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NATURE COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE
Volume 1, Issue 11, Pages 732-743Publisher
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DOI: 10.1038/s43588-021-00155-3
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- European Research Council under the European Union [803326]
- Oppenheimer Fellowship of the University of Cambridge
- Roger Ekins Fellowship from Emmanuel College
- EPSRC [EP/N509620/1, EP/T517847/1, EP/P020259/1]
- Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability
- University of Cambridge Ernest Oppenheimer Fund
- European Research Council (ERC) [803326] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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Mpipi is a multiscale coarse-grained protein model that quantitatively describes the change in protein critical temperatures with respect to amino acid sequence, considering the dominant role of pi-pi and hybrid cation-pi/pi-pi interactions, and the stronger attractive contacts of arginines compared to lysines. Experimental benchmarks demonstrate that Mpipi predictions are in good agreement with experimental results, and the model can accurately predict protein-RNA interactions and liquid-liquid phase separation trends of proteins with sequence mutations.
Various physics- and data-driven sequence-dependent protein coarse-grained models have been developed to study biomolecular phase separation and elucidate the dominant physicochemical driving forces. Here we present Mpipi, a multiscale coarse-grained model that describes almost quantitatively the change in protein critical temperatures as a function of amino acid sequence. The model is parameterized from both atomistic simulations and bioinformatics data and accounts for the dominant role of pi-pi and hybrid cation-pi/pi-pi interactions and the much stronger attractive contacts established by arginines than lysines. We provide a comprehensive set of benchmarks for Mpipi and seven other residue-level coarse-grained models against experimental radii of gyration and quantitative in vitro phase diagrams, demonstrating that Mpipi predictions agree well with experiments on both fronts. Moreover, Mpipi can account for protein-RNA interactions, correctly predicts the multiphase behavior of a charge-matched poly-arginine/poly-lysine/RNA system, and recapitulates experimental liquid-liquid phase separation trends for sequence mutations on FUS, DDX4 and LAF-1 proteins.
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