Folding of a salivary intrinsically disordered protein upon binding to tannins
Abstract
We used ion mobility spectrometry to explore conformational adaptability of intrinsically disordered proteins bound to their targets in complex mixtures. We investigated the interactions between a human salivary proline-rich protein IB5 and a model of wine and tea tannin: epigallocatechin gallate (EgCG). Collisional cross sections of naked IBS and IBS complexed with N = 1-15 tannins were recorded. The data demonstrate that IBS undergoes an unfolded to folded structural transition upon binding with EgCG.