PMID: 12752445May 20, 2003Paper

The histidine-phosphocarrier protein of Streptomyces coelicolor folds by a partially folded species at low pH

European Journal of Biochemistry
Gregorio Fernández-BallesterJosé L Neira

Abstract

The folding of a 93-residue protein, the histidine-phosphocarrier protein of Streptomyces coelicolor, HPr, has been studied using several biophysical techniques, namely fluorescence, 8-anilinonaphthalene-1-sulfate binding, circular dichroism, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, gel filtration chromatography and differential scanning calorimetry. The chemical-denaturation behaviour of HPr, followed by fluorescence, CD and gel filtration, at pH 7.5 and 25 degrees C, is described as a two-state process, which does not involve the accumulation of thermodynamically stable intermediates. Its conformational stability under those conditions is deltaG = 4.0 +/- 0.2 kcal x mol-1 (1 kcal = 4.18 kJ), which makes the HPr from S. coelicolor the most unstable member of the HPr family described so far. The stability of the protein does not change significantly from pH 7-9, as concluded from the differential scanning calorimetry and thermal CD experiments. Conformational studies at low pH (pH 2.5-4) suggest that, in the absence of cosmotropic agents, HPr does not unfold completely; rather, it accumulates partially folded species. The transition from those species to other states with native-like secondary and tertiary structure, occurs wit...Continue Reading

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