Bo. Smith et al., SECONDARY STRUCTURE OF FIBRONECTIN TYPE-1 AND EPIDERMAL GROWTH-FACTORMODULES FROM TISSUE-TYPE PLASMINOGEN-ACTIVATOR BY NUCLEAR-MAGNETIC-RESONANCE, Biochemistry, 33(9), 1994, pp. 2422-2429
A Segment of human tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA) correspond
ing to the fibronectin type 1 (F1) and epidermal growth factor-like (G
) pair of modules, residues 1-91, has been produced as a recombinant p
rotein in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, with a single conservative Cys to
Ser substitution. The sequence-specific assignment of the H-1 and N-15
nuclear magnetic resonances from the pair of modules has been complet
ed using 2D H-1 nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra in conjunctio
n with 3D, N-15- edited, H-1 and 2D N-15-H-1 NMR spectra. Slowly excha
nging amide protons have been identified, and estimates of a number of
backbone (3)J(NH-C alpha H) coupling constants were obtained by line-
shape-fitting. The secondary structure of the F1 module in the pair cl
osely matches that previously determined for the isolated F1 module fr
om t-PA, and that of the G module conforms to the ''consensus'' G modu
le structure determined previously from several isolated G modules. In
the module pair, the residues linking the two modules appear to form
an extended beta-strand, the carboxy-terminal end of which makes up a
third strand of the major beta-sheet of the G module. The intermodule
interface is defined by NOEs between residues in the ranges 22-24 in t
he F1 module and 65-72 in the G module. The NMR data indicate that the
re is little or no reorientation of the two modules with respect to on
e another but rather that they combine with a fixed hydrophobic contac
t dominated by the side chain of leucine-22.