Protein-protein recognition control by modulating electrostatic interactions

J Proteome Res. 2010 Jun 4;9(6):3118-25. doi: 10.1021/pr100027k.

Abstract

Protein-protein control recognition remains a huge challenge, and its development depends on understanding the chemical and biological mechanisms by which these interactions occur. Here we describe a protein-protein control recognition technique based on the dominant electrostatic interactions occurring between the proteins. We designed a potassium channel inhibitor, BmP05-T, that was 90.32% identical to wild-type BmP05. Negatively charged residues were translocated from the nonbinding interface to the binding interface of BmP05 inhibitor, such that BmP05-T now used BmP05 nonbinding interface as the binding interface. This switch demonstrated that nonbinding interfaces were able to control the orientation of protein binding interfaces in the process of protein-protein recognition. The novel function findings of BmP05-T peptide suggested that the control recognition technique described here had the potential for use in designing and utilizing functional proteins in many biological scenarios.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Models, Biological*
  • Models, Molecular
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Peptides / chemistry*
  • Peptides / metabolism
  • Potassium Channels / chemistry
  • Potassium Channels / metabolism
  • Protein Binding
  • Protein Conformation
  • Protein Engineering / methods*
  • Protein Interaction Domains and Motifs*
  • Protein Interaction Mapping / methods*
  • Scorpion Venoms / chemistry
  • Scorpion Venoms / metabolism
  • Sequence Alignment
  • Static Electricity
  • Thermodynamics

Substances

  • BmP05 toxin
  • Peptides
  • Potassium Channels
  • Scorpion Venoms