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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 378, Issue 2, Pages 297-301Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2008.02.032
Keywords
spectrin; domain-domain interactions; cooperativity; multidomain proteins; protein folding mechanisms
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- Wellcome Trust [GR064417MA, 064417] Funding Source: Medline
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Domains are the structural, functional, and evolutionary components of proteins. Most folding studies to date have concentrated on the folding of single domains, but more than 70% of human proteins contain more than one domain, and interdomain interactions can affect both the stability and the folding kinetics. Whether the folding pathway is altered by interdomain interactions is not yet known. Here we investigated the effect of a folded neighbouring domain on the folding pathway of spectrin R16 (the 16th alpha-helical repeat from chicken brain alpha-spectrin) by using the two-domain construct R1516. The R16 folds faster and unfolds more slowly in the presence of its folded neighbour R15 (the 15th alpha-helical repeat from chicken brain a-spectrin). An extensive Phi-value analysis of the R16 domain in R1516 was completed to compare the transition state of the R16 domain alone with that of the R16 domain in a multidomain construct. The results indicate that the folding pathways are the same. This result validates the current approach of breaking up larger proteins into domains for the study of protein folding pathways. (c) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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