Peracetylated bovine carbonic anhydrase (BCA-Ac18) is kinetically more stable than native BCA to sodium dodecyl sulfate.
Bovine carbonic anhydrase (BCA) and its derivative with all lysine groups acetylated (BCA-Ac18) have different stabilities toward denaturation by sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS). This difference is kinetic: BCA-Ac18 denatures more slowly than BCA by several orders of magnitude over concentrations of SDS ranging from 2.5 to 10 mM. The rates of renaturation of BCA-Ac18 are greater than those of BCA, when these proteins are allowed to refold from a denatured state ([SDS]=10 mM) to a folded state ([SDS]=0.1 to 1.5 mM). On renaturation, the yields of the correctly folded protein (either BCA or BCA-Ac18) decrease with increasing concentration of SDS. At intermediate concentrations of SDS (from 0.7 to 2 mM for BCA, and from 1.5 to 2 mM for BCA-Ac18), both unfolding and refolding of the proteins are too slow to be observed; an alternative process-probably aggregation-competes with refolding of the denatured proteins at those intermediate concentrations. Because it is experimentally impractical to prove equilibrium, it is not possible to establish whether there is a difference in the thermodynamics of unfolding/refolding between BCA and BCA-Ac18.
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
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D000107:Acetylation; D000818:Animals; D001665:Binding Sites; D002256:Carbonic Anhydrases / Q000737:chemistry*; D002417:Cattle; D007700:Kinetics; D008239:Lysine / Q000737:chemistry*; D011489:Protein Denaturation; D017510:Protein Folding; D012967:Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate / Q000737:chemistry*; D013501:Surface-Active Agents / Q000737:chemistry*; D013816:Thermodynamics
D013501:Surface-Active Agents; D012967:Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate; D002256:Carbonic Anhydrases; D008239:Lysine