Replacement of ProB28 by pipecolic acid protects insulin against fibrillation and slows hexamer dissociation
- Source:
- Journal of polymer science 2019 v.57 no.3 pp. 264-267
- ISSN:
- 0887-624X
- Subject:
- dissociation, engineering, insulin, mutagenesis, pipecolic acid, polymers, proline, therapeutics
- Abstract:
- Non‐canonical amino acid mutagenesis was used to examine the biophysical consequences of changing ring size and structure at the single proline site in insulin. Addition of a methylene spacer to the prolyl ring (by replacement of proline by pipecolic acid at position B28) led to an increase in stability and a decrease in the rate of hexamer dissociation. The results of this work illustrate the power of non‐canonical amino acid mutagenesis in the engineering of macromolecular aggregation and protein therapeutics.
- Agid:
- 6268034
- https://doi.org/10.1002/pola.29225