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- Title
On the role of some conserved and nonconserved amino acid residues in the transitional state and intermediate of apomyoglobin folding.
- Authors
Baryshnikova (Samatova), E. N.; Melnik, B. S.; Balobanov, V. A.; Katina, N. S.; Finkelshtein, A. V.; Semisotnov, G. V.; Bychkova, V. E.
- Abstract
The contributions of some amino acid residues in the A, B, G, and H helices to the formation of the folding nucleus and folding intermediate of apomyoglobin were estimated. The effects of point substitutions of Ala for hydrophobic amino acid residues on the structural stability of the native (N) protein and its folding intermediate (I), as well as on the folding/unfolding rates for four mutant apomyoglobin forms, were studied. The equilibrium and kinetic studies of the folding/unfolding rates of these mutant proteins in a wide range of urea concentrations demonstrated that their native state was considerably destabilized as compared with the wild-type protein, whereas the stability of the intermediate state changed moderately. It was shown that the amino acid residues in the A, G, and H helices contributed insignificantly to the stabilization of the apomyoglobin folding nucleus in the rate-limiting I ⇄ N transition, taking place after the formation of the intermediate, whereas the residue of the B helix was of great importance in the formation of the folding nucleus in this transition.
- Subjects
AMINO acids; PROTEIN folding; PROTEIN conformation; PROTEINS; AMINO compounds
- Publication
Molecular Biology, 2009, Vol 43, Issue 1, p123
- ISSN
0026-8933
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1134/S0026893309010178