Folding thermodynamics of model four-strand antiparallel beta-sheet proteins

Details Folding thermodynamics of model four-strand antiparallel beta-sheet proteins Folding thermodynamics of model four-strand antiparallel beta-sheet proteins

2001-06-05

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0106019v1

Physics

Biological Physics

PDF file, 32 pages including 13 figure pages

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0006-3495(02)75428-3

The thermodynamic properties for three different types of off-lattice four-strand beta-sheet protein models interacting via a hybrid Go-type potential have been investigated. Discontinuous molecular dynamic simulations have been performed for different sizes of the bias gap g, an artificial measure of a model protein's preference for its native state. The thermodynamic transition temperatures are obtained by calculating the squared radius of gyration, the root-mean-squared pair separation fluctuation, the specific heat, the internal energy of the system, and the Lindemann disorder parameter. In spite of the simplicity, the protein-like heteropolymers have shown a complex set of protein transitions as observed in experimental studies. Starting from high temperature, these transitions include a collapse transition, a disordered-to-ordered globule transition, a folding transition, and a liquid-to-solid transition. These transitions strongly depend on the native-state geometry of the model proteins and the size of the bias gap. A strong transition from the disordered globule state to the ordered globule state with large energy change and a weak transition from the ordered globule state to the native state with small energy change were observed for the large gap models. For the small gap models no native structures were observed at any temperature, all three beta-sheet proteins fold into a partially-ordered globule state which is geometrically different from the native state. For small bias gaps at even lower temperatures, all protein motions are frozen indicating an inactive solid-like phase.

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