Nonlocal interactions stabilize compact folding intermediates in reduced unfolded bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor.
Nonlocal interactions stabilize compact folding intermediates in reduced unfolded bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor.
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非局部相互作用稳定了还原性未折叠牛胰腺胰蛋白酶抑制剂中的紧凑折叠中间体。
DOI:
10.1021/bi00164a009
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发表时间:
1992
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Haas,E
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作者:
Gottfried,DS;Haas,E
Revised Manuscript Received September 18, 1992 abstract: To further our understanding of the protein folding process, it is desirable to examine the structural intermediates (equilibrium and kinetic) that are populated between the statistical coil state and the folded molecule. X-ray crystallography and NMR structural studies are unable to determine longrange distances in proteins under denaturing solution conditions. Nonradiative (Forster) energy transfer, however, has been shown to be a spectroscopic ruler for the measurement of distance distributions and diffusion between selected sites in proteins under a range of differentsolution conditions. The distributions of distances between a donor probe at the N-terminal residue and an acceptor attached to one of the four lysine residues (15, 26, 41, 46) of reduced and unfolded (in 6 M guanidine hydrochloride and 20 mM dithiothreitol) bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor (BPTI) were measured as a function of temperature. Even in strong denaturant and reducing agent, BPTI does not exist as a statistical coil polypeptide. It appears that nonlocal (long-range) interactions are already beginning to “fold" the protein toward a more compact, native conformation. As the temperature is increased under these conditions, hydrophobic interactions lead to an even more compact structure consistent with the predictions of phase diagrams for globular proteins.The folding pathway of a globular protein is a transition from an unfolded state, via folding intermediates, to the native folded state. Both the initial state and the intermediate states of the folding pathway are nonnative conformations of the protein (Anfinsen, 1961; Nemethy & Scheraga, 1979; Kim & Baldwin, 1982, 1990; Ptitsyn, 1987). The folding transition is a process in which chain segment-segment and chain-solvent interactions outweigh the large amount of chain entropy. The earliest intermediates in protein folding are naturally those which reduce the chain entropy significantly more than those intermediates formed in the later phases of the folding transition.