Structural Fluctuations of Microtubule Binding Site of KIF1A in Different Nucleotide States

Details Structural Fluctuations of Microtubule Binding Site of KIF1A in Different Nucleotide States Structural Fluctuations of Microtubule Binding Site of KIF1A in Different Nucleotide States

2008-01-31

arxiv.org/abs/0802.0029v1

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Biomolecules

14 pages, 7 figures

Scientific paper

How molecular motors like Kinesin regulates the affinity to the rail protein in the process of ATP hydrolysis remains to be uncovered. To understand the regulation mechanism, we investigate the structural fluctuation of KIF1A in different nucleotide states that are realized in the ATP hydrolysis process by molecular dynamics simulations of Go-like model. We found that "alpha4 helix", which is a part of the microtubule (MT) binding site, changes its fluctuation systematically according to the nucleotide states. In particular, the frequency of large fluctuations of alpha4 strongly correlates with the affinity of KIF1A for microtubule. We also show how the strength of the thermal fluctuation and the interaction with the nucleotide affect the dynamics of microtubule binding site. These results suggest that KIF1A regulates the affinity to MT by changing the flexibility of alpha4 helix according to the nucleotide states.

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