Cold denaturation of yeast phosphoglycerate kinase: Kinetics of changes in secondary structure and compactness on unfolding and refolding

Biochemistry ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 32 (30) ◽  
pp. 7747-7752 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Gast ◽  
Gregor Damaschun ◽  
Hilde Damaschun ◽  
Rolf Misselwitz ◽  
Dietrich Zirwer
2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 367-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Panick ◽  
H. Herberhold ◽  
Z. Sun ◽  
R. Winter

We studied the pressureinduced unfolding and refolding of monomeric proteins, such as SNase, αchymotrypsin and ubiquitin, by using synchrotron Xray smallangle scattering and Fouriertransform infrared spectroscopy, which monitor changes in the tertiary and secondary structural properties of the proteins upon pressurization. Furthermore, by using the pressurejump relaxation technique in combination with timeresolved Xray diffraction and infrared spectroscopy, the kinetics of the unfolding/refolding of the proteins, was investigated. Significant differences in secondary structure and chain compactness in the folding/unfolding reactions of these proteins are observed. The results are compared with data obtained from other methods of denaturation, such as heat and pressure-assisted cold denaturation. The cold- and pressure-induced unfolding both yield a particularly unfolded state characterized by a persistent amount of secondary structure.


Foods ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 998
Author(s):  
Laetitia Théron ◽  
Aline Bonifacie ◽  
Jérémy Delabre ◽  
Thierry Sayd ◽  
Laurent Aubry ◽  
...  

Food processing affects the structure and chemical state of proteins. In particular, protein oxidation occurs and may impair protein properties. These chemical reactions initiated during processing can develop during digestion. Indeed, the physicochemical conditions of the stomach (oxygen pressure, low pH) favor oxidation. In that respect, digestive proteases may be affected as well. Yet, very little is known about the link between endogenous oxidation of digestive enzymes, their potential denaturation, and, therefore, food protein digestibility. Thus, the objective of this study is to understand how oxidative chemical processes will impact the pepsin secondary structure and its hydrolytic activity. The folding and unfolding kinetics of pepsin under oxidative conditions was determined using Synchrotron Radiation Circular Dichroism. SRCD gave us the possibility to monitor the rapid kinetics of protein folding and unfolding in real-time, giving highly resolved spectral data. The proteolytic activity of control and oxidized pepsin was investigated by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry on a meat protein model, the creatine kinase. MALDI-TOF MS allowed a rapid evaluation of the proteolytic activity through peptide fingerprint. This study opens up new perspectives by shifting the digestion paradigm taking into account the gastric digestive enzyme and its substrate.


2001 ◽  
Vol 123 (44) ◽  
pp. 10805-10813 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart A. Kushon ◽  
Jason P. Jordan ◽  
Jennifer L. Seifert ◽  
Henrik Nielsen ◽  
Peter E. Nielsen ◽  
...  

2009 ◽  
Vol 131 (44) ◽  
pp. 16215-16224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sadagopan Krishnan ◽  
Amila Abeykoon ◽  
John B Schenkman ◽  
James F Rusling

2006 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 327-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent Ball ◽  
Marc Michel ◽  
Fouzia Boulmedais ◽  
Joseph Hemmerle ◽  
Youssef Haikel ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Hertel ◽  
Richard Spinney ◽  
Stephanie Xu ◽  
Thomas E Ouldridge ◽  
Richard Morris ◽  
...  

The kinetics of DNA hybridisation are fundamental to biological processes and DNA-based technologies. However, the precise physical mechanisms that determine why different DNA sequences hybridise at different rates are not well understood. Secondary structure is one predictable factor that influences hybridisation rates but is not sufficient on its own to fully explain the observed sequence-dependent variance. Consequently, to achieve a good correlation with experimental data, current prediction algorithms require many parameters that provide little mechanistic insight into DNA hybridisation. In this context, we measured hybridisation rates of 43 different DNA sequences that are not predicted to form secondary structure and present a parsimonious physically justified model to quantify their hybridisation rates. Accounting only for the combinatorics of complementary nucleating interactions and their sequence-dependent stability, the model achieves good correlation with experiment with only two free parameters, thus providing new insight into the physical factors underpinning DNA hybridisation rates.


Biochemistry ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (35) ◽  
pp. 3656-3668 ◽  
Author(s):  
Torsten John ◽  
Tiara J. A. Dealey ◽  
Nicholas P. Gray ◽  
Nitin A. Patil ◽  
Mohammed A. Hossain ◽  
...  

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