Folding Determinants of LDL Receptor Type A Modules
- 1 October 2001
- journal article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Biochemistry
- Vol. 40 (43), 12801-12807
- https://doi.org/10.1021/bi011344k
Abstract
To investigate how three disulfide bonds and coordination of a calcium ion cooperate to specify the structure of an LDL-A module, we studied the interdependence of disulfide bond formation and calcium coordination in the folding of ligand-binding module 5 of the LDL receptor (LR5). In variants of LR5 containing only a single pair of cysteines normally disulfide-bonded in the native polypeptide, the addition of calcium does not alter the effective concentration of one cysteine for the other. LR5 only exhibits a calcium-dependent preference for formation of native disulfide bonds and detectable calcium-induced changes in structure when the two C-terminal disulfide bonds are present. Furthermore, when the conformation of this two-disulfide variant of LR5 is probed by NMR in the presence of calcium, only the C-terminal lobe of the module, which contains the calcium coordination site, acquires a near-native conformation; the N-terminal lobe appears to be disordered. These findings contrast with studies of other model proteins, like BPTI, in which formation of a single disulfide bond is sufficient to drive the entire domain to acquire a stable, nativelike fold.Keywords
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