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Structure and stability of the non-covalent swapped dimer of bovine seminal ribonuclease: an enzyme tailored to evade ribonuclease protein inhibitor
- Publication Year :
- 2004
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Abstract
- A growing number of pancreatic-type ribonucleases (RNases) present cytotoxic activity against malignant cells. The cytoxicity of these enzymes is related to their resistance to the ribonuclease protein inhibitor (RI). In particular, bovine seminal ribonuclease (BS-RNase) is toxic to tumor cells both in vitro and in vivo. BS-RNase is a covalent dimer with two intersubunit disulfide bridges between Cys(31) of one chain and Cys(32) of the second and vice versa. The native enzyme is an equilibrium mixture of two isomers, MxM and M=M. In the former the two subunits swap their N-terminal helices. The cytotoxic action is a peculiar property of MxM. In the reducing environment of cytosol, M=M dissociates into monomers, which are strongly inhibited by RI, whereas MxM remains as a non-covalent dimer (NCD), which evades RI. We have solved the crystal structure of NCD, carboxyamidomethylated at residues Cys(31) and Cys(32) (NCD-CAM), in a complex with 2'-deoxycitidylyl(3'-5')-2'-deoxyadenosine. The molecule reveals a quaternary structural organization much closer to MxM than to other N-terminal-swapped non-covalent dimeric forms of RNases. Model building of the complexes between these non-covalent dimers and RI reveals that NCD-CAM is the only dimer equipped with a quaternary organization capable of interfering seriously with the binding of the inhibitor. Moreover, a detailed comparative structural analysis of the dimers has highlighted the residues, which are mostly important in driving the quaternary structure toward that found in NCD-CAM.
- Subjects :
- Models, Molecular
Protein Folding
Bovine Seminal Ribonuclease Non-covalent Swapped Dimer Antitumor activity
Hot Temperature
Time Factors
Protein Conformation
Circular Dichroism
Ribonuclease, Pancreatic
Crystallography, X-Ray
Protein Structure, Secondary
Protein Structure, Tertiary
Kinetics
Cytosol
Ribonucleases
Endoribonucleases
Animals
Protein Isoforms
Cattle
Cysteine
Disulfides
Protein Structure, Quaternary
Dimerization
Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
Protein Binding
Subjects
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- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.pmid.dedup....86ee2a918c2f0a2a1bc7a0d9bd224fe2