In order to determine mechanical unfolding properties of the spectrin repeat, we have used single molecule force spectroscopy to study the states of unfolding of an engineered polymeric protein consisting of identical spectrin domains.
Previous report has suggested that mono and divalent cations contribute to the stability of the native state and increase the activation energy of unfolding of subtilisin BPN [ 28], therefore we decided to investigate the thermostability of AprX-SK37 in the presence of various concentrations of Ca2+ and Na+ cations.
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This would indicate an increased free energy of unfolding between the intermediate and the unfolded state.
We observed that the use of recurrence quantification analysis (RQA) could lead to the identification of the transition state during unfolding.
The unfolding transitions of a dimeric variant are well described by a two state process involving native dimer and unfolded monomer with a free energy of unfolding, ΔG00,un, of ∼10 11 kcal/mol.
The initial loss in helical structure started at a temperature above 40 °C, with an apparently cooperative two-state unfolding process indicative of the absence of any significant population of unfolding intermediates.
We have performed molecular dynamics simulations of the native state and unfolding pathways of over 2000 protein/peptide systems (∼11,000 independent simulations) representing the majority of folds in globular proteins.
The direct interaction is represented by a very short-ranged square well potential, the depth of which is parameterized to vary with the concentration of a chaotropic agent, urea, so as to mimic the experimentally measured dependence of the two state unfolding of a simple protein upon urea concentration.
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First, we are able to precisely determine the end-to-end length of the transition state before unfolding (53 Å), which is longer than the end-to-end length of the protein obtained from NMR spectroscopy (43 Å).
