Folding of a Small Helical Protein Using Hydrogen Bonds and Hydrophobicity Forces

Details Folding of a Small Helical Protein Using Hydrogen Bonds and Hydrophobicity Forces Folding of a Small Helical Protein Using Hydrogen Bonds and Hydrophobicity Forces

2001-11-15

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0111291v1

Proteins Struct. Funct. Genet. 47 (2002) 99-105

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

18 pages, 8 figures

Scientific paper

A reduced protein model with five to six atoms per amino acid and five amino acid types is developed and tested on a three-helix-bundle protein, a 46-amino acid fragment from staphylococcal protein A. The model does not rely on the widely used Go approximation where non-native interactions are ignored. We find that the collapse transition is considerably more abrupt for the protein A sequence than for random sequences with the same composition. The chain collapse is found to be at least as fast as helix formation. Energy minimization restricted to the thermodynamically favored topology gives a structure that has a root-mean-square deviation of 1.8 A from the native structure. The sequence-dependent part of our potential is pairwise additive. Our calculations suggest that fine-tuning this potential by parameter optimization is of limited use.

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