulfide bond into the host domain of a mutually exclusive protein, we demonstrate that it is feasible to use redox potential to switch the host domain between its folded and unfolded conformations via the mutually exclusive folding mechanism, and thus switching the functionality of the host domain on and off. Our study opens a new and potentially general avenue that uses mutually exclusive proteins to design novel switches able to control the function of a variety of proteins.

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Protein EngineeringProtein FoldingAmino Acid SequenceBacterial ProteinsConnectinDisulfidesHumansImmunoglobulin GModels, MolecularMolecular Sequence DataMuscle ProteinsMutationOxidation-ReductionProtein ConformationProtein KinasesProteinsBacterial ProteinsConnectinDisulfidesIgG Fc-binding protein, StreptococcusImmunoglobulin GMuscle ProteinsProtein KinasesProteinsRecombinant Fusion ProteinsTTN protein, human

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PMID22733630
PMCPMC3537242

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