TY - JOUR
T1 - Tuning the free-energy landscape of a WW domain by temperature, mutation, and truncation
AU - Nguyen, Houbi
AU - Jäger, Marcus
AU - Moretto, Alessandro
AU - Gruebele, Martin
AU - Kelly, Jeffery W.
PY - 2003/4/1
Y1 - 2003/4/1
N2 - The equilibrium unfolding of the Formin binding protein 28 (FBP) WW domain, a stable three-stranded β-sheet protein, can be described as reversible apparent two-state folding. Kinetics studied by laser temperature jump reveal a third state at temperatures below the midpoint of unfolding. The FBP free-energy surface can be tuned between three-state and two-state kinetics by changing the temperature, by truncation of the C terminus, or by selected point mutations. FBP WW domain is the smallest three-state folder studied to date and the only one that can be freely tuned between three-state and apparent two-state folding by several methods (temperature, truncation, and mutation). Its small size (28-37 residues), the availability of a quantitative reaction coordinate (φT), the fast folding time scale (10s of μs), and the tunability of the folding routes by small temperature or sequence changes make this system the ideal prototype for studying more subtle features of the folding free-energy landscape by simulations or analytical theory.
AB - The equilibrium unfolding of the Formin binding protein 28 (FBP) WW domain, a stable three-stranded β-sheet protein, can be described as reversible apparent two-state folding. Kinetics studied by laser temperature jump reveal a third state at temperatures below the midpoint of unfolding. The FBP free-energy surface can be tuned between three-state and two-state kinetics by changing the temperature, by truncation of the C terminus, or by selected point mutations. FBP WW domain is the smallest three-state folder studied to date and the only one that can be freely tuned between three-state and apparent two-state folding by several methods (temperature, truncation, and mutation). Its small size (28-37 residues), the availability of a quantitative reaction coordinate (φT), the fast folding time scale (10s of μs), and the tunability of the folding routes by small temperature or sequence changes make this system the ideal prototype for studying more subtle features of the folding free-energy landscape by simulations or analytical theory.
KW - Protien folding mechanism
KW - β-sheet
KW - β-strand
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U2 - 10.1073/pnas.0538054100
DO - 10.1073/pnas.0538054100
M3 - Article
C2 - 12651955
AN - SCOPUS:0001071357
VL - 100
SP - 3948
EP - 3953
JO - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
JF - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
SN - 0027-8424
IS - 7
ER -