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ArticleScientific reports2020

What does fluorine do to a protein? Thermodynamic, and highly-resolved structural insights into fluorine-labelled variants of the cold shock protein.

Hannah Welte, Tiankun Zhou, Xenia Mihajlenko, Olga Mayans, Michael Kovermann

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hannah WelteDepartment of Chemistry, Universitätsstrasse 10, Universität Konstanz, DE-78457, Konstanz, Germany.
Tiankun ZhouDepartment of Biology, Universitätsstrasse 10, Universität Konstanz, DE-78457, Konstanz, Germany.
Xenia MihajlenkoDepartment of Chemistry, Universitätsstrasse 10, Universität Konstanz, DE-78457, Konstanz, Germany.
Olga MayansGraduate School Chemical Biology KoRS-CB, Universitätsstrasse 10, Universität Konstanz, DE-78457, Konstanz, Germany.
Michael KovermannDepartment of Chemistry, Universitätsstrasse 10, Universität Konstanz, DE-78457, Konstanz, Germany. michael.kovermann@uni-konstanz.de.
University of Konstanz · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fluorine labelling represents one promising approach to study proteins in their native environment due to efficient suppressing of background signals. Here, we systematically probe inherent thermodynamic and structural characteristics of the Cold shock protein B from Bacillus subtilis (BsCspB) upon fluorine labelling. A sophisticated combination of fluorescence and NMR experiments has been applied to elucidate potential perturbations due to insertion of fluorine into the protein. We show that single fluorine labelling of phenylalanine or tryptophan residues has neither significant impact on thermodynamic stability nor on folding kinetics compared to wild type BsCspB. Structure determination of fluorinated phenylalanine and tryptophan labelled BsCspB using X-ray crystallography reveals no displacements even for the orientation of fluorinated aromatic side chains in comparison to wild type BsCspB. Hence we propose that single fluorinated phenylalanine and tryptophan residues used for protein labelling may serve as ideal probes to reliably characterize inherent features of proteins that are present in a highly biological context like the cell.

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Bacillus subtilisBacterial ProteinsCrystallography, X-RayFluorineHalogenationModels, MolecularNuclear Magnetic Resonance, BiomolecularPhenylalanineProtein ConformationProtein StabilityThermodynamicsTryptophanBacterial Proteinscold-shock protein CspB, BacteriaFluorinePhenylalanineTryptophan

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PMID32060391
PMCPMC7021800
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