PMID: 9650082Jul 3, 1998Paper

Structural perturbation of alpha-crystallin and its chaperone-like activity

International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
C M RaoM B Sukhaswami

Abstract

alpha-Crystallin is a multimeric lenticular protein that has recently been shown to be expressed in several non-lenticular tissues as well. It is shown to prevent aggregation of non-native proteins as a molecular chaperone. By using a non-thermal aggregation model, we could show that this process is temperature-dependent. We investigated the chaperone-like activity of alpha-crystallin towards photo-induced aggregation of gamma-crystallin, aggregation of insulin and on the refolding induced aggregation of beta- and gamma-crystallins. We observed that alpha-crystallin could prevent photo-aggregation of gamma-crystallin and this chaperone-like activity of alpha-crystallin is enhanced several fold at temperatures above 30 degrees C. This enhancement parallels the exposure of its hydrophobic surfaces as a function of temperature, probed using hydrophobic fluorescent probes such as pyrene and 8-anilinonaphthalene-1-sulfonate. We, therefore, concluded that alpha-crystallin prevents the aggregation of other proteins by providing appropriately placed hydrophobic surfaces; a structural transition above 30 degrees C involving enhanced or re-organized hydrophobic surfaces of alpha-crystallin is important for its chaperone-like activity. We...Continue Reading

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