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Mauricio Baez1, Christian A M Wilson, Jorge Babul
1Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Abstract:
Phosphofructokinase-2 is a 66 kD homodimer whose subunits are associated by means of a bimolecular domain, the β-clasp, which is linked to the larger portion of each subunit by a reentrant chain topology. To investigate how this structural organization determines the folding pathway of Pfk-2, unfolding and folding kinetic experiments were performed. The folding pathway shows an unstructured monomeric intermediate and that most part of the dimer structure is reached as a slow concerted folding/association step with a quite folded transition state in terms of solvent exposure. Unfolding kinetics show a transient intermediate, probably a partially unfolded dimer. We propose that these characteristics arise by a mutual constrain between the large domain and the β-clasp domain imposed by their interrupted chain connectivity.
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