肽
细胞质
正交性
背景(考古学)
生物物理学
细胞内
氨基酸
蛋白质工程
肽序列
化学
自组装
生物化学
作者
Takayuki Miki,Keigo Kajiwara,Sae Nakayama,Masahiro Hashimoto,Hisakazu Mihara
标识
DOI:10.1021/acssynbio.2c00058
摘要
Protein assemblies forming nano- to micro-sized structures underlie versatile biological events in living systems. For mimicking and engineering these protein assemblies through a bottom-up approach, self-assembling peptides (SAPs) that form nanofibril structures via β-sheets serve as potential practical tags. Nevertheless, the development of SAP tags is still in its infancy, and insight into the relationship between peptide sequences and intracellular self-assembly is limited. In this study, we focused on hydrophobic residues in SAPs and examined the self-assembly of SAP-tagged superfolder GFPs (green fluorescent proteins) in COS-7 cells. Based on XEXK (X; hydrophobic amino acids: F, L, I, V, W, or Y) sequence units, we designed a panel of Xn peptides with different hydrophobic residues (X) and chain lengths (n). We observed that the self-assembly propensity, the size of the assemblies, the influence on protein denaturation, and the subcellular localization differed significantly depending on the hydrophobic amino acid. F9, L9, I7, and V13 peptides formed μm-scaled granules, W13 formed small oligomeric clusters in the cytoplasm, and Y15 formed assemblies in the nucleus. In addition, we investigated the orthogonality of their interaction. Strikingly, W13- and Y15-tagged proteins interacted independently and formed two distinct assemblies in cells. Herein, we have demonstrated the great opportunities for rationalizing artificial protein assemblies and orthogonal structures in an intracellular context using the designed SAPs.
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