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BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS
Volume 1824, Issue 6, Pages 842-849Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2012.04.002
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Protein unfolding; Energy landscape; H-D exchange; Protein NMR; Unfolding thermodynamics; Protein thermal denaturation
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- Italian Ministry of University [20083ERXWS, RBRN07BMCT]
- EU [LSHM-CT-2006-037525 - EURAMY]
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The transient unfolding events from the native state of a protein towards higher energy states can be closely investigated by studying the process of hydrogen exchange. Here, we present BLUU-Tramp (Biophysics Laboratory University of Udine-Temperature ramp), a new method to measure the rates for the exchange process and the underlying equilibrium thermodynamic parameters, using just a single sample preparation, in a single experiment that lasts some 20 to 60 h depending on the protein thermal stability, to record hundreds of points over a virtually continuous temperature window. The method is suitable also in presence of other proteins in the sample, if only the target protein is N-15-labelled. This allows the complete thermodynamic description of the unfolding landscape at an atomic level in the presence of small or macromolecular ligands or cosolutes, or in physiological environments. The method was successfully tested with human ubiquitin. Then the unfolding thermodynamic parameters were satisfactorily determined for the amyloidogenic protein beta(2)-microglobulin, in aqueous buffer and in synovial liquid, that is the natural medium of amyloid deposition in joints. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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