Nanocontainer derived from silkworm carotenoprotein for carotenoid extraction and presentation in biotechnology and biomedical applications
biorxiv(2022)
摘要
Found in many organisms, soluble carotenoproteins are considered as antioxidant nanocarriers for biomedical applications, although the structural basis for their carotenoid transfer function, a prerequisite for rational bioengineering, is largely unknown. We report crystal structures of the Carotenoid-Binding Protein from Bombyx mori (BmCBP) in apo- and zeaxanthin (ZEA)-bound forms. We use spectroscopy and calorimetry to characterize how ZEA and BmCBP mutually affect each other in the complex, identify key carotenoid-binding residues, confirm their roles by crystallography and carotenoid-binding capacity of BmCBP mutants and reconstitute BmCBP complexes with biomedically-relevant xanthophylls lutein, zeaxanthin, canthaxanthin and astaxanthin. By cost-effectively and scalably solubilizing xanthophylls from various crude herbal extracts, His-tagged BmCBP remains monomeric and forms a dynamic nanocontainer delivering carotenoids to liposomes and to other carotenoid-binding proteins, which in particular makes the Orange Carotenoid Protein, a promising optogenetic tool, photoactive. Furthermore, BmCBP(ZEA) administration stimulates fibroblast growth, which paves the way for its biomedical applications.
### Competing Interest Statement
The authors have declared no competing interest.
* AL
: actinic light
βCar
: β-carotene
ASESC
: analytical size-exclusion spectrochromatography
AstaP
: astaxanthin-binding protein
AXT
: astaxanthin
CAN
: canthaxanthin
CD
: circular dichroism
CTDH
: C-terminal domain homolog
DA
: dark-adapted
ECN
: echinenone
HOOP
: hydrogen-out-of-plane
IMAC
: immobilized metalaffinity chromatography
IPTG
: isopropyl-β-thiogalactoside
LA
: light-adapted
LED
: lightemitting diode
MEF
: mouse embryonic fibroblasts
OCP
: orange carotenoid protein
SAXS
: small-angle X-ray scattering
SDS-PAGE
: sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis
SEC
: size-exclusion chromatography
SEC-MALS
: size-exclusion chromatography coupled to multi-angle light scattering
START
: steroidogenic acute regulatory lipid transfer protein
TRITC
: Tetramethylrhodamine isothiocyanate
ZEA
: zeaxanthin
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silkworm carotenoprotein,carotenoid extraction
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