Journal: bioRxiv
Article Title: Design principles of the common Gly-X6-Gly membrane protein building block
doi: 10.1101/2025.06.25.661420
Figure Lengend Snippet: ( a ) N-terminal SUMO fusion constructs for synthetic G-X 6 -G TM domains aligned by heptad position. Glycines red, bolded. Interface positions, bold. TM domain length listed right. Left, cartoon of SUMO (purple) and TM domain (red). ( b ) Size exclusion chromatography (SEC) trace of absorbance 280 nm (normalized to peak max) by column volume of 2 mg/mL SUMO-TM Design-2 (representative of n=3) on superdex200i 10/300 column, mobile phase: 50 mM Na Phosphate pH 7.8, 100 mM NaCl, 0.5 mM EDTA, 1 mM DTT, and 1 mM DDM. Red spheres, assigned oligomer. Orange box is expected elution range for a dimer. ( c ) SEC of SUMO-Design-2 (representative of n=3) in 1 mM DDM, major peak falls into dimer range ( d ) SEC of SUMO-Design-3a (representative of n=3) in 1 mM DDM, major peak falls into dimer range ( e ) Left, SDS-PAGE of 1 mg/mL Design-2 in DDM at increasing loading volumes in Tris-Glycine-SDS or the point mutant with central Gly mutated to Phe (G16ΔF). Middle, Design-1a gel. Right, Design-2 after mixing with 4% w/v lithium dodecyl sulfate (LDS) or 0.2% SDS and heating to 95 ° C for 30 minutes. ( f ) SEC of SUMO-Design-4 incubated in 30 mM C14B or 40 mM DDM and run in mobile phase of 3 mM C14B or 1 mM DDM. C14B-incubated protein in C14B mobile phase results in a likely trimer (11.8 mL). DDM-incubated protein in DDM mobile phase results in a dimer. C14B-incubated protein in DDM mobile phase results in trimer-dimer mixture.
Article Snippet: Purified proteins were concentrated to 2-3 mg/mL and injected to a Superdex200i 10/300 column (Cytiva) at room temperature using a mobile phase of 25 mM NaPi at pH 8, 150 mM NaCl, 1 mM DTT, 0.5 mM EDTA and detergent (DDM, Anatrace; C14B; LDAO, Cayman).
Techniques: Construct, Size-exclusion Chromatography, SDS Page, Mutagenesis, Incubation