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. 2000 Mar;9(3):598–609. doi: 10.1110/ps.9.3.598

Steady state and time resolved effects of guanidine hydrochloride on the structure of Humicola lanuginosa lipase revealed by fluorescence spectroscopy.

K Zhu 1, A Jutila 1, P K Kinnunen 1
PMCID: PMC2144562  PMID: 10752622

Abstract

Effects of guanidine hydrochloride (GdnHCl) on the structure and dynamics of wild-type Humicola lanuginosa lipase (HLL) and its two mutants were studied. The latter were S146A (with the active site Ser replaced by Ala) and the single Trp mutant W89m, with substitutions W117F, W221H, and W260H. Steady-state, stopped-flow, and time-resolved laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy were carried out as a function of [GdnHCl]. The maximum emission wavelength and fluorescence lifetimes revealed the microenvironment of the tryptophan(s) in these lipases to become more polar upon increasing [GdnHCl]. However, significant extent of tertiary structure in GdnHCl is suggested by the observation that both wild-type HLL and W89m remain catalytically active at rather high GdnHCl concentrations of >6 and 4.0 M, respectively. Changes in steady-state emission anisotropy, as well as variation in rotational correlation times and residual anisotropy values, demonstrate that upon increasing [GdnHCl] the structure of the lipases became more loose, with increasing amplitude of structural fluctuations. Finally, intermediate states in the course of exposure of the proteins to GdnHCl were revealed by stopped-flow fluorescence measurements.

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