8. Frederick Banting
Hugo Theorell
Earl W Sutherland
Gerald M Edelman
Rodney Porter
Rosalyn S Yalow
Alfred G Gilman
Martin Rodbell
Stanley Prusiner
Aaron Ciechanover
Avram Hershko
Irwin Rose
Wendell Meredith Stanley
Paul D Boyer
John E Walker
Aaron Klug
John Warcup Cornforth
Christian B Anfinsen
Stanford Moore
William Stein
Max Ferdinand Perutz
John Cowdery Kendrew
Frederick Sanger
Arne W K Tiselius
John Howard Northrop
12. Protein stability
The extreme diversity in their chemical and
physical properties is achieved due to the
variety in their properties of their building
blocks
Effort to design a protein with a specific
function, nature has to solve an extremely
difficult problem
It needs be active and thermodynamically
stable
13. Protein stability
The situation becomes more complicated
since this stability must be ascertained in
a certain range of environmental conditions
The native conformation of a protein is stable
in a narrow range of temperature,pH,
chemical composition of solvent, etc.
ProteinpH Temp.
Salt Conc.
14. • Hydrogen Bonding
• Vander Waals interactions
• Ionic strengths
• Disulfide bonds
Hydrophobicity: the dominant
force in protein folding
Forces involved in Protein stabilisation
15. Protein Denaturation
The activity of a protein depends on its
three-dimensional structure.
Intramolecular bonds, especially
hydrogen bonds, maintain
the structure.
Hydrogen bonds may break when
the pH drops or the temperature
rises above normal denaturing
the protein
18. Folding a protein on a computer with a full-atom
model in explicit solvent has been termed the
'holy grail' of the protein folding problem
Berendsen HJC:
Science 1998, 282: 642)
A glimpse of the holy grail?
24. Native
UnfoldedProtein with 100 amino acid residues
Assume 2 conformations for each residue
2100
possibilities
1010
years of random searching
Levinthal paradox (1968)
27. Folding is a stepwise process
Local secondary structures forms first and this is
Followed by longer range interactions
28. A stably folded proteins has…..
Hydrophobic side chains buried
Charged side chains on the surface
Cysteine’s form Covalent disulfide bonds
“All these features will contribute to Minimum”
energy state
Pack as close together as possiblePack as close together as possible
Minimize contacts between hydrophobicMinimize contacts between hydrophobic
groups and watergroups and water
30. Mutations
Premature termination of Translation
Fault in post-translational modifications
Strong Promoters
High Inducer concentrations
Reasons for protein misfolding
Loss of conformation due to stress`
38. Interesting story
F. Ritossa –1960 discovered the heat shock
(HS) response while observing the salivary
cells of Drosophila and named them HSP’s
My name is
Chaperone
40. How do Chaperones work?
Heat shock proteins stabilize proteins and
are involved in the folding of denatured
proteins
41. Hsp 100
Hsp 90
Hsp 60
Hsp 70
Small
Hsp’s
Hsp 40
Family Major Functions
Protein disaggregation, thermotolerance
Regulatory interactions with signaling proteins,
stabilization of misfolded proteins
Protein folding, membrane transport of proteins
Protein folding (limited substrates in eukaryotic
cytoplasm)
Protein folding, co-chaperone for Hsp70
Stabilization of misfolded proteins, thermotolerance,
eye lens structural proteins
Functions of HSP families
42. Other inducers of the heat shock proteins:
Oxidizing agents
Metals
Sulfhydryl reagents
• Poisonous gases…………
43.
44. The Nobel Prize
Chemistry 2004
"Kiss of Death"
Aaron Ciechanover,
Avram Hershko,
Irwin Rose
Exit
Entry
45. Protein misfolding Diseases
Protein misfolding diseases can be classified
in to two categories
Diseases caused due to the misfolding
or degradation of misfolded proteins
Diseases caused due to accumulation of
misfolded proteins
46. Disease Protein Involved
Cystic Fibrosis CFTR
Retinitis pigmentosa Rhodopsin
Cancer p53
Osteogenesis
imperfecta
Type 1 procollagen
Pro A
Marfan Syndrome Fibrillin
Sickle Cell anemia Hemoglobin
Disease caused due to the misfolding or
degradation of misfolded Protein
51. Gene codes for a protein, CFTR, which is
chloride ion channel.
Small fraction of protein matures to the cell
surface
Mutation in protein
CFTRΔF508 doesn't
reach the cell surface.
Cystic fibrosis
53. Disease Protein involved
Alzheimer’s Disease Amyloid β- peptide
Huntington Disease Huntington protein
Spongiform
encephalopathies
Prion Protein
Diseases caused due to the accumulation of
misfolded protein
62. Summary
Proper folding of proteins is essential for a
cell to carry out Its normal cellular function
Misfolded proteins can result in a wide
variety of pathological conditions
Existing therapies do not provide efficient
cure for these Pathological conditions
Small molecules called chaperones that
increase the stability of the native state
offer innovative therapeutic solution
63. Why study protein folding?
Understanding Protein folding in vivo helps
in adapting them in invitro and Insilco
Molecular Drug design
Protein-protein interactions
Grastim
Dengue vaccine
64. Mobile phones, heat shock proteinsMobile phones, heat shock proteins
and cancerand cancer
65. Mobile phone use
Absorption of energy in to brain tissue
Protein unfolding
Heat shock response
Heat shock proteins induced HSP 27,40,70,90,110
Repeated mobile use
Chronic expression of HSPs
Induction
of cancer
Increased
metastasis
Inhibition of
Apoptosis
Resistance to anti
cancer drugs
Protein
refolding