Hydrophobic core around tyrosine for human endothelin-1 investigated by photochemically induced dynamic nuclear polarization nuclear magnetic resonance and matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry.
Takashima, Hiroyuki, Tamaoki, Haruhiko, Teno, Naoki, Nishi, Yoshinori, Uchiyama, Susumu, Fukui, Kiichi and Kobayashi, Yuji (2004) Hydrophobic core around tyrosine for human endothelin-1 investigated by photochemically induced dynamic nuclear polarization nuclear magnetic resonance and matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry. Biochemistry, 43 (44). pp. 13932-13936. ISSN 0006-2960
Abstract
Human endothelin-1 (ET-1) is a potent cardiovascular bioactive peptide. Its activity is based on the C-terminal residues, e.g., Trp 21 in particular. Recently, we reported an NMR solution structure of ET-1, which has a C-terminal hydrophobic core around Tyr 13. This C-terminal conformation does not agree with a previously reported X-ray crystal structure. To clarify the discrepancy, we performed photo-CIDNP NMR in combination with MALDI-TOF MS. The photo-CIDNP results revealed that the Tyr 13 aromatic ring is concealed in a hydrophobic interaction. MALDI-TOF MS experiments showed this is an intramolecular interaction in monomeric form, which is also supported by sedimentation analysis and two-dimensional NMR cross-peak line shapes. Thus, we confirmed the intramolecular hydrophobic core around Tyr 13 in aqueous solution, which agrees with the solution structure. The C-terminal conformational discrepancy between the solution and crystal was caused by the intermolecular hydrogen bond between Tyr 13 of one molecule and Asp 8 of the other in a dimer-like formation of crystalline ET-1. On the other hand, we indicated that endothelin-3, another isoform of the endothelin, has an apparent self-association equilibrium under the same condition in which three tyrosines participate.
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Date Deposited: | 14 Dec 2009 13:55 |
Last Modified: | 31 Jan 2013 01:08 |
URI: | https://oak.novartis.com/id/eprint/720 |