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Correspondence to Chris A. A reaction that involves the transfer of electrons from a donor molecule to an acceptor molecule if one of the molecules is a thiol-containing compound. A thiol-redox reaction that involves the exchange of electrons between a compound with free thiols and a disulphide-bonded molecule, which results in the transfer of a disulphide bond from one molecule to another.
A tripeptide — composed of glutamic acid, cysteine and glycine — that is the principal small thiol-containing molecule in the cell. A ubiquitous small soluble protein with redox-active cysteines that catalyses thiol-disulphide exchange reactions.
A soluble protein with two thioredoxin-like domains that each contain a redox-active cysteine pair that donates disulphide bonds to newly synthesized proteins in the eukaryotic ER. The propensity of a given protein or molecule to gain or donate electrons, which is usually expressed as an electrochemical potential in volts. A protein's redox potential can be measured by quantifying the steady-state ratios of the reduced and oxidized forms of this protein that are present in a buffer of defined redox composition.
The term 'reduction potential' is often used instead. A disulphide bond that is formed between two proteins or redox molecules. These bonds are often transient and reflect an intermediate in the transfer of oxidizing equivalents between redox-active proteins and molecules. A group of lipid-soluble compounds that function as electron carriers in the electron-transport chain reactions of cellular respiration. A family of flavoprotein thiol-oxidases — named after their homology to the yeast protein Erv1 — that couples the oxidation of free thiols with the reduction of molecular oxygen to hydrogen peroxide.
A protein that catalyses the correct folding of newly synthesized or denatured proteins into their native conformations. A series of redox-active membrane proteins and small molecules in either the bacterial plasma membrane or the mitochondrial inner membrane that carry out the step-by-step transfer of electrons from NADH and FADH 2 to O 2 with the concomitant generation of a membrane proton potential. Reprints and Permissions. Formation and transfer of disulphide bonds in living cells.
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Abstract Protein disulphide bonds are formed in the endoplasmic reticulum of eukaryotic cells and the periplasmic space of prokaryotic cells. You have full access to this article via your institution. Main The formation of biosynthetic disulphide bonds is an important step in the maturation of the extracellular domains of both membrane and secreted proteins in eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells.
Eukaryotic pathways for protein oxidation Genetic and biochemical analysis of Saccharomyces cerevisiae has defined an essential pathway for protein disulphide-bond formation that involves two ER proteins: Ero1 ER oxidoreductin and PDI Fig. Figure 1: Pathways for protein oxidation in the endoplasmic reticulum of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Full size image. Residues 1—2 and 35—37 at the N-terminus and C-terminus, respectively, are disordered in solution.
The three central disulfide bonds form an inhibitory cystine knot ICK motif 15 , 16 in which the Cys 16—Cys 32 disulfide passes through a residue ring formed by the Cys 10—Cys 22 and Cys 3—Cys 17 disulfide bridges and the intervening sections of polypeptide backbone.
The hydrophobic core of the globular region is composed of the Cys 10—Cys 22 and Cys 16—Cys 32 disulfide bridges as well as the side chains of Thr 4 and Thr 20 Fig. While the disulfide configuration appeared unambiguous from the NMR data, the rarity of vicinal disulfide bonds in proteins prompted us to seek chemical confirmation. We used partial reduction at low pH followed by alkylation 17 , 18 to trap partly reduced intermediates that would reveal the disulfide bond pattern of J-ACTX-Hv1c.
In this method, partially reduced intermediates are rapidly alkylated with iodoacetamide, then the peptide is fully reduced and the remaining cysteine residues are pyridethylated. The peptides are then sequenced and the position of the disulfide bonds can be inferred from the location of the pairs of carboxamidomethylated and pyridethylated cysteines. In combination, these intermediates provide evidence for the Cys 10—Cys 22 and Cys 13—Cys 14 disulfide bonds, thus providing chemical confirmation of the vicinal disulfide bridge.
Theoretical calculations 21 , 22 predicted that the eight-membered ring formed as a result of disulfide formation between adjacent cysteines would be most stable if the intervening peptide bond was in a slightly nonplanar cis -like configuration; studies on model peptides 23 , as well as a low resolution structure of MDH 19 , appeared to confirm this view.
However, the structure of J-ACTX-Hv1c, as well as more recent high resolution structures of MDH, present a striking disparity from these theoretical and model compound analyses. The individual torsion angles of the disulfide ring are listed in the lower panel of Fig.
The heavy atoms of the pair of linked cystine residues overlay with an r. The 1. Thus, while only a few examples are currently available from which to formulate general conclusions, the emerging consensus appears to be that the strain imparted by formation of a vicinal disulfide bridge in native proteins is alleviated by the intervening peptide bond assuming a distorted trans configuration.
The three nonvicinal disulfide bridges in J-ACTX-Hv1c connect residues that are distal in the sequence; these disulfides essentially determine the tertiary fold of cystine knot toxins The Cys 13—Cys 14 vicinal disulfide, on the other hand, is unlikely to play an important architectural role.
In order to test the functional significance of the vicinal disulfide in J-ACTX-Hv1c, we constructed a double mutant in which Cys 13 and Cys 14 were both replaced with Ser. The 1 H NMR chemical shifts of the mutant toxin were almost coincident with those of native J-ACTX-Hv1c with the exception of the mutated residues , indicating that the tertiary fold was unaffected by the point mutations.
The mutant and native toxin structures overlay with a backbone r. However, the double mutant was completely inactive when injected into crickets at doses up to 60 times the LD 50 of the native toxin Fig. Thus, vicinal disulfide bridges play key functional, rather than architectural, roles in all three proteins in which they have been discovered thus far. With one exception, the three best matches are with toxins that modulate voltage gated sodium channels Fig.
The folds are highly homologous with hypervariability evident only in loop 2. Note that loop 3 generally conforms to the consensus X 2 -G-X 2. Domains are grouped into those that occur in isolation I , in duplicated form D , or as fusions with other protein domains F. The structures of all these domains have been determined except Dickkopf-1 Dkk-1 , whose inclusion in this grouping is speculative.
Note the marked conservation of glycine in the central position of loop 3, and the common occurrence of a hydrophobe in the subsequent position highlighted in red. Gurmarin is a sweet taste suppressor from the plant Gymnema sylvestre 39 and the cellobiohydrolase I sequence is from T.
Indeed, it has been demonstrated that the tertiary structure and thermal stability of the ICK-containing trypsin inhibitor EETI II is largely unperturbed by removal of the N-terminal disulfide bridge 9 , The DDH fold is shown schematically in Fig. The DDH fold differs from the ICK fold in that there are only two mandatory disulfide bridges the two that form the bulk of the hydrophobic core , so that loop 1 as shown in Fig. This residue along with the two buried disulfide bridges constitute the mini-hydrophobic core of this domain.
Several vertebrate proteins appear to have arisen from simple duplication of an ancestral DDH gene followed by minor loop elaborations. The ICK motif, in contrast, has not been found in vertebrates. Two molecules of J-ACTX-Hv1c can also be overlaid equally well on colipase, a molecule that is widely distributed in vertebrates and has been noted to be a structural homolog of MIT1 The backbone of residues 3—10, 14—25, and 29—34 plus the heavy atoms of Cys 10, 16, 22, and 32 of J-ACTX-Hv1c can be overlaid on the backbone of residues 34—41, 59—70, and 74—79 plus the heavy atoms of Cys 41, 61, 67, 77 of MIT1 with an r.
Similarly, the backbone of residues 9—10, 15—24, and 27—34 plus the heavy atoms of Cys 10, 16, 22, and 32 of J-ACTX-Hv1c can be overlaid on the backbone of residues 6—7, 12—21, and 26—33 plus the heavy atoms of Cys 7, 13, 19, and 31 of MIT1 with an r. The backbone of residues 3—10, 16—23, and 30—34 plus the heavy atoms of Cys 10, 16, 22, and 32 of J-ACTX-Hv1c can be overlaid on the backbone of residues 42—49, 63—70, and 85—89 plus the heavy atoms of Cys 49, 63, 69, and 87 of porcine colipase with an r.
Indeed, to date, no native proteins have been found that contain the elementary CSB motif without additional disulfides 9. Surprisingly, an exhaustive search of the protein and DNA sequence data bases, including numerous partially sequenced bacterial genomes, failed to identify any DDH motifs in the Archaea or Eubacteria. The DDH fold is, however, present in a wide variety of eukaryotes, including fungi, red algae rhodophytes , arachnids, aquatic snails, plants, and vertebrates.
This scenario tentatively suggests that this cystine framework evolved in an ancestral eukaryote prior to the divergence of plants, animals, and fungi, and that the marked sequence variability simply reflects the tolerance of this fold to sequence changes.
We have detected numerous ancestral duplications of this motif, as well as functional associations with other protein domains. Gene duplication followed by the same type of loop elaborations as observed in vertebrates can be seen in ACTX-Hvf17 from the Australian funnel-web spider 10 , and this duplicated motif also appears in the vertebrate embryonic head inducer Dickkopf-1 ref. Thus, the DDH fold appears to be widely distributed in eukaryotes, and can occur as a single domain for example, ICK polypeptides , in duplicated form for example, MIT1 and colipase , or as a fusion with other protein domains for example, fungal cellobiohydrolases and insulin-like growth factor IGF binding proteins.
Scorpion excitatory neurotoxins act at insect voltage gated sodium channels 5. One face presents an almost contiguous charged surface, while the opposing face containing the vicinal disulfide is devoid of ionizable side chains Figs 4 b , 8. Thus, in the absence of a molecular target, we have tentatively named these toxins the Janus-faced atracotoxins or J-atracotoxins.
The orientation is as for Fig. Note the striking asymmetry in charge distribution; the surface of the molecule containing the vicinal disulfide bridge is devoid of ionizable residues, while the opposite face presents an almost contiguous charged surface. Note the hydrophobic cleft and nearby cavity Cav , which exposes the side chain hydroxyl of Thr 4.
The critical functional role of the vicinal disulfide indicates that this feature is most likely present at the toxin's bioactive surface. The region surrounding the vicinal disulfide displays several features that suggest it might represent the bioactive surface of the toxin Fig.
Second, the side chains of Ala 12—Pro 15 form a wall that borders a hydrophobic cleft overhung by the methyl groups of Val At one end of this cleft is a large cavity Fig. What is the role of the vicinal disulfide bridge?
One possibility is that the vicinal disulfide, while clearly not important in determining the overall fold of J-ACTX, might play a local architectural role, such as facilitating configuration of the hydrophobic cleft.
However, the structure of loop 2 is largely unaltered in the Ser—Ser mutant, which argues against this hypothesis. It is possible that the redox potential of the vicinal disulfide, because of its strained cyclic geometry, might be sufficiently altered from that of typical disulfides to facilitate covalent reaction of these cysteines with sites on the target molecule.
If this were the case, we might expect this disulfide to be particularly susceptible to reduction. However, the Cys 10—Cys 22 disulfide was the first to be reduced in partial reduction experiments Fig. The vicinal disulfide bridge does not, therefore, appear to be unusually reactive.
Thus, we speculate that the vicinal disulfide bridge is directly involved in interactions with the target molecule, just as the vicinal disulfide bridge in the AChR appears to be directly involved in acetylcholine binding. Buffer A was 0. Fractions were collected manually, and individual components were further purified using shallower acetonitrile gradients.
Peptides were pyridethylated as described 11 prior to sequencing on an Applied Biosystems protein sequencer. For quantitative analysis of insecticidal activity, the LD 50 in A. All of the stabilizing effect of a disulphide bond is proposed to come from the decrease in conformational entropy of the unfolded state, as described in Conformational Entropy of Unfolding , above. Calculations suggest that a disulphide bond should give rise to 2.
Unfortunately, because these experiments also leave cavities, or buried polar groups, or otherwise have more consequences than just removal of the disulphide bridge, it is hard to estimate the stabilization due to crosslinks alone. Introduction of novel disulphides into proteins has also had mixed results. Interestingly, these conserved aromatic residues Phe36, Phe47, Phe85 and Phe96 at the cleft areas are found to interact with conserved disulfide bonds.
The members of serine proteinase inhibitors have three disulfide bonds, of which two are found to interact with conserved aromatic residues 1g6x. The disulfide bond, 14C—38C, in this PDB file was excluded from our analysis as the sulfur atom of Cys38 had fractional occupancy. However, there have been considerable solution studies involving the bridge.
For example, a series of 24 mutants of bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor showed that the 14C—38C disulfide bond was formed at an early stage of protein folding and the rate of formation of this disulfide bond was affected 2-fold if Tyr35 was mutated by Ala Dadlez, This Tyr35 is conserved in serine proteinase family.
We found a homologous PDB file, 5pti, in which the atoms in Cys38 have full occupancy, but in this structure Tyr35 at 6. Yet another study found that the mutation of Tyr35 and Tyr23 affected the folding of bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor Goldenberg et al. The disulfide connectivity of tick anticoagulant peptide TAP, 1d0d is similar to the kunitz family of serine proteinase inhibitors, although its amino acid sequence identity with this family is much less Antuch et al.
We have found that there are two aromatic residues Tyr1 and Tyr49 in contact of the 5C—59C bridge. The conserved Tyr49 in TAP or Phe found in some members is responsible for the structural integrity of the 3 10 -helix Asn2—Leu4 which is responsible for the binding of the molecule to the secondary site of factor Xa Charles et al. Tyr1 is crucial for TAP, as it renders the peptide highly specific for factor Xa by binding to the S1 specificity pocket of Xa , exhibiting little inhibitory activity towards other serine proteases, such as trypsin, thrombin and other blood proteases Waxman et al.
This is an example where an aromatic residue is positioned by the disulfide bond in the op geometry for its functional role. Yet another example of the functional importance associated with aromatic residues is provided by phospholipase A2, which hydrolyzes phospholipids to fatty acids and lysophospholipids. These are abundant in snake venoms of various species and share similar three-dimensional structures.
Acutohaemolysin 1mc2 is a lipase that lacks catalytic and hemolytic activity. Three conserved disulfide bonds interact with conserved aromatic residues, some of which have catalytic functions.
Among these, Tyr lies in the calcium-binding loop, which is one of the most conservative regions in the structure. Tyr is one of the constituents of the invariant His—Tyr—Asp catalytic triad. Phe interacting with C—C, en geometry , which exists only in acutohaemolysin, blocks the substrate binding to this catalytic triad, resulting in the loss of hemolysis Liu et al.
Lesk and Chothia first identified a high degree of conservation of Cys—Cys and Trp residues in the Fab molecule. Later, this Cys—Cys and Trp structural triad was found to be conserved in almost all immunoglobulin domains, such that Trp is packed against the disulfide bond Ioerger et al. These residues, however, do not show up against the entry 1k5n for the heavy chain of histocompatibility antigen binding domain in Table V , as the distance 4.
Nevertheless, in this molecule we have identified another conserved disulfide bond C—C and interacting Tyr in on geometry. Interestingly, this Tyr, in turn, interacts with Phe3 of the antigen peptide, giving rise to a disulfide—aromatic—aromatic triad in the complex structure.
The tertiary folds of native proteins are determined by a large number of weak interactions, viz. The interactions other than the hydrophobic ones are characterized by pronounced directionality. In addition to these non-covalent forces, disulfide bridges formed by uniquely paired Cys residues in the folded state also stabilize certain proteins covalently.
The question arises of whether the stability can be further enhanced by the involvement of the disulfide bridges in stereospecific interactions. A rather reluctant participant in hydrogen bonds Ippolito et al. Such interactions are also exhibited by the sulfur atom in free Cys and Met residues in protein structures Chakrabarti, ; Chakrabarti and Pal, ; Pal and Chakrabarti, , ; Iwaoka et al. Based on the distribution of contacts observed at various distances Figure 3 , we have used cut-off distances of 4.
Delineating the geometric features of the former was restricted to main-chain oxygen atoms only, as the distribution involving the side-chain O atoms did not reveal any peak indicative of a region within which specific interactions between the atoms would stand up against the background of other non-bonded interactions. For proteins containing disulfide bonds, one can fit a power function to the number of bonds per residues plotted against the chain length Figure 1 ; after an initial fall, the number flattens out at about residues.
Such bonds may be strained and it will be worthwhile to study the stability conferred by such bonds to protein structures. The contour plot showing the distribution of oxygen atoms around the interacting sulfur of the disulfide bond is shown in Figure 9. This interaction examples in Figure 10 has been noted earlier in protein structures, especially in the interaction involving the sulfur atom of Met residues Pal and Chakrabarti, ; Iwaoka et al. These geometric features are also revealed from an analysis of angular parameters Figure 4c displayed in Figure 7c and d.
The orientation of the sulfide plane relative to the aromatic ring is also found to be restricted, the preferred geometry Figure 4b being en or et Figures 5 and 6. The orientations having repulsive interaction between the face of the aromatic ring and the sp 3 lone pair of electrons in sulfur are avoided. In contrast, the repulsive interaction is the minimum in et and the rear i. It is normally assumed that the environment of disulfide bond is hydrophobic.
However, the stereospecific location of O atoms and aromatic rings, whose geometry is dictated by the electronic interactions, suggests that electrostatic factors also control the local structure around the bond. Disposition of the lone pairs of electrons on the sulfur atom relative to the aromatic ring in three representative geometries in Figure 4b.
Such bridges are also fully buried in the structure. Although one normally associates disulfide bridges to provide extra stability, these may also be needed for function Chang et al. For example, human insulin contains two inter-chain and one intra-chain disulfide linkages, which make different contributions to the structure formation of insulin and are formed sequentially in the order A20—B19, A7—B7 and A6—A11 the letter corresponds to the chain label in the folding pathway of proinsulin; but all three are essential for receptor binding activity Chang et al.
The hydrophobic clusters at the binding surface are constituted mostly by aromatic residues, which are highly conserved in this family of proteins. Among these conserved aromatic residues, His40, Trp45 and Phe83 are within 4.
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