Short insertion in a hemoglobin chain: Hb Esch,an unstable alpha1 variant with duplication of the sequence Ala65-Leu-Thr-Asn68 |
| |
Authors: | Préhu C Groff P Kalmes G Golinska B Riou J Prome D Richelme-David S Kiger L Ducrocq R Wajcman H |
| |
Affiliation: | INSERM U 468 and Laboratoire de Biochimie, H?pital Henri Mondor, 94010 Creteil, France. |
| |
Abstract: | Hemoglobin (Hb) Esch, is an alpha1 variant, expressed at less than 5%, resulting from the duplication of the 12 nucleotides corresponding to CD65 through 68. The effect of this insertion is the repetition of the sequence Ala-Leu-Thr-Asn, which corresponds to the last turn of helix E. In this variant the presence of a one-turn elongated helix E causes instability and increased ligand affinity. Hb Esch was characterized by DNA sequencing and confirmed by electrospray mass spectrometry. Functional studies were performed by flash photolysis measurements on a fraction isolated by flatbed isoelectric focusing, which was enriched in the abnormal hemoglobin. Similar to other alpha chain variants due to short insertion (or deletion), Hb Esch probably results from a slipped mispairing mechanism. The stability of such modified proteins depends upon the region which is added or deleted and usually is more stable when involving a flexible loop or complete helix turn(s) near by. |
| |
Keywords: | |
本文献已被 PubMed 等数据库收录! |
|