NDLI: Single molecule force spectroscopy reveals engineered metal chelation is a general approach to enhance mechanical stability of proteins

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Author	Cao, Yi Yoo, Teri Li, Hongbin
Abstract	Significant mechanical stability is an essential feature shared by many elastomeric proteins, which function as molecular springs in a wide variety of biological machinery and biomaterials of superb mechanical properties. Despite the progress in understanding molecular determinants of mechanical stability, it remains challenging to rationally enhance the mechanical stability of proteins. Using single molecule force spectroscopy and protein engineering techniques, we demonstrate that engineered bi-histidine metal chelation can enhance the mechanical stability of proteins significantly and reversibly. Based on simple thermodynamic cycle analysis, we engineered a bi-histidine metal chelation site into various locations of the small protein, GB1, to achieve preferential stabilization of the native state over the mechanical unfolding transition state of GB1 through the binding of metal ions. Our results demonstrate that the metal chelation can enhance the mechanical stability of GB1 by as much as 100 pN. Since bi-histidine metal chelation sites can be easily implemented, engineered metal chelation provides a general methodology to enhance the mechanical stability of a wide variety of proteins. This general approach in protein mechanics will enable the rational tuning of the mechanical stability of proteins. It will not only open new avenues toward engineering proteins of tailored nanomechanical properties, but also provide new approaches to systematically map the mechanical unfolding pathway of proteins.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0803446105
Ending Page	11157
Page Count	6
Starting Page	11152
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00278424
e-ISSN	10916490
Journal	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Issue Number	32
Volume Number	105
Language	English
Publisher	National Academy of Sciences
Publisher Date	2008-08-12
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	National Academy of Sciences
Subject Keyword	General Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Multidisciplinary

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