Abstract
Here, we study the stabilities of different naturally fragile mutants of 3' phosphoadenosine 5' phosphosulfate (PAPS) synthases. The goal is to establish a relationship between the stability of the mutants in the cellular environment and their enzymatic activity. In vitro stability measurements have suggested that protein stability is a major factor for cellular PAPS availability [1]. We aim to specifically analyze different cellular factors for in-cell PAPSS stability. One crucial factor is the macromolecular crowding effect. The cell is filled up to a volume of 40 % with macromolecules. Often, artificial macromolecular crowding agents are used to mimic these conditions. We previously studied macromolecular crowding effects via a thermodynamic analysis of the thermal unfolding of ubiquitin [2]. We observed enthalpic stabilization and entropic destabilization forces for all tested crowders. Further, we tested how such artificial cosolutes reflect the physicochemical properties of the complex cellular environment. Therefore, we developed a FRET-based macromolecular crowding sensor to study the crowding effect in living cells [3]. We found that the in-cell crowding effect is distributed heterogeneously and can change significantly upon osmotic stress. In comparison, we now used Fast Relaxation Imaging [4] to study the stability of PAPSS within the cellular environment and compare the results to in vitro crowding studies.
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