The interaction between tri or tetravalent cerium ions and basic fibroblast growth factor (FGF-2) at 0.1-6: 1 molar ratio
under physiological condition was studied by fluorescence and CD spectrum. The different spectra alterations of FGF-2
induced by Ce3+ and Ce4+ showed that Ce3+ and Ce4+ caused different conformational changes of FGF-2 respectively,
though both of them destabilized the protein. The instability of FGF-2 in the presence of Ce3+ is involved in the oxidation
of its free cystein of protein, but that this treatment nearly does not affect the biological activity. As to Ce4+, it not only
induced the conformational changes of protein but also inhibits its activity in a dose-dependent manner, which could be
relative to the electrostatic repulsion between Ce4+ and its basic amino acid residues (pI=9.6) or the specific binding of
Ce4+ to deprotonated amino acid residues. The interesting results would be helpful to investigate the problem of the
stability of proteins.
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