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ArticleBiophysical journal2009

Direct observation of downhill folding of lambda-repressor in a microfluidic mixer.

Stephen J DeCamp, Athi N Naganathan, Steven A Waldauer, Olgica Bakajin, Lisa J Lapidus

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Article in Biophysical journal, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 38 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Predicting and Simulating Mutational Effects on Protein Folding Kinetics.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2022
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  7. Cooperative folding near the downhill limit determined with amino acid resolution by hydrogen exchange.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016
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  10. Fast protein folding kinetics.Quarterly reviews of biophysics · 2014
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  12. Dodine as a protein denaturant: the best of two worlds?The journal of physical chemistry. B · 2013
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  13. Microsecond folding experiments and simulations: a match is made.Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP · 2013
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  14. Microfluidic mixers for studying protein folding.Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE · 2012
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  16. The fast and the slow: folding and trapping of λ6-85.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2011
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  19. The folding of single domain proteins--have we reached a consensus?Current opinion in structural biology · 2011
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Stephen J DeCampDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.
Athi N Naganathan
Steven A Waldauer
Olgica Bakajin
Lisa J Lapidus
Michigan State University · USCentro de Investigaciones Biológicas Margarita Salas · ESLawrence Livermore National Laboratory · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The protein lambda(6-85) has been implicated in barrierless folding by observations of kinetic relaxation after nanosecond T-jump. In this work we observed folding of this protein after dilution of a high denaturant in an ultrarapid microfluidic mixer at temperatures far below the thermal midpoint. The observations of total intensity and spectral shift of tryptophan fluorescence yielded distinctly different kinetics and activation energies. These results may be explained as diffusion on a low-barrier, one-dimensional, free-energy surface, with different probes having different sensitivities along the reaction coordinate. Additionally, we observed an extremely fast phase within the mixing time that was not observed by T-jump, suggesting that the ensemble of unfolded states populated at high denaturant is distinct from those accessible at high temperature.

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Protein FoldingKineticsMicrofluidic Analytical TechniquesMutationProtein DenaturationRepressor ProteinsSpectrometry, FluorescenceTemperatureThermodynamicsViral Regulatory and Accessory Proteinsphage repressor proteinsRepressor ProteinsViral Regulatory and Accessory Proteins

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PMID19751683
PMCPMC2749784
OpenAlexW2012977947

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