Determination of intramolecular distance distribution during protein folding on the millisecond timescale |
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Authors: | Ratner V Sinev M Haas E |
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Affiliation: | Department of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 52900, Israel. |
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Abstract: | A method for determination of transient (on the millisecond timescale) intramolecular distance distributions (IDDs) by time-resolved dynamic non-radiative excitation energy transfer measurements was developed. The time-course of the development of the IDD between residues 73 and 203 in the CORE domain of Escherichia coli adenylate kinase throughout refolding from the GuHCl-induced denatured state was determined. The mean of the apparent IDD reduced to a value close to its magnitude in the native protein, within 2 ms (the dead-time of the instrument). At that time the width of that distribution was rather large (16+/-2 A). The large width implies that the intramolecular diffusion coefficient of the labeled segment does not exceed 10(-7) cm(2)/second. In a second slower phase of the refolding transition, the width was reduced to its native value (6+/-4 A). |
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