Native or nativelike species are transient intermediates in folding of alkaline iso-2 cytochrome c.
Native or nativelike species are transient intermediates in folding of alkaline iso-2 cytochrome c.
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天然或类天然物种是碱性 iso-2 细胞色素 c 折叠中的瞬时中间体。
DOI:
10.1021/bi00358a036
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发表时间:
1986
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影响因子:
2.9
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Nall,BT
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Nall,BT
Revised Manuscript Received January 14, 1986 abstract: Titration to high pH converts yeast iso-2 cytochrome c to an inactive but more stable alkaline form lacking a 695-nm absorbance band [Osterhout, JJ, Jr., Muthukrishnan, K., &Nall, B. T.(1985) Biochemistry 24, 6680-6684], The kinetics of absorbance-detected refolding of the alkalineform have been measured by dilution of guanidine hydrochloride in a stopped-flow instrument. Fast-folding species (r2) are detected, as in refolding to the nativestate at neutralpH. An additional kinetic phase (ra) is observed with an amplitude opposite in sign to the fast phase. The amplitude of this phase increases and the rate increases with increasing pH. Comparisonto pH-jump measurements of the fully folded protein shows that phase ra has the same sign, rate, and pH dependence as the alkaline isomerization reaction, suggesting that this new phase involves isomerization of native or nativelike species following fast folding. Absorbance difference spectra are taken at 5-s intervals during refolding at high pH. The spectra verify that nativelike species—with a 695-nm absorbance band—are formed transiently, before conversion of the protein to the alkaline form. Refolding in the presence of ascorbate shows that the transient, nativelike species are reducible, unlike alkaline iso-2. Thus,(1) refolding to the alkaline form of iso-2 cytochrome c proceeds through transient native or nativelike species, and (2) a folding pathway leadingto native or nativelike forms is maintained at high pH, where native species are no longer the thermodynamically favored product. For the latter stages of folding, the results argue against growth and merge assembly of structure found only in the thermodynamically favored product [Harrison, S. C., & Durbin, R.(1985) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 82, 4028-4030] andsuggest the existence of unique species which direct folding—perhaps along a sequential pathway [Kim, PS, & Baldwin, R. L.(1982) Annu. Rev. Biochem. 51, 459-489],