Artigo
Comparative EPR and fluorescence conformational studies of fully active spin-labeled melanotropic peptides
Fecha
2001-05-25Registro en:
Febs Letters. Amsterdam: Elsevier B.V., v. 497, n. 2-3, p. 103-107, 2001.
0014-5793
WOS000169120900009.pdf
10.1016/S0014-5793(01)02449-8
WOS:000169120900009
Autor
Nakaie, Clovis Ryuichi [UNIFESP]
Barbosa, Simone Reis [UNIFESP]
Vieira, Renata de Freitas Fischer [UNIFESP]
Fernandez, Roberto Morato
Cilli, Eduardo Maffud [UNIFESP]
Castrucci, Ana Maria de Lauro
Visconti, Maria Aparecida
Ito, Amando Siuiti
Lamy, Maria Teresa
Institución
Resumen
Similar to melanocyte stimulating hormone (alpha -MSH), its potent and long-acting analogue, [Nle(4), D-Phe(7)]alpha -MSH, when labeled with the paramagnetic amino acid probe 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-N-oxyl-4-amino-4-carboxylic acid (Toac), maintains its full biological potency, thus validating any comparative structural investigations between the two labeled peptides, Correlation times, calculated from tire electron paramagnetic resonance signal of Toac bound to the peptides, and Toac-Trp distances, estimated from the Toac fluorescence quenching of the Trp residue present in the peptides, indicate a more rigid and folded structure for the potent analogue as compared to the hormone, in aqueous medium. (C) 2001 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. on behalf of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies.