Article
Engineered pathways for correct disulfide bond oxidation.
Antioxidants & redox signaling - 15 Jun 2011
Ren Guoping, Bardwell James C A
Abstract excerpt
Correct formation of disulfide bonds is critical for protein folding. We find that cells lacking protein disulfide isomerases (PDIs) can use alternative mechanisms for correct disulfide bond formation. By linking correct disulfide bond formation to antibiotic resistance, we selected mutants that catalyze correct disulfide formation in the absence of DsbC, Escherichia coli's PDI. Most of our mutants massively...
Topics
- Disulfides
- Drug Resistance, Bacterial
- Escherichia coli
- Escherichia coli Proteins
- Heat-Shock Proteins
- Models, Molecular
- Mutagenesis, Site-Directed
- Mutation
- Oxidation-Reduction
- Periplasmic Proteins
- Protein Conformation
- Protein Disulfide-Isomerases
- Protein Engineering
- Protein Folding
- Serine Endopeptidases
- beta-Lactamases
