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1 Structural effects of aci variants 1 of 6 10/9/2012 1:05 PM Structural effects of aci variants TMD Change[1] Y282D Reversion[2] Variant ssembly Y7 W/Wless[3] M42 I 62 W/Wless[3] I64 1 V H74 2 R /Wless[3] Protein Stability Chemical Modification Solvent Exposure Compared to WT S77 2 [4] NS more apolar KI: ess quenching/solvent exposure with IPTG change Q78 1 V V[5] C107 IPTG I83 1 K84 1,2 E R D S93 1 V94 1 V95 V96 1 S97 1 [6] High[7] Very high sensitivity lost Monoclonal Exposure WT6 WT Decreased Decreased UV Difference Bigger >300 nm Very small diff ll bigger[8] peaks ll bigger peaks

2 Structural effects of aci variants 2 of 6 10/9/2012 1:05 PM M98 1 I E100 1 W/Wless[3] N113 1 Q117 1 W/Wless[3] R118 Y T V F[9] D149 1 N V150 I S151 P[8] F161 3 S162 3 H163 3 E164 3 S191 F S193 1 R197 1 G[10] K W201[11] W22011 F226 W/Wless[3] M223 I T M232 I N246 3 S Q248 3 R 251 [12] Y273 W/Wless[3] D274 3 N[13] G K[14] Easily proteolyzed More exposed

3 tructural effects of aci variants 3 of 6 10/9/2012 1:05 PM T276 2 I D278 [15] C281[16] S F M I S/282 Y282[17] D Monomer F P284 S K290 2 Q291 2 D292 2 F293 2 W/Wless[3] M V P320 3 [8] V321 3 I S322 3 K325 W/Wless[3] R326[18] K E W S354 F References Bandyopadhyay, P. K. and C.-W. Wu (1979). "Heterogeneity of the Two Tryptophanyl Residues on the lac Repressor of Escherichia coli." rch.biochem.biophys. 195, No. 2:

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5 Structural effects of aci variants 5 of 6 10/9/2012 1:05 PM Schmitz,., U. Schmeissner, et al. (1976). "Mutations affecting the quaternary structure of the lac repressor." J Biol Chem 251(11): Spott, S., F. Dong, et al. (2000). "Dimerisation mutants of ac repressor. II. single amino acid substitution, D278, changes the specificity of dimerisation." J Mol Biol 296(2): Spotts, R. O.,. E. Chakerian, et al. (1991). "rginine 197 of lac repressor contributes significant energy to inducer binding. Confirmation of homology to periplasmic sugar binding proteins." J Biol Chem 266(34): Swint-Kruse,., C. R. Elam, et al. (2001). "Plasticity of quaternary structure: twenty-two ways to form a aci dimer." Protein Sci 10(2): Swint-Kruse,., H. Zhan, et al. (2003). "Perturbation from a distance: mutations that alter aci function through long-range effects." Biochemistry 42(47): Swint-Kruse,., H. Zhan, et al. (2005). "Integrated insights from simulation, experiment, and mutational analysis yield new details of aci function." Biochemistry 44(33): Footnotes [1] Number indicates whether residue participates in pathways 1, 2, or 3. (Flynn, Swint-Kruse et al. 2003) [2] (Swint-Kruse, Elam et al. 2001) [3] (Barry and Matthews 1997) [4] ll data: (Chou and Matthews 1989) [5] ll data: (Chakerian, Pfahl et al. 1985) [6], E, R, : (Chang, Olson et al. 1993) [7], : (Nichols and Matthews 1997) [8], : (Swint-Kruse, Zhan et al. 2005) [9] (Swint-Kruse, Zhan et al. 2003) [10] (Spotts, Chakerian et al. 1991) [11] (Bandyopadhyay and Wu 1979; Gardner and Matthews 1990; Royer, Gardner et al. 1990; Burns, Maki et al. 1992; Barry and Matthews 1997; Ozarowski, Barry et al. 1999) [12] (Dong, Spott et al. 1999)

6 Structural effects of aci variants 6 of 6 10/9/2012 1:05 PM [13] (Chang and Matthews 1995) [14] (Chang, Barrera et al. 1994) [15] OTS OF OTHER MUTTIONS IN THIS PPER (Spott, Dong et al. 2000) [16] (Chakerian and Matthews 1991) [17] (Schmitz, Schmeissner et al. 1976; Daly and Matthews 1986; Chakerian and Matthews 1991; Chen and Matthews 1992) [18] (i and Matthews 1995)

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