期刊
PROTEIN SCIENCE
卷 23, 期 12, 页码 1765-1772出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/pro.2558
关键词
polyproline; collagen; synchrotron radiation circular dichroism spectroscopy; thermal unfolding; intrinsically disordered proteins; secondary structure
资金
- UK Biotechnology and Biological Science Research Council (BBSRC) [BB/J019135]
- Science without Borders postdoctoral fellowship from the CNPq [202529/2011-8]
- UK-Brazil Partnering Grant from the BBSRC [BB/J0197471]
- Royal Society [IE121428]
- ISA
- BSRF
- ANKA
- Soleil synchrotrons
- BBSRC [BB/J019135/1, BB/J019747/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/J019135/1, BBS/B/02959, BB/J019747/1] Funding Source: researchfish
Circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy is a valuable method for defining canonical secondary structure contents of proteins based on empirically-defined spectroscopic signatures derived from proteins with known three-dimensional structures. Many proteins identified as being Intrinsically Disordered Proteins have a significant amount of their structure that is neither sheet, helix, nor turn; this type of structure is often classified by CD as other, random coil, unordered, or disordered. However the other category can also include polyproline II (PPII)-type structures, whose spectral properties have not been well-distinguished from those of unordered structures. In this study, synchrotron radiation circular dichroism spectroscopy was used to investigate the spectral properties of collagen and polyproline, which both contain PPII-type structures. Their native spectra were compared as representatives of PPII structures. In addition, their spectra before and after treatment with various conditions to produce unfolded or denatured structures were also compared, with the aim of defining the differences between CD spectra of PPII and disordered structures. We conclude that the spectral features of collagen are more appropriate than those of polyproline for use as the representative spectrum for PPII structures present in typical amino acid-containing proteins, and that the single most characteristic spectroscopic feature distinguishing a PPII structure from a disordered structure is the presence of a positive peak around 220nm in the former but not in the latter. These spectra are now available for inclusion in new reference data sets used for CD analyses of the secondary structures of soluble proteins.
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