Goldberg M E, Guillou Y
Unité de Biochimie Cellulaire, CNRS URA 1129, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
Protein Sci. 1994 Jun;3(6):883-7. doi: 10.1002/pro.5560030603.
To assess the respective roles of local and long-range interactions during protein folding, the influence of the native disulfide bonds on the early formation of secondary structure was investigated using continuous-flow circular dichroism. Within the first 4 ms of folding, lysozyme with intact disulfide bonds already had a far-UV CD spectrum reflecting large amounts of secondary structure. Conversely, reduced lysozyme remained essentially unfolded at this early folding time. Thus, native disulfide bonds not only stabilize the cfinal conformation of lysozyme but also provide, in early folding intermediates, the necessary stabilization that favors the formation of secondary structure.
为了评估蛋白质折叠过程中局部和长程相互作用的各自作用,使用连续流动圆二色性研究了天然二硫键对二级结构早期形成的影响。在折叠的最初4毫秒内,具有完整二硫键的溶菌酶已经具有反映大量二级结构的远紫外圆二色光谱。相反,还原型溶菌酶在这个早期折叠阶段基本上仍未折叠。因此,天然二硫键不仅稳定了溶菌酶的最终构象,而且在早期折叠中间体中提供了有利于二级结构形成的必要稳定性。