title: Alanine scanning mutagenesis identifies an asparagine-arginine-lysine triad essential to assembly of the shell of the Pdu microcompartment.
abstract: Bacterial microcompartments (MCPs) are the simplest organelles known. They function to enhance metabolic pathways by confining several related enzymes inside an all-protein envelope called the shell. In this study, we investigated the factors that govern MCP assembly by performing scanning mutagenesis on the surface residues of PduA, a major shell protein of the MCP used for 1,2-propanediol degradation. Biochemical, genetic, and structural analysis of 20 mutants allowed us to determine that PduA K26, N29, and R79 are crucial residues that stabilize the shell of the 1,2-propanediol MCP. In addition, we identify two PduA mutants (K37A and K55A) that impair MCP function most likely by altering the permeability of its protein shell. These are the first studies to examine the phenotypic effects of shell protein structural mutations in an MCP system. The findings reported here may be applicable to engineering protein containers with improved stability for biotechnology applications.
authors.affiliation: Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
authors.forename: Sharmistha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sinha
authors.affiliation: Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
authors.forename: Shouqiang
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.affiliation: Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
authors.forename: Yea Won
authors.initials: YW
authors.lastname: Sung
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
authors.forename: Dan E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: McNamara
authors.affiliation: Department of Energy Institute for Genomics and Proteomics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
authors.forename: Michael R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Sawaya
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; Department of Energy Institute for Genomics and Proteomics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
authors.forename: Todd O
authors.initials: TO
authors.lastname: Yeates
authors.affiliation: Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA. Electronic address: bobik@iastate.edu.
authors.forename: Thomas A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Bobik
mesh_terms: D000409:Alanine / Q000235:genetics; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001216:Asparagine / Q000235:genetics; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D004252:DNA Mutational Analysis; D004151:Dipeptides / Q000235:genetics; D046529:Microscopy, Electron, Transmission; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016297:Mutagenesis, Site-Directed; D050505:Mutant Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D020125:Mutation, Missense; D011487:Protein Conformation; D055503:Protein Multimerization; D012486:Salmonella typhimurium / Q000737:chemistry / Q000201:enzymology*
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D004151:Dipeptides; D050505:Mutant Proteins; C450428:PduA protein, Salmonella enterica; C104090:arginyllysine; D001216:Asparagine; D000409:Alanine
keywords: 1,2-propanediol; B(12); Salmonella; carboxysome; microcompartment
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