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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
卷 7, 期 14, 页码 2676-2682出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b00518
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- Irish Research Council (IRC)
- EPSRC [EP/N020669/1]
- DJEI/DES/SFI/HEA Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC)
- Biowulf cluster at the National Institutes of Health, United States
- EPSRC [EP/N020669/1, EP/M022609/1, EP/L000253/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/L000253/1, EP/M022609/1, EP/N020669/1] Funding Source: researchfish
We characterize the kinetics of dimer formation of the short amyloid microcrystal-forming tetrapeptides NNQQ by constructing coarse master equations for the conformational dynamics of the system, using temperature replica-exchange molecular dynamics (REMD) simulations. We minimize the effects of Kramers-type recrossings by assigning conformational states based on their sequential time evolution. Transition rates are further estimated from short-time state propagators by maximizing the likelihood that the extracted rates agree with the observed atomistic trajectories without any a priori assumptions about their temperature dependence. Here, we evaluate the rates for both continuous replica trajectories that visit different temperatures and for discontinuous data corresponding to each REMD temperature. While the binding-unbinding kinetic process is clearly Markovian, the conformational dynamics of the bound NNQQ dimer has a complex character. Our kinetic analysis allows us to discriminate between short-lived encounter pairs and strongly bound conformational states. The conformational dynamics of NNQQ dimers supports a kinetically driven aggregation mechanism, in agreement with the polymorphic character reported for amyloid aggregates such as microcrystals and fibrils.
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