Department of Biotechnology
inStem (Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine)

Mutational scan inferred binding energetics and structure in intrinsically disordered protein CcdA.

Publication Type

Journal Article

Date of Publication

March 1, 2023

Journal

Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society

Volume/Issue

32/3

ISSN

1469-896X

Unlike globular proteins, mutational effects on the function of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins (IDPs) are not well-studied. Deep Mutational Scanning of a yeast surface displayed mutant library yields insights into sequence-function relationships in the CcdA IDP. The approach enables facile prediction of interface residues and local structural signatures of the bound conformation. In contrast to previous titration-based approaches which use a number of ligand concentrations, we show that use of a single rationally chosen ligand concentration can provide quantitative estimates of relative binding constants for large numbers of protein variants. This is because the extended interface of IDP ensures that energetic effects of point mutations are spread over a much smaller range than for globular proteins. Our data also provides insights into the much-debated role of helicity and disorder in partner binding of IDPs. Based on this exhaustive mutational sensitivity dataset, a rudimentary model was developed in an attempt to predict mutational effects on binding affinity of IDPs that form alpha-helical structures upon binding.

Alternate Journal

Protein Sci

PubMed ID

36714997

PubMed Central ID

PMC9951195

Authors

Soumyanetra Chandra
Kavyashree Manjunath
Aparna Asok
Raghavan Varadarajan

Keywords

Protein Binding
Mutation
Protein Conformation
Ligands
Protein Conformation, alpha-Helical
Intrinsically Disordered Proteins