The correlation between protein stability and dipole moment: a critical test.


Abstract

Improving the stability of proteins is a major aim in basic and applied protein science. Querol and coworkers calculated changes in the quasi-electric dipole moment of a protein and used it as a simple criterion to predict stabilizing charge mutations. They employed this method to propose for the bacterial cold shock protein Bc-Csp a number of charge mutations that should have a strong influence on stability. We produced eight variants of Bc-Csp with such mutations and measured their stabilities experimentally. However, we could not find a correlation between the stability and the quasi dipole moment of these variants. Possibly, the quasi dipole moment reflects only a secondary aspect of the changes that are caused by charge mutations in a protein. Study holds ProTherm entries: 22233, 22234, 22235, 22236, 22237, 22238, 22239, 22240, 22241, 22242, 22243, 22244, 22245, 22246, 22247, 22248, 22249, 22250, 22251, 22252, 22253, 22254, 22255, 22256, 22257, 22258, 22259, 22260, 22261, 22262, 22263, 22264, 22265, 22266, 22267, 22268, 22269, 22270 Extra Details: cold shock protein; electric dipole moment; electrostatic interactions; protein stabilization

Submission Details

ID: E9QTsXHm

Submitter: Connie Wang

Submission Date: April 24, 2018, 8:53 p.m.

Version: 1

Publication Details
Wunderlich M;Schmid FX,Protein Eng. Des. Sel. (2006) The correlation between protein stability and dipole moment: a critical test. PMID:16720692
Additional Information

Structure view and single mutant data analysis

Study data

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Data Distribution

Studies with similar sequences (approximate matches)

Correlation with other assays (exact sequence matches)


Relevant UniProtKB Entries

Percent Identity Matching Chains Protein Accession Entry Name
100.0 Cold shock protein CspB P41016 CSPB_BACCL
98.5 Cold shock protein CspB P42016 CSPB_GEOSE
100.0 Cold shock protein CspB P32081 CSPB_BACSU
92.3 Cold shock protein CspB Q81K90 CSPD_BACAN
92.3 Cold shock protein CspB Q816H3 CSPD_BACCR
96.5 Cold shock protein CspB P41018 CSPB_SPOGL