The cytochrome c folding landscape revealed by electron-transfer kinetics

Jennifer C. Lee, I. Jy Chang, Harry B. Gray*, Jay R. Winkler

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摘要

We have investigated the folding energy landscape of cytochrome c by exploiting the widely different electron-transfer (ET) reactivities of buried and exposed Zn(II)-substituted hemes. An electronically excited Zn-porphyrin in guanidine hydrochloride denatured Zn-substituted cytochrome c (Zn-cyt c) reduces ruthenium(III) hexaammine about ten times faster than when embedded in the fully folded protein. Measurements of ET kinetics during Zn-cyt c folding reveal a burst intermediate in which one-third of the ensemble has a protected Zn-porphyrin and slow ET kinetics; the remaining fraction exhibits fast ET characteristic of a solvent-exposed redox cofactor. The ET data show that, under solvent conditions favoring the folded protein, collapsed non-native structures are not substantially more stable than extended conformations, and that the two populations interchange rapidly. Most of the folding free energy, then, is released when compact structures evolve into the native fold.

原文英語
頁(從 - 到)159-164
頁數6
期刊Journal of Molecular Biology
320
發行號2
DOIs
出版狀態已發佈 - 2002 7月 1
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ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • 分子生物學
  • 生物物理學
  • 結構生物學

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