Evidence for the existence of three or more slow phases in the refolding of ribonuclease A and some characteristics of the phases
- 16 June 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Biochemistry
- Vol. 26 (12), 3537-3543
- https://doi.org/10.1021/bi00386a043
Abstract
The slow refolding kinetics of RNase A have been analyzed, by using a nonlinear least-squares program for deconvoluting the kinetic phases and applying statistical tests for quality of fit. It is found that a minimum of three slow phases are required to fit the kinetic data properly, and this is true whether the method of detection is absorbance or fluorescence. Since the number of phases and the relaxation times for each phase are independent of the method of detection, it is concluded that the same three rate-limiting processes are seen by absorbance and fluorescence. These phases correspond to the XY, CT, and ct phases described in our earlier studies. The fact that fluorescence-detected kinetics are somewhat slower than absorbance-detected kinetics is a trivial effect due not to differences in relaxation times but to the fact that the amplitude of the CT phase is enhanced in fluorescence measurements, at the expense of the faster XY phase, because of intrinsic fluorescence changes associated with the isomerization of proline-93. By use of a new double-jump technique [Schmid, F. X., Grafl, R., Wrba, A., and Beintema, J. J. (1986) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 83, 872], it is shown that proline-93 isomerizes as the rate-limiting step in only one of the three phases, the CT phase, and that this phase involves only 25-30% of the RNase molecules. There is still no indication as to the molecular events that occur in the large, ammonium sulfate dependent XY phase, which is the pathway for formation of the nativelike intermediate.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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