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Walla, B.* ; Bischoff, D.* ; Janowski, R. ; Von Den Eichen, N.* ; Niessing, D. ; Weuster-Botz, D.*

Transfer of a rational crystal contact engineering strategy between diverse alcohol dehydrogenases.

Crystals 11:975 (2021)
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Protein crystallization can serve as a purification step in biotechnological processes but is often limited by the non-crystallizability of proteins. Enabling or improving crystallization is mostly achieved by high-throughput screening of crystallization conditions and, more recently, by rational crystal contact engineering. Two selected rational crystal contact mutations, Q126K and T102E, were transferred from the alcohol dehydrogenases of Lactobacillus brevis (LbADH) to Lactobacillus kefir (LkADH). Proteins were expressed in E. coli and batch protein crystallization was performed in stirred crystallizers. Highly similar crystal packing of LkADH wild type compared to LbADH, which is necessary for the transfer of crystal contact engineering strategies, was achieved by aligning purification tag and crystallization conditions, as shown by X-ray diffraction. After comparing the crystal sizes after crystallization of LkADH mutants with the wild type, the mean protein crystal size of LkADH mutants was reduced by 40–70% in length with a concomitant increase in the total amount of crystals (higher number of nucleation events). Applying this measure to the LkADH variants studied results in an order of crystallizability T102E > Q126K > LkADH wild type, which corresponds to the results with LbADH mutants and shows, for the first time, the successful transfer of crystal contact engineering strategies.
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Publication type Article: Journal article
Document type Scientific Article
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Keywords Crystal Image Analysis ; Downstream Processing ; Rational Crystal Contact Engineering ; Technical Protein Crystallization From Impure Sources; Protein Crystallization; Surface Residues; Purification; Entropy; Design
ISSN (print) / ISBN 2073-4352
e-ISSN 2073-4352
Journal Crystals
Quellenangaben Volume: 11, Issue: 8, Pages: , Article Number: 975 Supplement: ,
Publisher MDPI
Publishing Place St Alban-anlage 66, Ch-4052 Basel, Switzerland
Non-patent literature Publications
Reviewing status Peer reviewed
Grants German Research Foundation (DFG)