Minor pilin FctB from S. pyogenes with engineered intramolecular isopeptide bondMinor pilin FctB from S. pyogenes with engineered intramolecular isopeptide bond

Structural highlights

5ttd is a 2 chain structure with sequence from Escherichia coli and Streptococcus pyogenes. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance.
Method:X-ray diffraction, Resolution 2Å
Ligands:, ,
Resources:FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT

Function

MALE_ECOLI Involved in the high-affinity maltose membrane transport system MalEFGK. Initial receptor for the active transport of and chemotaxis toward maltooligosaccharides.D2KPJ6_STRPY

Publication Abstract from PubMed

The overall stability of globular protein structures is marginal, a balance between large numbers of stabilizing non-covalent interactions and a destabilizing entropic term. Higher stability can be engineered by introduction of disulfide bonds, provided the redox environment is controlled. The discovery of stabilizing isopeptide bond crosslinks, formed spontaneously between lysine and asparagine (or aspartic acid) side chains in certain bacterial cell-surface proteins suggests that such bonds could be introduced by protein engineering as an alternative protein stabilization strategy. We report the first example of an isopeptide bond engineered de novo into an immunoglobulin-like protein, the minor pilin FctB from Streptococcus pyogenes. Four mutations were sufficient; lysine, asparagine and glutamic acid residues were introduced for the bond-forming reaction, with a fourth Val/Phe mutation to help steer the lysine side chain into position. The spontaneously-formed isopeptide bond was confirmed by mass spectrometry and X-ray crystallography, and was shown to increase the thermal stability by 10 degrees C compared with the wild type protein. This novel method for increasing the stability of IgG-like proteins has potential to be adopted by the field of antibody engineering, which share similar beta-clasp Ig-type domains.

Engineering a Lys-Asn isopeptide bond into an immunoglobulin-like protein domain enhances its stability.,Kwon H, Young PG, Squire CJ, Baker EN Sci Rep. 2017 Feb 16;7:42753. doi: 10.1038/srep42753. PMID:28202898[1]

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References

  1. Kwon H, Young PG, Squire CJ, Baker EN. Engineering a Lys-Asn isopeptide bond into an immunoglobulin-like protein domain enhances its stability. Sci Rep. 2017 Feb 16;7:42753. doi: 10.1038/srep42753. PMID:28202898 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep42753

5ttd, resolution 2.00Å

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