Differential scanning calorimetry has been used to study thethermal stability and oligosaccharide-binding thermodynamics of the N-terminal cellulose-bindingdomain of
Cellulomonas fimi es/gifchars/beta2.gif" BORDER=0 ALIGN="middle">-1,4-glucanase CenC (CBD
N1). CBD
N1 has arelatively low maximum stability (
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Gmax = 33kJ/mol = 216J/r
esidue at 1
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es/deg.gif">C and pH 6.1) compared to other small single-domainglobular proteins. The unfoldingis fully reversible between pH 5.5 and 9 and in accordance with thetwo-state equilibrium model betweenpH 5.5 and 11. When the single disulfide bond in CBD
N1is reduced, the protein remains unfolded at allconditions, as judged by NMR spectroscopy. This indicat
es that theintramolecular cross-link mak
es amajor contribution to the stability of CBD
N1. Themeasured heat capacity change of unfolding(
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Cp =7.5 kJ mol
-1 K
-1)agre
es well with that calculated from the predicted chang
es in th
esolvent acc
essiblenonpolar and polar surface areas upon unfolding. Extrapolation ofthe specific enthalpy and entropy ofunfolding to their r
espective convergence temperature indicat
es thatper r
esidue unfolding energi
es forCBD
N1, an isolated domain, are in accordance with thosefound by Privalov (
1) for many single-domainglobular proteins. DSC thermograms of the unfolding ofCBD
N1 in the pr
esence of variousconcentrationsof cellopentaose were fit to a thermodynamic model d
escribing thelinkage between protein-ligand bindingand protein unfolding. A global two-dimensional minimizationroutine is used to regr
ess the bindingenthalpy, binding constant, and unfolding thermodynamics for theCBD
N1-cellopentaose system.Extrapolated binding constants are in quantitative agreement withthose determined by isothermal titrationcalorimetry at 35
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es/deg.gif">C.