Journal
BIOSYSTEMS
Volume 181, Issue -, Pages 31-43Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2019.04.005
Keywords
Protein folding; HP model; Genetic algorithm; Correlated network; Foldamers; Osmolyte effect
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- CONACyT [0222872]
- Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana
- Red Tematica de Fisicoquimica Teorica (RedFQT - CONACyT)
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We have employed our bioinformatics workbench, named Evolution, a Multi-Agent System based architecture with lattice-bead-models, evolutionary-algorithms, and correlated-networks as inhomogeneous spaces, with different correlation lengths, mimicking osmolyte effect (molecular crowding), to in silico survey protein folding. Resolution is with hydrophobic-polar (H-P) sequences in inhomogeneous 2D square lattices, since general biophysicochemical trends consider i) that the backbone is one of the major components responsible for protein folding and ii) osmolyte effect plays an important role to better folding kinetics and reach deeper optima. We have designed foldamers, as square n x n (n = 3, 4, 5, 6) arrays of hydrophobic cores stabilized by -H...H- contacts, attached through short -P-P- (-P-2-) or long -P-P-P-P- (-P-4-) loops, giving rise to 8 sequences (S-1 to S-8) with known optimal scores. Designed sequences were folded into different inhomogeneous spaces and indeed crowded media induced deeper optima, being crowding necessary to best fold, but the space should be enough constrained to induce folding without banning chain movement. The constrained space plays an important role to reach the optimal structure, depending on designed foldamer sequence size, for an optimal correlation length, implying that media affects the folding pathways as happens in real systems. Designed structures were found, moreover, they undergo to degenerated states, both folding states could survey considering i) backbone information and ii) osmolyte effect. In nature, the proteins fold in different structures aiming to reach a global minimum, but a local minimum could be enough to the protein to be functional or dysfunctional.
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