PMID: 9451452Feb 6, 1998Paper

Structure-activity relationships in the fusion of small unilamellar phosphatidylcholine vesicles induced by a model peptide

Biochimie
M H da Costa, H Chaimovich

Abstract

Limited proteolysis of fatty acid-free bovine serum albumin by pepsin yields several well characterized peptides, one of which (P9, M(r) 9,000), induces fusion of small unilamellar vesicles (SUV) of phosphatidylcholine at pH 3.6. Circular dichroism (CD) of P9 solutions confirmed that the peptide undergoes a reversible transition between pH 7 and pH 3.6. The spectral changes observed with CD suggest that in the low pH conformation there is a decrease in the alpha-helical contents and an exposure of hydrophobic residues. CD and differential ultraviolet spectroscopy demonstrated that P9 binds to micelles of hexadecylphosphorylcholine and the binding produces changes in the tertiary structure of the peptide. Reduction and carboxymethylation of the two disulfide bridges of P9 produced loss of the ability to induce fusion of SUV, although the reduced peptide binds to vesicles, induces loss of entrapped marker and produces vesicle disruption. In the active form P9 exposes hydrophobic groups, one amphiphilic alpha-helix and requires the integrity of the disulfide bridge-stabilized tertiary structure.

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