Bacterial in-cell NMR of human α-synuclein: a disordered monomer by nature?

Biochemical Society Transactions - Tập 40 Số 5 - Trang 950-954 - 2012
Andrés Binolfi1, François‐Xavier Theillet1, Philipp Selenko1
1In-cell NMR Group, Department of NMR-Assisted Structural Biology, Leibniz Institute of Molecular Pharmacology (FMP Berlin), Robert-Roessle-Strasse 10, Berlin 13125, Germany

Tóm tắt

The notion that human α-synuclein is an intrinsically disordered monomeric protein was recently challenged by a postulated α-helical tetramer as the physiologically relevant protein structure. The fact that this alleged conformation had evaded detection for so many years was primarily attributed to a widely used denaturation protocol to purify recombinant α-synuclein. In the present paper, we provide in-cell NMR evidence obtained directly in intact Escherichia coli cells that challenges a tetrameric conformation under native in vivo conditions. Although our data cannot rule out the existence of other intracellular protein states, especially in cells of higher organisms, they indicate clearly that inside E. coli α-synuclein is mostly monomeric and disordered.

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