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BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 99, 期 9, 页码 3056-3065出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2010.08.073
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- Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-SC0002128]
- Princeton Center for Complex Materials [DMR-0819860]
- National Science Foundation [CHE-0404699, CHE-0908265, CBET-0952875]
- Princeton University
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [819860] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Div Of Chem, Bioeng, Env, & Transp Sys
- Directorate For Engineering [0952875] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
The antimicrobial peptide microcin J25 (MccJ25) is posttranslationally matured from a linear preprotein into its native lasso conformation by two enzymes. One of these enzymes cleaves the preprotein and the second enzyme installs the requisite isopeptide bond to establish the lasso structure. Analysis of a mimic of MccJ25 that can be cyclized without the influence of the maturation enzymes suggests that MccJ25 does not spontaneously adopt a near-lasso structure. In addition, we conducted atomistically detailed replica-exchange molecular dynamics simulations of pro-microcin J25 (pro-MccJ25), the 21-residue uncyclized analog of MccJ25, to determine the conformational ensemble explored in the absence of the leader sequence or maturation enzymes. We applied a nonlinear dimensionality reduction technique known as the diffusion map to the simulation trajectories to extract two global order parameters describing the fundamental dynamical motions of the system, and identify three distinct pathways. One path corresponds to the spontaneous adoption of a left-handed lasso, in which the N-terminus wraps around the C-terminus in the opposite sense to the right-handed topology of native MccJ25. Our computational and experimental results suggest a role for the MccJ25 leader sequence and/or its maturation enzymes in facilitating the adoption of the right-handed topology.
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