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Observation of multistate kinetics during the slow folding and unfolding of barstar.

Abstract：

:The kinetics of the slow folding and unfolding reactions of barstar, a bacterial ribonuclease inhibitor protein, have been studied at 23(+/-1) degrees C, pH 8, by the use of tryptophan fluorescence, far-UV circular dichroism (CD), near-UV CD, and transient mixing (1)H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopic measurements in the 0-4 M range of guanidine hydrochloride (GdnHCl) concentration. The denaturant dependences of the rates of folding and unfolding processes, and of the initial and final values of optical signals associated with these kinetic processes, have been determined for each of the four probes of measurement. Values determined for rates as well as amplitudes are shown to be very much probe dependent. Significant differences in the intensities and rates of appearance and disappearance of several resolved resonances in the real-time one-dimensional NMR spectra have been noted. The NMR spectra also show increasing dispersion of chemical shifts during the slow phase of refolding. The denaturant dependences of rates display characteristic folding chevrons with distinct rollovers under strongly native as well as strongly unfolding conditions. Analyses of the data and comparison of the results obtained with different probes of measurement appear to indicate the accumulation of a myriad of intermediates on parallel folding and unfolding pathways, and suggest the existence of an ensemble of transition states. The energetic stabilities of the intermediates estimated from kinetic data suggest that they are approximately half as stable as the fully folded protein. The slowness of the folding and unfolding processes (tau = 10-333 s) and values of 20.5 (+/-1.4) and 18 (+/-0.5) kcal mol(-)(1) for the activation energies of the slow refolding and unfolding reactions suggest that proline isomerization is involved in these reactions, and that the intermediates accumulate and are therefore detectable because the slow proline isomerization reaction serves as a kinetic trap during folding.

journal_name

Biochemistry

journal_title

Biochemistry

authors

Bhuyan AK,Udgaonkar JB

doi

10.1021/bi990285w

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1999-07-13 00:00:00

pages

9158-68

issue

eissn

0006-2960

issn

1520-4995

pii

bi990285w

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Observation of multistate kinetics during the slow folding and unfolding of barstar.