Tryptophan‐130 is the most reactive tryptophan residue in rabbit skeletal myosin subfragment‐1
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 259 (2) , 346-348
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0014-5793(90)80044-j
Abstract
Rabbit skeletal muscle myosin subfragment-1 (S-1) was reacted with dimethyl(2-hydroxy-5-nitrobenzyl)sulfonium bromide (DHNBS) resulting in modification of 0.8 tryptophan residues per S-1. In order to assign the most reactive tryptophan of the 5 S-1 tryptophans, antibodies were raised in rabbits against bovine serum albumin modified with DHNBS. The antibodies reacted with the 27 kDa tryptic fragment of DHNBS-treated S-1, indicating that the reactive tryptophan resides on this domain. The 27 kDa fragment was isolated from DHNBS-treated S-1 and was further cleaved at a single cysteine residue by 2-nitro-5-thiocyanobenzoic acid. This cleavage resulted in two peptides, each of them containing one tryptophan. The antibodies reacted with the smaller peptide consisting of residues 122–204. The only tryptophan residing on this peptide is Trp130, and this is therefore the most reactive tryptophan of S-1Keywords
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