Figure 1.
Suppression of irreversible denaturation of disulphide bond-containing small globular proteins by MTS reagents. Effects of TAPS-sulfonate (A) and MMTS (B) on the irreversible denaturation of HEL upon heating at 100 °C. (C) Effect of MTS reagents on the irreversible denaturation of RNase A upon heating at 90 °C. (D) Comparison of reversed-phase HPLC elution profiles for native and heated samples of HEL (20 µg). Elution times for denatured and fully formed alkyl disulphide derivatives of HEL are indicated by arrows. (E) Effects of thiol reactive reagents on irreversible denaturation of HEL and RNase A upon heating at 100 °C. N.D., not detectable. SDS-PAGE analysis of HEL (F) and RNase A (G). All heating experiments were performed in HEPES buffer, pH 6.8. Error bars indicate the standard deviation.