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- Title
Conformational stability of cytochrome b<sub>5</sub>, enhanced green fluorescent protein, and their fusion protein Hmwb<sub>5</sub>-EGFP.
- Authors
Yantsevich, A. V.; Gilep, A. A.; Usanov, S. A.
- Abstract
The conformational stabilities of chimeric protein Hmwb5-EGFP and its constituents (cytochrome b5 and enhanced green fluorescent protein) in guanidine hydrochloride solutions are reported in this paper. Intensity of fluorescence of tryptophan residues, intensity of EGFP fluorescence in the visible region, absorbance of cytochrome b5 heme and EGFP fluorophore, and fluorescence anisotropy were used to follow the unfolding process. Thermodynamic parameters of protein unfolding were obtained using different approaches. The data were analyzed using a two-stage model and a linear extrapolation method. Unfolding of protein molecules was additionally monitored by measuring Stern-Volmer constants for tryptophan fluorescence quenching by acrylamide, cesium, and iodide. The accessibility of tryptophan residues of both components in the fusion molecule is lower than in the separate molecules. The thermodynamic stability of the protein globules in the fusion protein is much lower than in the individual protein molecules in solution, the difference in free energy of unfolding being more considerable for cytochrome b5 (29 ± 4 and 13 ± 2 kJ/mol) than for EGFP (26 ± 0.9 and 20 ± 2.7 kJ/mol). The data indicate that artificial protein fusion can greatly affect total structural stability, and in the case of cytochrome b5 and EGFP it results in decrease in free energy of transition from native to denatured unfolded form and consequently to decrease in thermodynamic stability of protein globules compared to the separate proteins.
- Subjects
GREEN fluorescent protein; CYTOCHROMES; GUANIDINE; TRYPTOPHAN; EXTRAPOLATION; ACRYLAMIDE; THERMODYNAMICS
- Publication
Biochemistry (00062979), 2009, Vol 74, Issue 5, p518
- ISSN
0006-2979
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1134/S000629790905006X