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排除体积、局部结构协同性和蛋白质折叠速率的聚合物物理学

Excluded volume, local structural cooperativity,and the polymer physics of protein folding rates

Xianghong Qi, John J. Portman

摘要:

一个粗粒度的变分模型被用来研究不同的一组两态折叠蛋白质的障碍交叉的聚合物动力学。该模型给出了可靠的折叠速率预测排除体积项,诱导轻微的结构协同性包括在相互作用潜力。一般而言,合作折叠路线具有折叠核的折叠和未折叠区域之间的更尖锐的界面和更高的自由能势垒。计算出的自由能势垒与本机拓扑结构的特点是接触顺序密切相关。增加折叠核的刚性改变了过渡态系综的局部结构,在所研究的蛋白质组中不均匀。尽管如此,计算出的前因子k 0被发现是相对均匀的蛋白质集,1/k 0的变化小于5倍。这种直接的计算证明了一个共同的假设,即前因子是大致相同的所有小的双态折叠蛋白质。利用模型得到的势垒高度和最佳拟合单体弛豫时间30 ns,我们发现1/k 0(1-5)us(平均1/k 0 4us)。这个模型可以扩展到研究折叠的微妙方面,如稳定性或溶剂粘度的变化的折叠速率,和下坡折叠的开始。

英文摘要:

A coarse-grained variational model is used to investigate the polymer dynamics of barrier crossing for a diverse set of two-state folding proteins. The model gives reliable folding rate predictions provided excluded volume terms that induce minor structural cooperativity are included in the interaction potential. In general, the cooperative folding routes have sharper interfaces between folded and unfolded regions of the folding nucleus and higher free energy barriers. The calculated free energy barriers are strongly correlated with native topology as characterized by contact order. Increasing the rigidity of the folding nucleus changes the local structure of the transition state ensemble non-uniformly across the set of protein studied. Neverthless, the calculated prefactors k0 are found to be relatively uniform across the protein set, with variation in 1/k0 less than a factor of five. This direct calculation justifies the common assumption that the prefactor is roughly the same for all small two-state folding proteins. Using the barrier heights obtained from the model and the best fit monomer relaxation time 30ns, we find that 1/k0 (1-5)us (with average 1/k0 4us). This model can be extended to study subtle aspects of folding such as the variation of the folding rate with stability or solvent viscosity, and the onset of downhill folding.

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