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Systematic optimization of cell-free synthesized human endothelin B receptor folding
- Source :
- Methods. 147:73-83
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2018.
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Abstract
- Cell-free production of G-protein coupled receptors is becoming attractive for biochemical characterization, ligand screening or even structural purposes. However, despite high production levels within the range of mg/mL, the fraction of functionally folded receptor is frequently below 1%. In synthetic cell-free reactions, numerous factors that affect the efficient folding and stability of translated membrane proteins can be addressed by the appropriate design of the synthetic expression environment. We demonstrate the systematic quality optimization of the cell-free synthesized human endothelin B receptor by a combined approach of lipid screening, redox optimization, and molecular engineering. Key parameters for receptor folding are the implementation of nanodiscs, the selection of suitable lipid environments for co-translational solubilization, as well as providing an optimized redox system for essential disulfide bridge formation. In addition, enrichment with chaperones as well as receptor engineering by thermostabilization further supported the folding into ligand binding conformation. In summary, we provide evidence that the initial co-translational folding process rather than long-term stability of the receptor is limiting. The folding efficiency could be improved by more than 103-fold and under optimized conditions, up to 1.6 nmol or ∼100 µg of ligand binding competent receptor could be produced per mL of reaction mixture in a timescale of less than 24 h. The identified parameters affect rather common characteristics of G-protein receptors and are thus likely to improve the folding of similar targets as well. The optimized process provides full-length receptors embedded in defined membrane environments and in quantities and quality sufficient for throughput screening applications.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
Protein Folding
Cell-Free System
Protein Stability
Chemistry
Ligand (biochemistry)
Receptor, Endothelin B
Redox
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Cell-free system
Molecular engineering
03 medical and health sciences
030104 developmental biology
Membrane
Membrane protein
Biophysics
Humans
Protein folding
Disulfides
Receptor
Oxidation-Reduction
Protein Processing, Post-Translational
Molecular Biology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10462023
- Volume :
- 147
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Methods
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....fb09b6fdd459bf002101be100832da78