Chirality and Protein Folding

Details Chirality and Protein Folding Chirality and Protein Folding

2004-11-30

arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0412001v1

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Biomolecules

To be published in a special issue of J. Phys.: Cond. Mat. (Bedlewo Workshop)

Scientific paper

10.1088/0953-8984/17/18/013

There are several simple criteria of folding to a native state in model proteins. One of them involves crossing of a threshold value of the RMSD distance away from the native state. Another checks whether all native contacts are established, i.e. whether the interacting amino acids come closer than some characteristic distance. We use Go-like models of proteins and show that such simple criteria may prompt one to declare folding even though fragments of the resulting conformations have a wrong sense of chirality. We propose that a better condition of folding should augment the simple criteria with the requirement that most of the local values of the chirality should be nearly native. The kinetic discrepancy between the simple and compound criteria can be substantially reduced in the Go-like models by providing the Hamiltonian with a term which favors native values of the local chirality. We study the effects of this term as a function of its amplitude and compare it to other models such as with the side groups and with the angle-dependent potentials.

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