Conformational analysis of the interdomain linker of the central homology region of chloroplast initiation factor IF3 supports a structural model of two compact domains connected by a flexible tether

FEBS Letters

Raleigh, Daniel P¹  Hua, Yuxin¹ 

[1]Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3400, USA

关键词: Initiation factor 3;    Alpha-helix;    Helix-coil transition;    Protein structure;    Euglena gracilis;    CD;    circular dichroism;    FMOC;    9-fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl;    HPLC;    high pressure liquid chromatography;    IF3;    initiation factor 3;    NMR;    nuclear magnetic resonance;    NOESY;    nuclear Overhauser effect spectroscopy;    PAL;    5-(4′-Fmoc-aminomethyl-3′;    5′-dimethoxyphenoxy) valeric acid;    TBTU;    2-(1H-benzotriazol-1-yl)-1;    1;    3;    3-tetramethyluronium tetrafluoroborate;    TFA;    trifluoroacetic acid;    TOCSY;    total correlated spectroscopy;    TSP;    3-(trimethylsilyl) propionate;   

DOI  :  10.1016/S0014-5793(98)00901-6

学科分类：生物化学/生物物理

来源: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

【 摘 要 】

A peptide corresponding to the interdomain linker of chloroplast IF3 has been synthesized and its structure studied by NMR and CD as a function of temperature and pH. At low temperature and neutral pH the apparent helical content is 25%. pH and ionic strength dependent CD studies demonstrate that sidechain-sidechain interactions stabilize the structure observed at low temperature. The helicity decreases with temperature and above 25°C the peptide is less than 15% helical. These results indicate that the peptide has little intrinsic tendency to form helical structure at physiologically relevant temperatures and strongly suggests that the linker region is flexible in intact chloroplast IF3.

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