Trefethen Jared M, Pace C Nick, Scholtz J Martin, Brems David N
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-1114, USA.
Protein Sci. 2005 Jul;14(7):1934-8. doi: 10.1110/ps.051401905. Epub 2005 Jun 3.
Gaining a better understanding of the denatured state ensemble of proteins is important for understanding protein stability and the mechanism of protein folding. We studied the folding kinetics of ribonuclease Sa (RNase Sa) and a charge-reversal variant (D17R). The refolding kinetics are similar, but the unfolding rate constant is 10-fold greater for the variant. This suggests that charge-charge interactions in the denatured state and the transition state ensembles are more favorable in the variant than in RNase Sa, and shows that charge-charge interactions can influence the kinetics and mechanism of protein folding.
更好地理解蛋白质的变性态系综对于理解蛋白质稳定性和蛋白质折叠机制至关重要。我们研究了核糖核酸酶Sa(RNase Sa)和一个电荷反转变体(D17R)的折叠动力学。复性动力学相似,但该变体的解折叠速率常数比RNase Sa大10倍。这表明在变性态和过渡态系综中,该变体的电荷-电荷相互作用比RNase Sa更有利,并且表明电荷-电荷相互作用可以影响蛋白质折叠的动力学和机制。