Biology – Quantitative Biology – Biomolecules
Scientific paper
2003-12-16
Biology
Quantitative Biology
Biomolecules
38 pages, 17 figures, to appear in Proteins
Scientific paper
The effect of temperature on mechanical unfolding of proteins is studied using a Go-like model with a realistic contact map and Lennard-Jones contact interactions. The behavior of the I27 domain of titin and its serial repeats is contrasted to that of simple secondary structures. In all cases thermal fluctuations accelerate the unraveling process, decreasing the unfolding force nearly linearly at low temperatures. However differences in bonding geometry lead to different sensitivity to temperature and different changes in the unfolding pattern. Due to its special native state geometry titin is much more thermally and elastically stable than the secondary structures. At low temperatures serial repeats of titin show a parallel unfolding of all domains to an intermediate state, followed by serial unfolding of the domains. At high temperatures all domains unfold simultaneously and the unfolding distance decreases monotonically with the contact order, that is the sequence distance between the amino acids that form the native contact.
Cieplak Marek
Hoang Trinh Xuan
Robbins Mark. O.
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