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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 143, Issue 30, Pages 11435-11448Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c03270
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- HFSP research grant [RGY0074/2019]
- NSF CAREER grant [MCB-2045844]
- Program in Molecular Biophysics training grant (NIH) [T32GM008403]
- Chemistry-Biology Interface training grant (NIH) [T32GM080189]
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The study reveals that one-third of the E. coli proteome is not intrinsically refoldable on physiological time scales, and this cohort is enriched with certain fold-types and domain organizations.
Decades of research on protein folding have primarily focused on a subset of small proteins that can reversibly refold from a denatured state. However, these studies have generally not been representative of the complexity of natural proteomes, which consist of many proteins with complex architectures and domain organizations. Here, we introduce an experimental approach to probe protein refolding kinetics for whole proteomes using mass spectrometry-based proteomics. Our study covers the majority of the soluble E. coli proteome expressed during log-phase growth, and among this group, we find that one-third of the E. coli proteome is not intrinsically refoldable on physiological time scales, a cohort that is enriched with certain fold-types, domain organizations, and other biophysical features. We also identify several properties and fold-types that are correlated with slow refolding on the minute time scale. Hence, these results illuminate when exogenous factors and processes, such as chaperones or cotranslational folding, might be required for efficient protein folding.
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