期刊
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
卷 122, 期 -, 页码 903-913出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2018.11.023
关键词
X-ray crystallography; Guanidine hydrochloride; Hen egg-white lysozyme; Unfolding
资金
- Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi
Time-dependent binding of guanidine hydrochloride (GuHCl) to hen egg-white lysozyme (HEWL), and effects of this binding on the protein structure have been investigated by solving X-ray structures of crystalline complexes. The complexes have been prepared by soaking, for different periods of time, native lysozyme crystals in solutions containing 2.5 M GuHCl. In the refined structures, the number of water molecules in the protein's first solvent shell has progressively decreased from 152 to 115, showing protein's preference for guanidinium over water. Guanidinium ions preferentially hydrogen bond with the backbone carbonyl oxygen atoms. In their van der Waals interactions, they do not show any preference for apolar residues. Guanidinium ions have replaced water molecules that form cages around exposed hydrophobic residues. Guanidinium binding has decreased the average length of water-water hydrogen bond by 0.1 angstrom. The hydrogen bonds between main chain atoms have been weakened by GuHCl, and this may be the reason for increased potency of GuHCl compared to urea. Guanidinium binding destabilizes the beta-domain by causing loss of hydrogen bonds involving Asn 59 side chain. Interestingly, this loss is almost identical to that observed in structures of amyloidogenic variants of human lysozyme. Compounds preventing this loss could be anti-amyloidogenic. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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