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Probing the amino acids critical for protein oligomerisation and protein–nucleotide interaction in Mycobacterium tuberculosis PII protein through integration of computational and experimental approaches

IR@IGIB: CSIR-Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology, New Delhi

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Title Probing the amino acids critical for protein oligomerisation and protein–nucleotide interaction in Mycobacterium tuberculosis PII protein through integration of computational and experimental approaches
 
Creator Jain, Sriyans
Mandal, Rahul Shubhra
Anand, Swadha
Maiti, Souvik
Ramachandran, Srinivasan
 
Subject G1 Genome informatics (General)
 
Description We investigated the interacting amino acids critical for the stability and ATP binding of Mycobacterium tuberculosis PII protein through a series of site specific mutagenesis experiments. We assessed the effect of mutants using glutaraldehyde crosslinking and size exclusion chromatography and isothermal titration calorimetry. Mutations in the amino acid pair R60–E62 affecting central electrostatic interaction resulted in insoluble proteins. Multiple sequence alignment of PII orthologs displayed a conserved pattern of charged residues at these positions. Mutation of amino acid D97 to a neutral residue was tolerated whereas positive charge was not acceptable. Mutation of R107 alone had no effect on trimer formation. However, the combination of neutral residues both at positions 97 and 107 was not acceptable even with the pair at 60–62 intact. Reversal of charge polarity could partially restore the interaction. The residues including K90, R101 and R103 with potential to form H-bonds to ATP are conserved throughout across numerous orthologs of PII but when mutated to Alanine, they did not show significant differences in the total free energy change of the interaction as examined through isothermal titration calorimetry. The ATP binding pattern showed anti-cooperativity using three-site binding model. We observed compensatory effect in enthalpy and entropy changes and these may represent structural adjustments to accommodate ATP in the cavity even in absence of some interactions to perform the requisite function. In this respect these small differences between the PII orthologs may have evolved to suite species specific physiological niches
 
Publisher sciencedirect
 
Date 2013-10-12
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Relation http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1570963913003646
http://openaccess.igib.res.in/177/
 
Identifier Jain, Sriyans and Mandal, Rahul Shubhra and Anand, Swadha and Maiti, Souvik and Ramachandran, Srinivasan (2013) Probing the amino acids critical for protein oligomerisation and protein–nucleotide interaction in Mycobacterium tuberculosis PII protein through integration of computational and experimental approaches. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics, 1834 (12). pp. 2736-2749.