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多价反离子形成的F-肌动蛋白束的手性结构

Chiral Structure of F-actin Bundle Formed by Multivalent Counterions?

Sarah Mohammadinejad, Ramin Golestanian, Hossein Fazli

摘要:

利用粗粒模型和分子动力学模拟研究了多价反离子诱导丝状肌动蛋白(F-actin)成束的机制。模型考虑了肌动蛋白的真实直径、螺旋有序电荷分布和扭曲刚度。详细研究了多价反离子诱导的平行F-肌动蛋白间的吸引作用,发现最大吸引力发生在它们最近的带电区域之间。模型F-肌动蛋白由于同电荷吸引而聚集并形成紧密排列的束。反离子主要分布在纤维束内相邻F-肌动蛋白之间的最靠西的间隙中,相邻三个F-肌动蛋白之间的通道对应于低密度的反离子。抗衡离子的密度周期性地变化,其波长与沿着肌动蛋白聚合物的连续G-肌动蛋白单体之间的分离相当。观察到长寿命的缺陷在六方排列的F-肌动蛋白的束中,它们的数量随着束的尺寸增加而增加。静电相互作用和扭转刚度的组合已被发现不改变的F-肌动蛋白螺旋构象的对称性从天然的13/6对称性。计算了六方有序模型F-肌动蛋白的零温能量,其中抗衡离子的电荷分布为代表抗衡电荷密度波的电荷畴列,表明与六方晶格相称的螺旋对称性对应于系统能量的局部极小值。能量的全局最小值对应于24/11对称性,其中电荷畴列布置在相邻F-肌动蛋白之间的最远间隙中。

英文摘要:

The mechanism of multivalent counterion-induced bundle formation by filamentous actin (F-actin) is studied using a coarse-grained model and molecular dynamics simulation. Real diameter size, helically ordered charge distribution and twist rigidity of F-actin are taken into account in our model. The attraction between parallel F-actins induced by multivalent counterions is studied in detail and it is found that the maximum attraction occurs between their closest charged domains. The model F-actins aggregate due to the like-charge attraction and form closely packed bundles. Counterions are mostly distributed in the narrowest gaps between neighboring F-actins inside the bundles and the channels between three adjacent F-actins correspond to low density of the counterions. Density of the counterions varies periodically with a wave length comparable to the separation between consecutive G-actin monomers along the actin polymers. Long-lived defects in the hexagonal order of F-actins in the bundles are observed that their number increases with increasing the bundles size. Combination of electrostatic interactions and twist rigidity has been found not to change the symmetry of F-actin helical conformation from the native 13/6 symmetry. Calculation of zero-temperature energy of hexagonally ordered model F-actins with the charge of the counterions distributed as columns of charge domains representing counterion charge density waves has shown that helical symmetries commensurate with the hexagonal lattice correspond to local minima of the energy of the system. The global minimum of energy corresponds to 24/11 symmetry with the columns of charge domains arranged in the narrowest gaps between the neighboring F-actins.

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