Protein unfolded states populated at high and ambient pressure are similarly compact.

Biophysical Journal
Balasubramanian HarishCatherine A Royer

Abstract

The relationship between the dimensions of pressure-unfolded states of proteins compared with those at ambient pressure is controversial; resolving this issue is related directly to the mechanisms of pressure denaturation. Moreover, a significant pressure dependence of the compactness of unfolded states would complicate the interpretation of folding parameters from pressure perturbation and make comparison to those obtained using alternative perturbation approaches difficult. Here, we determined the compactness of the pressure-unfolded state of a small, cooperatively folding model protein, CTL9-I98A, as a function of temperature. This protein undergoes both thermal unfolding and cold denaturation, and the temperature dependence of the compactness at atmospheric pressure is known. High-pressure small angle x-ray scattering studies, yielding the radius of gyration and high-pressure diffusion ordered spectroscopy NMR experiments, yielding the hydrodynamic radius were carried out as a function of temperature at 250 MPa, a pressure at which the protein is unfolded. The radius of gyration values obtained at any given temperature at 250 MPa were similar to those reported previously at ambient pressure, and the trends with temperature ...Continue Reading

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