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PROTEINS-STRUCTURE FUNCTION AND BIOINFORMATICS
Volume 44, Issue 3, Pages 244-254Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/prot.1089
Keywords
apomyoglobin; fluorescence energy transfer; denatured collapsed state; molten globule state; protein folding
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Experimental approaches, including circular dichroism, small angle X-ray scattering, steady-state fluorescence, and fluorescence energy transfer, were applied to study the 3D-structure of apomyolgobin in different conformational states. These included the native and molten globules, along with either less ordered conformations induced by the addition of anions or completely unfolded states. The results show that the partially folded forms of apomyoglobin stabilized by KCl and/or Na2SO4 under unfolding conditions (pH 2) exhibit a significant amount of secondary structure (circular dichroism), low packing density of protein molecules (SAXS), and native-like dimensions of the AGH core (fluorescence energy transfer). This finding indicates that a native-like tertiary fold of the polypeptide chain, i.e., the spatial organization of secondary structure elements, most likely emerges prior to the formation of the molten globule state. (C) 2001 Wiley-Liss, Inc.*
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