title: Oxidized modification of fragments D and E from fibrinogen induced by ozone.
abstract: Ozone-induced free-radical oxidation of fragments D and E from fibrinogen has been studied. The methods of elastic and dynamic light scattering in combination with electrophoresis of unreduced samples have shown the acceleration of enzymatic covalent crosslinking of molecules of oxidation-modified fragment D under the action of factor XIIIa. UV and IR spectroscopy shows that free-radical oxidation of amino acid residues of polypeptide chains catalyzed by ozone affects the cyclic and amino groups, giving rise to generation of mainly oxygen-containing products. Comparison of the IR spectra obtained for the oxidation-modified D and E fragments revealed more significant transformation of functional groups for the D fragment. EPR spectroscopy showed that the rotational correlation time of spin labels bound to the ozonized proteins decreased in comparison with the non-ozonized proteins. The rotation correlation time of the radicals covalently bound to the ozonized D and E fragments suggests that D fragment of fibrinogen is more sensitive to free-radical oxidation followed by local structural changes. Possible causes of different degrees of oxidation for fragments D and E are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. markrosenfeld@rambler.ru
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Rosenfeld
authors.forename: V B
authors.initials: VB
authors.lastname: Leonova
authors.forename: A N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Shchegolikhin
authors.forename: S D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Razumovskii
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Konstantinova
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Bychkova
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Kovarskii
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D026122:Factor XIIIa / Q000737:chemistry; D005338:Fibrin Fibrinogen Degradation Products / Q000737:chemistry*; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D010126:Ozone / Q000737:chemistry*; D013055:Spectrophotometry, Infrared; D013056:Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet
chemical_list: D005338:Fibrin Fibrinogen Degradation Products; C015214:fibrinogen D fragment; C018543:fibrinogen fragment E; D010126:Ozone; D026122:Factor XIIIa