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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 114, Issue 13, Pages 3415-3420Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1615862114
Keywords
folding; catenanes; slipknot; lasso; disulphide bridge
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- European Molecular Biology Organization Installation Grant [2057]
- Polish Ministry for Science and Higher Education [0003/ID3/2016/64]
- University of Warsaw Young Researcher Fellowship [120000-501/86-DSM-112 700]
- Polish National Science Centre Preludium Grant [Polish National Science Centre Preludium Grant]
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Twenty years after their discovery, knots in proteins are now quite well understood. They are believed to be functionally advantageous and provide extra stability to protein chains. In this work, we go one step further and search for links-entangled structures, more complex than knots, which consist of several components. We derive conditions that proteins need to meet to be able to form links. We search through the entire Protein Data Bank and identify several sequentially nonhomologous chains that form a Hopf link and a Solomon link. We relate topological properties of these proteins to their function and stability and show that the link topology is characteristic of eukaryotes only. We also explain how the presence of links affects the folding pathways of proteins. Finally, we define necessary conditions to form Borromean rings in proteins and show that no structure in the Protein Data Bank forms a link of this type.
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