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Article Dans Une Revue Gene Année : 2008

Membrane docking of an aggregation-prone protein improves its solubilization.

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We used preS2-S'-beta-galactosidase, a three domain fusion protein that aggregates extensively at 43 degrees C in the cytoplasm of Escherichia coli to search for multicopy suppressors of protein aggregation and inclusion bodies formation, and took advantage of the known differential solubility of preS2-S'-beta-galactosidase at 37 and 43 degrees C to develop a selection procedure for the gene products that would prevent its aggregation in vivo at 43 degrees C. First, we demonstrate that the differential solubility of preS2-S'-beta-galactosidase results in a lactose-positive phenotype at 37 degrees C as opposed to a lactose-negative phenotype at 43 degrees C. We searched for multicopy suppressors of preS2-S'-beta-galactosidase aggregation at 43 degrees C by selecting pink lactose-positive colonies on a background of white lactose-negative colonies after transformation of bacteria with an E. coli gene bank. We found only two multicopy suppressors of preS2-S'-beta-galactosidase aggregation at 43 degrees C, protein isoaspartate methyltransferase (PIMT) and the membrane components ChbBC of the N,N'-diacetylchitobiose phosphotransferase transporter. We have previously shown that PIMT overexpression reduces the level of isoaspartate in preS2-S'-beta-galactosidase, increases its thermal stability and consequently helps in its solubilization at 43 degrees C (Kern et al., J. Bacteriol. 187, 1377-1383). In the present work, we show that ChbBC overexpression targets a fraction of preS2-S'-beta-galactosidase to the membrane, and decreases its amount in inclusion bodies, which results in its decreased thermodenaturation and in a lactose-positive phenotype at 43 degrees C. Cross-linking experiments show that the inner membrane protein ChbC interacts with preS2-S'-beta-galactosidase. Our results suggest that membrane docking of aggregation-prone proteins might be a useful method for their solubilization.

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hal-00326809 , version 1 (06-10-2008)

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Jihen Tagourti, Abderrahim Malki, Renée Kern, Emmanuelle d'Alençon, Gilbert Richarme. Membrane docking of an aggregation-prone protein improves its solubilization.. Gene, 2008, 426 (1-2), epub ahead of print. ⟨10.1016/j.gene.2008.08.020⟩. ⟨hal-00326809⟩
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