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Nativelike intermediate on the unfolding pathway of pig kidney fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase.

Abstract：

:The unfolding and dissociation of the tetrameric enzyme fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase from pig kidney by guanidine hydrochloride have been investigated at equilibrium by monitoring enzyme activity, ANS binding, intrinsic (tyrosine) protein fluorescence, exposure of thiol groups, fluorescence of extrinsic probes (AEDANS, MIANS), and size-exclusion chromatography. The unfolding is a multistate process involving as the first intermediate a catalytically inactive tetramer. The evidence that indicates the existence of this intermediate is as follows: (1) the loss of enzymatic activity and the concomitant increase of ANS binding, at low concentrations of Gdn.HCl (midpoint at 0.75 M), are both protein concentration independent, and (2) the enzyme remains in a tetrameric state at 0.9 M Gdn.HCl as shown by size-exclusion chromatography. At slightly higher Gdn.HCl concentrations the inactive tetramer dissociates to a compact dimer which is prone to aggregate. Further evidence for dissociation of tetramers to dimers and of dimers to monomers comes from the concentration dependence of AEDANS-labeled enzyme anisotropy data. Above 2.3 M Gdn.HCl the change of AEDANS anisotropy is concentration independent, indicative of monomer unfolding, which also is detected by a red shift of MIANS-labeled enzyme emission. At Gdn.HCl concentrations higher than 3.0 M, the protein elutes from the size-exclusion column as a single peak, with a retention volume smaller than that of the native protein, corresponding to the completely unfolded monomer. In the presence of its cofactor Mg(2+), the denaturated enzyme could be successfully reconstituted into the active enzyme with a yield of approximately 70-90%. Refolding kinetic data indicate that rapid refolding and reassociation of the monomers into a nativelike tetramer and reactivation of the tetramer are sequential events, the latter involving slow and small conformational rearrangements in the refolded enzyme.

journal_name

Biochemistry

journal_title

Biochemistry

authors

Reyes AM,Ludwig HC,Yañez AJ,Rodríguez PH,Slebe JC

doi

10.1021/bi034203m

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2003-06-17 00:00:00

pages

6956-64

issue

eissn

0006-2960

issn

1520-4995

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Nativelike intermediate on the unfolding pathway of pig kidney fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase.