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从机械折叠轨迹到生物聚合物的内在能量景观

From mechanical folding trajectories to intrinsic energy landscapes of biopolymers

Michael Hinczewski, J. Christof M. Gebhardt, Matthias Rief, D. Thirumalai

摘要:

在单分子激光光镊(LOT)拉动实验中,蛋白质或RNA被并置在连接到光阱中的珠子的DNA手柄之间。LOT在力的作用下根据珠子之间距离的时间依赖性变化生成折叠轨迹。如何从测量的时间序列构建完整的内在折叠景观(没有手柄和珠子)是一个主要的未解决的问题。通过使用严格的理论方法-这占波动的DNA处理,旋转的光学珠,施加的张力由于有限的陷阱刚度的变化,以及环境噪声和有限的带宽的设备-我们提供了一个易于处理的方法来获得固有的自由能配置文件。我们验证的方法表明,精确计算的固有自由能分布的广义劳斯模型,它模仿核酸发夹的两个状态的行为,可以准确地提取模拟时间序列在一个LOT设置,无论刚度的手柄。接下来,我们将该方法应用于基于GCN 4亮氨酸拉链的卷曲螺旋蛋白质的粗粒度LOT分子模拟的轨迹,并获得与没有珠子和手柄的模拟定量一致的自由能景观。最后,我们提取的内在自由能景观从实验的亮氨酸拉链,这是独立的陷阱参数的LOT测量。

英文摘要:

In single molecule laser optical tweezer (LOT) pulling experiments a protein or RNA is juxtaposed between DNA handles that are attached to beads in optical traps. The LOT generates folding trajectories under force in terms of time-dependent changes in the distance between the beads. How to construct the full intrinsic folding landscape (without the handles and the beads) from the measured time series is a major unsolved problem. By using rigorous theoretical methods---which account for fluctuations of the DNA handles, rotation of the optical beads, variations in applied tension due to finite trap stiffness, as well as environmental noise and the limited bandwidth of the apparatus---we provide a tractable method to derive intrinsic free energy profiles. We validate the method by showing that the exactly calculable intrinsic free energy profile for a Generalized Rouse Model, which mimics the two-state behavior in nucleic acid hairpins, can be accurately extracted from simulated time series in a LOT setup regardless of the stiffness of the handles. We next apply the approach to trajectories from coarse grained LOT molecular simulations of a coiled-coil protein based on the GCN4 leucine zipper, and obtain a free energy landscape that is in quantitative agreement with simulations performed without the beads and handles. Finally, we extract the intrinsic free energy landscape from experimental LOT measurements for the leucine zipper, which is independent of the trap parameters.

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