Thermal denaturation and folding rates of single domain proteins: size matters

Details Thermal denaturation and folding rates of single domain proteins: size matters Thermal denaturation and folding rates of single domain proteins: size matters

2003-10-16

arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0310020v1

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Biomolecules

11 pages, 3 figures

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We analyze the dependence of thermal denaturation transition and folding rates of globular proteins on the number of amino acid residues, N. Using lattice Go models we show that DeltaT/T_F ~ N^-1, where T_F is the folding transition temperature and DeltaT is the folding transition width. This finding is consistent with finite size effects expected for the systems undergoing a phase transition from a disordered to an ordered phase. The dependence of the folding rates k_F on N for lattice models and the dataset of 57 proteins and peptides shows that k_F = k_F^0 exp(-CN^beta) provides a good fit, if 0 < beta <= 2/3 and C is a constant. We find that k_F = k_F^0 exp(-1.1N^0.5) with k_F^0 =(0.4x10^-6 s)^-1 can estimate optimal protein folding rates to within an order of magnitude in most cases. By using this fit for a set of proteins with beta-sheet topology we find that k_F^0 is approximately equal to k_U^0, the prefactor for unfolding rates. The maximum ratio of k_U^0/k_F^0 is 10 for this class of proteins.

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