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Protein Science, Vol 9, Issue 10 1993-2000, Copyright © 2000 by The Protein Society

Role of a solvent-exposed aromatic cluster in the folding of Escherichia coli CspA [In Process Citation]

HM Rodriguez, DM Vu and LM Gregoret
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz 95064, USA.

Escherichia coli CspA is a member of the cold shock protein family. All cold shock proteins studied to date fold rapidly by an apparent two- state mechanism. CspA contains an unusual cluster of aromatic amino acids on its surface that is necessary for nucleic acid binding and also provides stability to CspA (Hillier et al., 1998). To elucidate the role this aromatic cluster plays in the determining the folding rate and pathway of CspA, we have studied the folding kinetics of mutants containing either leucine or serine substituted for Phe 18, Phe20, and/or Phe31. The leucine substitutions are found to accelerate folding and the serine substitutions to decelerate folding. Because these residues exert effects on the free energy of the folding transition state, they may be necessary for nucleating folding. They are not responsible, however, for the very compact, native-like transition state ensemble seen in the cold shock proteins, as the refolding rates of the mutants all show a similar, weak dependence of unfolding rate on denaturant concentration. Using mutant cycle analysis, we show that there is energetic coupling among the three residues between the unfolded and transition states, suggesting that the cooperative nature of these interactions helps to determine the unfolding rate. Overall, our results suggest that separate evolutionary pressures can act simultaneously on the same group of residues to maintain function, stability, and folding rate.
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