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BIOMACROMOLECULES
卷 13, 期 11, 页码 3439-3444出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bm301090x
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- University of Southern California
- National Institute of Health [R21EB012281]
- American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education Fellowship [P30 CA014089]
- Translational Research Laboratory at the School of Pharmacy
From Mitochondria; to the nuclear envelope, the controlled assembly of micro- and nanostructures is essential for life however, the level at which we scan deliberately engineer the assembly of microstructures within intracellular environments remains primitive. To overcome this obstacle, we present a platform to reversibly assemble genetically engineered protein microdomains (GEPMs). on the time scale of minutes within living cells. Biologically inspired from the human protein tropoelastin, these protein polymers form a secondary aqueous phase above a tunable transition temperature. This assembly process is easily manipulated to occur at or near physiological temperature by adjusting molecular weight and hydrophobicity. We fused protein polymers to green,fluorescent protein (GFP) to visualize their behavior within the cytoplasm. While soluble, these polymers have a similar intracellular diffusion constant as cytosolic proteins at 7.4 mu m(2)/s; however, above their phase transition temperature, the proteins form distinct microdomains (0.172 mu m) with a reduced diffusion coefficient of 4.1 mu m(2)/s. Microdomain assembly and disassembly are both rapid. processes with half-live of 3.8 and 1.0 mm, respectively. Via selection of the protein polymer, the assembly temperature is tunable between 20 and 40 degrees C This approach may be Useful to control intracellular formation of genetically engineered: proteins and protein complexes into concentrated microdomains.
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