Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2003, Vol. 24 ›› Issue (10): 1815.

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Assignment of the Disulfide Bonds of Huwentoxin-Ⅳ by Partial Reduction and Sequence Analysis

LIU Zhong-Hua, LIANG Song-Ping   

  1. College of Life Sciences, Hunan NormaLUniversity, Changsha 410081, China
  • Received:2002-09-17 Online:2003-10-24 Published:2003-10-24

Abstract: Huwentoxin-Ⅳ, a neurotoxic peptide from the spider Ornithoctonus huwena, contains three disulfide bonds in a chain of 35 residues.Fully the assignment of disulfide bonds was made by partial reduction and sequence analysis.Huwentoxin-Ⅳ was partially reduced with tris(2-carboxyethyl)-phosphine at 40℃ for 10min at pH=3 and the intermediates were isolated by reversed-phase HPLC.Appropriate isomers containing free thiols were alkylated by adding 100μL of 0.5 mol/Liodoa-cetamide, respectively, following by sequencer analysis, which enabled all three bridges Huwentox-in-Ⅳ to be identified as Cys2-Cys17, Cys9-Cys24 and Cys-Cys31.

Key words: Huwentoxin-Ⅳ, Assignment of disulfide bonds, TCEP, Partial reduction, Sequence determination

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