Abstract:
:The investigation of the mechanism of protein folding is complicated by the context dependence of the rates of intramolecular contact formation. Methods based on site-specific labeling and ultrafast spectroscopic detection of fluorescence signals were developed for monitoring the rates of individual subdomain folding transitions in situ, in the context of the whole molecule. However, each site-specific labeling modification might affect rates of folding of near-neighbor structural elements, and thus limit the ability to resolve fine differences in rates of folding of these elements. Therefore, it is highly desirable to be able to study the rates of folding of two or more neighboring subdomain structures using a single mutant to facilitate resolution of the order and interdependence of such steps. Here, we report the development of the "Transfer-Quench" method for measuring the rate of formation of two structural elements using a single triple-labeled mutant. This method is based on Förster resonance energy transfer combined with fluorescence quenching. We placed the donor and acceptor at the loop ends, and a quencher at an α-helical element involved in the node forming the loop. The folding of the triple-labeled mutant is monitored by the acceptor emission. The formation of nonlocal contact (loop closure) increases the time-dependent acceptor emission, while the closure of the labeled helix turn reduces this emission. The method was applied in a study of the folding mechanism of the common model protein, the B domain of staphylococcal protein A. Only natural amino acids were used as probes, and thus possible structural perturbations were minimized. Tyr and Trp residues served as donor and acceptor at the ends of a long loop between helices I and II, and a Cys residue as a quencher for the acceptor. We found that the closure of the loop (segment 14-33) occurs with the same rate constant as the nucleation of helix HII (segment 33-29), in line with the nucleation-condensation model.
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Biophys Jjournal_title
Biophysical journalauthors
Rahamim G,Amir D,Haas Edoi
10.1016/j.bpj.2017.01.037subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2017-05-09 00:00:00pages
1786-1796issue
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0006-3495issn
1542-0086pii
S0006-3495(17)30254-0journal_volume
112pub_type
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