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ArticleBiophysical journal2018

Context-Dependent Energetics of Loop Extensions in a Family of Tandem-Repeat Proteins.

Albert Perez-Riba, Alan R Lowe, Ewan R G Main, Laura S Itzhaki

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Article in Biophysical journal, 2018. 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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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Albert Perez-RibaDepartment of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Alan R LoweLondon Centre for Nanotechnology, London, United Kingdom; Structural & Molecular Biology, University College London, London, United Kingdom; Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, United Kingdom.
Ewan R G MainSchool of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: e.main@qmul.ac.uk.
Laura S ItzhakiDepartment of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Electronic address: lsi10@cam.ac.uk.

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilMedical Research CouncilMRF_ C0385
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Consensus-designed tetratricopeptide repeat proteins are highly stable, modular proteins that are strikingly amenable to rational engineering. They therefore have tremendous potential as building blocks for biomaterials and biomedicine. Here, we explore the possibility of extending the loops between repeats to enable further diversification, and we investigate how this modification affects stability and folding cooperativity. We find that extending a single loop by up to 25 residues does not disrupt the overall protein structure, but, strikingly, the effect on stability is highly context-dependent: in a two-repeat array, destabilization is relatively small and can be accounted for purely in entropic terms, whereas extending a loop in the middle of a large array is much more costly because of weakening of the interaction between the repeats. Our findings provide important and, to our knowledge, new insights that increase our understanding of the structure, folding, and function of natural repeat proteins and the design of artificial repeat proteins in biotechnology.

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Repetitive Sequences, Amino AcidAmino Acid MotifsAmino Acid SequenceModels, MolecularProtein DenaturationProteinsProtein StabilityThermodynamicsProteins

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PMID29874606
PMCPMC6129472

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