Urea-induced denaturation of human serum albumin labeled with acrylodan

Journal of Protein Chemistry
José González-Jiménez, Manuel Cortijo

Abstract

We induced the denaturation of unlabeled human serum albumin (HSA) and of similar albumin labeled with acrylodan (6-acryloyl-2-dimethylamino naphthalene) with urea and studied the transition profiles using circular dichroism and fluorescence spectroscopy. The circular dichroism spectra for both albumin preparations resulted in the same curves, thus indicating that labeling with acrylodan does not perturb the conformation of HSA. Our results indicate that the denaturation of both albumin preparations takes place at a single, two-state transition with midpoint at about 6 M urea, due to the unfolding of its domain II. It is important to point out that even at 8 M urea, some residual structure remains in the HSA. Great changes in the fluorescence of the dye bound to the protein were observed by addition of solid guanidine hydrochloride to the protein labeled with acrylodan dissolved in 8 M urea, indicating that domain I of this protein was not denatured by urea.

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