{"id":1804,"date":"2026-04-15T13:17:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/?p=1804"},"modified":"2026-04-15T13:17:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:17:04","slug":"unfolding-and-refolding-of-cytochrome-c-driven-by-the-interaction-with-lipid-micelles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/?p=1804","title":{"rendered":"Unfolding and refolding of cytochrome <i>c<\/i> driven by the interaction with lipid micelles"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>DOI:<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1110\/ps.9.6.1194\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1110\/ps.9.6.1194<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Authors:<\/h4>\n<p>Narinder Sanghera, Teresa J. T. Pinheiro<\/p>\n<h4>Abstract:<\/h4>\n<p>Binding of native cyt c to L-PG micelles leads to a partially unfolded conformation of cyt c. This micelle-bound state has no stable tertiary structure, but remains as alpha-helical as native cyt c in solution. In contrast, binding of the acid-unfolded cyt c to L-PG micelles induces folding of the polypeptide, resulting in a similar helical state to that originated from the binding of native cyt c to L-PG micelles. Far-ultraviolet (UV) circular dichroism (CD) spectra showed that this common micelle-associated helical state (HL) has a native-like alpha-helix content, but is highly expanded without a tightly packed hydrophobic core, as revealed by tryptophan fluorescence, near-UV, and Soret CD spectroscopy. The kinetics of the interaction of native and acid-unfolded cyt c was investigated by stopped-flow tryptophan fluorescence. Formation of H(L) from the native state requires the disruption of the tightly packed hydrophobic core in the native protein. This micelle-induced unfolding of cyt c occurs at a rate approximately 0.1 s(-1), which is remarkably faster in the lipid environment compared with the expected rate of unfolding in solution. Refolding of acid-unfolded cyt c with L-PG micelles involves an early highly helical collapsed state formed during the burst phase (&lt;3 ms), and the observed main kinetic event reports on the opening of this early compact intermediate prior to insertion into the lipid micelle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOI: 10.1110\/ps.9.6.1194 Authors: Narinder Sanghera, Teresa J. T. Pinheiro Abstract: Binding of native cyt c to L-PG micelles leads to a partially unfolded conformation of cyt c. This micelle-bound state has no stable tertiary structure, but remains as alpha-helical as native cyt c in solution. In contrast, binding of the acid-unfolded cyt c to L-PG [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}