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Science 5 July 1991:
Vol. 253. no. 5015, pp. 54 - 58
DOI: 10.1126/science.1648264

Articles

Science, Vol 253, Issue 5015, 54-58
Copyright © 1991 by American Association for the Advancement of Science


articles

Global suppression of protein folding defects and inclusion body formation

A Mitraki, B Fane, C Haase-Pettingell, J Sturtevant, and J King

Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139.

Amino acid substitutions at a site in the center of the bacteriophage protein P22 tailspike polypeptide chain suppress temperature-sensitive folding mutations at many sites throughout the chain. Characterization of the intracellular folding and chain assembly process reveals that the suppressors act in the folding pathway, inhibiting the aggregation of an early folding intermediate into the kinetically trapped inclusion body state. The suppressors alone increase the folding efficiency of the otherwise wild-type polypeptide chain without altering the stability or activity of the native state. These amino acid substitutions identify an unexpected aspect of the protein folding grammar--sequences within the chain that carry information inhibiting unproductive off-pathway conformations. Such mutations may serve to increase the recovery of protein products of cloned genes.


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