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Ekaterina V Pletneva1, Harry B Gray, Jay R Winkler.
Abstract
Dansyl-to-heme distance distributions [P(r)] during folding have been determined in five variants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae iso-1 ferricytochrome c (labeled at mutant Cys residues 4, 39, 50, 66, and 99) by analysis of fluorescence energy-transfer kinetics. Moment analysis of the P(r) distributions clearly indicates that cytochrome c refolding is not a simple two-state process. After 1 ms of folding, the polypeptide ensemble is not uniformly collapsed and there are site variations in the relative populations of collapsed structures. P(r) distributions reveal structural features of the multiple intermediate species and evolution of the polypeptide ensemble.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID: 16344477 PMCID: PMC1317956 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0509076102
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ISSN: 0027-8424 Impact factor: 11.205