Folding pathway of guanidine-denatured disulfide-intact wild-type and mutant bovine pancreatic ribonuclease A

Autor: Dodge, Robert W., Laity, John H., Rothwarf, David M., Shimotakahara, Sakurako, Scheraga, Harold A.
Zdroj: Journal of Protein Chemistry; May 1994, Vol. 13 Issue: 4 p409-421, 13p
Abstrakt: The refolding kinetics of guanidine-denatured disulfide-intact bovine pancreatic ribo-nuclease A (RNase A) and its proline-42-to-alanine mutant (Pro42Ala) have been studied by monitoring tyrosine burial and 2′-cytidine monophosphate (2′CMP) inhibitor binding. The folding rate for wild-type RNase A is faster in the presence of the inhibitor 2′CMP than in its absence, indicating that the transition-state structure in the rate-determining step is stabilized by 2′CMP. The folding rate monitored by 2′CMP binding to the major slow-folding species of Pro42Ala RNase A is faster than the folding rate monitored by tyrosine burial; however, the folding rate monitored by inhibitor binding to the minor slow-folding species is decreased significantly over the folding rate monitored by tyrosine burial, indicating that the major and minor slow-folding species of Pro42Ala fold to the native state with different transition-state conformations in the rate-determining step.
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