Abstract:
:CD experiments are reported for several coiled-coil species in the tyrosine/disulfide (approximately 250-350-nm) region. Intact noncross-linked tropomyosin (approximately 3 degrees C) shows a negative nonsymmetric band maximal at 280 nm. This spectrum is the sum over six tyrosines/chain, and has conformational significance, since it disappears on denaturation. Experiments on an excised coiled-coil segment, each of whose chains comprise residues 11-127 of the tropomyosin sequence and only one tyrosine (Y60), reveal that not all tyrosines are alike. The spectrum at 3 degrees C shows a small negative maximum at approximately 285 nm and a substantial, hitherto unknown, positive band at approximately 270 nm, the latter masked in the parent protein by the negative contribution from the other tyrosines. A noncross-linked coiled-coil segment comprising residues 142-281, in which Y60 is absent, shows no such positive band. This peculiarity of Y60 is confirmed by absorbance spectra, with the extinction coefficient of Y60 larger in benign media than the average of the other tyrosines. Intact (3 degrees C) C190 cross-linked tropomyosin is known to yield, besides tyrosine contributions, a positive maximum at approximately 300 nm. Subtracting the corresponding data for noncross-linked tropomyosin shows that the disulfide spectrum itself actually has two equal, partly resolved bands at, respectively, 250 and 280 nm. The existence of a chiral disulfide argues for a relatively rigid, perhaps strained, local coiled coil. A C190 cross-linked segment comprising residues 142-281 shows a chiral disulfide spectrum like tropomyosin's, but another segment, comprising residues 168-284, shows none; thus removal of residues 142-167 causes loss of chirality at C190, over 20 residues away. These spectra thus contain important information on the subtle local differences in coiled-coil structures.
journal_name
Biopolymersjournal_title
Biopolymersauthors
Holtzer ME,Kumar S,Holtzer A,Crimmins DLdoi
10.1002/bip.360280909subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1989-09-01 00:00:00pages
1597-612issue
9eissn
0006-3525issn
1097-0282journal_volume
28pub_type
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