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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY
Volume 17, Issue 11, Pages 1535-1542Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasms.2006.06.025
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Described here is the impact of so-called non-EX2 exchange behavior on the accuracy of protein unfolding free energies (i.e., Delta G(u) values) and m values (i.e., -delta Delta G(u)/delta[denaturant] values) determined by an H/D exchange and mass spectrometry-based technique termed stability of unpurified proteins from rates of H/D exchange (SUPREX). Both experimental and theoretical results on a model protein, ubiquitin, reveal that reasonably accurate thermodynamic parameters for its folding reaction can be determined by SUPREX even when H/D exchange data is collected in a non-EX2 regime. Not surprisingly, the theoretical results reported here on a series of hypothetical protein systems with a wide range of biophysical properties show that the accuracy of SUPREX-derived Delta G(u) and m values is compromised for many proteins when analyses are performed at high pH (e.g., pH 9) and for selected proteins with specific biophysical parameters (e.g., slow folding rates) when analyses are performed at lower pH. Of more significance is that the experimental and theoretical results reveal a means by which problems with non-EX2 exchange behavior can be detected in the SUPREX experiment without prior knowledge of the protein's biophysical properties. The results of this work also reveal that such problems with non-EX2 exchange behavior can generally be minimized if appropriate H/D exchange times are employed in the SUPREX experiment to yield SUPREX curve transition midpoints at chemical denaturant concentrations less than 2 M.
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