Abstract
The structural feature of unfolding intermediate of pokeweed anti-viral protein (PAP) was characterized using time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopic methods to elucidate protein folding/unfolding process. CD and fluorescence spectra consistently demonstrated that the unfolding of PAP completed at 4 M of guanidine hydrochloride (GuHCl). The fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) and time-resolve fluorescence depolarization analysis of Trp208 and Trp237 located in the C-terminal domain of PAP suggested that peculiar unfolding intermediate populated before reaching to the unfolding state. The FRET distance of Trp237 to Tyr182 was extended to more than 28 Å with keeping the compact conformation in the unfolding intermediate state populated in the presence of 2 M GuHCl. On the other hand, Trp208 maintained the energy transfer pair with Tyr72 near the active site, although the rotational freedom was increased a little. There results suggest that the most distinguished structural feature of the unfolding intermediate of PAP is the separation of C-terminal domain from N-terminal domain. FRET and fluorescence depolarization studies also showed that C-terminal domain would be more separated to liberate the segmental motions of Trp208 and Trp237 distinctly at the unfolding state.
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Abbreviations
- PAP:
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Pokeweed anti-viral protein
- GuHCl:
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Guanidine hydrochloride
- RIP:
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Ribosome-inactivating protein
- FRET:
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Fluorescence resonance energy transfer
- TCSPC:
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Time-correlated single photon counting
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Matsumoto, S., Taniguchi, Y., Fukunaga, Y. et al. Structural Characteristic of Folding/Unfolding Intermediate of Pokeweed Anti-viral Protein Revealed by Time-resolved Fluorescence. J Fluoresc 23, 407–415 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10895-013-1155-4
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