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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 144, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4941579
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- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institute of Health
- Ikerbasque
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Markov state models (MSMs) are an extremely useful tool for understanding the conformational dynamics of macromolecules and for analyzing MD simulations in a quantitative fashion. They have been extensively used for peptide and protein folding, for small molecule binding, and for the study of native ensemble dynamics. Here, we adapt the MSM methodology to gain insight into the dynamics of misfolded states. To overcome possible flaws in root-mean-square deviation (RMSD)-based metrics, we introduce a novel discretization approach, based on coarse-grained contact maps. In addition, we extend the MSM methodology to include sink states in order to account for the irreversibility (on simulation time scales) of processes like protein misfolding. We apply this method to analyze the mechanism of misfolding of tandem repeats of titin domains, and how it is influenced by confinement in a chaperonin-like cavity. (C) 2016 AIP Publishing LLC.
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