PMID- 20099842 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20100726 LR - 20131121 IS - 1526-4602 (Electronic) IS - 1525-7797 (Linking) VI - 11 IP - 3 DP - 2010 Mar 8 TI - Interaction between the natural lipopeptide [Glu1, Asp5)] surfactin-C15 and hemoglobin in aqueous solution. PG - 593-9 LID - 10.1021/bm9011453 [doi] AB - The interaction between natural lipopeptide [Glu(1), Asp(5)] surfactin-C15 (surfactin) and hemoglobin (Hb) has been studied. Surface tension measurements show that the critical micelle concentration (cmc) of surfactin increases from 1.54 x 10(-5) to 3.86 x 10(-5) mol/L with Hb. The UV spectra display that the effect of surfactin on Hb exhibits strong concentration-dependent fashion and the aquometHb convert to hemichrome at high surfactin concentration. Small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) and freeze-fracture transmission electron microscopy (FF-TEM) measurements show that surfactin result in the formation of a fractal structure representing a "necklace model" of micelle-like clusters randomly distributed along the protein polypeptide chain at high surfactin concentration. Far-UV circular dichroism (CD) results confirmed that surfactin can disrupt the helical structure of protein at high concentrations, although the enhanced native-like behavior of protein by low concentration of surfactin was observed. The microenvironment change around Phe amino residues and disulfide bonds of Hb was obtained from near-UV CD spectra. FAU - Zou, Aihua AU - Zou A AD - State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering and Institute of Applied Chemistry, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, PR China. FAU - Liu, Jing AU - Liu J FAU - Garamus, Vasil M AU - Garamus VM FAU - Zheng, Kai AU - Zheng K FAU - Willumeit, Regine AU - Willumeit R FAU - Mu, Bozhong AU - Mu B LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - United States TA - Biomacromolecules JT - Biomacromolecules JID - 100892849 RN - 0 (Hemoglobins) RN - 0 (Lipopeptides) RN - 0 (Solutions) RN - 30KYC7MIAI (Aspartic Acid) RN - 3KX376GY7L (Glutamic Acid) SB - IM MH - Aspartic Acid/*chemistry MH - Glutamic Acid/*chemistry MH - Hemoglobins/*chemistry MH - Lipopeptides/*chemistry MH - Solutions EDAT- 2010/01/27 06:00 MHDA- 2010/07/27 06:00 CRDT- 2010/01/27 06:00 PHST- 2010/01/27 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2010/01/27 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2010/07/27 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1021/bm9011453 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Biomacromolecules. 2010 Mar 8;11(3):593-9. doi: 10.1021/bm9011453.