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The folding unit of phosphofructokinase-2 as defined by the biophysical properties of a monomeric mutant.
Biophysical journal - 5 May 2015
Ramírez-Sarmiento César A, Baez Mauricio, Zamora Ricardo A, Balasubramaniam Deepa, Babul Jorge, Komives Elizabeth A, Guixé Victoria
Abstract excerpt
Escherichia coli phosphofructokinase-2 (Pfk-2) is an obligate homodimer that follows a highly cooperative three-state folding mechanism N2 ↔ 2I ↔ 2U. The strong coupling between dissociation and unfolding is a consequence of the structural features of its interface: a bimolecular domain formed by intertwining of the small domain of each subunit into a flattened β-barrel. Although isolated monomers of E. coli...
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