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Structural response of human serum albumin to oxidation : Biological buffer to local formation of hypochlorite

Del Giudice, Alessandra ; Dicko, Cedric LU orcid ; Galantini, Luciano and Pavel, Nicolae V. (2016) In Journal of Physical Chemistry B 120(40). p.12261-12271
Abstract

The most abundant plasma protein, human serum albumin (HSA), plays a key part in the body's antioxidant defense against reactive species. This study was aimed at correlating oxidant-induced chemical and structural effects on HSA. Despite the chemical modification induced by the oxidant hypochlorite, the native shape is preserved up to oxidant/HSA molar ratio <80, above which a structural transition occurs in the critical range 80-120. This conformational variation involves the drifting of one of the end-domains from the rest of the protein and corresponds to the loss of one-third of the α-helix and a net increase of the protein negative charge. The transition is highly reproducible suggesting that it represents a well-defined... (More)

The most abundant plasma protein, human serum albumin (HSA), plays a key part in the body's antioxidant defense against reactive species. This study was aimed at correlating oxidant-induced chemical and structural effects on HSA. Despite the chemical modification induced by the oxidant hypochlorite, the native shape is preserved up to oxidant/HSA molar ratio <80, above which a structural transition occurs in the critical range 80-120. This conformational variation involves the drifting of one of the end-domains from the rest of the protein and corresponds to the loss of one-third of the α-helix and a net increase of the protein negative charge. The transition is highly reproducible suggesting that it represents a well-defined structural response typical of this multidomain protein. The ability to tolerate high levels of chemical modification in a folded or only partially unfolded state, as well as the stability to aggregation, provides albumin with optimal features as a biological buffer for the local formation of oxidants. (Graph Presented).

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  author       = {{Del Giudice, Alessandra and Dicko, Cedric and Galantini, Luciano and Pavel, Nicolae V.}},
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  pages        = {{12261--12271}},
  publisher    = {{The American Chemical Society (ACS)}},
  series       = {{Journal of Physical Chemistry B}},
  title        = {{Structural response of human serum albumin to oxidation : Biological buffer to local formation of hypochlorite}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b08601}},
  doi          = {{10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b08601}},
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