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Local Unfolding in a Destabilized, Pathogenic Variant of Superoxide Dismutase 1 Observed with H/D Exchange and Mass Spectrometry*

Bryan F. Shaw,A. Durazo,A. Nersissian,J. Whitelegge,K. Faull,J. Valentine

Published 2006 in Journal of Biological Chemistry

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Hydrogen exchange monitored by mass spectrometry has been used to study the structural behavior of the pathogenic A4V variant of superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) in the metal-free (apo) form. Mass spectrometric data revealed that in the disulfide-intact (S-S) form, the A4V variant is destabilized at residues 50-53, in the disulfide subloop of the dimer interface, but many other regions of the A4V protein exhibited hydrogen exchange properties identical to that of the wild type protein. Additionally, mass spectrometry revealed that A4V apoSOD1S-S undergoes slow localized unfolding in a large segment of the β-barrel that included β3, β4, and loops II and III. In the disulfide-reduced form, A4V apoSOD1 exchanged like a “random coil” polypeptide at 20 °C and began to populate folded states at 4 °C. These local and global unfolding events could facilitate intermolecular protein-protein interactions that cause the aggregation or neurotoxicity of A4V SOD1.

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