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Characterization of protein spin labeling by maleimide: Evidence for nitroxide reduction

✍ Scribed by Janice R. Perussi; Maria H. Tinto; Otaciro R. Nascimento; M. Tabak

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1988
Tongue: English
Weight: 511 KB
Volume: 173
Category: Article
ISSN: 0003-2697
DOI: 10.1016/0003-2697(88)90192-3

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✦ Synopsis

A quantitative determination of maleimide spin label (MAL) binding in oxi and met hemoglobin (Hb) and bovine serum albumin are investigated using double integration to the ESR signal. This determination permitted the observation that a considerable fraction of MAL is reduced, losing its paramagnetism. Experiments using the same spin label with myoglobin and Hb with blocked-SH groups, where reduction was not observed, indicate the involvement of SH groups in the process. The 4-hydroxy-2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidino-1-oxyl spin label (which is not able to bind in the SH group) is reduced too, but the dependence on the molar ratio is different in comparison with the MAL case. In both cases the reduction percentage depends on the molar ratio spin label to protein and to the protein concentration. In order to obtain the total SH groups labeled (two in the Hb case) it is necessary to use an excessive amount of label (around 18:1) in the 0.5 mM Hb concentration.

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