Local structural preferences in the alpha-lactalbumin molten globule.
Local structural preferences in the alpha-lactalbumin molten globule.
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α-乳清蛋白熔球中的局部结构偏好。
DOI:
10.1021/bi00010a014
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发表时间:
1995
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Kim,PS
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文献类型:
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作者:
Peng,ZY;Wu,LC;Kim,PS
Revised Manuscript Received January 5, 1995® abstract: Molten globules have been proposed to be general intermediates in proteinfolding. Despite numerous studies, a detailed description of the structure of a molten globule remains elusive. Recently, we showed that the molten globule formed by the helical domain of a-lactalbumin (a-LA) has a native-like backbone topology. Here we probe local structural preferences in the helical domain of the a-LA molten globule by analyzing a set of native and nonnative single disulfide bond variants using a combination of circular dichroism spectroscopy and determination of the equilibrium constant for disulfide bond formation. We find thatthe region surrounding the 28—111 disulfide bond has a high preference to adopt a native-like structure. Formation of other native or nonnative disulfide bonds is significantly less favorable. Our results suggest that molten globules contain regions with varying degrees of specificity for native-like structure and that the core region surrounding the28—111 disulfide bondplays an important role in a-LA folding by stabilizing the molten globule intermediate.Many proteins fold via molten globule intermediates that are characterized by compactness, near-native levels of secondary structure, an absence of rigid, specific side-chain packing, and a noncooperative thermal denaturation [for reviews, see Ptitsyn (1987), Kuwajima (1989), Christensen and Pain (1991), Ptitsyn (1992). and Haynie & Freire (1993)]. Classic molten globules, such as those formed by a-lactal-bumin (a-LA),* 1 carbonic anhydrase. and/3-lactamase, have high conformational mobility and a low degree of side-chain ordering that preclude structure determination at atomic resolution. 2
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