Structure network-based landscape of rhodopsin misfolding by mutations and algorithmic prediction of small chaperone action

Failure of a protein to achieve its functional structural state and normal cellular location contributes to the etiology and pathology of heritable human conformational diseases. The autosomal dominant form of retinitis pigmentosa (adRP) is an incurable blindness largely linked to mutations of the m...

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Autores principales: Angelo Felline, Davide Schiroli, Antonella Comitato, Valeria Marigo, Francesca Fanelli
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Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Sumario:Failure of a protein to achieve its functional structural state and normal cellular location contributes to the etiology and pathology of heritable human conformational diseases. The autosomal dominant form of retinitis pigmentosa (adRP) is an incurable blindness largely linked to mutations of the membrane protein rod opsin. While the mechanisms underlying the noxious effects of the mutated protein are not completely understood, a common feature is the functional protein conformational loss. Here, the wild type and 39 adRP rod opsin mutants were subjected to mechanical unfolding simulations coupled to the graph theory-based protein structure network analysis.A robust computational model was inferred and in vitro validated in its ability to predict endoplasmic reticulum retention of adRP mutants, a feature linked to the mutation-caused misfolding. The structure-based approach could also infer the structural determinants of small chaperone action on misfolded protein mutants with therapeutic implications.The approach is exportable to conformational diseases linked to missense mutations in any membrane protein.