Interaction of human recombinant alphaA- and alphaB-crystallins with early and late unfolding intermediates of citrate synthase on its thermal denaturation |
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Authors: | Rajaraman K Raman B Ramakrishna T Rao C M |
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Affiliation: | Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, 500 007, Hyderabad, India. |
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Abstract: | We have investigated the role of recombinant human alphaA- and alphaB-crystallins in the heat-induced inactivation and aggregation of citrate synthase. Homo-multimers of both alphaA- and alphaB-crystallins confer protection against heat-induced inactivation in a concentration-dependent manner and also prevent aggregation. Interaction of crystallins with early unfolding intermediates of citrate synthase reduces their partitioning into aggregation-prone intermediates. This appears to result in enhanced population of early unfolding intermediates that can be reactivated by its substrate, oxaloacetate. Both these homo-multimers do not form a stable complex with the early unfolding intermediates. However, they can form a soluble, stable complex with aggregation-prone late unfolding intermediates. This soluble complex formation prevents aggregation. Thus, it appears that the chaperone activity of alpha-crystallin involves both transient and stable interactions depending on the nature of intermediates on the unfolding pathway; one leads to reactivation of the enzyme activity while the other prevents aggregation. |
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