期刊
PROTEINS-STRUCTURE FUNCTION AND BIOINFORMATICS
卷 82, 期 7, 页码 1453-1468出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/prot.24513
关键词
ubiquitin association; ubiquitin binding domains; hydrophobic interactions; free energy; entropy contribution
资金
- National Science Foundation [CAREER: MCB: 1149802]
- National Institutes of Health in the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Delaware [COBRE: P20-RR015588]
Weak intermolecular interactions, such as hydrophobic associations, underlie numerous biomolecular recognition processes. Ubiquitin is a small protein that represents a biochemical model for exploring thermodynamic signatures of hydrophobic association as it is widely held that a major component of ubiquitin's binding to numerous partners is mediated by hydrophobic regions on both partners. Here, we use atomistic molecular dynamics simulations in conjunction with the Adaptive Biasing Force sampling method to compute potentials of mean force (the reversible work, or free energy, associated with the binding process) to investigate the thermodynamic signature of complexation in this well-studied biochemical model of hydrophobic association. We observe that much like in the case of a purely hydrophobic solute (i.e., graphene, carbon nanotubes), association is favored by entropic contributions from release of water from the interprotein regions. Moreover, association is disfavored by loss of enthalpic interactions, but unlike in the case of purely hydrophobic solutes, in this case protein-water interactions are lost and not compensated for by additional water-water interactions generated upon release of interprotein and moreso, hydration, water. We further find that relative orientations of the proteins that mutually present hydrophobic regions of each protein to its partner are favored over those that do not. In fact, the free energy minimum as predicted by a force field based method recapitulates the experimental NMR solution structure of the complex. Proteins 2014; 82:1453-1468. (c) 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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