Desnaturação e reenovelamento da frutalina, uma lectina ligante de D galactose / Folding and unfolding of frutalin lectin

AUTOR(ES)

Patricia Targon Campana

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

1998

RESUMO

Our current understanding of the protein folding mechanism is the result of intense study employing biophysical, biochemical and theoretical methods. "In vitro", the initial state of the protein in this puzzle is its unfolded form. In the present work we have studied the refolding, after thermal denaturation, of the glycoprotein frutalin, a member of the lectin class. The main characteristic of these proteins is their ability to interact with carbohydrates and thus combine with glycocomponents of the cell surface, leading to their biological properties. Frutalin is a tetrameric lectin extracted from the seeds of Artocarpus incisa. It is D-galactose specific and its native CD spectrum was identified as being dominated by ? -sheet. The thermal unfolding and refolding steps were measured by CD and fluorescence spectroscopies together with the loss of hemagglutinating activity. The unfolding conditions used were 60°C for 30 to 60 minutes, depending on the protein storage time. The results indicate that refolding is promoted by the freezing process in the presence of 0,1 M D-galactose-PBS followed by three-fold concentration in a Centriprep 3. Positive hemagglutination occurred for both the native and refolded forms. Refolding of denatured frutalin also occurred with PBS containing 0,1 M D-glucose. When the unfolded form was concentrated before freezing in PBS without D-galactose or in PBS containing xylose, refolding did not occur. These results show that the refolding of frutalin is dependent on the binding of D-galactose or D-glucose, and demonstrate the importance of freezing in order to obtain the biologically activity form. An analysis of secondary structure using the CCA program showed an important result: the native form, presented 85% ? -sheet/ ?-turns, while in the refolded form, this content fell to 73%. These results show that the refolded form is very similar to the native protein, which is in agreement with the hemagglutination results.

ASSUNTO(S)

circular dichroism enovelamento folding proteína dicroísmo circular lectin fluorescente protein lectina fluorescência

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