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Proteins, Expression, Isolation and Analysis> | … Possible hydrogen bonds are represented by dashed yellow lines. Materials and Methods. Protein expression and purification. A synthetic gene of RvSAHS4 (RvSAHS4 28–171 ) was purchased from GenScript and subcloned into the pET‐28a(+) vector (Novagen) … | Get A Quote |
Though anhydrobiotic tardigrades (micro-animals also known as water bears) possess many genes of secretory abundant heat soluble (SAHS) proteins unique to Tardigrada, their functions are unknown. A previous crystallographic study revealed that a SAHS protein (RvSAHS1) from one of the toughest tardigrades, Ramazzottius varieornatus, has a β-barrel architecture similar to fatty acid binding proteins (FABPs) and two putative ligand binding sites (LBS1 and LBS2) where fatty acids can bind. However, some SAHS proteins such as RvSAHS4 have different sets of amino acid residues at LBS1 and LBS2, implying that they prefer other ligands and have different functions. Here RvSAHS4 was crystallized and analyzed ... More