National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Biophys Chem. 2010 May;148(1-3):23-7. doi: 10.1016/j.bpc.2010.02.001. Epub 2010 Feb 10.
Equilibrium self-association of Zn-insulin at pH 7.0 was characterized over the range 0.3-5mg/mL by simultaneous measurement of static and dynamic light scattering. Analysis of static light scattering yielded a concentration-dependent weight-average molecular weight, and analysis of dynamic light scattering yielded a concentration-dependent intensity-average diffusion coefficient. The concentration dependence of both quantities may be accounted for to within experimental precision by a simple model, according to which the basic structural unit of Zn-insulin at concentrations exceeding 0.3mg/mL is a hexamer H. With increasing total protein concentration, hexameric protomers may self-associate in accordance with an isodesmic scheme in which a protomer may add to any prexisting oligomer H(n) to form H(n+1) with an invariant stepwise equilibrium association constant.
在 pH 值为 7.0 时,通过同时测量静态和动态光散射,对锌胰岛素在 0.3-5mg/mL 范围内的平衡自组装进行了表征。静态光散射分析得出了浓度依赖性的重均分子量,动态光散射分析得出了浓度依赖性的强度平均扩散系数。根据一个简单的模型,可以在实验精度范围内解释这两种数量的浓度依赖性,根据该模型,在浓度超过 0.3mg/mL 的情况下,锌胰岛素的基本结构单元是一个六聚体 H。随着总蛋白浓度的增加,六聚体原聚体可以根据等摩尔方案进行自组装,其中一个原聚体可以添加到任何预先存在的低聚物 H(n)上,以形成具有不变的逐步平衡缔合常数的 H(n+1)。