Another option is refolding which can increase soluble protein content and is
used routinely to achieve soluble protein such as the TIMPs
http://peds.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/7/8/1035
http://www.proteinscience.org/cgi/reprint/11/10/2493.pdf?ck=nck
that said, this is not true of all membrane proteins.
Addition of a fusion partner, MBP, to the normally membrane associated
FMO3 has
been shown to generate stable, soluble protein and the addition of a fusion
protein allows purification downstream more easily.
Here is a paper where they did as the original poster suggested and tried
mutagenesis of hydrophobic regions, including a truncation of a membrane
anchor. They achieved increased solubility with this in combination with use
of detergents.
Krueger SK, Siddens LK, Henderson MC, VanDyke JE, Karplus PA, Pereira CB,
Williams DE.
Abstract
C-Terminal truncation of rabbit flavin-containing monooxygenase isoform 2
enhances solubility.
Arch Biochem Biophys. 2006 Jun 15;450(2):149-56. Epub 2006 Mar 29.
cheers
Quoting Bil Clemons <[log in to unmask]>:
> There is also the soluble KcsA.
>
> Computational design of water-soluble analogues of the potassium channel
> KcsA. A. M. Slovic, H. Kono, J. D. Lear, J. G. Saven, and W. F. DeGrado
> (2004) PNAS 101, 1828-1833
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>> From: Thomas J Magliery PhD <[log in to unmask]>
>> Reply-To: Thomas J Magliery PhD <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 16:50:03 -0500
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] how to change a membrane protein into a water solub=
> le
>> protein?
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>> It's hard. See:
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>> J Mol Biol. 2005 May 6;348(3):777-87.
>> X-ray structure of a water-soluble analog of the membrane protein
>> phospholamban:=20
>> sequence determinants defining the topology of tetrameric and pentameric
>> coiled
>> coils.
>> Slovic AM, Stayrook SE, North B, Degrado WF.
>> =20
>> Slovic, A. M., Summa, C. M., Lear, J. D. & DeGrado,
>> W. F. (2002). Computational design of a water-soluble
>> analog of phospholamban. Protein Sci. 12, 337=AD348.
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>> Li, H., Cocco, M. J., Steitz, T. A. & Engelman, D. E.
>> (2001). Conversion of phospholamban into a soluble
>> pentameric helical bundle. Biochemistry, 40,
>> 6636=AD6645.
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>> Frank, S., Kammerer, R. A., Hellstern, S., Pegoraro, S.,
>> Stetefeld, J., Lustig, A. et al. (2000). Toward a high resolution
>> structure of phospholamban: design of
>> soluble transmembrane domain mutants.
>> Biochemistry, 39, 6825=AD6831.
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>> Tom
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>> Daniel Jin wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I am wondering whether there is a way to turn a membrane protein with
>>> known crystal structure into a water soluble protein by systematic
>>> mutagenesis. I guess it should be doable if we introduce enough
>>> hydrophilic residues on the surface. Has anyone tested this crazy idea
>>> before? Thank you for your help.
>>> Best,
>>> Chen
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