Structural properties of an engineered outer membrane protein G mutant, OmpG-16SL, investigated with infrared spectroscopy

2019-05-31
Yilmaz, Irem
Yildiz, Ozkan
KORKMAZ ÖZKAN, FİLİZ
The structural and functional differences between wild type (WT) outer membrane protein G and its two mutants are investigated with Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. Both mutants have a long extension to the primary sequence to increase the number of beta-strands from 14 (wild type) to 16 in an attempt to enlarge the pore diameter. The comparison among proteins is made in terms of pH-dependent conformational changes and thermal stability. Results show that all proteins respond to pH change but at different degrees. At acidic environment, all proteins contain the same number of residues participated in beta-sheet structure. However, at neutral pH, the mutants have less ordered structure compared to WT porin. Thermal stability tests show that mutants differ significantly from WT porin at neutral pH. Although the transition temperature is directly proportional with the amount of beta-sheet content, the changes in the pre-transition phase that pave the way to structural breakdown are shown to involve interactions among charged residues by two-dimensional correlation spectroscopy analysis. Results of the analysis show that side chain interactions play an active role under increasing temperature. Both mutants have more unordered secondary structure but they respond to pH change in tertiary structure level. Findings of this study provided deeper insight on the active players in structural stability of the WT porin. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
JOURNAL OF BIOMOLECULAR STRUCTURE & DYNAMICS

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I. Yilmaz, O. Yildiz, and F. KORKMAZ ÖZKAN, “Structural properties of an engineered outer membrane protein G mutant, OmpG-16SL, investigated with infrared spectroscopy,” JOURNAL OF BIOMOLECULAR STRUCTURE & DYNAMICS, pp. 2104–2115, 2019, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/67139.