Molluscan hemocyanin functional units have a molecular mass of approximately 50 kDa and generally contain three disulfide bridges: two in the mainly a-helical N-terminal domain and one in
Trang 1Helix pomatia hemocyanin does not correlate with
carbohydrate content
Betu¨l T Yesilyurt1, Constant Gielens1and Filip Meersman2
1 Division of Biochemistry, Molecular and Structural Biology, Department of Chemistry, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
2 Division of Molecular and Nanomaterials, Department of Chemistry, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Hemocyanins are complex respiratory molecules
found in the hemolymph of many arthropods and
molluscs [1,2] The hemocyanin of the roman snail
Helix pomatia consists of three components: two
a-components (aD-HpH and aN-HpH) and a
b-com-ponent (b-HpH) They all show the cylindrical
quater-nary structure (diameter 35 nm, height 38 nm),
typical of gastropodan hemocyanins, comprising 20
subunits with a molecular mass of approximately
450 kDa each [1] The b-HpH is composed of only
one type of subunit (b-subunit), whereas both
a-HpHs are composed of two types (a and a¢ subunits) [3] Owing to the subunit homogeneity, structural investigations on HpH have mainly been performed
on the b-component The subunits themselves are folded into eight globular functional units (FUs) designated a to h from the N-terminus on (Fig 1) Above pH 8, b-HpH dissociates into dimers (Mr9· 105) of subunits [4] Limited trypsinolysis of these dimers yields the fragments HpH-abc and HpH-ef and the FUs HpH-d, HpH-g and HpH-h (occurring
as dimers h2) [5] Further limited proteolysis of the
Keywords
disulfide bridge; FTIR spectroscopy;
functional unit; glycosylation; hemocyanin
Correspondence
F Meersman, Division of Molecular and
Nanomaterials, Department of Chemistry,
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,
Celestijnenlaan 200F, B-3001 Leuven,
Belgium
Fax: +32 16 327990
Tel: +32 16 327355
E-mail: filip.meersman@chem.kuleuven.be
(Received 12 February 2008, revised 11
April 2008, accepted 15 May 2008)
doi:10.1111/j.1742-4658.2008.06507.x
The thermal stability of the eight functional units of b-hemocyanin of the gastropodan mollusc Helix pomatia was investigated by FTIR spectros-copy Molluscan hemocyanin functional units have a molecular mass of approximately 50 kDa and generally contain three disulfide bridges: two in the mainly a-helical N-terminal domain and one in the C-terminal b-sheet domain They show more than 50% sequence homology and it is assumed that they adopt a similar conformation However, the functional units of
H pomatiab-hemocyanin, designated HpH-a to HpH-h, differ considerably
in their carbohydrate content (0–18 wt%) Most functional units are excep-tionally stable with a melting temperature in the range 77–83C Two functional units, HpH-b and HpH-c, however, have a reduced stability with melting temperature values of 73C and 64 C, respectively Although the most glycosylated functional unit (HpH-g) has the highest temperature stability, there is no linear correlation between the degree of glycosylation
of the functional units and the unfolding temperature This is ascribed to variations in secondary structure as well as in glycan attachment sites Moreover, the disulfide bonds might play an important role in the confor-mational stability of the functional units Sequence comparison of mollus-can hemocyanins suggests that the less stable functional units, HpH-b and HpH-c, similar to most of their paralogous counterparts, lack the disulfide bond in the C-terminal domain
Abbreviations
FU, functional unit; HpH, Helix pomatia hemocyanin; Tm, melting temperature.
Trang 2fragments HpH-abc and HpH-ef with subtilisin allows
each of the FUs to be isolated [6]
The FUs are disulfide bond containing entities with
a molecular mass of approximately 50 kDa The
cry-stal structures are available for a cephalopod FU,
OdH-g, from Octopus dofleini hemocyanin [7] and for
a gastropod FU, RtH2-e, from Rapana thomasiana
hemocyanin [8] The polypeptide chain is folded into
two distinct domains, a mainly helical N-terminal
domain containing the active site and a C-terminal
domain with b-sheet structure The active site consists
of six histidine residues coordinating two copper
atoms The molluscan hemocyanin FUs are very
sim-ilar in sequence [9] Hence, it is generally assumed that
their tertiary structures are comparable [10]
Most hemocyanins are glycoproteins The b-HpH
contains 7% carbohydrate, with the individual FUs
having a variable carbohydrate content (Table 1)
[11,12] The glycosylation sites were located in FUs
HpH-d, HpH-e, HpH-g and HpH-h; FUs HpH-c and
HpH-f are devoid of carbohydrate [11] For FUs
HpH-a and HpH-b, the glycan attachment sites are not
yet known The Asn387 residue at the carboxyl
termi-nus, using the numbering of HpH-d [13], is the most
conserved glycosylation site [12] The carbohydrate
moiety of molluscan hemocyanins has received particu-lar interest because of its possible role in the immuno-stimulatory properties of these proteins [14] Recently,
it was demonstrated that the glycan chains are involved in the antigenicity of R thomasiana hemocya-nin [15] In the present study, we investigated the ther-mal stability of the homologous FUs of b-hemocyanin
of H pomatia and considered the role of the degree of glycosylation and the secondary structure variability
on the observed differences in stability
Results
The thermal stability of the FUs was monitored by FTIR spectroscopy In particular, the amide I¢ region
is sensitive to the secondary structure of the protein [16] This spectral region is therefore generally used
to follow conformational changes as a function of temperature
At 25C, the amide I¢ region of all b-HpH FUs consists of a broad band Deconvolution and fitting of the spectrum showed the presence of several bands at different wavenumbers The positions of the compo-nent bands of the amide I¢ region for FU HpH-d are shown in Fig 2 The structural features and the ther-mal behaviour of this FU is representative of all other FUs Therefore, we limit our discussion to HpH-d The peak positions and band assignments are summa-rized in Table 2 The band at 1610 cm)1is generally assigned to the side chain contributions of the amino acids After the deconvolution and fitting of the infra-red spectra of all FUs in the amide I¢ region, the per-centages of a-helix and b-sheet structures in the native proteins were calculated The results of the fitting are
in agreement with previous work that investigated the percentages of a-helix with CD (Table 3)
Fig 1 Cartoon of a b-HpH subunit and its eight FUs (a to h) The
cleavage sites, on limited proteolysis, of trypsin (solid) in the
sub-unit and of subtilisin (dashed) in fragments HpH-abc and HpH-ef are
indicated by arrows.
Table 1 Carbohydrate content and melting temperatures of b-HpH
functional units (FUs).
FU
Carbohydrate
a Wood et al [11] b Gielens et al [12].
Fig 2 Secondary structure analysis of FU HpH-d from b-HpH at
25 C Curve-fitting of the Fourier self-deconvoluted amide I¢ band (1600–1700 cm)1) The Gaussian curves underneath the curve rep-resent the various contributions to the amide I¢ band The peak assignment is given in Table 2.
Trang 3Figure 3A shows the changes in the amide I¢ band
of FU HpH-d upon heating As the temperature
increases, the intensity of the band at 1650 cm)1,
which is assigned to a-helix structure, gradually
decreases and the formation of two new bands at
1618 and 1683 cm)1 is observed The simultaneous
appearance of these two bands is indicative of the
for-mation of a b-sheet rich aggregate in which the strands
are oriented in an antiparallel manner [17] The
unfolding process is irreversible A white gel due to
the aggregation could be observed by eye
Figure 3B compares the deconvoluted spectra at
25C and 90 C Apart from the IR aggregation
bands at 1618 and 1683 cm)1, a clear peak can still
be observed at 1650 cm)1 with a shoulder at
1640 cm)1 at 90C, which correspond to peaks
found at 25C This suggests that only partial
unfold-ing has taken place In other words, some secondary
structure persists, even at high temperatures Note,
however, that the ratio of the peaks at 1640 and
1650 cm)1 has changed at high temperature Because the b-sheet structure absorbs in the region 1620–
1640 cm)1 region, it is most likely that any change here indicates a loss of b-sheet structure
If we plot the intensities at 1618 and 1647 cm)1 versus temperature, a sigmoid curve is found with a midpoint temperature (Tm) of approximately 81C (Fig 4) The peak at 1647 cm)1 corresponds to the band maximum It is assumed that this peak reflects mainly the changes in a-helix structure Both graphs yield the same midpoint values, implying that the loss
of a-helix structure is concomitant with the appearance
of the aggregation bands
The midpoint temperatures for all FUs as well as for the HpH-abc fragment are listed in Table 1 In a recent study, the transition midpoints of the FUs HpH-d and HpH-g of b-HpH in glycine-NaOH buffer (pH 9.6) were determined by differential scanning
calo-Table 2 Secondary structure assignment of the peaks in the
amide I¢ region a
.
a After Barth & Zscherp [16] b Present in the aggregated state.
Table 3 Secondary structure content of b-HpH functional units
(FUs) Values (%) determined by curve-fitting of the amide I¢ band
of the respective FUs at 25 C.
FU
a CD spectra between 200 and 250 nm were obtained on a Cary
CD 61 spectropolarimeter (Varian, Monrovia, CA, USA) in 25 m M
borax-HCl (pH 8.2) at 20 C The spectra were analysed using a
dataset of reference protein spectra [39] (M Finotto, C Gielens
and G Pre´aux, unpublished data).
Fig 3 Temperature dependence of the amide I¢ region of FU HpH-d
of b-HpH (A) Non-deconvoluted spectra are shown every 5 C in the range 25–90 C The arrows indicate the direction of the tral changes with temperature (B) Fourier-deconvoluted IR spec-trum of FU HpH-d in the amide I¢ region at 25 C (solid line) and
90 C (dotted line).
Trang 4rimetry [18] The respective melting points were 76C
for HpH-d and 85C for HpH-g, which is in rather
fair agreement with our findings, given the differences
in experimental conditions
To obtain further insight into the unfolding process,
we calculated the difference spectra as a function of
temperature These are obtained by subtracting the
spectrum at 25C from the spectra at higher
tempera-tures The positive peaks indicate an intensity increase
due to newly formed structures at that wavenumber
Conversely, negative peaks indicate an intensity
decrease and the loss of native structure as a result
of the temperature increase The difference spectra of
HpH-d (Fig 5A) are dominated by two strong positive
peaks at 1618 and 1683 cm)1, indicative of the
aggregation of the thermally denatured proteins In
addition, in the early stages of the heat denaturation
process, a negative peak can be observed at
1632 cm)1 (Fig 5B) This suggests at least part of
the b-sheet structure unfolds prior to the unfolding
of a-helix and the formation of aggregates Note that
the formation of aggregates cannot be fully excluded
in the temperature range 25–60C because a small
population of aggregate may go undetected
The early onset of protein aggregation is particularly
apparent from the intensity changes at 1618 cm)1 in
the case of FU HpH-h (Fig 6) Above 55C, the
intensity at 1618 cm)1 starts to increase, with a
fur-ther increased slope in the range 75–85C This made
it impossible to fit the data to a single sigmoidal curve
Therefore, the Tmwas estimated visually, assuming the
steepest part of the curve reflects the global unfolding
of HpH-h
Discussion
The thermal stability of the eight FUs of b-HpH was investigated Six of these FUs were found to be highly temperature resistant with a Tm close to 80C, whereas the two remaining FUs, HpH-c and, to a les-ser extent, HpH-b, are less stable The reduced stability
Fig 5 Difference spectra for FU HpH-d Difference spectra (DA) were obtained by subtracting the spectrum at 25 C from all other spectra (A) in the temperature range 25–90 C and (B) detail of the changes in the range 25–60 C.
Fig 6 Intensity of the band at 1617.9 cm)1versus temperature for
FU HpH-h of b-HpH Dots represent the experimental data and the full line is a guide to the eye.
Fig 4 Temperature dependence of intermolecular b-sheet and
a-helix structures Intensity of the bands at 1617.9 cm)1(d) and
1646.9 cm)1 ( ) versus increasing temperature for FU HpH-d of
b-HpH These bands are assigned to intermolecular b-sheet and
a-helix structures, respectively Dots represent the experimental
data, and the full lines are the fitted curves.
Trang 5of HpH-c is particularly striking because it is
destabi-lized by 15C compared to HpH-f, which also lacks
carbohydrate groups A possible explanation for the
lower stabilities of HpH-b and HpH-c, discussed at
length below, is that both FUs lack a third disulfide
bridge in the C-terminal domain Note, however, that
the HpH-abc fragment, from which HpH-b and HpH-c
are isolated, has a relatively high stability (Table 1),
suggesting that the interactions within the fragment
stabilize these FUs
The b-domain unfolds prior to the a-domain
The observed unfolding behaviour of the FUs suggests
that the C-terminal b-domain is less stable than the
a-domain This is not surprising because the a-domain
contains the active site and the presence of the copper
atoms will contribute to the stability of the protein It
has previously been shown for the subunit of b-HpH
that the apo-form (copper-deprived) of the protein is
destabilized by approximately 20C [19] In addition,
the a-domain also contains a cysteine-histidine
thioe-ther bond and, for the known structures of OdH-g and
RtH2-e [7,8], two out of three disulfide bridges, which
will contribute to its stability [20] The lower stability
of the b-domain might explain the pronounced early
onset of the aggregation of FU HpH-h which has, in
comparison with the other FUs (HpH-a-g), an extra
stretch of approximately 100 amino acids at the
C-ter-minal end of the polypeptide chain [12] This tail
extension is generally found in gastropod hemocyanins
[21], and has also been documented for the bivalve
Nucula nucleus [20] Note that, in the case of HpH-h,
the C-terminal domain also lacks an attached glycan
structure [12] The aggregation propensity may be
further enhanced by the fact that HpH-h is also
resp-onsible for the dimerization of two subunits via
nonco-valent interactions [11]
Thermal stability does not correlate with
carbohydrate content
Glycoproteins can be found in most organisms,
includ-ing Archaea and bacteria [22] The carbohydrate
moi-ety plays an important role in protein trafficking and
in molecular recognition phenomena It also influences
protein folding and, in some cases, glycosylation
defects are associated with human diseases [22,23]
Moreover, it is commonly observed that the
glycosy-lated protein has an increased thermal stability
com-pared to the nonglycosylated form and that it is less
susceptible to proteolysis [24–26] The increased
ther-mal stability, typically in the order of 4C [27,28], is
generally explained by the fact that the carbohydrate moiety increases the chain stiffness near its attachment site As a result, the entropy gain upon unfolding is reduced and the native-unfolded equilibrium is shifted slightly to the left [24–26] Hence, we expected to find
an increase in Tm with increasing glycosylation con-tent, although it should be emphasized that we have investigated a series of homologous proteins rather than a single protein with or without glycans
To examine the effect of glycosylation on the ther-mal stability of homologous FUs, we plotted the Tm values of the eight b-HpH FUs against their carbohy-drate content (Fig 7) Although the FU with the high-est degree of glycosylation, HpH-g, has the highhigh-est melting temperature, there is no overall correlation between the Tm and the carbohydrate content It is particularly noteworthy that HpH-f, which lacks glycans, is more stable than the glycosylated FUs HpH-a, HpH-b and HpH-e Different glycosylation sites and glycan structures can affect the stability in different ways, leading to the observed fluctuation of
Tm[23,25] Moreover, as noted above, there is a strik-ing difference in stability between HpH-c and HpH-f, which are both devoid of attached glycans
Influence of the secondary structure variability
on the thermal stability Molluscan hemocyanin FUs are known to have a large sequence homology In the particular cases of HpH-d and HpH-g, for which the amino acid sequences are known, there is 56% sequence homology with 46% identity [13,29] Taken together with the observation that the known crystal structures of FUs from two dif-ferent organisms are very similar [7,8], we conclude that the FUs of b-HpH are also structurally similar However, despite the sequence homology, both FTIR
Fig 7 Midpoint temperatures (Tm) versus carbohydrate content of b-HpH FUs a to h.
Trang 6and CD spectroscopy reveal a large variability in
a-helix and b-sheet content of b-HpH FUs (Table 3)
Nevertheless, the lack of any correlation between
secondary structure and stability (data not shown)
suggests that the conformational variability amongst
the FUs is not a determining factor for the differences
in their stabilities
Reduced stability of HpH-b and HpH-c
The lower stability of FUs HpH-b and HpH-c is
possi-bly explained by the absence of a disulfide bridge in
the C-terminal domain The stabilizing effect of the
presence of disulfide bonds is well documented [30–32]
There is a rationale for our present hypothesis Three
disulfide bridges have been localized in b-HpH FUs
HpH-d and HpH-g by protein chemical analysis [33]
and in FUs OdH-g (from O dofleini hemocyanin) and
RtH2-e (from R thomasiana hemocyanin) by X-ray
crystallography [7,8] Two of these disulfide bridges lie
in the N-terminal core domain; the third one is
situ-ated in the C-terminal domain For all other molluscan
hemocyanin FUs with known sequence, the disulfide
bridges are assumed to be located at corresponding
positions However, sequence determination by cDNA
analysis performed in our laboratory on the
hemo-cyanin of the cephalopod Sepia officinalis has
demon-strated that FUs SoH-b and SoH-c lack the third
disulfide bridge near the carboxyl terminus (GenBank
accession no DQ388569 for subunit 1 and DQ388570
for subunit 2) The same absence of the third disulfide
bridge has been observed for FUs OdH-b and OdH-c
from O dofleini Hc and for FUs NpH-b and NpH-c
from Nautilus pompilius, suggesting this is a general
feature of cephalopod hemocyanin [34,35] Moreover,
in the case of the gastropods Aplysia californica and
Haliotis tuberculata, FU b lacks a third disulfide
bridge, whereas, for the bivalve N nucleus, a third
disulfide bridge is missing in both FUs NnH-b and
NnH-c of subunit 2 [20,21] Given the sequence
homo-logy between various mollusc species, it can be
assumed that the third disulfide bond is also lacking in
FUs HpH-b and HpH-c In the case of R thomasiana
hemocyanin, it was found that a reduction of all three
disulfide bridges resulted in a decrease of the Tm by
approximately 6C [30] This would correspond to
approximately 2C per disulfide bridge, assuming
every disulfide bridge contributes equally This would
explain the differences in Tm between HpH-b and, for
example, HpH-a In the case of HpH-c, other factors
must be involved in addition to the absence of
stabi-lizing glycan structures and a third disulfide bridge (see
below)
Molluscan hemocyanin has been shown to possess phenoloxidase activity [36], which can be increased by limited proteolysis [37] Interestingly, we recently observed that the induced phenoloxidase activity is extremely high for HpH-c, whereas the induced activity
of HpH-a and HpH-b, which together with HpH-c are isolated from the same HpH-abc fragment, is negligible (N I Siddiqui and C Gielens, unpublished data) It is noteworthy that the thermal stability of HpH-a is com-parable to that of the HpH-abc fragment, and that, although HpH-b has a slightly lower stability, only HpH-c is significantly destabilized upon isolation (Table 1) It cannot be excluded that the purification procedure, which involves limited proteolysis, affects the structure and hence the stability of the other FUs
as well However, most FUs are found to be extremely thermally stable with an average Tmof 80C, suggest-ing the purification procedure does not induce any sig-nificant conformational changes Consistent with this view is the finding that the active sites of the fragments are well preserved [38], and that an analysis of the molar mass does not reveal any other fragments than the expected FUs [6] Presumably the increased pheno-loxidase activity of HpH-c reflects a more dynamic structure, which could be correlated with a lower ther-mal stability This is presently under investigation in our laboratory
In summary, an analysis of the thermal stabilities of the FUs of b-hemocyanin from H pomatia indicates there is no linear correlation between the stability and the degree of glycosylation, nor with the secondary structure content An intriguing finding is the lower stability of HpH-b and especially of HpH-c, which is attributed, at least in part, to the fact that these FUs have one disulfide bridge less compared to the other FUs In future studies, the role of the disulfide bridges
in determining the thermal stability of molluscan hemocyanin will be explored further
Experimental procedures
Sample preparation
All functional units (HpH-a-h) were obtained as described previously [6,37] Briefly, a solution of didecameric mole-cules (Mr 9 million) of b-HpH in phosphate buffer (pH 6.5) was dialysed against Tris–HCl (pH 8.2, I 50 mm), resulting in the dissociation of the didecamer into dimers of subunits The solution was then subjected to limited prote-olysis with trypsin, yielding the fragments HpH-abc and HpH-ef and the FUs HpH-d, HpH-g and HpH-h (occurring
as dimers h2) The fragments were separated chromato-graphically and the FUs HpH-a, HpH-b and HpH-c, and
Trang 7HpH-e and HpH-f, were isolated from HpH-abc and HpH-ef,
respectively, by limited proteolysis using subtilisin (Fig 1)
The chromatographically separated FUs were
concen-trated by ultrafiltration and dialysed against Milli-Q water
(Millipore, Molsheim, France) to remove salt ions
Sub-sequently, the samples were lyophilized using a Savant
Speedvac concentrator (Savant, Farmingdale, NY, USA)
The dried protein was dissolved in deuterated Tris–DCl
buffer (50 mm, pD 8.2) at approximately 50 mgÆmL)1 The
protein solution was stored overnight to ensure complete
hydrogen-deuterium exchange of all solvent-exposed
hydro-gens To remove insoluble material, if any, the solution was
centrifuged at 12 100 g for 3 min before use
FTIR spectroscopy
Infrared spectra were recorded on a Bruker IFS66 FTIR
spectrometer (Bruker, Ettlingen, Germany) equipped with a
liquid nitrogen cooled mercury cadmium telluride detector
at a nominal resolution of 2 cm)1 Each spectrum is the
result of the accumulation and averaging of 256
interfero-grams The sample compartment was continuously purged
with dry air to minimize the spectral contribution of
atmo-spheric water
The heat unfolding was followed using a temperature cell
with CaF2 windows separated by a 50 lm teflon spacer
The cell was placed in a heating jacket controlled by a
Graseby Specac Automatic Temperature Controller (Spelac
Ltd, Orpington, UK) The temperature increment was
0.2CÆmin)1
Buffer spectra as a function of temperature were recorded
independently and subtracted from the solution spectra at
the corresponding temperature A baseline correction was
performed in the amide I¢ region (1600–1700 cm)1) assuming
a linear baseline To enhance the component peaks
contribut-ing to the amide I¢ band, the spectra were treated by Fourier
self-deconvolution using the software provided by Bruker
(OS⁄ 2 version) The lineshape was assumed to be Lorentzian
with a half-bandwidth of 21 cm)1and an enhancement
fac-tor k of 1.7 was used Curve-fitting of the amide I¢ band was
performed using grams⁄ 32 (Thermo Galactic Inc., Salem,
NH, USA) software after deconvolution of the spectrum
using a c-factor of 11 and a 75% Bessel smoothing function
Acknowledgement
F Meersman is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research
Foundation-Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen)
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