Contribution of individual side-chains to the stability of BPTI examined by alanine-scanning mutagenesis

Journal of Molecular Biology
M H YuP S Kim

Abstract

Bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor (BPTI) serves as an important model system for the examination of almost all aspects of protein structure. Systematic studies of the effects of mutation on the thermodynamic stability of BPTI, however, have been limited by the extreme stability of the protein. A derivative of BPTI containing only the 5-55 disulfide bond, termed [5-55]Ala, has been shown previously to fold into a structure very similar to that of native BPTI and to be a functional trypsin inhibitor. [5-55]Ala undergoes a reversible thermal unfolding transition with a melting temperature of 39 degrees C, and is therefore well suited for stability studies. Using an alanine-scanning mutagenesis approach, we have examined the contribution to stability of each side-chain in the [5-55]Ala derivative of BPTI. These studies demonstrate the importance of the two hydrophobic cores composed largely of clusters of aromatic residues, as well as the internal hydrogen-bonding network, in stabilizing BPTI. Overall, there is a strong relationship between change in buried surface area and stability for both polar and hydrophobic residues, with proportionality constants of 50 and 20 cal/A2, respectively. None of the alanine substitutions substan...Continue Reading

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