Mechanisms of hydrogen exchange in proteins from nuclear magnetic resonance studies of individual tryptophan indole NH hydrogens in lysozyme.
Mechanisms of hydrogen exchange in proteins from nuclear magnetic resonance studies of individual tryptophan indole NH hydrogens in lysozyme.
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溶菌酶中单个色氨酸吲哚 NH 氢的核磁共振研究蛋白质中氢交换的机制。
DOI:
10.1021/bi00534a042
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发表时间:
1982
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Poulsen,FM
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作者:
Wedin,RE;Delepierre,M;Dobson,CM;Poulsen,FM
Randall E. Wedin, Muriel Delepierre, 1 Christopher M. Dobson,*-1* and Flemming M. Poulsen8 abstract: The individual rates of solvent exchange of the six tryptophan indole NH hydrogens of lysozyme in 2H20 have been measured over a wide range of temperatures by using NMR. Two distinct mechanisms for exchange have been identified, one characterized by a high activation energy and the other by a much lower activation energy. The high-energy process has been shown to be associated directly with the cooperative thermal unfolding of the protein and is the dom-inant mechanism for exchange of the most slowly exchanging hydrogen even 15 C below the denaturation temperature. Rate constants and activation energies for the folding and^ Koteins in solution undergo a wide range of molecular motions as revealed by a variety of experimental and theo-retical techniques (Karplus & McCammon, 1981). Some of the first evidence for proteinmotions came from the obser-vation of hydrogen exchange in globular proteins (Hvidt & Linderstrom-Lang, 1954). In hydrogen exchange, labile hydrogens (eg, amide hydrogens from the protein backbone or indole NH hydrogens from tryptophan side chains) are re-placed by hydrogens from the solvent. If deuterium-or tri-tium-labeled solvent is used, the rates of exchange can be measured directly. The time required for exchange can range from seconds to yearsdepending upon conditions such as pH and temperature (Hvidt & Nielsen, 1966). Over the last 2 decades, much research has been done relating hydrogenexchange rates with protein motions (Hvidt & Nielsen, 1966; Englander et al., 1972; Woodward & Hilton, 1979). A two-step reaction scheme has generally been used to explain the phenomenon of hydrogen exchange in native proteins. The first step in this scheme represents the reactions bringing the exchangeable groups and solvent into contact, the second step being thechemical exchange step. Several models have been proposed to explain the physical nature of the first step in this reaction scheme. The question of which of the various models best describes the mechanism of hydrogen exchange under given conditions is a matter of current con-troversy. In one model, the solvent molecules penetrate into the interior of the protein matrix throughcavities opened by small molecular fluctuations, and exchange takes place in the interior of the protein. This model has recently been used to