Abstract:
:The thermal denaturation of the cupredoxin plastocyanin (PC) from spinach has been studied with the aim of improving the understanding of factors involved in the conformational stability of antiparallel beta-sheet proteins. Studies using differential scanning calorimetry have been complemented with nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, absorbance spectroscopy, dynamic light scattering, and mass spectrometry in elucidation of the effect of the copper-site oxidation state on the irreversible thermal denaturation process. Our results indicate that copper-catalyzed oxidation of the metal-ligating cysteine is the sole factor resulting in thermal irreversibility. However, this can be prevented in reduced protein by the removal of molecular oxygen. Application of a two-state equilibrium transition model to the folding process thus allowed the extraction of thermodynamic parameters for the reduced protein (Delta(trs)H = 494 kJ mol(-1), DeltaH(vH) = 343 kJ mol(-1), and T(m) = 71 degrees C). However, anaerobically denatured oxidized protein and all aerobically denatured species undergo covalent modification as a result of the copper-catalyzed oxidation of the metal-ligating cysteine residue resulting in the formation of both oxidized monomers and disulfide-linked dimers. On the basis of these results, a general mechanism for the irreversible thermal denaturation of cupredoxins is proposed. The results presented here also indicate that PC, as opposed to the previously characterized homologous protein azurin, unfolds via at least one significantly populated intermediate state (DeltaH(vH)/Delta(trs)H = 0.7) despite the almost identical native state topologies of these proteins. These findings will aid the characterization of the stability of PC and other cupredoxins and possibly of all cysteine-ligating metal-binding proteins.
journal_name
Biochemistryjournal_title
Biochemistryauthors
Sandberg A,Harrison DJ,Karlsson BGdoi
10.1021/bi034371esubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2003-09-02 00:00:00pages
10301-10issue
34eissn
0006-2960issn
1520-4995journal_volume
42pub_type
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