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ArticleProtein science : a publication of the Protein Society2016

Rational design of crystal contact-free space in protein crystals for analyzing spatial distribution of motions within protein molecules.

Rei Matsuoka, Atsushi Shimada, Yasuaki Komuro, Yuji Sugita, Daisuke Kohda

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Article in Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Rei MatsuokaDivision of Structural Biology, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, Higashi-Ku, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan.
Atsushi ShimadaDivision of Structural Biology, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, Higashi-Ku, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan.
Yasuaki KomuroRIKEN Theoretical Molecular Science Laboratory and iTHES, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan.
Yuji SugitaRIKEN Theoretical Molecular Science Laboratory and iTHES, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan.
Daisuke KohdaDivision of Structural Biology, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, Higashi-Ku, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan.
Kyushu University · JPChuo University · JPRIKEN Advanced Science Institute · JP

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Abstract

Contacts with neighboring molecules in protein crystals inevitably restrict the internal motions of intrinsically flexible proteins. The resultant clear electron densities permit model building, as crystallographic snapshot structures. Although these still images are informative, they could provide biased pictures of the protein motions. If the mobile parts are located at a site lacking direct contacts in rationally designed crystals, then the amplitude of the movements can be experimentally analyzed. We propose a fusion protein method, to create crystal contact-free space (CCFS) in protein crystals and to place the mobile parts in the CCFS. Conventional model building fails when large amplitude motions exist. In this study, the mobile parts appear as smeared electron densities in the CCFS, by suitable processing of the X-ray diffraction data. We applied the CCFS method to a highly mobile presequence peptide bound to the mitochondrial import receptor, Tom20, and a catalytically relevant flexible segment in the oligosaccharyltransferase, AglB. These two examples demonstrated the general applicability of the CCFS method to the analysis of the spatial distribution of motions within protein molecules.

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Amino Acid SequenceAnimalsBacterial ProteinsCrystallizationCrystallography, X-RayHexosyltransferasesMembrane ProteinsMembrane Transport ProteinsMitochondrial Precursor Protein Import Complex ProteinsMitochondrial ProteinsMolecular Dynamics SimulationMotionPeptidesProtein ConformationPyrococcus furiosusRatsBacterial Proteinsdolichyl-diphosphooligosaccharide - protein glycotransferaseHexosyltransferasesMembrane ProteinsMembrane Transport ProteinsMitochondrial Precursor Protein Import Complex ProteinsMitochondrial ProteinsPeptidesReceptors, Cell SurfaceReceptors, Cytoplasmic and NuclearTomm20 protein, ratcrystal contact effectscrystallographic methodfusion proteinmitochondrial presequence receptor Tom20oligosaccharyltransferase AglBprotein motional analysis

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PMID26694222
PMCPMC4815401
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