4LQT

1.10A resolution crystal structure of a superfolder green fluorescent protein (W57A) mutant


Experimental Data Snapshot

  • Method: X-RAY DIFFRACTION
  • Resolution: 1.10 Å
  • R-Value Free: 0.146 
  • R-Value Work: 0.134 
  • R-Value Observed: 0.135 

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Literature

The designability of protein switches by chemical rescue of structure: mechanisms of inactivation and reactivation.

Xia, Y.DiPrimio, N.Keppel, T.R.Vo, B.Fraser, K.Battaile, K.P.Egan, C.Bystroff, C.Lovell, S.Weis, D.D.Anderson, J.C.Karanicolas, J.

(2013) J Am Chem Soc 135: 18840-18849

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/ja407644b
  • Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
    4LQT, 4LQU

  • PubMed Abstract: 

    The ability to selectively activate function of particular proteins via pharmacological agents is a longstanding goal in chemical biology. Recently, we reported an approach for designing a de novo allosteric effector site directly into the catalytic domain of an enzyme. This approach is distinct from traditional chemical rescue of enzymes in that it relies on disruption and restoration of structure, rather than active site chemistry, as a means to achieve modulate function. However, rationally identifying analogous de novo binding sites in other enzymes represents a key challenge for extending this approach to introduce allosteric control into other enzymes. Here we show that mutation sites leading to protein inactivation via tryptophan-to-glycine substitution and allowing (partial) reactivation by the subsequent addition of indole are remarkably frequent. Through a suite of methods including a cell-based reporter assay, computational structure prediction and energetic analysis, fluorescence studies, enzymology, pulse proteolysis, X-ray crystallography, and hydrogen-deuterium mass spectrometry, we find that these switchable proteins are most commonly modulated indirectly, through control of protein stability. Addition of indole in these cases rescues activity not by reverting a discrete conformational change, as we had observed in the sole previously reported example, but rather rescues activity by restoring protein stability. This important finding will dramatically impact the design of future switches and sensors built by this approach, since evaluating stability differences associated with cavity-forming mutations is a far more tractable task than predicting allosteric conformational changes. By analogy to natural signaling systems, the insights from this study further raise the exciting prospect of modulating stability to design optimal recognition properties into future de novo switches and sensors built through chemical rescue of structure.


  • Organizational Affiliation

    Department of Molecular Biosciences, ‡Department of Chemistry, §Protein Structure Laboratory, and ∥Center for Bioinformatics, University of Kansas , Lawrence, Kansas 66045, United States.


Macromolecules
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Entity ID: 1
MoleculeChains Sequence LengthOrganismDetailsImage
Green fluorescent protein246Aequorea victoriaMutation(s): 10 
Gene Names: GFP
UniProt
Find proteins for P42212 (Aequorea victoria)
Explore P42212 
Go to UniProtKB:  P42212
Entity Groups  
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UniProt GroupP42212
Sequence Annotations
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  • Reference Sequence
Small Molecules
Modified Residues  1 Unique
IDChains TypeFormula2D DiagramParent
CRO
Query on CRO
A
L-PEPTIDE LINKINGC15 H17 N3 O5THR, TYR, GLY
Experimental Data & Validation

Experimental Data

  • Method: X-RAY DIFFRACTION
  • Resolution: 1.10 Å
  • R-Value Free: 0.146 
  • R-Value Work: 0.134 
  • R-Value Observed: 0.135 
  • Space Group: I 1 2 1
Unit Cell:
Length ( Å )Angle ( ˚ )
a = 69.358α = 90
b = 46.433β = 105.58
c = 76.689γ = 90
Software Package:
Software NamePurpose
SCALAdata scaling
PHASERphasing
PHENIXrefinement
PDB_EXTRACTdata extraction
JDirectordata collection
XDSdata reduction

Structure Validation

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Entry History 

Deposition Data

Revision History  (Full details and data files)

  • Version 1.0: 2013-12-18
    Type: Initial release
  • Version 1.1: 2014-12-31
    Changes: Database references
  • Version 1.2: 2017-11-15
    Changes: Refinement description
  • Version 1.3: 2023-09-20
    Changes: Data collection, Database references, Derived calculations, Refinement description
  • Version 1.4: 2023-12-06
    Changes: Data collection