Folding of homologous proteins: conservation of the folding mechanism of the alpha subunit of tryptophan synthase from Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhimurium, and five interspecies hybrids.
Folding of homologous proteins: conservation of the folding mechanism of the alpha subunit of tryptophan synthase from Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhimurium, and five interspecies hybrids.
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同源蛋白的折叠:大肠杆菌、鼠伤寒沙门氏菌和五个种间杂合体色氨酸合酶α亚基折叠机制的保守性。
DOI:
10.1021/bi00402a050
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发表时间:
1988
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Miles,EW
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作者:
Stackhouse,TM;Onuffer,JJ;Matthews,CR;Ahmed,SA;Miles,EW
Revised Manuscript Received September 21, 1987 abstract: The equilibrium and kinetic properties for the urea-inducedunfolding of the a subunit of tryptophan synthase from Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhimurium, and five interspecies hybrids were compared to determine the role of protein folding in evolution. The parent proteins differ at 40 positions in the sequence of 268 amino acids, and the hybrids differ by up to 15 amino acids from the Escherichia coli a subunit. The results show that all the proteins follow the same folding mechanismand are consistent with a previously proposed hypothesis [Hollecker, M., & Creighton, T. E.(1983) J. Mol. Biol. 168, 409; Krebs, H., Schmid, F. X., & Jaenicke, R.(1983) J. Mol. Biol. 169, 619] that the folding mechanisms are conserved in homologous proteins. Analysis of the kinetic data suggests that the 15 positions at which the parent proteins differ in the amino folding unit, residues 1-188, donot play a role in a rate-limiting step in folding that has been previously identified as the association of the amino and carboxylfolding units [Beasty, AM, Hurle, M. R., Manz, J. T., Stackhouse, T. S., Onuffer, J. J., & Matthews, C. R.(1986) Biochemistry 25, 2965], One or more of the 25 positions at which the parent proteins differ in the carboxyl foldingunit, residues 189-268, do appear to play a role in this same rate-limiting step.