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模式蛋白折叠协同性的结构基础:微正则视角

Structural Basis of Folding Cooperativity in Model Proteins: Insights from a Microcanonical Perspective

Tristan Bereau, Markus Deserno, Michael Bachmann

摘要:

双态协同性是蛋白质折叠的一个重要特征。它被定义为能量上位于折叠和未折叠构象之间的状态的耗尽。虽然有不同的方法来测试两个国家的合作,他们中的大多数探测这种消耗的间接代理。然而,广义系综计算机模拟允许明确地识别这种过渡的微正则分析的基础上的状态密度。在这里,我们使用粗粒度模拟几个螺旋肽进行详细的表征。粗粒度模型的分辨率水平允许研究从小α螺旋到从头三螺旋束的现实结构-而不会使力场偏向蛋白质的天然状态。连接热力学和结构特征表明,虽然短α-螺旋表现出两种状态的协同性,较长的链长度的过渡类型的变化,因为链形成多个螺旋形核位点,稳定的中间状态的显着人口。螺旋束表现出的迹象,由于有利的螺旋螺旋相互作用的两个国家的合作,从理论模型预测。二级和三级结构的形成的详细分析,以及适合到框架内的几个折叠机制,并确认迄今为止只在晶格模型中观察到的功能。

英文摘要:

Two-state cooperativity is an important characteristic in protein folding. It is defined by a depletion of states lying energetically between folded and unfolded conformations. While there are different ways to test for two-state cooperativity, most of them probe indirect proxies of this depletion. Yet, generalized-ensemble computer simulations allow to unambiguously identify this transition by a microcanonical analysis on the basis of the density of states. Here we perform a detailed characterization of several helical peptides using coarse-grained simulations. The level of resolution of the coarse-grained model allows to study realistic structures ranging from small alpha-helices to a de novo three-helix bundle - without biasing the force field toward the native state of the protein. Linking thermodynamic and structural features shows that while short alpha-helices exhibit two-state cooperativity, the type of transition changes for longer chain lengths because the chain forms multiple helix nucleation sites, stabilizing a significant population of intermediate states. The helix bundle exhibits the signs of two-state cooperativity owing to favorable helix-helix interactions, as predicted from theoretical models. The detailed analysis of secondary and tertiary structure formation fits well into the framework of several folding mechanisms and confirms features observed so far only in lattice models.

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