Study of the Villin Headpiece folding dynamics by combining coarse-grained Monte Carlo evolution and all-atom Molecular Dynamics

Details Study of the Villin Headpiece folding dynamics by combining coarse-grained Monte Carlo evolution and all-atom Molecular Dynamics Study of the Villin Headpiece folding dynamics by combining coarse-grained Monte Carlo evolution and all-atom Molecular Dynamics

2004-12-06

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0412128v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

Revtex, 20 pages, 10 figures

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The folding mechanism of the Villin headpiece (HP36) is studied by means of a novel approach which entails an initial coarse-grained Monte Carlo (MC) scheme followed by all-atom molecular dynamics (MD) simulations in explicit solvent. The MC evolution occurs in a simplified free-energy landscape and allows an efficient selection of marginally-compact structures which are taken as viable initial conformations for the MD. The coarse-grained MC structural representation is connected to the one with atomic resolution through a ``fine--graining'' reconstruction algorithm. This two-stage strategy is used to select and follow the dynamics of seven different unrelated conformations of HP36. In a notable case the MD trajectory rapidly evolves towards the folded state, yielding a typical RMS deviation of the core region of only 2.4 A from the closest NMR model (the typical RMSD over the whole structure being 4.0A). The analysis of the various MC-MD trajectories provides valuable insight into the details of the folding and mis-folding mechanisms and particularly about the delicate influence of local and non-local interactions in steering the folding process.

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