圆二色性
两亲性
阳离子聚合
折叠(DSP实现)
生物物理学
化学
蛋白质折叠
结晶学
材料科学
聚合物
共聚物
生物化学
生物
高分子化学
有机化学
电气工程
工程类
作者
R. Levenson,Colton Bracken,Cristian Sharma,Jerome Santos,Claire Arata,Daniel E. Morse
标识
DOI:10.1096/fasebj.2018.32.1_supplement.795.7
摘要
Reflectin proteins are found in the reflective Bragg lamellae in skin cells of certain squids, where they tunably control color for camouflage and communication. Initially disordered in the monomeric form, the reflectins have unusual amino acid compositions and are block copolymers consisting of polyampholytic canonical repeats interspersed with cationic linkers. In vivo, phosphorylation of the cationic linkers induces condensation, secondary folding and hierarchical assembly of the reflectins with concomitant emergence of tunable iridescence. We analyzed the folding and assembly of recombinant phospho‐mimetic and deletion mutants of reflectin, using pH titration as a surrogate for in vivo phosphorylation. Results of dynamic light scattering, transmission electron microscopy, fluorescence, circular dichroism and x‐ray scattering reveal that neutralization of the cationic linkers progressively and reversibly drives the reflectins to form monodisperse spherical assemblies of reproducible size. These analyses reveal a strongly predictive relationship between net charge density and size of the assembled reflectin multimers, with the switch appearing to be equally distributed across the spatially segregated linkers. Accompanying the progressive neutralization of Coulombic repulsion of the linkers, assembly appears to be driven by entropically driven folding of the canonical repeats into amphiphilic secondary structures that are likely to enable hierarchical assembly. These results suggest a model for tunable reflectin assembly and provide insight into the behavior of this unique, initially disordered protein. Support or Funding Information This research was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Army Research Office, and Institute of Collaborative Biotechnologies. This abstract is from the Experimental Biology 2018 Meeting. There is no full text article associated with this abstract published in The FASEB Journal .
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