Denatured states of human carbonic anhydrase II: an NMR study of hydrogen/deuterium exchange at tryptophan‐indole‐HN sites

Abstract
Hydrogen/deuterium (H/D) exchange measurements in low and moderate concentrations of GuHCl were conducted on the side chain HN atoms of the seven tryptophans of pseudo wild-type human carbonic anhydrase II. Tryptophans 5, 16 and 245, situated in or close to the N-terminal domain were found to have little protection against exchange. The H/D exchange results for Trp-123, Trp-192 and Trp-209 showed that a previously identified molten globule and the native state gave a similar protection against exchange. Global unfolding of the protein is necessary for the efficient exchange at Trp-97, which is located in the central part of the β-sheet.

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