Complexes of Native Ubiquitin and Dodecyl Sulfate Illustrate the Nature of Hydrophobic and Electrostatic Interactions in the Binding of Proteins and Surfactants

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• 作者：Bryan F. Shaw ; Gr茅gory F. Schneider ; Haribabu Arthanari ; Max Narovlyansky ; Demetri Moustakas ; Armando Durazo ; Gerhard Wagner ; George M. Whitesides
• 刊名：Journal of the American Chemical Society
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：November 9, 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：133
• 期：44
• 页码：17681-17695
• 全文大小：1301K
• 年卷期：v.133,no.44(November 9, 2011)
• ISSN：1520-5126

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A previous study, using capillary electrophoresis (CE) [J. Am. Chem. Soc.2008, 130, 17384鈥?7393], reported that six discrete complexes of ubiquitin (UBI) and sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) form at different concentrations of SDS along the pathway to unfolding of UBI in solutions of SDS. One complex (which formed between 0.8 and 1.8 mM SDS) consisted of native UBI associated with approximately 11 molecules of SDS. The current study used CE and ¹⁵N/¹³C鈥?sup>1H heteronuclear single quantum coherence (HSQC) NMR spectroscopy to identify residues in folded UBI that associate specifically with SDS at 0.8鈥?.8 mM SDS, and to correlate these associations with established biophysical and structural properties of this well-characterized protein. The ability of the surface charge and hydrophobicity of folded UBI to affect the association with SDS (at concentrations below the CMC) was studied, using CE, by converting lys-蔚-NH₃⁺ to lys-蔚-NHCOCH₃ groups. According to CE, the acetylation of lysine residues inhibited the binding of 11 SDS ([SDS] < 2 mM) and decreased the number of complexes of composition UBI-(NHAc)₈路SDS_n that formed on the pathway of unfolding of UBI-(NHAc)₈ in SDS. A comparison of ¹⁵N鈥?sup>1H HSQC spectra at 0 mM and 1 mM SDS with calculated electrostatic surface potentials of folded UBI (e.g., solutions to the nonlinear Poisson鈥揃oltzmann (PB) equation) suggested, however, that SDS binds preferentially to native UBI at hydrophobic residues that are formally neutral (i.e., Leu and Ile), but that have positive electrostatic surface potential (as predicted from solutions to nonlinear PB equations); SDS did not uniformly interact with residues that have formal positive charge (e.g., Lys or Arg). Cationic functional groups, therefore, promote the binding of SDS to folded UBI because these groups exert long-range effects on the positive electrostatic surface potential (which extend beyond their own van der Waals radii, as predicted from PB theory), and not because cationic groups are necessarily the site of ionic interactions with sulfate groups. Moreover, SDS associated with residues in native UBI without regard to their location in 伪-helix or 尾-sheet structure (although residues in hydrogen-bonded loops did not bind SDS). No correlation was observed between the association of an amino acid with SDS and the solvent accessibility of the residue or its rate of amide H/D exchange. This study establishes a few (of perhaps several) factors that control the simultaneous molecular recognition of multiple anionic amphiphiles by a folded cytosolic protein.