Georgalis Y, Starikov E B, Hollenbach B, Lurz R, Scherzinger E, Saenger W, Lehrach H, Wanker E E
Institut für Kristallographie, Freie Universität Berlin, Takustr. 6, D-14195 Berlin, Germany.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 May 26;95(11):6118-21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.95.11.6118.
An initial stage of fibrillogenesis in solutions of glutathione S-transferase-huntingtin (GST-HD) fusion proteins has been studied by using dynamic light scattering. Two GST-HD systems with poly-L-glutamine (polyGln) extensions of different lengths (20 and 51 residues) have been examined. For both systems, kinetics of z-average translation diffusion coefficients (Dapp) and their angular dependence have been obtained. Our data reveal that aggregation does occur in both GST-HD51 and GST-HD20 solutions, but that it is much more pronounced in the former. Thus, our approach provides a powerful tool for the quantitative assay of GST-HD fibrillogenesis in vitro.
利用动态光散射研究了谷胱甘肽S-转移酶-亨廷顿蛋白(GST-HD)融合蛋白溶液中纤维生成的初始阶段。研究了两种具有不同长度(20和51个残基)聚-L-谷氨酰胺(polyGln)延伸的GST-HD系统。对于这两种系统,均获得了z平均平移扩散系数(Dapp)的动力学及其角度依赖性。我们的数据表明,GST-HD51和GST-HD20溶液中均发生聚集,但前者更为明显。因此,我们的方法为体外定量测定GST-HD纤维生成提供了一个强大的工具。