1lkq

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NMR STRUCTURE OF HUMAN INSULIN MUTANT ILE-A2-GLY, VAL-A3-GLY, HIS-B10-ASP, PRO-B28-LYS, LYS-B29-PRO, 20 STRUCTURES

Overview

The A and B chains of insulin combine to form native disulfide bridges without detectable isomers. The fidelity of chain combination thus recapitulates the folding of proinsulin, a precursor protein in which the two chains are tethered by a disordered connecting peptide. We have recently shown that chain combination is blocked by seemingly conservative substitutions in the C-terminal alpha-helix of the A chain. Such analogs, once formed, nevertheless retain high biological activity. By contrast, we demonstrate here that chain combination is robust to non-conservative substitutions in the N-terminal alpha-helix. Introduction of multiple glycine substitutions into the N-terminal segment of the A chain (residues A1-A5) yields analogs that are less stable than native insulin and essentially without biological activity. (1)H NMR studies of a representative analog lacking invariant side chains Ile(A2) and Val(A3) (A chain sequence GGGEQCCTSICSLYQLENYCN; substitutions are italicized and cysteines are underlined) demonstrate local unfolding of the A1-A5 segment in an otherwise native-like structure. That this and related partial folds retain efficient disulfide pairing suggests that the native N-terminal alpha-helix does not participate in the transition state of the reaction. Implications for the hierarchical folding mechanisms of proinsulin and insulin-like growth factors are discussed.

About this Structure

1LKQ is a Protein complex structure. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.

Reference

Mechanism of insulin chain combination. Asymmetric roles of A-chain alpha-helices in disulfide pairing., Hua QX, Chu YC, Jia W, Phillips NF, Wang RY, Katsoyannis PG, Weiss MA, J Biol Chem. 2002 Nov 8;277(45):43443-53. Epub 2002 Aug 23. PMID:12196530 Page seeded by OCA on Sat May 3 00:00:56 2008