Molecular phylogenetic analyses of albuminoids reveal the molecular evolution of allosteric properties

IUBMB Life

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 544-549

  Ascenzi, Paolo ^a,b   Di Masi, Alessandra ^b   Leboffe, Loris ^a,b   Alberio, Tiziana ^c   Fanali, Gabriella ^c   Fasano, Mauro ^c  

^a National Institute for Biostructures and Biosystems   (Italy)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

fetoprotein; Afamin; Allostery; Molecular evolution; Serum albumin; Vitamin D binding protein

Indexed keywords

ALBUMINOID; ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL BINDING PROTEIN; BINDING PROTEIN; FATTY ACID; HUMAN SERUM ALBUMIN; SERUM ALBUMIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VITAMIN D BINDING PROTEIN;

ALLOSTERISM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; EVOLUTION; LIGAND BINDING; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

AFAMIN; ALLOSTERY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; SERUM ALBUMIN; VITAMIN D BINDING PROTEIN; Α-FETOPROTEIN;

ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; ALLOSTERIC SITE; ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SERUM ALBUMIN;

EID: 84881524001     PISSN: 15216543     EISSN: 15216551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/iub.1164     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Sugio, S., Kashima, A., Mochizuki, S., Noda, M., and Kobayashi, K. (1999) Crystal structure of human serum albumin at 2.5 Å resolution. Protein Eng. 12, 439-446.
2. Mizejewski, G. J. (2001) Alpha-fetoprotein structure and function: relevance to isoforms, epitopes, and conformational variants. Exp. Biol. Med. 226, 377-408.
3. Voegele, A. F., Jerkovic, L., Wellenzohn, B., Eller, P., Kronenberg, F., et al. (2002) Characterization of the vitamin E-binding properties of human plasma afamin. Biochemistry 41, 14532-14538.
4. Jerkovic, L., Voegele, A. F., Chwatal, S., Kronenberg, F., Radcliffe, C. M., et al. (2005) Afamin is a novel human vitamin E-binding glycoprotein. Characterization and in vitro expression. J. Proteome Res. 4, 889-899.
5. Speeckaert, M., Huang, G., Delanghe, J. R., and Taes, Y. E. (2006) Biological and clinical aspects of the vitamin D binding protein (Gc-globulin) and its polymorphism. Clin. Chim. Acta 372, 33-42.
6. Fanali, G., di Masi, A., Trezza, V., Marino, M., Fasano, M., et al. (2012) Human serum albumin: from bench to bedside. Mol. Aspects Med. 33, 209-290.
7. Ahmad, E., Rabbani, G., Zaidi, N., Ahmad, B., and Khan, R. H. (2012) Pollutant-induced modulation in conformation and b-lactamase activity of human serum albumin. PLoS One 7, e38372.
8. Peters, T. Jr. (1996) All about Albumin: Biochemistry, Genetics and Medical Applications. Academic Press, San Diego, CA.
9. Bhattacharya, A. A., Grüne, T., and Curry, S. (2000) Crystallographic analysis reveals common modes of binding of medium and long-chain fatty acids to human serum albumin. J. Mol. Biol. 303, 721-732.
10. Guex, N., Peitsch, M. C., and Schwede, T. (2009) Automated comparative protein structure modeling with SWISS-MODEL and Swiss-PdbViewer: a historical perspective. Electrophoresis 30 (Suppl. 1), S162-S673.
11. Fasano, M., Curry, S., Terreno, E., Galliano, M., Fanali, G., et al. (2005) The extraordinary ligand binding properties of human serum albumin. IUBMB Life 57, 787-796.
12. Ascenzi, P. and Fasano, M. (2009) Serum heme-Albumin: an allosteric protein. IUBMB Life 61, 1118-1122.
13. Ascenzi, P. and Fasano, M. (2010) Allostery in a monomeric protein: the case of human serum albumin. Biophys. Chem. 148, 16-22.
14. Chuang, V. T. and Otagiri, M. (2006) Stereoselective binding of human serum albumin. Chirality 18, 159-166.
15. Fanali, G., Fesce, R., Agrati, C., Ascenzi, P., and Fasano, M. (2005) Allosteric modulation of myristate and Mn(III)-heme binding to human serum albumin: optical and NMR spectroscopy characterization. FEBS J. 272, 4672-4683.
16. Simard, J. R., Zunszain, P. A., Hamilton, J. A., and Curry, S. (2006) Location of high and low affinity fatty acid binding sites on human serum albumin revealed by NMR drug-competition analysis. J. Mol. Biol. 361, 336-351.
17. Fanali, G., Cao, Y., Ascenzi, P., Trezza, V., Rubino, T., et al. (2011) Binding of d9-Tetrahydrocannabinol and diazepam to human serum albumin. IUBMB Life 63, 446-451.
18. Fanali, G., Ascenzi, P., Bernardi, G., and Fasano, M. (2012) Sequence analysis of serum albumins reveals the molecular evolution of ligand recognition properties. J. Biomol. Struct. Dyn. 29, 691-701.
19. Fasano, M., Fanali, G., Leboffe, L., and Ascenzi, P. (2007) Heme binding to albuminoid proteins is the result of recent evolution. IUBMB Life 59, 436-440.
20. Jain, E., Bairoch, A., Duvaud, S., Phan, I., Redaschi, B., et al. (2009) Infrastructure for the life sciences: design and implementation of the UniProt website. BMC Bioinformatics 10, 136.
21. Abascal, F., Zardoya, R., and Posada, D. (2005) ProtTest: selection of best-fit models of protein evolution. Bioinformatics 21, 2104-2105.
22. Tamura, K., Peterson, D., Peterson, N., Stecher, G., Nei, M., et al. (2011) MEGA5: molecular evolutionary genetics analysis using maximum likelihood, evolutionary distance, and maximum parsimony methods.Mol. Biol. Evol. 28, 2731-2739.
23. Jones, D. T., Taylor, W. R., and Thornton, J. M. (1992) The rapid generation of mutation data matrices from protein sequences. Comput. Appl. Biosci. 8, 275-282.
24. McDonald, J. H. (2009) Handbook of Biological Statistics, 2nd ed.Sparky House Publishing, Baltimore, MD.
25. Ashkenazy, H., Erez, E., Martz, E., Pupko, T., and Ben-Tal, N. (2010) ConSurf 2010: calculating evolutionary conservation in sequence and structure of proteins and nucleic acids. Nucleic Acids Res.38, W529-W533.
26. Otterbein, L. R., Cosio, C., Graceffa, P., and Dominguez, R. (2002) Crystal structures of the vitamin D-binding protein and its complex with actin: structural basis of the actin-scavenger system. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99, 8003-8008.
27. Nöel, E. S., Reis, M. D., Arain, Z., and Ober, E. A. (2010) Analysis of the Albumin/a-Fetoprotein/Afamin/Group specific component gene family in the context of zebrafish liver differentiation. Gene Expr. Patterns 10, 237-243.
28. Fanali, G., Fasano, M., Ascenzi, P., Zingg, J. M., and Azzi, A. (2013) a-Tocopherol binding to human serum albumin. Biofactors; doi: 10.1002/biof.1070.
29. van der Vusse, G. J. (2009) Albumin as fatty acid transporter. Drug Metab. Pharmacokinet. 24, 300-307.
30. Fanali, G., Pariani, G., Ascenzi, P., and Fasano, M. (2009) Allosteric and binding properties of Asp1-Glu382 truncated recombinant human serum albumin: an optical and NMR spectroscopic investigation. FEBS J. 276, 2241-2250.
31. di Masi, A., Gullotta, F., Bolli, A., Fanali, G., Fasano, M., et al. (2011) Ibuprofen binding to secondary sites allosterically modulates the spectroscopic and catalytic properties of human serum heme-Albumin. FEBS J. 278, 654-662.