Alexandrescu A T, Dames S A, Wiltscheck R
Department of Structural Biology, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland.
Protein Sci. 1996 Sep;5(9):1942-6. doi: 10.1002/pro.5560050924.
Hydrogen-exchange rates for an OB-fold subdomain fragment of staphylococcal nuclease have been measured at pH 4.7 and 4 degrees C, conditions close to the minimum of acid/base catalyzed exchange. The strongest protection from solvent exchange is observed for residues from a five-stranded beta-barrel in the NMR structure of the protein. Protection factors, calculated from the experimental hydrogen-exchange rates, range between 1 and 190. Similarly small protection factors have in many cases been attributed to "molten globule" conformations that are supposed to lack a specific tertiary structure. The present results suggest that marginal protection from solvent exchange does not exclude well-defined structure.
已在pH 4.7和4℃条件下测量了葡萄球菌核酸酶一个OB折叠亚结构域片段的氢交换率,该条件接近酸/碱催化交换的最小值。在该蛋白质的NMR结构中,对来自五链β桶的残基观察到最强的溶剂交换保护作用。根据实验氢交换率计算出的保护因子在1到190之间。在许多情况下,类似的小保护因子被归因于假定缺乏特定三级结构的“熔球”构象。目前的结果表明,对溶剂交换的边际保护并不排除明确的结构。