Shnyrov1 1 Departamento de Bioquı´mica y Biologı´a Molecular, Facultad de Biologı´a, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain; 2 Departamento de Bioquı´mica y Biologı´a Molecular, Facu
Trang 1Thermal stability of peroxidase from the african oil palm tree
Elaeis guineensis
Anabel Rodrı´guez1,*, David G Pina1,*, Bele´n Ye´lamos2, John J Castillo Leo´n3, Galina G Zhadan1,
Enrique Villar1, Francisco Gavilanes2, Manuel G Roig4, Ivan Yu Sakharov5and Valery L Shnyrov1
1
Departamento de Bioquı´mica y Biologı´a Molecular, Facultad de Biologı´a, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain;
2
Departamento de Bioquı´mica y Biologı´a Molecular, Facultad de Quı´mica, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain;
3
Escuela de Quı´mica, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia;4Departamento de Quı´mica Fı´sica,
Facultad de Quı´mica, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain;5Department of Chemical Enzymology,
Faculty of Chemistry, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
The thermal stability of peroxidase from leaves of the African
oil palm tree Elaeis guineensis (AOPTP) at pH 3.0 was
studied by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), intrinsic
fluorescence, CD and enzymatic assays.The spectral
parameters as monitored by ellipticity changes in the far-UV
CD spectrum of the enzyme as well as the increase in
tryp-tophan intensity emission upon heating, together with
changes in enzymatic activity with temperature were seen to
be good complements to the highly sensitive but integral
method of DSC.The data obtained in this investigation show
that thermal denaturation of palm peroxidase is an irrevers-ible process, under kinetic control, that can be satisfactorily described by the two-state kinetic scheme, N!k D, where
kis a first-order kinetic constant that changes with tem-perature, as given by the Arrhenius equation; N is the native state, and D is the denatured state.On the basis of this model, the parameters of the Arrhenius equation were calculated Keywords: peroxidase; differential scanning calorimetry; intrinsic fluorescence; circular dichroism; protein stability
Peroxidases (EC 1.11.1.7; donor:hydrogen-peroxide
oxido-reductase) are enzymes that are widely distributed in the
living world and that are involved in many physiological
processes, including abiotic and biotic stress responses
Although the function of peroxidases is often seen primarily
in terms of effecting the conversion of H2O2to H2O, this
should not be allowed to obscure their wider participation in
other reactions, such as cell wall formation, lignification, the
protection of tissues from pathogenic microorganisms, etc
[1,2].Several peroxidases have been isolated, sequenced and
characterized.They have essentially been classified in three
classes, supported in the first instance by comparison of
aminoacid sequence data and confirmed by more recent
crystal structure data (class I, intracellular prokaryotic
peroxidases; class II, extracellular fungal peroxidases, and
class III, secretory plant peroxidases [2]).Peroxidase has
attracted industrial attention because of its usefulness as a
catalyst in clinical biochemistry and enzyme immunoassays
Some modern applications of peroxidases include treatment
of waste water containing phenolic compounds, the synthe-sis of several different aromatic chemicals and polymeric materials.The peroxidase most studied is the one obtained from horseradish roots (HRP), which is also the most commercially available one.However, other plant species may provide peroxidases with similar or even improved properties.Therefore, the availability of highly stable and active peroxidases from sources other than horseradish roots would go a long way toward the development of a catalytic enzyme with broad commercial and environmental possibilities [3].Several publications have addressed the study of the conformational stability of peroxidases, but to date our understanding of their folding mechanism remains contradictory and unclear [4–11].Factors affecting con-formational stability have been studied most intensively in proteins under reversible conditions [12,13].However, after denaturation many proteins cannot refold in vitro due to modifications such as digestion, aggregation, loss of a prosthetic group, etc.[14,15].Thus, the thermal denatura-tion of such proteins is often discussed in terms of the Lumry–Eyring model [16], in which a reversible unfolding step is followed by an irreversible denaturation step:
NÐ U ! D, where N, U and D are the native, unfolded
or partially unfolded, and denatured states of the protein, respectively [17].However, use of the whole Lumry–Eyring kinetic model for the quantitative description of DSC traces
is difficult because the corresponding system of differential equations does not have an analytical solution at varying temperatures.Although there are computer programs that allow the direct fitting of a system of differential equations
to experimental data, there are as yet no publications in which DSC data have been interpreted through the use of the whole Lumry–Eyring kinetic model [18].Therefore, to analyse the irreversible thermal denaturation of proteins,
Correspondence to V.L.Shnyrov, Departamento de Bioquı´mica y
Biologı´a Molecular, Universidad de Salamanca, Plaza de los Doctores
de la Reina, s/n, 37007 Salamanca, Spain.
Fax: + 34 923 294579, Tel.: + 34 923 294465,
E-mail: shnyrov@usal.es
Abbreviations: ABTS, 2,2¢-azino-bis(3-ethylbenzthiazoline-6-sulfonic
acid); DSC, differential scanning calorimetry; HRP, peroxidase from
horseradish roots; AOPTP, peroxidase from the African Oil Palm Tree
Elaeis guineensis.
Enzyme: peroxidase (EC 1.11.1.7; donor:hydrogen-peroxide
oxidoreductase).
*Note: these authors contributed equally to this work.
(Received 8 February 2002, accepted 12 April 2002)
Trang 2researchers generally look for simple models that are
approximations to the Lumry–Eyring model [17,19–21]
Recently a novel peroxidase has been isolated from the
leaves of the African oil palm tree Elaeis guineensis [5].This
peroxidase shows a characteristic spectrum for
haem-containing proteins, with a Soret maximum at 403 nm.Its
molecular mass as estimated by SDS/PAGE is 57 000,
which is higher than the values published for other plant
peroxidases [1], probably because of the higher degree of
AOPTP glycosylation.It has also been found that AOPTP,
similar to peroxidases earlier detected in the sweet potato,
royal palm tree, tobacco, and tomato [22–24], is an anionic
protein with a pI value of 3.8 Preliminary data [25] have
suggested that AOPTP is stable over a broad pH-range,
maximum stability being found at pH 7.0 Under acidic
(pH 2.0) and alkaline (pH 12.0) conditions, AOPTP shows
a lower stability but remains a highly stable enzyme, loosing
not more than 20% of its initial activity for 30 min at 25C
In recent years there has been tremendous interest in the
production of conducting polymers.Polyaniline is one such
compound because it can be used in lightweight organic
batteries, in microelectronics, in optical display, in
anticor-rosive protection, in bioanalysis as a sensing element, etc
[26,27].This is because it shows good electrical and optical
properties as well as high environmental stability.It is well
known that peroxidases can be used in the synthesis of
polyaniline in the presence of hydrogen peroxide as a
reduc-ting substrate and sulfonated polystyrene and
poly(vinyl-phosphonic acid) as polymeric templates [28], which take
place effectively at pH values below 4.0 Consequently, for
the development of such biotechnological process, would be
of interest to find and characterize peroxidases that are stable
under acidic conditions, such as the enzyme considered here
(peroxidase from African oil palm tree Elaeis guineensis)
Here we describe a detailed investigation of the thermal
denaturation of AOPTP at pH 3.0 This was studied by
differential scanning calorimetry in the combination with
structural probes, such as intrinsic fluorescence and circular
dichroism, as well as enzymatic activity assays.The thermal
unfolding of AOPTP was found to be irreversible and
strongly scan-rate dependent, which led us to analyse this
nonequilibrium process based on the simplest so-called
two-state kinetic model:
which is a limiting case of the Lumry–Eyring model [17]
This model considers only two significantly populated
macroscopic states, the initial or native state (N) and the
final or denatured (D) state, transition between which is
determined by a strongly temperature-dependent first-order
rate constant (k).The data obtained demonstrate that
AOPTP is a significantly more thermostable enzyme than
other known peroxidases, that makes AOPTP an intriguing
catalyst for scientific and commercial applications where
stability at high temperatures is desirable
M A T E R I A L S A N D M E T H O D S
Materials
2,2¢-Azino-bis(3-ethylbenzthiazoline-6-sulfonicacid)(ABTS)
was purchased from Amersham International plc
(Buckinghamshire, UK).H2O2 was obtained from Merck (Darmstadt, Germany) and quantified by UV spectropho-tometry at 230 nm (e¼ 81M )1Æcm)1) [29].Phenyl-Sepharose and Sephacryl S 200 were from Pharmacia Biotech (Uppsala, Sweden), DEAE cellulose was from Serva (Heidelberg, Germany), and other reagents were from Panreac (Barcelona, Spain).All reagents were of the highest purity available.Double-distilled water was used through-out.All measurements were carried out in 10 mM Na-phos-phate buffer, pH 3.0
Protein purification and determination AOPTP was purified from African oil palm tree leaves as described elsewhere [5].Briefly, leaves were triturated and incubated with constant stirring in 10 mMphosphate buffer,
pH 7.0, for 1 h at ambient temperature, and the homogen-ate obtained was filtered and centrifuged (7000 g, 15 min) For the extraction of coloured compounds, a two-phase system containing 14% (w/v) poly(ethylene glycol) and 20% (w/v) (NH4)2SO4 was used.Then, the aqueous phase containing peroxidase activity was applied to a phenyl-Sepharose column (1.5· 30 cm) equilibrated with 100 mM phosphate buffer, pH 6.5, containing 1.7M(NH4)2SO4.The enzyme was eluted by decreasing the (NH4)2SO4 concen-tration, collected and concentrated using a YM-10 mem-brane (Amicon, cut-off 10 000) and applied to a Sephacryl S
200 column (2.5· 41 cm) equilibrated with 5 mMTris/HCl,
pH 8.3 Elution was carried out in the same buffer Fractions with enzymatic activity were collected and applied directly to a DEAE–cellulose column (0.9· 9 cm) equili-brated with 5 mMTris, pH 8.3 The peroxidase was eluted with a linear, 0–50 mM NaCl, gradient, dialyzed against distilled water, freeze-dried and stored at 4C
The purity of AOPTP were determined by SDS/PAGE Electrophoresis was performed as described by Fairbranks
et al.[30] on a Bio-Rad minigel apparatus, using a flat block with a polyacrylamide gradient of 5–25%.Gels were prefixed and stained using the method of Merril et al.[31] Protein contents were determined by the Bradford assay [32].The RZ (A403/A280) for the AOPTP samples used in this work were 2.8–3.0
Differential scanning calorimetry DSC experiments were performed on a MicroCal MC-2D differential scanning microcalorimeter (MicroCal Inc., Northampton, MA) with cell volumes of 1.22 mL, inter-faced with a personal computer (IBM-compatible) as described previously [8].Exhaustive cleaning of the cells was undertaken before each experiment.All protein solu-tions were dialyzed against the desired buffer, and the dialyzate was used as reference.All solutions were degassed
by stirring under a vacuum prior to scanning.Different scan rates within the 0.5–1.5 KÆmin)1range were employed and
an overpressure of 2 atm of dry nitrogen was always kept over the liquids in the cells throughout the scans.A background scan collected with a buffer in both cells was subtracted from each scan.The reversibility of the thermal transitions was checked by examining the reproducibility of the calorimetric trace in a second heating of the sample immediately after cooling from the first scan.The experi-mental calorimetric traces were corrected for the effect of
Trang 3the instrument response time using the procedure described
previously [33].The molar excess heat capacity curves
obtained by normalizing with the protein concentrations
and the known volume of the calorimeter cell were
smoothed and plotted using the Windows-based software
package (ORIGIN) supplied by MicroCal.Data were
ana-lyzed by the nonlinear least-squares fitting program, as
reported elsewhere [19].The correlation coefficient, r, used
as a criterion for the accuracy of fitting, was calculated by
the equation:
r ¼
ffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi
1Xn
i¼ 1
ðyi ycalc
i Þ2 Xn i¼ 1
ðyi ym
iÞ2
s
ð2Þ where yi and ycalc
i are, respectively, the experimental and
calculated values of Cexp; ym
i is the mean of the experimental values of Cexp, and n is the number of points.Typical protein
concentrations for calorimetric experiments ranged between
1.0 and 2.5 mgÆmL)1.Molar transition enthalpies, DH, refer
to M¼ 57 000 gÆmol)1
Intrinsic fluorescence
Fluorescence measurements were performed on a Hitachi
F-4010 spectrofluorimeter.Exitation was carried out at
296 nm (with 5 nm excitation and emission slitwidths) in
order to avoid the contribution of tyrosine to the intrinsic
fluorescence spectrum of AOPTP.The temperature
dependence of the emission fluorescence spectra was
investigated using thermostatically controlled water
circu-lating in a hollow brass cell-holder.The temperature of the
sample cell was monitored with a thermocouple immersed
in the cell under observation
Circular dichroism
CD spectra in the far-ultraviolet range (190–250 nm) were
recorded on a Jasco-715 spectropolarimeter, using a spectral
band-pass of 2 nm and a cell path length of 1 mm with a
protein concentration of 0.2 mgÆmL)1.Spectra are averages
of four scans at a scan rate of 50 nmÆmin)1 All spectra
were background-corrected, smoothed, and converted to a
mean residue ellipticity of [H]¼ 10 MresÆHobsÆl)1Æp)1, where
Mres¼ 115.5 is the mean residue molar mass, Hobsis the
ellipticity measured (degrees) at wavelength k, l is the optical
path-length of the cell (dm), and p is the protein
concen-tration (mgÆmL)1).Spectra were analyzed using the
SELCON3 software package [34].To study the dependence
of ellipticity on temperature, the samples were heated at a
constant heating rate ( 1 KÆmin)1) using a Neslab RT-11
programmable water bath
Activity assays
AOPTP activity was assayed using ABTS as substrate [35]
Aliquots of enzyme solution were added to a spectral
cuvette with 1-cm optical path length containing 0.4 mM
ABTS and 5 mMH2O2in 50 mMacetate buffer, pH 5.0 in a
final volume 2 mL.The rate of changes in absorbance at
405 nm due to ABTS radical formation was measured
spectrophotometrically at 25C.Activities were calculated
using a molar absorption coefficient of the ABTS oxidation
product at 405 nm of 36.8 m )1Æcm)1[36]
Kinetics of AOPTP thermal inactivation
To study the kinetics of heat denaturation by intrinsic fluorescence, 0.02 mL samples of a 0.1-mMAOPTP solu-tion were added to 1.6 mL of buffer previously
thermostat-ed at the desirthermostat-ed temperature in the fluorimeter cuvette.The mixture was stirred constantly in the cuvette and the emmision intensity at a wavelength of 340 nm was recorded
at a certain time interval.In all experiments, the time for temperture equilibrium to be reached in the cuvette after sample introduction did not exceed 5 s.An almost identical procedure was applied to study the kinetics of changes in peroxidase activity with temperature.Samples of AOPTP were incubated at the desired temperature under constant stirring.At certain times, aliquots were removed and immediately transferred to test tubes placed in a water–ice mixture to stop the inactivation process.Subsequently, enzyme activity was measured as described above.The measurements were made in triplicate and the data are presented as average values
R E S U L T S A N D D I S C U S S I O N
Differential scanning calorimetry Figure 1 shows the calorimetric transitions of the thermal denaturation of AOPTP at pH 3.0, at three different scan rates.The heat absorption curve apparent Tm(temperature
at the maximum of the heat capacity profile) was found to
be dependent on the scan rate and denaturation was always calorimetrically irreversible, as no thermal effect was observed in a second heating of the enzyme solution Inspection of the DSC curves shown in Fig.1 further reveals asymmetry in the shape of the peaks, which might arise from two overlapping transitions.This would be a reasonable possibility for AOPTP, which is a fairly large
0 10 20 30 40
ex (kcal K
-1 mol
Fig 1 Temperature dependence of the excess molar heat capacity of AOPTP at scan rates of 0.5 (circles), 1.0 (squares) and 1.5 (triangles) KÆmin)1at pH 3.0 Solid lines represent the best individual fit to each experimental curve using Eqn (3).Protein concentrations were
2.5 mgÆmL)1at a scan rate of 0.5 KÆmin)1, 2 mgÆmL)1at a scan rates of 1.0, and 1.0 mgÆmL)1at a scan rate of 1.5 KÆmin)1.
Trang 4protein and may, in principle, comprise several domains
[37].We analyzed this possibility by applying the successive
annealing procedure [38].Thus, AOPTP was first heated at
a scan rate of 60 KÆh)1in the microcalorimeter cell to a
temperature of 69C, which would be close to the
maximum for a putative first transition.The sample was
cooled and then heated to 90C at the same scan rate.The
reheating scan revealed that the only effect of the first scan
was to decrease the peak intensity by a scale factor
determined by the difference in the amounts of protein
undergoing denaturation, and that there was no change in
Tmor any effect on the shape of the curve (not shown)
These experiments rule out the possibility of overlapping
independent transitions.The effect of the scan rate on the
calorimetric profiles clearly indicated that they
correspon-ded to irreversible, kinetically controlled transitions.For
this reason the analysis of DSC transitions on the basis of
equilibrium thermodynamics was ruled out [39] and was
accomplished using the simple two-state irreversible model
(Eqn 1), in which only the native (N) and final (irreversibly
denatured) (D) states are significantly populated and in
which the conversion from N to D is determined by a
strongly temperature-dependent, first order rate constant (k)
that changes with temperature, as given by the Arrhenius
equation.In this case, the excess heat capacity Cex
p is given
by the following equation [19]:
Cexp ¼1
vDH exp
EA R
1
T1 T
exp 1
v
ZT
T0
exp EA R
1
T1 T
dT
8
<
:
9
=
; ð3Þ where v¼ dT/dt (KÆmin)1) is a scan rate value; DH is the
enthalpy difference between the denatured and native states;
EAis the activation energy of the denaturation process; R is
a gas constant, and T* is temperature, where k is equal to
1 min)1
The excess heat capacity functions obtained for AOPTP
were analysed by fitting the data to the two-state irreversible
model (Eqn 3), either individually or by fitting this
theor-etical expression simoultaneously to all the experimental
curves, using the scan rate as an additional variable.The
highest likelihood values for EAand T* obtained with the
nonlinear least squares minimization procedure are shown
in Table 1.It may be seen that the calculated and
experimental curves are in good agreement.Also, the
parameters obtained from individual fits were in reasonable
agreement with those obtained from the global fit,
indica-ting that the two-state irreversible model offers a good
explanation of the AOPTP denaturation
process.Addition-ally it should be noted that no dependence of the shape of the DSC contour on the AOPTP concentration was found
at a scan rate of 60 KÆh)1in the 0.7–3.8 mgÆmL)1range.No pronounced dependence of the denaturation enthalpy on scan rate was observed (see Table 1).These data argue against an effect of intermolecular aggregation on the DSC traces obtained
Fluorescence and enzymatic activity Conformational changes in the surroundings of AOPTP aromatic side chains were detected by intrinsic fluorescence spectroscopy.The emission spectra from 300 to 400 nm of intact and thermally denatured AOPTP are represented in Fig.2.Intact AOPTP displayed a low emission intensity due to energy transfer to haem, which, as can be seen in Fig.3, significantly increased in the denatured enzyme owing to a change in the relative orientation or distance between the haem and tryptophan residue(s) [40].Therefore, the intrinsic fluorescence of AOPTP was monitored at
340 nm for thermal denaturation.Figure 3A shows the kinetic data on AOPTP denaturation as observed by changes in the fluorescence intensity obtained at five different temperatures.This figure shows that although the denaturation rate does increase with temperature, the
Table 1 Arrhenius equation parameter estimates for the two-state irreversible model of the thermal denaturation of AOPTP at pH 3.0.
Parameter
Temperature scan rate (KÆmin)1)
E A , kcalÆmol)1 99.7 ± 1.2 98.8 ± 1.4 101.1 ± 0.9 102.1 ± 1.4
0 5 10 15 20 25 30
Wavelength (nm)
Fig 2 Fluorescence spectra of intact at 25 °C (solid line) and thermally denatured at 80 °C (dashed line) 1 l M AOPTP at pH 3.0 Excitation wavelength, 296 nm.
Trang 5final level of intrinsic fluorescence is independent of the
denaturation temperature.This supports the idea that the
thermal denaturation of AOPTP is not a reversible
equilib-rium process between the native and denatured enzyme
because if this was the case the relative amounts of native
and denatured states would be expected to show a definite
temperature dependence.Therefore, this appears to be a
kinetic phenomenon involving an irreversible process
The same experimental approach was applied to the
enzymatic activity assays, as the denaturation of any
enzyme is expected to abolish its biological activity, allowing
us to monitor thermally induced conformational changes in
the catalytic surroundings by measuring the loss of
enzy-matic activity vs.time at different temperatures (Fig.3B)
The best fit of the experimental data, represented as
continuous lines in Fig.3, was achieved with an exponential
function:
F ¼ F1 þ ðF0 F1Þ exp ðktÞ ð4Þ
where F is the function value at a given time (t) and F0and
F1are normalization parameters (at t¼ 0, F ¼ F0, and at
t¼ 1, F ¼ F1), indicating a first-order kinetic process
The temperature dependence of the rate constants
obtained from the data shown in Fig.3 was expressed by
the Arrhenius equation:
k ¼ exp EA
R
1
T1 T
ð5Þ and is represented in Fig.4.Thus, the activation energy and
T* can be calculated from the linear fit of both the
fluorescence and enzymatic assay data.The value thus obtained (EA¼ 110.8 ± 3.2 kcalÆmol)1) and (T*¼ 345.9 ± 1.8 K), were in satisfactory agreement with the values obtained from the DSC experiments (Table 1) Circular dichroism
CD is one of the most sensitive physical technique for determining structures and monitoring the structural
15
20
25
30
intensity at 340 nm a
0.0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1.0
Time (min)
b
0.01
100
0.1 1
Time (min)
Fig 3 Temperature dependence of the thermal denaturation kinetics of
AOPTP at pH 3.0 as monitored by intrinsic fluorescence (a) and
per-oxidase activity shown at normal (b) and semilog scale (b, insert).
Symbols refer to the experimental data at different temperatures:
73.6 C (s), 70.9 C (d), 69.2 C (n), 68.7 C (m), and 65.9 C (,) in
(a); 71.0 C (s), 68.0 C (d), 66.5 C (n), and 65.2 C (m) in (b).
-3 -2 -1 0
103/T in K
Fig 4 Dependence of the logarithm of the inactivation rate constant (min)1) on the reciprocal value of the absolute temperature as monitored
by intrinsic fluorescence (solid symbols) and enzymatic activity assays (open symbols) for AOPTP at pH 3.0 The line was fitted by linear regression.
-10000 -5000 0 5000 10000 15000
2 dmol
-1 )
Wavelength (nm)
-7000 -6000 -5000 -4000
Temperature (oC)
2 dmol -1 )
Fig 5 CD spectra in the far-ultraviolet spectral region of intact (solid line) and irreversible thermally denatured (dashed line) 2 l M AOPTP at
pH 3.0 and 25 °C (Inset) Temperature dependences of ellipticity at
222 nm for AOPTP at pH 3.0 obtained upon heating with a constant scan rate of 1 KÆmin)1.Solid line is best fit obtained using Eqn (7).
Trang 6changes occurring in biomacromolecules [41], affording a
direct interpretation of the changes in protein secondary
structure.Figure 5 shows the far-UV CD spectra of intact
(solid line) and thermally denatured (dashed line) AOPTP at
pH 3.0 The fractions of a helix, a strand, turns, and
unordered secondary structures obtained following the
SELCON3 self-consistent method [34] are given in Table 2
It is clear that AOPTP is significantly different from other
haem peroxidases from plants for which, despite the low
level of sequence homology (often less than 20%), the overall
folding and the organization of the secondary structure is
conserved [42].The structure of haem peroxidases from
plants is formed by 10–11 a helices (c.40%), linked by loops
and turns, while a structures are essentially absent or are only
a minor component [43].By contrast, intact AOPTP
contains a considerable amount of a-structure ( 38%)
and only 15% of a helices, at pH 3.0 This probably makes
this enzyme more stable in comparison with horseradish
peroxidase which under the same experimental conditions
has 42% of a helices and only 11% of a structure [8]
Upon heating AOPTP to the denaturation temperature,
the shape of the CD spectrum changes, showing an increase
in unordered structure from 30%, for the intact enzyme,
up to 50% for the denatured one (see Table 2).The
process of thermal denaturation of AOPTP was monitored
directly by following the changes in molar ellipticity at
222 nm as at this wavelength the changes in ellipticity are
significant upon heating.On increasing temperature (Fig.5,
insert), irreversible cooperative transitions to the denatured
state occurred, which were analyzed using a nonlinear least
squares fitting (see lines through the data points in Fig.5,
insert).In this case, the fraction of denatured AOPTP, FU
was calculated from the spectral parameter used to follow
denaturation (y) prior to the minimization procedure,
according to the expression:
FU¼ ðy yNÞ=ðyU yNÞ ð6Þ
where yN¼ a1+ a2T and yU¼ b1+ b2T represents the
mean values of the y characteristic of the native and
denatured conformations, respectively, obtained by linear
regressions of pre- and post-transitional baselines; T is the
temperature.In this case, the parameter used to follow
denaturation, y, can be expressed as a function of the kinetic
parameters by equation [19]:
y ¼ yU ½yU yN
1 v
ðT
T 0
exp EA R
1
T1 T
dT
8
<
:
9
=
; ð7Þ Fitting of the experimental data to this equation afforded
the T* parameter and the activation energy for AOPTP
These results were 347.2 ± 1.6 K and 106.0 ± 1.4 kcalÆ
mol)1, respectively, which are similar to the values for the same parameters obtained by the other methods used in this work.Thus, all these independent experimental approaches support the conclusion that AOPTP thermal denaturation can be interpreted in terms of the irreversible two-state kinetic model, and that only two states, native and denatured, are populated in its denaturation process Finally, it is interesting to compare the thermal stability
of AOPTP with that of other peroxidases.In our previous publication [8] we reported the results of a detailed investigation of the thermal denaturation of horseradish peroxidase isoenzyme c under the same experimental conditions as those used here.It is clear that AOPTP is substantially more thermostable than HRPc.Thus, the Tm for AOPTP at a scan rate of 60 KÆh)1 is 72.3 ± 0.2C while for HRPc this value is only 60.2 ± 0.2C.The Arrhenius denaturation energy of AOPTP obtained by different methods, 103 ± 6 kcalÆmol)1, is a high value in comparison not only with value for HRPc (38 ± 1 kcalÆ mol)1) but also in comparison with those found for other plant peroxidases [4].Coupled with its high catalytic potential [44], the unique high thermostability of AOPTP promises good perspectives for this peroxidase in biotech-nological applications
A C K N O W L E D G E M E N T S
This work was supported by NATO Linkage Grant LST.CLG 975189 (to M.G.R., I.Y.S.and V.L.S.).D.G.P.is a fellowship holder from Fundac¸a˜o para a Cieˆncia e a Tecnologia, Portugal (Ref.SFRH/BD/ 1067/2000).We thank N.S.D.Skinner for proof-reading the manu-script.
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