Diminished susceptibility to proteolysis after protein modification by the lipid peroxidation product malondialdehyde: inhibitory role for crosslinked and noncrosslinked adducted proteins
1997
Burcham, P.C. | Kuhan, Y.T.
The lipid peroxidation product malondialdehyde forms adducts with proteins that are detected during routine assays for protein carbonylation. To test whether this damage alters the susceptibility of a protein to proteolysis, we treated bovine serum albumin with various concentrations of malondialdehyde and examined its susceptibility to digestion by alpha-chymotrypsin. In keeping with findings concerning the consequences of protein damage by other carbonyl products of lipid peroxidation, we found that malondialdehyde-modified protein was resistant to proteolysis. Since significant protein crosslinking occurred during modification with malondialdehyde, we investigated the possibility that crosslinked proteins were acting as proteolytic inhibitors. Malondialdehyde-modified proteins were resolved into crosslinked and noncrosslinked forms and the effectiveness of both species as proteolytic antagonists was examined. While both forms of malondialdehyde-adducted proteins were more potent proteolytic inhibitors than unmodified albumin, there were no significant differences in inhibitory potency between crosslinked and noncrosslinked proteins. Our findings suggest that malondialdehyde-modification produces protease-resistant proteins without an obligatory role for crosslinking.
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