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Lukáčová Bujňáková Z, Dutková E, Jakubíková J, Cholujová D, Varhač R, Borysenko L, Melnyk I. Investigation of the Interaction between Mechanosynthesized ZnS Nanoparticles and Albumin Using Fluorescence Spectroscopy. Pharmaceuticals (Basel) 2023; 16:1219. [PMID: 37765027 PMCID: PMC10536685 DOI: 10.3390/ph16091219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2023] [Revised: 08/11/2023] [Accepted: 08/23/2023] [Indexed: 09/29/2023] Open
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In this paper, ZnS nanoparticles were bioconjugated with bovine serum albumin and prepared in a form of nanosuspension using a wet circulation grinding. The stable nanosuspension with monomodal particle size distribution (d50 = 137 nm) and negative zeta potential (-18.3 mV) was obtained. The sorption kinetics and isotherm were determined. Interactions between ZnS and albumin were studied using the fluorescence techniques. The quenching mechanism, describing both static and dynamic interactions, was investigated. Various parameters were calculated, including the quenching rate constant, binding constant, stoichiometry of the binding process, and accessibility of fluorophore to the quencher. It has been found that tryptophan, in comparison to tyrosine, can be closer to the binding site established by analyzing the synchronous fluorescence spectra. The cellular mechanism in multiple myeloma cells treated with nanosuspension was evaluated by fluorescence assays for quantification of apoptosis, assessment of mitochondrial membrane potential and evaluation of cell cycle changes. The preliminary results confirm that the nontoxic nature of ZnS nanoparticles is potentially applicable in drug delivery systems. Additionally, slight changes in the secondary structure of albumin, accompanied by a decrease in α-helix content, were investigated using the FTIR method after analyzing the deconvoluted Amide I band spectra of ZnS nanoparticles conjugated with albumin. Thermogravimetric analysis and long-term stability studies were also performed to obtain a complete picture about the studied system.
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- Zdenka Lukáčová Bujňáková
- Institute of Geotechnics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Watsonova 45, 04001 Košice, Slovakia; (E.D.); (I.M.)
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- Institute of Geotechnics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Watsonova 45, 04001 Košice, Slovakia; (E.D.); (I.M.)
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- Cancer Research Institute of Biomedical Research Center, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská Cesta 9, 84505 Bratislava, Slovakia; (J.J.)
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- Cancer Research Institute of Biomedical Research Center, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská Cesta 9, 84505 Bratislava, Slovakia; (J.J.)
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- Faculty of Science, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Šrobárova 2, 04154 Košice, Slovakia;
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- Chuiko Institute of Surface Chemistry, National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Generala Naumova 17, 03164 Kyiv, Ukraine;
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- Institute of Geotechnics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Watsonova 45, 04001 Košice, Slovakia; (E.D.); (I.M.)
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Lukáčová Bujňáková Z, Melnyk I, Dutková E, Varhač R, Jakubíková J, Cholujová D, Tóthová E, Storozhuk L, Briančin J. Nano-bio Interface between As 4S 4 Nanoparticles and Albumin Influenced by Wet Stirred Media Milling. Int J Pharm 2023; 640:123046. [PMID: 37178791 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2023.123046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2023] [Revised: 04/26/2023] [Accepted: 05/08/2023] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Arsenic sulfide (As4S4) nanoparticles have been intensively researched as a promising drug in a cancer treatment. For the first time, the interaction between As4S4 and bovine serum albumin has been studied in this paper. Initially, the sorption kinetics of albumin on the surface of nanoparticles was investigated. Subsequently, its structural changes influenced by interaction with the As4S4 nanoparticles during wet stirred media milling were studied in deep. Both the dynamic and static quenching were detected after analyzing the fluorescence quenching spectra. From the synchronous fluorescence spectra it was investigated, that the fluorescence intensity for tyrosine residues decreased by about 55%, and for tryptophan it was about 80%. It indicates the fluorescence from tryptophan is more intense and gets more efficiently quenched than those from tyrosine residues in presence of As4S4, implying that the tryptophan can be closer to the binding site. From the circular dichroisms and FTIR spectra it was observed that conformation of the protein remains almost unchanged. The content of appropriate secondary structures was determined by deconvolution of the absorption peak attributed to the amide I band in FTIR spectra. The preliminary anti-tumor cytotoxic effect of prepared albumin-As4S4 system was also tested on multiple myeloma cell lines.
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- Institute of Geotechnics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Watsonova 45, 04001 Košice, Slovakia
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- Institute of Geotechnics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Watsonova 45, 04001 Košice, Slovakia
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- Faculty of Science, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Šrobárova 2, 04154 Košice, Slovakia
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- Cancer Research Institute BMC, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 84505 Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Cancer Research Institute BMC, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 84505 Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Institute of Geotechnics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Watsonova 45, 04001 Košice, Slovakia
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- Institute of Geotechnics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Watsonova 45, 04001 Košice, Slovakia; Healthcare Biomagnetic and Nanomaterials Laboratory, University College London, 21 Albemarle Street, London W1S 4BS, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Geotechnics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Watsonova 45, 04001 Košice, Slovakia
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ATR-FTIR Biosensors for Antibody Detection and Analysis. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms231911895. [PMID: 36233197 PMCID: PMC9570191 DOI: 10.3390/ijms231911895] [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: 09/04/2022] [Revised: 09/29/2022] [Accepted: 10/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Quality control of drug products is of paramount importance in the pharmaceutical world. It ensures product safety, efficiency, and consistency. In the case of complex biomolecules such as therapeutic proteins, small variations in bioprocess parameters can induce substantial variations in terms of structure, impacting the drug product quality. Conditions for obtaining highly reproducible grafting of 11-mercaptoundecanoic acid were determined. On that basis, we developed an easy-to-use, cost effective, and timesaving biosensor based on ATR-FTIR spectroscopy able to detect immunoglobulins during their production. A germanium crystal, used as an internal reflection element (IRE) for FTIR spectroscopy, was covalently coated with immunoglobulin-binding proteins. This thereby functionalized surface could bind only immunoglobulins present in complex media such as culture media or biopharmaceutical products. The potential subsequent analysis of their structure by ATR-FTIR spectroscopy makes this biosensor a powerful tool to monitor the production of biotherapeutics and assess important critical quality attributes (CQAs) such as high-order structure and aggregation level.
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Amino acid side chain contribution to protein FTIR spectra: impact on secondary structure evaluation. EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL: EBJ 2021; 50:641-651. [PMID: 33558954 PMCID: PMC8189991 DOI: 10.1007/s00249-021-01507-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2020] [Revised: 01/13/2021] [Accepted: 01/25/2021] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Prediction of protein secondary structure from FTIR spectra usually relies on the absorbance in the amide I–amide II region of the spectrum. It assumes that the absorbance in this spectral region, i.e., roughly 1700–1500 cm−1 is solely arising from amide contributions. Yet, it is accepted that, on the average, about 20% of the absorbance is due to amino acid side chains. The present paper evaluates the contribution of amino acid side chains in this spectral region and the potential to improve secondary structure prediction after correcting for their contribution. We show that the β-sheet content prediction is improved upon subtraction of amino acid side chain contributions in the amide I–amide II spectral range. Improvement is relatively important, for instance, the error of prediction of β-sheet content decreases from 5.42 to 4.97% when evaluated by ascending stepwise regression. Other methods tested such as partial least square regression and support vector machine have also improved accuracy for β-sheet content evaluation. The other structures such as α-helix do not significantly benefit from side chain contribution subtraction, in some cases prediction is even degraded. We show that co-linearity between secondary structure content and amino acid composition is not a main limitation for improving secondary structure prediction. We also show that, even though based on different criteria, secondary structures defined by DSSP and XTLSSTR both arrive at the same conclusion: only the β-sheet structure clearly benefits from side chain subtraction. It must be concluded that side chain contribution subtraction benefit for the evaluation of other secondary structure contents is limited by the very rough description of side chain absorbance which does not take into account the variations related to their environment. The study was performed on a large protein set. To deal with the large number of proteins present, we worked on protein microarrays deposited on BaF2 slides and FTIR spectra were acquired with an imaging system.
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Evaluation of protein secondary structure from FTIR spectra improved after partial deuteration. EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL: EBJ 2021; 50:613-628. [PMID: 33534058 PMCID: PMC8189984 DOI: 10.1007/s00249-021-01502-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2020] [Revised: 01/08/2021] [Accepted: 01/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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FTIR spectroscopy has become a major tool to determine protein secondary structure. One of the identified obstacle for reaching better predictions is the strong overlap of bands assigned to different secondary structures. Yet, while for instance disordered structures and α-helical structures absorb almost at the same wavenumber, the absorbance bands are differentially shifted upon deuteration, in part because exchange is much faster for disordered structures. We recorded the FTIR spectra of 85 proteins at different stages of hydrogen/deuterium exchange process using protein microarrays and infrared imaging for high throughput measurements. Several methods were used to relate spectral shape to secondary structure content. While in absolute terms, β-sheet is always better predicted than α-helix content, results consistently indicate an improvement of secondary structure predictions essentially for the α-helix and the category called “Others” (grouping random, turns, bends, etc.) after 15 min of exchange. On the contrary, the β-sheet fraction is better predicted in non-deuterated conditions. Using partial least square regression, the error of prediction for the α-helix content is reduced after 15-min deuteration. Further deuteration degrades the prediction. Error on the prediction for the “Others” structures also decreases after 15-min deuteration. Cross-validation or a single 25-protein test set result in the same overall conclusions.
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De Meutter J, Goormaghtigh E. A convenient protein library for spectroscopic calibrations. Comput Struct Biotechnol J 2020; 18:1864-1876. [PMID: 32728409 PMCID: PMC7369421 DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2020.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2020] [Revised: 06/30/2020] [Accepted: 07/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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While several Raman, CD or FTIR spectral libraries are available for well-characterized proteins of known structure, proteins themselves are usually very difficult to acquire, preventing a convenient calibration of new instruments and new recording methods. The problem is particularly critical in the field of FTIR spectroscopy where numerous new methods are becoming available on the market. The present papers reports the construction of a protein library (cSP92) including commercially available products, that are well characterized experimentally for their purity and solubility in conditions compatible with the recording of FTIR spectra and whose high-resolution structure is available. Overall, 92 proteins were selected. These proteins cover well the CATH space at the level of classes and architectures. In terms of secondary structure content, an analysis of their high-resolution structure by DSSP shows that the mean content in the different secondary structures present in cSP92 is very similar to the mean content found in the PDB. The 92-protein set is analyzed in details for the distribution of helix length, number of strands in β- sheets, length of β-strands and amino acid content, all features that may be important for the interpretation of FTIR spectra.
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- Joëlle De Meutter
- Center for Structural Biology and Bioinformatics, Laboratory for the Structure and Function of Biological Membranes, Campus Plaine CP206/02, Brussels, Belgium
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Gong Y, Yang P, Tao F, Zhang D, Guo X, Li T. Kinetic and Thermodynamic Studies of the Urethane Reaction Based on 1,3-diazetidine-2,4-dione and 4-(Tetrahydro-Pyran-2-yloxy)-butan-1-ol. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POLYMER ANALYSIS AND CHARACTERIZATION 2014. [DOI: 10.1080/1023666x.2014.872816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Kumar S, Desmedt C, Larsimont D, Sotiriou C, Goormaghtigh E. Change in the microenvironment of breast cancer studied by FTIR imaging. Analyst 2013; 138:4058-65. [PMID: 23662300 DOI: 10.1039/c3an00241a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) imaging was applied on histopathological specimens of breast cancer of different tumor histological grades. Focus was given to the extracellular matrix. FTIR spectral changes were observed when examining the extracellular matrix close to and far from carcinoma. Major changes were observed, in particular in the relative intensities of the collagen bands at 1640 and 1630 cm(-1). PCA analysis and global fitting indicate a continuous progression in collagen spectral features when moving away from the tumor. These preliminary results suggest FTIR spectral features present in the 1700-1600 cm(-1) spectral range could be used as spectral markers to identify cancer-induced modifications in collagen. This chemical imaging approach to analyze the breast cancer microenvironment could be used in the future for improving diagnostics of breast cancer.
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- S Kumar
- Laboratory for the Structure and Function of Biological Membranes, Center for Structural Biology and Bioinformatics, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Campus Plaine CP 206/2 Bâtiment BC, Blvd. du Triomphe, B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium
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Gaigneaux A, Goormaghtigh E. A new dimension for cell identification by FTIR spectroscopy: depth profiling in attenuated total reflection. Analyst 2013; 138:4070-5. [DOI: 10.1039/c3an00193h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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de la Arada I, Seiler C, Mäntele W. Amyloid fibril formation from human and bovine serum albumin followed by quasi-simultaneous Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy and static light scattering (SLS). EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL: EBJ 2012; 41:931-8. [DOI: 10.1007/s00249-012-0845-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2012] [Revised: 07/20/2012] [Accepted: 07/27/2012] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Fernandez LR, Vandenbussche G, Roosens N, Govaerts C, Goormaghtigh E, Verbruggen N. Metal binding properties and structure of a type III metallothionein from the metal hyperaccumulator plant Noccaea caerulescens. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS 2012; 1824:1016-23. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2012.05.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2012] [Revised: 05/07/2012] [Accepted: 05/25/2012] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Hielscher R, Friedrich T, Hellwig P. Far- and Mid-Infrared Spectroscopic Analysis of the Substrate-Induced Structural Dynamics of Respiratory Complex I. Chemphyschem 2010; 12:217-24. [DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201000688] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2010] [Revised: 10/22/2010] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Romero-Beviar M, Martínez-Rodríguez S, Prieto J, Goormaghtigh E, Ariz U, Martínez-Chantar MDLL, Gómez J, Neira JL. The N-terminal domain of the enzyme I is a monomeric well-folded protein with a low conformational stability and residual structure in the unfolded state. Protein Eng Des Sel 2010; 23:729-42. [PMID: 20630900 DOI: 10.1093/protein/gzq045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The bacterial phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent sugar phosphotransferase system is a multiprotein complex that phosphorylates and, concomitantly, transports carbohydrates across the membrane into the cell. The first protein of the cascade is a multidomain protein so-called enzyme I (EI). The N-terminal domain of EI from Streptomyces coelicolor, EIN(sc), responsible for the binding to the second protein in the cascade (the histidine phosphocarrier, HPr), was cloned and successfully expressed and purified. We have previously shown that EI(sc) binds to HPr(sc) with smaller affinity than other members of the EI and HPr families [Hurtado-Gómez et al. (2008) Biophys. J., 95, 1336-1348]. We think that the study of the isolated binding HPr(sc) domain, that is EIN(sc), could shed light on the small affinity value measured. Therefore, in this work we present a detailed description of the structural features of the EIN domain, as a first step towards a complete characterization of the molecular recognition process between the two proteins. We show that EIN(sc) is a folded protein, with alpha-helix and beta-sheet structures and also random-coil conformations, as shown by circular dichroism (CD), FTIR and NMR spectroscopies. The acquisition of secondary and tertiary structures, and the burial of hydrophobic regions, occurred concomitantly at acidic pHs, but at very low pH, the domain acquired a molten-globule conformation. The EIN(sc) protein was not very stable, with an apparent conformational free energy change upon unfolding, DeltaG, of 4.1 +/- 0.4 kcal mol(-1), which was pH independent in the range explored (from pH 6.0 to 8.5). The thermal denaturation midpoint, which was also pH invariant, was similar to that measured in the isolated intact EI(sc). Although EIN(sc) shows thermal- and chemical denaturations that seems to follow a two-state mechanism, there is evidence of residual structure in the chemical and thermally unfolded states, as indicated by differential scanning calorimetry and CD measurements.
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- Manuel Romero-Beviar
- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Avda. del Ferrocarril s/n, 03202 Alicante, Elche, Spain
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Carmona P, Molina M. Interactions of Protein and Nucleic Acid Components of Hepatitis C Virus As Revealed by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy. Biochemistry 2010; 49:4724-31. [DOI: 10.1021/bi100535k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Pedro Carmona
- Instituto de Estructura de la Materia (CSIC), Serrano 121, 28006 Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Química Orgánica, Escuela Universitaria de Optica, Arcos de Jalón, s/n, 28037 Madrid, Spain
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Aguado-Llera D, Goormaghtigh E, de Geest N, Quan XJ, Prieto A, Hassan BA, Gómez J, Neira JL. The basic helix-loop-helix region of human neurogenin 1 is a monomeric natively unfolded protein which forms a "fuzzy" complex upon DNA binding. Biochemistry 2010; 49:1577-89. [PMID: 20102160 DOI: 10.1021/bi901616z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Neuronal specification is regulated by the activity of transcription factors containing the basic helix-loop-helix motif (bHLH); these regulating proteins include, among others, the neurogenin (Ngn) family, related to the atonal family of genes. Neurogenin 1 (NGN1) is a 237-residue protein that contains a bHLH domain and is involved in neuronal differentiation. In this work, we synthesized the bHLH region of NGN1 (bHLHN) comprising residues 90-150 of the full-length NGN1. The domain is a monomeric natively unfolded protein with a pH-dependent premolten globule conformation, as shown by several spectroscopic techniques (namely, NMR, fluorescence, FTIR, and circular dichroism). The unfolded character of the domain also explains, first, the impossibility of its overexpression in several Escherichia coli strains and, second, its insolubility in aqueous buffers. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first extensive study of the conformational preferences of a bHLH domain under different solution conditions. Upon binding to two DNA E-boxes, the protein forms "fuzzy" complexes (that is, the complexes were not fully folded). The affinities of bHLHN for both DNA boxes were smaller than those of other bHLH domains, which might explain why the protein-DNA complexes were not fully folded.
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- David Aguado-Llera
- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular, Universidad Miguel Hernández, 03202 Elche (Alicante), Spain
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Gustot A, Smriti, Ruysschaert JM, McHaourab H, Govaerts C. Lipid composition regulates the orientation of transmembrane helices in HorA, an ABC multidrug transporter. J Biol Chem 2010; 285:14144-51. [PMID: 20223819 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m109.079673] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters constitute a large class of molecular pumps whose central role in chemotherapy resistance has highlighted their clinical relevance. We investigated whether the lipid composition of the membrane affects the function and structure of HorA, a bacterial ABC multidrug transporter. When the transporter was reconstituted in a bilayer where phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), the main lipid of the bacterial membrane, was replaced with phosphatidylcholine (PC), ATP hydrolysis and substrate transport became uncoupled. Although ATPase activity was maintained, HorA lost its ability to extrude the prototypical substrate Hoechst33342. Attenuated Total Reflection-Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR) revealed that, although the secondary structure of the protein was unaffected, the orientation of the transmembrane helices (TM) was modified by the change in lipid composition. The orientation of the backbone carbonyls indicated that the helices opened wider in PE versus PC-containing liposomes, with 10 degrees difference. This was supported by hydrogen/deuterium exchange studies showing increased protection of the backbone from the solvent in PC-containing liposomes. Electron Paramagnetic Resonance was used to further probe the structural change. In the PC-containing liposomes we observed increased mobility of the spin label in TM4, along with increased exposure to molecular oxygen, used as a hydrophobic quencher. This indicates that the lipid change induced modification of the orientation of TM4, exposing Cys-180 to the lipid phase. The lipid composition of the bilayer thus modulates the structure of HorA, and in turn its ability to extrude its substrates.
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- Adelin Gustot
- Department of Structure and Function of Biological Membranes, Structural Biology and Bioinformatics Center, Université Libre de Bruxelles, CP206/2, Boulevard du Triomphe, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
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Cholesterol modulates the exposure and orientation of pulmonary surfactant protein SP-C in model surfactant membranes. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2009; 1788:1907-15. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2009.05.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2009] [Revised: 04/24/2009] [Accepted: 05/07/2009] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Goormaghtigh E, Gasper R, Bénard A, Goldsztein A, Raussens V. Protein secondary structure content in solution, films and tissues: redundancy and complementarity of the information content in circular dichroism, transmission and ATR FTIR spectra. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS 2009; 1794:1332-43. [PMID: 19540367 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2009.06.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2009] [Revised: 05/25/2009] [Accepted: 06/03/2009] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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The paper presents a simple and robust method to determine protein secondary structure from circular dichroism, transmission and attenuated total reflection (ATR) Fourier transform infrared spectra. It is found that the different spectroscopic methods bring valuable but roughly identical information on the secondary structure of proteins. ATR and transmission FTIR spectra display distinct differences, yet the secondary structure can be predicted from their spectra with roughly the same success. It is also found that one wavenumber or wavelength includes the large majority of the information correlated with secondary structure content and no more than 3 significant independent wavenumbers/wavelengths could be found for any of the spectroscopic data. This finding indicates that more complex linear combinations of the absorbance or ellipticities will not further improve secondary structure predictions. Furthermore, the information content in CD, transmission and ATR FTIR spectra is largely redundant. If combining CD and FTIR results in some improvement of structure prediction quality, the improvement is too modest to prompt spectroscopists to collect different spectroscopic data for structure prediction purposes. On the other hand, the data collected show that the quality of the FTIR spectrometers is such that biosensors or imaging methods sampling from 10(-9) to 10(-15) g yield spectra of sufficient quality to analyze protein secondary structure. These new techniques open the way to a new area of research, both in protein conformational response to ligand and imaging at sub-cellular scales.
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- Erik Goormaghtigh
- Center for Structural Biology and Bioinformatics, Laboratory for the Structure and Function of Biological Membranes, Campus Plaine CP206/02; Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bld du Triomphe 2, CP206/2, B1050 Brussels, Belgium.
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Infrared spectroscopic study of the structural and functional properties of the Na+/H+ antiporter MjNhaP1 from Methanococcus jannaschii. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2009; 1787:730-7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2009.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2009] [Revised: 04/02/2009] [Accepted: 04/02/2009] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Kamerzell TJ, Kanai S, Liu J, Shire SJ, Wang YJ. Increasing IgG Concentration Modulates the Conformational Heterogeneity and Bonding Network that Influence Solution Properties. J Phys Chem B 2009; 113:6109-18. [DOI: 10.1021/jp9001548] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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- Tim J. Kamerzell
- Department of Late Stage Pharmaceutical and Processing Development, Genentech, Inc., 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080
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- Department of Late Stage Pharmaceutical and Processing Development, Genentech, Inc., 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080
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- Department of Late Stage Pharmaceutical and Processing Development, Genentech, Inc., 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080
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- Department of Late Stage Pharmaceutical and Processing Development, Genentech, Inc., 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080
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- Department of Late Stage Pharmaceutical and Processing Development, Genentech, Inc., 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080
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Dzafić E, Klein O, Screpanti E, Hunte C, Mäntele W. Flexibility and dynamics of NhaA Na+/H+-antiporter of Escherichia coli studied by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2009; 72:102-109. [PMID: 18930435 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2008.08.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2008] [Revised: 08/15/2008] [Accepted: 08/20/2008] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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NhaA (41,355Da) is a Na(+)/H(+) antiporter of Escherichia coli which plays a central role in regulation of intracellular pH, cellular Na(+) content, and cell volume [E. Padan, S. Schuldiner, J. Exp. Biol. 196 (1994) 443]. Its activity is strongly regulated by pH and increases over 3 orders of magnitude between pH 7 and 8 [A. Rothman, Y. Gerchman, E. Padan, S. Schuldiner, Biochemistry 36 (1997) 14572]. Protein dynamics and flexibility in the activated and inactivated state, respectively, was analysed by probing accessibility in (1)H/(2)H exchange experiments for the wild type and the mutant G338S which is constitutively active independent of pH [A. Rimon, Y. Gerchman, Z. Kariv, E. Padan, J. Biol. Chem. 273 (1998) 26470]. This was studied by ATR-FTIR difference spectroscopy using a home built microvolume (<5 microl) perfusion chamber [E. Agić, O. Klein, W. Mäntele, Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on the Spectroscopy of Biological Molecules, vol. 93, 2003, ISBN 9634826148; S. Gourion-Arsiquaud, S. Chevance, P. Bouyer, L. Garnier, J.-L. Montillet, A. Bondon, C. Berthomieu, Biochemistry 44 (2005) 8652]. The solution or suspension of the target protein is contained in a chamber with sample volumes of below 5 microl. It is in contact with the ATR crystal and separated from the flowing effector molecules by a dialysis membrane. The flow-ATR unit is characterised by high stability, fast response, and high sensitivity for the IR spectroscopic detection of binding-induced conformational changes and reactions. On the basis of (1)H-(2)H exchange of NhaA followed in the amide I and amide II region of the IR spectrum, it is concluded that the accessible fraction of the polypeptide chain of NhaA increases by more than 10% in the active state. For the mutant, no changes in accessibility were observed for different pH values. The increase of Na(+) concentration increases the extent of exchange. The stability of the wild type protein in the active and inactive form was analysed by measuring the temperature profiles of the IR spectra. A decrease of the structural stability of the protein with activation was observed. Together with the results from (1)H/(2)H exchange, the inactive state represents a more compact form whereas activation induces a more open conformation of the protein.
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- E Dzafić
- Institut für Biophysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Max-von-Laue-Strasse 1, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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Improving real-time measurement of H/D exchange using a FTIR biospectroscopic probe. Anal Bioanal Chem 2008; 393:1289-95. [DOI: 10.1007/s00216-008-2535-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2008] [Revised: 11/13/2008] [Accepted: 11/18/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Five highly homologous epidermal growth factor receptor ligands were studied by mass spectral analysis, hydrogen/deuterium (H/D) exchange via attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform-infrared spectroscopy, and two-dimensional correlation analysis. These studies were performed to determine the order of events during the exchange process, the extent of H/D exchange, and associated kinetics of exchange for a comparative analysis of these ligands. Furthermore, the secondary structure composition of amphiregulin (AR) and heparin-binding-epidermal growth factor (HB-EGF) was determined. All ligands were found to have similar contributions of 3(10)-helix and random coil with varying contributions of beta-sheets and beta-turns. The extent of exchange was 40%, 65%, 55%, 65%, and 98% for EGF, transforming growth factor-alpha (TGF-alpha), AR, HB-EGF, and epiregulin (ER), respectively. The rate constants were determined and classified as fast, intermediate, and slow: for EGF the 0.20 min(-1) (Tyr), 0.09 min(-1) (Arg, beta-turns), and 1.88 x 10(-3) min(-1) (beta-sheets and 3(10)-helix); and for TGF-alpha 0.91 min(-1) (Tyr), 0.27 min(-1) (Arg, beta-turns), and 1.41 x 10(-4) min(-1) (beta-sheets). The time constants for AR 0.47 min(-1) (Tyr), 0.04 min(-1) (Arg), and 1.00 x 10(-4) min(-1) (buried 3(10)-helix, beta-turns, and beta-sheets); for HB-EGF 0.89 min(-1) (Tyr), 0.14 min(-1) (Arg and 3(10)-helix), and 1.00 x 10(-3) min(-1) (buried 3(10)-helix, beta-sheets, and beta-turns); and for epiregulin 0.16 min(-1) (Tyr), 0.03 min(-1) (Arg), and 1.00 x 10(-4) min(-1) (3(10)-helix and beta-sheets). These results provide essential information toward understanding secondary structure, H/D exchange kinetics, and solvation of these epidermal growth factor receptor ligands in their unbound state.
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Kamerzell TJ, Middaugh CR. Two-Dimensional Correlation Spectroscopy Reveals Coupled Immunoglobulin Regions of Differential Flexibility that Influence Stability. Biochemistry 2007; 46:9762-73. [PMID: 17676765 DOI: 10.1021/bi700645k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Despite the well-accepted importance of protein flexibility and dynamics in molecular recognition and conformational stability, our understanding of these relationships is incomplete. Immunoglobulin flexibility is essential for antigen binding and adaptation to diverse molecular shapes and sizes. The inherent flexibility of immunoglobulins also renders these molecules suitable for investigating the possible relationships between protein flexibility and stability. To better understand these inter-relationships, we employ generalized perturbation-based two-dimensional correlation FTIR spectroscopy to monitor the time evolution of H-D exchange of an IgG1 as a function of pH. The differential flexibility of various immunoglobulin regions is described in response to an external perturbation and shown to vary widely. The greatest number of regions with differential exchange rates and, thus differential flexibility, is seen at pH 6. Approximately seven, six, five, and four separate states that exchange with different rates were observed at pH 6, 8, 4, and 2, respectively. The overall distribution of exchange rates calculated from the decays of the integrated Amide I and Amide II areas provides further evidence of multiple regions with differential flexibility. The sequence of events at pH 4 determined from the asynchronous vibrational patterns is of significant interest and suggests protonation of Glu and Asp side chains occurs first and initiates changes in the conformation and flexibility of different sheet and turns structure. A complex inter-relationship between differential regional flexibility and conformational coupling (i.e., cooperativity) initiated by changes in pH influences the stability of this IgG.
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- Tim J Kamerzell
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66047, USA
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Alegre-Cebollada J, Martínez del Pozo A, Gavilanes JG, Goormaghtigh E. Infrared spectroscopy study on the conformational changes leading to pore formation of the toxin sticholysin II. Biophys J 2007; 93:3191-201. [PMID: 17573423 PMCID: PMC2025675 DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.106.102566] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The structure of the actinoporin sticholysin II (StnII) in the pore state was investigated by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy in the attenuated total reflection configuration. 1-Palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine/cholesterol unilamellar vesicles were employed. The alpha-helix content increases in approximately 30% upon lipid binding, which agrees with an extension of eight or nine residues at the N-terminal helix. Furthermore, analyses of dichroic spectra show that the extended N-terminal helix would have a 31 degrees tilt with respect to the membrane normal. The orientation of the central beta-sandwich was also estimated. In addition, it was detected that StnII alters the orientation of the lipid acyl chains. (1)H/(2)H exchange experiments sustain a mainly superficial interaction between StnII and the membrane, with no protection of the beta-sandwich. The implications of the results in the mechanism of pore formation are discussed.
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- Jorge Alegre-Cebollada
- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular I, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
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Biomolecular interactions in HCV nucleocapsid-like particles as revealed by vibrational spectroscopy. J Mol Struct 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2006.10.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Moes M, Rodius S, Coleman SJ, Monkley SJ, Goormaghtigh E, Tremuth L, Kox C, van der Holst PPG, Critchley DR, Kieffer N. The integrin binding site 2 (IBS2) in the talin rod domain is essential for linking integrin beta subunits to the cytoskeleton. J Biol Chem 2007; 282:17280-8. [PMID: 17430904 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m611846200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Talin1 is a large cytoskeletal protein that links integrins to actin filaments through two distinct integrin binding sites, one present in the talin head domain (IBS1) necessary for integrin activation and a second (IBS2) that we have previously mapped to talin residues 1984-2113 (fragment J) of the talin rod domain (1 Tremuth, L., Kreis, S., Melchior, C., Hoebeke, J., Ronde, P., Plancon, S., Takeda, K., and Kieffer, N. (2004) J. Biol. Chem. 279, 22258-22266), but whose functional role is still elusive. Using a bioinformatics and cell biology approach, we have determined the minimal structure of IBS2 and show that this integrin binding site corresponds to 23 residues located in alpha helix 50 of the talin rod domain (residues 2077-2099). Alanine mutation of 2 highly conserved residues (L2094A/I2095A) within this alpha helix, which disrupted the alpha-helical structure of IBS2 as demonstrated by infrared spectroscopy and limited trypsin proteolysis, was sufficient to prevent in vivo talin fragment J targeting to alphaIIbbeta3 integrin in focal adhesions and to inhibit in vitro this association as shown by an alphaIIbbeta3 pulldown assay. Moreover, expression of a full-length mouse green fluorescent protein-talin LI/AA mutant in mouse talin1(-/-) cells was unable to rescue the inability of these cells to assemble focal adhesions (in contrast to green fluorescent protein-talin wild type) despite the presence of IBS1. Our data provide the first direct evidence that IBS2 in the talin rod is essential to link integrins to the cytoskeleton.
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- Michèle Moes
- Laboratoire de Biologie et Physiologie Intégrée (CNRS/GDRE-ITI), University of Luxembourg, L-1511 Luxembourg, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
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Iloro I, Pastrana-Rios B. Simulation of FT-IR spectra and 2D-COS analysis for the H/D exchange of two related ligands. J Mol Struct 2006. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2006.03.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Rodríguez-Casado A, Molina M, Carmona P. Spectroscopic study of conformational changes accompanying self-assembly of HCV core protein. Proteins 2006; 66:110-7. [PMID: 17078073 DOI: 10.1002/prot.21192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Electron microscopy and infrared and Raman spectroscopy have been used here to study the morphology, size distribution, secondary and tertiary structures of protein particles assembled from a truncated hepatitis C virus (HCV) core protein covering the first 120 aa. Particles of pure protein, having similar morphology and size distribution of those of nucleocapsids found in sera from HCV-infected patients, have been visualized for the first time. The secondary structure of these protein particles involve beta-sheet enrichment in relation to its protein monomer. Tertiary/quaternary structure has also been studied using the dynamics of H/D exchange. With this aim infrared spectra were measured as a function of H/D exchange time and subsequently analyzed by principal component analysis and two-dimensional correlation spectroscopy. Temporal dynamics of exchange for these protein particles were as follows: arginine residues exchanged first, followed by turn and unordered structures, followed by beta-sheets which may act as linkers of protein monomers.
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Gaigneaux A, Ruysschaert JM, Goormaghtigh E. Cell discrimination by attenuated total reflection-Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy: the impact of preprocessing of spectra. APPLIED SPECTROSCOPY 2006; 60:1022-8. [PMID: 17002828 DOI: 10.1366/000370206778397416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy has become a powerful tool for biodiagnostics and cell line classification. Typical experimental perturbations included in spectra are baseline shift and scale variation between spectra. They have to be removed by data preprocessings to allow further data analysis and classification. In this work, we addressed baseline shift corrections and normalizations in attenuated total reflection (ATR) FT-IR spectra. We compared the efficiency of several preprocessing methods with series of spectra containing typical perturbations (baseline shift, scaling factor, and noise) and a priori known definite spectral difference. Several baseline-correction and normalization possibilities were evaluated. Our results were generally sensitive, selective, and robust with respect to baseline and scaling. Full-range scaling generated more false-positive results. Use of first- and second-derivative spectra was tested. Results obtained on model spectra were confirmed with series of spectra from sensitive and multidrug-resistant leukemia K562 cells. We showed that the use of derived spectra did not provide more efficiency and required additional preprocessing such as smoothing to obtain results similar to those obtained from non-derived ones. On the other hand, results obtained with derivatives were less sensitive to scaling, a useful feature when scaling is problematic.
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- A Gaigneaux
- Laboratory for the Structure and Function of Biological Membranes, Center for Structural Biology and Bioinformatics, CP 206/2, Free University of Brussels (ULB), Bld du triomphe, Acces 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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Goormaghtigh E, Ruysschaert JM, Raussens V. Evaluation of the information content in infrared spectra for protein secondary structure determination. Biophys J 2006; 90:2946-57. [PMID: 16428280 PMCID: PMC1414549 DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.105.072017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 275] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2005] [Accepted: 12/22/2005] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy is a method of choice for the experimental determination of protein secondary structure. Numerous approaches have been developed during the past 15 years. A critical parameter that has not been taken into account systematically is the selection of the wavenumbers used for building the mathematical models used for structure prediction. The high quality of the current Fourier-transform infrared spectrometers makes the absorbance at every single wavenumber a valid and almost noiseless type of information. We address here the question of the amount of independent information present in the infrared spectra of proteins for the prediction of the different secondary structure contents. It appears that, at most, the absorbance at three distinct frequencies of the spectra contain all the nonredundant information that can be related to one secondary structure content. The ascending stepwise method proposed here identifies the relevance of each wavenumber of the infrared spectrum for the prediction of a given secondary structure and yields a particularly simple method for computing the secondary structure content. Using the 50-protein database built beforehand to contain as little fold redundancy as possible, the standard error of prediction in cross-validation is 5.5% for the alpha-helix, 6.6% for the beta-sheet, and 3.4% for the beta-turn.
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- Erik Goormaghtigh
- Center for Structural Biology and Bioinformatics, Laboratory for the Structure and Function of Biological Membranes, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
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Lórenz-Fonfría VA, Kandori H. Transformation of time-resolved spectra to lifetime-resolved spectra by maximum entropy inversion of the laplace transform. APPLIED SPECTROSCOPY 2006; 60:407-17. [PMID: 16613637 DOI: 10.1366/000370206776593654] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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We present a method for the analysis of time-resolved spectroscopic data following first-order kinetics. The time traces at all the available spectroscopic channels (e.g., wavelength or wavenumber) are inverse Laplace transformed. The transformation is stabilized by the maximum entropy method generalized for solutions without sign-restriction. In this way, time-resolved spectra can be converted to lifetime-resolved spectra, where bands appear at coordinates corresponding to their spectroscopic maxima and time constant of appearance (negative amplitude) or disappearance (positive amplitude). From the lifetime-resolved spectra, the number of exponentially decaying components, their time constants, and their decay-associated spectra are readily available. Moreover, since bands are spread in two dimensions extra band-resolution is possible. We named this method of transforming time-resolved spectra into lifetime-resolved spectra multi-spectroscopic channel maximum entropy inversion of the Laplace transform (M-MaxEnt-iLT). The basis of M-MaxEnt-iLT is presented in detail and its properties and limitations are thoroughly discussed. We also show how the combination of M-MaxEnt-iLT with spectral smoothing or deconvolution can improve the appearance and/or band resolution of the obtained lifetime-resolved spectra.
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- Víctor A Lórenz-Fonfría
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan.
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Rodríguez-Casado A, Molina M, Carmona P. New accessory for studies of isotopic 1H/2H exchange and biomolecular interactions using transmission infrared spectroscopy. Anal Bioanal Chem 2006; 385:134-8. [PMID: 16572345 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-006-0381-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2005] [Revised: 02/06/2006] [Accepted: 02/17/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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We present here a new accessory for IR transmission measurements of 1H/2H exchange, as an ancillary tool for monitoring structural features of biomolecules in aqueous solution. This new accessory results from the combination of two dialysis membranes and a conventional liquid cell having two cylinders containing 2H2O buffer. When compared with conventional transmission measurements, carried out either after dissolving lyophilized biomolecules in 2H2O or after dialyzing the aqueous solution considered against 2H2O buffer, this accessory shows the following advantages: (1) controlled measurements over the initial steps of this isotopic exchange and absence of molecular aggregation, and (2) smaller sample amounts. This new Fourier transform IR cell can also be used to analyze ligand-biomolecule and drug-cell interactions.
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Dluhy R, Shanmukh S, Morita SI. The application of two-dimensional correlation spectroscopy to surface and interfacial analysis. SURF INTERFACE ANAL 2006. [DOI: 10.1002/sia.2358] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Grdadolnik J, Maréchal Y. Hydrogen-deuterium exchange in bovine serum albumin protein monitored by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, part II: kinetic studies. APPLIED SPECTROSCOPY 2005; 59:1357-64. [PMID: 16316513 DOI: 10.1366/000370205774783287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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The set of infrared spectra recorded at different levels of hydrogen-deuterium (H/D) exchange as a function of time were processed using spectral decomposition. The most precise information about H/D exchange of the NH groups of the protein backbone was retrieved by observing the intensity change of the nearest C=O stretching vibration. The H/D exchange at the protein backbone begins with NH groups bonded to C=O with a characteristic frequency of 1683 cm(-1). These amide groups were initially free and are the first to accept H-bonds from water during the hydration process. The NH groups, which are connected to C=O groups with a characteristic band at 1657 cm(-1), exchange at a slower rate. For both populations the pairs of comparable exchange rates were calculated with rate constants of 10(-3) min(-1), 0.014 min(-1), 0.0046 min(-1), and 0.09 min(-1). The appearance of two different exchange rates for each population is a consequence of the distinct exposure of particular molecular groups to the solvent. Two additional bands sensitive to exchange are attributed to NH bending modes in the side chains and are located at 1610 cm(-1) and 1585 cm(-1). These NH groups undergo H/D exchange at the beginning of the exchange with exchange rates of 0.019 min(-1) and 0.17 min(-1), respectively. The calculated exchange rate for hydrating water molecules is 0.037 min(-1). The distribution of water's exchange rate is extremely broad and covers almost the entire interval of the time-dependent experiment. From the efficiency of the exchange (96%) it is evident that some parts of the protein are completely forbidden to water molecules.
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- Joze Grdadolnik
- National Institute of Chemistry, Hajdrihova 19, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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Vanderkooi JM, Dashnau JL, Zelent B. Temperature excursion infrared (TEIR) spectroscopy used to study hydrogen bonding between water and biomolecules. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS 2005; 1749:214-33. [PMID: 15927875 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2005.03.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2004] [Revised: 02/15/2005] [Accepted: 03/09/2005] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Water is a highly polar molecule that is capable of making four H-bonding linkages. Stability and specificity of folding of water-soluble protein macromolecules are determined by the interplay between water and functional groups of the protein. Yet, under some conditions, water can be replaced with sugar or other polar protic molecules with retention of protein structure. Infrared (IR) spectroscopy allows one to probe groups on the protein that interact with solvent, whether the solvent is water, sugar or glycerol. The basis of the measurement is that IR spectral lines of functional groups involved in H-bonding show characteristic spectral shifts with temperature excursion, reflecting the dipolar nature of the group and its ability to H-bond. For groups involved in H-bonding to water, the stretching mode absorption bands shift to lower frequency, whereas bending mode absorption bands shift to higher frequency as temperature decreases. The results indicate increasing H-bonding and decreasing entropy occurring as a function of temperature, even at cryogenic temperatures. The frequencies of the amide group modes are temperature dependent, showing that as temperature decreases, the amide group H-bonds to water strengthen. These results are relevant to protein stability as a function of temperature. The influence of solvent relaxation is demonstrated for tryptophan fluorescence over the same temperature range where the solvent was examined by infrared spectroscopy.
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- Jane M Vanderkooi
- Johnson Research Foundation, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 19104-6059, USA.
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Scheirlinckx F, Raussens V, Ruysschaert JM, Goormaghtigh E. Conformational changes in gastric H+/K+-ATPase monitored by difference Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy and hydrogen/deuterium exchange. Biochem J 2005; 382:121-9. [PMID: 15096097 PMCID: PMC1133922 DOI: 10.1042/bj20040277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2004] [Revised: 04/13/2004] [Accepted: 04/20/2004] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Gastric H+/K+-ATPase is a P-type ATPase responsible for acid secretion in the stomach. This protein adopts mainly two conformations called E1 and E2. Even though two high-resolution structures for a P-ATPase in these conformations are available, little structural information is available about the transition between these two conformations. In the present study, we used two experimental approaches to investigate the structural differences that occur when gastric ATPase is placed in the presence of various ligands and ligand combinations. We used attenuated total reflection-Fourier-transform IR experiments under a flowing buffer to modify the environment of the protein inside the measurement cell. The high accuracy of the results allowed us to demonstrate that the E1-E2 transition induces a net change in the secondary structure that concerns 10-15 amino acid residues of a total of 1324 in the proteins. The E2.K+ structure is characterized by a decreased beta-sheet content and an increase in the disordered structure content with respect to the E1 form of the enzyme. Modifications in the absorption of the side chain of amino acids are also suggested. By using hydrogen/deuterium-exchange kinetics, we show that tertiary-structure modifications occurred in the presence of the same ligands, but these changes involved several hundreds of residues. The present study suggests that conformational changes in the catalytic cycle imply secondary-structure rearrangements of small hinge regions that have an impact on large domain re-organizations.
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- Frantz Scheirlinckx
- Laboratory for the Structure and Function of Biological Membranes, Center for Structural Biology and Bioinformatics, Free University of Brussels, CP206/2, Boulevard du Triomphe, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Laboratory for the Structure and Function of Biological Membranes, Center for Structural Biology and Bioinformatics, Free University of Brussels, CP206/2, Boulevard du Triomphe, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Laboratory for the Structure and Function of Biological Membranes, Center for Structural Biology and Bioinformatics, Free University of Brussels, CP206/2, Boulevard du Triomphe, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Laboratory for the Structure and Function of Biological Membranes, Center for Structural Biology and Bioinformatics, Free University of Brussels, CP206/2, Boulevard du Triomphe, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
- To whom correspondence should be addressed (email )
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Richard JA, Kelly I, Marion D, Auger M, Pézolet M. Structure of beta-purothionin in membranes: a two-dimensional infrared correlation spectroscopy study. Biochemistry 2005; 44:52-61. [PMID: 15628845 DOI: 10.1021/bi048443t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Two-dimensional infrared correlation spectroscopy has been used to investigate the structure of beta-purothionin, a small basic protein found in the endosperm of wheat seeds, in the absence and presence of dimyristoylphosphatidylglycerol (DMPG) membranes. To generate the two-dimensional synchronous and asynchronous maps, hydrogen-deuterium exchange of the protein amide protons has been used as an external perturbation. This method has allowed us to separate the different secondary structure elements and side chain contributions in the regions of amide I, II, and II' bands to determine that the relative order of deuteration of the beta-purothionin protons is as follows: turns, asparagines, and lysines > unordered structure and tyrosine > beta-sheet > alpha-helices and arginines. The results also indicate that the protein undergoes significant changes both in secondary structure and in deuteration in the presence of DMPG bilayers. The helical content of beta-purothionin is higher in the presence of the lipid, and the relative order of deuteration is as follows: lysines and arginines > asparagines and beta-sheet > unordered structure and alpha-helices. The inversion in the deuteration order of the arginine residues is assigned to a change of the degree of association of the protein in the membrane. In addition, the results reveal that the part of the protein containing the tyrosine residue interacts with the lipid membrane. Our results combined with those previously published suggest that the toxicity of beta-purothionin is more associated with the formation of functional channels in cell membranes rather than with a lytic phenomenon.
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- Julie-Andrée Richard
- Département de chimie, Centre de Recherche en Sciences et Ingénierie des Macromolécules, Université Laval, Québec, Canada G1K 7P4
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Ortiz M, Sanoguet Z, Hu H, Chazin WJ, McMurray CT, McMurray C, Salisbury JL, Pastrana-Rios B. Dynamics of Hydrogen−Deuterium Exchange in Chlamydomonas Centrin. Biochemistry 2005; 44:2409-18. [PMID: 15709753 DOI: 10.1021/bi0484419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii centrin is a 169-amino acid residue calcium binding protein belonging to the EF-hand protein superfamily. Centrin is associated with the microtubule organizing center (MTOC) in all eukaryotes, and in Chlamydomonas, centrin is a component of the flagellar basal body apparatus. Recombinant full-length centrin, calmodulin, and terminal domain fragments [Ccen-N (residues 1-94) and Ccen-C (residues 99-169)] were used to examine hydrogen-deuterium (H --> D) exchange dynamics using combined attenuated total reflectance (ATR) Fourier transform-infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, curve fit, and two-dimensional correlation analysis. Analysis of the Ccen-N and Ccen-C fragments allowed separation of domain specific solvent exchange events and together with analysis of the full-length proteins provides novel insight into domain accessibility to the aqueous environment and the internal dynamics of the protein.
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- Mildred Ortiz
- Department of Chemistry and Center for Protein Structure Function and Dynamics, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus, P.O. Box 9019, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681-9019
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