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CHEMISTRY & BIOLOGY
Volume 15, Issue 10, Pages 1104-1115Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2008.09.006
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- National Institutes of Health (NIH) [GM027616, GM034962]
- NIH Director's Pioneer Award [DP1 OD000945]
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We have designed split tetra-Cys motifs that bind the biarsenical fluorescein dye 4',5-bis(1,3,2-dithioarsolan-2-yl)fluorescein (FlAsH) across strands of a model beta-rich protein. Our strategy was to divide the linear FlAsH binding tetra-Cys sequence such that dye could be fully liganded only when the strands were arranged in space correctly by native protein conformational proximities. We introduced pairs of alternating cysteines on adjacent beta strands of cellular retinoic acid binding protein to create FlAsH binding sites in the native structure. Selective labeling occurred both in vitro and in vivo relative to sites with fewer than four Cys or with inappropriate geometry. Interestingly, two of the split tetra-Cys motif-carrying proteins bound FlAsH whether native or urea unfolded, while one was capable of binding FlAsH only when native. This latter design exemplifies the potential of split motifs as structure sensors.
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