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dc.contributor.authorUdupa, Padmanabhaeng
dc.contributor.authorSanthoshkumar, Puttureng
dc.contributor.authorSharma, K. Krishnaeng
dc.contributor.authorMurugesan, Rajueng
dc.date.issued2008eng
dc.description.abstractAnalysis of aged and cataract lenses shows the presence of increased amounts of crystallin fragments in the high molecular weight aggregates of water-soluble and water-insoluble fractions. However, the significance of accumulation and interaction of low molecular weight crystallin fragments in aging and cataract development is not clearly understood. In this study, 23 low molecular mass (<3.5-kDa) peptides in the urea-soluble fractions of young, aged, and aged cataract human lenses were identified by mass spectroscopy. Two peptides, B-(1-18) (MDIAIHHPWIRRPFFPFH) and A3/A1-(59-74)(SD(N)AYHIERLMSFRPIC), present in aged and cataract lens but not young lens, and a third peptide, S-(167-178) (SPAVQSFRRIVE) present in all three lens groups were synthesized to study the effects of interaction of these peptides with intact -, -, and -crystallins and alcohol dehydrogenase, a protein used in aggregation studies. Interaction of B-(1-18) and A3/A1-(59-74) peptides increased the scattering of light by - and -crystallin and alcohol dehydrogenase. The ability of -crystallin subunits to function as molecular chaperones was significantly reduced by interaction with B-(1-18) and A3/A1-(59-74) peptides, whereas S peptide had no effect on chaperone-like activity of -crystallin. The A3/A1-(59-74 peptide caused a 5.64-fold increase in B-crystallin oligomeric mass and partial precipitation. Replacing hydrophobic residues in B-(1-18) and A3/A1-(59-74) peptides abolished their ability to induce crystallin aggregation and light scattering. Our study suggests that interaction of crystallin-derived peptides with intact crystallins could be a key event in age-related protein aggregation in lens and cataractogenesis.eng
dc.identifier.citationThe Journal of Biological Chemistry Vol. 283, No. 13, pp. 8477-8485eng
dc.identifier.issn1083-351Xeng
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10355/3244eng
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.publisherThe American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biologyeng
dc.relation.ispartofProteomics Center publications (MU)eng
dc.relation.ispartofcommunityUniversity of Missouri-Columbia. Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center. Proteomics Centereng
dc.rightsOpenAccesseng
dc.rights.licenseThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerical-NoDerivs 3.0 License.
dc.subjectpeptideseng
dc.subjectcrystallineng
dc.subjectvisioneng
dc.subjectcataracteng
dc.subject.disciplineLife scienceseng
dc.subject.lcshCataracteng
dc.subject.lcshCrystalline lens -- Diseaseseng
dc.subject.lcshPeptideseng
dc.subject.lcshVision -- Researcheng
dc.titleSignificance of interactions of low molecular weight crystallin fragments in lens aging and cataract formationeng
dc.typeArticleeng


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