Autor: |
Kazufumi Takano, Tomohiro Okamoto, Jun Okada, Shun-ichi Tanaka, Clement Angkawidjaja, Yuichi Koga, Shigenori Kanaya |
Jazyk: |
angličtina |
Rok vydání: |
2011 |
Předmět: |
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Zdroj: |
PLoS ONE, Vol 6, Iss 1, p e16226 (2011) |
Druh dokumentu: |
article |
ISSN: |
1932-6203 |
DOI: |
10.1371/journal.pone.0016226 |
Popis: |
RNase HI from the hyperthermophile Sulfolobus tokodaii (Sto-RNase HI) is stabilized by its C-terminal residues. In this work, the stabilization effect of the Sto-RNase HI C-terminal residues was investigated in detail by thermodynamic measurements of the stability of variants lacking the disulfide bond (C58/145A), or the six C-terminal residues (ΔC6) and by structural analysis of ΔC6. The results showed that the C-terminal does not affect overall structure and stabilization is caused by local interactions of the C-terminal, suggesting that the C-terminal residues could be used as a "stabilization tag." The Sto-RNase HI C-terminal residues (-IGCIILT) were introduced as a tag on three proteins. Each chimeric protein was more stable than its wild-type protein. These results suggested the possibility of a simple stabilization technique using a stabilization tag such as Sto-RNase HI C-terminal residues. |
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