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Solution structure studies of monomeric human TIP47/perilipin-3 reveal a highly extended conformation
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Solution structure studies of monomeric human TIP47/perilipin-3 reveal a highly extended conformation

Robert M. G Hynson, Cy M Jeffries, Jill Trewhella and Simon Cocklin
Proteins, structure, function, and bioinformatics, v 80(8), pp 2046-2055
Aug 2012
PMID: 22508559
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https://doi.org/10.1002/prot.24095View
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Abstract

tail-interacting protein of 47 kDaa circular dichroism small-angle X-ray scattering multiangle laser light scattering oligomerization state
Tail-interacting protein of 47 kDa (TIP47) has two putative functions: lipid biogenesis and mannose 6-phosphate receptor recycling. Progress in understanding the molecular details of these two functions has been hampered by the lack of structural data on TIP47, with a crystal structure of the C-terminal domain of the mouse homologue constituting the only structural data in the literature so far. Our studies have first provided a strategy to obtain pure monodisperse preparations of the full-length TIP47/perilipin-3 protein, as well as a series of N-terminal truncation mutants with no exogenous sequences. These constructs have then enabled us to obtain the first structural characterization of the full-length protein in solution. Our work demonstrates that the N-terminal region of TIP47/perilipin-3, in contrast to the largely helical C-terminal region, is predominantly β-structure with turns and bends. Moreover, we show that full-length TIP47/perilipin-3 adopts an extended conformation in solution, with considerable spatial separation of the N- and C-termini that would likely translate into a separation of functional domains.

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