title: Pressure effects on the heat-induced aggregation of equine serum albumin by FT-IR spectroscopic study: Secondary structure, kinetic and thermodynamic properties.
abstract: Pressure can restrain the heat-induced aggregation and dissociate the heat-induced aggregates. We investigated the aggregation-preventing pressure effect and the aggregates-dissociating pressure effect to characterize the heat-induced aggregation of equine serum albumin (ESA) by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. The results suggest that the alpha-helical structure collapses at the beginning of heat-induced aggregation, then the rearrangement of structure from partially unfolded structure to the intermolecular beta-sheet takes place through the activated state. We determined the activation volume for the heat-induced aggregation (DeltaV( not equal)=+92+/-8 ml mol(-1)) and the partial molar volume difference between native state and heat-induced aggregates (DeltaV(N-->HA)=+32 ml mol(-1)). This positive partial molar volume difference suggests that the heat-induced aggregates have larger internal voids than the native structure. Moreover, the positive volume change implies that the formation of the intermolecular beta-sheet is unfavorable under high pressure. We also determined the free energy profile of ESA. This energy profile explains the restriction of the formation of heat-induced aggregates by pressure. These results explain the structural differences between heat-induced aggregates with intermolecular beta-sheet and pressure-induced aggregates without intermolecular beta-sheet.
authors: Department of Applied Chemistry, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga, 525-8577, Japan.
authors: Akira
authors: A
authors: Okuno
authors: Minoru
authors: M
authors: Kato
authors: Yoshihiro
authors: Y
authors: Taniguchi
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006736:Horses; D006358:Hot Temperature; D007700:Kinetics; D011312:Pressure; D017433:Protein Structure, Secondary; D012709:Serum Albumin / Q000737:chemistry*; D017550:Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared / Q000379:methods*; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D012709:Serum Albumin