Interaction of α-agglutinin and a-agglutinin, Saccharomyces cerevisiae sexual cell adhesion molecules
Interaction of α-agglutinin and a-agglutinin, Saccharomyces cerevisiae sexual cell adhesion molecules
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DOI:
10.1128/jb.183.9.2874-2880.2001
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发表时间:
2001-05-01
影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
Lipke, PN
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作者:
Zhao, H;Shen, ZM;Lipke, PN
alpha -Agglutinin and a-agglutinin are complementary cell adhesion glycoproteins active during mating in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. They bind with high affinity and high specificity: cells of opposite mating types are irreversibly bound by a few pairs of agglutinins. Equilibrium and surface plasmon resonance kinetic analyses showed that the purified binding region of alpha -agglutinin interacted similarly with purified a-agglutinin and with a-agglutinin expressed on cell surfaces. At 20 degreesC, the K-D for the interaction was 2 x 10(-9) to 5 x 10(-9) M, This high affinity was a result of a very low dissociation rate (approximate to 2.6 x 10(-4) s(-1)) coupled with a low association rate (= 5 x 10(4) M-1 s(-1)), Circular-dichroism spectroscopy shelved that binding of the proteins was accompanied by measurable changes in secondary structure. Furthermore, when binding was assessed at 10 degreesC, the association kinetics were sigmoidal, with a very low initial rate, An induced-fit model of binding with substantial apposition of hydrophobic surfaces on the two ligands can explain the observed affinity, kinetics, and specificity and the conformational effects of the binding reaction.