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Title: | Equilibrium folding dynamics of meACP in water, heavy water, and low concentration of urea | Authors: | Zhou Y. Yang D. |
Keywords: | deuterium oxide urea water chemistry kinetics protein conformation protein denaturation protein folding Deuterium Oxide Kinetics Protein Conformation Protein Denaturation Protein Folding Urea Water |
Issue Date: | 2017 | Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group | Citation: | Zhou Y., Yang D. (2017). Equilibrium folding dynamics of meACP in water, heavy water, and low concentration of urea. Scientific Reports 7 (1) : 16449. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-16449-4 | Abstract: | Many proteins fold in apparent two-state behavior, as partially folded intermediates only transiently accumulate and easily escape detection. Besides a native form and a mainly unfolded form, we captured a partially unfolded form of an acyl carrier protein from Micromonospora echinospora (meACP) in the folding/unfolding equilibrium using chemical exchange saturation transfer NMR experiments. The C-terminal region of the partially unfolded form is mainly folded and the N-terminal is unfolded. Furthermore, to understand how the folding process of meACP is influenced by solvent environments, we compared the folding dynamics of meACP in D2O, H2O and low concentration of urea. As the environment becomes more denaturing from D2O to H2O and then to urea, the unfolded state becomes increasingly populated, and the folding rate decreases. Adding a small amount of urea, which does not change solvent viscosity, has little effects on the unfolding rates, while changing H2O to D2O reduces the unfolding rates possibly due to the increase of solvent viscosity. The quantified solvent effects on the protein folding Gibbs energy and activation energy suggest that the transition state of folding may have a similar structure to the native state of the protein. © 2017 The Author(s). | Source Title: | Scientific Reports | URI: | https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/174382 | ISSN: | 2045-2322 | DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-017-16449-4 |
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