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7929430

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
43
pubmed:dateCreated
1994-11-23
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
A strategy to genetically select Escherichia coli ribonuclease HI mutants with enhanced thermostability is described. E. coli strain MIC3001, which shows an RNase H-dependent, temperature-sensitive growth phenotype, was used for this purpose. Introduction of the rnhA gene permits the growth of this temperature-sensitive strain, whereas the gene for the truncated protein, 142-RNase HI, which lacks the carboxyl-terminal 13 residues, cannot. Analyses of the production levels and the stability of a series of mutant proteins with COOH-terminal truncations suggested that 142-RNase HI is nonfunctional in vivo because of a dramatic decrease in the protein stability. Polymerase chain reaction-mediated random mutagenesis of the rnhA142 gene, encoding 142-RNase HI, followed by selection of revertants, allowed us to isolate 11 single amino acid substitutions that render 142-RNase HI functional in vivo. Of them, eight substitutions were shown to enhance the thermal stability of the wild-type RNase HI protein, and of these, six were novel. The genetic selection strategy employed in this experiment was thus shown to be effective for identifying amino acid substitutions that enhance the thermal stability of E. coli RNase HI. Such a strategy would be versatile if a protein of interest could be destabilized by a deletion or a truncation and a conditional-lethal strain were available.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0021-9258
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
28
pubmed:volume
269
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
26904-11
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
A novel strategy for stabilization of Escherichia coli ribonuclease HI involving a screen for an intragenic suppressor of carboxyl-terminal deletions.
pubmed:affiliation
Protein Engineering Research Institute, Osaka, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study