# Folding of the Protein Domain hbSBD

Source: [Folding of the Protein Domain hbSBD](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa5ebd1e209131ce9e4cc7>)

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Authors: Maksim Kouza, Chi-Fon Chang, Shura Hayryan, Tsan-hung Yu, Mai Suan Li, Tai-huang Huang, Chin-Kun Hu

Published: 2006-12-17T13:03:27.000Z

## Abstract

The folding of the alpha-helice domain hbSBD of the mammalian mitochondrial branched-chain alpha-ketoacid dehydrogenase (BCKD) complex is studied by the circular dichroism technique in absence of urea. Thermal denaturation is used to evaluate various thermodynamic parameters defining the equilibrium unfolding, which is well described by the two-state model with the folding temperature T\_f = 317.8 K and the enthalpy change Delta H\_g = 19.67 kcal/mol. The folding is also studied numerically using the off-lattice coarse-grained Go model and the Langevin dynamics. The obtained results, including the population of the native basin, the free energy landscape as a function of the number of native contacts and the folding kinetics, also suggest that the hbSBD domain is a two-state folder. These results are consistent with the biological function of hbSBD in BCKD.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0612031>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/q-bio/0612031.pdf>)