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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 131, Issue 11, Pages 3794-+Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja8049063
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- NIH [R01GM083114, U54NS058183]
- The Ohio State University
- AHA Great Rivers Affiliate
- Mayers Sunmier Research Intem
- NIH CBIP fellow
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The tow stability of natural proteins often limits their use in therapeutic, industrial, and research applications. The scale and throughput of methods such as circular dichroism, fluorescence spectroscopy, and calorimetry severely limit the number of variants that can be examined. Here we demonstrate a high-throughput thermal scanning (HTTS) method for determining the approximate stabilities of protein variants at high throughput and low cost. The method is based on binding to a hydrophobic dye akin to ANS, which fluoresces upon binding to molten globules and thermal denaturation intermediates. No inherent properties of the protein, such as enzymatic activity or presence of an intrinsic fluorophore, are required. Very small sample sizes are analyzed using a real-time PCR machine, enabling the use of high-throughput purification. We show that the apparent T, values obtained from HTTS are approximately linearly related to those from CD thermal denaturation for a series of four-helix bundle hydrophobic core variants. We demonstrate similar results for a small set of TIM barrel variants. This inexpensive, general, and scaleable approach enables the search for conservative, stable mutants of biotechnologically important proteins and provides a method for statistical correlation of sequence-stability relationships.
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