Quantitative Protein Dynamics from Dominant Folding Pathways

Details Quantitative Protein Dynamics from Dominant Folding Pathways Quantitative Protein Dynamics from Dominant Folding Pathways

2007-01-18

arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0701028v1

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Quantitative Methods

4 pages, 1 figure

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.118102

We develop a theoretical approach to the protein folding problem based on out-of-equilibrium stochastic dynamics. Within this framework, the computational difficulties related to the existence of large time scale gaps in the protein folding problem are removed and simulating the entire reaction in atomistic details using existing computers becomes feasible. In addition, this formalism provides a natural framework to investigate the relationships between thermodynamical and kinetic aspects of the folding. For example, it is possible to show that, in order to have a large probability to remain unchanged under Langevin diffusion, the native state has to be characterized by a small conformational entropy. We discuss how to determine the most probable folding pathway, to identify configurations representative of the transition state and to compute the most probable transition time. We perform an illustrative application of these ideas, studying the conformational evolution of alanine di-peptide, within an all-atom model based on the empiric GROMOS96 force field.

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