How cytochrome c folds, and why: submolecular foldon units and their stepwise sequential stabilization

Journal of Molecular Biology
Haripada MaityS Walter Englander

Abstract

Native state hydrogen exchange experiments have shown that the cytochrome c (Cyt c) protein consists of five cooperative folding-unfolding units, called foldons. These are named, in the order of increasing unfolding free energy, the nested-Yellow, Red, Yellow, Green, and Blue foldons. Previous results suggest that these units unfold in a stepwise sequential way so that each higher energy partially unfolded form includes all of the previously unfolded lower free energy units. If this is so, then selectively destabilizing any given foldon should equally destabilize each subsequent unfolding step above it in the unfolding ladder but leave the lower ones before it unaffected. To perform this test, we introduced the mutation Glu62Gly, which deletes a salt link in the Yellow unit and destabilizes the protein by 0.8 kcal/mol. Native state hydrogen exchange and other experiments show that the stability of the Yellow unit and the states above it in the free energy ladder are destabilized by about the same amount while the lower lying states are unaffected. These results help to confirm the sequential stepwise nature of the Cyt c unfolding pathway and therefore a similar refolding pathway. The steps in the pathway are dictated by the con...Continue Reading

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