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Ghisellini P, Paternolli C, Nicolini C. Site-directed mutations (Asp405Ile and Glu124Ile) in cytochrome P450scc: effect on adrenodoxin binding. J Cell Biochem 2005; 95:720-30. [PMID: 15832374 DOI: 10.1002/jcb.20442] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Cytochrome P450scc, mitochondrial adrenodoxin (Adx), and adrenodoxin reductase (AdR) are an essential components in a steroid hydroxylation system. In particular, mytochondrial cytochrome P450scc enzyme catalyses the first step in steroid hormones biosynthesis, represented by the conversion of cholesterol to pregnenolone. In order to study the effect of single mutations on the Adx binding a model of bovine cytochrome P450scc, previously optimized by molecular modeling, was utilized. It was hypothesized by molecular docking that two residues (Asp405 and Glu124) are involved in Adx binding. By site-directed mutagenesis, two mutants of cytochrome P450scc (Asp405Ile and Glu124Ile) expressed in Escherichia coli, were realized by replacing with isoleucines. The site-directed mutations effect on Adx binding was evaluated by differential spectral titration. The apparent dissociation constant values for Asp405Ile and Glu124Ile cytochrome P450scc show that the mutated residues seem to be at the interaction domain with Adx or at least close to it, as predicted by molecular modeling study. Finally, the engineered enzymes were characterized by biochemical and biophysical techniques such as circular dichroism (CD), UV/Vis spectroscopy, and electrochemical analysis.
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- Paola Ghisellini
- Nanoworld Institute and Biophysics Division, University of Genoa, Corso Europa, 30, Genoa, Italy
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Gianni S, Travaglini-Allocatelli C, Cutruzzolà F, Brunori M, Shastry MCR, Roder H. Parallel pathways in cytochrome c(551) folding. J Mol Biol 2003; 330:1145-52. [PMID: 12860134 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-2836(03)00689-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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The folding of cytochrome c(551) from Pseudomonas aeruginosa was previously thought to follow a simple sequential mechanism, consistent with the lack of histidine residues, other than the native His16 heme ligand, that can give rise to mis-coordinated species. However, further kinetic analysis reveals complexities indicative of a folding mechanism involving parallel pathways. Double-jump interrupted refolding experiments at low pH indicate that approximately 50% of the unfolded cytochrome c(551) population can reach the native state via a fast (10 ms) folding track, while the rest follows a slower folding path with populated intermediates. Stopped-flow experiments using absorbance at 695 nm to monitor refolding confirm the presence of a rapidly folding species containing the native methionine-iron bond while measurements on carboxymethylated cytochrome c(551) (which lacks the Met-Fe coordination bond) indicate that methionine ligation occurs late during folding along the fast folding track, which appears to be dominant at physiological pH. Continuous-flow measurements of tryptophan-heme energy transfer, using a capillary mixer with a dead time of about 60 micros, show evidence for a rapid chain collapse within 100 micros preceding the rate-limiting folding phase on the milliseconds time scale. A third process with a time constant in the 10-50 ms time range is consistent with a minor population of molecules folding along a parallel channel, as confirmed by quantitative kinetic modeling. These findings indicate the presence of two or more slowly inter-converting ensembles of denatured states that give rise to pH-dependent partitioning among fast and slow-folding pathways.
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- Stefano Gianni
- Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Dipartimento di Scienze Biochimiche e Istituto di Biologia e Patologia Molecolari del CNR, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Piazzale A. Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
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Aramli LA, Teschke CM. Alleviation of a defect in protein folding by increasing the rate of subunit assembly. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:25372-7. [PMID: 11304542 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m101759200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Understanding the nature of protein grammar is critical because amino acid substitutions in some proteins cause misfolding and aggregation of the mutant protein resulting in a disease state. Amino acid substitutions in phage P22 coat protein, known as tsf (temperature-sensitive folding) mutations, cause folding defects that result in aggregation at high temperatures. We have isolated global su (suppressor) amino acid substitutions that alleviate the tsf phenotype in coat protein (Aramli, L. A., and Teschke, C. M. (1999) J. Biol. Chem. 274, 22217-22224). Unexpectedly, we found that a global su amino acid substitution in tsf coat proteins made aggregation worse and that the tsf phenotype was suppressed by increasing the rate of subunit assembly, thereby decreasing the concentration of aggregation-prone folding intermediates.
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- L A Aramli
- University of Connecticut, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, 75 N. Eagleville Road, Storrs, CT 06269-3125, USA
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Taniuchi H, Shi Y, San Miguel GI, Ferretti JA, Mack JW, Fisher A, Shah M, Schechter AN, Shiloach J. A study of the influence of the hydrophobic core residues of yeast iso-2-cytochrome c on phosphate binding: a probe of the hydrophobic core-surface charge interactions. JOURNAL OF PROTEIN CHEMISTRY 2001; 20:203-15. [PMID: 11565900 DOI: 10.1023/a:1010906929793] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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To gain insight into the role of hydrophobic core-surface charge interactions in stabilizing cytochrome c, we investigated the influence of hydrophobic core residues on phosphate binding by mutating residues in yeast iso-2-cytochrome c to those corresponding to iso-l-cytochrome c in various combinations. Heat transition of ultraviolet CD was followed as a function of pH in the presence and absence of phosphate. Thermodynamic parameters were deduced. It was found that the I20V/V43A/M98L mutation in the hydrophobic core, whose locations are remote from the putative phosphate sites, modulates phosphate interactions. The modulation is pH dependent. The I20V/ M98L and V43A mutation effects are nonadditive. The results lead to a model analogous to that of Tsao, Evans, and Wennerstrom, where a domain associated with the ordered hydrophobic core is sensitive to the fields generated by the surface charges. Such an explanation would be in accord with the observed difference in thermal stability between iso-2 and horse cytochromes c.
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- H Taniuchi
- Laboratory of Chemical Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.
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Plaxco KW, Larson S, Ruczinski I, Riddle DS, Thayer EC, Buchwitz B, Davidson AR, Baker D. Evolutionary conservation in protein folding kinetics. J Mol Biol 2000; 298:303-12. [PMID: 10764599 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.3663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The sequence and structural conservation of folding transition states have been predicted on theoretical grounds. Using homologous sequence alignments of proteins previously characterized via coupled mutagenesis/kinetics studies, we tested these predictions experimentally. Only one of the six appropriately characterized proteins exhibits a statistically significant correlation between residues' roles in transition state structure and their evolutionary conservation. However, a significant correlation is observed between the contributions of individual sequence positions to the transition state structure across a set of homologous proteins. Thus the structure of the folding transition state ensemble appears to be more highly conserved than the specific interactions that stabilize it.
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- K W Plaxco
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
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A dominant feature of folding of cytochrome c is the presence of nonnative His-heme kinetic traps, which either pre-exist in the unfolded protein or are formed soon after initiation of folding. The kinetically trapped species can constitute the majority of folding species, and their breakdown limits the rate of folding to the native state. A temperature jump (T-jump) relaxation technique has been used to compare the unfolding/folding kinetics of yeast iso-2 cytochrome c and a genetically engineered double mutant that lacks His-heme kinetic traps, H33N,H39K iso-2. The results show that the thermodynamic properties of the transition states are very similar. A single relaxation time tau(obs) is observed for both proteins by absorbance changes at 287 nm, a measure of solvent exclusion from aromatic residues. At temperatures near Tm, the midpoint of the thermal unfolding transitions, tau(obs) is four to eight times faster for H33N,H39K iso-2 (tau(obs) approximately 4-10 ms) than for iso-2 (tau(obs) approximately 20-30 ms). T-jumps show that there are no kinetically unresolved (tau < 1-3 micros T-jump dead time) "burst" phases for either protein. Using a two-state model, the folding (k(f)) and unfolding (k(u)) rate constants and the thermodynamic activation parameters standard deltaGf, standard deltaGu, standard deltaHf, standard deltaHu, standard deltaSf, standard deltaSu are evaluated by fitting the data to a function describing the temperature dependence of the apparent rate constant k(obs) (= tau(obs)(-1)) = k(f) + k(u). The results show that there is a small activation enthalpy for folding, suggesting that the barrier to folding is largely entropic. In the "new view," a purely entropic kinetic barrier to folding is consistent with a smooth funnel folding landscape.
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- M Panda
- Center for Biomolecular Structure, Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio 78229-3900, USA
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Raman CS, Jemmerson R, Nall BT. Antibody-detected folding: kinetics of surface epitope formation are distinct from other folding phases. Protein Sci 2000; 9:129-37. [PMID: 10739255 PMCID: PMC2144437 DOI: 10.1110/ps.9.1.129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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The rate of macromolecular surface formation in yeast iso-2 cytochrome c and its site-specific mutant, N52I iso-2, has been studied using a monoclonal antibody that recognizes a tertiary epitope including K58 and H39. The results indicate that epitope refolding occurs after fast folding but prior to slow folding, in contrast to horse cytochrome c where surface formation occurs early. The antibody-detected (ad) kinetic phase accompanying epitope formation has k(ad) = 0.2 s(-1) and is approximately 40-fold slower than the fastest detectable event in the folding of yeast iso-2 cytochrome c (k2f approximately 8 s(-1)), but occurs prior to the absorbance- and fluorescence-detected slow folding steps (k1a approximately 0.06 s(-1); k1b approximately 0.09 s(-1)). N5I iso-2 cytochrome c exhibits similar kinetic behavior with respect to epitope formation. A detailed dissection of the mechanistic differences between the folding pathways of horse and yeast cytochromes c identifies possible reasons for the slow surface formation in the latter. Our results suggest that non-native ligation involving H33 or H39 during refolding may slow down the formation of the tertiary epitope in iso-2 cytochrome c. This study illustrates that surface formation can be coupled to early events in protein folding. Thus, the rate of macromolecular surface formation is fine tuned by the residues that make up the surface and the interactions they entertain during refolding.
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- C S Raman
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio 78229-3900, USA
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Aramli LA, Teschke CM. Single amino acid substitutions globally suppress the folding defects of temperature-sensitive folding mutants of phage P22 coat protein. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:22217-24. [PMID: 10428787 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.32.22217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The amino acid sequence of a polypeptide defines both the folding pathway and the final three-dimensional structure of a protein. Eighteen amino acid substitutions have been identified in bacteriophage P22 coat protein that are defective in folding and cause their folding intermediates to be substrates for GroEL and GroES. These temperature-sensitive folding (tsf) substitutions identify amino acids that are critical for directing the folding of coat protein. Additional amino acid residues that are critical to the folding process of P22 coat protein were identified by isolating second site suppressors of the tsf coat proteins. Suppressor substitutions isolated from the phage carrying the tsf coat protein substitutions included global suppressors, which are substitutions capable of alleviating the folding defects of numerous tsf coat protein mutants. In addition, potential global and site-specific suppressors were isolated, as well as a group of same site amino acid substitutions that had a less severe phenotype than the tsf parent. The global suppressors were located at positions 163, 166, and 170 in the coat protein sequence and were 8-190 amino acid residues away from the tsf parent. Although the folding of coat proteins with tsf amino acid substitutions was improved by the global suppressor substitutions, GroEL remained necessary for folding. Therefore, we believe that the global suppressor sites identify a region that is critical to the folding of coat protein.
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- L A Aramli
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269-3125, USA
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Travaglini-Allocatelli C, Cutruzzolà F, Bigotti MG, Staniforth RA, Brunori M. Folding mechanism of Pseudomonas aeruginosa cytochrome c551: role of electrostatic interactions on the hydrophobic collapse and transition state properties. J Mol Biol 1999; 289:1459-67. [PMID: 10373379 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.2852] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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We report on the folding kinetics of the small 82 residue cytochrome c551from Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The presence of two Trp residues (Trp56 and Trp77) allows the monitoring of fluorescence quenching on refolding in two different regions of the protein. A single His residue (the iron-coordinating His16) permits the study of refolding in the absence of miscoordination events. After identification of the kinetic traps (Pro isomerization and aggregation of denatured protein), overall refolding kinetics is described by two processes: (i) a burstphase collapse (faster than milliseconds) which we show to be a global event leading to a state whose compactness depends on the overall net charge; at the isoeletric pH (4.7), it is maximally compact, while above and below it is more expanded; and (ii) an exponential phase (in the millisecond time range) leading to the native protein via a transition state(s) possibly involving the formation of a specific salt bridge between Lys10 and Glu70, at the contact between the N and C-terminal helices. Comparison with the widely studied horse cytochrome c allows the discussion of similarities and differences in the folding of two proteins which have the same "fold" despite a very low degree of sequence homology (<30 %).
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- C Travaglini-Allocatelli
- Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti and Centro di Biologia Molecolare del CNR Dipartimento di Scienze Biochimiche "A. Rossi Fanelli", Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Piazzale A. Moro 5, Rome, I00185, Italy
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