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Is there an en route folding intermediate for Cold shock proteins?

ABSTRACT: Cold shock proteins (Csps) play an important role in cold shock response of a diverse number of organisms ranging from bacteria to humans. Numerous studies of the Csp from various species showed that a two-state folding mechanism is conserved and the transition state (TS) appears to be very compact. However, the atomic details of the folding mechanism of Csp remain unclear. This study presents the folding mechanism of Csp in atomic detail using an all-atom Go model-based simulations. Our simulations predict that there may exist an en route intermediate, in which ? strands 1-2-3 are well ordered and the contacts between ?1 and ?4 are almost developed. Such an intermediate might be too unstable to be detected in the previous fluorescence energy transfer experiments. The transition state ensemble has been determined from the P(fold) analysis and the TS appears even more compact than the intermediate state.

SUBMITTER: Huang L

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3403465 | biostudies-literature | 2012 May

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Is there an en route folding intermediate for Cold shock proteins?

Huang Lei L Shakhnovich Eugene I EI

Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society 20120329 5

Cold shock proteins (Csps) play an important role in cold shock response of a diverse number of organisms ranging from bacteria to humans. Numerous studies of the Csp from various species showed that a two-state folding mechanism is conserved and the transition state (TS) appears to be very compact. However, the atomic details of the folding mechanism of Csp remain unclear. This study presents the folding mechanism of Csp in atomic detail using an all-atom Go model-based simulations. Our simulat ...[more]

PMID: 22467601

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