Journal
PROTEIN SCIENCE
Volume 16, Issue 2, Pages 323-328Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1110/ps.062590807
Keywords
protein engineering; coiled-coil assembly; supramolecular structure
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- NIAID NIH HHS [R01 AI042382, R56 AI042382, AI 042382] Funding Source: Medline
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The hydrophobic core of the GCN4 leucine-zipper dimerization domain is formed by a parallel helical association between nonpolar side chains at the a and d positions of the heptad repeat. Here we report a self-assembling coiled-coil array formed by the GCN4-pAe peptide that differs from the wild-type GCN4 leucine zipper by alanine substitutions at three charged e positions. GCN4-pAe is incompletely folded in normal solution conditions yet self-assembles into an antiparallel tetraplex in crystals by formation of unanticipated hydrophobic seams linking the last two heptads of two parallel double-stranded coiled coils. The GCN4-pAe tetramers in the lattice associate laterally through the identical interactions to those in the intramolecular dimer-dimer interface. The van der Waals packing interaction in the solid state controls extended supramolecular assembly of the protein, providing an unusual atomic scale view of a mesostructure.
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