Protein dynamics in living cells
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Protein dynamics in living cells
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Retraction.Biochemistry. 2007 Jul 10;46(27):8206. doi: 10.1021/bi700744h. Epub 2007 Jun 13. Biochemistry. 2007. PMID: 17567051 No abstract available.
Abstract
A protein's structure is most often used to explain its function, but function also depends on dynamics. To date, protein dynamics have been studied only in vitro under dilute solution conditions where solute concentrations are typically less than 10 g/L, yet proteins function in a crowded environment where the solute concentration can exceed 400 g/L. Does the intracellular environment affect protein dynamics? The answer will help in assessing the biological significance of the NMR-derived dynamics data collected to date. We investigated fast protein dynamics inside living Escherichia coli by using in-cell NMR. The backbone dynamics of apocytochrome b5 were quantified using {1H}-15N nuclear Overhauser effect (nOe) measurements, which characterize motions on the pico- to nanosecond time scale. The overall trend of backbone dynamics remains the same in cells. Some of the nOe values differ, but most of the differences track the increased intracellular viscosity rather than a change in dynamics. Therefore, it appears that dilute solution steady-state {1H}-15N nOe measurements provide biologically relevant information about pico- to nanosecond backbone motion in proteins.
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