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Effects of Labeling Thiophilic FRET Dyes on the Stability and Dimerization Process of β-Lactoglobulin |
| PAN Hai, XIE Jin-Bing, CAO Yi**, QIN Meng**, WANG Wei
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National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructure and Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093
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PAN Hai, XIE Jin-Bing, CAO Yi et al 2011 Chin. Phys. Lett. 28 118702 |
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Abstract The stability and dimeric state of β−lactoglobulin (β−lg) can be dramatically affected by labeling the thiophilic agent to Cys121, whereas the underlining mechanism of such an effect is still unclear. We label a fluorescence-resonance-energy-transfer (FRET) pair of donor (1,5-IAEDANS) and acceptor (5-IAF) dyes to Cys121 of β−lg monomers to investigate the effect of bulky thiophilic modification on the structure and stability of β−lg. It is found that the modification dramatically destroys the native structure of β−lg and results in an obvious increase of the α−helical content, coincident with the accumulation of non-native α−helical intermediates during its folding process. Importantly, the dimeric state of β-lg can still be reached whereas its dimerization rate decreases dramatically, allowing us to characterize the dimerization process using the FRET method based on a stopped-flow apparatus. Our results reveal that the dimerization process occurs before the completely folding of individual monomers, providing direct evidence on the cooperativity of folding and binding processes.
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87.15.Hm
87.15.Bg
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Received: 25 June 2011
Published: 30 October 2011
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