使用NMR自旋放松技术在未折叠的蛋白质状态中探测残留相互作用:对delta的应用
1Protein Engineering Network Centers of Excellence, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A8. choy@pound.med.utoronto.ca
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|September 25, 2003
概括
在葡萄球菌核酶中的残留相互作用.
科学领域:
- 生物物理学的生物物理.
- 蛋白质动力学 蛋白质动力学
- 核磁共振 (NMR) 光谱学 核磁共振 (NMR) 光谱学
背景情况:
- 葡萄球菌核酶delta131delta是一种大型,内在无序的蛋白质碎片.
- 了解无序蛋白质中的残留相互作用对于理解它们的功能至关重要.
- 蛋白质动态发生在各种时间尺度上,影响蛋白质的行为.
研究的目的:
- 研究pH对delta131delta.的残留相互作用和动态的影响.
- 为了描述这种无序的蛋白质碎片中的时间尺度依赖的运动.
主要方法:
- 利用脊柱 (15) N 和侧链甲基 (2) H 的NMR旋转放松技术.
- 在两个不同的pH值 (pH3和pH5) 上探测了蛋白质动态.
主要成果:
- 脊柱和侧链的图秒时间尺度运动在pH值上基本保持不变.
- 在pH 3与pH 5相比,在纳秒时间尺度运动中观察到显著增加的pH 3.
- 这些发现表明,残留的疏水性接触的pH依赖性破坏.
结论:
- 将pH值从5降至3会破坏delta131delta的残留疏水接触.
- 在较低的pH值下,静电排斥变得占主导地位,导致蛋白质动态的增加.
- 核磁共振旋转放松是有效的表征pH依赖的动态在无序的蛋白质.
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