Hydrogen exchange in thermally denatured ribonuclease A.
Hydrogen exchange in thermally denatured ribonuclease A.
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热变性核糖核酸酶 A 中的氢交换。
DOI:
10.1021/bi00105a014
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发表时间:
1991
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Baldwin,RL
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作者:
Robertson,AD;Baldwin,RL
Biochemistry Department, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305 Received May 1, 1991; Revised Manuscript Received August 6, 1991 abstract: Hydrogen exchange has been used to test for the presence of nonrandom structure in thermally denatured ribonuclease A (RNase A). Quenched-flow methods and 2D* H NMR spectroscopy were used to measure exchange rates for 36 backboneamide protons (NHs) at 65 C and at pH*(uncorrected pH measured inD20) values rangingfrom 1.5 to 3.8. The results show that exchange is approximately that predicted for a disordered polypeptide [Molday, RS, Englander, S. W., & Kallen, R. G.(1972) Biochemistry 11, 150-158]; we thus are unable to detect any stable hydrogen-bonded structure inthermally denatured RNase A. Two observations suggest, however, that the predicted rates should be viewed with some caution. First, we discovered that one of the approximations made by Molday et al.(1972), that exchange for valine NHs is similar to that for alanine NHs, had to be modified; theexchange rates for valine NHs are about 4-fold slower. Second, the pH minima for exchange tend to fall at lowerpH values than predicted, by as much as 0.45 pH units. These results are in accord with those of Roder and co-workers for bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor [see Table I in Roder, H., Wagner, G., & Wüthrich, K.(1985) Biochemistry 24, 7407-7411], The origin of the disagreement between predicted and observed pH minima is unknown but may be the high net positive charge on these proteins at low pH. In common with some other thermally unfolded proteins, heat-denatured ribonuclease A shows a significant circular dichroism spectrum in the far-ultraviolet region [Labhardt, AM (1982) J. Mol. Biol. 157, 331-355]. This spectrum is reduced to a low level by adding guanidine hydrochloride. The nature of the residual structure responsible for this spectrum is not known. Our results show that it is not stable helix formation by the three-helices of nativeribonuclease A, which would give measurable protection against amide proton exchange.^) ne of the primary goals of modern protein chemistry is to understand the structural basis for the thermodynamic stability of proteins. For most proteins, only two states, the native and denatured states, are populated to a significant extent at equilibrium and it is the modest free energy difference between these states that determines the stability of a protein (Becktel & Schellman, 1987). X-ray crystallography and, more recently, NMR1 spectroscopy provide high-resolution information about thestructure of native proteins, which has f This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (GM
DOI:
10.1016/0160-5402(85)90032-4
发表时间:
1985
期刊:
Journal of pharmacological methods
影响因子:
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作者:
Dills,RL;Klaassen,CD
通讯作者:
Klaassen,CD
DOI:
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发表时间:
1986
期刊:
Journal of Pharmacological Methods
影响因子:
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作者:
S. Pradhan;R. Copeland
通讯作者:
R. Copeland