Imagine conducting the following experiment. Take a sample of the
native folded peptide and measure the amount of peptide required to
inhibit the activity of a potassium channel, say the Kv4.2 channel,
by 50%. We will call this value the IC50 value. For our peptide,
IC50 = 5 nM for the Kv4.2 channel. Treat the peptide with a mixture
of 2-mercaptoethanol and guanidine hydrochloride. Remove the
2-mercatoethanol and then the guanidine hydrochloride to allow the
peptide to refold. Treat the Kv4.2 channel with the refolded
peptide and measure the IC50 value. If the IC50 value is now 250
nM, does this peptide sequence obey the Anfinsen dogma?
Explain.