4gd9

Publication Abstract from PubMed

Circular permutation of streptavidin was carried out in order to investigate the role of a main-chain amide in stabilizing the high-affinity complex of the protein and biotin. Mutant proteins CP49/48 and CP50/49 were constructed to place new N-termini at residues 49 and 50 in a flexible loop involved in stabilizing the biotin complex. Crystal structures of the two mutants show that half of each loop closes over the binding site, as observed in wild-type streptavidin, while the other half adopts the open conformation found in the unliganded state. The structures are consistent with kinetic and thermodynamic data and indicate that the loop plays a role in enthalpic stabilization of the bound state via the Asn49 amide-biotin hydrogen bond. In wild-type streptavidin, the entropic penalties of immobilizing a flexible portion of the protein to enhance binding are kept to a manageable level by using a contiguous loop of medium length (six residues) which is already constrained by its anchorage to strands of the beta-barrel protein. A molecular-dynamics simulation for CP50/49 shows that cleavage of the binding loop results in increased structural fluctuations for Ser45 and that these fluctuations destabilize the streptavidin-biotin complex.

Structural consequences of cutting a binding loop: two circularly permuted variants of streptavidin.,Le Trong I, Chu V, Xing Y, Lybrand TP, Stayton PS, Stenkamp RE Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 2013 Jun;69(Pt 6):968-77. doi:, 10.1107/S0907444913003855. Epub 2013 May 11. PMID:23695241^[1]

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