Translational and Rotational Diffusion of a Small Globular Protein under Crowded Conditions

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• 作者：Conggang Li ; Yaqiang Wang ; Gary J. Pielak
• 刊名：Journal of Physical Chemistry B
• 出版年：2009
• 出版时间：October 8, 2009
• 年：2009
• 卷：113
• 期：40
• 页码：13390-13392
• 全文大小：114K
• 年卷期：v.113,no.40(October 8, 2009)
• ISSN：1520-5207

文摘

Protein−protein interaction is the fundamental step of biological signal transduction. Interacting proteins find each other by diffusion. To gain insight into diffusion under the crowded conditions found in cells, we used nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) to measure the effects of solvent additives on the translational and rotational diffusion of the 7.4 kDa globular protein, chymotrypsin inhibitor 2. The additives were glycerol and the macromolecular crowding agent, polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP). Both translational diffusion and rotational diffusion decrease with increasing solution viscosity. For glycerol, the decrease obeys the Stokes−Einstein and Stokes−Einstein Debye laws. Three types of deviation are observed for PVP: the decrease in diffusion with increased viscosity is less than predicted, this negative deviation is greater for rotational diffusion, and the negative deviation increases with increasing PVP molecular weight. We discuss our results in terms of other studies on the effects of macromolecules on globular protein diffusion.