Hydration and heat stability effects on protein unfolding.

In summary, the thermal denaturation of proteins has been elucidated in terms of the chain free energy and the hydration free energy as follows. (1) Method to calculate the unfolding free energy. The free energy of unfolding consists of two contributions: the hydration around the molecule, and the intramolecular interactions. A method to calculate the free energy of hydration from the accessible surface area (ASA) of the constituent atomic groups in a protein has been developed. This assumes a proportionality between the free energy and the ASA, where the proportional constants were determined by least-squares fitting to the experimentally derived thermodynamic data on small molecules. Similarly, the free energy of unfolding for the chain in vacuo can be also calculated from the ASA, using the unfolding thermodynamics derived from the experimental data of the ten proteins. (2) Thermodynamics of protein unfolding predicted from the three-dimensional structures and from the amino acid content in proteins. First, our method is applied to predict the thermodynamics of protein unfolding from the X-ray structure. The predicted values of four test proteins agree well with the experimentally derived values. It also accounts for the temperature dependence of the free energy and of the enthalpy upon unfolding for 14 proteins. Second, this method is applied to the helix-coil transition of short peptides of poly(L-Ala)20 and Ac-(AAAAK)3A-NH2. The calculated enthalpy change is close to the experimental values for poly-L-Lys and poly-L-Glu. Since delta Hcu at 25 degrees C significantly contributes to delta Gu, the helix formation is enthalpy-driven through interactions in the chain. Third, the method is applied to predict the unfolding thermodynamics of a globular protein from its amino acid content. It also accounts for the temperature dependence of the free energy of unfolding for the 14 proteins. The agreement between the experimental and the calculated values by this method for the 14 proteins is not so different from those obtained with the three-dimensional structures. Fourth, the values of delta Cpu for 14 proteins may be closely approximated to the predicted values of delta Cp,hu. The delta Cp,hu value in a protein consists of the major contribution from the hydrophobic and the aromatic residues, and the minor one from the hydrophilic residues. (3) Dominant free energies in protein folding.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)

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