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TitleDynamics and folding of single two-stranded coiled-coil peptides studied by fluorescent energy transfer confocal microscopy
Uniform TitleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
PublisherNational Academy of Sciences
NameTalaga, David S. (author), Lau, Wai Leung (author), Roder, Heinrich (author), Tang, Jianyong (author), Jia, Yiwei (author), DeGrado, William F. (author), Hochstrasser, Robin M. (author), National Institutes of Health,
Date Created2000
SubjectPeptides
DescriptionWe report single-molecule measurements on the folding and unfolding conformational equilibrium distributions and dynamics of a disulfide crosslinked version of the two-stranded coiled coil from GCN4. The peptide has a fluorescent donor and acceptor at the N termini of its two chains and a Cys disulfide near its C terminus. Thus, folding brings the two N termini of the two chains close together, resulting in an enhancement of fluorescent resonant energy transfer. End-to-end distance distributions have thus been characterized under conditions where the peptide is nearly fully folded (0 M urea), unfolded (7.4 M urea), and in dynamic exchange between folded and unfolded states (3.0 M urea). The distributions have been compared for the peptide freely diffusing in solution and deposited onto aminopropyl silanized glass. As the urea concentration is increased, the mean end-to-end distance shifts to longer distances both in free solution and on the modified surface. The widths of these distributions indicate that the molecules are undergoing millisecond conformational fluctuations. Under all three conditions, these fluctuations gave nonexponential correlations on 1- to 100-ms time scale. A component of the correlation decay that was sensitive to the concentration of urea corresponded to that measured by bulk relaxation kinetics. The
trajectories provided effective intramolecular diffusion coefficients as a function of the end-to-end distances for the folded and unfolded states. Single-molecule folding studies provide information concerning the distributions of conformational states in the folded, unfolded, and dynamically interconverting states.
trajectories provided effective intramolecular diffusion coefficients as a function of the end-to-end distances for the folded and unfolded states. Single-molecule folding studies provide information concerning the distributions of conformational states in the folded, unfolded, and dynamically interconverting states.
NoteAuthor manuscript. Published in final edited form as: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 November 21; 97(24): 13021-13026.
NoteThe final published version of this article is located at: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/97/24/13021
NoteNIH GM54616; to William F. DeGrado
NoteNIH GM12592; to Robin M. Hochstrasser
NoteNIH GM48130; to William F. Degrado and Robin M. Hochstrasser
NoteThis work was supported by GM54616 (to W.F.D.), GM12592 (to R.M.H.) and GM48130 (to W.F.D. and R.M.H.) with instrumentation developed under RR01348. D.S.T. was supported by National Institutes of Health Grant NRSA F32-GM18589.
NoteAlso available in PubMed Central. PMCID:PMC27171
GenreArticle, Refereed
Persistent URLhttp://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore00000001072.Article.16091
LanguageEnglish
CollectionTalaga, David Collection
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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