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ArticleBiophysical journal2009

Tryptophan conformations associated with partial unfolding in ribonuclease T1.

Samuel L C Moors, Abel Jonckheer, Marc De Maeyer, Yves Engelborghs, Arnout Ceulemans

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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 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Samuel L C MoorsLaboratory of Quantum Chemistry and INPAC Institute for Nanoscale Physics and Chemistry, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. sam.moors@chem.kuleuven.be
Abel Jonckheer
Marc De Maeyer
Yves Engelborghs
Arnout Ceulemans
KU Leuven · BE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The origin of the biexponential fluorescence decay of Trp in ribonuclease T1 under mildly destabilizing conditions, such as increased pH or temperature, or the presence of detergent, is still not understood. We have performed two extended replica-exchange molecular dynamics simulations to obtain a detailed representation of the native state at two protonation states corresponding to a high and low pH. At high pH, the appearance of partially unfolded states is evident. We found that this pH-induced destabilization originates from increased global repulsion as well as reduced local favorable electrostatic interactions and reduced H-bonding strength of His(27), His(40), and His(92). At high pH, alternative tryptophan rotamers appear and are linked to a distorted environment of the tryptophan, which also acts as a separate source of ground-state heterogeneity. The total population of these alternative conformations agrees well with the amplitude of the experimentally observed secondary fluorescence lifetime.

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Models, MolecularCrystallography, X-RayEnzyme StabilityHydrogen BondingHydrogen-Ion ConcentrationIndolesProtein ConformationProtein DenaturationProtonsRibonuclease T1RotationSolventsSpectrometry, FluorescenceTemperatureTryptophanIndolesProtonsRibonuclease T1SolventsTryptophan

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PMID19751684
PMCPMC2749795
OpenAlexW2069688983

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