Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
Volume 44, Issue 2, Pages 156-162Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2008.11.011
Keywords
Glutamate dehydrogenase; Aggregation; Allosteric effector; Conformational change
Funding
- research council of the University of Tehran
- Iranian National Science Foundation (INSF)
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Protein aggregation is of crucial importance in a wide variety of situations. High temperatures, combined with other denaturing conditions, have been used very extensively to decipher some of the fundamentals related to formation of amorphous and fibrillar protein aggregates. The present study reports on the dependency of thermal aggregation of bovine liver glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH), a well-characterized allosteric enzyme. on its conformational state. The initial phases of thermal aggregation of this protein was followed in the presence of a number of well-known allosteric ligands. Positive effectors were found to decrease the rate and extent of aggregation in a concentration dependent manner, while negative effectors did the reverse. ADP, one of the most characterized GDH activators was found to stabilize a specific protein conformation resulting in loss of propensity to aggregate. The importance of this observation related to control of protein-protein interactions leading to protein aggregation is discussed. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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