期刊
JOURNAL OF PROTEOME RESEARCH
卷 6, 期 9, 页码 3648-3654出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/pr070237v
关键词
fesselin; natively; unfolded; PONDR; fluorescence quenching; circular dichroism
资金
- NIAMS NIH HHS [AR35216] Funding Source: Medline
Fesselin is a heat stable proline-rich actin binding protein. The stability, amino acid composition, and ability to bind to several proteins suggested that fesselin may be unfolded under native conditions. While the complete sequence of fesselin is unknown an analysis of a closely related protein, synaptopodin 2 from Gallus gallus, indicates that fesselin consists of a series of unstructured regions interspersed between short folded regions. To determine if fesselin is natively unfolded, we compared fesselin to a known globular protein (myosin S1) and a known unfolded protein Cad22 (the COOH terminal 22 kDa fragment of caldesmon). Fesselin, and Cad22, had larger Stokes radii than globular proteins of equivalent mass. The environments of tryptophan residues of fesselin and Cad22 were the same in the presence and absence of 6 M guanidine hydrochloride. Fesselin had a circular dichroism spectrum that was primarily random coil. Changes in pH over the range of 1.5-11.5 did not alter that spectrum. Increasing the temperature to 85 degrees C caused an increase in the degree of secondary structure. Calmodulin binding to fesselin altered the environment of the tryptophan residues so that they became less sensitive to the quencher acrylamide. These results show that fesselin is a natively unfolded protein.
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