Venditti, Vincenzo and Bernini, Andrea and De Simone, Alfonso and Spiga, Ottavia and Prischi, Filippo and Niccolai, Neri (2007) MD and NMR studies of α-bungarotoxin surface accessibility. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 356 (1). pp. 114-117. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.02.094
Venditti, Vincenzo and Bernini, Andrea and De Simone, Alfonso and Spiga, Ottavia and Prischi, Filippo and Niccolai, Neri (2007) MD and NMR studies of α-bungarotoxin surface accessibility. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 356 (1). pp. 114-117. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.02.094
Venditti, Vincenzo and Bernini, Andrea and De Simone, Alfonso and Spiga, Ottavia and Prischi, Filippo and Niccolai, Neri (2007) MD and NMR studies of α-bungarotoxin surface accessibility. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 356 (1). pp. 114-117. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.02.094
Abstract
Protein surface accessibility represents a dimension of structural biology which has not been discussed in details so far, in spite of its fundamental role in controlling the molecular recognition process. In the present report the surface accessibility of α-bungarotoxin, a small and well characterized protein, has been investigated by analyzing its interaction with solvent and paramagnetic molecules in an integrated way. The presence of strong hydration sites, identified by a combined analysis of MD simulation and NMR results, seems to prevent the access of Gd(III)DTPA-BMA to the protein surface. On the contrary, the limited hydration of the α-bungarotoxin active site favors frequent encounters between the paramagnetic probe and the protein in the latter region. All the data obtained here for α-bungarotoxin suggest that shape and stability of the solvation shell control its surface accessibility and, hence, intermolecular interactions in a way which could be common to many other proteins. © 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | alpha-bungarotoxin; Gd(III)DTPA-BMA; NMR; paramagnetic probes; protein binding sites; protein hydration; protein hot spots; surface accessibility |
Subjects: | Q Science > Q Science (General) |
Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Life Sciences, School of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 04 Feb 2016 11:53 |
Last Modified: | 07 Aug 2024 20:05 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/14834 |