The optimization of protein secondary structure determination with infrared and circular dichroism spectra.

We have used the circular dichroism and infrared spectra of a specially designed 50 protein database [Oberg, K.A., Ruysschaert, J.

Nucleotide-induced conformational changes in the human multidrug resistance protein MRP1 are related to the capacity of chemotherapeutic drugs to accumulate or not in resistant cells.

Intracellular accumulation of anthracycline derivatives was measured in a human embryonic kidney cell line (HEK) and a resistant subline (HEK/multidrug resistance protein (MRP1)) overexpressing MRP1 at the plasma membrane surface. Two compounds (daunorubicin and doxorubicin) were rejected outside the multidrug-resistant cells. On the contrary, three compounds (4'-deoxy-4'-iodo-doxorubicin, 4-demethoxy-daunorubicin and 3'-(3-methoxymorpholino)doxorubicin) accumulated equally within sensitive HEK cells and resistant HEK/MRP1 cells.

Secondary structure of the intact H+,K+-ATPase and of its membrane-embedded region. An attenuated total reflection infrared spectroscopy, circular dichroism and Raman spectroscopy study.

Models of P-type ATPase predict that membrane-embedded fragments represent about 20% of the protein and adopt an all-alpha-helical structure. While this prediction was confirmed for the Ca2-ATPase [Corbalan-Garcia, S., Teruel, J.

Structure of the apolipoprotein A-IV/lipid discoidal complexes: an attenuated total reflection polarized Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy study.

Discoidal lipid particles were prepared from a reaction mixture containing apo A-IV and dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC) or dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) in the molar ratio of 185:1 (lipid/protein). The complexes were isolated by gel filtration and characterized in terms of composition and size. Infrared attenuated total reflection spectroscopy was used to estimate the secondary structure of apolipoprotein A-IV and the orientation of its amphipathic alpha-helices with respect to the lipid hydrocarbon chains.

Mechanism of inhibition of mitochondrial enzymatic complex I-III by adriamycin derivatives.

We demonstrate here that complex I-III of bovine heart mitochondrial membrane is inhibited by adriamycin derivatives. This inhibition is a cardiolipin-dependent process. This lipid, specific to the inner mitochondrial membrane, has been shown previously to interact specifically with adriamycin in model membranes (Goormaghtigh, E.

Immunoglobulin-lipid interaction. A model membrane study.

We recently presented evidence (Vandenbranden, M., De Coen, J.L.