螺旋束
螺旋(腹足类)
单体
结晶学
二聚体
蛋白质结构
化学
捆绑
立体化学
生物
生物化学
材料科学
聚合物
生态学
有机化学
蜗牛
复合材料
作者
Ryoichi Arai,Naoya Kobayashi,A. Kimura,Takaaki Sato,Kyoko Matsuo,Anna F. Wang Erickson,Jesse M. Platt,Luke H. Bradley,Michael H. Hecht
摘要
To probe the potential for activity in unevolved amino acid sequence space, we created a third generation combinatorial library of de novo four-helix bundle proteins. The "artificial superfamily" of helical bundles was designed using binary patterning of polar and nonpolar residues, and expressed in Escherichia coli from a library of synthetic genes. WA20, picked from the library, is one of the most stable proteins in the superfamily, and has rudimentary activities such as esterase and lipase. Here we report the crystal structure of WA20, determined by the multiwavelength anomalous dispersion method. Unexpectedly, the WA20 crystal structure is not a monomeric four-helix bundle, but a dimeric four-helix bundle. Each monomer comprises two long α-helices that intertwist with the helices of the other monomer. The two monomers together form a 3D domain-swapped four-helix bundle dimer. In addition, there are two hydrophobic pockets, which may potentially provide substrate binding sites. Small-angle X-ray scattering shows that the molecular weight of WA20 is ∼25 kDa and the shape is rod-like (the maximum length, Dmax = ∼8 nm), indicating that WA20 forms a dimeric four-helix bundle in solution. These results demonstrate that our de novo protein library contains not only simple monomeric proteins, but also stable and functional multimeric proteins.
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