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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2017

Chemical Probes and Engineered Constructs Reveal a Detailed Unfolding Mechanism for a Solvent-Free Multidomain Protein.

Joseph D Eschweiler, Rachel M Martini, Brandon T Ruotolo

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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27 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Joseph D EschweilerDepartment of Chemistry, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States.
Rachel M MartiniDepartment of Chemistry, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States.
Brandon T RuotoloDepartment of Chemistry, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-6084-2328

Funding

Next-generation Mass Spectrometry Technologies for Integrated Structural Proteomics- RenewalR01GM095832 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI RUOTOLO, BRANDON T · 2011 to 2024
$5.8M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM095832
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite the growing application of gas-phase measurements in structural biology and drug discovery, the factors that govern protein stabilities and structures in a solvent-free environment are still poorly understood. Here, we examine the solvent-free unfolding pathway for a group of homologous serum albumins. Utilizing a combination of chemical probes and noncovalent reconstructions, we draw new specific conclusions regarding the unfolding of albumins in the gas phase, as well as more general inferences regarding the sensitivity of collision induced unfolding to changes in protein primary and tertiary structure. Our findings suggest that the general unfolding pathway of low charge state albumin ions is largely unaffected by changes in primary structure; however, the stabilities of intermediates along these pathways vary widely as sequences diverge. Additionally, we find that human albumin follows a domain associated unfolding pathway, and we are able to assign each unfolded form observed in our gas-phase data set to the disruption of specific domains within the protein. The totality of our data informs the first detailed mechanism for multidomain protein unfolding in the gas phase, and highlights key similarities and differences from the known solution-phase pathway.

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Protein EngineeringAlbuminsHumansMass SpectrometryMolecular ProbesProtein UnfoldingAlbuminsMolecular Probes

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PMID27959526
PMCPMC5724362

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