In silico mutational analysis and identification of stability centers in human interleukin-4
Journal: Molecular Biology Research Communications (Vol.7, No. 2)Publication Date: 2018-06-01
Authors : Sandeep Saini; Chander Jyoti- Thakur; Varinder Kumar; Akshay Suhag; Niharika Jakhar;
Page : 67-76
Keywords : IL-4; stability centre; mutagenesis; cytokine; bioinformatics;
Abstract
Interleukin-4 (IL-4) is a multifunctional cytokine that plays a critical role in apoptosis, differentiation and proliferation. The intensity of IL4 response depends upon binding to its receptor, IL-4R. The therapeutic efficiency of interleukins can be increased by generating structural mutants having greater stability. In the present work, attempts were made to increase the stability of human IL-4 using in-silico site directed mutagenesis. Different orthologous sequences of IL4 from Pan troglodytes, Aotusnigriceps, Macacamulatta, Papiohamadryas, Chlorocebusaethiops, Vicugnapacos, Susscrofa and Homo sapiens were aligned using Clustal Omega that revealed the conserved and non-conserved positions. For each non-conserved position, possible favorable and stabilizing mutations were found using CUPSAT with predicted ΔΔG (kcal/mol). The one with highest ΔΔG (kcal/mol) among all possible mutations, for each non-conserved position was selected and introduced manually in human IL-4 sequence resulting in multiple mutants of IL-4. Mutant proteins were modeled using structure of IL4 (PDB ID: 2B8U) as a template by SWISS MODEL. The mutants A49L and Q106T were identified to have stability centre using SCide. Molecular dynamics and docking analysis also confirmed the mutants stability and binding respectively. Mutants A49L and Q106T had -7.580079 kcal/mol and -39.418124 kcal/mol respectively lesser energy value than the wild type IL4. The result suggested that, the stability of human IL-4 has been increased by mutation.
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