Structure and stability of recombinant bovine odorant-binding protein: II. Unfolding of the monomeric forms
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Abstract
In a family of monomeric odorant-binding proteins (OBPs), bovine OBP (bOBP), that lacks conserved disulfide bond found in other OBPs, occupies unique niche because of its ability to form domain-swapped dimers. In this study, we analyzed conformational stabilities of the recombinant bOBP and its monomeric variants, the bOBP-Gly121+ mutant containing an additional glycine residue after the residue 121 of the bOBP, and the GCC-bOBP mutant obtained from the bOBP-Gly121+ form by introduction of the Trp64Cys/His155Cys double mutation to restore the canonical disulfide bond. We also analyzed the effect of the natural ligand binding on the conformational stabilities of these bOBP variants. Our data are consistent with the conclusion that the unfolding-refolding pathways of the recombinant bOBP and its mutant monomeric forms bOBP-Gly121+ and GCC-bOBP are similar and do not depend on the oligomeric status of the protein. This clearly shows that the information on the unfolding-refolding mechanism is encoded in the structure of the bOBP monomers. However, the process of the bOBP unfolding is significantly complicated by the formation of the domain-swapped dimer, and the rates of the unfolding-refolding reactions essentially depend on the conditions in which the protein is located.
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2015. Structure and stability of recombinant bovine odorant-binding protein: II. Unfolding of the monomeric forms. PeerJ PrePrints 3:e1452v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1452v1note This preprint is not peer-reviewed. You may wish to reference the subsequent peer-reviewed version of this article.
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This manuscript is submitted to PeerJ for review. It is a part of series of articlesdedicated to the analysis of the effect of the environmental feature (including the presence of crowding agents) on structural properties and conformational stability of bOBP.
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Irina M Kuznetsova, Vladimir N Uversky and Konstantin K Turoverov are Academic Editors for PeerJ.
Author Contributions
Olga V Stepanenko conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.
Denis O Roginskii performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.
Olesya V Stepanenko performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.
Irina M Kuznetsova conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.
Vladimir N Uversky conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.
Konstantin K Turoverov conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, reviewed drafts of the paper.
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The research in this article did not generate any raw data. All the data obtained during this study are reported in the manuscript in the form of figures and tables.
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This work was supported by a grant from the Russian Science Foundation RSCF № 14-24-00131. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
