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ArticleProtein science : a publication of the Protein Society2015

A comparison of the folding characteristics of free and ribosome-tethered polypeptide chains using limited proteolysis and mass spectrometry.

Khadijeh Rajabi, Julia Reuther, Elke Deuerling, Sheena E Radford, Alison E Ashcroft

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Article in Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Khadijeh RajabiAstbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom.
Julia ReutherDepartment of Biology, University of Konstanz, 78457, Konstanz, Germany.
Elke DeuerlingDepartment of Biology, University of Konstanz, 78457, Konstanz, Germany.
Sheena E RadfordAstbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom.
Alison E AshcroftAstbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom.
University of Leeds · GBUniversity of Konstanz · DE

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Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/E012558/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The kinetics and thermodynamics of protein folding are commonly studied in vitro by denaturing/renaturing intact protein sequences. How these folding mechanisms relate to de novo folding that occurs as the nascent polypeptide emerges from the ribosome is much less well understood. Here, we have employed limited proteolysis followed by mass spectrometry analyses to compare directly free and ribosome-tethered polypeptide chains of the Src-homology 3 (SH3) domain and its unfolded variant, SH3-m10. The disordered variant was found to undergo faster proteolysis than SH3. Furthermore, the trypsin cleavage patterns observed show minor, but significant, differences for the free and ribosome-bound nascent chains, with significantly fewer tryptic peptides detected in the presence of ribosome. The results highlight the utility of limited proteolysis coupled with mass spectrometry for the structural analysis of these complex systems, and pave the way for detailed future analyses by combining this technique with chemical labeling methods (for example, hydrogen-deuterium exchange, photochemical oxidation) to analyze protein folding in real time, including in the presence of additional ribosome-associated factors.

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Protein Foldingsrc Homology DomainsAmino Acid SequenceCircular DichroismMolecular Sequence DataPeptidesProtein UnfoldingProteolysisRibosomesSpectrometry, Mass, Electrospray IonizationPeptidescircular dichroism spectroscopylimited proteolysisnanoelectrospray ionisation-mass spectrometryribosome-nascent chain complexesSrc-homology 3trypsin digest

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PMID25970093
PMCPMC4534179
OpenAlexW2147468461

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