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Ajamaluddin Malik

Associate Professor

Associate Professor

كلية العلوم
Building no 5, room no 2A56
المنشورات
مقال فى مجلة
2017

MERS‐CoV papain-like protease (PLpro): Expression, Purification and Spectroscopic/Thermodynamic Characterization

, Ajamaluddin Malik, Mohammad A. Alsenaidy. . 2017

Within a decade, MERS-CoV emerged with nearly four times higher case fatality rate than an earlier outbreak of SARS-CoV and spread out in 27 countries in short span of time. As an emerging virus, combating it requires an in-depth understanding of its molecular machinery. Therefore, conformational characterization studies of coronavirus proteins are necessary to advance our knowledge of the matter for the development of antiviral therapies. In this study, MERS-CoV papain-like protease (PLpro) was recombinantly expressed and purified. Thermal folding pathway and thermodynamic properties were characterized using dynamic multimode spectroscopy (DMS) and thermal shift assay. DMS study showed that the PLpro undergoes a single thermal transition and follows a pathway of two-state folding with T m and van't Hoff enthalpy values of 54.4 ± 0.1 °C and 317.1 ± 3.9 kJ/mol, respectively. An orthogonal technique based on intrinsic tryptophan fluorescence also showed that MERS-CoV PLpro undergoes a single thermal transition and unfolds via a pathway of two-state folding with a T m value of 51.4 °C. Our findings provide significant understandings of the thermodynamic and structural properties of MERS-CoV PLpro.

رقم المجلد
7
رقم الانشاء
2
مجلة/صحيفة
3 Biotech.
الصفحات
100
مزيد من المنشورات
publications

Polyphosphate polymers are chains of phosphate monomers chemically
bonded together via phosphoanhydride bonds. They are found in all prokaryotic and
eukaryotic organisms and are among…

بواسطة Ajamaluddin Malik, Javed Masood Khan, Abdulaziz M. Al-Amri, Nojood Altwaijry, Prerna Sharma, Abdullah Alhomida, Priyankar Sen
publications

Phosphate additions in processed foods are a health risk that has been overlooked. This study examined the
effects of a permitted food additive (E452; Sodium Hexametaphosphate (SHMP)) on…

بواسطة Ajamaluddin Malik, Javed Masood Khan, Abdulaziz M. Al-Amri, Nojood Altwaijry, Abdullah S Alhomida, Mohammad Shamsul Ola
2023
publications

Protein aggregation is implicated in different human diseases. It also makes the protein less desirable candidate for industry as they exhibit reduced biological activity. Proteins tend to…

بواسطة Javed Masood Khan, Ajamaluddin Malik, Abdulaziz M. Al-Amri.
2023
تم النشر فى:
Journal of Molecular Liquids