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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 281, Issue 10, Pages 6581-6588Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M508422200
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We presented for the first time a small angle x-ray scattering study of intact protein-disulfide isomerase (PDI) in solution. The restored model revealed that PDI is a short and roughly elliptical cylinder with a molecular mass of 69 kDa and dimensions of 105 x 65 x 40 angstrom, and the four thioredoxin-fold domains in the order a-b-b'-a' are arranged in an annular fashion. Atomic force microscope imaging also supported the finding that PDI appears as an approximately flat elliptical cylinder. A PDI species with apparent molecular mass of 116 kDa measured by using size-exclusion chromatography, previously assumed to be a dimer, was determined to exist mainly as a monomer by using analytical ultracentrifugation. The C-terminal fragment 441 - 491 contributed to the anomalous molecular mass determination of PDI by size-exclusion chromatography. The annular model of PDI accounted for the cooperative properties of the four domains in both the isomerase and chaperone functions of PDI.
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