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PROTEIN SCIENCE
Volume 14, Issue 2, Pages 523-532Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1110/ps.04996905
Keywords
protein function regulation; intein; protein splicing; allosteric enzyme; domain insertion; small molecule
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Inteins are the protein analogs of self-splicing RNA introns. as they post-translationally excise themselves from a variety of protein hosts. Intein insertion abolishes, in general, the activity of its host protein. which is subsequently restored upon intein excision. These protein elements therefore have the potential to be used as general molecular switches for the control of arbitrary target proteins. Based oil rational design. an intein-based protein switch has been constructed whose splicing activity is conditionally triggered in vivo by the presence of thyroid hormone or synthetic analogs. This modified intein was used in Escherichia coli to demonstrate that a number of different proteins call be inactivated by intein insertion and then reactivated by the addition of thyroid hormone via ligand-induced splicing. This conditional activation was also found to occur in a dose-dependent manner. Rational protein engineering was then combined with genetic Selection to evolve all additional intein whose activity is controlled by the presence of synthetic estrogen ligands. The ability to regulate protein function post-translationally through the use of ligand-controlled intein splicing will most likely find applications in metabolic engineering. drug discovery and delivery, biosensing,. molecular computation. as well as many, additional areas of biotechnology.
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