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Bovine α₁-acid Glycoprotein, a Thermostable Version of Its Human Counterpart: Insights From Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy and in Silico Modelling

Bovine α₁-acid Glycoprotein, a Thermostable Version of Its Human Counterpart: Insights From Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy and in Silico Modelling

Maurizio Baldassarre, Roberta Galeazzi, Beatrice Maggiore, Fabio Tanfani, Andrea Scirè

Biochimie. 2014 Jul;102:19-28.

PMID: 24530968

Abstract:

α1-Acid glycoprotein (AGP) is a plasma protein and a member of the acute phase response. AGP is known to bind and carry several biologically active compounds, as well as to down-modulate the immune system activities. In this work, the structure of bovine AGP has been investigated by Fourier-Transform infrared spectroscopy. A model structure has been obtained on the basis of human AGP and refined by molecular dynamics. In spite of the similar structure, bovine AGP shows an unexpectedly higher (∼20 °C) thermostability than its human counterpart. Inspection of the model structure has pointed out the presence of 12 ionic bridges and 2 sulphur-aromatic interactions, whereas only 6 ionic bridges were detected in human AGP. The high number (9) of glutamic acid residues involved in the ionic interactions might explain the significantly decreased thermostability measured at pH 5.5 (Tm ∼ 71 °C) with respect to pH 7.4 (Tm ∼ 81 °C), whereas thermostability of human AGP was only slightly affected by lowering the pH. As in human AGP and several other lipocalins, a temperature-induced molten globule state has been observed in the denaturation pathway of bovine AGP.

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Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
AP66455274-A	α1-Acid Glycoprotein from bovine plasma		66455-27-4	Price

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