scholarly journals The N-terminal 22 amino acid residues in the lactose permease of Escherichia coli are not obligatory for membrane insertion or transport activity.

1992 ◽  
Vol 89 (8) ◽  
pp. 3180-3184 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Bibi ◽  
S. M. Stearns ◽  
H. R. Kaback
1994 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 240-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miklós Sahin-Tóth ◽  
Bengt Persson ◽  
Jeremy Schwieger ◽  
Pejman Cohan ◽  
H.Ronald Kaback

2015 ◽  
Vol 112 (31) ◽  
pp. 9632-9637 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Stapleton ◽  
Timothy A. Whitehead ◽  
Vikas Nanda

Advances in computational design methods have made possible extensive engineering of soluble proteins, but designed β-barrel membrane proteins await improvements in our understanding of the sequence determinants of folding and stability. A subset of the amino acid residues of membrane proteins interact with the cell membrane, and the design rules that govern this lipid-facing surface are poorly understood. We applied a residue-level depth potential for β-barrel membrane proteins to the complete redesign of the lipid-facing surface ofEscherichia coliOmpA. Initial designs failed to fold correctly, but reversion of a small number of mutations indicated by backcross experiments yielded designs with substitutions to up to 60% of the surface that did support folding and membrane insertion.


1989 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. S. Grewal ◽  
P. J. Lowry ◽  
D. Savva

ABSTRACT A large portion of the human pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) peptide corresponding to amino acid residues 59–241 has been cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli. A 1·0 kb DNA fragment encoding this peptide was cloned into the expression vectors pUC8 and pUR291. Plasmid pJMBG51 (a pUC8 recombinant) was found to direct the expression of a 24 kDa peptide. The recombinant pUR291 (pJMBG52) was shown to produce a β-galactosidase fusion protein of 140 kDa. Western blot analysis showed that both the 24 kDa and 140 kDa peptides are recognized by antibodies raised against POMC-derived peptides. The β-galactosidase fusion protein has been partially purified from crude E. coli cell lysates using affinity chromatography on p-aminobenzyl-1-thio-β-d-galactopyranoside agarose.


2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.J. Dridge ◽  
D.J. Richardson ◽  
R.J. Lewis ◽  
C.S. Butler

The AF0174–AF0176 gene cluster in Archaeoglobus fulgidus encodes a putative oxyanion reductase of the D-type (Type II) family of molybdo-enzymes. Sequence analysis reveals that the catalytic subunit AF0176 shares low identity (31–32%) and similarity (41–42%) to both NarG and SerA, the catalytic components of the respiratory nitrate and selenate reductases respectively. Consequently, predicting the oxyanion substrate selectivity of AF0176 has proved difficult based solely on sequence alignments. In the present study, we have modelled both AF0176 and SerA on the recently determined X-ray structure of the NAR (nitrate reductase) from Escherichia coli and have identified a number of key amino acid residues, conserved in all known NAR sequences, including AF0176, that we speculate may enhance selectivity towards trigonal planar (NO3−) rather than tetrahedral (SeO42− and ClO4−) substrates.


1971 ◽  
Vol 227 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshihisa Nishimura ◽  
Hiroshi Makino ◽  
Osamu Takenaka ◽  
Yuji Inada

2002 ◽  
Vol 76 (11) ◽  
pp. 5829-5834 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshio Mori ◽  
Mohammed Ali Borgan ◽  
Naoto Ito ◽  
Makoto Sugiyama ◽  
Nobuyuki Minamoto

ABSTRACT Avian rotavirus NSP4 glycoproteins expressed in Escherichia coli acted as enterotoxins in suckling mice, as did mammalian rotavirus NSP4 glycoproteins, despite great differences in the amino acid sequences. The enterotoxin domain of PO-13 NSP4 exists in amino acid residues 109 to 135, a region similar to that reported in SA11 NSP4.


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