Table 2 Local (\({\rm{C}}\rightleftharpoons {\rm{O}}\)) and global (\({\rm{N}}\rightleftharpoons {\rm{U}}\)) unfolding equilibrium constants.

From: Global Implications of Local Unfolding Phenomena, Probed by Cysteine Reactivity in Human Frataxin

 

FXN L198C

FXN L200C

FXN L203C

\({\rm{C}}{\rm{\rightleftharpoons }}{\rm{O}}\) equilibrium DTNB

\({\rm{\Delta }}{{G}}_{{\rm{C}}\rightleftharpoons {\rm{O}}}^{{\rm{o}}}\)

5.01 ± 0.03

3.31 ± 0.02

5.60 ± 0.01

\({{K}}_{{\rm{C}}\rightleftharpoons {\rm{O}}}\)

0.00021 ± 0.00001

0.0037 ± 0.0001

0.000078 ± 0.000002

fC/fO

4 704 ± 207

267 ± 10

12 760 ± 303

\({\rm{C}}{\rm{\rightleftharpoons }}{\rm{O}}\) equilibrium DTDPy

\({\rm{\Delta }}{{G}}_{{\rm{C}}\rightleftharpoons {\rm{O}}}^{{\rm{o}}}\)

4.39 ± 0.03

2.49 ± 0.03

4.79 ± 0.03

\({{K}}_{{\rm{C}}\rightleftharpoons {\rm{O}}}\)

0.00061 ± 0.00003

0.0149 ± 0.0007

0.000308 ± 0.000014

fC/fO

1652 ± 84

67 ± 3

3252 ± 144

\({\rm{N}}{\rm{\rightleftharpoons }}{\rm{U}}\) equilibrium Urea, CD

\({\rm{\Delta }}{{G}}_{{\rm{N}}\rightleftharpoons {\rm{U}}}^{{\rm{o}}}\)

8.1 ± 0.5

7.2 ± 0.5

9.8 ± 0.6

\({{K}}_{{\rm{N}}\rightleftharpoons {\rm{U}}}\)*

0.0000012 ± 0.0000004

0.000005 ± 0.000001

0.00000006 ± 0.00000003

fN/fU

859 672

204 283

15 677 417

  1. The closed (C) to open (O) ratio and the native (N) to unfolded (U) ratio are the inverse value of the corresponding equilibrium constant.
  2. *Equilibrium constants were obtained by fitting a two-state model to the urea-induced unfolding experiments followed by CD (Fig. 2A and Table 1).