Folding intermediate and folding nucleus for I–>N and U–>I–>N transitions in apomyoglobin: contributions by conserved and nonconserved residuesстатья
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Аннотация:Kinetic investigation on the wild-type apomyoglobin and its 12 mutants with substitutions of hydrophobic residues by Ala was performed using stopped-flow fluorescence. Characteristics of the kinetic intermediate I and the folding nucleus were derived solely from kinetic data, namely, the slow-phase folding rate constants and the burst-phase amplitudes of Trp fluorescence intensity. This allowed us to pioneer the phi-analysis for apomyoglobin. As shown, these mutations drastically destabilized the native state N and produced minor (for conserved residues of G, H helices) or even negligible (for nonconserved residues of B, C, D, E helices) destabilizing effect on the state I. On the other hand, conserved residues of A, G, H helices made a smaller contribution to stability of the folding nucleus at the rate-limiting I–>N transition than nonconserved residues of B, D, E helices. Thus, conserved side chains of the A-, G-, H-residues become involved in the folding nucleus before crossing the main barrier, whereas nonconserved side chains of the B-, D-, E-residues join the nucleus in the course of the I–>N transition.