Geometrical model for the native-state folds of proteins

Details Geometrical model for the native-state folds of proteins Geometrical model for the native-state folds of proteins

2005-05-17

arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0505032v1

Biophys. Chem. 115 (2005), 289-294

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Biomolecules

12 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.bpc.2004.12.036

We recently introduced a physical model [Hoang et al., P. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA (2004), Banavar et al., Phys. Rev. E (2004)] for proteins which incorporates, in an approximate manner, several key features such as the inherent anisotropy of a chain molecule, the geometrical and energetic constraints placed by the hydrogen bonds and sterics, and the role played by hydrophobicity. Within this framework, marginally compact conformations resembling the native state folds of proteins emerge as broad competing minima in the free energy landscape even for a homopolymer. Here we show how the introduction of sequence heterogeneity using a simple scheme of just two types of amino acids, hydrophobic (H) and polar (P), and sequence design allows a selected putative native fold to become the free energy minimum at low temperature. The folding transition exhibits thermodynamic cooperativity, if one neglects the degeneracy between two different low energy conformations sharing the same fold topology.

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