کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1936859 1050704 2008 8 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Lipid dependant disorder-to-order conformational transitions in apolipoprotein CI derived peptides
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری بیوشیمی، ژنتیک و زیست شناسی مولکولی زیست شیمی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Lipid dependant disorder-to-order conformational transitions in apolipoprotein CI derived peptides
چکیده انگلیسی
In contrast to the notion established for many years that protein function depends on rigid 3D structures, nowadays there is important evidence suggesting that non-structured segments of proteins play important roles in protein function. Therefore, disorder-to-order dynamic conformational transitions have been proposed as an attractive mechanism involved in protein-protein recognition. Our laboratory using Langmuir monolayers of apolipoproteins has previously shown that upon lateral compression at the air/water and phospholipid/water interfaces, there is an important movement of the C-terminal segment of apolipoprotein CI towards the air, considered the hydrophobic region of the monolayer and the acyl-chain region of the interface when phospholipids are used. Here, in an attempt to define secondary structure changes that might occur within this C-terminal segment of apoCI while moving from the monolayer interface back and forth its hydrophobic region, employing three peptides derived from apoCI we studied by circular dichroism and dynamic light scattering their conformational properties when associated to a series of amphipathic lipids and lipid-like molecules. Our results show that a series of lysophospholipids present the ability to modulate the formation of an α helix at the C-terminal peptide of apoCI through a disorder-to-order transition while forming small lipid/peptide aggregates below 10 nm in diameter.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications - Volume 365, Issue 1, 4 January 2008, Pages 8-15
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