Abstract：
:The 37-residue Formin-binding protein, FBP28, is a canonical three-stranded beta-sheet WW domain. Because of its small size, it is so insensitive to chemical denaturation that it is barely possible to determine accurately a denaturation curve, as the transition spans 0-7 M guanidinium hydrochloride (GdmCl). It is also only marginally stable, with a free energy of denaturation of just 2.3 kcal/mol at 10 degrees Celsius so only small changes in energy upon mutation can be tolerated. But these properties and relaxation times for folding of 25 micros-400 micros conspire to allow the rapid acquisition of accurate and reproducible kinetic data for Phi-analysis using classical temperature-jump methods. The transition state for folding is highly polarized with some regions having Phi-values of 0 and others 1, as readily seen in chevron plots, with Phi-values of 0 having the refolding arms overlaying and those of 1 the unfolding arms superimposable. Good agreement is seen with transition state structures identified from independent molecular dynamics (MD) simulations at 60, 75, and 100 degrees Celsius, which allows us to explore further the details of the folding and unfolding pathway of FBP28. The first beta-turn is near native-like in the transition state for folding (experimental) and unfolding (MD and experiment). The simulations show that there are transient contacts between the aromatic side-chains of the beta-strands in the denatured state and that these interactions provide the driving force for folding of the first beta-hairpin of this three-stranded sheet. Only after the backbone hydrogen bonds are formed between beta1 and beta2 does a hydrogen bond form to stabilize the intervening turn, or the first beta-turn.
journal_name
J Mol Bioljournal_title
Journal of molecular biologyauthors
Petrovich M,Jonsson AL,Ferguson N,Daggett V,Fersht ARdoi
10.1016/j.jmb.2006.05.050subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2006-07-21 00:00:00pages
865-81issue
4eissn
0022-2836issn
1089-8638pii
S0022-2836(06)00651-6journal_volume
360pub_type
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