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  • Title: The effect of guanidine hydrochloride on the conformation of bovine pancreatic DNAase I as measured with circular dichroism.
    Author: Okabe N, Fujita E, Tomita KI.
    Journal: Biochim Biophys Acta; 1982 Jan 18; 700(2):165-70. PubMed ID: 6275897.
    Abstract:
    The denaturation of bovine pancreatic DNAase I (EC 3.1.21.1) by guanidine hydrochloride (GdnHCl) has been investigated with circular dichroism in the presence and absence of 1 mM Ca2+ at the wavelength region of 210-240 nm at 12.25 and 36 degree C. The change of the molar ellipticity at 220 nm by GdnHCl titration showed cooperative transition at each temperature and the midpoints of the titrations occurred near 2 M GdnHCl. At each temperature, the denaturation of DNAase I in the presence of 1 mM Ca2+ occurred a little slowly as compared with that in the absence of Ca2+. This suggests that 1 mM Ca2+ can to some extent stabilize the secondary structure of DNAase I against GdnHCl denaturation. The apparent free energy for the denaturation of DNAase I obtained by GdnHCl titration was calculated as 9.3 +/- 0.3 kcal/mol and 8.9 +/- 0.2 kcal/mol at 25 degree C in the presence and absence of 1 mM Ca2+, respectively. The possible regions for the alpha -helix and beta -structure of DNAase I were predicted from the amino acid sequence by probability calculation of Chou, P.Y. and Fasman, G.D., Adv. Enzymol. 47, 45-148. The characteristic feature is that the NH2-terminal half of DNAase I is rich in beta -structure and the COOH-terminal half contains mainly alpha -helix.
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