Publication Date:
1990-09-28
Description:
To understand why proteins adopt particular three-dimensional structures, it is important to elucidate the hierarchy of interactions that stabilize the native state. Proteins in partly folded states can be used to dissect protein organizational hierarchies. A partly folded apomyoglobin intermediate has now been characterized structurally by trapping slowly exchanging peptide NH protons and analyzing them by two-dimensional 1H-NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance). Protons in the A, G, and H helix regions are protected from exchange, while protons in the B and E helix regions exchange freely. On the basis of these results and the three-dimensional structure of native myoglobin, a structural model is presented for the partly folded intermediate in which a compact subdomain retains structure while the remainder of the protein is essentially unfolded.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hughson, F M -- Wright, P E -- Baldwin, R L -- DK34909/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- GM19988/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1990 Sep 28;249(4976):1544-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biochemistry, Beckman Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA 94305.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2218495" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amino Acid Sequence
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Apoproteins/chemistry/*metabolism
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Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
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Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
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Models, Molecular
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Myoglobin/chemistry/*metabolism
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Protein Conformation
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Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
