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Purification and characterization of the colicin A immunity protein in detergent micelles
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Number of Authors: 72017 (English)In: Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes, ISSN 0005-2736, E-ISSN 1879-2642, Vol. 1859, no 11, p. 2181-2192Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The immunity proteins against pore-forming colicins represent a family of integral membrane proteins that reside in the inner membrane of producing cells. Cai, the colicin A immunity protein, was characterized here in detergent micelles by circular dichroism (CD), size exclusion chromatography, chemical cross-linking, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, cysteine accessibility, and colicin A binding in detergent micelles. Bile salt derivatives induced extensive protein polymerization that precluded further investigation. The physical characterization of detergent-solubilized protein indicates that phosphate-containing detergents are more efficient in extracting, solubilizing and maintaining Cai in a monomeric state. Yet, their capacity to ensure protein activity, reconstitution, helix packing, and high-quality NMR spectra was inferior to that of milder detergents. Solvent ionic strength and composition greatly modified the solubilizing capacity of milder detergents. Most importantly, binding to the colicin A pore-forming domain (pf-ColA) occurred almost exclusively in sugar-derived detergents. The relative performance of the different detergents in each experiment depends on their impact not only on Cai structure, solubility and oligomerization state, but also on other reaction components and technical aspects. Thus, proteoliposomes were best obtained from protein in LDAO micelles, possibly also due to indirect effects on the lipidic bilayer. The compatibility of a detergent with Cai/pf-ColA complex formation is influenced by its effect on the conformational landscape of each protein, where detergent-mediated pf-ColA denaturation could also lead to negative results. The NMR spectra were greatly affected by the solubility, monodispersity, fold and dynamics of the protein-detergent complexes, and none of those tested here provided NMR spectra of sufficient quality to allow for peak assignment. Cai function could be proven in alkyl glycosides and not in those detergents that afforded the best solubility, reconstitution efficiency or spectral quality indicating that these criteria cannot be taken as unambiguous proof of nativeness without the support of direct activity measurements.

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2017. Vol. 1859, no 11, p. 2181-2192
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Membrane protein, Colicin A immunity protein, Circular dichroism, Detergent, Protein purification, Size exclusion chromatography, Nuclear magnetic resonance
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-148962DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2017.08.007ISI: 000413176200004PubMedID: 28803731OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-148962DiVA, id: diva2:1163582
Available from: 2017-12-07 Created: 2017-12-07 Last updated: 2022-02-28Bibliographically approved

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