A single amino acid substitution alters ClpS2 binding specificity.

Christina Bergonzo, Kunal Dharmadhikari, Emily Samuels, Makenzie Christensen, Jennifer Tullman

Journal: Proteins 2021;88(9):1189-1196

PMID: 32181926

Abstract

["ClpS2 is a small protein under development as a probe for selectively recognizing N-terminal amino acids of N-degron peptide fragments. To understand the structural basis of ClpS2 specificity for an N-terminal amino acid, all atom molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were conducted using the sequence of a bench-stable mutant of ClpS2, called PROSS. We predicted that a single amino acid leucine to asparagine substitution would switch the specificity of PROSS ClpS2 to an N-terminal tyrosine over the preferred phenylalanine. Experimental validation of the mutant using a fluorescent yeast-display assay showed an increase in tyrosine binding over phenylalanine, in support of the proposed hypothesis.",{"copyright":"Published 2020. This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the USA."}]
Address: Biomolecular Structure and Function Group, Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Maryland, Rockville, Maryland, USA.; Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA.; Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland, Rockville, Maryland, USA.; Department of Biochemistry, Thomas S. Wootton High School, Rockville, Maryland, USA.

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