To boil an egg: substrate binding affects critical stability in thermal unfolding of proteins

Hussain, Rohanah; Hughes, Charlotte S.; J�vorfi, Tam�s; Siligardi, Giuliano; Williams, Paul; Bonev, Boyan B.

Abstract

Thermal unfolding of proteins is used extensively in screening of drug candidates because molecular interactions with ligands and substrates affect strongly protein stability, transition temperature, and cooperativity. We use synchrotron radiation circular dichroism to monitor the thermal evolution of secondary structure in proteins as they approach the melting point and the impact of substrate on their thermal behavior. Using Landau free energy expansion, we quantify transition strength and proximity to a critical point through the relative separation τ+ between the transition temperature Tm and the spinodal T+, obtained from the equation of state. The weakest transition was observed in lysozyme with τ+ = −0.0167 followed by holo albumin with τ+ = −0.0208 with the strongest transition in monomeric apo albumin τ+ = − 0.0242. A structural transition at 45 °C in apo albumin leads to a noncooperative melt with τ+ = −0.00532 and amyloidogenic increase in beta content.

Citation

Hussain, R., Hughes, C. S., Jávorfi, T., Siligardi, G., Williams, P., & Bonev, B. B. (2018). To boil an egg: substrate binding affects critical stability in thermal unfolding of proteins. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 122(8), 2213-2218. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b10643

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Dec 20, 2017
• Online Publication Date: Feb 15, 2018
• Publication Date: Feb 5, 2018
• Deposit Date: Mar 26, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 6, 2019
• Journal: Journal of Physical Chemistry B
• Print ISSN: 1520-6106
• Electronic ISSN: 1520-52707
• Publisher: American Chemical Society
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 122
• Issue: 8
• Pages: 2213-2218
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b10643
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/910080
• Publisher URL: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b10643
• Additional Information: This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Journal of Physical Chemistry B, copyright © American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b10643