title: Functional consequences of disulfide bond formation in gelsolin.
abstract: Gelsolin is an actin monomer binding and filament severing protein synthesized in plasma and cytoplasmic forms differing by an N-terminal amino acid extension and a disulfide bond between Cys-188 and Cys-201. To determine whether this bond altered gelsolin regulation or function, oxidized and reduced plasma gelsolins were assayed for severing, monomer binding and nucleation activity at a variety of rate-limiting calcium concentrations. The results indicate that the disulfide bond in domain 2 of gelsolin influences the transmission of information from C-terminal regulatory sites to functional sites in the N-terminus.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA. pallen@calvin.bwh.harvard.edu
authors.forename: P G
authors.initials: PG
authors.lastname: Allen
mesh_terms: D004220:Disulfides / Q000737:chemistry*; D018260:Gelsolin / Q000097:blood / Q000737:chemistry*; D006801:Humans; D011485:Protein Binding
chemical_list: D004220:Disulfides; D018260:Gelsolin