A thermodynamic coupling mechanism for GroEL-mediated unfolding
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A thermodynamic coupling mechanism for GroEL-mediated unfolding
Abstract
Chaperonins prevent the aggregation of partially folded or misfolded forms of a protein and, thus, keep it competent for productive folding. It was suggested that GroEL, the chaperonin of Escherichia coli, exerts this function 1 unfolding such intermediates, presumably in a catalytic fashion. We investigated the kinetic mechanism of GroEL-induced protein unfolding by using a reduced and carbamidomethylated variant of RNase T1, RCAM-T1, as a substrate. RCAM-T1 cannot fold to completion, because the two disulfide bonds are missing, and it is, thus, a good model for long-lived folding intermediates. RCAM-T1 unfolds when GroEL is added, but GroEL does not change the microscopic rate constant of unfolding, ruling out that it catalyzes unfolding. GroEL unfolds RCAM-T1 because it binds with high affinity to the unfolded form of the protein and thereby shifts the overall equilibrium toward the unfolded state. GroEL can unfold a partially folded or misfolded intermediate by this thermodynamic coupling mechanism when the Gibbs free energy of the binding to GroEL is larger than the conformational stability of the intermediate and when the rate of its unfolding is high.
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