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Conformational Stability and Denaturation Processes of Proteins Investigated by Electrophoresis under Extreme Conditions. Molecules 2022; 27:molecules27206861. [PMID: 36296453 PMCID: PMC9610776 DOI: 10.3390/molecules27206861] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2022] [Revised: 10/10/2022] [Accepted: 10/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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The functional structure of proteins results from marginally stable folded conformations. Reversible unfolding, irreversible denaturation, and deterioration can be caused by chemical and physical agents due to changes in the physicochemical conditions of pH, ionic strength, temperature, pressure, and electric field or due to the presence of a cosolvent that perturbs the delicate balance between stabilizing and destabilizing interactions and eventually induces chemical modifications. For most proteins, denaturation is a complex process involving transient intermediates in several reversible and eventually irreversible steps. Knowledge of protein stability and denaturation processes is mandatory for the development of enzymes as industrial catalysts, biopharmaceuticals, analytical and medical bioreagents, and safe industrial food. Electrophoresis techniques operating under extreme conditions are convenient tools for analyzing unfolding transitions, trapping transient intermediates, and gaining insight into the mechanisms of denaturation processes. Moreover, quantitative analysis of electrophoretic mobility transition curves allows the estimation of the conformational stability of proteins. These approaches include polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and capillary zone electrophoresis under cold, heat, and hydrostatic pressure and in the presence of non-ionic denaturing agents or stabilizers such as polyols and heavy water. Lastly, after exposure to extremes of physical conditions, electrophoresis under standard conditions provides information on irreversible processes, slow conformational drifts, and slow renaturation processes. The impressive developments of enzyme technology with multiple applications in fine chemistry, biopharmaceutics, and nanomedicine prompted us to revisit the potentialities of these electrophoretic approaches. This feature review is illustrated with published and unpublished results obtained by the authors on cholinesterases and paraoxonase, two physiologically and toxicologically important enzymes.
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Structural stability of human butyrylcholinesterase under high hydrostatic pressure. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS 2018; 1867:107-113. [PMID: 30414450 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2018.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2018] [Revised: 11/02/2018] [Accepted: 11/05/2018] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Human butyrylcholinesterase is a nonspecific enzyme of clinical, pharmacological and toxicological significance. Although the enzyme is relatively stable, its activity is affected by numerous factors, including pressure. In this work, hydrostatic pressure dependence of the intrinsic tryptophan fluorescence in native and salted human butyrylcholinesterase was studied up to the maximum pressure at ambient temperature of about 1200 MPa. A correlated large shift toward long wavelengths and broadening observed at pressures between 200 and 700 MPa was interpreted as due to high pressure-induced denaturation of the protein, leading to an enhanced exposure of tryptophan residues into polar solvent environment. This transient process in native butyrylcholinesterase presumably involves conformational changes of the enzyme at both tertiary and secondary structure levels. Pressure-induced mixing of emitting local indole electronic transitions with quenching charge transfer states likely describes the accompanying fluorescence quenching that reveals different course from spectral changes. All the pressure-induced changes turned irreversible after passing a mid-point pressure of about 400 ± 50 MPa. Addition of either 0.1 M ammonium sulphate (a kosmotropic salt) or 0.1 M lithium thiocyanate (a chaotropic salt) to native enzyme similarly destabilized its structure.
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Marion J, Trovaslet M, Martinez N, Masson P, Schweins R, Nachon F, Trapp M, Peters J. Pressure-induced molten globule state of human acetylcholinesterase: structural and dynamical changes monitored by neutron scattering. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 17:3157-63. [DOI: 10.1039/c4cp02992e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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We used neutron scattering to study the effects of high hydrostatic pressure on the structure and dynamics of human acetylcholinesterase (hAChE).
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- J. Marion
- Univ. Grenoble Alpes
- IBS
- F-38044 Grenoble
- France
- Institut Laue Langevin
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes
- IBS
- F-38044 Grenoble
- France
- Institut de Recherche Biomédicale des Armées
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes
- IBS
- F-38044 Grenoble
- France
- Institut Laue Langevin
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes
- IBS
- F-38044 Grenoble
- France
- Kazan Federal University
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- Institut Laue Langevin
- F-38042 Grenoble Cedex 9
- France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes
- IBS
- F-38044 Grenoble
- France
- Institut Laue Langevin
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- Angewandte Physikalische Chemie
- Universität Heidelberg
- 69120 Heidelberg
- Germany
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes
- IBS
- F-38044 Grenoble
- France
- Institut Laue Langevin
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Marchal S, Torrent J, Masson P, Kornblatt JM, Tortora P, Fusi P, Lange R, Balny C. The powerful high pressure tool for protein conformational studies. Braz J Med Biol Res 2005; 38:1175-83. [PMID: 16082457 DOI: 10.1590/s0100-879x2005000800004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The pressure behavior of proteins may be summarized as a the pressure-induced disordering of their structures. This thermodynamic parameter has effects on proteins that are similar but not identical to those induced by temperature, the other thermodynamic parameter. Of particular importance are the intermolecular interactions that follow partial protein unfolding and that give rise to the formation of fibrils. Because some proteins do not form fibrils under pressure, these observations can be related to the shape of the stability diagram. Weak interactions which are differently affected by hydrostatic pressure or temperature play a determinant role in protein stability. Pressure acts on the 2 degrees, 3 degrees and 4 degrees structures of proteins which are maintained by electrostatic and hydrophobic interactions and by hydrogen bonds. We present some typical examples of how pressure affects the tertiary structure of proteins (the case of prion proteins), induces unfolding (ataxin), is a convenient tool to study enzyme dissociation (enolase), and provides arguments to understand the role of the partial volume of an enzyme (butyrylcholinesterase). This approach may have important implications for the understanding of the basic mechanism of protein diseases and for the development of preventive and therapeutic measures.
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- S Marchal
- INSERM U431, Université Montpellier II, Montpellier, France
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Masson P, Balny C. Linear and non-linear pressure dependence of enzyme catalytic parameters. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2005; 1724:440-50. [PMID: 15951113 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2005.05.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2005] [Revised: 05/03/2005] [Accepted: 05/04/2005] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The pressure dependence of enzyme catalytic parameters allows volume changes associated with substrate binding and activation volumes for the chemical steps to be determined. Because catalytic constants are composite parameters, elementary volume change contributions can be calculated from the pressure differentiation of kinetic constants. Linear and non-linear pressure-dependence of single-step enzyme reactions and steady-state catalytic parameters can be observed. Non-linearity can be interpreted either in terms of interdependence between the pressure and other environmental parameters (i.e., temperature, solvent composition, pH), pressure-induced enzyme unfolding, compressibility changes and pressure-induced rate limiting changes. These different situations are illustrated with several examples.
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- Patrick Masson
- Centre de Recherches du Service de Santé des Armées, Département de Toxicologie, Unité d'Enzymologie, BP. 87, 38702 La Tronche cédex, France.
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Masson P, Bec N, Froment MT, Nachon F, Balny C, Lockridge O, Schopfer LM. Rate-determining step of butyrylcholinesterase-catalyzed hydrolysis of benzoylcholine and benzoylthiocholine. Volumetric study of wild-type and D70G mutant behaviour. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 271:1980-90. [PMID: 15128307 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.2004.04110.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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The rate-limiting step for hydrolysis of the positively charged oxoester benzoylcholine (BzCh) by human butyrylcholinesterase (BuChE) is deacylation (k(3)), whereas it is acylation (k(2)) for hydrolysis of the homologous thioester benzoylthiocholine (BzSCh). Steady-state hydrolysis of BzCh and BzSCh by wild-type BuChE and its peripheral anionic site mutant D70G was investigated at different hydrostatic pressures, which allowed determination of volume changes associated with substrate binding, and the activation volumes for the chemical steps. A differential nonlinear pressure-dependence of the catalytic parameters for hydrolysis of both substrates by both enzymes was shown. Nonlinearity of the plots may be explained in terms of compressibility changes or rate-limiting changes. To distinguish between these two possibilities, enzyme phosphorylation by diisopropylfluorophosphate (DFP) in the presence of substrate (BzSCh) under pressure was studied. There was no pressure dependence of volume changes for DFP binding or for phosphorylation of either wild-type or D70G. Analysis of the pressure dependence for steady-state hydrolysis of substrates, and for phosphorylation by DFP provided evidence that no enzyme compressibility changes occurred during the catalyzed reactions. Thus, the nonlinear pressure dependence of substrate hydrolysis reflects changes in the rate-limiting step with pressure. Change in rate-determining step occurred at a pressure of 100 MPa for hydrolysis of BzCh by wild-type and at 75 MPa for D70G. For hydrolysis of BzSCh the change occurred at higher pressures because k(2) << k(3) at atmospheric pressure for this substrate. Elementary volume change contributions upon initial binding, productive binding, acylation and deacylation were calculated from the pressure differentiation of kinetic constants. This analysis shed light on the molecular events taking place along the hydrolysis pathways of BzCh and BzSCh by wild-type BuChE and the D70G mutant. In addition, volume change differences between wild-type and D70G provided new evidence that residue D70 in the peripheral site controls hydration of the active site gorge and the dynamics of the water molecule network during catalysis. Finally, a steady-state kinetic study of the oxyanion hole mutant (G117H) showed that substitution of the ethereal sulfur for oxygen in the substrate alters the final adjustment of substrate in the active site and stabilization of the acylation transition state.
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- Patrick Masson
- Centre de Recherches du Service de Santé des Armées (CRSSA), Département de Toxicologie, Unité d'Enzymologie, 38702 La Tronche cedex, France.
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Masson P, Goldstein BN, Debouzy JC, Froment MT, Lockridge O, Schopfer LM. Damped oscillatory hysteretic behaviour of butyrylcholinesterase with benzoylcholine as substrate. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 271:220-34. [PMID: 14686935 DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1033.2003.03924.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Steady-state kinetics for the hydrolysis of benzoylcholine (BzCh) and benzoylthiocholine (BzSCh) by wild-type human butyrylcholinesterase (BuChE) and by the peripheral anionic site mutant D70G were compared. kcat/Km for the hydrolysis of BzSCh was 17-fold and 32-fold lower than that for hydrolysis of BzCh by wild-type and D70G, respectively. The rate-limiting step for hydrolysis of BzCh was deacylation, whereas acylation was rate-limiting for hydrolysis of BzSCh. Wild-type enzyme and the D70G mutant were found to reach steady-state velocity slowly with BzCh as the substrate. At pH 6, the approach to steady-state for both enzymes consisted of a mono-exponential acceleration upon which a set of damped oscillations was superimposed. From pH 7 to 8.5, the approach to steady-state consisted of a simple exponential acceleration. The damped oscillations were analyzed by both a numerical approximation and simulation based on a theoretical model. BuChE-catalyzed hydrolysis of the thiocholine analogue of BzCh showed neither lags nor oscillations, under the same conditions. The frequency and amplitude of the damped oscillations decreased as the BzCh concentration increased. The apparent induction time for the exponential portion of the lag was calculated from the envelope of the damped oscillations or from the smooth lag. Wild-type BuChE showed a hyperbolic increase in induction time as the BzCh concentration increased (tau max = 210 s at pH 6.0). However, the induction time for D70G was constant over the whole range of BzCh concentrations (tau max = 60 s at pH 6.0). Thus, the induction time does not conform to a simple hysteretic model in which there is a slow conformational transition of the enzyme from an inactive form E to an active form E'. No pH-dependence of the induction time was found between pH 6.0 and 8.5 in sodium phosphate buffers of various concentrations (from 1 mm to 1 m). However, increasing the pH tended to abolish the oscillations (increase the damping factor). This effect was more pronounced for D70G than for wild-type. Although the lyotropic properties of phosphate change from chaotropic at pH 6.0 to kosmotropic at pH > 8.0, no effect of phosphate concentration on the oscillations was noticed at the different pH values, suggesting that the oscillations are not related to a pH-dependent Hofmeister effect of phosphate ions. Simulation and theoretical analysis of the oscillatory behaviour of the approach to the steady-state for BuChE led us to propose a model for the hysteresis of BuChE with BzCh. In this model, the substrate-free enzyme is present as an equilibrium mixture of two forms, E and E'. Substrate binds to E and E', but only Epsilon'S makes products. It is proposed that oscillations originate from a time-dependent change in the local concentration, solvation and/or conformation of substrate in the bulk solution. 1H-NMR measurements provided evidence for a slow equilibrium between two BzCh conformers. Binding of the conformationally preferred substrate conformer leads to products.
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- Patrick Masson
- Centre de Recherches du Service de Santé des Armées, Département de Toxicologie, Unité d'Enzymologie, La Tronche, France.
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Masson P, Froment MT, Fort S, Ribes F, Bec N, Balny C, Schopfer LM. Butyrylcholinesterase-catalyzed hydrolysis of N-methylindoxyl acetate: analysis of volume changes upon reaction and hysteretic behavior. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2002; 1597:229-43. [PMID: 12044901 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4838(02)00265-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Hydrolysis of the neutral substrate N-methylindoxyl acetate (NMIA) by wild-type human butyrylcholinesterase (BuChE) and peripheral site mutants (D70G, Y332A, D70G/Y332A) was found to follow the Michaelis-Menten kinetics. K(m) was 0.14 mM for wild-type, and 0.07-0.16 mM for D70G, Y332A and D70G/Y332A, indicating that the peripheral site is not involved in NMIA binding. The values of k(cat) were of the same order for all enzymes: 12,000-18,000 min(-1). Volume changes upon substrate binding (-DeltaV(K(m))) and the activation volumes (DeltaV++(k(cat)) associated with hydrolysis of NMIA were calculated from the pressure dependence of the catalytic constants. Values of -DeltaV(K(m)) indicate that NMIA binds to an aromatic residue, presumed to be W82, the active site binding locus. Binding is accompanied by a release of water molecules from the gorge. Residue 70 controls the number of water molecules that are released upon substrate binding. The values of DeltaV++(k(cat)), which are positive for wild-type and faintly positive for D70G, clearly indicate that the catalytic steps are accompanied by re-entry of water into the gorge. Results support the premise that residue D70 is involved in the conformational stabilization of the active site gorge and in control of its hydration. A slow transient, preceding the steady state, was seen on a time scale of several minutes. The induction time rapidly increased with NMIA concentration to reach a limit at substrate saturation. Much shorter induction times (<1 min) were seen for hydrolysis of benzoylcholine (BzCh) by wild-type BuChE and for hydrolysis of butyrylthiocholine (BuSCh) by the active site mutants E197Q and E197Q/G117H. This slow transient was interpreted in terms of hysteresis without kinetic cooperativity. The hysteretic behavior of BuChE results from a slow conformational equilibrium between two enzyme states E and E'. NMIA binds only to the primed form E'. Kosmotropic salts and hydrostatic pressure were found to shift the equilibrium toward E'. The E-->E' transition is accompanied by a negative activation volume (DeltaV++(0)= -45+/-10 ml/mol), and the E' form is more compact than E. Hydration water in the gorge of E' appears to be more structured than in the unprimed form.
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- Patrick Masson
- Centre de Recherches du Service de Santé des Armées, Unité d'Enzymologie, BP 87, 24 Av. Maquis du Gresivaudan, 38702 La Tronche Cedex, France.
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Ruan K, Balny C. High pressure static fluorescence to study macromolecular structure-function. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2002; 1595:94-102. [PMID: 11983389 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4838(01)00337-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Through some typical examples, the high pressure static fluorescence method is described. The potentiality of the intrinsic and extrinsic fluorescence probes are analyzed for structural characterizations. Special attention is given to the use of fluorescence to understand the behavior of enzymatic reactions under high pressure. The application of fluorescence polarization is also presented together with some relevant spectroscopic problems inherent in data interpretation.
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- Kangcheng Ruan
- Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, PR China
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Weingand-Ziade A, Ribes F, Renault F, Masson P. Pressure- and heat-induced inactivation of butyrylcholinesterase: evidence for multiple intermediates and the remnant inactivation process. Biochem J 2001; 356:487-93. [PMID: 11368776 PMCID: PMC1221860 DOI: 10.1042/0264-6021:3560487] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The inactivation process of native (N) human butyrylcholinesterase (BuChE) by pressure and/or heat was found to be multi-step. It led to irreversible formation of an active intermediate (I) state and a denatured state. This series-inactivation process was described by expanding the Lumry-Eyring [Lumry, R. and Eyring, H. (1954) J. Phys. Chem. 58, 110-120] model. The intermediate state (I) was found to have a K(m) identical with that of the native state and a turnover rate (k(cat)) twofold higher than that of the native state with butyrylthiocholine as the substrate. The increased catalytic efficiency (k(cat)/K(m)) of I can be explained by a conformational change in the active-site gorge and/or restructuring of the water-molecule network in the active-site pocket, making the catalytic steps faster. However, a pressure/heat-induced covalent modification of native BuChE, affecting the catalytic machinery, cannot be ruled out. The inactivation process of BuChE induced by the combined action of pressure and heat was found to continue after interruption of pressure/temperature treatment. This secondary inactivation process was termed 'remnant inactivation'. We hypothesized that N and I were in equilibrium with populated metastable N' and I' states. The N' and I' states can either return to the active forms, N and I, or develop into inactive forms, N(')(in) and I(')(in). Both active N' and I' intermediate states displayed different rates of remnant inactivation depending on the pressure and temperature pretreatments and on the storage temperature. A first-order deactivation model describing the kinetics of the remnant inactivation of BuChE is proposed.
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- A Weingand-Ziade
- Centre de Recherches du Service de Santé des Armées, Unité d'Enzymologie, BP 87, 38702 La Tronche Cédex, France
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Mentré P, Hui Bon Hoa G. Effects of high hydrostatic pressures on living cells: a consequence of the properties of macromolecules and macromolecule-associated water. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CYTOLOGY 2001; 201:1-84. [PMID: 11057830 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7696(01)01001-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Sixty percent of the Earth's biomass is found in the sea, at depths greater than 1000 m, i.e., at hydrostatic pressures higher than 100 atm. Still more surprising is the fact that living cells can reversibly withstand pressure shifts of 1000 atm. One explanation lies in the properties of cellular water. Water forms a very thin film around macromolecules, with a heterogeneous structure that is an image of the heterogeneity of the macromolecular surface. The density of water in contact with macromolecules reflects the physical properties of their different domains. Therefore, any macromolecular shape variations involving the reorganization of water and concomitant density changes are sensitive to pressure (Le Chatelier's principle). Most of the pressure-induced changes to macromolecules are reversible up to 2000 atm. Both the effects of pressure shifts on living cells and the characteristics of pressure-adapted species are opening new perspectives on fundamental problems such as regulation and adaptation.
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- P Mentré
- Station INRA 806, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Paris, France
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Weingand-Ziadé A, Renault F, Masson P. Differential effect of pressure and temperature on the catalytic behaviour of wild-type human butyrylcholinesterase and its D70G mutant. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1999; 264:327-35. [PMID: 10491076 DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00609.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The combined action of temperature (10-35 degrees C) and pressure (0. 001-2 kbar) on the catalytic activity of wild-type human butyrylcholinesterase (BuChE) and its D70G mutant was investigated at pH 7.0 using butyrylthiocholine as the substrate. The residue D70, located at the mouth of the active site gorge, is an essential component of the peripheral substrate binding site of BuChE. Results showed a break in Arrhenius plots of wild-type BuChE (at Tt approximately 22 degrees C) whatever the pressure (dTt/dP = 1.6 +/- 1.5 degrees C.kbar-1), whereas no break was observed in Arrhenius plots of the D70G mutant. These results suggested a temperature-induced conformational change of the wild-type BuChE which did not occur for the D70G mutant. For the wild-type BuChE, at around a pressure of 1 kbar, an intermediate state, whose affinity for substrate was increased, appeared. This intermediate state was not seen for the mutant enzyme. The wild-type BuChE remained active up to a pressure of 2 kbar whatever the temperature, whereas the D70G mutant was found to be more sensitive to pressure inactivation (at pressures higher than 1.5 kbar the mutant enzyme lost its activity at temperatures lower than 25 degrees C). The results indicate that the residue D70 controls the conformational plasticity of the active site gorge of BuChE, and is involved in regulation of the catalytic activity as a function of temperature.
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- A Weingand-Ziadé
- Centre de Recherches du Service de Santé des Armées, Unité d'Enzymologie, La Tronche, France
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Drljaca A, Hubbard CD, van Eldik R, Asano T, Basilevsky MV, le Noble WJ. Activation and Reaction Volumes in Solution. 3. Chem Rev 1998; 98:2167-2290. [PMID: 11848963 DOI: 10.1021/cr970461b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 272] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- A. Drljaca
- Institute for Inorganic Chemistry, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Egerlandstr. 1, 91058 Erlangen, Germany, Institute for Fundamental Research of Organic Chemistry, Kyushu University, 6-10-1 Hakozaki, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan, Karpov Institute of Physical Chemistry, 10, Vorontsovo Pole, 103064 Moscow, Russia, and Department of Chemistry, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3400
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Blong RM, Bedows E, Lockridge O. Tetramerization domain of human butyrylcholinesterase is at the C-terminus. Biochem J 1997; 327 ( Pt 3):747-57. [PMID: 9581552 PMCID: PMC1218853 DOI: 10.1042/bj3270747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) in human serum consists predominantly of tetramers. Recombinant BChE, however, expressed in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells, consists of approx. 55% dimers, 10-30% tetramers and 15-40% monomers. To determine the origin of the monomer species we added the FLAG epitope (epitope tag, amino acid sequence DYKDDDDK) to the C-terminus of the enzyme, and expressed BChE-FLAG in CHO cells. We found that secreted, active monomers had lost their FLAG epitope, suggesting that the monomers were made by proteolysis of dimers or tetramers at the C-terminus. To estimate the number of amino acids that could be deleted from the C-terminus without losing BChE activity, we expressed deletion mutants. We found that deletion of up to 50 amino acids from the C-terminus yielded active monomers, but that deletion of 51 amino acids destroyed BChE activity and caused the inactive protein to remain within the cell. Deletion of eight or more amino acids from the N-terminus also resulted in inactive protein that remained inside the cell. Monomeric BChE had wild-type Km and kcat values (8 microM and 24000 min-1 for butyrylthiocholine) and showed substrate activation. The Cys-571-->Ala mutant, though incapable of forming the interchain disulphide bond, had nearly the same amount of tetrameric BChE as recombinant wild-type BChE. These results support the conclusion that the tetramerization domain of BChE is at the C-terminus, within the terminal 50 amino acids, and that the interchain disulphide bond is not essential for tetramerization. Molecular modelling suggested that the tetramerization domain was a four-helix bundle, stabilized by interactions of seven conserved aromatic amino acids.
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- R M Blong
- Eppley Institute and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198-6805, USA
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Ringo MC, Evans CE. Role of Modest Pressure in Chirally Selective Complexation Interactions. J Phys Chem B 1997. [DOI: 10.1021/jp970870b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Moira C. Ringo
- Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1055
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1055
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Pressure-induced molten globule states of proteins. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1996. [DOI: 10.1016/s0921-0423(06)80021-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Clery C, Bec N, Balny C, Mozhaev VV, Masson P. Kinetics of butyrylcholinesterase in reversed micelles under high pressure. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1995; 1253:85-93. [PMID: 7492604 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4838(95)00137-j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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The combined effects of high pressure and reversed micelles have been studied to modulate the catalytic behaviour of butyrylcholinesterase. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the conformational plasticity of the enzyme is altered by entrapment in reversed micelles. The presence of soman, an irreversible inhibitor of cholinesterase was used to bring to the fore a possible modification of the enzyme behaviour in this system under pressure. Results show differences between enzyme in conventional medium and in reversed micelles regarding the mechanism of BuChE catalyzed hydrolysis of acetylthiocholine. In both systems, the enzyme displays a non-Michaelian behaviour with this substrate. In conventional medium the kinetics is multiphasic with an activation phase followed by an inhibition phase at high concentration. In reversed micelles there is inhibition by excess substrate but the activation phase is missing. This behaviour may be the result of a change of the enzyme conformational plasticity when is entrapped in reversed micelles.
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- C Clery
- Service de Santé des Armées Emile Pardé, Unité de Biochimie, La Tronche, France
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Cléry C, Heiber-Langer I, Channac L, David L, Balny C, Masson P. Substrate dependence of amiloride- and soman-induced conformation changes of butyrylcholinesterase as evidenced by high-pressure perturbation. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1995; 1250:19-28. [PMID: 7612649 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4838(95)00042-s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Previous results on butyrylcholinesterase-catalyzed hydrolysis of o-nitrophenylbutyrate in the presence of soman, an irreversible inhibitor of cholinesterases, suggested that reversible binding of soman preceding enzyme phophonylation induced a new enzyme conformational state (E'). The purpose of the present study was to determine whether this effect depends on soman itself or is dependent on the presence and nature of substrate or ligand. First, we examined the effect of amiloride, a reversible cholinesterase effector, upon the butyrylcholinesterase-catalyzed hydrolysis of nitrophenyl esters. The effect of amiloride was found to be dependent on the position ortho or para of the substrate nitro group: amiloride acts as a non-linear reversible activator of p-nitrophenyl ester hydrolysis and as a non-linear reversible inhibitor of o-nitrophenyl ester hydrolysis. Second, the effect of amiloride upon hydrolysis of o/p-nitrophenylbutyrate was also studied under perturbing conditions, i.e., as a function of pressure (1-1600 bar) in the presence and absence of soman. Results show that the effect of reversible soman binding on butyrylcholinesterase activity in the presence of amiloride depends on the position of the substrate nitro group and amiloride concentration. Molecular modelling suggests that the presence of amiloride determines the orientation of ortho- and para-nitrophenyl esters in the active-site. gorge. The nitro group of o-nitrophenylbutyrate interacts with the oxyanion hole via hydrogen bonds and its phenyl ring interacts with amiloride whose heterocycle faces Trp-82. The nitro group of p-nitrophenylbutyrate does not interact with the oxyanion hole but points towards Tyr-332; the phenyl ring of p-nitrophenylbutyrate interacts with amiloride but there is no steric constraint on the acyl chain. Thus, the network of interactions in ternary complexes is tighter with o-nitrophenylbutryate as the substrate. There is no evidence for the existence of amiloride and/or soman-induced E' state when p-nitrophenylbutyrate is the substrate. On the other hand, reversible binding of amiloride and/or soman induces new active conformational states that may be either binary (or ternary) enzyme-ligand complex or new free enzyme conformation resulting from long-lived ligand-induced enzyme conformational change when o-nitrophenylbutyrate is the substrate. These ligand-induced states are stabilized by high pressure.
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- C Cléry
- Centre de Recherches du Service de Santé des Armées Emile Pardé, CRSSA, La Tronche, France
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Gross M, Jaenicke R. Proteins under pressure. The influence of high hydrostatic pressure on structure, function and assembly of proteins and protein complexes. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1994; 221:617-30. [PMID: 8174542 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1994.tb18774.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 457] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Oceans not only cover the major part of the earth's surface but also reach into depths exceeding the height of the Mt Everest. They are populated down to the deepest levels (approximately 11,800 m), which means that a significant proportion of the global biosphere is exposed to pressures of up to 120 MPa. Although this fact has been known for more than a century, the ecology of the 'abyss' is still in its infancy. Only recently, barophilic adaptation, i.e. the requirement of elevated pressure for viability, has been firmly established. In non-adapted organisms, increased pressure leads to morphological anomalies or growth inhibition, and ultimately to cell death. The detailed molecular mechanism of the underlying 'metabolic dislocation' is unresolved. Effects of pressure as a variable in microbiology, biochemistry and biotechnology allow the structure/function relationship of proteins conjugates to be analyzed. In this context, stabilization by cofactors or accessory proteins has been observed. High-pressure equipment available today allows the comprehensive characterization of the behaviour of proteins under pressure. Single-chain proteins undergo pressure-induced denaturation in the 100-MPa range, which, in the case of oligomeric proteins or protein assemblies, is preceded by dissociation at lower pressure. The effects may be ascribed to the positive reaction volumes connected with the formation of hydrophobic and ionic interactions. In addition, the possibility of conformational effects exerted by moderate, non-denaturing pressures, and related to the intrinsic compressibility of proteins, is discussed. Crystallization may serve as a model reaction of protein self-organization. Kinetic aspects of its pressure-induced inhibition can be described by a model based on the Oosawa theory of molecular association. Barosensitivity is known to be correlated with the pressure-induced inhibition of protein biosynthesis. Attempts to track down the ultimate cause in the dissociation of ribosomes have revealed remarkable stabilization of functional complexes under pseudo-physiological conditions, with the post-translational complex as the most pressure-sensitive species. Apart from the key issue of barosensitivity and barophilic adaptation, high-pressure biochemistry may provide means to develop new approaches to nonthermic industrial processes, especially in the field of food technology.
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- M Gross
- Institut für Biophysik und physikalische Biochemie, Universität Regensburg, Germany
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Coelho-Sampaio T, Voss EW. Pressure-induced dissociation of fluorescein from the anti-fluorescein single-chain antibody 4-4-20. Biochemistry 1993; 32:10929-35. [PMID: 8218158 DOI: 10.1021/bi00092a001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Hydrostatic pressure was used to dissociate fluorescein (Fl) from the high-affinity anti-Fl single-chain antibody 4-4-20 (SCA 4-4-20). Fl dissociation was monitored by measuring (1) the shift in the Fl absorption peak, (2) the recovery in Fl fluorescence intensity, which is quenched upon SCA binding, or (3) the decrease in Fl fluorescence polarization. Pressure effects were studied at two different Fl:SCA 4-4-20 molar ratios: 1:1, at which Fl fluorescence quenching was ca. 35% at atmospheric pressure, and 1:5, at which quenching reached 95-97% under the same conditions. In both cases, pressure-induced dissociation was favored by concomitant dilution of protein and ligand. Dissociation constants (KD) at each pressure were calculated on the basis of measurements of Fl fluorescence polarization under pressure. The dependence of KD, and consequently of delta G of dissociation, on pressure permitted calculation of the magnitude of the standard volume change (delta V) involved in the dissociation process. According to this study, delta V of dissociation for the Fl-SCA complex is -50 mL/mol, which corresponds to a 10-times higher value than that found for dissociation of Fl from the intact IgG mAb 4-4-20 [Herron, J. N., Kranz, D. M., Jameson, D. M., & Voss, E. W., Jr. (1986) Biochemistry 25, 4602-4609]. This difference is explained in terms of a higher overall flexibility of unliganded SCA and of a less stable binding site in SCA relative to mAb.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- T Coelho-Sampaio
- Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801
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Massoulié J, Pezzementi L, Bon S, Krejci E, Vallette FM. Molecular and cellular biology of cholinesterases. Prog Neurobiol 1993; 41:31-91. [PMID: 8321908 DOI: 10.1016/0301-0082(93)90040-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 836] [Impact Index Per Article: 27.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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- J Massoulié
- Laboratoire de Neurobiologie, CNRS URA 295, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
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Cléry C, Masson P, Heiber-Langer I, Balny C. Soman inhibition of butyrylcholinesterase in the presence of substrate: pressure and temperature perturbations. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1992; 1159:295-302. [PMID: 1390935 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4838(92)90059-m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Irreversible inhibition of butyrylcholinesterase by soman was studied in the presence of the substrate (o-nitrophenyl butyrate). Inhibition was found of the competitive complexing type. Study at different temperatures and pressures showed that the behavior of the enzyme differs from that of the inhibitor-free enzyme. In the absence of inhibitor, enzyme kinetics displayed a non-linear temperature dependence with a break at 21 degrees C. In the presence of a non-inhibitor structural analog of soman (pinacolyl dimethylphosphinate and methyl dimethylphosphinate), the Arrhenius plot break is slightly shifted (18 degrees C). On the other hand, in the presence of soman this break is abolished. The pressure-dependence of the substrate hydrolysis revealed also differences between the native enzyme and the enzyme in the presence of soman: the sign and magnitude of the apparent activation volume (delta V not equal to) were different for the two reactions. Beyond 300 bar, in the presence of soman, a plateau (delta V not equal to approx. 0) was observed over a large pressure range depending on temperature. Such a behavior with respect to temperature and pressure can reflect a soman-induced enzyme conformational state. Thus, temperature and pressure perturbations of the kinetics allow to complete the inhibition scheme of butyrylcholinesterase by soman. Our data suggest that upon soman binding, the enzyme undergoes a long-lived soman-induced-fit conformational change preceding the phosphonylation step. However, an alternative hypothesis according to which the enzyme processes a secondary soman-binding site cannot be ruled out.
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- C Cléry
- Centre de Recherches du Service de Santé des Armées, La Tronche, France
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