Pressure-Accelerated Dissociation of Amyloid Fibrils in Wild-Type Hen Lysozyme
Pressure-Accelerated Dissociation of Amyloid Fibrils in Wild-Type Hen Lysozyme
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野生型母鸡溶菌酶中淀粉样原纤维的压力加速解离
DOI:
10.1016/j.bpj.2011.10.041
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发表时间:
2012
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3.4
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Budda R.Shah;他
The dynamics of amyloid fibrils, including their formation and dissociation, could be of vital importance in life. We studied the kinetics of dissociation of the amyloid fibrils from wild-type hen lysozyme at 25°C in vitro as a function of pressure using Trp fluorescence as a probe. Upon 100-fold dilution of 8 mg ml−1fibril solution in 80 mM NaCl, pH 2.2, no immediate change occurred in Trp fluorescence, but at pressures of 50–450 MPa the fluorescence intensity decreased rapidly with time (kobs= 0.00193 min−1at 0.1 MPa, 0.0348 min−1at 400 MPa). This phenomenon is attributable to the pressure-accelerated dissociation of amyloid fibrils into monomeric hen lysozyme. From the pressure dependence of the rates, which reaches a plateau at ∼450 MPa, we determined the activation volume ΔV0‡= −32.9 ± 1.7 ml mol(monomer)−1and the activation compressibility Δκ‡= −0.0075 ± 0.0006 ml mol(monomer)−1bar−1for the dissociation reaction. The negative ΔV0‡and Δκ‡values are consistent with the notion that the amyloid fibril from wild-type hen lysozyme is in a high-volume and high-compressibility state, and the transition state for dissociation is coupled with a partial hydration of the fibril.