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The direct electrochemistry of redox proteins has been achieved at a variety of electrodes, including modified gold, pyrolytic graphite and metal oxides. Careful design of electrode surfaces and electrolyte conditions are required for the attainment of rapid and reversible protein-electrode interaction. The electron transfer reactions of more complex systems, such as redox enzymes, are now being examined. The 'well-behaved' electrochemistry of redox proteins can be usefully exploited by coupling the electrode reaction to enzymes for which the redox proteins act as cofactors. In systems where direct electron transfer is very slow, small electron carriers, or mediators, may be employed to enhance the rate of electron exchange with the electrode. The organometallic compound ferrocene and its derivatives have proved particularly effective in this role. A new generation of electrochemical biosensors employs ferrocene derivatives as mediators. 相似文献
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Jeuken LJ 《Biochimica et biophysica acta》2003,1604(2):67-76
Protein-protein electron transfer (ET) plays an essential role in all redox chains. Earlier studies which used cross-linking and increased solution viscosity indicated that the rate of many ET reactions is limited (i.e., gated) by conformational reorientations at the surface interface. These results are later supported by structural studies using NMR and molecular modelling. New insights into conformational gating have also come from electrochemical experiments in which proteins are noncovalently adsorbed on the electrode surface. These systems have the advantage that it is relatively easy to vary systematically the driving force and electronic coupling. In this review we summarize the current knowledge obtained from these electrochemical experiments and compare it with some of the results obtained for protein-protein ET. 相似文献
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Lars J.C. Jeuken 《BBA》2003,1604(2):67-76
Protein-protein electron transfer (ET) plays an essential role in all redox chains. Earlier studies which used cross-linking and increased solution viscosity indicated that the rate of many ET reactions is limited (i.e., gated) by conformational reorientations at the surface interface. These results are later supported by structural studies using NMR and molecular modelling. New insights into conformational gating have also come from electrochemical experiments in which proteins are noncovalently adsorbed on the electrode surface. These systems have the advantage that it is relatively easy to vary systematically the driving force and electronic coupling. In this review we summarize the current knowledge obtained from these electrochemical experiments and compare it with some of the results obtained for protein-protein ET. 相似文献
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Merche Faro Burkhard Schiffler Achim Heinz Isabel Nogués Milagros Medina Rita Bernhardt Carlos Gómez-Moreno 《European journal of biochemistry》2003,270(4):726-735
The opportunity to design enzymatic systems is becoming more feasible due to detailed knowledge of the structure of many proteins. As a first step, investigations have aimed to redesign already existing systems, so that they can perform a function different from the one for which they were synthesized. We have investigated the interaction of electron transfer proteins from different systems in order to check the possibility of heterologous reconstitution among members of different chains. Here, it is shown that ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase from Anabaena and adrenodoxin from bovine adrenal glands are able to form optimal complexes for thermodynamically favoured electron transfer reactions. Thus, electron transfer from ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase to adrenodoxin seems to proceed through the formation of at least two different complexes, whereas electron transfer from adrenodoxin to ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase does not take place due because it is a thermodynamically nonfavoured process. Moreover, by using a truncated adrenodoxin form (with decreased reduction potential as compared with the wild-type) ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase is reduced. Finally, these reactions have also been studied using several ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase mutants at positions crucial for interaction with its physiological partner, ferredoxin. The effects observed in their reactions with adrenodoxin do not correlate with those reported for their reactions with ferredoxin. In summary, our data indicate that although electron transfer can be achieved in this hybrid system, the electron transfer processes observed are much slower than within the physiological partners, pointing to a low specificity in the interaction surfaces of the proteins in the hybrid complexes. 相似文献
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Circular mRNA can direct translation of extremely long repeating-sequence proteins in vivo.
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Many proteins with unusual structural properties are comprised of multiple repeating amino acid sequences and are often fractious to expression in recombinant systems. To facilitate recombinant production of such proteins for structural and engineering studies, we have produced circular messenger RNAs with infinite open reading frames. We show that a circular mRNA containing a simple green fluorescent protein (GFP) open reading frame can direct GFP expression in Escherichia coli. A circular mRNA with an infinite GFP open reading frame produces extremely long protein chains, proving that bacterial ribosomes can internally initiate and repeatedly transit a circular mRNA. Only the monomeric forms of GFP produced from circular mRNA are fluorescent. Analysis of the translation initiation region shows that multiple sequences contribute to maximal translation from circular mRNA. This technology provides a unique means of producing a very long repeating-sequence protein, and may open the way for development of proteinaceous materials with novel properties. 相似文献
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De Rienzo F Gabdoulline RR Menziani MC Wade RC 《Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society》2000,9(8):1439-1454
Blue copper proteins are type-I copper-containing redox proteins whose role is to shuttle electrons from an electron donor to an electron acceptor in bacteria and plants. A large amount of experimental data is available on blue copper proteins; however, their functional characterization is hindered by the complexity of redox processes in biological systems. We describe here the application of a semiquantitative method based on a comparative analysis of molecular interaction fields to gain insights into the recognition properties of blue copper proteins. Molecular electrostatic and hydrophobic potentials were computed and compared for a set of 33 experimentally-determined structures of proteins from seven blue copper subfamilies, and the results were quantified by means of similarity indices. The analysis provides a classification of the blue copper proteins and shows that (I) comparison of the molecular electrostatic potentials provides useful information complementary to that highlighted by sequence analysis; (2) similarities in recognition properties can be detected for proteins belonging to different subfamilies, such as amicyanins and pseudoazurins, that may be isofunctional proteins; (3) dissimilarities in interaction properties, consistent with experimentally different binding specificities, may be observed between proteins belonging to the same subfamily, such as cyanobacterial and eukaryotic plastocyanins; (4) proteins with low sequence identity, such as azurins and pseudoazurins, can have sufficient similarity to bind to similar electron donors and acceptors while having different binding specificity profiles. 相似文献
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S. J. Leach 《Biopolymers》1983,22(1):425-440
Most of a protein surface is potentially antigenic, consisting of numerous overlapping domains each complementary to antibody-combining sites. These domains may include peptide sequences that are demonstrably antigenic but only when antibodies from the appropriate host individuals and species are used. Methods for locating antigenic peptide sequences are described in which hydrophilic polyamide supports are used for peptide synthesis, then solid-phase radioimmunoassay with antisera and protein A. Most antigenic domains, however, comprise amino acid side chains contributed by two or more nearby polypeptide chains. Such domains can be identified by comparing the cross-reactivities of groups of very closely related proteins towards monoclonal antibodies raised to one of them. Such studies, using myoglobins, have identified a number of residues not previously shown to be antigenic and have provided a guide for the choice of synthetic peptides which are likely to carry several immunodominant side chains. One such peptide corresponding to residues (72–89) of beef myoglobin has been shown, using CD and antibodies to the parent protein, to have interesting conformational and antigenic properties. The peptide (25–55) is also antigenic. 相似文献
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Protein side chains make most of the specific contacts between proteins and other molecules, and their conformational properties have been studied for many years. These properties have been analyzed primarily in the form of rotamer libraries, which cluster the observed conformations into groups and provide frequencies and average dihedral angles for these groups. In recent years, these libraries have improved with higher resolution structures and using various criteria such as high thermal factors to eliminate side chains that may be misplaced within the crystallographic model coordinates. Many of these side chains have highly non-rotameric dihedral angles. The origin of side chains with high B-factors and/or with non-rotameric dihedral angles is of interest in the determination of protein structures and in assessing the prediction of side chain conformations. In this paper, using a statistical analysis of the electron density of a large set of proteins, it is shown that: (1) most non-rotameric side chains have low electron density compared to rotameric side chains; (2) up to 15% of chi1 non-rotameric side chains in PDB models can clearly be fit to density at a single rotameric conformation and in some cases multiple rotameric conformations; (3) a further 47% of non-rotameric side chains have highly dispersed electron density, indicating potentially interconverting rotameric conformations; (4) the entropy of these side chains is close to that of side chains annotated as having more than one chi(1) rotamer in the crystallographic model; (5) many rotameric side chains with high entropy clearly show multiple conformations that are not annotated in the crystallographic model. These results indicate that modeling of side chains alternating between rotamers in the electron density is important and needs further improvement, both in structure determination and in structure prediction. 相似文献
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Frieden C 《Biochemistry》2003,42(43):12439-12446
The rate of stabilization of side chains during protein folding has never been carefully studied. Recent developments in labeling proteins with (19)F-labeled amino acids coupled with real-time NMR measurements have allowed such measurements to be made. This paper describes the application of this method to the study of several proteins using 6-(19)F-tryptophan as the reporting group. It is found that these side chains adopt their final stable state at the last stages of the folding process and that the stabilization of side chains into their final conformation is a highly cooperative process. It is also possible to show the presence of intermediates in which the side chains are not correctly packed. The technique should be applicable to many systems. 相似文献
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Edwin R. Morris David A. Rees David Thom E. Jane Welsh 《Journal of cellular biochemistry》1977,6(2):259-274
For consideration of their conformations and interactions, carbohydrate chains can conveniently be divided into 3 classes on the basis of their covalent structure; namely periodic (a), interrupted periodic (b), and aperiodic (c) types. In aqueous solution carbohydrate chains often exist as highly disordered random coils. Under appropriate conditions, however, polysaccharides of types (a) and (b) can adopt a variety of ordered conformations. Physical methods, and in particular optical rotation, circular dichroism, and nuclear magnetic resonance, provide sensitive probes for the study of the mechanism and specificity of these disorder-order transitions in aqueous solution. Intermolecular interactions between such polysaccharide chains arise from co-operative associations of long structurally regular regions which adopt the ordered conformations. For acidic polysaccharides these cooperative associations may involve alignment of extended ribbons with cations sandwhiched between them. In other systems the interactions involve double belices which may then aggregate further, and geometric “matching” of different polysaccharide chains can also occur. These ordered, associated regions are generally terminated by deviations from structural regularity or by “kinks” which prevent complete aggregation of the molecules. The complex carbohydrate chains which occur at the periphery of animal cells have very different, aperiodic structures and although their conformations are as yet poorly understood, preliminary indications are considered. 相似文献
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C. C. Moser C. C. Page X. Chen P. L. Dutton 《Journal of biological inorganic chemistry》1997,2(3):393-398
Nature has engineered a universe of redox proteins to efficiently control the oxidation and reduction of substrates and to
convert redox energy into a delocalized transmembrane proton gradient power source. Some rapid physiologically relevant electron
transfers are rate limited by electron tunneling. Distance appears to be the principle means naturally selected to control
the speed of electron tunneling; free energy and reorganization energy can play important auxiliary roles. Thus, an electron
from a biological redox center can tunnel in any direction and is likely to reduce the closest redox center with a favorable
free energy. Although it is clearly possible to facilitate electron tunneling by designing covalent bridges in the regions
between donors and acceptors, this does not seem to be a strategy that evolution has used. Evolutionary mutagenic adjustment
of a bridge-like quality of the amino acid medium may be difficult in the face of heavy selection on the folding, stability
and other properties of the protein medium. Repositioning cofactors by even a few angstroms has more profound effects on promoting
and retarding rates, independent of the structure of the amino acid medium.
Received: 12 January 1997 / Accepted: 5 February 1997 相似文献
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Resolution of end-to-end distance distributions of flexible molecules using quenching-induced variations of the Forster distance for fluorescence energy transfer. 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
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I Gryczynski W Wiczk M L Johnson H C Cheung C K Wang J R Lakowicz 《Biophysical journal》1988,54(4):577-586
We describe a new method to recover the distribution of donor-to-acceptor (D-A) distances in flexible molecules using steady-state measurements of the efficiency of fluorescence energy transfer. The method depends upon changes in the Forster distance (Ro) induced by collisional quenching of the donor emission. The Ro-dependent transfer efficiencies are analyzed using nonlinear least squares to recover the mean D-A distance and the width of the distribution. The method was developed and tested using three synthetic D-A pairs, in which the chromophores were separated by alkyl chains of varying lengths. As an example application we also recovered the distribution of distances from the single tryptophan residue in troponin I (trp 158) to acceptor-labeled cysteine 133. The half-width of the distribution increases from 12 A in the native state to 53 A when unfolded by guanidine hydrochloride. For both TnI and the three model compounds the distance distributions recovered from the steady-state transfer efficiencies were in excellent agreement with the distributions recovered using the more sophisticated frequency-domain method (Lakowicz, J.R., M.L. Johnson, W. Wiczk, A. Bhat, and R.F. Steiner. 1987. Chem. Phys. Lett. 138:587-593). The method was found to be reliable and should be generally useful for studies of conformational distributions of macromolecules. 相似文献
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Theoretical identification of proton channels in the quinol oxidase aa3 from Acidianus ambivalens
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Heme-copper oxidases are membrane proteins found in the respiratory chain of aerobic organisms. They are the terminal electron acceptors coupling the translocation of protons across the membrane with the reduction of oxygen to water. Because the catalytic process occurs in the heme cofactors positioned well inside the protein matrix, proton channels must exist. However, due to the high structural divergence among this kind of proteins, the proton channels previously described are not necessarily conserved. In this work we modeled the structure of the quinol oxidase from Acidianus ambivalens using comparative modeling techniques for identifying proton channels. Additionally, given the high importance that water molecules may have in this process, we have developed a methodology, within the context of comparative modeling, to identify high water probability zones and to deconvolute them into chains of ordered water molecules. From our results, and from the existent information from other proteins from the same superfamily, we were able to suggest three possible proton channels: one K-, one D-, and one Q-spatial homologous proton channels. This methodology can be applied to other systems where water molecules are important for their biological function. 相似文献
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Lipid-protein interactions in membranes 总被引:4,自引:0,他引:4
D Marsh 《FEBS letters》1990,268(2):371-375
The interactions of lipids with integral and peripheral proteins can be studied in reconstituted and natural membranes using spin label electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy. The ESR spectra reveal a reduction in mobility of the spin-labelled lipid species, and in certain cases evidence is obtained for a partial penetration of the peripheral proteins into the membrane. The latter may be relevant to the import mechanism of apocytochrome c into mitochondria. Integral proteins induce a more direct motional restriction of the spin-labelled lipid chains, allowing the stoichiometry and specificity of the interaction, and the lipid exchange rate at the protein interface to be determined from the ESR spectra. In this way, a population of very slowly exchanging cardiolipin associated with the mitochondrial ADP-ATP carrier has been identified. The residues involved in the specificity for charged lipids of the myelin proteolipid protein have been localized to the deletion in the DM-20 mutant, and the difference in lipid-protein interactions with the beta-sheet and alpha-helical conformations of the M-13 coat protein, has been characterized. 相似文献
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Certain metalloproteins are common to all photosynthetic electron transfer chains. These include soluble proteins such as ferredoxins and cytochromes of the c2 type, and membrane-bound components such as cytochrome b, c1 and the Rieske iron-sulphur protein. The sequence of electron transfer Quinone → (cyt b, FeS, cyt c1) → cyt c2 indicates a common precursor to these systems and to the mitochondrial respiratory chain. In cyanobacteria the cytochrome c1, can be interchanged with the copper protein plastocyanin, and furthermore in chloroplasts of higher plants the latter is used exclusively. The ferredoxins in anaerobic photosynthetic bacteria are mostly of the [4Fe4S] type, probably derived from those of the fermentative bacteria. These could readily be formed in the earliest cells from iron, sulphide and a very simple peptide. In the oxygen-evolving cyanobacteria and the aerobic halobacteria the [2Fe2S] ferredoxins predominate. The electron transfer chains of the cyanobacteria have been incorporated almost unchanged into the chloroplasts of plants. The electron transfer chains of purple photosynthetic bacteria were probably the precursors of the mitochondrial respiratory chain, as shown by similarities of cytochromes c2 and succinate dehydrogenase. However a different origin of the eukaryotic cytoplasm is indicated by the presence of the copper/zinc superoxide dismutase. 相似文献
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The change in glycosylation of the two acute-phase proteins, alpha-1-proteinase inhibitor (API) and haptoglobin (Hp), in progressive ovarian cancer is different. This has been shown by monosaccharide analysis and lectin-binding studies of proteins purified from serum. In the glycan chains of API, there is decreased branching (more biantennary chains), less branches ending in alpha 2-3 sialic acid, more branches ending in alpha 2-6 sialic acid and more fucose, probably linked alpha 1-6 to the core region. On the other hand, Hp shows increased branching (more triantennary chains), more branches ending in alpha 2-3 sialic acid, less branches ending in alpha 2-6 sialic acid, and more fucose, probably in the alpha 1-3 linkage at the end of the chains. This is surprising because API and Hp are thought to be glycosylated by a common pathway in the liver. We have also shown that the fucose-specific lectin,lotus tetragonolobus, extracts abnormal forms of both Hp and API in ovarian cancer, but the expression of this Hp is related to tumour burden and the expression of this API is related to lack of response to therapy. It is suggested that this difference in the behaviour of API and Hp in ovarian cancer may be associated with the different changes in their glycosylation. Of the many mechanisms that could explain these findings, a likely one is that a pathological process is removing API with triantennary chains from the circulation. In addition to their normal roles (API-enzyme inhibitor and Hp-transport protein) these proteins are reported to have many other effects in biological systems, such as immunosuppression. As correct glycosylation of API and Hp is required for their normal stability/activity, changes in glycosylation could affect their functions in ovarian cancer and these modifications could alter the course of the disease. 相似文献
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Looking at proteins: representations, folding, packing, and design. Biophysical Society National Lecture, 1992.
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J S Richardson D C Richardson N B Tweedy K M Gernert T P Quinn M H Hecht B W Erickson Y Yan R D McClain M E Donlan et al. 《Biophysical journal》1992,63(5):1185-1209
Looking at proteins is an active process of interpretation and selection, emphasizing some features and deleting others. Multiple representations are needed, for such purposes as showing motions or conveying both the chain connectivity and the three-dimensional shape simultaneously. In studying and comparing protein structures, ideas are suggested about the determinants of tertiary structure and of folding (e.g., that Greek key beta barrels may fold up two strands at a time). The design and synthesis of new proteins "from scratch" provides a route toward the experimental testing of such ideas. It has also been a fruitful new perspective from which to look at structures, requiring such things as statistics on very narrowly defined structural categories and explicit attention to "negative design" criteria that actively block unwanted alternatives (e.g., reverse topology of a helix bundle, or edge-to-edge aggregation of beta sheets). Recently, the field of protein design has produced a rather unexpected general result: apparently we do indeed know enough to successfully design proteins that fold into approximately correct structures, but not enough to design unique, native-like structures. The degree of order varies considerably, but even the best designed material shows multiple conformations by NMR, more similar to a "molten globule" folding intermediate than to a well ordered native tertiary structure. In response to this conclusion, we are now working on systems that test useful questions with approximate structures (such as determining which factors most influence the choice of helix-bundle topology) and also analyzing how natural proteins achieve unique core conformations (e.g., for side chains on the interior side of a beta sheet, illustrated in the kinemages). 相似文献
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Luke Berry Saroj Poudel Monika Tokmina-Lukaszewska Daniel R. Colman Diep M.N. Nguyen Gerrit J. Schut Michael W.W. Adams John W. Peters Eric S. Boyd Brian Bothner 《Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)/General Subjects》2018,1862(1):9-17
Recent investigations into ferredoxin-dependent transhydrogenases, a class of enzymes responsible for electron transport, have highlighted the biological importance of flavin-based electron bifurcation (FBEB). FBEB generates biomolecules with very low reduction potential by coupling the oxidation of an electron donor with intermediate potential to the reduction of high and low potential molecules. Bifurcating systems can generate biomolecules with very low reduction potentials, such as reduced ferredoxin (Fd), from species such as NADPH. Metabolic systems that use bifurcation are more efficient and confer a competitive advantage for the organisms that harbor them. Structural models are now available for two NADH-dependent ferredoxin-NADP+ oxidoreductase (Nfn) complexes. These models, together with spectroscopic studies, have provided considerable insight into the catalytic process of FBEB. However, much about the mechanism and regulation of these multi-subunit proteins remains unclear. Using hydrogen/deuterium exchange mass spectrometry (HDX-MS) and statistical coupling analysis (SCA), we identified specific pathways of communication within the model FBEB system, Nfn from Pyrococus furiosus, under conditions at each step of the catalytic cycle. HDX-MS revealed evidence for allosteric coupling across protein subunits upon nucleotide and ferredoxin binding. SCA uncovered a network of co-evolving residues that can provide connectivity across the complex. Together, the HDX-MS and SCA data show that protein allostery occurs across the ensemble of iron?sulfur cofactors and ligand binding sites using specific pathways that connect domains allowing them to function as dynamically coordinated units. 相似文献