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Effects of formaldehyde fixation on protein secondary structure: a calorimetric and infrared spectroscopic investigation
JT Mason and TJ O'Leary
Department of Cellular Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC 20306-6000.
We investigated the effects of formaldehyde fixation on the secondary structure of isolated proteins (bovine serum albumin, ribonuclease A, and hemoglobin) using high-sensitivity differential scanning calorimetry and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. Whereas thermograms obtained by scanning calorimetry on unfixed purified proteins demonstrated denaturation transitions in the 70-90 degrees C temperature range, the thermograms showed no denaturation transitions in this temperature range when the proteins had been placed in formaldehyde solutions. Thus, fixation destroyed the denaturation transition of bovine serum albumin, ribonuclease A, and hemoglobin. Infrared spectra obtained on the unfixed and fixed proteins were essentially identical. This demonstrates that the "fixed" proteins retain the secondary structure present before fixation. We therefore conclude that the cross-linking of proteins that occurs in the process of formaldehyde fixation "locks in" the secondary structure of these protein molecules.
Volume 39,
Issue 2,
pp. 225-229,
02/01/1991
Copyright © 1991 by The Histochemical Society
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