Stabilization of protein structure by interaction of alpha-helix dipole with a charged side chain
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Stabilization of protein structure by interaction of alpha-helix dipole with a charged side chain
Abstract
The alpha-helix in proteins has a dipole moment resulting from the alignment of dipoles of the peptide bond which can perturb the pKas of ionizing groups. One of the two histidine residues (His18) in barnase, the small ribonuclease from Bacillus amyloliquefaciens, is located at the negatively charged end (C-terminal) of an alpha-helix. From NMR titrations of wild-type and engineered mutants we find that the pKa of His18 is 7.9 in wild-type enzyme, 1.6 units above the value in the urea-denatured enzyme and in model peptides. This implies that there is a favourable interaction between the protonated form of His18 and the alpha-helix that should stabilize the native structure at neutral pH by 2.1 kcal mol-1. Denaturation at various values of pH of wild-type and muant enzymes engineered at position 18 shows that this is so. The increase in stability of the enzyme as the pH changes from 8.5 to 6.3 is attributable to this interaction, and the pH-stability curve fits pKa values for His18 in native and urea-denatured enzymes that are consistent with the NMR data.
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