title: Complexity of protein energy landscapes studied by solution NMR relaxation dispersion experiments.
abstract: The millisecond time scale motions in ribonuclease A (RNase A) were studied by solution NMR CPMG and off-resonance R1ρ relaxation dispersion experiments over a wide pH and temperature range. These experiments identify three separate protein regions termed Cluster 1, Cluster 2, and R33, whose motions are governed by distinct thermodynamic parameters. Moreover, each of these regions has motions with different pH dependencies. Cluster 1 shows an increase in activation enthalpy and activation entropy as the pH is lowered, whereas Cluster 2 exhibits the opposite behavior. In contrast, the activation enthalpy and entropy of R33 show no pH dependence. Compounding the differences, Δω values for Cluster 2 are characteristic of two-site conformational exchange, yet similar analysis for Cluster 1 indicates that this region of the enzyme exhibits conformational fluctuations between a major conformer and a pH-dependent average of protonated and deprotonated minor conformers.
authors: Department of Chemistry, Yale University , 225 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States.
authors: Gennady
authors: G
authors: Khirich
authors: J Patrick
authors: JP
authors: Loria
mesh_terms: D004789:Enzyme Activation; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D007700:Kinetics; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008958:Models, Molecular; D009068:Movement; D011487:Protein Conformation; D012259:Ribonuclease, Pancreatic / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D012996:Solutions; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: D012996:Solutions; D012259:Ribonuclease, Pancreatic