Effect of poly and mono unsaturated fatty acids on stability and structure of recombinant S100A8/A9

Hamideh Asghari, Koorosh Goodarzvand Chegini, Abbas Amini, Nematollah Gheibi

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    Abstract

    Recombinant pET 15b vectors containing the coding sequences S100A8 and S100A9 are expressed in Escherichia coli BL21 (DE3) and purified using Ni-NTA affinity chromatography. The structural changes of S100A8/A9 complex are analyzed upon interaction with poly/mono unsaturated fatty acids (UFAs). The thermodynamic values, Gibbs free energy and the protein melting point, are obtained through thermal denaturation of protein both with and without UFAs by thermal scanning of protein emission using the fluorescence spectroscopy technique. The far-ultraviolet circular dichroism spectra show that all studied unsaturated fatty acids, including arachidonic, linoleic, alpha-linolenic and oleic acids, induce changes in the secondary structure of S100A8/A9 by reducing the alpha-helix and beta-sheet structure. The tertiary structure of S100A8/A9 has fluctuations in the fluorescence emission spectra after the incubation of protein with UFAs. The blue shift of emission maximum wavelength and the increase in fluorescence intensity of anilino naphthalene-8-sulfonic acid confirm the partial unfolding is caused by the conformational changes in the tertiary structure in the presence of UFAs. The structural changes in S100A8/A9 and its lower stability in the presence of UFAs may be necessary for S100A8/A9 to play a biological role in the inflammatory milieu.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)35-42
    Number of pages8
    JournalInternational Journal of Biological Macromolecules
    Volume84
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2016

    Keywords

    • Escherichia coli
    • circular dichroism
    • recombinant antibodies
    • stability
    • unsaturated fatty acids

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