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NANO LETTERS
卷 20, 期 12, 页码 8940-8950出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c04178
关键词
atomic force microscopy; single-molecule force spectroscopy; protein engineering; fluorine; elastin-like polypeptide; SpyTag/SpyCatcher; molecular deformation
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资金
- University of Basel
- ETH Zurich
- ERC Starting Grant [MMA-715207]
- SNF NCCR in Molecular Systems Engineering
- Swiss National Science Foundation [200021_175478]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [200021_175478] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
We investigated the influence of fluorination on unfolding and unbinding reaction pathways of a mechanostable protein complex comprising the tandem dyad XModule-Dockerin bound to Cohesin. Using single-molecule atomic force spectroscopy, we mapped the energy landscapes governing the unfolding and unbinding reactions. We then used sense codon suppression to substitute trifluoroleucine in place of canonical leucine globally in XMod-Doc. Although TFL substitution thermally destabilized XMod-Doc, it had little effect on XMod-Doc:Coh binding affinity at equilibrium. When we mechanically dissociated global TFL-substituted XMod-Doc from Coh, we observed the emergence of a new unbinding pathway with a lower energy barrier. Counterintuitively, when fluorination was restricted to Doc, we observed mechano-stabilization of the non-fluorinated neighboring XMod domain. This suggests that intramolecular deformation is modulated by fluorination and highlights the differences between equilibrium thermostability and non-equilibrium mechanostability. Future work is poised to investigate fluorination as a means to modulate mechanical properties of synthetic proteins and hydrogels.
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