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Characterization of the molten globule conformation of V26A ubiquitin by far-UV circular dichroic spectroscopy and amide hydrogen/deuterium exchange

  • Park, Soon-Ho (Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Dentistry and Research Institute of Oral Sciences, Kangnung National University)
  • Published : 2008.01.31
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Abstract

The molten globular conformation of V26A ubiquitin (valine to alanine mutation at residue 26) was studied by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in conjunction with amide hydrogen/deuterium exchange. Most of the amide protons that are involved in the native secondary structures were observed to be protected in the molten globule state with the protection factors from 1.2 to 6.7. These protection factors are about 2 to 6 orders of magnitude smaller than those of the native state. These observations indicate that V26A molten globule has native-like backbone structure with marginal stability. The comparison of amide protection factors of V26A ubiquitin molten globule state with those of initial collapsed state of the wild type ubiquitin suggests that V26A ubiquitin molten globule state is located close to unfolded state in the folding reaction coordinate. It is considered that V26A ubiquitin molten globule is useful model to study early events in protein folding reaction.

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