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Domain swapping proceeds via complete unfolding: a 19F- and 1H-NMR study of the Cyanovirin-N protein.

ABSTRACT: Domain swapping creates protein oligomers by exchange of structural units between identical monomers. At present, no unifying molecular mechanism of domain swapping has emerged. Here we used the protein Cyanovirin-N (CV-N) and (19)F-NMR to investigate the process of domain swapping. CV-N is an HIV inactivating protein that can exist as a monomer or a domain-swapped dimer. We measured thermodynamic and kinetic parameters of the conversion process and determined the size of the energy barrier between the two species. The barrier is very large and of similar magnitude to that for equilibrium unfolding of the protein. Therefore, for CV-N, overall unfolding of the polypeptide is required for domain swapping.

SUBMITTER: Liu L

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3326405 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Domain swapping proceeds via complete unfolding: a 19F- and 1H-NMR study of the Cyanovirin-N protein.

Liu Lin L Byeon In-Ja L IJ Bahar Ivet I Gronenborn Angela M AM

Journal of the American Chemical Society 20120222 9

Domain swapping creates protein oligomers by exchange of structural units between identical monomers. At present, no unifying molecular mechanism of domain swapping has emerged. Here we used the protein Cyanovirin-N (CV-N) and (19)F-NMR to investigate the process of domain swapping. CV-N is an HIV inactivating protein that can exist as a monomer or a domain-swapped dimer. We measured thermodynamic and kinetic parameters of the conversion process and determined the size of the energy barrier betw ...[more]

PMID: 22296296

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