| Literature DB >> 15504341 |
Ivan S Chernik1, Olesya O Panasenko, Yi Li, Steven B Marston, Nikolai B Gusev.
Abstract
The effect of pH on the structure of recombinant chicken Hsp24, human Hsp27 and their 3D mutants mimicking phosphorylation at Ser15, Ser77/78, and Ser81/82 was analyzed. Circular dichroism and fluorescent spectroscopy indicate that changes of pH in the range 6.0-7.5 weakly affected the secondary and tertiary structure of the wild type proteins, but induced noticeable changes in the structure of their 3D mutants. According to size-exclusion chromatography and analytical ultracentrifugation variation of pH-induced pronounced changes in the quaternary structure of small heat shock proteins and acidification resulted in accumulation of large oligomers of Hsp24/27. It is concluded that small changes of pH strongly affect the quaternary structure of small heat shock proteins and by this means can influence their functioning in the cell.Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID: 15504341 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.09.176
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biochem Biophys Res Commun ISSN: 0006-291X Impact factor: 3.575