通过压力依赖的NMR放松分散检测蛋白质折叠反应的过渡状态组合
Dmitry M Korzhnev1, Irina Bezsonova, Ferenc Evanics
1Department of Medical Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 1A8.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|April 13, 2006
概括
这项研究揭示了蛋白质折叠中的过渡状态组合 (TSE) 是崩的,松散包装的和水合的. 在速度限制步骤后发生水释放,影响折叠屏障.
科学领域:
- 生物化学 生物化学
- 生物物理学的生物物理.
- 结构生物学 结构生物学
背景情况:
- 阿波细胞染色体b562是研究折叠机制的模型蛋白.
- 了解蛋白质折叠途径对于理解生物功能和疾病至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 为了研究在重新设计的apocytochrome b562突变体 (F61A/A90G) 折叠过程中体积和压缩能力的变化.
- 使用压力扰动方法来描述蛋白质折叠的过渡状态组合 (TSE).
主要方法:
- 使用了15NNMR放松分散速率配置文件的压力依赖.
- 在各种压力下 (1-270 bar) 研究了折叠/展开平衡,没有变质剂.
- 分析了体积参数和同热压缩能力.
主要成果:
- 测量出 -81 mL/mol 的展开体积变化.
- 确定TSE相对于未折叠状态的压缩能力 (0.15毫升mol-1) bar-1)).
- 观察到自由能量变化的非线性压力依赖性,表明受水和崩的TSE.
结论:
- 过渡状态组合的特征是崩,松散包装,和水合.
- 水释放主要发生在折叠过程中速度限制步骤后.
- 这些发现支持这种蛋白质突变体在45°C时折叠的热障碍.
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