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COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY
卷 108, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2023.107978
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Protein thermostability; protein contact network; network density; Van der Waals interaction; Coulombic interaction
Interactions between amino acids in proteins are crucial for stability and structural integrity. Thermophiles have more and more stable interactions to survive in extreme environments. Different types of interactions are enriched in different structural regions.
Interactions between distantly placed amino acids in the primary chain (long-range) play a very crucial role in the formation and stabilization of the tertiary structure of a protein, while interactions between closely placed amino acids in the primary chain (short-range) mostly stabilize the secondary structures. Every protein needs to maintain marginal stability in order to perform its physiological functions in its native environment. The requirements for this stability in mesophilic and thermophilic proteins are different. Thermophilic proteins need to form more interactions as well as more stable interactions to survive in the extreme environment, they live in. Here, we aim to find out how the interacting amino acids in three-dimensional space are positioned in the primary chains in thermophilic and mesophilic. How does this arrangement help thermophiles to maintain their structural integrity at high temperatures? Working on a dataset of 1560 orthologous pairs we perceive that thermophiles are not only enriched with long-range interactions, they feature bigger connected clusters and higher network densities compared to their mesophilic orthologs, at higher interaction strengths between the amino acids. Moreover, we have observed the enrichment of different types of interactions at different secondary structural regions.
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