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BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 44, Issue 7, Pages 2642-2649Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bi048662e
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- NIA NIH HHS [AG-10599] Funding Source: Medline
- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM-065978] Funding Source: Medline
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alpha(1)-Antitrypsin (AT) is the most abundantly circulating human proteinase inhibitor in the serpin family. The polymerization of AT, leading to alpha(1)-antitrypsin deficiency, has been studied extensively in vitro by a variety of ensemble methods. Here we report the use of fluorescence correlation spectroscopy to gain further insight into this process. Measurements of the distributions of diffusion times of polymerizing AT, carried out at 45, 50, and 55 degreesC, clearly show the existence of a kinetic lag phase, during which short oligomers are formed, prior to the formation of heterogeneous mixtures of longer polymers, and suggest that long polymers, which appear to be metastable, are produced through the condensation of shorter oligomers.
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