Structural highlights
Function
[GFP_AEQVI] Energy-transfer acceptor. Its role is to transduce the blue chemiluminescence of the protein aequorin into green fluorescent light by energy transfer. Fluoresces in vivo upon receiving energy from the Ca(2+)-activated photoprotein aequorin.
Publication Abstract from PubMed
Wild-type green fluorescent protein (GFP) folds on a time scale of minutes. The slow step in folding is a cis-trans peptide bond isomerization. The only conserved cis-peptide bond in the native GFP structure, at P89, was remodeled by the insertion of two residues, followed by iterative energy minimization and side chain design. The engineered GFP was synthesized and found to fold faster and more efficiently than its template protein, recovering 50% more of its fluorescence upon refolding. The slow phase of folding is faster and smaller in amplitude, and hysteresis in refolding has been eliminated. The elimination of a previously reported kinetically trapped state in refolding suggests that X-P89 is trans in the trapped state. A 2.55 A resolution crystal structure revealed that the new variant contains only trans-peptide bonds, as designed. This is the first instance of a computationally remodeled fluorescent protein that folds faster and more efficiently than wild type.
Green-lighting green fluorescent protein: Faster and more efficient folding by eliminating a cis-trans peptide isomerization event.,Rosenman DJ, Huang YM, Xia K, Fraser K, Jones VE, Lamberson CM, Van Roey P, Colon W, Bystroff C Protein Sci. 2014 Jan 9. doi: 10.1002/pro.2421. PMID:24408076[1]
From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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References
- ↑ Rosenman DJ, Huang YM, Xia K, Fraser K, Jones VE, Lamberson CM, Van Roey P, Colon W, Bystroff C. Green-lighting green fluorescent protein: Faster and more efficient folding by eliminating a cis-trans peptide isomerization event. Protein Sci. 2014 Jan 9. doi: 10.1002/pro.2421. PMID:24408076 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pro.2421
