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Turnay, J. et al.

Calcium-dependent conformational rearrangements and protein stability in chicken annexin A5.

The conformational rearrangements that take place after calcium binding in chicken annexin A5 and a mutant lacking residues 3-10 were analyzed, in parallel with human annexin A5, by circular dichroism (CD), infrared spectroscopy (IR), and differential scanning calorimetry. Human and chicken annexins present a slightly different shape in the far-UV CD and IR spectra, but the main secondary-structure features are quite similar (70-80% alpha-helix). However, thermal stability of human annexin is significantly lower than its chicken counterpart (approximately 8 degrees C) and equivalent to the chicken N-terminally truncated form. The N-terminal extension contributes greatly to stabilize the overall annexin A5 structure. Infrared spectroscopy reveals the presence of two populations of alpha-helical structures, the canonical alpha-helices (approximately 1650 cm(-1)) and another, at a lower wavenumber (approximately 1634 cm(-1)), probably arising from helix-helix interactions or solvated alpha-helices. Saturation with calcium induces: alterations in the environment of the unique tryptophan residue of the recombinant proteins, as detected by near-UV CD spectroscopy; more compact tertiary structures that could account for the higher thermal stabilities (8 to 12 degrees C), this effect being higher for human annexin; and an increase in canonical alpha-helix percentage by a rearrangement of nonperiodical structure or 3(10) helices together with a variation in helix-helix interactions, as shown by amide I curve-fitting and 2D-IR.[1]

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Calcium-dependent conformational rearrangements and protein stability in chicken annexin A5. Turnay, J., Olmo, N., Gasset, M., Iloro, I., Arrondo, J.L., Lizarbe, M.A. Biophys. J. (2002) [Pubmed]

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