Biology – Quantitative Biology – Biomolecules
Scientific paper
2007-07-09
Biology
Quantitative Biology
Biomolecules
Scientific paper
The free-energy landscape of the alpha-helix of protein G is studied by means of metadynamics coupled with a solute tempering algorithm. Metadynamics allows to overcome large energy barriers, whereas solute tempering improves the sampling with an affordable computational effort. From the sampled free-energy surface we are able to reproduce a number of experimental observations, such as the fact that the lowest minimum corresponds to a globular conformation displaying some degree of beta-structure, that the helical state is metastable and involves only 65% of the chain. The calculations also show that the system populates consistently a pi-helix state and that the hydrophobic staple motif is present only in the free-energy minimum associated with the helices, and contributes to their stabilization. The use of metadynamics coupled with solute tempering results then particularly suitable to provide the thermodynamics of a short peptide, and its computational efficiency is promising to deal with larger proteins.
Broglia Ricardo A.
Camilloni Carlo
Provasi D.
Tiana Guido
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