Journal
BIOCHEMICAL JOURNAL
Volume 462, Issue -, Pages 453-463Publisher
PORTLAND PRESS LTD
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20140250
Keywords
inherited disease; protein crystallization; protein function; protein stability; sequence-alignment statistics; therapy
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- MINECO (Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad) [B102012-34937, CSD-2009-00088, BFU2011-25384, CSD2006-00015, SAF2011-23933]
- Comunidad de Madrid [32010/BMD-2457]
- Junta de Andalucia [P11-CTS-07187]
- European Union [FP7-REGPOT-CT2012-31637-IMBRAIN]
- FEDER (Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional)
- MINECO [RYC-2009-04147]
- MINECO
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Protein stability is a fundamental issue in biomedical and biotechnological applications of proteins. Among these applications, gene- and enzyme-replacement strategies are promising approaches to treat inherited diseases that may benefit from protein engineering techniques, even though these beneficial effects have been largely unexplored. In the present study we apply a sequence-alignment statistics procedure (consensus-based approach) to improve the activity and stability of the human AGT (alanine glyoxylate aminotransferase) protein, an enzyme which causes PH1 (primary hyperoxaluria type I) upon mutation. By combining only five consensus mutations, we obtain a variant (AGT-RHEAM) with largely enhanced in vitro thermal and kinetic stability, increased activity, and with no side effects on foldability and peroxisomal targeting in mammalian cells. The structure of AGT-RHEAM reveals changes at the dimer interface and improved electrostatic interactions responsible for increased kinetic stability. Consensus-based variants maintained the overall protein fold, crystallized more easily and improved the expression as soluble proteins in two different systems [AGT and CIPK24 (CBL-interacting serine/threonine-protein kinase) SOS2 (salt-overly-sensitive 2)]. Thus the consensus-based approach also emerges as a simple and generic strategy to increase the crystallization success for hard-to-get protein targets as well as to enhance protein stability and function for biomedical applications.
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