期刊
PROTEINS-STRUCTURE FUNCTION AND BIOINFORMATICS
卷 80, 期 3, 页码 920-934出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/prot.23249
关键词
topology; pathways; kinetic stability; DHFR; barnase; lysozyme FIS; configurational entropy
资金
- National Science Foundation [CCF-0432098, DBI-0448072, MCB-0519507]
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Div Of Molecular and Cellular Bioscience [0848120] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Protein unfolding is modeled as an ensemble of pathways, where each step in each pathway is the addition of one topologically possible conformational degree of freedom. Starting with a known protein structure, GeoFold hierarchically partitions (cuts) the native structure into substructures using revolute joints and translations. The energy of each cut and its activation barrier are calculated using buried solvent accessible surface area, side chain entropy, hydrogen bonding, buried cavities, and backbone degrees of freedom. A directed acyclic graph is constructed from the cuts, representing a network of simultaneous equilibria. Finite difference simulations on this graph simulate native unfolding pathways. Experimentally observed changes in the unfolding rates for disulfide mutants of barnase, T4 lysozyme, dihydrofolate reductase, and factor for inversion stimulation were qualitatively reproduced in these simulations. Detailed unfolding pathways for each case explain the effects of changes in the chain topology on the folding energy landscape. GeoFold is a useful tool for the inference of the effects of disulfide engineering on the energy landscape of protein unfolding. Proteins 2011. (c) 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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