Nanosecond Temperature Jump and Time-resolved Raman Study of Thermal Unfolding of Ribonuclease A

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Journal Biophys J

Publisher Cell Press

Specialty Biophysics

Date 2000 Jun 27

PMID 10866974

Citations 3

Authors

K Yamamoto

Y Mizutani

T Kitagawa

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Abstract

A nanosecond temperature jump (T-jump) apparatus was constructed and combined with time-resolved Raman measurements to investigate thermal unfolding of a protein for the first time. The 1.56-microm heat pulse with 9 ns width at 10 Hz was obtained through the two-step stimulated Raman scattering in D(2) gas involving seeding and amplification. To achieve uniform temperature rise, the counter-propagation geometry was adopted for the heat pulse. The temperature rise was determined by anti-Stokes to Stokes intensity ratios of the 317 and 897 cm(-1) bands of MoO(4)(2-) ions in an aqueous solution. The T-jump as large as 9 degrees C in 10 ns was attained. The unfolding of bovine pancreatic ribonuclease A was monitored with time-resolved Raman spectra excited at 532 nm. The C-S stretching band of Met residues exhibited 10% change of that expected from the stationary state temperature-difference spectra in the initial 200 ns following T-jump and another 10% in 5 ms. The Raman intensity of SO(4)(2-) ions around 980 cm(-1) increased at 100 micros, presumably due to some conformational changes of the protein around the active site. The S-S stretches and tyrosine doublet displayed little changes within 5 ms. Thus, the conformational changes in the initial step of unfolding are not always concerted.

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