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Changes in the apomyoglobin folding pathway caused by mutation of the distal histidine residue

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authors

  • Garcia, C.
  • Nishimura, C.
  • Cavagnero, S.
  • Dyson, Jane
  • Wright, Peter

publication date

  • September 2000

journal

  • Biochemistry  Journal

abstract

  • Factors governing the folding pathways and the stability of apomyoglobin have been examined by replacing the distal histidine at position 64 with phenylalanine (H64F). Acid and urea-induced unfolding experiments using CD and fluorescence techniques reveal that the mutant H64F apoprotein is significantly more stable than wild-type apoMb. Kinetic refolding studies of this variant also show a significant difference from wild-type apoMb. The amplitude of the burst phase ellipticity in stopped-flow CD measurements is increased over that of wild-type, an indication that the secondary structure content of the earliest kinetic intermediate is greater in the mutant than in the wild-type protein. In addition, the overall rate of folding is markedly increased. Hydrogen exchange pulse labeling was used to establish the structure of the initial intermediate formed during the burst phase of the H64F mutant. NMR analysis of the samples obtained at different refolding times indicates that the burst phase intermediate contains a stabilized E helix as well as the A, G, and H helices previously found in the wild-type kinetic intermediate. Replacement of the polar distal histidine residue with a nonpolar residue of similar size and shape appears to stabilize the E helix in the early stages of folding due to improved hydrophobic packing. The presence of a hydrophilic histidine at position 64 thus exacts a price in the stability and folding efficiency of the apoprotein, but this residue is nevertheless highly conserved among myoglobins due to its importance in function.

subject areas

  • Amino Acid Substitution
  • Animals
  • Apoproteins
  • Circular Dichroism
  • Histidine
  • Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
  • Kinetics
  • Mutagenesis, Site-Directed
  • Myoglobin
  • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular
  • Phenylalanine
  • Protein Conformation
  • Protein Folding
  • Protein Structure, Secondary
  • Spectrometry, Fluorescence
  • Thermodynamics
  • Whales
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Identity

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0006-2960

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1021/bi0010266

PubMed ID

  • 10985768
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Additional Document Info

start page

  • 11227

end page

  • 11237

volume

  • 39

issue

  • 37

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