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Conformational Distribution of a Multidomain Protein Measured by Single-Pair Small-Angle X-ray Scattering

J Phys Chem Lett. 2024 Jan 14:744-750. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c02600. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Honoka Kawamukai  1   2 Shumpei Takishita  1 Kazumi Shimizu  3 Daisuke Kohda  4 Koichiro Ishimori  1   5 Tomohide Saio  2   6   7

Affiliations

  • 1 Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8628, Japan.
  • 2 Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Tokushima University, Tokushima 770-8503, Japan.
  • 3 Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences, Waseda University, Tokyo 169-8050, Japan.
  • 4 Division of Structural Biology, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan.
  • 5 Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan.
  • 6 Institute of Advanced Medical Sciences, Tokushima University, Tokushima 770-8503, Japan.
  • 7 Fujii Memorial Institute of Medical Sciences, Institute of Advanced Medical Sciences, Tokushima University, Tokushima 770-8503, Japan.

Abstract

The difficulty in evaluating the conformational distribution of proteins in solution often hinders mechanistic insights. One possible strategy for visualizing conformational distribution is distance distribution measurement by single-pair small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), in which the scattering interference from only a specific pair of atoms in the target molecule is extracted. Despite this promising concept, with few applications in synthetic small molecules and DNA, technical difficulties have prevented its application in protein conformational studies. This study used a synthetic tag to fix the lanthanide ion at desired sites on the protein and used single-pair SAXS with contrast matching to evaluate the conformational distribution of the multidomain protein enzyme MurD. These data highlighted the broad conformational and ligand-driven distribution shifts of MurD in solution. This study proposes an important strategy in solution structural biology that targets dynamic proteins, including multidomain and intrinsically disordered proteins.

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