Exploration of Protein Unfolding by Modelling Calorimetry Data from Reheating

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Authors

MAZURENKO Stanislav KUNKA Antonín BEERENS Koen JOHNSON Christopher M. DAMBORSKÝ Jiří PROKOP Zbyněk

Year of publication 2017
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Scientific Reports
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Science

Citation
Web https://loschmidt.chemi.muni.cz/peg/publications/exploration-of-protein-unfolding-by-modelling-calorimetry-data-from-reheating/
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-16360-y
Keywords DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; THERMAL-DENATURATION; THEORETICAL-ANALYSIS; AGGREGATION; STABILITY; LYSOZYME; STABILIZATION; SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSITIONS; PROFILES
Description Studies of protein unfolding mechanisms are critical for understanding protein functions inside cells, de novo protein design as well as defining the role of protein misfolding in neurodegenerative disorders. Calorimetry has proven indispensable in this regard for recording full energetic profiles of protein unfolding and permitting data fitting based on unfolding pathway models. While both kinetic and thermodynamic protein stability are analysed by varying scan rates and reheating, the latter is rarely used in curve-fitting, leading to a significant loss of information from experiments. To extract this information, we propose fitting both first and second scans simultaneously. Four most common single-peak transition models are considered: (i) fully reversible, (ii) fully irreversible, (iii) partially reversible transitions, and (iv) general three-state models. The method is validated using calorimetry data for chicken egg lysozyme, mutated Protein A, three wild-types of haloalkane dehalogenases, and a mutant stabilized by protein engineering. We show that modelling of reheating increases the precision of determination of unfolding mechanisms, free energies, temperatures, and heat capacity differences. Moreover, this modelling indicates whether alternative refolding pathways might occur upon cooling. The Matlab-based data fitting software tool and its user guide are provided as a supplement.
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