Single amino acid substitutions on the surface of Escherichia coli maltose-binding protein can have a profound impact on the solubility of fusion proteins

Protein Science : a Publication of the Protein Society
Jeffrey D FoxDavid S Waugh

Abstract

Proteins are commonly fused to Escherichia coli maltose-binding protein (MBP) to enhance their yield and facilitate their purification. In addition, the stability and solubility of a passenger protein can often be improved by fusing it to MBP. In a previous comparison with two other highly soluble fusion partners, MBP was decidedly superior at promoting the solubility of a range of aggregation-prone proteins. To explain this observation, we proposed that MBP could function as a general molecular chaperone in the context of a fusion protein by binding to aggregation-prone folding intermediates of passenger proteins and preventing their self-association. The ligand-binding cleft in MBP was considered a likely site for peptide binding because of its hydrophobic nature. We tested this hypothesis by systematically replacing hydrophobic amino acid side chains in and around the cleft with glutamic acid. None of these mutations affected the yield or solubility of MBP in its unfused state. Each MBP was then tested for its ability to promote solubility when fused to three passenger proteins: green fluorescent protein, p16, and E6. Mutations within the maltose-binding cleft (W62E, A63E, Y155E, W230E, and W340E) had little or no effect on ...Continue Reading

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