Tarasevich Barbara J, Philo John S, Maluf Nasib Karl, Krueger Susan, Buchko Garry W, Lin Genyao, Shaw Wendy J
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354, United States.
Alliance Protein Laboratories, Inc., San Diego, CA 92121, United States.
J Struct Biol. 2015 Apr;190(1):81-91. doi: 10.1016/j.jsb.2014.10.007. Epub 2014 Oct 25.
Amelogenin proteins are critical to the formation of enamel in teeth and may have roles in controlling growth and regulating microstructures of the intricately woven hydroxyapatite (HAP). Leucine-rich amelogenin protein (LRAP) is a 59-residue splice variant of amelogenin and contains the N- and C-terminal charged regions of the full-length protein thought to control crystal growth. Although the quaternary structure of full-length amelogenin in solution has been well studied and can consist of self-assemblies of monomers called nanospheres, there is limited information on the quaternary structure of LRAP. Here, sedimentation velocity analytical ultracentrifugation (SV) and small angle neutron scattering (SANS) were used to study the tertiary and quaternary structure of LRAP at various pH values, ionic strengths, and concentrations. We found that the monomer is the dominant species of phosphorylated LRAP (LRAP(+P)) over a range of solution conditions (pH 2.7-4.1, pH 4.5-8, 50 mmol/L(mM) to 200 mM NaCl, 0.065-2 mg/mL). The monomer is also the dominant species for unphosphorylated LRAP (LRAP(-P)) at pH 7.4 and for LRAP(+P) in the presence of 2.5 mM calcium at pH 7.4. LRAP aggregates in a narrow pH range near the isoelectric point of pH 4.1. SV and SANS show that the LRAP monomer has a radius of ∼2.0 nm and an asymmetric structure, and solution NMR studies indicate that the monomer is largely unstructured. This work provides new insights into the secondary, tertiary, and quaternary structure of LRAP in solution and provides evidence that the monomeric species may be an important functional form of some amelogenins.
釉原蛋白对于牙齿釉质的形成至关重要,并且可能在控制复杂编织的羟基磷灰石(HAP)的生长和调节其微观结构方面发挥作用。富含亮氨酸的釉原蛋白(LRAP)是釉原蛋白的一种由59个氨基酸残基组成的剪接变体,包含全长蛋白的N端和C端带电区域,这些区域被认为可以控制晶体生长。尽管溶液中全长釉原蛋白的四级结构已得到充分研究,并且可以由称为纳米球的单体自组装组成,但关于LRAP四级结构的信息有限。在这里,沉降速度分析超速离心(SV)和小角中子散射(SANS)被用于研究LRAP在不同pH值、离子强度和浓度下的三级和四级结构。我们发现,在一系列溶液条件下(pH 2.7 - 4.1、pH 4.5 - 8、50 mmol/L(mM)至200 mM NaCl、0.065 - 2 mg/mL),单体是磷酸化LRAP(LRAP(+P))的主要存在形式。在pH 7.4时,单体也是未磷酸化LRAP(LRAP(-P))的主要存在形式,并且在pH 7.4存在2.5 mM钙的情况下,LRAP(+P)的主要存在形式也是单体。LRAP在接近pH 4.1的等电点的狭窄pH范围内聚集。SV和SANS表明,LRAP单体的半径约为2.0 nm,具有不对称结构,并且溶液核磁共振研究表明该单体在很大程度上是无结构的。这项工作为溶液中LRAP二级、三级和四级结构提供了新的见解,并提供了证据表明单体形式可能是某些釉原蛋白的重要功能形式。
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