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Molecular hinges in protein folding: The urea-denatured state of apomyoglobin

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authors

  • Schwarzinger, S.
  • Wright, Peter
  • Dyson, Jane

publication date

  • October 2002

journal

  • Biochemistry  Journal

abstract

  • Unfolded apomyoglobin in 8 M urea at pH 2.3 displays distinct regions with different backbone mobility, as monitored by NMR relaxation. These variations in backbone mobility can be correlated with intrinsic properties of the amino acids in the sequence. Clusters of small amino acids such as glycine and alanine show increased backbone mobility compared to the average. In contrast, local hydrophobic interactions that persist in urea denaturant cause some restriction of backbone motions on a picosecond to nanosecond time scale. The model derived from the behavior of apoMb in urea depends only on the most fundamental properties of the local amino acid sequence, and thus provides a feasible paradigm for the initiation of folding.

subject areas

  • Alanine
  • Animals
  • Apoproteins
  • Circular Dichroism
  • Glycine
  • Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
  • Myoglobin
  • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular
  • Protein Conformation
  • Protein Denaturation
  • Protein Folding
  • Surface Properties
  • Thermodynamics
  • Urea
  • Whales
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Identity

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0006-2960

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1021/bi020381o

PubMed ID

  • 12379110
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Additional Document Info

start page

  • 12681

end page

  • 12686

volume

  • 41

issue

  • 42

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