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BIOCHIMIE
Volume 93, Issue 3, Pages 549-555Publisher
ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2010.11.011
Keywords
Circular protein linearization; Bacteriocins; Fusion proteins; Antibacterial activity
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- Spanish Direccion General de Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnica [BIO2001-3237, BIO2005-01544]
- Research Plan Group [CVI 0160]
- Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports
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To confirm whether the head-to-tail circularization could be involved in the stability and activity of the circular bacteriocin AS-48, two permutated linear structural as-48A genes have been constructed by circular permutation. The absence of the leaderless linear AS(23/24) and AS(48/49) Proteins in Escherichia coli, under all the conditions investigated, supports the idea that the circular backbone is important to stabilize their structure and also indicates the significance of a leader peptide. In fact, the approach taken in this study to generate linear permutated proteins fused to an appropriate partner was sufficient to prevent cellular proteolysis. In this case, the high expression levels found favour their intracellular accumulations as inclusion bodies, which after solubilization showed a propensity to aggregate, thus hindering the specific EK cleavage. This could explain the presence of active hybrid tagged proteins identified in this work. The conserved distribution of hydrophobic and hydrophilic surfaces in the hybrid proteins is responsible for the antibacterial activity. In addition, the opening of the AS-48 molecule between the residues G(23) W-24 connecting the alpha 1/alpha 2 helices, confers greater stability, suggesting that the sequence and/or the free amino acid in the polypeptide chain are critical aspects in the design of new variants. (C) 2010 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
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