2014
DOI: 10.1063/1.4901897
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The non-uniform early structural response of globular proteins to cold denaturing conditions: A case study with Yfh1

Abstract: The mechanism of cold denaturation in proteins is often incompletely understood due to limitations in accessing the denatured states at extremely low temperatures. Using atomistic molecular dynamics simulations, we have compared early (nanosecond timescale) structural and solvation properties of yeast frataxin (Yfh1) at its temperature of maximum stability, 292 K (Ts), and the experimentally observed temperature of complete unfolding, 268 K (Tc). Within the simulated timescales, discernible "global" level stru… Show more

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“…Observation of the two unfolding temperatures facilitates enormously the calculation of reliable stability curves and of the whole set of thermodynamic parameters. The usefulness of Yfh1 as a tool to investigate unfolding processes is evidenced not only by our subsequent work (Pastore et al, 2007;Sanfelice et al, 2013;Pastore and Temussi, 2017;Alfano et al, 2017) but also by papers from other laboratories (Espinosa et al, 2016;Chatterjee et al, 2014;Bonetti et al, 2014;Aznauryan et al, 2013). We demonstrate that it is possible to sort out which individual single residues yield stability curves consistent with the global unfolding process and that we can obtain valuable information on the process of unfolding from residues that diverge from the average behaviour, Our data also prove directly the distinct mechanisms determining the cold and heat denaturation processes by providing site-specific information on solvent interactions.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 79%
“…Observation of the two unfolding temperatures facilitates enormously the calculation of reliable stability curves and of the whole set of thermodynamic parameters. The usefulness of Yfh1 as a tool to investigate unfolding processes is evidenced not only by our subsequent work (Pastore et al, 2007;Sanfelice et al, 2013;Pastore and Temussi, 2017;Alfano et al, 2017) but also by papers from other laboratories (Espinosa et al, 2016;Chatterjee et al, 2014;Bonetti et al, 2014;Aznauryan et al, 2013). We demonstrate that it is possible to sort out which individual single residues yield stability curves consistent with the global unfolding process and that we can obtain valuable information on the process of unfolding from residues that diverge from the average behaviour, Our data also prove directly the distinct mechanisms determining the cold and heat denaturation processes by providing site-specific information on solvent interactions.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 79%
“…The possibility that the intensity changes in the HSQCs at low temperature could be solely due to exchange broadening and not to unfolding can however be excluded by the practically perfect agreement between the curves obtained by CD and by NMR (both 1D (Pastore et al, 2007) and 2D (Puglisi et al, 2020)). Cold denaturation of Yfh1 has also been independently confirmed by five independent techniques (Espinosa et al, 2016;Chatterjee et al, 2014;Bonetti et al, 2014;Aznauryan et al, 2013).…”
Section: Data Collection and Preliminary Considerationsmentioning
confidence: 82%
“…We have extensively exploited these properties to gain new insights both on the denatured states of Yfh1 (Adrover et al, 2012) and on the factors that may influence its stability (Martin et al, 2008). The value of Yfh1 as a tool to investigate the unfolding process is evidenced not only by our subsequent work (Sanfelice et al, 2013;Pastore and Temussi, 2017;Sanfelice et al, 2014;Alfano et al, 2017) but also by papers from other laboratories (Espinosa et al, 2016;Chatterjee et al, 2014;Bonetti et al, 2014;Aznauryan et al, 2013).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…On particle morphology examination using transmission electron microscopy (TEM), each formula showed the shape of spherical particles. The spherical form had a greater solubility in the water phase, so it could increase the biovaibility of medicinal ingredients with low solubility (Chatterjee et al 2014).…”
Section: Transmission Electron Microscopy (Tem)mentioning
confidence: 99%