TY - JOUR
T1 - Sequential collapse folding pathway of staphylococcal nuclease
T2 - Entropic activation barriers to hydrophobic collapse of the protein core
AU - Bergasa-Caceres, Fernando
AU - Rabitz, Herschel A.
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PY - 2004/6/10
Y1 - 2004/6/10
N2 - In this paper the sequential collapse model (SCM) is applied to reveal the folding pathway of staphylococcal nuclease. It is found that there are two energetically equivalent dominant primary contacts leading potentially to two distinct folding pathways. A third weaker contact is likely to initiate an additional less populated pathway. The findings are compared with previous theoretical and experimental results, including laboratory data suggesting that the later stages of the folding pathway of staphylococcal nuclease might be kinetically controlled. The activation barriers observed to control the intermediate stages of the folding pathway are postulated to correspond to the configurational activation barriers governing the cooperative collapse phase along each of the three predicted folding pathways.
AB - In this paper the sequential collapse model (SCM) is applied to reveal the folding pathway of staphylococcal nuclease. It is found that there are two energetically equivalent dominant primary contacts leading potentially to two distinct folding pathways. A third weaker contact is likely to initiate an additional less populated pathway. The findings are compared with previous theoretical and experimental results, including laboratory data suggesting that the later stages of the folding pathway of staphylococcal nuclease might be kinetically controlled. The activation barriers observed to control the intermediate stages of the folding pathway are postulated to correspond to the configurational activation barriers governing the cooperative collapse phase along each of the three predicted folding pathways.
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U2 - 10.1021/jp031023d
DO - 10.1021/jp031023d
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:3042549934
SN - 1520-6106
VL - 108
SP - 8023
EP - 8030
JO - Journal of Physical Chemistry B
JF - Journal of Physical Chemistry B
IS - 23
ER -