Publication Date:
2004-02-21
Description:
We have engineered a pathway for the formation of disulfide bonds. By imposing evolutionary pressure, we isolated mutations that changed thioredoxin, which is a monomeric disulfide reductase, into a [2Fe-2S] bridged dimer capable of catalyzing O2-dependent sulfhydryl oxidation in vitro. Expression of the mutant protein in Escherichia coli with oxidizing cytoplasm and secretion via the Tat pathway restored disulfide bond formation in strains that lacked the complete periplasmic oxidative machinery (DsbA and DsbB). The evolution of [2Fe-2S] thioredoxin illustrates how mutations within an existing scaffold can add a cofactor and markedly change protein function.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Masip, Lluis -- Pan, Jonathan L -- Haldar, Suranjana -- Penner-Hahn, James E -- DeLisa, Matthew P -- Georgiou, George -- Bardwell, James C A -- Collet, Jean-Francois -- GM-38047/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM-55090/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM-57039/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM-64662/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- P41-RR01633/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2004 Feb 20;303(5661):1185-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Chemical Engineering and Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14976313" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amino Acid Motifs
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Amino Acid Sequence
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Amino Acid Substitution
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Bacterial Proteins/genetics/metabolism
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Cell Membrane/metabolism
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Cysteine/analysis
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Cytoplasm/metabolism
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Dimerization
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Directed Molecular Evolution
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Disulfides/chemistry/*metabolism
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Escherichia coli/genetics/*metabolism/physiology
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Hirudins/chemistry/metabolism
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Iron/analysis
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Membrane Proteins/genetics/metabolism
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Movement
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Mutation
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Oxidation-Reduction
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Oxygen/metabolism
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Protein Disulfide-Isomerases/genetics/metabolism
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*Protein Engineering
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Protein Folding
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Proteins/chemistry/*metabolism
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Sulfides/analysis
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Thioredoxins/*chemistry/genetics/*metabolism
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
