The role of the hinge loop in domain swapping - The special case of bovine seminal ribonuclease(608 views) Picone D, Di Fiore A, Ercole C, Franzese M, Sica F, Tomaselli S, Mazzarella L
Keywords: Dimers, Dissociation, Phase Equilibria, X Rays, Bovine Seminal Ribonuclease (bs-Rnase), Equilibrium Mixture, Pancreatic Ribonuclease (rnase), Enzymes, Alanine, Proline, Amino Acid Sequence, Amino Acid Substitution, Amino Terminal Sequence, Article, Controlled Study, Disulfide Bond, Hypothesis, Intermethod Comparison, Isomer, Kinetics, Nonhuman, Parameter, Priority Journal, Protein Assembly, Protein Conformation, Protein Domain, Protein Function, Protein Quaternary Structure, Protein Structure, Reduction, Sensitivity Analysis, Sequence Homology, Variance, Waste, X Ray Analysis, Animals, Cattle, Crystallography, X-Ray, Dimerization, Endoribonucleases, Models, Molecular, Mutagenesis, Site-Directed, Peptides, Secondary,
Affiliations: *** IBB - CNR ***
Dipartimento di Chimica, Univ. Federico II di Napoli, Via Cynthia, 80126, Napoli, Italy
Ist. di Biostrutture e Bioimmagini, CNR, Via Mezzocannone 6, 80134 Napoli, Italy
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The role of the hinge loop in domain swapping - The special case of bovine seminal ribonuclease
Bovine seminal ribonuclease (BS-RNase) is a covalent homodimeric enzyme homologous to pancreatic ribonuclease (RNase A), endowed with a number of special biological functions. It is isolated as an equilibrium mixture of swapped (MxM) and unswapped (M=M) dimers. The interchanged N termini are hinged on the main bodies through the peptide 16-22, which changes conformation in the two isomers. At variance with other proteins, domain swapping in BS-RNase involves two dimers having a similar and highly constrained quaternary association, mainly dictated by two interchain disulfide bonds. This provides the opportunity to study the intrinsic ability to swap as a function of the hinge sequence, without additional effects arising from dissociation or quaternary structure modifications. Two variants, having Pro(19) or the whole sequence of the hinge replaced by the corresponding residues of RNase A, show equilibrium and kinetic parameters of the swapping similar to those of the parent protein. In comparison, the x-ray structures of MxM indicate, within a substantial constancy of the quaternary association, a greater mobility of the hinge residues. The relative insensitivity of the swapping tendency to the substitutions in the hinge region, and in particular to the replacement of Pro19 by Ala, contrasts with the results obtained for other swapped proteins and can be rationalized in terms of the unique features of the seminal enzyme. Moreover, the results indirectly lend credit to the hypothesis that the major role of Pro19 resides in directing the assembly of the non-covalent dimer, the species produced by selective reduction of the interchain disulfides and considered responsible for the special biological functions of BS-RNase.
The role of the hinge loop in domain swapping - The special case of bovine seminal ribonuclease
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The role of the hinge loop in domain swapping - The special case of bovine seminal ribonuclease
Aloj L, Aurilio M, Rinaldi V, D'Ambrosio L, Tesauro D, Peitl PK, Maina T, Mansi R, Von Guggenberg E, Joosten L, Sosabowski JK, Breeman WA, De Blois E, Koelewijn S, Melis M, Waser B, Beetschen K, Reubi JC, De Jong M * The EEE project(561 views) Proc Int Cosm Ray Conf Icrc Universidad Nacional Autonoma De Mexico, 2007; 5(HEPART2): 977-980. Impact Factor:0 ViewExport to BibTeXExport to EndNote