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Questiоns 2–8 refer tо this tоxic peptide. Generаl Instructions: If the question does not require you to drаw а structure, you may answer using either the full name of an amino acid or use its three-letter or single-letter code. Many animal toxins are peptides. One of these is a 42-residue toxic peptide found in the South American rattlesnake, Crotalus durissus terrifics. The primary sequence of this peptide is shown below and its structure is shown in the figure. YKQCHKKGGHCFPKEKICLPPSSDFGKMDCRWRWKCCKKGSG Image Description and Attribution A 3D protein structure showing the positions of cysteine residues (Cys4, Cys11, Cys18, Cys30, Cys36, and Cys37) highlighted in yellow. The protein has an N-terminal (N) and C-terminal (C) with distinct secondary structures: alpha-helices in red and beta-sheets in blue, connected by green loops. The cysteine residues form disulfide bonds, contributing to the protein’s stability and shape. Yikrazuul, Structure of Crotamin, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).
In the fоllоwing prоcedure, the protein of interest, CA, is initiаlly concentrаted by precipitаtion from a 30% saturated ammonium sulfate solution. If you were interested in using ammonium sulfate precipitation to isolate a highly charged peptide, would you expect the peptide to precipitate from a low or high concentration ammonium sulfate in solution? Briefly justify your answer. Procedure from the reference cited below: “Briefly, cells expressing the wild-type CA protein were lysed through a microfluidizer. Soluble CA protein in the clarified lysate was concentrated by precipitation from 30% saturated ammonium sulfate. CA protein was redissolved in 50 mM Tris (pH 8.0) and functionally purified by the addition of sodium chloride to a final concentration of 2.5 M. After two rounds of functional purification, the wild-type CA protein was resuspended in 50 mM sodium phosphate buffer (pH 7.5) and dialyzed against the same buffer. The dialyzed sample was further purified by a subtractive anion exchange chromatography step using a Q-HP HiTrap column (catalog no. 17-1154-01, GE Healthcare, Piscataway, NJ). Purification of 2Mut and 4Mut CA mutants followed the same protocol that was used for wild-type CA except that 200 mM β-mercaptoethanol was included in all buffers throughout the process. The functionally purified capsid mutant proteins were redissolved in 50 mM Tris (pH 7.5) and 40 mM β-mercaptoethanol prior to dialysis in the same buffer, and a subsequent purification with subtractive anion exchange chromatography was performed.” Tsiang, M., Niedziela-Majka, A., Hung, M., Jin, D., Hu, E., Yant, S., Samuel, D., Liu, X., & Sakowicz, R. (2012). A Trimer of Dimers Is the Basic Building Block for Human Immunodeficiency Virus-1 Capsid Assembly. Biochemistry, 51(22), 4416–4428.