Temperature effects on alpha-crystallin structure probed by 6-bromomethyl-2-(2-furanyl)-3-hydroxychromone, an environmentally sensitive two-wavelength fluorescent dye covalently attached to the single Cys residue.

Abstract:

:The single Cys residue in the C-terminal domain of bovine eye lens alpha-crystallin was covalently labelled with 6-bromomethyl-2-(2-furanyl)-3-hydroxychromone. This novel SH-reactive two-band ratiometric fluorescent dye is characterized by excited state intramolecular proton transfer reaction yielding two highly emissive N* and T* bands separated by more than 100 nm. Their relative intensities are known to be highly sensitive to the H-bonding ability of the environment. Properties of the environment of the dye attached to the protein were studied under native-like conditions and at a range of elevated temperatures that are known to facilitate alpha-crystallin chaperone-like activity. We observe that on heating, the environment of the dye becomes more flexible and the H-bonding of the dye with the protein vicinity decreases. The spectroscopic properties observed on heating were partially restored after cooling, but the initial values were not reached on the time scale of our experiments (up to 3 h). This suggests that the changes of the dye microenvironment are connected with the rearrangements of alpha-crystallin quaternary structure. Since there is only one Cys residue in alphaA subunit of alpha-crystallin (whereas alphaB subunit contains no Cys), we attributed the observed temperature-induced changes of the dye's microenvironment to the particular site within alpha-crystallin molecule.

journal_name

Int J Biol Macromol

authors

Avilov SV,Bode C,Tolgyesi FG,Klymchenko AS,Fidy J,Demchenko AP

doi

10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2005.07.007

keywords:

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2005-09-28 00:00:00

pages

290-8

issue

5

eissn

0141-8130

issn

1879-0003

pii

S0141-8130(05)00142-X

journal_volume

36

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