Article
Structural mapping of an aggregation nucleation site in a molten globule intermediate.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 12 Nov 1999
Hammarström P, Persson M, Freskgârd P O, Mârtensson L G, Andersson D, Jonsson B H, Carlsson U
Abstract excerpt
Protein aggregation plays an important role in biotechnology and also causes numerous diseases. Human carbonic anhydrase II is a suitable model protein for studying the mechanism of aggregation. We found that a molten globule state of the enzyme formed aggregates. The intermolecular interactions involved in aggregate formation were localized in a direct way by measuring excimer formation between each of 20...
Topics
- Carbonic Anhydrases
- Chaperonin 60
- Cysteine
- Fluorescent Dyes
- Humans
- Maleimides
- Models, Molecular
- Mutation
- Protein Conformation
- Protein Denaturation
- Protein Folding
- Protein Structure, Secondary
- Spectrometry, Fluorescence
- Tryptophan
