Dams, Thomas and Ostendorp, Ralf and Otto, Markus and Rutkat, Kerstin and Jaenicke, Rainer (1996) Tetrameric and octameric lactate dehydrogenase from the hyperthermophilic bacterium Thermotoga maritima - Structure and stability of the two active forms. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY, 240 (1). pp. 274-279. ISSN 0014-2956
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Lactate dehydrogenase from the hyperthermophilic bacterium Thermotoga maritima has been functionally expressed in Escherichia coli. As shown by gel permeation chromatography dynamic light scattering, and ultracentrifugation, the recombinant protein forms homotetrameric and homooctameric assemblies with identical spectral properties and a common subunit molecular mass (35 kDa). Dynamic light scattering and sedimentation equilibrium experiments proved that both species are monodisperse, thus excluding their interconversion in the given ranges of concentration (0.02-50 mg/ml) and temperature (20-80 degrees C). Rechromatography confirms this finding: the octamer does not dissociate at low enzyme concentrations: nor do tetramers dimerize at the given upper limit of concentration. Renaturation of pure tetramers or octamers after preceding guanidine denaturation leads to redistribution of the two species: increased temperature favors octamer formation. Thermal analysis and denaturation by chaotropic agents do not allow the free energies of stabilization of the two forms to be quantified, because heat coagulation and kinetic partitioning between reconstitution and aggregation cause irreversible side reactions. Guanidine denaturation of the octamer leads to a highly cooperative dissociation to tetramers which subsequently dissociate and unfold to yield metastable dimers and, finally, fully unfolded monomers. Evidently, there is no tight coupling of the two tetramers within the stable octameric quaternary structure. Electron microscopy clearly corroborates this conclusion: image processing shows that the dumb-bell-shaped octamer is made up of two tetramers connected via surface contacts without significant changes in die dimensions of the constituent parts.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | LACTIC-DEHYDROGENASE; BACILLUS-STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; ELECTRON-MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA-COLI; RECONSTITUTION; PROTEIN; REACTIVATION; DISSOCIATION; ASSOCIATION; AGGREGATION; hyperthermophiles; lactate dehydrogenase; quaternary; stability; Thermotoga maritima |
| Subjects: | 500 Science > 540 Chemistry & allied sciences 500 Science > 570 Life sciences |
| Divisions: | Biology, Preclinical Medicine > Institut für Biophysik und physikalische Biochemie |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Jun 2023 07:01 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Jun 2023 07:01 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/51544 |
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