دورية أكاديمية

Explicit Characterization of the Free-Energy Landscape of a Protein in the Space of All Its Cα Carbons

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Explicit Characterization of the Free-Energy Landscape of a Protein in the Space of All Its Cα Carbons
المؤلفون: Sormani G., Rodriguez A., Laio A.
المساهمون: Sormani, G., Rodriguez, A., Laio, A.
سنة النشر: 2020
المجموعة: Università degli studi di Trieste: ArTS (Archivio della ricerca di Trieste)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Animal, Carbon, Chicken, Cluster Analysi, Kinetic, Markov Chain, Microfilament Protein, Molecular Dynamics Simulation, Protein Conformation, Protein Folding, Thermodynamics
الوصف: By using an approach that allows computing the free energy in high-dimensional spaces together with a clustering technique capable of identifying kinetic attractors stabilized by conformational disorder, we analyze a molecular dynamics trajectory of the Villin headpiece from Lindorff-Larsen, K.; et al. How fast-folding proteins fold. Science 2011, 334, 517-520. We compute its free-energy landscape in the space of all its Cα carbons. This landscape has the shape of a 12-dimensional funnel with the free energy decreasing monotonically as a function of the native contacts. There are no significant folding barriers. The funnel can be partitioned in five regions, three mainly folded and two unfolded, which behave as Markov states. The slowest relaxation time among these states corresponds to the folding transition. The second slowest time is only twice smaller and corresponds to a transition within the unfolded state. This indicates that the unfolded part of the funnel has a nontrivial shape, which induces a sizable kinetic barrier between disordered states.
نوع الوثيقة: article in journal/newspaper
اللغة: English
العلاقة: info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/pmid/31809040; info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/wos/WOS:000508474800007; volume:16; issue:1; firstpage:80; lastpage:87; numberofpages:8; journal:JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THEORY AND COMPUTATION; https://hdl.handle.net/11368/3034881Test; info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/scopus/2-s2.0-85077220118
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.9b00800
الإتاحة: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.9b00800Test
https://hdl.handle.net/11368/3034881Test
حقوق: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.657562B
قاعدة البيانات: BASE