期刊
JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS
卷 39, 期 4, 页码 635-648出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10867-013-9323-y
关键词
ROF2; Thermal denaturation; Thermotolerance; CDPro; DICHROWEB
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资金
- Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS)
- CNCSIS-UEFISCSU [ID 76/2010]
The protein ROF2 from the plant Arabidopsis thaliana acts as a heat stress modulator, being involved in the long-term acquired thermotolerance of the plant. Here we investigate the relationship between the biological function and the structure of ROF2, inferred by circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy. The far-UV CD spectra, analyzed with the CDPro and DICHROWEB program packages, yield the percentages of alpha-helices, beta-sheets, unordered regions, turns and poly(Pro)II-helices in the secondary structure of ROF2. According to the analysis, the percentages of the structural elements of ROF2 are about 40% for beta-sheets, 30% for unordered regions, 17% for turns, 10% for poly(Pro)II-helices and 3% for alpha-helices. The near-UV CD spectra suggest that ROF2 proteins can associate, forming super-secondary structures. Our CD experiments performed at temperatures between 5 A degrees C and 97 A degrees C indicate that the thermal denaturation of ROF2 caused by a raise in temperature up to 55 A degrees C is followed by a thermal refolding of the protein as the temperature is raised further. The new secondary structure, acquired around 65 A degrees C, remains stable up to 97 A degrees C. The structural stability of ROF2 at high temperatures might play an important role in the experimentally observed thermotolerance of Arabidopsis thaliana.
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