Thioredoxin domain non-equivalence and anti-chaperone activity of protein disulfide isomerase mutants in vivo

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Coexpression of the enzyme, protein disulfide isomerase (PDI), has been shown to increase soluble and secreted IgG levels from baculovirus-infected insect cells (Hsu, T.-A., Watson, S., Eiden, J. J., and Betenbaugh, M. J. (1996) Protein Expression Purif. 7, 281-288). PDI is known to include catalytic active sites in two separate thioredoxin-like domains, one near the amine terminus and another near the carboxyl terminus. To examine the role of these catalytic active sites in enhancing immunoglobulin solubility, baculovirus constructs were utilized with cysteine to serine mutations at the first cysteine of one or both of the CGHC active site sequences. Trichoplusia ni insect cells were coinfected with a baculovirus vector coding for IgG in concert with either the wild-type human PDI virus, amino-terminal mutant (PDI-N), carboxyl-terminal mutant (PDI-C), or mutant with both active sites altered (PDI-NC). Western blot analysis revealed that both immunoglobulins and PDI protein were expressed in the coinfected cells. To evaluate the effect of the PDI variants on immunoglobulin solubility and secretion, the infected cells were labeled with 35-amino-acids for different periods, and the soluble immunoglobulins were immunoprecipitated from clarified cell lysates and culture medium using anti-IgG antibodies. Only coinfections with the wild-type PDI and PDI-N mutant led to increased immunoglobulin solubility and higher IgG secretion. In contrast, infection with the PDI-C and PDI-NC variants actually lowered immunoglobulin solubility levels below those achieved with a negative control virus. Immunoprecipitation with anti-PDI antibody revealed that heterologous PDI-C and PDI-NC were insoluble, even though PDI-N and wild-type PDI protein were detected in soluble form. The capacity for PDI-N to increase immunoglobulin solubility whereas the PDI-C mutant lowered solubility indicates that the amino- and carboxyl-terminal thioredoxin domains of PDI are functionally distinct in vivo following mutations to the active site. Furthermore, mutations at the active site of the carboxyl-terminal thioredoxin domain result in PDI variants that can act as anti-chaperones of immunoglobulin solubility in vivo as has been observed in vitro for lysozyme aggregation by wild-type PDI and PDI mutants (Puig, A., and Gilbert, H. F. (1994) J. Biol. Chem. 269, 7764-7771).

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Whiteley, E. M., Hsu, T. A., & Betenbaugh, M. J. (1997). Thioredoxin domain non-equivalence and anti-chaperone activity of protein disulfide isomerase mutants in vivo. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 272(36), 22556–22563. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.272.36.22556

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