Protein Expression, Characterization and Activity Comparisons of Wild Type and Mutant DUSP5 Proteins
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-2014
Source Publication
BMC Biochemistry
Source ISSN
1471-2091
Abstract
Background
The mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) pathway is critical for cellular signaling, and proteins such as phosphatases that regulate this pathway are important for normal tissue development. Based on our previous work on dual specificity phosphatase-5 (DUSP5), and its role in embryonic vascular development and disease, we hypothesized that mutations in DUSP5 will affect its function.
Results
In this study, we tested this hypothesis by generating full-length glutathione-S-transferase-tagged DUSP5 and serine 147 proline mutant (S147P) proteins from bacteria. Light scattering analysis, circular dichroism, enzymatic assays and molecular modeling approaches have been performed to extensively characterize the protein form and function. We demonstrate that both proteins are active and, interestingly, the S147P protein is hypoactive as compared to the DUSP5 WT protein in two distinct biochemical substrate assays. Furthermore, due to the novel positioning of the S147P mutation, we utilize computational modeling to reconstruct full-length DUSP5 and S147P to predict a possible mechanism for the reduced activity of S147P.
Conclusion
Taken together, this is the first evidence of the generation and characterization of an active, full-length, mutant DUSP5 protein which will facilitate future structure-function and drug development-based studies.
Recommended Citation
Nayak, Jaladhi; Gastonguay, Adam J.; Talipov, Marat R.; Vakeel, Padmanabhan; Span, Elise A.; Kalous, Kelsey S.; Kutty, Raman G.; Jensen, David R.; Pokkuluri, Phani Raj; Sem, Daniel S.; Rathore, Rajendra; and Ramchandran, Ramani, "Protein Expression, Characterization and Activity Comparisons of Wild Type and Mutant DUSP5 Proteins" (2014). Chemistry Faculty Research and Publications. 384.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/chem_fac/384
Comments
Published version. BMC Biochemistry, Vol. 15, No. 1 (December 2014). DOI. © BioMed Central 2014.
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