Rueda Daniel, Sheen Patricia, Gilman Robert H, Bueno Carlos, Santos Marco, Pando-Robles Victoria, Batista Cesar V, Zimic Mirko
Unidad de Bioinformática y Biología Molecular, Laboratorios de Investigación y Desarrollo, Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofía, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru.
Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, USA.
Tuberculosis (Edinb). 2014 Dec;94(6):644-8. doi: 10.1016/j.tube.2014.08.008. Epub 2014 Aug 24.
Recombinant wild-pyrazinamidase from H37Rv Mycobacterium tuberculosis was analyzed by gel electrophoresis under differential reducing conditions to evaluate its quaternary structure. PZAse was fractionated by size exclusion chromatography under non-reducing conditions. PZAse activity was measured and mass spectrometry analysis was performed to determine the identity of proteins by de novo sequencing and to determine the presence of disulfide bonds. This study confirmed that M. tuberculosis wild type PZAse was able to form homo-dimers in vitro. Homo-dimers showed a slightly lower specific PZAse activity compared to monomeric PZAse. PZAse dimers were dissociated into monomers in response to reducing conditions. Mass spectrometry analysis confirmed the existence of disulfide bonds (C72-C138 and C138-C138) stabilizing the quaternary structure of the PZAse homo-dimer.
对来自结核分枝杆菌H37Rv的重组野生型吡嗪酰胺酶在不同还原条件下进行凝胶电泳分析,以评估其四级结构。在非还原条件下通过尺寸排阻色谱法对PZAse进行分级分离。测量PZAse活性,并进行质谱分析,通过从头测序确定蛋白质的身份,并确定二硫键的存在。本研究证实结核分枝杆菌野生型PZAse能够在体外形成同型二聚体。与单体PZAse相比,同型二聚体的比PZAse活性略低。PZAse二聚体在还原条件下解离为单体。质谱分析证实存在稳定PZAse同型二聚体四级结构的二硫键(C72-C138和C138-C138)。