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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
卷 375, 期 2, 页码 460-470出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2007.10.020
关键词
protein folding; molecular dynamics simulation; metadynamics; villin headpiece; advillin headpiece
Homology modeling of unknown proteins is based on the assumption that highly similar sequences are likely to share the same fold. However, this does not provide any information on the stability of a given fold, which is ultimately determined by the subtle interplay of enthalpic and entropic contributions. Herein it is shown that ab initio atomistic simulations can be used to predict the effect of point mutations on the stability of a protein fold. The calculations indicate that the fold stabilities of two proteins of similar sequence and identical fold, the villin and advillin C-terminal headpiece fragments, are different and that the same P62A point mutation has a dramatic effect on the fold of villin but a minor one on that of advillin. These predictions were subsequently validated by NMR and CD experiments. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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