Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation Primes Spider Silk Proteins for Fiber Formation via a Conditional Sticker Domain

Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskriftTidsskriftartikelForskningfagfællebedømt

Dokumenter

  • Fulltext

    Forlagets udgivne version, 4,54 MB, PDF-dokument

  • Axel Leppert
  • Gefei Chen
  • Dilraj Lama
  • Sahin, Cagla
  • Vaida Railaite
  • Olga Shilkova
  • Tina Arndt
  • Erik G. Marklund
  • David P. Lane
  • Anna Rising
  • Michael Landreh

Many protein condensates can convert to fibrillar aggregates, but the underlying mechanisms are unclear. Liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) of spider silk proteins, spidroins, suggests a regulatory switch between both states. Here, we combine microscopy and native mass spectrometry to investigate the influence of protein sequence, ions, and regulatory domains on spidroin LLPS. We find that salting out-effects drive LLPS via low-affinity stickers in the repeat domains. Interestingly, conditions that enable LLPS simultaneously cause dissociation of the dimeric C-terminal domain (CTD), priming it for aggregation. Since the CTD enhances LLPS of spidroins but is also required for their conversion into amyloid-like fibers, we expand the stickers and spacers-model of phase separation with the concept of folded domains as conditional stickers that represent regulatory units.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftNano Letters
Vol/bind23
Udgave nummer12
Antal sider6
ISSN1530-6984
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2023

Bibliografisk note

Funding Information:
M.L. is supported by a KI faculty-funded Career Position, a Cancerfonden Project grant (19 0480), and a VR Starting Grant (2019-01961). A.L. is supported by the Olle Engkvist Foundation (to ML). C.S. is supported by a Novo Nordisk Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (NNF19OC0055700). D.P.L. is supported by a Swedish Research Council grant for Internationally Recruited Scientists (2013-08807). A.R. is supported by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement No 815357), the Swedish Research Council (2019-01257), and Formas (2019-00427).

Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society.

ID: 346048164