4TZA

TGP, an extremely thermostable green fluorescent protein created by structure-guided surface engineering

Summary for 4TZA

• Entry DOI: 10.2210/pdb4tza/pdb
• Descriptor: Fluorescent Protein (2 entities in total)
• Functional Keywords: fluorescent protein, thermostable, engineered
• Biological source: synthetic construct
• Total number of polymer chains: 4
• Total formula weight: 113010.93

Authors

Close, D.W.,Bradbury, A.R.M. (deposition date: 2014-07-09, release date: 2014-10-22, Last modification date: 2024-10-16)

Primary citation

Close, D.W.,Paul, C.D.,Langan, P.S.,Wilce, M.C.,Traore, D.A.,Halfmann, R.,Rocha, R.C.,Waldo, G.S.,Payne, R.J.,Rucker, J.B.,Prescott, M.,Bradbury, A.R.
Thermal green protein, an extremely stable, nonaggregating fluorescent protein created by structure-guided surface engineering.
Proteins, 83:1225-1237, 2015

PubMed Abstract: In this article, we describe the engineering and X-ray crystal structure of Thermal Green Protein (TGP), an extremely stable, highly soluble, non-aggregating green fluorescent protein. TGP is a soluble variant of the fluorescent protein eCGP123, which despite being highly stable, has proven to be aggregation-prone. The X-ray crystal structure of eCGP123, also determined within the context of this paper, was used to carry out rational surface engineering to improve its solubility, leading to TGP. The approach involved simultaneously eliminating crystal lattice contacts while increasing the overall negative charge of the protein. Despite intentional disruption of lattice contacts and introduction of high entropy glutamate side chains, TGP crystallized readily in a number of different conditions and the X-ray crystal structure of TGP was determined to 1.9 Å resolution. The structural reasons for the enhanced stability of TGP and eCGP123 are discussed. We demonstrate the utility of using TGP as a fusion partner in various assays and significantly, in amyloid assays in which the standard fluorescent protein, EGFP, is undesirable because of aberrant oligomerization.

PubMed: 25287913
DOI: 10.1002/prot.24699

Experimental method

X-RAY DIFFRACTION (1.9 Å)