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CD Spectroscopy
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General features of spectroscopy
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Dichroism
–Linear Dichroism (LD)
Difference in absorption of ║versus ⊥ polarized light
–Optical Rotary Dispersion (ORD) Rotation of linearly polarized light by sample
–Circular Dichroism (CD) Difference in absorption of left versus right circularly polarized light
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Polarization of Light
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Polarization of Light• Plane-polarized light consists of two circularly polarized components
of equal intensity by opposite sense of rotation
• the two components are like left- and right-handed helices
• Two orthogonal plane waves with zero degree phase difference form linearly polarized light, two orthogonal plane waves with a 90° phase difference form circularly polarized light. Depending on whether the phase difference is plus or minus 90° the sense of rotation is clockwise or anti-clockwise.
• Differential absorption of the clock- and anti-clockwise components by an optically active compound results in a rotation of the plane of the light
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Linearly and circular polarized light
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Superposition of plane-polarized light
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Differential absorption of two circularly polarized beams
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Cotton Effect• The differential absorption of circularly polarized light changes its sign in
the region of maximum absorption
• ORD spectra are dispersive, CD spectra absoptive
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Optical Rotatory Dispersion
the angular velocities of the left and right circularly polarized beams are different in the sample. The orientation of the ellipse a is called optical rotation. The measurement of the optical rotation in dependence of the used wavelength is the optical rotatory dispersion.
(L) (R)
(L) (R)
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Circular Dichroism
• in substances with optical activity the left and right circularly polarized light beams are traveling at different speed and are absorbed to a different extent.
• the circular dichroism is characterized by the ratio of the semiminor and semimajor axes of the ellipse tanθ= c/b
• θ is known as the ellipticity
b
c
θ
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The components of a CD spectrometer
Block diagram of a spectropolarimeter (Jasco J-810). Plane polarized radiation is produced by passage of light from the source (LS) through 2 prisms (P1 and P2) and a series of mirrors (M0 to M5) and slits (S1 to S3). The ordinary ray (O) is focussed by a lens (L), and passed through a filter (F) to the modulator (CDM). The circularly polarized components are then passed through the shutter (SH) to the sample compartment, before detection by the photomultiplier (PM).
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Absorption and Molar Ellipticity
ΔA(λ) = Al(λ) - Ar(λ) = [εl(λ) - εr(λ) ]✕d✕c = Δε✕d✕c
c: concentration (mg/ml), d= path length (cm) (Lambert Beer)
ΔA = θ/32.98
[θ] (molar ellipticity)= MW✕100✕θ/c✕d (deg•cm2•dmol-1) (c in mg/
ml; d in cm)
[θ] (mean residue ellipticity)= MRW✕θ/10c✕d (deg•cm2•dmol-1)
MRW (mean residue weight): = M/(N-1) (approx. 110±5 Da)
far UV: 100% helix content-> mean residue ellipticity at 222nm is about -30000 (Δε= -9 M-1 cm-1)
near UV: mean residue ellipticity of aromatic side chains are less than 200 (Δεless than 0.06 M-1 cm-1)
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Accurate knowledge of protein concentration
• UV absorption at A280: (Trp or Tyr required)– A280= (5690#(Trp) + 1280#(Tyr) + 60#(Cys))/MW– (For theoretical values see www.us.exapsy.org/tools/protparm.hmtl)– no contribution from light scattering– no other absorbing contaminant– correction applied for difference between native and folded
state (measure in ative buffer and in 8 M GdCl and compare the A280 values
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Effects of Protein Concentration
CD spectra High-tension voltage traces
solid: 0.2 mg/mldotted: 1.0 mg/mldashed: 5.0 mg/ml(lysozyme)
usable values < 700 V15
Transitions of the amide bond
•πo->π* : 190 nmelectrically allowed,εmax of 104M-1cm-1
transition moment along N-O directionsolvent insensitive
•n-> π* : 215-222 nmelectrically forbidden,εmax of 100 M-1cm-1
large transition dipole moment along the carbonyl bond
solvent sensitive
The intensity and energy of these transitions
depends on these transitions depends on φ and
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CD and Secondary Structure
Wavelength, nm
190 200 210 220 230 240 250
[q] X 10- 3, deg. cm2. dmol-1
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-40
-20
0
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60
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a-helixb-sheetType 1 turnRandom coilPoly-L-proline (P2) Accuracy of the CD method
(compared to known structures): helix 95-100% sheet < 75% turn < 25% other < 90 %
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Typical CD spectra of regular secondary structures
α-helix β-sheet
β-turn
rc
PP-2 helix
An all helix polypeptide has an ellipticity of -38000 deg cm2mol-1res-1
at 222 nm
An all random polypeptide has an ellipticity of -1200 deg cm2mol-1res-1 at 222 nm
In general, the CD signal at 215 nm indicates the sheet content and the signal at 208 nm and 222 nm are used to calculate the helical content.
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Features of CD spectra
Secondary
structure element
Signal Electron
transition
Position of minimum or
maximum
Molar ellipticity of minima
and maxima
[deg·cm2 dmol-1]
-helix positive -> * 190-195 nm 60.000 to 80.000
negative -> * 208 -36.000 ± 3.000
negative n-> * 222 -36.000 ± 3.000
-sheet positive -> * 195 - 200 30.000 to 50.000
negative n-> * 215 - 220 -10.000 to –20.000
random negative -> * ca. 200 -20.000
positive n-> * 220
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Estimation of Secondary Structure (Content)
• In a first approximation, a CD spectrum of a protein or polypeptide can be treated as a sum of three components: α-helical, β-sheet,
and random coil contributions to the spectrum.
• At each wavelength, the ellipticity (θ) of the spectrum will contain a
linear combination of these components:
θtot = χh• θh + χS• θS + χC• θC
• θtot is the total measured elipticity, θh the contribution from helix,
θs for sheet, θc for coil, and the corresponding χthe fraction of this
contribution.
• The experimental spectrum can be back-calculated from the individual contributions, and the deviation across all ellipticities be minimized.
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Contributions of π-Systems to CD Spectra
The near UV CD spectrum for type II dehydroquinase from Streptomyces coelicolor. The
wavelength ranges corresponding to signals from Phe, Tyr and Trp side chains are indicated,
but it should be emphasized that there can be considerable overlap between the Tyr and Trp signals.
Far-UV CD spectra are complicated by Phe, Tyr, Trp and S-S bonds that can dominate that region because of allowed π->π* transitions
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Contributions of π-Systems to CD Spectra (II)
CD spectra of wild type and mutant (R23Q) type II
dehydroquinase from Streptomyces coelicolor.
The far UV spectrum (panel A) and near UV spectrum
(panel B) show that the wild-type (solid line) and mutant
(dotted line) enzymes have very similar secondary and
tertiary structures. The loss of catalytic activity in the
mutant cannot therefore be due to an inability to acquire
the correct folded structure.
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The choice of the Buffer
Absorption properties of selected bu!er components in the far UV
Component Absorbance (50 mM solution in 0.02 cm pathlength cell)
180 nm 190 nm 200 nm 210 nm
NaCl >0.5 >0.5 0.02 0NaF 0 0 0 0NaClO 4 0 0 0 0Boric acid 0 0 0 0Na borate
(pH 9.1)0.3 0.09 0 0
Na2HPO4 >0.5 0.3 0.05 0NaH2PO4 0.15 0.01 0 0Na acetate >0.5 >0.5 0.17 0.03Tris/H2SO4
(pH 8.0)>0.5 0.24 0.13 0.02
HEPES/Na +
(pH 7.5)>0.5 >0.5 0.5 0.37
MES/Na +
(pH 6.0)>0.5 0.29 0.29 0.07
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The choice of the Buffer (II)
The effects of buffer components on far UV CD spectra. Lysozyme (0.2 mg/ml) was dissolved in 50 mM sodium phosphate buffer, pH 7.5 (spectrum 1, solid line), or sodium phosphate buffer containing either 150 mM NaCl (spectrum 2, dashed line) or 150 mM imidazole (spectrum 3, dash – dot – dot line), or in 50 mM Tris/acetate, pH 7.5 (spectrum 4, dotted line).
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Maintenance
• (quartz) cells are expensive (400$), handle with care, don’t scratch with pipette.
• quartz cell should be washed. Use conc. HNO3 for 1 min, in bad case for 1 h, followed by extensive washing with distilled water, then ethanol, followed by drying with vacuum pump (or blow N2 gas through them). Don’t use pressurized air since it contains traces of oil.
• purge instrument with N2 before usage (O2 will be converted by the UV to the aggressive O3.
• after switching on allow for 30 min to warm up. Check stability of the instrument by the drift of the baseline.
• lifetime of the light source is approx. 1000 h of usage, after which output will be poorer.
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CD and conformational changes
• Monitoring θ222 of a protein as a function of temperature or
chemical denaturant yields important information on protein stability allowing to compute the thermodynamic parameter ΔGu,
ΔHu, ΔSu, Tm and ΔCp
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-14
-12
-10
-8
-6
-4
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
T [ºC]-8000.0
-7000.0
-6000.0
-5000.0
-4000.0
-3000.0
-2000.0
-1000.0
0.0
1000.0
200 210 220 230 240 250
nm
mdeg
Secondary structure prediction (K2D):- α-helix: 26%
- β-sheet:21%
Unfolding of Procaspase-8
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Montoring pH-induced Denaturation
pH-Induced denaturation of natively folded HuIL-1β
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TFE-induced folding of natively unfolded -α-synuclein
TFE conc.
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Cation-binding induced folding
Uversky et al. (2000) BBRC 267, 663 Uversky et al. (2001) JBC 276, 44284 Uversky et al. (2002) JPR 1, 149 Permyakov et al. (2003) Proteins 53, 855 Munishkina et al. (2004) JBC 342, 1305
Zn2+ conc.
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220 240 260 280 300 320
-400
-200
0
200[ θ
] x 1
0-3
[deg c
m 2
dm
ol
-1
]
wavelength [nm]
-2 0 2 4 6 8 10
0,0
0,2
0,4
0,6
0,8
1,0
ln (
ab
so
rption
240nm)
[OD
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Cd(II) / Thionein
ab
so
rption
240n (
no
rma
lize
d)
220 240 260 280 300 320
-400
-200
0
200
wavelength [nm]
0 2 14 16 18
-3,0
-2,5
-2,0
-1,5
-1,0
Time [h]
Cd2+ Cd2+
time course of the metal-loading reaction followed at 240 nm.
Metal titration of blue-crab MT followed by CD
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