An artificial motor protein that walks along a DNA track

Andrew Whitten.

SASDWM8 – Tumbleweed protein composed of synthetic constructs TW1 and TW2 linked covalently via SpyTag/SpyCatcher

Tumbleweed
MWexperimental 156 kDa
MWexpected 133 kDa
VPorod 190 nm3
log I(s) 6.13×10-2 6.13×10-3 6.13×10-4 6.13×10-5
Tumbleweed small angle scattering data  s, nm-1
ln I(s)
Tumbleweed Guinier plot ln 6.14×10-2 Rg: 6.7 nm 0 (6.7 nm)-2 s2
(sRg)2I(s)/I(0)
Tumbleweed Kratky plot 1.104 0 3 sRg
p(r)
Tumbleweed pair distance distribution function Rg: 6.9 nm 0 Dmax: 27 nm

Data validation


Fits and models


log I(s)
 s, nm-1
Tumbleweed MULTIFOXS model

log I(s)
 s, nm-1
Tumbleweed MULTIFOXS model

Synchrotron SAXS data from solutions of Tumbleweed protein composed of synthetic constructs TW1 and TW2 linked covalently via SpyTag/SpyCatcher in 10 mM HEPES, 150 mM NaCl, 5mM MgCl2, pH 7.4 were collected on the SAXS/WAXS beam line at the Australian Synchrotron storage ring (Melbourne, Australia) using a Pilatus3 S 2M detector at a sample-detector distance of 2.7 m and at a wavelength of λ = 0.10332 nm (I(s) vs s, where s = 4πsinθ/λ, and 2θ is the scattering angle). One solute concentration of 10.00 mg/ml was measured at 20°C. 10 successive 1 second frames were collected. The data were normalized to the intensity of the transmitted beam and radially averaged; the scattering of the solvent-blank was subtracted.

TW is a protein formed by covalent linkage of the the proteins TW1 and TW2 via a SpyTag/SpyCatcher. SAXS data was collected at the SAXS/WAXS beamline at the Australian Synchrotron, with Pilatus 2M detector at a SDD of 2680mm, with an incident intensity of ~8 x 10^12 ph/s. A SEC-SAXS setup with sheath flow was used. The running buffer was 10 mM HEPES pH 7.4, 150 mM NaCl, 5mM MgCl2, and 50uL of sample at ~10mg/mL was injected onto a Superdex 200 Increase 5/150 GL running at 0.2mL/min. Buffer scattering frames taken immediately before the void fraction. Sample scattering frames taken at the elution peak over a region of stable Rg using CHROMIX. Data were fit by a 2-state model using MultiFoXS.

Tumbleweed (TW)
Mol. type   Protein
Organism   synthetic construct
Olig. state   Monomer
Mon. MW   132.8 kDa
Sequence   FASTA