Equilibrium and kinetic measurements of the conformational transition of reduced thioredoxin.
Equilibrium and kinetic measurements of the conformational transition of reduced thioredoxin.
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还原型硫氧还蛋白构象转变的平衡和动力学测量。
DOI:
10.1021/bi00379a029
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发表时间:
1987
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Stellwagen,E
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作者:
Kelley,RF;Shalongo,W;Jagannadham,MV;Stellwagen,E
Department of Biochemistry, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52242 Received June 9, 1986; Revised Manuscript Received November 5, 1986 abstract: The single disulfide bond in Escherichia coli thioredoxin was reduced by reaction with a 20-fold excess of reduced dithiothreitol at neutral pH and 25 C. For some measurements, reduced thioredoxin was further reacted with iodoacetamide to alkylate the cysteinyl residues. The denaturation transitions of oxidized, reduced, and reduced alkylated thioredoxin were observed by using far-ultraviolet circular dichroic and exclusion chromatographic measurements. Cleavage of the disulfide bond lowers the stability of the native thioredoxin to denaturation by about 2.4 kcal/mol, and subsequent alkylation lowers the stability by a further 1.6 kcal/mol. Thekinetics of the conformational change of reduced thioredoxin in guanidine hydrochloride were observed by using exclusion chromatography at moderate pressure and 2 C. Analyses of single and multimixing protocols are consistent with a predominant nonnative configuration in the denatured state and thetransient accumulation of a compact nativelike intermediate during refolding. The intermediate can incorporate the nonnative configuration and can accommodate its isomerization. No compelling chromatographic evidence was found for a conformation having an elution time different from that characteristic for either the native or the denatured protein. e crystallographic model of Escherichia coli oxidized thioredoxin (Holmgren et al., 1975) indicates that the single tThis investigation was supported by US Public Health Service Research Grant GM-22109 from the Institute of General Medical Sci-ences, by Program Project Grant HL-14388 from the Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and by Grants PCM-8313046 and DMB-8413658 from the National Science Foundation.